# Bryan Ekers, you are a thread-pissing dumbfuck **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 25, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864 "2006-03-25T17:11:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/181 "2006-03-26T05:11:51Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > **Q.E.D.** you are some sort of wicked magician. How did you find/do that? On the index page of every forun, the number of replies to each listed thread is a hyperlink. If you click it, it opens a page with that info. You can get the URL for that page in various ways, depending on your browser. In Firefox, right-click it and select Page Info. ---
**Author:** ![Updike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@Updike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Updike)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/182 "2006-03-26T05:13:13Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > It’s a typo. For the last time, how is adding an extra letter and an extra punctiation mark a typo? ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/183 "2006-03-26T05:14:48Z")
Hell, it’s not even an error. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/184 "2006-03-26T05:19:20Z")
> [@Updike](#): > > For the last time, how is adding an extra letter and an extra punctiation mark a typo? It’s a mistyping, hence a typo. I already cited the fuckin’ dictionary, you recalcitrant moron. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/185 "2006-03-26T05:21:39Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > Your narcissistim is perhaps yet to be fully explored on the board. I’m pretty sure it’s already been sufficiently played out in this thread alone. It’s no different than the attitude of the stereotypical class clown who likes to get a good laugh from the crowd, something I’ve enjoyed doing since childhood. I’m sure even the people who write textbooks would find it too banal to make it a textbook case. > [@](#): > > Look, at the end of the day, you were one of the skeptics who was always (according to my perspective) being a dick to myself and the other New Agers. Well, if you feel I’ve crossed any lines inappropriate to GD, I invite you to report my posts to the moderators. I personally think I’ve been much more polite than you or your views deserve but I’m constrained by GD rules. Thus at the end of the day, and in fact for all days in the near future, I’m _still_ one of those skeptics. Take whatever action you see fit. > [@](#): > > You seem to recognize in this thread that you make these drive-by quips and seem pretty proud of them. I don’t really find them funny. Those are my complaints. Well, I’m proud of _some_ of them (many are pretty obvious and forgettable, or just pop-culture references from _Simpsons_ and elsewhere), and I have no control over what you find funny, so I have no reason to care about this particular complaint. ---
**Author:** ![Updike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@Updike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Updike)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/186 "2006-03-26T05:22:57Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > It’s a mistyping, hence a typo. I already cited the fuckin’ dictionary, you recalcitrant moron. So you go out of your way to post nonsense. Somehow, I’m not surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/187 "2006-03-26T05:28:59Z")
> [@Updike](#): > > So you go out of your way to post nonsense. Somehow, I’m not surprised. The dictionary is nonsense? ---
**Author:** ![Updike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@Updike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Updike)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/188 "2006-03-26T05:32:37Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > The dictionary is nonsense? No, posting you’re instead of your is nonsense. Are you eight years old? ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/189 "2006-03-26T05:34:00Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Well, if you feel I’ve crossed any lines inappropriate to GD, I invite you to report my posts to the moderators. Nope, don’t think you ever crossed such lines. Just made posting for me and others on those topics so unpleasant, unfun, and generally unedifying that now nor I nor others of my viewpoint bother. > [@](#): > > I personally think I’ve been much more polite than you or your views deserve but I’m constrained by GD rules. And this is what makes you a dick: The belief that people of a certain set of viewpoints don’t deserve respect, and you can be as nasty as the rules allow because it’s your right. > [@](#): > > Thus at the end of the day, and in fact for all days in the near future, I’m _still_ one of those skeptics. Take whatever action you see fit. I already have: I don’t post on “paranormal” topics any more. Neither does anyone else, except for an occasional guest. > [@](#): > > Well, I’m proud of _some_ of them (many are pretty obvious and forgettable, or just pop-culture references from _Simpsons_ and elsewhere), and I have no control over what you find funny, so I have no reason to care about this particular complaint. Apparently you have little control over what _anyone_ finds funny. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/190 "2006-03-26T05:34:07Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > It’s a mistyping, hence a typo. I already cited the fuckin’ dictionary, you recalcitrant moron. Not all dictionaries say the same thing. > [@The American Heritage Dictionary](#): > > A mistake in printing, typesetting, or typing, especially one caused by striking **an** incorrect key on a keyboard. > [@Encarta](#): > > a printing error that results from striking **the** wrong key on a keyboard > [@Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary](#): > > **a small mistake** in a text made when it was typed or printed (bolding mine) ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/191 "2006-03-26T05:41:05Z")
> [@Updike](#): > > No, posting you’re instead of your is nonsense. Are you eight years old? Dude, people post you’re for your and there for their and so on all the time. Tell me you’re not really this big a tool, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/192 "2006-03-26T05:42:47Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Not all dictionaries say the same thing. (bolding mine) God, what fuckin’ tooldom. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/193 "2006-03-26T05:44:42Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > God, what fuckin’ tooldom. You invited it by insinuating M-W is _the_ Dictionary. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/194 "2006-03-26T05:49:16Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > And this is what makes you a dick: The belief that people of a certain set of viewpoints don’t deserve respect, and you can be as nasty as the rules allow because it’s your right. Respect is earned. If you come on a board like this one and spout a bunch of new age mumbo jumbo or talk about paranormal bullshit without overwhelming evidence…or even any real grasp of logic or really the scientific method…then you have to be prepared to be ridiculed. Or at least very uncomfortable when everyone starts piling on. Why you would single out Bryan on this point is beyond me…this board gives short shrift to that kind of crap. One of the main reasons I like it so much. > [@Aeschines](#): > > I already have: I don’t post on “paranormal” topics any more. Neither does anyone else, except for an occasional guest. Probably a wise decision…unless you come in with either a very good arguement or a lot of evidence. That said, its still an interesting topic sometimes. Hell, I even started a paranormal thread in GD on Bigfoot once. 😛 The spanking I received was fairly mild…but then I went into the thread being pretty much a skeptic on the whole subject to start with. > [@Aeschines](#): > > Apparently you have little control over what anyone finds funny. Humor is one of those things that strikes people differently. For instance I find Bryan quite amusing. He has a very dry wit that IMHO gives character to many of the threads he does his famous drive bys in. 😉 -XT -XT ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/195 "2006-03-26T05:50:54Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > You invited it by insinuating M-W is _the_ Dictionary. I sure didn’t. And your own cites don’t in any way refute what I said. Next thing you’ll be telling me is that “it’s” for “its” isn’t a typo either. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/196 "2006-03-26T05:57:50Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > I sure didn’t. Yes, you did. “I already cited the fuckin’ dictionary…” M-W isn’t _the_ dictionary, it is _a_ dictionary. > [@](#): > > And your own cites don’t in any way refute what I said. No? “There’s no qualifications such as ‘only one mistyped letter, etc.’” Those certainly look like qualifications to me. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/197 "2006-03-26T06:07:02Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Respect is earned. If you come on a board like this one and spout a bunch of new age mumbo jumbo or talk about paranormal bullshit without overwhelming evidence…or even any real grasp of logic or really the scientific method…then you have to be prepared to be ridiculed. Or at least very uncomfortable when everyone starts piling on. Uh huh. It couldn’t be that, like on most boards, that human nature prevails and people do an excellent job of driving away people who are unlike themselves. Nah, couldn’t be. Every New Ager here has been banned, suspended, or beaten into silence. Quite a coincidence. Not one was worthy of full participation in this august forum! On the other hand, no skeptic has ever been chastised here for his lack of understanding the scientific method or failure to grasp logic. Because if you are a good skeptic and atheist here, you “get it” overall, and that’s good enough. It’s board politics, pure and simple. And I think this board, in light of its purported dedication to “fighting ignorance,” has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that no group of people is really capable of politely tolerating a strong minority of dissenters in its midst. > [@](#): > > Why you would single out Bryan on this point is beyond me…this board gives short shrift to that kind of crap. One of the main reasons I like it so much. He was in the same old attack mode in the Wilson thread, even though the topic was philosophy and he obviously was totally out of depth in discussing it. But the going assumption is that, hey, we’re skeptics, and we can pronounce on anything, cuz we’re just generally right, yuh know? > [@](#): > > Probably a wise decision…unless you come in with either a very good arguement or a lot of evidence. And since New Agers will never meet your arbitrary standards on the matter, they will always be driven away. And what fun it is to mock and ostracize people! We wish there were more of them to torment, as there were in the good old days. And bannings were ever so much more fun than suspensions! > [@](#): > > That said, its still an interesting topic sometimes. Hell, I even started a paranormal thread in GD on Bigfoot once. 😛 The spanking I received was fairly mild…but then I went into the thread being pretty much a skeptic on the whole subject to start with. Quite right, your orthodoxy saved you. > [@](#): > > Humor is one of those things that strikes people differently. **SnakeSpirit** was the only poster who could ever make me laugh out loud, and I’ve pretty much given up on the board being any good since his banning. This thread demonstrates that the board is in its neutron star phase: Just a bunch of dense invalidators are left, whose only energy output comes from continuing contraction. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/198 "2006-03-26T06:07:27Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > Nope, don’t think you ever crossed such lines. Just made posting for me and others on those topics so unpleasant, unfun, and generally unedifying that now nor I nor others of my viewpoint bother. Just out of curiosity, on behalf of what “others” are you speaking? SnakeSpirit? He got banned through no action of mine. Rather, he torpedoed himself, shortly after he [tried pitting me](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=282484) and [glee](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=282278), with both threads turning into train-wrecks (though glee’s was far more spectacular). > [@](#): > > And this is what makes you a dick: The belief that people of a certain set of viewpoints don’t deserve respect, and you can be as nasty as the rules allow because it’s your right. By that definition, this board is full of dicks, including yourself. It’s not a specific enough accusation to carry any weight, though at least you acknowledge that I’m operating within the rules (I do get the occasional warning, but not often and not recently). > [@](#): > > I already have: I don’t post on “paranormal” topics any more. Neither does anyone else, except for an occasional guest. I consider that something of a victory for a board dedicated to fighting ignorance. You get no sympathy from me, considering the vast number of websites that would be friendly and welcoming of your views. > [@](#): > > Apparently you have little control over what _anyone_ finds funny. This makes no sense. Does _anyone_ have any control over what others find funny? I suppose one could be sufficiently preachy and convince others that certain topics are specifically _not_ funny, but beyond that, I don’t know what mechanism of “control” could exist. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/199 "2006-03-26T06:11:50Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Yes, you did. “I already cited the fuckin’ dictionary…” M-W isn’t _the_ dictionary, it is _a_ dictionary Dude, you’re a retard! Again we’re talking about regular colloquial speech: Human: “I looked it up in the dictionary.” Moron: “Not _the_ dictionary–_a_ dictionary! One among many!” > [@](#): > > .No? “There’s no qualifications such as ‘only one mistyped letter, etc.’” Those certainly look like qualifications to me. Dude, are saying that there is an official casuistry of typographical errors out there that I’ve missed? We’ve obvious got some different definitions in our dictionaries, so are you the Typo Pope or what? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/200 "2006-03-26T06:13:20Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > This makes no sense. You expect anyone whose chief means of verbally defending himself is “tool” to make sense? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864.md?page=11)