# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/101 "2010-10-06T12:25:22Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Maybe we should get rid of names too and just be referred to by numbers. Much more fair and efficient that way. I want i ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/102 "2010-10-06T12:29:37Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > > [@control-z](#): > > > > Maybe we should get rid of names too and just be referred to by numbers. Much more fair and efficient that way. > > I want i Don’t be irrational. ---
**Author:** ![heatmiserfl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@heatmiserfl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heatmiserfl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/103 "2010-10-06T12:50:42Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > I have a mental image of a pasty doper fapping out dozens of “me-too” posts, with nothing to contribute yet still yearning desperately that something will stick and a fellow avatard will post the magic words “nice avatar dude”. Said pastynerd will lean back and bask in his internet glory, before masterbating furiously in case the adrenalin boost gives him hives. I didnt say it was a nice mental image. OMG, I soooo thought the same thing when I saw those threads! Oh and can I use your Christ on a floor-mounted dildo line in every other post? Don’t listen to these haters **Buck**. I got your back! I love the Irish. They’re so little and cute. \<3 \<3 \<3 ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/104 "2010-10-06T13:26:53Z")
> [@heatmiserfl](#): > > Oh and can I use your Christ on a floor-mounted dildo line in every other post? Only if you also make it your avatar. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/105 "2010-10-06T13:28:02Z")
> [@GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](#): > > **Bucketybuck** , you are a big weenie. From now, on I will see [this](http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8326/bucketybuckweenie.jpg) above your every post. Okay, I am totally going to figure out this Greasemonkey for Safari thing. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/106 "2010-10-06T13:40:02Z")
Adrenaline hives? Is that even possible? ---
**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:** [October 6, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/107 "2010-10-06T13:43:16Z")
Only with adrenaline bees. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/108 "2010-10-06T13:44:10Z")
> [@heatmiserfl](#): > > Don’t listen to these haters **Buck**. I got your back! …and your Christ on a floor-mounted dildo\*. \*Lysol wipes sold seperately. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/109 "2010-10-06T14:36:35Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > I knew it wouldnt take long for you to come screeching in. I have a Spider Sense, but for _blinding stupidity_. This thread had me tingling so hard, I almost had to drag it off to a closet for some personal time. > [@](#): > > No, I dont put much effort into my clothing. Its all casual baby. Ah, but even wearing casual clothing is an expression of who you are. You’re putting some thought into what you’re wearing in terms of how you will present yourself to others. > [@](#): > > The names/numbers thing has been done already, try to keep up. Yes, I noticed that, but I’d already thought of it from the second I read your retarded excuse for an OP. And it’s a good analogy, so it bears repeating. > [@](#): > > Dont lie, you love wilfull ignorance and the chance to blow the top of your skull with a sudden jump in blood pressure. Its what you do. Just a bit. > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I’m going to take that as meaning that I, at least, do not need an avatar. No? I’ve certainly come to recognize you without one. People like \*\*dumbfuck \*\*upthread mostly tend to blur together, though. (See a further comment farther down this post.) > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Aslan is pretty clearly not omnipotent. \*Is \*he not omnipotent? Or does he simply have his own rules about when it’s right for him to use his power? I think the latter is probably more accurate in the sense that he’s analogous to the Christian god. > [@Guinastasia](#): > > Seriously, he’s one of the ones who pitched a hissy fit when it turned out that people MIGHT be able to see their pictures posted HERE, after having sent them to the SDMB Gallery. Wait, he was one of those? Haaaaaaaahahahaha. I hadn’t even realized. (See comment farther up this post.) > [@Muffin](#): > > Do avatars have to be all or nothing, or is it possible to give one poster, and one poster only, an avatar. If that’s possible, then how about assigning an avatar to bucketybuck? I approve of this suggestion. > [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Stealing? Apparently, his name must easily lend itself to **dumbfuck** because I just made that up on the spot. No, I mean the idea of just replying with telling him to get laid. You’d already done it, which means if I did the same it would be redundant. > [@GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](#): > > **Bucketybuck** , you are a big weenie. From now, on I will see [this](http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8326/bucketybuckweenie.jpg) above your every post. I also approve of this. > [@Nava](#): > > I want i You could be everyone’s imaginary friend. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/110 "2010-10-06T14:59:38Z")
Do avatards do avaturds? ---
**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 6, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/111 "2010-10-06T15:04:02Z")
> [@Leaking\_Boot](#): > > > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > > > I just barely acknowledge the movies, having been taught a bitter lesson by Peter Jackson. > > Really, stop there. You can’t even compare Narnia with Arda, not the written works. But the movies? Jackson wasn’t to bad. You’re right not to acknowledge the others - but they had inferior material to work with. Is there a thread for this in the cafe? I’m not comparing Narnia & Arda. I mean that _I_, personally, should not watch movies based on books I love, not that they shouldn’t be made. I broke the rule for WATCHMEN and suffered appropriately. I’m cool with the rest of y’all watching whatever y’all want – just as I’m cool with avatars being enabled so long as I can turn them off. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/112 "2010-10-06T15:15:09Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > > [@Leaking\_Boot](#): > > > > Um, guys - he’s just a big talking cat. Not a very convincing one either, not in the movie anyhow. > > He’s also kind of an asshole, in the second movie (and probably book), what with the “I think I’ll let people die while I’m being coy” … That sounds exactly like a cat. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/113 "2010-10-06T15:33:32Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > I have a Spider Sense, but for _blinding stupidity_. This thread had me tingling so hard, I almost had to drag it off to a closet for some personal time. Sometimes, someone posts an insult that’s so evocative that I want to have their babies, even if that’s not physiologically even possible. This is one of those times. ---
**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/114 "2010-10-06T15:45:35Z")
> [@Michael\_Ellis](#): > > TL;DR DOCR? ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/115 "2010-10-06T15:52:17Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I avoid this problem by wearing a blindfold in the store and identifying items by feel. Oh, sure, the stockboys hate me but if it means I won’t fall prey to the store’s attempt to make me notice shit I don’t need, I figure I’m ahead of the game. Not nearly as much as the stockgirls do. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/116 "2010-10-06T16:23:49Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > > [@Anaamika](#): > > > > Good gods. > > There are good gods? > > Other than Athena, Thor, and Aslan, I mean. Maybe that’s who she was referring to. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/117 "2010-10-06T16:43:55Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > I think you need to be a shallow, dumb, childish, insecure, empty little moron to actually want an avatar. I almost agree. I think you need to be a shallow, dumb, childish, insecure, empty little moron to actually avoid a message board that won’t let you have an avatar. > [@Shot From Guns](#): > > That’s not what an avatar is. An avatar is an \*incarnation \*of a god. And that doesn’t make them not the god. That means Jesus is an avatar. And if I make my avatar Jesus, that makes me YHWH. Yay! ---
**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 6, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/118 "2010-10-06T16:46:43Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > > > There are good gods? > > > > Other than Athena, Thor, and Aslan, I mean. > > Maybe that’s who she was referring to. Stop pointing out the logical consistencies in my posts, or I will threaten you again! ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/119 "2010-10-06T16:46:52Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > You know what other message boards _don’t_ use avatars? That’s right, HITLER! Wait a second… ---
**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 6, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/120 "2010-10-06T17:16:52Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > That’s right, HITLER! [That’s not as ridiculous as it might seem](http://everything2.com/title/Fraktur). Basically, Hitler wanted everybody to use the same font. > [@Everything2](#): > > After the rise of Adolf Hitler to power, Fraktur became a symbol of the Nazi movement. Use of the script increased dramatically, especially for propaganda, and its writing was institutionalized in schools. There were several variations to make the script appear more rune-like and cater toward Nazi aspirations for a pure Aryan society. But suddenly in 1940, Joseph Goebbels ordered all new propaganda to be written in Antiqua, not Fraktur. In the wake of this change, Hitler prohibited Fraktur wholesale. His justification was that they had all been deceived, and Fraktur was in fact a Schwabacher Judenletter (Schwabacher Jewish script). The actual motive for this reversal was that the conquered nations under Germany’s grip could not be properly flooded with propaganda they couldn’t understand. The Fraktur script was not universal enough for spreading beyond Germanic countries. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161.md?page=7)