Could you be any more condescending, spingears?

[TellMeI_mNotCrazy]

I have a pretty high snark-tolerance, especially if it isn’t directed at me, but the growing trend I’ve seen of you spewing snark for no apparently good reason, particularly in GQ, leads me to start this thread. So, for those who want them, I offer my examples:

In a thread about a high pulse rate after receiving a violent threat:

@spingears

Get your act together and AVOID getting into an unfortunate emotional situations which you obviously don’t handle well.
In other word take advantage of this experience and GROW UP & MATURE!
Forget about being sarcastic and condescending. It gets you nowhere good, but irritates others and gets you further into trouble.

And a thread about whether a word had negative connotations the OP was previously unaware of:

Wasn’t that a ‘coonass dumb’ thing to say in a business setting?

A thread about Ned Kelly’s last words:

Who was Ned Kelly or Mad Dog Morgan and why should I or anyone else care?

And a thread about someone’s dreams:

There are some experts on problems of this kind at Peninsula Hospital. They will be happy and glad to have you vist them.
They will help you IN, but there is no way OUT.

There are more examples, but that’s just recent stuff out of GQ. Anywhere else, for the most part, I can just blow snark off but in GQ it really makes me crazy. If you think a question is stupid, inane, useless, whatever, why even answer it? If you don’t know who Ned Kelly is, then the question wasn’t directed at you. We’ve got a huge influx of new members lately, and I’d hate to think that they’re getting the impression that asking an unusual - yet perfectly valid - question is going to open the door to snark and ridicule.
Of course, I suspect the vitriol is due to the feelings you expressed in a recent pit thread:

Seems to be a lot of questions posted by either lazy guests or newbies with no concept of how to use search engines to find their own answers.

Then posts which amount to aksing how far they can go in “walking on the edge” without actually committing suicide.

Some old timers have a record of as many as 1+ PPD with inane questions. Trying to set a record? or What?

but honestly, if you think they’re so stupid, why not ignore them? Clearly your attempts at fighting ignorance with acid isn’t working.

[Liberal]

Never heard of the guy.

[TellMeI_mNotCrazy]

@Liberal

Never heard of the guy.

Maybe you know him as springears.

[Berkut]

Here’s another good one.

[Liberal]

@TellMeI'mNotCrazy

Maybe you know him as springears.

Nope. This is honestly the first time I can recall seeing the name. Maybe he’ll come in here. If you like, I’ll be happy to engage him in a condescension contest. I’ve been told I have the power.

[Greathouse]

@Liberal

Nope. This is honestly the first time I can recall seeing the name. Maybe he’ll come in here. If you like, I’ll be happy to engage him in a condescension contest. I’ve been told I have the power.

Nothing against either of the contestants here, but I think the smart money would be on Lib.

[TellMeI_mNotCrazy]

@Greathouse

Nothing against either of the contestants here, but I think the smart money would be on Lib.

I’ll leave it to **Lib ** to work out whether that’s a compliment or not

[Squink]

@Liberal

I’ve been told I have the power.

Yeah, but sometimes you use it for good. spingears merely seems to get off on being a Jackass in GQ.

[Nightwatch_Trailer]

Moreover, what on earth does “s/Stan” (part of his signature) mean? I love it, but what does it mean, dagnabbit?

[alice_in_wonderland]

Yah - he’s pissing me off in that thread as well.

“I’ve had 60 years at the school of hard knocks!”

as if that means shit about the situation of a person on a message board whom he’s never met.

Dumbass.

[Greathouse]

@TellMeI'mNotCrazy

I’ll leave it to **Lib ** to work out whether that’s a compliment or not

All I’m saying is that after reading years of posts from Lib, spingears better bring a lot more to the table than the abilities shown in the OP’s quotes.

I’m not saying that he does it constantly, but Lib could be on the Olympic Condescension Team when the mood strikes him.

[Greathouse]

I just realized that I was facilitating a hijack in Lib’s direction. Sorry about that it wasn’t my intent. I was only poking a little fun at Lib.

Back to the OP…

spingears sounds like an incredible ass. I’m glad I’ve never heard of the guy before. And now I know when I see the name that the rest of the post is meaningless and can be disregarded.

[Reeder]

Just trying to get the name straight here…

Would that be spin-gears or sping-ears?

Neither one sounds like a good thing.

[Squink]

@Greathouse

And now I know when I see the name that the rest of the post is meaningless and can be disregarded.

Not always a good plan. Sometimes he gives a pretty fair answer, it’s just that he also goes on periodic asshole binges.

[Greathouse]

@Squink

Not always a good plan. Sometimes he gives a pretty fair answer, it’s just that he also goes on periodic asshole binges.

Well shit. Another great plan blown to hell by the pesky facts I had previously been unaware of.

[AncientHumanoid]

@Liberal

I’ll be happy to engage him in a condescension contest. I’ve been told I have the power.

You can make it rain? :eek:

[Nightwatch_Trailer]

@Reeder

Just trying to get the name straight here…

Would that be spin-gears or sping-ears?

Neither one sounds like a good thing.

It’s spring-ears. Can’t you see the “r”?

[Greathouse]

@Nightwatch Trailer

It’s spring-ears. Can’t you see the “r”?

Is this a whoosh?

[whole_bean]

@Nightwatch Trailer

It’s spring-ears. Can’t you see the “r”?

I think it is spingears, or am I just thye victim of some inside joke? the offending poster’s name is spingears, though, and he was reprimanded by a mod in the Ned Kelly thread referrenced by the OP.

[whole_bean]

spingears wrote: Seems to be a lot of questions posted by either lazy guests or newbies with no concept of how to use search engines to find their own answers.

funny coming from the guy who didn’t know who Ned Kelly was, so he asks the OP :smack: