# A new level of annoyance at other posters **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 30, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231 "2012-01-30T22:07:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/41 "2012-01-31T18:33:20Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > when i saw this pitting i was all like wtf and then i went to that link and now i c what yer talking about and it makes me Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there. > > 😃 Okay, I _finally_ found a use of your catch-phrase that was funny. Don’t let it go to your head. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/42 "2012-01-31T18:34:34Z")
elabor8? Really? ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/43 "2012-01-31T18:40:15Z")
"Late one June afternoon in 1903 a hush fell across an expectant audience in the Royal Institution’s celebrated lecture theatre in London. Before the crowd, the physicist John Ambrose Fleming was adjusting arcane apparatus as he prepared to demonstrate an emerging technological wonder: a long-range wireless communication system developed by his boss, the Italian radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi. The aim was to showcase publicly for the first time that Morse code messages could be sent wirelessly over long distances. Around 300 miles away, Marconi was preparing to send a signal to London from a clifftop station in Poldhu, Cornwall, UK. Yet before the demonstration could begin, the apparatus in the lecture theatre began to tap out a message: … … —… --. .-… …- .---- ----- " * * * [sub]With apologies to [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228440.700-dotdashdiss-the-gentleman-hackers-1903-lulz.html.[/sub]](http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228440.700-dotdashdiss-the-gentleman-hackers-1903-lulz.html.%5B/sub%5D) ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/44 "2012-01-31T18:47:44Z")
Y’all must be aware that there is an English to Leet-Speak translator, right? 7|-|15 4|| 3\>\<4//\PL3 0Ph //|-|‘/ //3 5|-|0ULD 7|-|R0// 7|-|3 9LU73|| 94L 1||70 7|-|3 QU4RR’/. > **[brenz.net | L337 Speak Converter (Leet Speak Translator) for Hacker to...](http://www.brenz.net/services/l337Maker.asp)** > > Leet Speak Translator - L337 Speak Converter - Hacker Speak to English Translator/Converter - provided by brenz.net. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/45 "2012-01-31T19:02:22Z")
> [@randomface](#): > > I finally found the ignore setting, and have used it for the first time. How’d you do it? ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/46 "2012-01-31T19:06:35Z")
The typing style works better when you imagine Mojo Jojo reading it out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/47 "2012-01-31T19:50:56Z")
I kept hearing it as Larry the Crocodile. I think Mojo Jojo works better. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/48 "2012-01-31T20:58:54Z")
**gluten free** has posted 84 times since registering. All 84 posts are in _the same thread_. That’s gotta be a record of some kind. ---
**Author:** ![randomface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@randomface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomface)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/49 "2012-01-31T21:15:57Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > How’d you do it? I went to the User CP, clicked Edit Ignore List, and added the name **gluten free**. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/50 "2012-01-31T23:25:47Z")
> [@](#): > > THANK u 4 this amazing forum. …blah blah, the GRAPIST and shit… ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/51 "2012-01-31T23:37:33Z")
> [@randomface](#): > > I went to the User CP, clicked Edit Ignore List, and added the name **gluten free**. Done. I learned something new, let it never be said it wasn’t good for something. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/52 "2012-02-01T00:30:46Z")
Reads like a txtspk version of [morefocusandprecision](http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3QP8RGAUPF2OS/ref=cm_pdp_rev_all?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview). ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/53 "2012-02-01T00:34:10Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Anytime someone pops in here and pushes some well documented buttons I always look askance at them. This is me looking askance :dubious: Here’s looking back at you, kid. How _you_ doin’? ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/54 "2012-02-01T02:11:10Z")
> [@Meyer6](#): > > I got to the second page, which contained this gem: > > So you can improve your life by completely cutting out gluten, except, _perhaps_, if you’re already dead. Then it might not work. > > Good advice. OK, I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/55 "2012-02-01T03:07:26Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > **gluten free** has posted 84 times since registering. All 84 posts are in _the same thread_. > That’s gotta be a record of some kind. Which kind of makes the ignore thing pointless. That thread is nothing but responses to gluten’s bizarre posts. There is nothing gained by ignoring him. The thread with out his participation is nonsensical. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231/56 "2012-02-01T14:23:40Z")
And How is this different from the thread with his participation, exactly? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231.md?page=2)