# Aldebaran, for killing a hamster. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 19, 2004, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aldebaran-for-killing-a-hamster/235149 "2004-03-19T04:15:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aldebaran-for-killing-a-hamster/235149/1 "2004-03-19T04:15:29Z")
**Aldebaran** , your answer to **Anal Scurvy** ’s question about the Ottoman system of land ownership amounted to: 1. I, too, would like to know the answer, 2. …but I don’t… 3. … and it’s really early in the morning here… 4. … so I won’t actually post anything useful. I won’t say that _every_ time you post a hamster dies in vain, but that verges on animal cruelty. Are you trying to squeeze every last free CPU cycle out of SDMB before we force you out with our elitist fees? Or (oh please oh please oh please!) are you staying around so – not unlike the county fair’s dunking booth – people will have to pay money to humiliate you? Salami _this_, you waste of oxygen. ---
**Author:** ![Admiral\_Thistlebottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Admiral\_Thistlebottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Admiral_Thistlebottom)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aldebaran-for-killing-a-hamster/235149/2 "2004-03-19T04:16:39Z")
Link? ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aldebaran-for-killing-a-hamster/235149/3 "2004-03-19T04:24:08Z")
[Argh.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=245843) At least you were asking for something that would help you fight ignorance, instead of just chiming in with a time-check. ---
**Author:** ![MrTuffPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aldebaran-for-killing-a-hamster/235149/4 "2004-03-19T04:59:34Z")
If you are going to pit people for lame ass posts, you have a job that will last the rest of your life. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aldebaran-for-killing-a-hamster/235149/5 "2004-03-19T05:06:40Z")
> [@Admiral Thistlebottom](#): > > Link? Thank you for having the best new user name in months. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aldebaran-for-killing-a-hamster/235149/6 "2004-03-19T05:42:21Z")
Heh, this guy’s a one-man denial of service attack. Here’s an example of another of his habits: littering a thread with half a dozen posts, asking the same frickin’ question over and over again: Thread: [Viva Espana ! I’m impressed by your courage and determination](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=245368) From the OP: > [@](#): > > Can someone of the US’ers present here tell me why we don’t see US citizens march in protest against their government day after day? Post #25: > [@](#): > > So my questions stands: > What do they need to finally come out of their homes and voice their opinion, disageement and concern with such a government ? Post #34: > [@](#): > > But in fact you point out something I forgot: Yes, the lack of massive demonstrations against this government implies indeed that the US’ers surrender themselves to the mercy and the lies and deception ofthat government. Post #44: > [@](#): > > My question was: > > Where are they when it comes to organize identical massive protests against the lies and decieving tactics of the US government. Post #58: > [@](#): > > Yet my question is why on earth don’t people come en masse on the streets in protest of the incredible shameless way they were lied to and still are lied to by their president and government. I find it simply amazing to witness that they seemingly just don’t mind about that while in Iraq people still die day by day. Post #63: > [@](#): > > Do you think it is possible that the lies and deception of the current US president and government can ever provoke such a massive reaction similtaniously organized all over the USA? > That was in fact what I asked: > Why isn’t that happening since a long time = all over the USA in a massive protest like the marches before the invasion started. Post #71: > [@](#): > > Wrong. > I asked why they are not on the streets in outrage against a government that tricked them in supporting a war by tricking them in believing their blatant lies. SWEET MOTHER OF PEARL, WE HEARD YOU THE FIRST TIME! STOP IT!!! JUST STOP IT!!! Sorry, I’ll calm down now. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aldebaran-for-killing-a-hamster/235149/7 "2004-03-19T13:57:47Z")
As I’ve said elsewhere, **Alde** is, in effect if not in conscious intent, a bridge-dweller. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aldebaran-for-killing-a-hamster/235149/8 "2004-03-19T14:57:12Z")
That’s his technique. He doesn’t want an answer, of which he received plenty of good ones in that thread, he wants mindless affirmation. But his style is so bitter and caustic (that was the thread in which he threatened to kill me with a scimitar, I think?) that everybody who might agree with him at all has to step his way around it. I am confused as to why the mods seem to want to avoid warning him at all (only been one warning I recall), but there might be something they know that I don’t. I think it’s really weird. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aldebaran-for-killing-a-hamster/235149/9 "2004-03-21T15:07:12Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > I am confused as to why the mods seem to want to avoid warning him at all (only been one warning I recall), but there might be something they know that I don’t. I emailed three mods asking for insight into this, and got no answer. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aldebaran-for-killing-a-hamster/235149/10 "2004-03-21T19:03:51Z")
Lawdy I can’t believe I’m about to do this. I and a dozen or so past Pit threads all agree that Alde is pretty much only good for testing your patience and the occassional laugh in your in the mood to laugh at someone whose tactics are so predictable and … well stupid. But that linked thread isn’t even in the running for irritating Aldeisms. He noted that he liked the subject. An unneeded but benign comment. He helped define some terms that the op was confused about and said he’d help more if given some more specific questions rather than tell me about the Ottoman land system. He was even coherent! Heck that’s like the second time I’ve seen him that! Now in the Viva Espanza thread he’s back in Alde style. Yes, I’d read that as a threat on Mehitabel’s life too, but the mods must feel he has some value, and this is their show.