# Adebaran is still a mindumbingly inane fucking asshole.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [October 25, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508 "2003-10-25T16:49:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Alan\_Owes\_Bess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Owes_Bess)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508/141 "2003-10-28T11:28:29Z")
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> Is this all you can do?
Life’s too short to spend more than 5 minutes googling and copying for Coldfire _et al_.
I think there were more than one or four incidents involved in the three inch string (oops, sorry).
Do you really believe in the existence of an unbiased news related website?
Rhetorical question, I know. It was not part of your original and, I believe, unreasonable specification.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508/142 "2003-10-28T11:37:20Z")
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> Life’s too short to spend more than 5 minutes googling and copying for Coldfire et al.
So, basically, **Alan Owes Bess** and **Aldebaran** are simply the opposite sides (anti-Muslim/Muslim) of the same coin of unsubstantiated generalizations, each pushing their own agendas of hatred and ignorance.
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### Author:  [@Alan\_Owes\_Bess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Owes_Bess)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508/143 "2003-10-28T11:59:49Z")
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> _posted by tomndebb_
> So, basically, Alan Owes Bess and Aldebaran are simply the opposite sides (anti-Muslim/Muslim) of the same coin of unsubstantiated generalizations, each pushing their own agendas of hatred and ignorance.
Since the last half dozen posts are so close together, you’ve revealed a lot about your deficient reading comprehension skills.
Have you considered entering a rehabilitation program?:wally
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### Author:  [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508/144 "2003-10-28T12:12:13Z")
Nah, I’d agree completely with **tomndebb**. You’re an ignorant jackass.
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### Author:  [@Alan\_Owes\_Bess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Owes_Bess)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508/145 "2003-10-28T12:44:17Z")
Desmostylus…Desmostylus.
Ah yes. It all comes back to me.
You were one of those brown noser fans of that dysfunctional psycho Collounsbury, not so?
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### Author:  [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508/146 "2003-10-28T13:07:46Z")
I’m certainly not a brown noser fan of the dysfunctional psycho **Alan Owes Bess**. 😉
As for what I thought of **Collounsbury** , well that’d take some research on your part, and the production of cites. I’ll come back when you’ve finished doing your homework.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508/147 "2003-10-28T14:05:22Z")
**Alan Owes Bess** : you are a weasel.
You boldly stated that “The Guardian and The Independent are simply newspapers that routinely commit lies of commission or omission”.
You have provided one possible instance of such behaviour, from a highly dubious cite. Surely, all the right wing UK tabloids would have been all over this like flies on horseshit, had The Guardian “routinely” lied?
Don’t go bitching about wasting more than 5 minutes of your precious time researching this: don’t talk the talk if you’re not prepared to walk the walk. Your statement could not be substantiated. Be a man about it, ferchrissakes.
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508/148 "2003-10-28T14:16:27Z")
Back to the OP: anyone besides Aldebaran believe he actually has a doctorate in Arabic language? I ask this because of his rather laughable assertions made on this board about Linguistics issues.
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### Author:  [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508/149 "2003-10-28T15:15:03Z")
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> \*Originally posted by tomndebb \*
> \*\*So, basically, **Alan Owes Bess** and **Aldebaran** are simply the opposite sides (anti-Muslim/Muslim) of the same coin of unsubstantiated generalizations, each pushing their own agendas of hatred and ignorance. \*\*
I am surprised that so much ignorance on both sides of one issue being this close together didn’t start a stupidity chain reaction powerful enough to power a small city.
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508/150 "2003-10-28T15:22:27Z")
I guess it’s like that SciFi concept of matter-antimatter reactors, elf6c. But in this case, it’s not two antimatter entities; it’s two doesn’tmatter entities producing doesn’t work.
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508/151 "2003-10-28T15:25:48Z")
You know, that joke would’ve been funnier had I said:
[qoute][…]it’s two doesn’tmatter entities producing…well, doesn’t produce.
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### Author:  [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508/152 "2003-10-28T15:54:16Z")
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> **Alan Owes Bess**
Getting back to the substance of your objection, namely that [Iraq Body Count](http://www.iraqbodycount.net/) is a partisan site with dubious sources, I’d like to see you come up with an alternate and obviously, much lower, number of casualties from a source you consider trustworthy. I say “much lower,” because I take your objection to mean that their figures are much inflated to make the invaders look bad.
Please note that the following sources are already taken into account by the IBC as well as the fact that a low/high range is given – and my own usage of the lower estimate in the post you responded to:
_**ABC - ABC News (USA)
AFP - Agence France-Presse
AP - Associated Press
AWST - Aviation Week and Space Technology
Al Jaz - Al Jazeera network
BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation
BG - Boston Globe
Balt. Sun - The Baltimore Sun
CT - Chicago Tribune
CO - [Commondreams.org](http://Commondreams.org)
CSM - Christian Science Monitor
DPA - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
FOX - Fox News
GUA - The Guardian (London)
HRW - Human Rights Watch
HT - Hindustan Times
ICRC - International Committ of the Red Cross
IND - The Independent (London)
IO - [Intellnet.org](http://Intellnet.org)
JT - Jordan Times
LAT - Los Angeles Times
MEN - Middle East Newsline
MEO - Middle East Online
MER - Middle East Report
MH - Miami Herald
NT - Nando Times
NYT - New York Times
Reuters - (includes Reuters Alertnet)
SABC - South African Broadcasting Corporation
SMH - Sydney Morning Herald
Sg.News - The Singapore News
Tel- The Telegraph (London)
Times - The Times (London)
TOI - Times of India
TS - Toronto Star
UPI - United Press International
WNN - World News Network
WP - Washington Post**_
We’ll take it from there.
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### Author:  [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adebaran-is-still-a-mindumbingly-inane-fucking-asshole/209508/153 "2003-10-28T15:59:37Z")
PS-If a mod could edit my post to add the closing tag in the first **bold** usage, I’d be much obliged.
Apologies to the rest.
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