# An open letter to Ambivalid **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 30, 2019, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248 "2019-04-30T06:17:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/1 "2019-04-30T06:17:24Z")
[Ambivalid is a good poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21480258#post21480258). I’ve thought about defending him before but I can tell he’s the type who doesn’t find himself that situations eat away at him. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/2 "2019-04-30T06:30:08Z")
Not much of a letter, really. More a Post-It. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/3 "2019-04-30T08:26:55Z")
> [@Covfefe](#): > > [Ambivalid is a good poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21480258#post21480258). I’ve thought about defending him before but I can tell he’s the type who doesn’t find himself that situations eat away at him. What? ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/4 "2019-04-30T12:43:45Z")
You must have edited your letter for length. Drastically. Unfortunately, this removed pretty much whatever it is you meant to say. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/5 "2019-04-30T13:12:22Z")
So wait. Is he saying Ambivalid is a dick? I can’t tell. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/6 "2019-04-30T13:12:46Z")
I opened this assuming it’d be the recent [Tupac was GAY?!?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=874709) thread where he felt like someone misunderstood him. And he just couldn’t let it go after a long rant, then another, said he gave up (“Fuck it, I’m out!”), but kept returning to beat the dead horse (and could not grasp that no one else really cared whether it was dead or not). Then he asked for the whole thing to be closed… [prompting another thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=874736)… sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/7 "2019-04-30T13:20:00Z")
I have generally found **Ambivalid** ’s posts worth reading, although no one gets away without a few general clunkers, emotional rants or rapidly-drafted, ill-considered and later-regretted stinkbombs. I’m not sure he’s an _exceptional_ poster but, you know, he seems fine. I have no idea what the OP here is trying to say apart from the fact that he thinks **Ambivalid** is a good poster. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/8 "2019-04-30T13:45:47Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I opened this assuming it’d be the recent [Tupac was GAY?!?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=874709) thread where he felt like someone misunderstood him. And he just couldn’t let it go after a long rant, then another, said he gave up (“Fuck it, I’m out!”), but kept returning to beat the dead horse (and could not grasp that no one else really cared whether it was dead or not). > > Then he asked for the whole thing to be closed… [prompting another thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=874736)… sigh. He mad tho ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/9 "2019-04-30T13:53:48Z")
When I needed a kidney, not one friend or relative stepped forward. Everyone was “too busy” or had “plans”. But you know what? **Ambivalid** came through for me and I can go to my eternal slumber not wondering what the big deal is about steak and kidney pie. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/10 "2019-04-30T14:04:53Z")
> [@Covfefe](#): > > [Ambivalid is a good poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21480258#post21480258). I’ve thought about defending him before but I can tell he’s the type who doesn’t find himself that situations eat away at him. While I appreciate the link to a thread I started, I’m not sure what it has to do with **Ambivalid**. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/11 "2019-04-30T15:00:42Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Not much of a letter, really. More a Post-It. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/12 "2019-04-30T15:00:43Z")
He posted in it. He’s a good poster. Clicked the right button on the first try, I bet. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/13 "2019-04-30T15:25:44Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > While I appreciate the link to a thread I started, I’m not sure what it has to do with **Ambivalid**. I _think_ he might be referring to post #23, where **Ambivalid** was attempting some kind of satire(?) or performance art or something. Or he’s been drinking the furniture polish again. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/14 "2019-04-30T16:31:21Z")
I like **Ambi**. I like **covfefe**. I don’t understand this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/15 "2019-04-30T16:33:44Z")
It’s a bit like listening to one half of a phone conversation, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/16 "2019-04-30T17:23:59Z")
> [@Covfefe](#): > > [Ambivalid is a good poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21480258#post21480258). I’ve thought about defending him before but I can tell he’s the type who doesn’t find himself that situations eat away at him. Did you forget to put the letter in the envelope before sending it out? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/17 "2019-04-30T17:25:01Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > … > Or he’s been drinking the furniture polish again. But not that weak ass Pledge stuff. He’s moved up to Old English. Can’t say I blame him. Pledge…yuck! Lemon flavored my ass! ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/18 "2019-04-30T17:42:14Z")
What does **Covfefe** mean by this OP? I think I am safe to say that “the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant.” ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/19 "2019-04-30T18:05:38Z")
Just a quick check: is everyone else seeing the link go to a specific post of **Ambivalid** ’s? Some of you are talking like you it just goes to a thread, but it should take you to his post about “check your privilege.” Seems to me the point of this thread is just to say something positive about the guy publicly. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248/20 "2019-04-30T18:06:50Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Just a quick check: is everyone else seeing the link go to a specific post of **Ambivalid** ’s? Some of you are talking like you it just goes to a thread, but it should take you to his post about “check your privilege.” > > Seems to me the point of this thread is just to say something positive about the guy publicly. Seem to me like he posted this thread in The BBQ Pit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-ambivalid/833248.md?page=2)