# andrewdt85, You Gibber And Rave Like A Gibbering Raving Thing **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 20, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrewdt85-you-gibber-and-rave-like-a-gibbering-raving-thing/331997 "2005-11-20T23:44:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrewdt85-you-gibber-and-rave-like-a-gibbering-raving-thing/331997/101 "2005-11-22T22:01:27Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > No, cognitive dissonance is what I feel when someone like you says they respect me. This is disagreement seasoned with disgust. If **Polycarp** came in here and said exactly the same thing, I’d still disagree with it. However, since **Polycarp** is about as nice a guy as you could ever hope to meet, I’d be polite about my disagreement. You, on the other hand, are an asshole. I don’t feel the need to be polite to assholes. So what’s your goal right now Miller? To discuss the thread, or just go on a personal attack? In my experience, it’s impossible to reason with someone if they’re being aggressive… and clearly you feel a need to be aggressive right now. So I’m just going to concentrate on my original point when I started posting in this thread. Andrew should simply sit back, and read, and learn. He should observe how some people thrive on personality conflict, and others speak reasonably and coureously, others are kinda in between. The way this thread is evolving should be an abject lesson for Andrew on how to negotiate his future on the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrewdt85-you-gibber-and-rave-like-a-gibbering-raving-thing/331997/102 "2005-11-22T22:02:35Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Would that be a big steaming cup of stupid? With non-dairy creamer. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrewdt85-you-gibber-and-rave-like-a-gibbering-raving-thing/331997/103 "2005-11-22T22:14:23Z")
> [@Boo Boo Foo](#): > > If someone else had done it… not so bad… but for the author of the OP to have done it is just plain tacky. You’ve made your opinions clear. No-one seems to agree with you, but you’re free to hold them. However, you still haven’t addressed the contradictions in your posts about the validity of starting new threads while you continue to post in existing ones, or about settling matters privately when you continue to address them publically. Any chance of of an answer of substance, or are you just going to shout, “ **Case** is _mean_!” On preview, I see you’ve mentioned that **andrewdt85** should sit back a bit, read, and learn: that I agree with, as I noted in an earlier post, and if anything constructive does come out of these threads over the past couple of days, hopefully it’ll be that he does learn to tone down his act and contribute usefully. We shall see. ---
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrewdt85-you-gibber-and-rave-like-a-gibbering-raving-thing/331997/104 "2005-11-22T22:19:04Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > On preview, I see you’ve mentioned that **andrewdt85** should sit back a bit, read, and learn: that I agree with, as I noted in an earlier post, and if anything constructive does come out of these threads over the past couple of days, hopefully it’ll be that he does learn to tone down his act and contribute usefully. We shall see. As an old cynical saying goes, the most intelligent people we meet in life are those who agree with us. Now that we’ve found ground for agreement, I think you’re incredibly intelligent! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrewdt85-you-gibber-and-rave-like-a-gibbering-raving-thing/331997/105 "2005-11-22T23:06:39Z")
Well, with a silent **andrewdt85** making the OP seem redundant now and with no point in bashing the guy further for the sake of it, I’ll ask a kindly Mod to lock this down - I don’t _want_ him to show up in here now, so let’s remove temptation from his path. Mods! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrewdt85-you-gibber-and-rave-like-a-gibbering-raving-thing/331997/106 "2005-11-22T23:15:28Z")
> [@Electronic Chaos](#): > > For someone who’s been around long enough to post 1000+ threads, he sure seems to know fuckall about the customs and traditions of the board. He must have been lurking for a while, though. In the OP of the thread about doctors, he said, “Nope, I don’t mean the ones who come to your offices and have sex w/ your wives and girlfriends,” and that’s a reference to a thread (and troll) from years ago. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2005, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrewdt85-you-gibber-and-rave-like-a-gibbering-raving-thing/331997/107 "2005-11-23T05:28:38Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Oh, and I forgot to add that **andy** seems to have heeded the voices telling him to be quiet until he has something useful to say, at least for now: let’s hope he’s having a good long quiet think about how not to gibber and rave. He said something about how he can only post on the weekends. (Something about writing down all the ideas he has for threads…I dunno) ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrewdt85-you-gibber-and-rave-like-a-gibbering-raving-thing/331997/108 "2005-11-23T07:09:43Z")
> [@Boo Boo Foo](#): > > In my experience, it’s impossible to reason with someone if they’re being aggressive… and clearly you feel a need to be aggressive right now. That would describe you, in this and other Pit threads today, quite well. > [@](#): > > The way this thread is evolving should be an **abject** lesson for Andrew on how to negotiate his future on the SDMB. You mean “[object](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=object%20lesson)” – although “abject” could also describe the take-away from a Pitting. ---
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrewdt85-you-gibber-and-rave-like-a-gibbering-raving-thing/331997/109 "2005-11-23T07:28:55Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > You mean “[object](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=object%20lesson)” – although “abject” could also describe the take-away from a Pitting. Thank you sir. I stand corrected. As for your first observation? Thanks for the feedback. I’ll take that on board. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrewdt85-you-gibber-and-rave-like-a-gibbering-raving-thing/331997/110 "2005-11-23T13:28:30Z")
Closed per request of the OP. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrewdt85-you-gibber-and-rave-like-a-gibbering-raving-thing/331997.md?page=5)