# Bosda, you computer illiterate moron, stop basking in your stupidity. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 29, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082 "2011-09-29T23:25:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/1 "2011-09-29T23:25:13Z")
In ATMB, Polerius took the time and effort to write a greasemonkey script allowing users to see custom avatars for Dopers. A nice idea and certainly took some work. Bosda, douche that he is, took the initiative to post > [@Greasemonkey script to add your own SDMB avatars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greasemonkey-script-to-add-your-own-sdmb-avatars/598062/2): > > All of which means nothing to me. Bosda, it means nothing to you because you’re an idiot. You revel in your ignorance like a pig wallows in it’s own filth. Given that you don’t know the difference between an [IP address and ICQ](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-623538.html), no one would expect you to know about this. Given that every time someone tries to educate you about the gross computer illiteracy you post about, you simply ignore any meaningful responses, you may take comfort in the fact that probably no-one cares if you understand this and most likely, any attempt to explain it to you would be like trying to train a jackass to sing. That’s not the problem though. The problem is that you’re more self-centered than a gyroscope. Why should Polerius even bother to explain it to you, given that you’re incapable of learning. From [“How do I get a bank loan?” part 1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=424016) and [part 2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=529600) (where you ignored all relevant advice) to “Do I have bedbugs?” (where you ignored all relevant advice) to the above “What’s Firefox’s ICQ address?” thread, to [bitching about how someone who tries to help you is wrong](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14147673&postcount=17) (when he’s giving you a exceptional and relevant tool to help you diagnose your computer, you’re an idiot and an self-absorbed ineducable one. Why don’t you simply stay out of threads you don’t understand. Granted, that won’t leave you many to read but that’s the price of arrogant, obnoxious stupidity. Now go try to housebreak yourself until you’re fit to deal with normal people you asshole. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/2 "2011-09-29T23:53:24Z")
I don’t think he cares for the term “greasemonkey”. I don’t know too many monkies who could take apart a fuel injector. I did see one do sign language once _high fives_ ---
**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/3 "2011-09-30T00:08:25Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > \ > Now go try to housebreak yourself until you’re fit to deal with normal people you asshole. This has my vote for best Pit line of the year. Bri2k ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/4 "2011-09-30T00:59:33Z")
“Greasemonkey script to add your own SDMB avatars” is an interesting thread title that many people would open because they would like to see avatars. They open the thread and see something incomprehensible. It’s like **Fenris** opening a thread titled “Escaped convicts armed and dangerous in **Fenris’** neighborhood” and seeing that it is written entirely in Japanese or Arabic. When \*\*Fenris \*\* posts “What’s this all about? I can’t read this language” and the OP says: > [@](#): > > Bosda, it means nothing to you because you’re an idiot. You revel in your ignorance like a pig wallows in it’s own filth. Replace **Bosda** with **Fenris**. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/5 "2011-09-30T01:03:18Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > “Greasemonkey script to add your own SDMB avatars” is an interesting thread title that many people would open because they would like to see avatars. They open the thread and see something incomprehensible. Then the obvious thing to do is post a line about how it means nothing to you. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/6 "2011-09-30T01:08:04Z")
Bosda may or may not be an ignorant ass in threads elsewhere…I don’t know…he hasnt pinged my jerkdar yet. But I gotta also say the thread he posted in also made me go WTF? am I supposed to do with that? Where’s my DOS 5.0 disks? And get off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/7 "2011-09-30T01:34:48Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > “Greasemonkey script to add your own SDMB avatars” is an interesting thread title that many people would open because they would like to see avatars. They open the thread and see something incomprehensible. Sure, but most people won’t then decide to be a douche about it, and if they do, then others (like Fenris) would feel justified in pitting them. The reasonable response from someone in that position would have been to post something like “Whoa, I don’t understand that at all - can you give me a clue what this is?” This is not what Bosda did, and thus why he’s being (justifiably) pitted. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/8 "2011-09-30T01:37:20Z")
I do know what a Greasemonkey script is, but I don’t know what to do with the stuff Poleris posted. That said, Bosda was totally being a douche by posting… > [@](#): > > All of which means nothing to me. … instead of asking for help like a normal person. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/9 "2011-09-30T01:43:03Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > “Greasemonkey script to add your own SDMB avatars” is an interesting thread title that many people would open because they would like to see avatars. They open the thread and see something incomprehensible. > > It’s like **Fenris** opening a thread titled “Escaped convicts armed and dangerous in **Fenris’** neighborhood” and seeing that it is written entirely in Japanese or Arabic. When \*\*Fenris \*\* posts “What’s this all about? I can’t read this language” and the OP says: > > Replace **Bosda** with **Fenris**. The difference is that if I thought it was important/interesting enough to follow up on, I’d simply say “I don’t understand what you’re saying. Could you this to me in English rather than Aarabic/Japanese, please?”, not “All of this means nothing to me” followed up by a multi-point critique of the OP rather than a simple polite request. Note that Skald approached the OP civilly and got an informative response. A poster has no obligation to make his post comprehensible to the Lowest Common Bosdenominator. (And even if he did, it’s pretty much a given that it wouldn’t do any good since Bosda never actually follows the advice he’s given\*) \*This is hyperbole. I’m sure that someone can find some thread where he followed someone’s advice to a good result without getting snotty about it. If so, I don’t care. The hyperbole stands. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/10 "2011-09-30T01:48:22Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > It’s like **Fenris** opening a thread titled “Escaped convicts armed and dangerous in **Fenris’** neighborhood” and seeing that it is written entirely in Japanese or Arabic. When \*\*Fenris \*\* posts “What’s this all about? I can’t read this language” and the OP says: No, it’s like opening a thread titled “Japanese article about escaped convicts armed and dangerous in **Fenris** ’ neighborhood” and seeing that the article is written entirely in Japanese, then posting “This is in Japanese.” ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/11 "2011-09-30T01:56:26Z")
No, because that would be useful information. Erm, assuming you didn’t read the first line of the title. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/12 "2011-09-30T02:03:09Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > No, because that would be useful information. Erm, assuming you didn’t read the first line of the title. True. The equivalent would be posting “I can’t read this.” ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/13 "2011-09-30T02:12:35Z")
Well, reading the OP of that bank loan thread makes me a little :dubious: on Bosda in general. You seem to be picking on one of the special kids, Fenris. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/14 "2011-09-30T02:14:06Z")
Eh, I do love me some **Fenris** , (in a manly, non-homoerotic way, not that there’s anything wrong with that), and I do sometimes get frustrated (and sometimes amused) with the **Bosda** show… But **Polerius** ’s OP was completely incomprehensible to this IT professional. Common courtesy seems to dictate a better explanation of what he was talking about in his OP. Besides, shouldn’t the title of this thread been: **Bosda** , you ignorant slut? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/15 "2011-09-30T02:21:56Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Well, reading the OP of that bank loan thread makes me a little :dubious: on Bosda in general. Jesus Christ. You’re not kidding. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/16 "2011-09-30T02:42:07Z")
> [@Wilson](#): > > Eh, I do love me some **Fenris** , (in a manly, non-homoerotic way, not that there’s anything wrong with that), and I do sometimes get frustrated (and sometimes amused) with the **Bosda** show… > > But **Polerius** ’s OP was completely incomprehensible to this IT professional. Common courtesy seems to dictate a better explanation of what he was talking about in his OP. I agree it wasn’t a masterpiece of technical writing. However the effort Polerius obviously spent writing the script would dictate that someone interested in this script should a polite request for clarification and/or more info, rather than an obnoxious self-centered comment followed by a list of flaws with the OP (that were also centered around Bosda) > [@](#): > > Besides, shouldn’t the title of this thread been: **Bosda** , you ignorant slut? [size]Yes. That would have been a much better title.[/size] 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/17 "2011-09-30T02:48:59Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Well, reading the OP of that bank loan thread makes me a little :dubious: on Bosda in general. You seem to be picking on one of the special kids, Fenris. Try [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=288347) (There were no stone cities in the New World before Columbus and Native Americans were just savages anyway) or [This one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=302700) (about veterans of the Iraq war "Because I know, beyond any possible doubt, that the mercenaries doing these things shall one day return to the United States, & be unable to put aside the violence in their souls? That they shall likely turn to crime, as other soldiers who could not adapt have done, after other wars, & unleash the same violence on our streets that they have comitted in Iraq? ") I don’t think he’s mentally handicapped. I know that he’s obnoxious, willfully ignorant and determined to remain so. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/18 "2011-09-30T02:57:28Z")
I think it’s pretty much agreed that [combat veterans are more likely to commit crimes](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/woundedplatoon/view/)- perhaps understandably. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/19 "2011-09-30T04:37:48Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Try [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=288347) (There were no stone cities in the New World before Columbus and Native Americans were just savages anyway). I can’t understand how people can believe that Indians were all nomadic hunter-gatherers, when every kindergardener learns that the Indians saved the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them how to grow corn. How the fuck did they teach the Pilgrims to grow corn if they were hunter-gatherers? ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082/20 "2011-09-30T05:30:41Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > I can’t understand how people can believe that Indians were all nomadic hunter-gatherers, when every kindergardener learns that the Indians saved the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them how to grow corn. How the fuck did they teach the Pilgrims to grow corn if they were hunter-gatherers? By growing their own corn, the native americans eliminated the need to hunt for it, also made gathering the corn much easier. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-you-computer-illiterate-moron-stop-basking-in-your-stupidity/598082.md?page=2)