# An ongoing list of The Straight Dope's most epic assholes. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 13, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753 "2015-01-13T21:58:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/241 "2015-01-17T02:41:01Z")
If nothing else, **adaher** insists on carrying on debate in the Pit. Honestly, folks, this area is for verbal violence, not discussion, **adaher** is an out-of-place fuckwipe for doing this. He ought to be banned from posting in the Pit (can they do that, surgical privilege restrictions?) . ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/242 "2015-01-17T03:33:28Z")
What kind of poster would get banned only from the Pit, of all places? ---
**Author:** ![Boogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Boogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boogly)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/243 "2015-01-17T03:37:09Z")
Probably an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/244 "2015-01-17T05:07:00Z")
> [@Boogly](#): > > Probably an asshole. Well played Sir, well played… (we need a bow smiley) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/245 "2015-01-17T05:20:12Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > (we need a bow smiley) Fuck that noise, we have all the smileys we need, fail to be an inarticulate asshole. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/246 "2015-01-17T05:28:04Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Well played Sir, well played… > (we need a bow smiley) What about me? I’m the one who set it up for him. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/247 "2015-01-17T05:31:33Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I don’t think you’re an asshole either. You are really, really out of it, though. > [@adaher](#): > > And I think you’re cool too, despite being wrong so often. Aww, what’s this? 😃 You guys should get a drink sometime. You might find out there’s a whole lot more you two kinda dig about each other. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > _Lie?_ Did the mod actually use the word “lie”? Or was it a request to tone your enmity down a little? Duh. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/248 "2015-01-17T05:58:08Z")
You miserable jerks can kiss my shiny metal ass. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/249 "2015-01-17T08:10:02Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > For ruining, derailing, and getting closed more threads over more years than any other asshole by far? > > Dio. > > He wasn’t stupid. Very few of his views were extreme. > > But asshole, destroyer of threads? You bet your ass. He was an obnoxious Viking fan and never missed an opportunity to turn any thread into being about him, but for it me it was worth it for the many occasions when he tore off a bible thumpers arm and beat him to death with it. An Atheist with an encyclopedic knowedge of The Bible baiting fundamentalists is just comedy gold. I miss reading that here. ---
**Author:** ![Boogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Boogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boogly)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/250 "2015-01-17T14:01:32Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > What about me? I’m the one who set it up for him. Just because you alley-oop’ded me that set up a juke move around the goalie that let me hit a triple that won me a bullseye you think you deserve anything? What an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/251 "2015-01-17T15:29:50Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > He was an obnoxious Viking fan and never missed an opportunity to turn any thread into being about him, but for it me it was worth it for the many occasions when he tore off a bible thumpers arm and beat him to death with it. An Atheist with an encyclopedic knowedge of The Bible baiting fundamentalists is just comedy gold. I’m sorry the guy was banned, and I did enjoy his perspective on the Bible. It was truly amazing, though, how the “correct” interpretation always aligned with his political philosophy. Just amazing! ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/252 "2015-01-17T15:36:34Z")
> [@howye](#): > > I’m surrounded by Assholes! I bet that stinks! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/253 "2015-01-17T16:20:05Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’m sorry the guy was banned, and I did enjoy his perspective on the Bible. It was truly amazing, though, how the “correct” interpretation always aligned with his political philosophy. Just amazing! Yeah, really, when does that ever happen? ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/254 "2015-01-17T16:45:00Z")
I have an asshole, on a treadmill, I’m leaving right here. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/255 "2015-01-17T17:11:04Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Usually, to me, the epic assholes are the relatively small group of posters who do at least one of a handful of (IMO) assholish behaviors: > > [ol] > [li]Stick to their guns about some factually disproven belief.[/li][li]Make sweeping inflammatory generalized statements of “truth” that are far from the actual truth, and aren’t anything other than their opinion. Or… they stick to their ideological guns way past the point when they’ve been shown to be mistaken about their own beliefs.[/li][li]Act extremely patronizing about issues that aren’t nearly so cut and dried as they’d like to believe.[/li][li] Poison the well early and often in threads about social issues.[/li][li] Troll one side or the other intentionally about political/social issues.[/li][/ol] > There are a handful of posters who routinely do this… I’m not naming names, but the majority tend to be on the hyper-liberal side of things, but a couple are on the conservative side. In a lot of ways, I dread their entry into threads about topics I’m interested in, because the threads inevitably devolve into a fight instead of a discussion. So basically principles are for assholes. Who hurt you? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/256 "2015-01-17T17:24:13Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > So basically principles are for assholes. > > Who hurt you? Numbers 3 and 5, nice! If you can hit all five in one post, you win a Golden Sphincter. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/257 "2015-01-17T17:37:28Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > So basically principles are for assholes. You know who else stood by his principles? ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/258 "2015-01-17T17:41:44Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > You know who else stood by his principles? Jesus Hitler ---
**Author:** ![Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/259 "2015-01-17T18:23:06Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > Jesus > Hitler Nice Godwin Asshole! ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753/260 "2015-01-17T18:32:16Z")
No, it was Jesus Hitler. Adolf’s older brother. Mom always liked him best. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ongoing-list-of-the-straight-dopes-most-epic-assholes/709753.md?page=14)