# Bring it on.. I'm waiting to walk on fire... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 18, 2000, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-it-on-im-waiting-to-walk-on-fire/5995 "2000-04-18T22:01:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2000, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-it-on-im-waiting-to-walk-on-fire/5995/81 "2000-04-19T16:30:00Z")
By the way, for those who might have missed it, over in About This Message Board, **Urge** inadvertently posted under another name - **OgreFade**. Chalk one up for **Wally**. Anywho, **OgreUrge** ( **UrgeFade**? We could only hope!) said: > [@](#): > > … I wasn’t intending to threaten the board. Just make someone realize what you can do. Yeah there is a pool of IP addresses. I really do know a way of getting around 5000… i could probably have them all put through the laundry too… > > Whatever you think esprix. I was making an example if its a legal door show me out the door. I think it can be ignored quite easily. Ignore it? On the contrary - at least one former poster here just breathed the word “lawyer” and was gone despite a lengthy history with this board. Do you really think a thinly-veiled threat of cyber piracy will be ignored, when you are spelling out so clearly that you have the knowledge to do it (or at least think you do)? And don’t give me that “I’m just saying what someone might do” bullshit - when Al Capone says, “You might need protection from _other_ unscrupulous individuals,” you know what he means. (And, please, don’t think I’m equating you with a mobster - a threat is a threat is a threat.) The bottom line is not how I interpret it, but how the moderators, administrators, Ed Zotti, Cecil Adams and the Chicago Reader interpret it, and they have the final word. > [@](#): > > You guys think its a game. I’m not playing. The point of this post was to get everyones aggressions out so I could post normally… So either ban me or finish getting the aggressions out so i can post. So if we say we’re finished flaming you, does that mean you’ll wise up and post something useful instead of like a self-obsessed moron? Now that I’d like to see. Frankly, I tried reading your posts, but got kind of glassy-eyed after a while at their total lack of anything interesting. So, for what it’s worth, _I’m_ done with you. Please, please, please - post something worthwhile now, ok? 🙂 Esprix * * * ## [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, [Asketh the damn Priest Guy!](http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html)) ## “Never assume a malicious intent when stupidity will explain just as well.” {This space reserved for a Genuine WallyM7 Sig™} ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2000, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-it-on-im-waiting-to-walk-on-fire/5995/82 "2000-04-19T16:31:00Z")
Oh, and **OgerUrge**? You didn’t answer my question - at what point do you turn to yourself and question whether the majority of people here might actually be right? Esprix * * * ## [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, [Asketh the damn Priest Guy!](http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html)) ## “Never assume a malicious intent when stupidity will explain just as well.” {This space reserved for a Genuine WallyM7 Sig™} ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-it-on-im-waiting-to-walk-on-fire/5995/83 "2000-04-19T16:38:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **KarmaComa** : > > I have a feeling { **Urge** is} far more tongue-in-cheek than you guys realize Well, he’s saying as much, but do you actually believe him? I don’t think he’ll suddenly turn over a new leaf once he thinks he’s been flamed enough. > [@](#): > > This board is a primitive social structure, a ladder of respect that everyone is trying to top. The board is cliquey; there is much shameless sycophancy, flirting, and bullying. I disagree - respect here seems to be earned by wit, intelligence, lack of ignorance, mutual respect and common sense. IMHO. 🙂 > [@](#): > > I know that I’m pretty unpopular (at least in the pit, I do well for myself in GQ), but that’s really by choice; I’m very unpopular with a lot of people in real life, too. Of course, I can only blame that so much on others’ inferiority complices; I do piss them off on purpose. The reason is that I can choose friends as easily as I can choose enemies, but this is a tangent. So why would you choose to make someone an enemy? Why would you choose to be unpopular? Why would you choose to piss people off on purpose? Are these people you feel are somehow deserving, or do you just do it at random, or based on your mood that day? > [@](#): > > People discriminate by age here, not because they disrespect the younger party per se, but because they become insecure in the presence of a legitimate intellect half their age, in a ‘culture’ that is stripped of superficiality (but only in the most obvious sense). Not true. I may vehemently disagree with **Rousseau** in just about every way, but I respect the man has intelligence. It was only recently I found out he’s under 20. I was surprised only because he seems to not be the norm for that age range (I do have a lot of youngish friends). My opinion of him has not changed because of his age one whit. (I still don’t like him! :D) > [@](#): > > Posters I like: Urge, Esprix (there’s a lot to be said for affirmative action!), Coldfire, et al. Well, I’m always flattered by a compliment, no matter the source, so thank you. I am not familiar enough with you to return the compliment, but I’ll be sure to keep my eyes open. 🙂 Esprix * * * ## [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, [Asketh the damn Priest Guy!](http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html)) ## “Never assume a malicious intent when stupidity will explain just as well.” {This space reserved for a Genuine WallyM7 Sig™} ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-it-on-im-waiting-to-walk-on-fire/5995/84 "2000-04-20T05:00:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Yes they could ban my Ip. However they would have to ban the root. That would make it ugly. That would cut off access to more than 16000 people. At least. And who do you think will get blamed for that? Not the Straight Dope. You’ll be found out pretty quickly. There’s always someone smarter…and a lot of colleges and ISPs are charging cleanup fees and penalties these days. I’ve had enough of this shit. I’m closing the thread. And I’m seriously thinking of banning The Urge, who had better come up with a long sincere letter to me (with copies to TubaDiva and Ed Zotti, all of us on AOL) as to why he should retain posting privileges. Lynn [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-it-on-im-waiting-to-walk-on-fire/5995.md?page=4)