One wonders if or when he figured out they were fake room numbers tossed out to get rid of unwanted attention.
I seriously doubt that anybody has ever given Acey a room number. It’s another of his little self-aggrandizing fantasies. Like his tale of living down the street from a pair of prostitutes with hearts of gold, it’s probably based on movies and TV shows he’s seen.
But that time he gave them his credit card to to shopping on Rodeo Drive and the sales assistant made a Big Mistake… surely that part was true?
Wait, there are people here who don’t know what the Onion is?!?
His latest stupidity. https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=877127
Defending the lying Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
He can’t be this stupid so he must be playing us.
I love how he calls her Sarah, like she’s his niece or something.
And his record is one of unrelenting stupidity–so it’s either a very long game or he is as he appears to be (minus the wife and kids).
I’ve come to picture our Acey as a non-ironic Stan Kelly, the author of the Onion’s editorial cartoons. These cartoons essentially mock muddled thinking itself. WHich Acey epitomizes
I told myself I was going to stop posting about Acey’s general obliviousness, and stick to his actively harmful posts when he dabbles in ridiculously outdated views on women and minorities.
I managed to resist when he posted about how the sun blinded him while driving, so he just kept going and crashed head-on into a stationary car.
My resolve started to weaken when I saw his post about inventing the Arnold Palmer drink, calling it his “contribution to the culinary world.” But I held out…until I got to his line “I didn’t know Sparkling meant carbonated.”
This can’t be for real, right?
You know the nice thing about Ace? He’s not malicious. Wait, two nice things. He will adjust his world view when confronted with public outcry and/or facts. This puts him in stark contrast to other other posters currently on prominent display. I may get irritated with him. I may even get angry. I’d rather have one thousand Ace’s than some of the trash we’ve got elsewhere.
But c’mon, stop driving if you can’t see. :smack:
I think Ace is an act but he’s damn entertaining. He’s like a parody of a dumb, harmless elderly uncle from a late night TV show sketch.
That’s exactly what it is (minus the entertaining part). Except in this case it’s easy to believe that the writer is as big a provincial dumbass as his character is.
I can’t tell if he is real or not, but that thread had me laughing. Some of those responses are hilarious! 
I don’t think he actually adjusts his world view in the way that an open-minded person may reconsider things when challenged for good reason. I think he’s terrified of conflict, and so there’s a familar pattern with so many of his OPs:
- He starts out with some kind of 7th grade, conventional wisdom on an issue
- People explain that it’s not that simple
- He resists
- People persist
- He ends up mostly agreeing, probably to quell the argument
If he were on a right-wing message board and posted a link to the story about Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Pence working on the honey bee problem and that it’s nice to see two ladies working to save bees, because of some reminiscence of bees from long ago; on that right-wing board he’d probably get a bunch of flak for saying nice things about Michelle Obama. And he’d probably end up saying that Mrs. Pence’s beehive is a better idea than Michelle’s garden… just to stop people from criticizing him.
But I agree: he’s a frustrating poster, ad sometimes really fucking weird, but I just can’t get too mad at him because it isn’t like he’s wishing harm on people in the manner of some other odious posters.
Step 5 is less agreeing and more pretending he never actually disagreed in the first place.
A little refresher might be in order. Ace might not be malicious if you’re a older white male, but his views aren’t harmless to everyone else.
This thread started because he excused a 14-year old boy fondling a 5-year old as “playing doctor”. Look at page 1 for that shitshow.
And then remember when he argued that commenting on a 12-year old’s tits was a compliment? And when called on it, his defense was that he was talking about 15-year olds, because of course it’s skeevy if they’re only 12?
How about his defense of slavery because the slaves had it pretty good - “they had lives just like anybody else.”
Dr. Who is a woman? Political correctness run amok, “this is getting embarrassing.”
Congratulations are in order for the 16-year old student who was raped by his teacher, because Acey “was still beating off to Playboy at that age.”
Interracial couples still turn heads because they’re so odd. Not Acey’s head, of course, because he totally supports their right to do weird stuff.
And of course, there’s his Nazi apologist arguments. Remember the incident in Charlottesville where a woman was killed by a Nazi? It was the left’s fault.
And the “left leaning loonies” want to take away his Southern culture, meaning Confederate monuments, Dixie, the Confederate flag, and evidently the Klan (his argument isn’t too coherent).
Sheriff Arpaio was just doing his job (assuming his job was to illegally target minorities).
Transgenders should be banned in the military because obviously men will just rape them. And when called on some flaws in that logic, he decided that all women should be banned as well.
There are his arguments against ISIS, which always seem to morph into complaints about Muslims in general.
And I already spent way too much time on this, so I’ll stop here.
Thank you Troutman. I had put him into the “annoying great-uncle” bucket. I’ll try to keep my idjits straight in future.
As an older white male, I am offended by the way Ace perpetuates the stereotype that we’re all clueless idiots.
Ace on a female to male transgender athlete who would like to compete against boys but is instead being forced to compete against girls…
I wonder if Acey ties an onion to his belt?
He hasn’t invented “string” yet.