# A pithy message for ZPG Zealot **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 16, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678 "2010-03-16T18:40:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/121 "2010-03-18T04:22:36Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > But what if the person is a one-trick pony but his or her or its name doesn’t indicate such, like mine? Now Skald, you have at least four tricks… 1.) dealing with your family 2.) Lord of the Rings nitpickery 3.) insightful religious/spiritual debate 4.) world domination, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/122 "2010-03-18T08:13:33Z")
Yes, I would really like to know who declared **ZPG** stable enough to be anyone’s guardian. And what her brother’s life has been like. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/123 "2010-03-18T15:11:35Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > How can he be the winner when everybody knows [the Designated Hitler was Dönitz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_D%C3%B6nitz#Hitler.27s_successor)? But he got old. In his later years, he had to have a pinch Hitler bat for him. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/124 "2010-03-18T16:00:36Z")
> [@choie](#): > > She really does bring new meaning to the phrase _in loco parentis_. I LOLed. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/125 "2010-03-18T16:23:35Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Yes, I would really like to know who declared **ZPG** stable enough to be anyone’s guardian. And what her brother’s life has been like. Maybe it’s the other way around. Maybe her brother turned her into the raging zealot she is… Think about that one for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/126 "2010-03-18T17:12:27Z")
> [@choie](#): > > She really does bring new meaning to the phrase _in loco parentis_. Y’know, there is a brilliantly horrible Web site waiting to be born here. I’m seeing something like cakewrecks, only with more human suffering. Won’t someone adopt this title for a blog? ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/127 "2010-03-18T19:01:36Z")
I’m so confused. So ZPG Zealot hates adoption and also hates parents? Parents are disgusting, no-good creatures because they’re abusive and also have been known to kill children. Adoption is terrible because adopters simply use women as baby-making machines to advance their horrible agenda of stealing babies and raising them in a House of Lies where they call themselves “parents.” Is that about the sum of it? Am I missing some nuance here? ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/128 "2010-03-18T19:07:40Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > I’m so confused. So ZPG Zealot hates adoption and also hates parents? Parents are disgusting, no-good creatures because they’re abusive and also have been known to kill children. Adoption is terrible because adopters simply use women as baby-making machines to advance their horrible agenda of stealing babies and raising them in a House of Lies where they call themselves “parents.” > > Is that about the sum of it? Am I missing some nuance here? I think you can dump it in one big bucket labeled “hates the world.” ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/129 "2010-03-18T19:14:41Z")
> [@Sarahfeena](#): > > I think you can dump it in one big bucket labeled “hates the world.” But _I_ hate the world too, as is also in the FAQ. Are you lumping me in with ZZ? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/130 "2010-03-18T20:59:09Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > But _I_ hate the world too, as is also in the FAQ. Are you lumping me in with ZZ? ☹ Nah, **Skald** , that’s **ZPG’s** own special bucket. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/131 "2010-03-19T16:50:32Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > Y’know, there is a brilliantly horrible Web site waiting to be born here. I’m seeing something like cakewrecks, only with more human suffering. > > Won’t someone \*\*adopt \*\*this title for a blog? AAAGGHHHH!!! You said the “a’” word! ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/132 "2010-03-20T06:24:14Z")
Yup. And I’d do it again! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/133 "2010-03-20T11:27:30Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > I’m so confused. So ZPG Zealot hates adoption and also hates parents? Parents are disgusting, no-good creatures because they’re abusive and also have been known to kill children. Adoption is terrible because adopters simply use women as baby-making machines to advance their horrible agenda of stealing babies and raising them in a House of Lies where they call themselves “parents.” > > Is that about the sum of it? Am I missing some nuance here? She thinks everyone should be raised by their sister, I think ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/134 "2010-03-20T14:01:43Z")
Congratulations **ZPG**. You have overtaken my previous personal #1 batshit, looney bird poster here on the Dope. That is no small accomplishment. Good job. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678/135 "2010-03-21T18:37:56Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > Andy, the point is I WAS NOT HIS PARENT. I spent a lot of time first explaining; then yelling this point at various teachers and school guidance counselors who could not understand the principle that family means anything other than a mother and father. I was his older sister (actually technically half-sister, we did not have the same mother) and I became his Guardian which is a perfectly noble title for my role. Yes, “guardian” is a perfectly respectable title for someone who is acting as a parent but does not choose to use that title. You acknowledged that you were acting as a parent by posting in a thread about “non-biological parents.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pithy-message-for-zpg-zealot/532678.md?page=6)