# a lot of arrogant people here on the dope **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 24, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072 "2006-08-24T18:24:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/41 "2006-08-24T19:10:19Z")
> [@Wildfire\*\*MM](#): > > You even fail to se the irony in the thread I made which you refere to There are so many ways to interpret this sentence, yet each of them has its own special _momentum incoherentus._ Let me assure you, however, that I am not now, nor have I ever been, a referee. Refs suck ass. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/42 "2006-08-24T19:11:26Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > And you may have heard, we have **this things** at the ends of sentences, whatever could they be? Oh. Right. **Gaudere** strikes again. I let him have that law, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/43 "2006-08-24T19:15:14Z")
It’s not arrogance if we’re actually, you know, _right_. ---
**Author:** ![Pixisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Pixisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixisis)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/44 "2006-08-24T19:16:29Z")
> [@Sigmund Freud](#): > > The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization Arrogant, or just trying to save civilization ? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/45 "2006-08-24T19:17:30Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > **Gaudere** strikes again. > > I let **him** have that law, by the way. bolding mine Pssst! Gaudere has an innie, not an outie. And Wildfire? Arrogance comes with a price, and that price is coherence. It is good to see you fighting against the bonds of both. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/46 "2006-08-24T19:17:59Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > Yeah, we’re a bunch of know-it-alls. … I knew you were going to say that. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/47 "2006-08-24T19:18:22Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > It’s not arrogance if we’re actually, you know, _right_. Which is probably always, but’s neither here nor there. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/48 "2006-08-24T19:21:23Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > **Gaudere** strikes again. > > I let him have that law, by the way. I never told him to correct his spelling! ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/49 "2006-08-24T19:23:11Z")
Man, it seems like there are a lot of people in this thread trolling to get someone to say a certain word. Hmm, I wonder what that word would be … ? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/50 "2006-08-24T19:24:45Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > It’s not arrogance if we’re actually, you know, _right_. – > [@Contrapuntal the Magnificent](#): > > It aint arrogance if you can back it up. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/51 "2006-08-24T19:25:05Z")
> [@Wildfire\*\*MM](#): > > … arrogant besserwissers. Yea! And you know what I really hate? When the slithy toves do gyre and gimble in the wabe. Man I hate that! ---
**Author:** ![Wildfire\_MM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@Wildfire\_MM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildfire_MM)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/52 "2006-08-24T19:27:03Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > So do constructive criticism, a request for the definition of a word (thus showing my own ignorance) and a dumb joke qualify as arrogance? You sir, are a comedian. > Jim It’s Mister. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/53 "2006-08-24T19:28:50Z")
What, no honorific? Pffffffft! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/54 "2006-08-24T19:28:57Z")
It’s always so weird when a poster shows up here, makes an idiot out of himself, and then calls everybody arrogant. ---
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/55 "2006-08-24T19:29:06Z")
> [@John Corrado](#): > > . . . > And Wildfire? Arrogance comes with a price, and that price is . . . $14.95 annually. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/56 "2006-08-24T19:29:48Z")
> [@Wildfire\*\*MM](#): > > It’s Mister. _What’s_ Mister? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/57 "2006-08-24T19:31:33Z")
I’m waiting for **Wildfire** MM\*\* to tell us (in one, tearful, blurt), that we’re all Nazis, and he’s running away. To France. Or to join the Circus, if he’s already **in** France. Whichever. fnord ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/58 "2006-08-24T19:31:36Z")
Hey, it’s only natural that I’m arrogant, given that I’m like unto a god. _Bow down before me ! !_ ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/59 "2006-08-24T19:33:59Z")
> [@Der Trihs](#): > > Hey, it’s only natural that I’m arrogant, given that I’m like unto a god. _Bow down before me ! !_ Wait - you actually want retards with the moral fiber of rapists declaring you their god? I’m just speculating based on your general opinon of religion, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_Lurker)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072/60 "2006-08-24T19:35:43Z")
> [@col\_10022](#): > > I would have called it either pretentious or condescending use of a foreign language Don’t be such a besserwisser. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lot-of-arrogant-people-here-on-the-dope/370072.md?page=4)