# Avatards **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 5, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161 "2010-10-05T19:22:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/41 "2010-10-05T21:00:18Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > I thought I was quite clear in saying I have no problem with allowing people the option to have avatars. In fact if the poll you started is public, you will see I chose that option when I voted. I even went as far to say in the OP that it wouldnt impact my posting experience. (Right at the end, guess it really was TLDR) Yeah, you seemed pretty sanguine about it in your OP. :dubious: But I have to get back to writing a letter protesting the color they’re repainting the inside of the church I don’t attend. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/42 "2010-10-05T21:00:42Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > > [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > > > (Alt+13 =♪ and Alt+14 =♫) > > But…where’s the “13” key? > > Best if read in the voice of Neil from _The Young Ones_. I’ve never seen The Young Ones. It is a british show,yes? ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/43 "2010-10-05T21:01:18Z")
> [@Peeta\_Mellark](#): > > What kind of strange little world do you live in? Is this the only message board you’ve ever frequented? Do you turn up your nose at all of the other thoughtful, interesting discussions out there on the Internet because, by God, your grandly superior message board where people discuss shaving their asses, popping zits, and time-travel is SRS BZNSS? > > Yeah, the James Randi Educational Foundation board is shallow. Physics Forums is dumb. Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum? Childish. Psych Central? Insecure. Any board that uses avatars is vastly intellectually inferior. > > Get over it, dude. It’s a non-issue either way, but your moronic need to view avatars as the mark of something childish just shows how out of touch with reality you are. I live in Ireland. We are better than you. I dont frequent many message boards no, I actually have a social life. I turn up my nose at many things. Like cats, and kittens. No, I am not out of touch with reality. I have proof. Any other questions? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/44 "2010-10-05T21:02:06Z")
I’ve heard rumors that some of you people go to places I’ve never been and see things I don’t want to see. HOW DARE YOU? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/45 "2010-10-05T21:02:45Z")
How long have you suffered from Tardism? jesus christ i move too damn fast for this board. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/46 "2010-10-05T21:03:14Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > **dumbfuck** , you really, _ **really** _ need to get laid. Are you talking about me? I agree then. I always agree with that. ---
**Author:** ![BleizDu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@BleizDu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BleizDu)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/47 "2010-10-05T21:03:49Z")
> [@Peeta\_Mellark](#): > > Yeah, the James Randi Educational Foundation board is shallow. Physics Forums is dumb. Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum? Childish. Psych Central? Insecure. Any board that uses avatars is vastly intellectually inferior. Pretty much what I was thinking. (your point, not that those boards are full of “'tards”) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/48 "2010-10-05T21:03:53Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Good gods. There are good gods? Other than Athena, Thor, and Aslan, I mean. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/49 "2010-10-05T21:07:25Z")
Lemme tell ya, I really do NOT care for dark colored carpet at all. In general I prefer hardwood to carpet, but once someone has made the unfortunate decision to go with carpeted flooring, I have a preference. While I understand that it’s harder to keep light colors clean and pretty looking, I feel they make the room look more alive. Some people don’t care for this aesthetic aspect of things, and even worse, some people actually _like_ the way dark colored carpets look. My friend told me her ex boyfriend had dark brown carpets. Now I’ve never met her ex-boyfriend, and never have to go to his apartment for any reason, but I HATE him because he is stupid and wrong. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/50 "2010-10-05T21:09:02Z")
Umm, Aslan isn’t actually a god. He’s a _metaphor_ for a god. You know, an _avatar_. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/51 "2010-10-05T21:11:01Z")
> [@Peeta\_Mellark](#): > > Yeah, the James Randi Educational Foundation board is shallow. Physics Forums is dumb. Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum? Childish. Psych Central? Insecure. Any board that uses avatars is vastly intellectually inferior. This, this, a thousand times this. Good Lord/Goddess/Dawkins, people really need to get out more. You know what other message boards _don’t_ use avatars? Free Republic and 4chan, bastions of intellectual discourse and enclaves of those with superior intellect. ---
**Author:** ![Peeta\_Mellark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Peeta\_Mellark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peeta_Mellark)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/52 "2010-10-05T21:11:14Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Umm, Aslan isn’t actually a god. He’s a _metaphor_ for a god. > > You know, an _avatar_. So… **bucketybuck** called Aslan a tool of tards? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gustav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Gustav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gustav)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/53 "2010-10-05T21:18:16Z")
Most of those boards just enable avatars because that’s what you’re “supposed” to do, and the administrators don’t really care one way or another. And that’s perfectly fine. That in itself doesn’t mean it’s a shit forum, nor do all it’s posters have to be shit posters. It goes something like this: “Oh, they use avatars on this forum… I guess I should find an image for mine” = normal person. “Oh boy! They use avatars on this forum! Finally a way to ensure _everyone_ knows who my favorite fiction character is!” = horrible attention whore. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/54 "2010-10-05T21:18:39Z")
> [@Peeta\_Mellark](#): > > > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > > Umm, Aslan isn’t actually a god. He’s a _metaphor_ for a god. > > > > You know, an _avatar_. > > So… **bucketybuck** called Aslan a tool of tards? :eek: I thought Aslan was a tiger? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/55 "2010-10-05T21:24:58Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Umm, Aslan isn’t actually a god. He’s a _metaphor_ for a god. I’m going to need you to take that back. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/56 "2010-10-05T21:25:11Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > I thought I was quite clear in saying I have no problem with allowing people the option to have avatars. \ > I just think the desire to have kooky pictures is strange. Its amusing to me. I am amused. Bullshit. Your OP is weak and mealy. You spew and froth, name-call and tantrum and then toss in, almost as an aside, that hey it’s OK with me, la la la. And now after being show that your own behavior is immature, try to wave it off with, " but I only said it was amusing!!!". Chickenshit. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/57 "2010-10-05T21:27:19Z")
I actually cracked up at the OP. Thought it is was pretty funny. I used to be anti-avatar, but after the Giraffe boards and Mellophant, I actually came to really like them a lot. So, whatever, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/58 "2010-10-05T21:30:21Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > > [@bucketybuck](#): > > > > I thought I was quite clear in saying I have no problem with allowing people the option to have avatars. \ > > I just think the desire to have kooky pictures is strange. Its amusing to me. I am amused. > > Bullshit. Your OP is weak and mealy. You spew and froth, name-call and tantrum and then toss in, almost as an aside, that hey it’s OK with me, la la la. And now after being show that your own behavior is immature, try to wave it off with, " but I only said it was amusing!!!". > > Chickenshit. Chickenshit? I know I may not be the most concise poster in the world, but sheesh, the OP wasnt that hard to understand. Point by point - I didnt want to shit up the other threads - I have no rational/technical problem with Avatars - I just think it is stupid to want them so - I came to the pit to call them idiots Is this hard for you to understand? Would you prefer me to draw you a picture? A small picture? With a tagline? ---
**Author:** ![Leaking\_Boot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e68b1a/32.png) [@Leaking\_Boot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaking_Boot)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/59 "2010-10-05T21:31:12Z")
Don’t think I hate avatar luvvers, but I really couldn’t be arsed to make my own. Can’t decide what I want look like in real life, never mind anything else. I sometimes like looking at other peoples’, though; you know what I mean… ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/60 "2010-10-05T21:32:22Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > - I came to the pit to call them idiots You must feel like such a bigger person now that you’ve expressed your superiority for dislike of avatars, huh? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161.md?page=4)