# A pitting for Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 19, 2021, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791 "2021-07-19T01:39:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791/361 "2023-04-19T00:10:23Z")
Yeah, he doesn’t actually want to restart conscription or have a real discussion. He’s blatantly trolling. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791/362 "2023-04-19T00:28:48Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > He would have responded more to our questions and concerns, but there was a mass shooting in Maine he has to report on. What, even though it isn’t “my area of special interest” according to @Paul_was_in_Saudi? What a fucking attention whore. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791/363 "2023-04-19T01:38:47Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > He wasn’t serious about a real discussion. He just wanted to get a big reaction. I seriously read that as “He just wanted to get a big erection.” Which may also be true. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791/364 "2023-04-19T01:44:17Z")
I think that’s what his mass killings thread is for. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791/365 "2023-04-19T23:19:19Z")
I’m just going to share a comment from the OTHER pit thread about PWIS (and flag my post so @Miller can decide if he wants to combine them). > [@A pitting for Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791/263): > > Wow, I’ve been getting caught up on the “Easthampton school superintendent” thread and Boy-howdee, is PWIS is trolling hard there. I mean the dodging Miller’s request for a straight answer is cheap, but not unknown for some of our posters. But THIS??? “Why? Taking offense when none is intended seems foolish, if common.” Which, in context was to a female poster who felt that ladies can and has been using insultingly and due to our existing social pressure, has to suck it up. (for the record,… So, yeah, just another instance of him doing his not-so-low-scale trolling. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791/366 "2023-04-19T23:31:30Z")
[Moderating] I’ve combined the two threads pitting **Paul**. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791/367 "2023-04-22T15:02:50Z")
Back to the “Ladies and Gentlemen” thread. Pauline directly lies again. Repeating the same lie that he made in the OP which drew a Note. > [@Easthampton school superintendent job offer abruptly rescinded](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easthampton-school-superintendent-job-offer-abruptly-rescinded/982248/230): > > [CNN has an update.](https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/21/us/easthampton-massachusetts-school-district-superintendent-email/index.html) It seems the term used may have been “Ladies and gentlemen.” One woman (I almost said “lady”) on the board ‘said she was “insulted by the familiarity with which the candidate addressed me.”’ The fellow who was not hired seems to be minimizing the idea that salary or other terms on employment were the issue. He is very clearly a lying troll. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791/368 "2023-04-22T16:18:44Z")
Worse, not particularly bright. The first response wondered if there was more to the story and it was only 4 or 5 more posts before the possibility this might actually be a contract negotiation dispute instead of “wokeness gone wild” was explicitly posited We demand and deserve a better class of lying troll ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791/369 "2023-04-22T16:43:00Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > the possibility this might actually be a contract negotiation dispute instead of “wokeness gone wild” was explicitly posited Worse, I linked an article pointing out that he had cornered the board members at a fundraiser to demand more pay and time off; Paul challenged the claims made by the article; I looked into the source… and it was actually right in Paul’s original article the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791/370 "2023-04-22T16:48:26Z")
But but but … my cite doesn’t mean what it says. It means what _I_ say! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791/371 "2023-04-22T16:52:21Z")
He drew a warning for this latest stunt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-paul-was-in-saudi/946791.md?page=18)