# Argent Towers, you suck **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 1, 2009, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563 "2009-12-01T06:06:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/81 "2009-12-02T14:54:40Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Oh, don’t be silly! Its mittens made from kittens! And just in time for Christmas, too! These sound adorable! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/82 "2009-12-02T15:09:00Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Hush. Playboy models are naturally hairless. All he needs to do is airbrush his slippers and he’s good to go. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/83 "2009-12-02T15:36:08Z")
Excuse me…can we get back to calling **Argent Towers** names? Or at least \*start \*calling him names? Focus, people! ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/84 "2009-12-02T16:59:45Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I’ll speak my mind on gun issues if someone else brings them up here. I do believe very strongly in gun rights. But I can’t remember the last time I actually _started_ a gun-related thread. > > This is hardly the posting record of the kind of rabble-rousing, “evasive” and “inflammatory” person the OP seems to be condemning. I will share my opinions in threads about controversial stuff that have been started by other people, and sometimes those opinions will be quite strong - though if in hindsight I feel that I have posted something too emotional or abrasive, I will generally admit it (as I did in the thread about the murdered policemen.) I also steer clear of personal attacks on other posters, because I think it’s pointless. There are posters here who I disagree with vehemently, like **Diogenes the Cynic,** and still think of as friends and treat with respect. I don’t believe in feuding with other people; I try to find some kind of common ground with everyone. There isn’t a person on this whole board who I can’t think of something good to say about. Right, and I didn’t mean to insinuate that I hate your guts or anything. There are moments where the criminal element comes up in a conversation and I sorta roll my eyes and think “here we go again”. I disagree with that particular portion of your posting history, but overall you are an ok guy, I think. We share an interest in European history, especially Royal figures, it seems. I have actually enjoyed a good number of threads you have started. So, what I was trying to say is while you have faults (who doesn’t?) I’m not sure where the OP is coming from. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/85 "2009-12-02T17:10:39Z")
I was going to complain that this pitting has degraded into an all too obnoxious love fest and make some cutting, yet witty remarks to try and stir the pot a little, but then I happened upon the [Doper Picture Gallery](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/gallery_home.html) and noticed that **Argent** kind of looks like [John Darnielle](http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/496685859_bcaaf68fb8.jpg), whom I love beyond words, and now I can’t anymore… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/86 "2009-12-02T17:29:28Z")
I don’t really see the resemblance in the photo you linked but I do in [this one.](http://www.randybacon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/MountainGoats0195.jpg) I have a different kind of nose, and my head is rounder, but it seems like we have the same kind of hair, and the shape of my mouth is almost exactly the same as his, and the overall facial proportions are similar. Interesting comparison; one I’ve never gotten before. I had to look him up. Turns out he was born in Bloomington, IN (though raised elsewhere) - I was born elsewhere, but raised here. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/87 "2009-12-02T17:38:40Z")
Count yourself lucky! If I have to hear one more time how closely I resemble George Clooney… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/88 "2009-12-02T17:44:18Z")
On a molecular level, at least. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/89 "2009-12-02T17:50:26Z")
In the face, yeah, but you’ve definately got Rosemary’s butt. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/90 "2009-12-02T17:56:43Z")
He shares 98% of George Clooney’s DNA. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/91 "2009-12-02T18:00:36Z")
Well, you got the rest… ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/92 "2009-12-02T19:26:00Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > You’re not going to hate this pitting at all. In fact you might like it. In fact, your ego is having an orgasm right this second. This totally reminds me of that scene in _Hogg_… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/93 "2009-12-02T20:16:48Z")
Wait, I wasn’t done with the kitten mittens yet. They’re made of kittens, sure, but the whole kitten? What, squished flat and cut into strips? Just the skin and fur? I’m trying to get the mental picture of this right. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/94 "2009-12-03T02:24:29Z")
Looks like this thread has served it’s purpose. I got something off my chest, a few people agreed, including the subject of the pitting to some extent, and numerous references to kittens were made. In the interest of saving bandwidth, and a few of you from your own “humor”, I will ask to have this thread closed. Besides, you guys were hogging it. Literally. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/95 "2009-12-03T02:51:32Z")
Fucking A, you’re a little weasel, **dnooman**. You post a rather vague pit thread about another poster. No quotes. No cites. You don’t participate in the damn thing to tell us _why_ you don’t like **Argent Towers**. But now that it is not the pile on you expected, you cry to the mods to close this kitten. Screw you. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/96 "2009-12-03T03:34:13Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > Fucking A, you’re a little weasel, **dnooman**. > > You post a rather vague pit thread about another poster. No quotes. No cites. You don’t participate in the damn thing to tell us _why_ you don’t like **Argent Towers**. > > But now that it is not the pile on you expected, you cry to the mods to close this kitten. Screw you. Whatever. It was a rather vague feeling about him, and not a specific set of posts that one could point to and say “see, proof the guy’s a jerk”. People will always disagree, and some might agree. I was never super heated to begin with, nor am I now. I never expected a pile on at all, maybe you did, seems you’re more upset about the lack of sparks than anyone else. I didn’t _whine_ to the mods, I asked that it be closed because of what the thread has degenerated into. I know that’s how Dopers like to show their apathy towards the OP, so what, but lame jokes tend to get long and old really fast. If my opinion was so important to you, why wait so fucking long to ask for it? Pit me for my pathetic pitting. Do whatever your monkey ass desires. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/97 "2009-12-03T04:01:14Z")
Again, you’re a weasel. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2009, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/98 "2009-12-03T05:01:11Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > This joke might offend as well. Gotta wrap this stuff up in kitten mittens, folks. If you need to make a pair, I’ve got two extremely annoying kittens you can use. I’ve been on “Christmas tree patrol” almost all day trying to keep them from climbing the damned thing, and replacing the ornaments they keep pulling off. And since they’re almost fully grown, you can probably get a couple of pairs, so hey, you’ll have some stocking stuffers!!! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/99 "2009-12-03T05:19:41Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Last May, with a B.A. in history. Indiana University. Oh. Well okay then. I always pictured you as a grizzled middle aged guy. Not so. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563/100 "2009-12-03T05:22:29Z")
You never clicked my user profile? There’s a picture of me in it. I’m kind of flattered that on the basis of my writing alone I would be considered a grizzled middle-aged guy if the alternative is a young and immature guy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argent-towers-you-suck/519563.md?page=6)