# And Giraffe is being obtuse too. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 16, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489 "2005-06-16T04:12:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/21 "2005-06-16T12:41:03Z")
Should of tried harder on this one, dude. …what? ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/22 "2005-06-16T12:58:29Z")
> [@uglybeech](#): > > Be thoroughly intolerant of rudeness please. But this type of pointless pickiness just frustrates. Thoroughly intolerant of rudeness… In the BBQ Pit? Being rudely honest with other members is one of the reasons the forum exists, you daft little fool. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/23 "2005-06-16T13:25:53Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I think Giraffe did the right thing. When I say right, I mean wrong. But when I say wrong, I mean right. Frankly, the whole thing could be consolidated a lot more. Or a lot less, depending on what I mean. For example: > > The thread about smacking little girls and the thread about taking boys out of oil could be combined into the thread about testing hazardous chemicals on people. Girls and boys are people. Smack and oil are chemicals. In fact, since people are animals, both threads about pigeons could go in the same thread. The seven Michael Jackson threads also, since Michael Jackson needs smacking. I guess really the only thread that wouldn’t fit is the To Pit or Not to Pit thread. But it should be moved to Cafe Society anyway. I marvel at your ability to take two paragraphs to say absolutely nothing. And that’s saying something. In the end, isn’t that what’s important? No, it isn’t. But at least we all learned a lesson here today. Well, no, actually, we didn’t. But at least we have a sense of closure. Well … ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/24 "2005-06-16T13:33:52Z")
Oh, damn. Sorry to disappoint you on your first pitting Giraffe. But unless the rules are changed so we can post board complaints/questions elsewhere, I think you’ll have to live with the fact that your “pittings” may not rise to the level of the incoherent rage-driven vitriol you’re hoping for. But maybe this will help: Giraffe, You demented power-crazed freak-necked pus-gobbling fuckface. Your closing of my thread is an abomination that cries to heaven. My only question is how you found the time in between brutalizing senior citizens and drinking baby-blood to perpetrate such an injustice. You have clearly shown your tyrannical, even genocidal tendencies. God may forgive you…history will not. Better? ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/25 "2005-06-16T13:38:54Z")
> [@uglybeech](#): > > Better? Not really, because there wasn’t any genuine rage behind it. It’s like watching an amatuer backyard wresting match, when the goal is to watch two impoverished immigrants beating each other senseless in the boxing ring so the winner can use the prize money to buy a relative’s freedom from a Guatamalan jail. ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/26 "2005-06-16T13:44:17Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > Not really, because there wasn’t any genuine rage behind it. > > It’s like watching an amatuer backyard wresting match, when the goal is to watch two impoverished immigrants beating each other senseless in the boxing ring so the winner can use the prize money to buy a relative’s freedom from a Guatamalan jail. Uh, right Metacom, that’s because I wasn’t being serious. If you’re looking for blood move along Metacom because there’s nothing to see here. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/27 "2005-06-16T13:48:00Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > It’s like watching an amatuer backyard wresting match, when the goal is to watch two impoverished immigrants beating each other senseless in the boxing ring so the winner can use the prize money to buy a relative’s freedom from a Guatamalan jail. You say this as if it were a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/28 "2005-06-16T13:50:55Z")
He’s just doing it because he’s got a shiny asshole. [sub]just propogating SDMB’s newest cliche.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/29 "2005-06-16T13:57:07Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I think Giraffe did the right thing. When I say right, I mean wrong. But when I say wrong, I mean right. Frankly, the whole thing could be consolidated a lot more. Or a lot less, depending on what I mean. For example: > > The thread about smacking little girls and the thread about taking boys out of oil could be combined into the thread about testing hazardous chemicals on people. Girls and boys are people. Smack and oil are chemicals. In fact, since people are animals, both threads about pigeons could go in the same thread. The seven Michael Jackson threads also, since Michael Jackson needs smacking. I guess really the only thread that wouldn’t fit is the To Pit or Not to Pit thread. But it should be moved to Cafe Society anyway. My point exactly. I think. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/30 "2005-06-16T14:11:39Z")
> [@uglybeech](#): > > Giraffe, You demented power-crazed freak-necked pus-gobbling fuckface. Your closing of my thread is an abomination that cries to heaven. My only question is how you found the time in between brutalizing senior citizens and drinking baby-blood to perpetrate such an injustice. You have clearly shown your tyrannical, even genocidal tendencies. God may forgive you…history will not. > > Better? No. You forgot jack-booted. _sigh_ Slowly but surely, the mod pitting traditions are fading away. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/31 "2005-06-16T14:48:31Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#): > > He’s just doing it because he’s got a shiny asshole. cliche.[/sub] )[sup]🆒[/sup]( ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/32 "2005-06-16T14:56:33Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > )[sup]🆒[/sup]( awww… what a cute widdle TIE fighter! ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/33 "2005-06-16T14:59:25Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > awww… what a cute widdle TIE fighter! Defending the Death Starfish? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/34 "2005-06-16T15:47:23Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > Defending the Death Starfish? If you prefer: [sup])[/sup][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub]\*[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][sup]([/sup] ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/35 "2005-06-16T16:18:03Z")
_An obtuse giraffe’s tongue is twenty-two feet long when a triangle. When prehensiled, it becomes a polygon, and is no longer obtuse._ ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/36 "2005-06-17T01:18:03Z")
Careful, the [last poster who called someone obtuse](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5176822&postcount=15) got banned for it! ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/37 "2005-06-17T01:35:22Z")
> [@uglybeech](#): > > Uh, right Metacom, that’s because I wasn’t being serious. If you’re looking for blood move along Metacom because there’s nothing to see here. I think that was Metacom’s point ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/38 "2005-06-17T05:43:38Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > Careful, the [last poster who called someone obtuse](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5176822&postcount=15) got banned for it! If carefully measured using a protractor, and found to be of a great than 90\* angle, would it be OK? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/39 "2005-06-17T15:10:46Z")
> [@Taber](#): > > I think that was Metacom’s point Which was my point. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489/40 "2005-06-17T18:54:22Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > Careful, the [last poster who called someone obtuse](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5176822&postcount=15) got banned for it! Aaaah. Good times, good times. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-giraffe-is-being-obtuse-too/308489.md?page=1)