# An apology to Stoidela **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 4, 2001, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382 "2001-01-04T09:17:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/1 "2001-01-04T09:17:32Z")
I just popped over to GD for a bit of perusement, and I find two threads right at the top of the page… “Why do people hate sex work?” and “Life after Death? (Near death experience)”, respectively… sitting at the very top. Both interest me, so I pop in. I read through the OP (one of them had no responses), and then type out my own responses. Then I go back to the main GD listing, and that’s when I noticed the starter for both those threads… **Stoidela**. “Well, heck,” I think to myself, “I’ve just been bashing her in a Pit thread for the past few days… and I just read two posts of hers which I found interesting?” “Something must be wrong.” I figured, “That something must be me.” So, Miss Stoid, I offer you an apology for overreacting towards you, and stereotyping you based on a few of your political beliefs. While I don’t agree with you on many things, that doesn’t mean I have to automatically oppose EVERYthing you post. SO-O-O-O-O… I’ll contest with you in gun threads and Dubya/Gore threads, no doubt about that, but I see no reason why I can’t side with you on other topics. Again, I apologize for my behavior. (Note to Mods: I placed this in the Pit because that’s where the latest anti-Stoid thread is located. Alpha, Lynn, John, if you think it should be in MPSIMS, feel free to move it) ---
**Author:** ![bj0rn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@bj0rn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bj0rn)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/2 "2001-01-04T13:56:53Z")
congratulations… bj0rn - … ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/3 "2001-01-04T14:28:04Z")
Classy post. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/4 "2001-01-04T15:19:58Z")
You sir, are not an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrison_s_Lament)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/5 "2001-01-04T15:25:07Z")
Yeah, I like this post 'cause it cuts to the heart of the matter; that we may dislike some views of our brothers and sisters, but that is still what we all are here on the Straight Dope Message Boards! _sniff_ You said it Spoofe… I guess it’s just the inherent advantage we ex-movietheatre folk have over the rest of ya lame-ass bastards who can never admit to being wrong!!! _grinsatstartinganotherandevenmorecontraversialflamethread_ — G. Raven p.s. joke folks… a joke. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/6 "2001-01-04T20:06:56Z")
What’s this world coming to? If the **SPOOFE** r can acknowledge that **Stoidela** may occasionally have her good points - not too long after **yours truly** said complimentary things about **Freedom2** - how’re we ever going to get any good flame fights going around here? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/7 "2001-01-04T20:23:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*What’s this world coming to? If the **SPOOFE** r can acknowledge that **Stoidela** may occasionally have her good points - not too long after **yours truly** said complimentary things about **Freedom2** - how’re we ever going to get any good flame fights going around here? 😉 \*\* Oh NO! I’d better stay the hell away from any threads that **Wildest Bill** and **dougie\_monty** are posting in, or I might say something nice to them, and then where would I be?!? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/8 "2001-01-04T20:27:36Z")
Originally posted by Morrison’s Lament > [@](#): > > \*\*Yeah, I like this post 'cause it cuts to the heart of the matter; that we may dislike some views of our brothers and sisters, but that is still what we all are here on the Straight Dope Message Boards! \*\* Let go ahead and sing it then…“we are family… got all our brother sisters with me yea we are family…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/9 "2001-01-04T20:28:29Z")
She’s started some good threads. I contributed to the “Religion as child abuse” thread, and (gasp!) _agreed_ with her. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/10 "2001-01-04T20:31:41Z")
I \*\* just \*\* got finished chiseling your name into The List, and you go and do \*\* this \*\*. Now I’m gonna have trash the whole thing and start over! I accept your apology. And I want you to know that you have gained tremendous respect from me for offering it, and offering it so publicly. Very few people have the personal integrity to do such a thing, even when they know they should. You are alright, dude. I have only one request: when we tangle again (and we certainly will…hey, I just got my new subscriptions to Utne Reader, Mother Jones, and American Prospect…I’m loaded for bear!) \* no personal attacks \*. Scylla and I seem to have reached a good debating/playing relationship without being hateful towards each other, I’m sure you and I can, too. [sub](even though he \*deliberately \* tormented me with the live piggies in Kitchen Stadium)[/sub] Thanks again. I really do appreciate it. \ stoid ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/11 "2001-01-04T21:18:44Z")
What kind of shake, **Stoid**? Chocolate or strawberry? Nice OP, **SPOOFE**. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/12 "2001-01-04T21:35:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gadarene \* > \*\*What kind of shake, **Stoid**? Chocolate or strawberry? > \*\* Chocolat, always. And only with real ice cream or forget it. stoid ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/13 "2001-01-04T22:50:58Z")
You know…I don’t really HATE anyone here. Seriously. Even Wildest Bill is amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Krispy\_Original](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/14 "2001-01-04T23:42:47Z")
Guinastasia, You’d make a good moderator… ---
**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/15 "2001-01-04T23:47:40Z")
\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/16 "2001-01-05T00:03:45Z")
Awww. They’re only virtual piggies! I’ve bred them so they **like** to be slaughtered. Surely you can’t object to this? ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/17 "2001-01-05T00:11:31Z")
produce really nice fatty bacon…and tender carnitas… Yum. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/18 "2001-01-05T03:10:50Z")
I already am. At Customer’s Suck. 😃 (shameless self-promotion…) ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/19 "2001-01-05T06:08:05Z")
> [@](#): > > when we tangle again (and we certainly will…hey, I just got my new subscriptions to Utne Reader, Mother Jones, and American Prospect…I’m loaded for bear!) no personal attacks . Hey, I can live with that. It’s a deal. > [@](#): > > - how’re we ever going to get any good flame fights going around here? Only a spam-sucking lilly-livered varmint like yerself could say somethin’ like that! Choose yer weapon! ---
**Author:** ![Chronolicht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Chronolicht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronolicht)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382/20 "2001-01-05T07:32:12Z")
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Count me in! Kumbaya! I don’t hate anyone either! I really don’t! Not even that Yosemitebabe, though she broke my heart. She is not a smirching merbeast. Thousand points of light and big bunnyhugs all 'round! 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-apology-to-stoidela/48382.md?page=2)