# Another Liberal Pitting **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 7, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799 "2007-08-07T21:33:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/61 "2007-08-08T21:50:12Z")
[QUOTE=stretch] And **Stranger** , why should I have to miss out on a huge part of the board just because of one whacko who is very difficult to miss, considering how many threads he needs to put an oar in about? [/QUOTE] Urk? The only “huge part of the board” you’re going to miss are his individual posts, which are the very thing you’re complaining about. The whole argument reminds me of a man complaining how bad the food is here, “And the portions are too small, too!” Anyway, it’s just a suggestion. But if you get more milage out of umbraging for having to read them, it’s your dime. But **Liberal** pays the same as everyone else to post here (unless the moderators just keep him around as a mascot) and unless he’s violating rules, the fact that his bizarre, profane koan-like responses makes gives you a pain in the gulliver isn’t really grounds for an effigy burning party. Heck, it doesn’t even make for an especially inspired rant, though I have enjoyed **black rabbit** ’s spoofs quite a bit. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/62 "2007-08-08T22:10:09Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Urk? The only “huge part of the board” you’re going to miss are his individual posts, which are the very thing you’re complaining about. The whole argument reminds me of a man complaining how bad the food is here, “And the portions are too small, too!” Anyway, it’s just a suggestion. But if you get more milage out of umbraging for having to read them, it’s your dime. But **Liberal** pays the same as everyone else to post here (unless the moderators just keep him around as a mascot) and unless he’s violating rules, the fact that his bizarre, profane koan-like responses makes gives you a pain in the gulliver isn’t really grounds for an effigy burning party. Heck, it doesn’t even make for an especially inspired rant, though I have enjoyed **black rabbit** ’s spoofs quite a bit. Stranger [/QUOTE] Have you tried the ignore feature? It ruins my enjoyment of the board. Somehow is seems that it’s always the responsibility of those of us who get frustrated with **Lib** to adjust, rather than him just trying to… be a human being. I don’t expect normalcy from any Doper, just less than assholish behaviour the majority of the time. I guess I’m fucked for expecting \*\*Liberal \*\* to hold himself to the standard he wants to hold the rest of us to. ---
**Author:** ![Pazu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pazu/32/15522_2.png) [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/63 "2007-08-08T22:16:17Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] When I want someone to stop posting, I don’t whine about it. I put my money where my mouth is. [/QUOTE] Yes, I’m sure we all remember that shining moment in SDMB history. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/64 "2007-08-08T22:16:55Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] When I want someone to stop posting, I don’t whine about it. I put my money where my mouth is. Now fuck off. [/QUOTE] When you actually pay the money post the receipt, Drama Queen. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/65 "2007-08-08T22:20:52Z")
[QUOTE=stretch] Thank Og. Now if only you can restrain yourself from Doping when you have these problems… [/QUOTE] The problem was, he had a shitload of fortune cookies. But by diligently posting each of the fortunes as a message or reply, and [eating the fortune cookies on white bread washed down with pepsi,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=342599) the problem is now resolved. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/66 "2007-08-08T22:34:03Z")
At first, I actually thought his replies were making fun of those spam emails you get that are just nonsensical jumbles of phrases that don’t really go together, but when you try to read them, it brings the funnies. Then I realized that wasn’t it and I was sad. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/67 "2007-08-08T23:06:22Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Urk? The only “huge part of the board” you’re going to miss are his individual posts, which are the very thing you’re complaining about. [/QUOTE] Oh, I’d say it’s worth complaining about. It’s true that it doesn’t amount to a “huge part of the board,” at least for me, but it’s also more of a matter of simply Ignoring the posts. They destroy threads. I can’t tell you how many times I’m merrily enjoying a thread, only to read one of his posts, and I immediately bail out of the thread and never return, because I know from experience the discussion is now derailed. Sure it’s not breaking any rule, (well maybe the jerk rule), but if a poster continually dismantles interesting discussions so completely that other posters know full well that the thread is over after they post, well, it certainly gets irritating and Pit threads sure seem worthy to me. There’s only one other poster I know of who consistently does the same thing, and that’s **Lissener**. Read post, confirm name, leave thread. I’d call that pretty annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/68 "2007-08-08T23:07:16Z")
[QUOTE=askeptic] When you actually pay the money post the receipt, Drama Queen. [/QUOTE] On the date on which **Liberal** settled his agreement with the poster who need not be named, I received $500.00 from him. You may consider this his receipt. You might consider apologizing for the implicit accusation of dishonesty. Tris ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/69 "2007-08-08T23:13:18Z")
[QUOTE=Triskadecamus] On the date on which **Liberal** settled his agreement with the poster who need not be named, I received $500.00 from him. You may consider this his receipt. You might consider apologizing for the implicit accusation of dishonesty. Tris [/QUOTE] In that case I do apologize for that accusation. Lib, I apologize. I still think you’re loony but I apologize for accusing you of dishonesty. nb-nothing wrong with loony despite the fact that it can cause frustration even among friends. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/70 "2007-08-08T23:43:31Z")
Holy shit, **Lib**! Trust me when I say I’m not piling-on on you, but political/religious disagreements aside, we both know you’re much more capable than those rambling, meaningless, attention-whoring posts produced by the OP. You’re well damn coherent when you want to be even if we disagree 90% of the time, so why do it, other than garnering attention as the whacked-out job you often resort to imitating (?). And I placed that question mark in there, because, at times I’m not sure if you’re even _pretending_ – as in the infamous “I’m dying thread.” Not only wacky as shit (never mind that I then had to put up – and put-down – with the sanctimonious, can’t-get-over-his-own-brilliliance, **Spiritus Mundi** ). In short, dude, we’re about the same age, but at times it appears to me one of us hasn’t bothered to grow-up yet. So please, stop the drama-queen crap and go back to what you were doing before. Namely being coherent. Trust that’s not too much to ask. Sincerely, **~Red** ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/71 "2007-08-09T02:45:46Z")
I’m not really familiar with any of the history involved-- and I don’t particularly care to be-- but I’ll agree with the OP that the posts in question are annoying as fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/72 "2007-08-09T03:42:00Z")
Lib seems to need to have an “all about me” trainwreck thread from hell going on about every two months or so. If he doesn’t, he resorts to goofy irritating posts in hopes to initiate a Pit thread about Himself. And it usually happens. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/73 "2007-08-09T03:51:02Z")
I hope no one is listing this as an “all about me” thread by **Liberal**. He didn’t start it, and really hasn’t participated in it nearly as much as some. Just in the interest of actual reality mattering, you know. Tris ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/74 "2007-08-09T03:59:06Z")
[QUOTE=Triskadecamus] I hope no one is listing this as an “all about me” thread by **Liberal**. He didn’t start it, and really hasn’t participated in it nearly as much as some. Just in the interest of actual reality mattering, you know. Tris [/QUOTE] Er, in the interest of reality, if you read my post, I never said Lib started this thread. eta: However, Lib has started many “all about me” threads himself in the Pit. Which was what I meant. In the interest of reality of course. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/75 "2007-08-09T04:02:04Z")
[QUOTE=Klaatu] Lib seems to need to have an “all about me” trainwreck thread from hell going on about every two months or so. If he doesn’t, he resorts to goofy irritating posts in hopes to initiate a Pit thread about Himself. And it usually happens. [/QUOTE] I wonder if there is an actual historical accuracy to this statement. Apparently there was an “issue” that has since been fixed, yet he still felt the need to post. I have to say that this reeks of attention starvation. There is _no fucking way_ that those posts were meant to just blend, or even provide insight. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/76 "2007-08-09T04:10:58Z")
[QUOTE=dnooman] I wonder if there is an actual historical accuracy to this statement. Apparently there was an “issue” that has since been fixed, yet he still felt the need to post. I have to say that this reeks of attention starvation. There is _no fucking way_ that those posts were meant to just blend, or even provide insight. [/QUOTE] Dude, you just agreed with me. He didn’t mention an “issue” until late in this thread. As you say, those other posts didn’t blend, they were there to provoke a Pitting, simply because Lib is a Dope attention whore. I am done here. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/77 "2007-08-09T04:16:03Z")
It seemed to me that your post implied at least some level of responsibility for the existing of such threads as a response to the “need” you identified as **Liberal** ’s, and that the existence of the thread was an intended consequence of his “goofy” replies in other thread. I don’t feel that your implication is entirely supported by reality. Tris ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/78 "2007-08-09T04:25:07Z")
Lib, I love you dude, but when the Doctors change your meds, please warn us or something, eh? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/79 "2007-08-09T04:37:07Z")
[QUOTE=Klaatu] Dude, you just agreed with me. He didn’t mention an “issue” until late in this thread. As you say, those other posts didn’t blend, they were there to provoke a Pitting, simply because Lib is a Dope attention whore. I am done here. [/QUOTE] I WAS agreeing with you. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799/80 "2007-08-09T04:59:06Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] When I want someone to stop posting, I don’t whine about it. I put my money where my mouth is. Now fuck off. [/QUOTE] I wasn’t going to jump in here, but jeezus, you have the nerve to use that embarrassing and sickening little stunt as a bonafide now? Truly pathetic and a new low even for you. There aren’t enough :rolleyes: s to cover my feelings about you at this point, **Liberal**. Maybe expermenting with the ignore feature will be worth the trouble. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-liberal-pitting/414799.md?page=5)