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12 November 2007

Other Mac vs. PC (vs. Linux)-style arguments It seems every field has them. What are some other ones?[More:]
Here's what I've come up with so far...

PC/Linux/Mac
CSS/Tables
DJ Culture/Rave Culture
Flash/Not Using Flash
My Favorite Sports Team/Your Favorite Sports Team
Beatles/Rolling Stones
American Office/British Office
Cycling/Driving/Walking
Fixie/29ers
Multitool Lovers/Multitool (Leatherman) Detractors
Target/Walmart
Costco/Sam's Club
Indie Rock/College Rock
Early Clash/Middle Clash
Scripting Languages vs. "Traditional" Programming Languages
posted by drezdn 12 November | 09:10
Science fiction/fantasy
Cooper Union/RISD
Metafilter/Fark
posted by interrobang 12 November | 09:13
Star Trek / Star Trek the next generation.
posted by seanyboy 12 November | 09:14
Hughes / Plath
posted by seanyboy 12 November | 09:15
Which reminds me

Star Trek/Star Wars
posted by drezdn 12 November | 09:15
Hot dogs/that abomination they call a hot dog in Chicago
posted by interrobang 12 November | 09:17
Thin Crust/Thick Crust
New York/Los Angeles
posted by drezdn 12 November | 09:18
What is a Chicago hot dog like?
posted by typewriter 12 November | 09:29
shaved/bushy
posted by jonmc 12 November | 09:38
Peirce/Saussure
posted by Daniel Charms 12 November | 09:40
Literal Viking/Metaphorical Viking
posted by mullacc 12 November | 09:48
mullacc made me LOL.

posted by seanyboy 12 November | 09:50
The standard programmer arguments:

vi vs. emacs
bash vs. csh
ASCII vs. MS-Word
Perl vs. Python vs. TCL vs. Ruby
C vs. C++
BSD vs. GNU

And the most contentious of all:
Tabs vs. Spaces
posted by octothorpe 12 November | 09:54
LOL @ mullacc.

Here's one from a job interview at an HVAC/environmental controls firm:

"Black Box" analysis/"First Principles" analysis.
posted by muddgirl 12 November | 09:55
What is a Chicago hot dog like?
posted by typewriter 12 November | 09:29

shaved/bushy
posted by jonmc 12 November | 09:38


Heh.
posted by interrobang 12 November | 10:10
Tables vs. CSS
Carpet vs. Wood
Low and slow vs. Sear and simmer
posted by eamondaly 12 November | 10:21
Whoops! Sorry, drezdn, I missed your MI.
posted by eamondaly 12 November | 10:23
red/blue
boxers/briefs
gas/no gas


LOL @ jonmc & mullac
posted by chewatadistance 12 November | 12:26
Joel/Mike
Kirk/ Picard/Sisko/Janeway
Helmet/no helmet (cycling)
Bottled water/tap water
posted by smich 12 November | 12:33
ytmnd/ebaum
pirates/ninjas
dub/sub
posted by pieisexactlythree 12 November | 13:44
Ford/Chevy
American/japanese (Cars)
Japanese/European (Cars and Cameras)
posted by doctor_negative 12 November | 14:13
Canon/Nikon

(my boss just suggested Trojan/Lifestyle)
posted by pokermonk 12 November | 15:43
Canon/Nikon

pokermonk beat me to it tho due to personal bias, I'd have reversed them

skiers / snowboarders
Japanese/Italian (road racing motorcycles)
Campagnolo / Shimano (cycling components)
cross-country / downhill (mountain bikers)
fixed-gear geeks / roadies

actually in "serious" cycling circles, it's basically everyone vs. everyone else, since cyclists of all stripes can be unfathomably bigoted snobby & exclusive... or perhaps "very narrowly focussed" is a better way of saying it. But then my limited exposure to motorcycling and auto racing culture indicates that those guys are just as bad if not worse

SCCA (rallye) / NASCAR
dressage / western (horseback riding nerds)
Phillies / Mets / Yankees
Broncos / Raiders
posted by lonefrontranger 12 November | 17:24
Nobody came up with male/female?

In Australia, it is Holden (GM) vs Ford all the way
iPod/anything else
your favourite band/my favourite band
posted by dg 12 November | 17:31
A pizza topped with: || Illicit Bunnies.

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