# Am I Hateful if I Start a Thread and Ask 21 Questions and then Walk Away? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 27, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851 "2009-08-27T00:28:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/21 "2009-08-27T14:58:41Z")
Ah, go take your morning nap, grandpa! ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/22 "2009-08-27T15:04:34Z")
A checking of Wikipedia indicates that they are not so much old people as they are _dead_ people. You folks were seriously hung up on communism, weren’t you? My favorite part of the entry was Cohn’s attempt to get into some comatose dude’s will by forcing his hand into a signature. A delightful intersection of unscrupulousness and hilarity. 🙂 One thing I gotta say, you old guys sure knew how to be bad. I guess Ken Starr is our generation’s Roy Cohn. Booorrringg. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/23 "2009-08-27T16:23:49Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I’d say that the responders were worse than **Clothahump** in that thread, by any measure. > > The goal of this board is to fight ignorance. If Glenn Beck or whoever tosses out _factually wrong_ data as talking points, providing true data should be the first priority, not shouting the data down as knowably wrong simply because of its source. I saw a few posts early in the thread that rebutted the points one-by-one. Once those had been laid out, there’s no need for every single person to keep rebutting them all over and over in the same thread. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/24 "2009-08-27T16:46:03Z")
**Humpy** ’s purpose was to get all them lib’ruls ashamed for hatin’ on Glenn Beck, a Great American, so much. No wonder he’s cut-and-run. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/25 "2009-08-28T12:59:43Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](#): > > The question of the 21 that were asked in the OP of [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=529337) that chaps my hide the most has got to be question # 20 > > Apparently not, or else you would have **joined the discussion**. > Is this trolling? I’m quite sure that it’s at least a drive-by, or hit and run, or whatever the kids are calling it these days. Is there a trolling scale, so we can have an idea what level offense has been committed? If so, I’d give this one about a 63, out of 100 - bothersome, but not the worst that there’s been. > Still, (insert bird waving smiley here). Well, gee, dude, excuse the living hell out of me for having a life. I’ve been out of work for quite some time, thanks to the Bush/Obama tag team. I finally landed a temp job, and last night was the first night that I have gotten home before midnight since I started. And miracle of miracles, I don’t have to be in until 0900 today. So I hit the SDMB and lo and behold, what do I find? The usual pack of liberal pussies whining, bitching and moaning over Beck’s list, and the fact that I dared post something from Beck in their little liberal preserve. And then you come along and pit me. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. Rather than bitch at me for not logging in 24/7 to hear all you libs howling like broke-dick dogs, why don’t you try bitching at Obama for taking a sorry situation and fucking it up beyond belief? Oh, that’s right, you can’t…after all, he is the Obamassiah, Mr. Hopey-Hopey-Changey-Changey himself. And you can’t complain about him, because then you’ll be racist/hateful/iggurant/whatever. Jesus, what a bunch of pissants. There used to be intelligent, witty people posting here. Not any more. We have to sift through way more shit to find pearls, and the pearls we’re finding these days aren’t that good quality. \ Give it up, Cecil. The loons have won. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/26 "2009-08-28T13:05:39Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > 1. **Clothahump** has a long-time habit of posting political sloganeering, then walking away from the thread. At best you may see him follow up with one or two one-line posts sneering at one poster or another, but that’s pretty much all you’re likely to get. > > 2. The whole point of that thread seems to have nothing to do with the questions supposedly asked, all of which apparently were verbatim quotes from Glenn Beck, but simply to taunt other posters in advance for dismissing any of them because they were first posed by…Glenn Beck. Apparently **Clothahump** assumes that all of them were factual statements simply because of the source, and didn’t do even the most rudimentary fact-checking prior to posting them. I love it when foolish people like you make assumptions about what I do and why, because you are so far wrong, you’re not even in the same zip code with right. The whole point of the thread was to provide the questions for discussion. One or two people responded in that vein. The rest proved my last statement correct: they found out the list was from Beck and that’s all they cared about. They sure as hell didn’t care about trying to answer the questions, and I can only assume that was because they knew they couldn’t. Oh, and by the way…fact-checking? That was a list of questions being asked, not a list of statements being made. The concept is to…maybe, you know…provoke people into doing a little fact-checking on their own? I’m just saying. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/27 "2009-08-28T13:19:49Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > I reckon he needs a hug, a therapist, and a thorazine. Is it possible to hug with extreme violence? ---
**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:** [August 28, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/28 "2009-08-28T13:33:11Z")
Yeah, **humpy** … no loaded questions in _that_ list at all, no sirree. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/29 "2009-08-28T13:39:09Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > …after all, he is the Obamassiah, Mr. Hopey-Hopey-Changey-Changey himself. Well, it is difficult to argue rationally against a point in which one sentence fills three or four solid squares on my Batshit Crazy Republican Talking Point Buzzword Bingo card. Or do I get two squares a piece for 2 “Hopey’s” and 2 “Changey’s”. Can someone call George Soros and get me a ruling? ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/30 "2009-08-28T13:39:53Z")
**Clothahump** has sex with goats. Isn’t it awful when people have sex with goats? What? I’m just asking a question, I’m not making a statement or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/31 "2009-08-28T13:46:42Z")
Should pooping on Reagan’s grave be protected as free speech? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/32 "2009-08-28T13:48:38Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > **Clothahump** has sex with goats. Isn’t it awful when people have sex with goats? Well, it’s most certainly worth discussing, don’t you think? ---
**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:** [August 28, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/33 "2009-08-28T13:50:58Z")
Apparently it depends on where the question came from. Is that an original thought, **DoctorJ**? ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/34 "2009-08-28T13:55:03Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Apparently it depends on where the question came from. Is that an original thought, **DoctorJ**? It doesn’t matter who suggested it at first. People are talking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/35 "2009-08-28T13:57:49Z")
I for one find it very difficult to believe that \*\*Clothahump \*\*has sex with goats. But since it is under discussion, does he hold them by the horns while he’s rogering them? ---
**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:** [August 28, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/36 "2009-08-28T14:00:31Z")
By the beard, I heard. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/37 "2009-08-28T16:06:11Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I love it when foolish people like you make assumptions about what I do and why, because you are so far wrong, you’re not even in the same zip code with right. > > The whole point of the thread was to provide the questions for discussion. No it wasn’t; you said so yourself right in the OP. The whole point of posting them was to demonstrate that they wouldn’t get a fair hearing because they were sourced from Glenn Beck. > [@](#): > > One or two people responded in that vein. The rest proved my last statement correct: they found out the list was from Beck and that’s all they cared about. They sure as hell didn’t care about trying to answer the questions, and I can only assume that was because they knew they couldn’t. You’re the one who posted that crap. Explain to me why I’ve got to waste my time doing your fact-checking for you. > [@](#): > > Oh, and by the way…fact-checking? That was a list of questions being asked, not a list of statements being made. IIRC, one of the first ‘questions’ makes the clear, unambiguous statement that billions of dollars of stimulus money has been given to ACORN. As a poster demonstrated, that is factually wrong. At least you’re doing a little better at responding to other posters’ comments than you used to. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/38 "2009-08-28T16:07:59Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Well, gee, dude, excuse the living hell out of me for having a life. > > I’ve been out of work for quite some time, thanks to the Bush/Obama tag team. I finally landed a temp job, and last night was the first night that I have gotten home before midnight since I started. And miracle of miracles, I don’t have to be in until 0900 today. So I hit the SDMB and lo and behold, what do I find? The usual pack of liberal pussies whining, bitching and moaning over Beck’s list, and the fact that I dared post something from Beck in their little liberal preserve. > > And then you come along and pit me. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. Rather than bitch at me for not logging in 24/7 to hear all you libs howling like broke-dick dogs, why don’t you try bitching at Obama for taking a sorry situation and fucking it up beyond belief? Oh, that’s right, you can’t…after all, he is the Obamassiah, Mr. Hopey-Hopey-Changey-Changey himself. And you can’t complain about him, because then you’ll be racist/hateful/iggurant/whatever. > > Jesus, what a bunch of pissants. There used to be intelligent, witty people posting here. Not any more. We have to sift through way more shit to find pearls, and the pearls we’re finding these days aren’t that good quality. > > \ Give it up, Cecil. The loons have won. Just to clarify, do you consider your Glenn Beck thread to be a “pearl” of an original post? Do you consider copy/pasting from Beck’s site to be intelligent and witty? Personally, I haven’t seen the smallest glimmer of original thought from you yet, so maybe the problem isn’t **everyone else** if you know what I mean. And congrats on the new job. I know how terrifying it is to be unemployed, and nobody deserves that. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/39 "2009-08-28T16:31:54Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Well, it’s most certainly worth discussing, don’t you think? Clothahump: “Goat pussy is gritty.” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851/40 "2009-08-28T17:57:32Z")
I was going to say what **Mosier** said, pretty much. _ **Humpy** , you’re being a dick, which I suppose is par for the course for you._ That said, I’m glad you got a job, and I hope it leads to something permanent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hateful-if-i-start-a-thread-and-ask-21-questions-and-then-walk-away/507851.md?page=3)