# Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-boys-bad-boys-whatcha-gonna-do/532518 "2010-03-15T04:12:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 275
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-boys-bad-boys-whatcha-gonna-do/532518/275 "2010-03-17T22:39:18Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Okay. > > Find a different rhetorical device. I know you don’t expect people to send essays and that you’re not going to find and shoot anybody. That’s not the point. The point is that this style of address is not allowed here. (I don’t think they would tolerate it in the Pit either, but I leave it to the mods there to decide.) > > Our main rule here is “Don’t be a jerk.” Calling people idiots and saying you’d like to shoot them is being a jerk whether you couch it as a “rhetorical device” or not. > I’m familiar with what happened at the Bastille, thank you. Your posting privileges are going to get guillotined if you continue to address people this way, is that clear? Don’t do it again. > > If you have any more questions about this, ask them in the About This Message Board forum. OK, I submit to your authority. Consider me chastised… “Whimper, Whimper, Whimper…” End of argument? Good enough? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-boys-bad-boys-whatcha-gonna-do/532518)._