# Aceplace57, what the fuck is wrong with you? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 24, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698 "2015-05-24T02:21:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/641 "2018-01-22T15:47:02Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > The condo stuff was hilarious. He was seriously confused that someone might rent a condo. It totally blew his feeble mind. I didn’t read that thread. Was he unable to understand that the owner of a condo might rent it to someone else? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/642 "2018-01-22T15:55:02Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I didn’t read that thread. Was he unable to understand that the owner of a condo might rent it to someone else? He understood that a condo was “an apartment which you own,” and didn’t understand why renting a condo didn’t turn it back into an apartment. It makes sense, in a way. He didn’t argue when people explained it to him, at least. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/643 "2018-01-22T16:39:24Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > How old is he anyway? Sometimes it sounds like he’s in a rocker with Ma, and sometimes it sounds like his youngest kid just left for college. Am I the only one that thinks of the [Mandelbaums](http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/12748270_1693411977568977_1413681983_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTE5NDIwNDY5MzY3NjQyMzY4Nw%3D%3D.2) from Seinfeld whenever he talks about his mom? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/644 "2018-01-22T17:46:38Z")
And another prime example of his tendency to not understand something and therefore make up some bizarre scenario to explain it. Maybe the Turpins, who kept their children in shackles without food, were [just trying to save some money](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20739600#post20739600). “Refusing to let them bathe may have been an attempt to keep the water bill low. Restricting them to one meal a day may have been another cost savings”. He even knows the solution: “The mother and older children could take jobs to help bring money into the household…Also, bath water can be reused. Saving substantially on the water bill.” He has this need to twist the outside world into something he can comprehend, whether it’s innocent confusion like renting a condo, or more disturbing stuff like finding excuses for the Turpins, sex abusers like Josh Duggar, or misogynists like himself. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/645 "2018-01-22T22:05:39Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > And another prime example of his tendency to not understand something and therefore make up some bizarre scenario to explain it. Maybe the Turpins, who kept their children in shackles without food, were [just trying to save some money](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20739600#post20739600). “Refusing to let them bathe may have been an attempt to keep the water bill low. Restricting them to one meal a day may have been another cost savings”. > > He even knows the solution: “The mother and older children could take jobs to help bring money into the household…Also, bath water can be reused. Saving substantially on the water bill.” **Ace** is beginning to remind me of Lazlo Toth, of “[The Lazlo Letters](http://www.sullivansfarms.net/s1dneycom/lazlo/)”. > [@](#): > > In an on-going correspondence with the White House, Toth suggests everything from ridiculously corny jokes for the President to use, to a campaign song sung to the tune of “Tea for Two.” > > From: Lazlo Toth … February 18, 1974 > To: Mr. Bubble, Gold Seal Company > Dear Gentlemen: I want you to know first of all that I enjoy your product. It’s always refreshing to spend some time in the tub with some bubbles. However, I must confess I am puzzled by some of the instructions on the box. It says: “KEEP DRY”. How can you use it if you keep it dry? Thought you’d be interested to know someone like me caught the mistake. I thought you’d like to know. Sincerely, Lazlo. > > Over the next few years he continued . . . with letters to Ferdinand Marcos (“Law and order forever!”), Francisco Franco (“You are not just a general, you are truly a Generalissimo! Keep it up!”), McDonalds (stating his opposition to putting jelly on the Egg McMuffin), and Henry Kissinger (“How’s your new wife?”) > > Funniest are his product suggestions, such as the Little Big Mac (“Half the fat with a feather on top!”) or Campbells Soup (Presidential-themed microwave dinners). Now I am wondering: Is Don Novello trolling us here on SDMB by creating the **aceplace57** persona? ---
**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:** [March 20, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/646 "2018-03-20T19:32:22Z")
> [@Katy Perry's PR nightmare.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katy-perrys-pr-nightmare/810764/10): > > I don’t know enough details. Do you ever? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/647 "2018-03-20T19:43:11Z")
Can we set up an online debate between acey and Luciano700? I’d pay money to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/648 "2018-03-20T19:43:56Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > **Ace** is beginning to remind me of Lazlo Toth, of “[The Lazlo Letters](http://www.sullivansfarms.net/s1dneycom/lazlo/)”. > > Now I am wondering: Is Don Novello trolling us here on SDMB by creating the **aceplace57** persona? Oh my God, I remember that book, I bought it in the “humor” section at Borders Bookstore (R.I.P.) when I was a young teenager because it looked hilarious even though, as I started reading through it, I realized that almost all of the humor was way before my time, involving Richard Nixon and the many public figures who were famous at the time. Later, after I had read some Hunter S. Thompson and had a little familiarity with that era, I started picking up on more of the references. In particular, I remember one letter to H.R. Haldeman, who was Nixon’s chief of staff, complaining that he had been letting his hair grow too long and implying that he was turning into a hippie. (Haldeman famously had a very stiff-looking flat-top haircut.) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/649 "2018-03-20T19:56:05Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Can we set up an online debate between acey and Luciano700? I’d pay money to watch. I bet you were a fan of \*Bumfights. \* ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/650 "2018-03-20T20:52:27Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Can we set up an online debate between acey and Luciano700? I’d pay money to watch. I’m not sure it’s possible to create a perpetual moron machine, but the experiment could be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/651 "2018-03-20T21:42:27Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I’m not sure it’s possible to create a perpetual moron machine, but the experiment could be interesting. No, free republic isn’t that interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/652 "2018-03-20T22:53:23Z")
I haven’t been able to find the post, but I remember when assplace57 first pinged my radar. He was getting all indignant because sometimes people on public assistance have things like refrigerators and telephones and maybe even a TV and he felt these families should sell all these items before accepting public assistance. Only then would they be truly destitute enough to deserve it. Then he called me immoral because most of my family is on some form of public assistance And I give them nice gifts. Because I love them and I like making them happy. Once I gave everyone TV sets for Christmas. And I take them out to nice restaurants. But assplace feels that life isn’t fair if the people that are taking his tax dollars aren’t miserable 24/7. He seriously thought I had some sort of moral obligation NOT to help them. He thought I should send the government the money instead. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/653 "2018-03-20T22:56:01Z")
“A donation in your name has been made to the Assplace Fund.” ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/654 "2018-03-21T16:16:02Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I haven’t been able to find the post, but I remember when assplace57 first pinged my radar. He was getting all indignant because sometimes people on public assistance have things like refrigerators and telephones and maybe even a TV and he felt these families should sell all these items before accepting public assistance. Only then would they be truly destitute enough to deserve it. > Then he called me immoral because most of my family is on some form of public assistance And I give them nice gifts. Because I love them and I like making them happy. Once I gave everyone TV sets for Christmas. And I take them out to nice restaurants. But assplace feels that life isn’t fair if the people that are taking his tax dollars aren’t miserable 24/7. > > He seriously thought I had some sort of moral obligation NOT to help them. He thought I should send the government the money instead. Take your vows and you’ll be golden. If you’re fanatically devoted to the Pope, you can steal a tax-exempt 8-acre spread in L.A. with a swimming pool. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/655 "2018-07-03T00:46:08Z")
> [@How is Chief Justice of SCOTUS selected?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-chief-justice-of-scotus-selected/817022/7): > > My bad. I was under the impression Kennedy was chief justice. The press has been talking about his importance nonstop. > > Thank you for clarifying. This fucking idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/656 "2018-07-03T00:52:31Z")
Sorry, I should elaborate. **aceplace57** is the worst kind of harmless idiot. He believes shit with no evidence just because it seems right, and then it informs his worldview. I wonder how many of the articles he read included the phrase “Chief Justice Roberts” somewhere in them, but his incompetent ass was just too functionally illiterate to process it. Then when someone pointed it out to him, his fucking response was basically “oh, it seemed right so I assumed it was true.” There’s a t-shirt that says something like “Be as confident as a mediocre white man.” He is that mediocre white man. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/657 "2018-07-03T02:17:30Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Oh, and BTW, Christian fundamentalism is NOT two-thousand years old. It’s only a little over one-hundred years old. This. It is a bunch of bullshit, a British and American phoney “theology”, invented in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/658 "2018-07-03T02:23:29Z")
> [@Mr.Nylock](#): > > … but there is always this idea in my head that _all_ opinions should be allowed a voice. > > On the other hand - this isn’t exactly the kind of thing I want go to the mat to defend. … I don’t find the behavior defensible; I think it is disgusting and twisted - I probably should have just stayed out of this debate. Some opinions are SHIT. They don’t deserve respect or “airtime”. It’s not like we are supersecret gubmint guys, preparing to arrest him for his shit opinions. But we can sure roast him. Freedumb of speech goes both ways. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/659 "2018-07-03T04:24:38Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Some opinions are SHIT. They don’t deserve respect or “airtime”. It’s not like we are supersecret gubmint guys, preparing to arrest him for his shit opinions. But we can sure roast him. Freedumb of speech goes both ways. Exactly. Yes, everyone has a right to an opinion. However, there is not a single unsupported asinine opinion itself that has a right to not be treated, discussed, and firmly branded as such. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698/660 "2018-07-03T05:43:03Z")
> [@Ace309](#): > > There’s a t-shirt that says something like “Be as confident as a mediocre white man.” He is that mediocre white man. “Lord, grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man.” I’ve been planning on embroidering that to hang up in my house. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aceplace57-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/720698.md?page=34)