# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/81 "2006-03-25T21:37:26Z")
I like **Bryan Ekers**. He’s smart and funny. If he was a chick I could dig him. ---
**Author:** ![George\_Kaplin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@George\_Kaplin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/George_Kaplin)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/82 "2006-03-25T21:41:57Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > What percentage of the board do you actually think would rather have Ekers totally gone, and what percentage of the board would rather have me totally gone, never to post again? I, for one, would rather see you gone than **Ekers**. No question. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/83 "2006-03-25T21:42:19Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Now, out of those fourteen, which are, in your view, members of the “Right Wing Blowhard Brigade”? Me? **wring**? **Guinastasia**? The only poster in there I’d say is unreservedly right wing is **duffer** , although there are two or three whose politics I don’t know. For the most part, you’ve practically got a who’s who of liberal SDMB posters riding your ass. Well, we’re mising **Diogenes**. Let’s call him in here to get all medieval on his ass! ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/84 "2006-03-25T21:51:38Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > I like **Bryan Ekers**. He’s smart and funny. If he was a chick I could dig him. Of course he’d have to be, you know, hot. > [@Aeschines](#): > > What percentage of the board do you actually think would rather have Ekers totally gone, and what percentage of the board would rather have me totally gone, never to post again? Ooh, missed this one. As far as I can tell, you are damn near totally gone right now. Why don’t you just take that last \*teeny \*little step. ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/85 "2006-03-25T21:52:20Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > Not really. I count only 10 or so. Mostly the Right Wing Blowhard Brigade, actually. Hi there, **Aeschines**. You don’t know me, I’m sure, and we probably have never interacted on the boards. In fact, I don’t post much, and when I do it’s usually in very bland threads. However, I am an avid reader of these fora. Now, I understand my low post count probably dismisses my opinion in your eyes, but I thought I’d throw my two cents in as a lurker you don’t even know. I think you’re a tool. And you come across as damned pathetic. **Bryan Ekers** is pretty funny. And it’d be nice if you shut the hell up. But this thread is hilarious, so you’ve got that going for you. ---
**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 25, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/86 "2006-03-25T21:58:47Z")
> [@Alma](#): > > I think you’re a tool. And you come across as damned pathetic. Oh _yeah_? Then fuck you and the horse you rode in on! > [@](#): > > And it’d be nice if you shut the hell up. > > But this thread is hilarious, so you’ve got that going for you. You’re going to have to pick one or the other. ---
**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 25, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/87 "2006-03-25T22:03:19Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > For the most part, you’ve practically got a who’s who of liberal SDMB posters riding your ass. Ah, but many of them are skeptics. Since right-wingers and skeptics tend not to overlap, there’s no question that as a lefty New Ager on the board I tend not to make allies here easily. And many of them have been either banned or suspended. But I shall _NOT_ bow down to the forces of Tooldom! I SHALL boldly proceed, even if I am the LAST person on the board fighting ignorance even as Cecil commands us to DO! > [@](#): > > Oh, I think there are quite a few more than you realize. Every so often, someone posts a poll asking Dopers what religions they follow, and there’s always a sizable company of pagans. More than I’d expect from a truly random sampling of the population. I wouldn’t mistake a lack of support for a lack of commonality of your religious/spiritual views. Could be that most other New Agers are just embarassed by you. Let any bona fide New Ager come forth and pit me here. There are none who will do so. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/88 "2006-03-25T22:07:00Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > No sir, not if your IQ is about 70, which I truly believe to be the case. Would you care to back that up with any evidence whatsoever? I don’t think I’ve ever had any interaction with you before, so I’d like to know how you came to “truly believe” that I’m mentally handicapped. It seems as accurate as thinking that I’m part of any “Right Wing Blowhard Brigade”. Or are you simply incapable of believing that anyone could disagree with you without being mentally inferior? ---
**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 25, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/89 "2006-03-25T22:07:20Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > Of course he’d have to be, you know, hot. But then he wouldn’t want you. > [@](#): > > As far as I can tell, you are damn near totally gone right now. I may be one hunter against many fish, but you fish are in a barrel, hon. I ain’t goin’ _noplace_. ---
**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 25, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/90 "2006-03-25T22:18:23Z")
> [@waterj2](#): > > Would you care to back that up with any evidence whatsoever? Did you vote for Bush? If so, your IQ is 70 _max_. > [@](#): > > It seems as accurate as thinking that I’m part of any “Right Wing Blowhard Brigade”. Again, did you vote for Bush? If you did _not_ vote for Bush, then I think it’s very likely your IQ is 85+ and you are not a member of the Brigade. ---
**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 25, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/91 "2006-03-25T22:19:48Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > There certainly do seem to be a _lot_ of them, don’t there? **Aeschines** must have a toolbox the size of a Volkswagen. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/92 "2006-03-25T22:26:14Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > Let any bona fide New Ager come forth and pit me here. There are none who will do so. And, let me guess, anyone who does isn’t a [del]true Scotsman[/del] bona fide New Ager. ---
**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 25, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/93 "2006-03-25T22:27:12Z")
Okay, then. Before I begin, please let me sincerely thank everyone who’s jumped to my defense in this thread (which seems to be just about everybody except the OP) and explain that my apparent avoiding of this thread is for a perfectly banal and normal reason - I was out for a few hours while canceling the registration on my 1990 Camry (mentioned in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=149829)) and picking up the registration of my new-to-me 2002 Toyota Echo (I asked for purchasing advice in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=349098)). I also did some shopping. Despite the activity in this thread, it really is only (as of this writing) a few hours old. I could easily have been taking a nap or something. I _haven’t_ started many threads, it’s true. For some reason, the subjects I start threads about aren’t popular and the threads rapidly sink into obscurity. Also, in one or two of my early threads, I acted like a jerk when the discussion didn’t go in the direction I’d expected. I rather regret this behaviour, and it discourages me from starting controversial threads, as in GD. As for quips and puns, I freely admit that my primary goal in being a member of this board is (by far) my own amusement, and I happen to like witty one-liners and sarcastic jabs. I have made an effort to hold myself in check after one or two unpleasant incidents in GQ, where someone’s honest request for information really didn’t deserve me being an instant smartass. In more recent months, I’ve tried to hold back until other posters have made a serious effort to answer the question, _then_ jump in with my zinger, as was the case in the Hoodia thread (though it was actually in GD, I applied the same principal). As with all humour, sometimes it bombs. Lately, I’ve been routinely adding smileys (something I deliberately avoided as too cutesy in my early years on the SDMB) when I think I might be misunderstood. I occasionally threw in a “bDOOM _kssh_” after a joke, though. My personal favourite zingers (or at least the ones I can remember off the top of my head) include [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6884780#post6884780), [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5790687#post5790687), [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=2283489#post2283489), [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=2507227#post2507227) and (one I’m especially proud of) [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=2746793#post2746793). Naturally, not everyone is going to find these amusing, and I’d be amazed if anyone found all of them amusing as I did, but no matter. But enough about comedy. As for the specific complaints in this thread: [ul][li]I genuinely dislike pseudoscience and the frequently attendant attitude of proponents that my dislike is motivated by a closed mind, fear, hatred or anything other than straightforward skepticism. I have no particular “hard-on” for any one proponent, though I’ve come to recognize Aeschines, lekatt, Liberal (to a degree), and Peter Morris (though far less frequently in recent months), among others, as the ones I’m most likely to find myself arguing with not because I’m chasing them, but they’re among the most likely people to start or significantly contribute to a thread about some pseudoscientific idea. This is the source of the “bias” I mentioned in the other thread which Aeschines quoted in the OP.[/li][li]Aeschines’ claim that I’m somehow cowering behind something would be a little stronger if he was posting under his real name and I was not, but that’s a minor point.[/li][li]The question I asked in the abortion thread was, I thought, a pretty straightforward one. The response, though, was that once abortion-convicted women were ordered by law to care for terminally ill children in a community-service kind of deal, their attitudes would naturally change and their pro-choice stance would weaken. I don’t really buy this, but it’s too soft and vague a position to challenge. Besides, the thread was getting increasingly acrimonious (not good for GD and I thought the mods would eventually shut it down, issue mass warnings and/or move it to the Pit) and other pro-choice posters were arguing the position more passionately and effectively than I could, so I didn’t feel my further contribution was needed.[/li][li]I’m not sure how Bush got involved in this. Were I American, I would not have voted for him either time (though my vote for Kerry would have been less-than-enthusiastic).[/ul][/li] There, I think I’ve explained myself adequately. The SnakeSpirit “lynching” described by Aeschines came after Snake pitted me (for pretty much the same reason Aeschines is now using) and it turned into a big dogpile. I eagerly heaped oodles of scorn on Snake, but I can’t seem to summon the energy to do the same to Aeschines. It’s entirely pointless. Besides, this thread gave me an opportunity to talk about myself, which is my favourite subject of all. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/94 "2006-03-25T22:28:20Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > But then he wouldn’t want you. _She_. _She_ wouldn’t want me. Try to keep up. > [@Asschins](#): > > I may be one hunter against many fish, but you fish are in a barrel, hon. I ain’t goin’ _noplace_. Well, you asked. Don’t toy with us like that. ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/95 "2006-03-25T22:28:35Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > Let any bona fide New Ager come forth and pit me here. There are none who will do so. [Channeling Ramtha] Aeschines is a boob. [/Channeling Ramtha] ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/96 "2006-03-25T22:28:59Z")
> [@George Kaplin](#): > > I, for one, would rather see you gone than **Ekers**. No question. Add me to the list. I can’t say that I have found any of **Bryan Ekers’s** posts to be objectionable. Although I can’t recall ever interacting with him, **Aeschines** , on the other hand, has made a rather strong impression on me in the category of “foolish git whose posts are most likely to make me go :rolleyes:,” based on what I have seen of him in GD and the Pit (and I’m certainly not right-wing.) And the idea of the likes of **Aeschines** criticizing E. O. Wilson is rather like having Homer Simpson critiquing Albert Einstein. Wilson was here in Panama last year to give a lecture, and I was fortunate enough to be able to have dinner with him afterwards. He was very skillful in answering sometimes difficult questions from the audience after his lecture. ---
**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 25, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/97 "2006-03-25T22:40:02Z")
Good post, **Bryan Ekers**. Reasonable, eloquent, and well-written. I officially take back my “fuck you.” In fact, you’re an alright guy. I agree with you about both Bush and Kerry, btw. Hugs all 'round, everybody? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/98 "2006-03-25T22:44:37Z")
Wow, that didn’t take long. Now tell us how you really feel about him. ---
**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 25, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/99 "2006-03-25T22:46:09Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Wow, that didn’t take long. Now tell us how you really feel about him. I did. **Bryan** is a cool guy. So are you. {{{{duffer}}}} Feels good, don’t it? ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864/100 "2006-03-25T22:49:23Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > Since right-wingers and skeptics tend not to overlap, there’s no question that as a lefty New Ager on the board I tend not to make allies here easily. And many of them have been either banned or suspended. Does that not tell you something? > [@](#): > > But I shall _NOT_ bow down to the forces of Tooldom! I SHALL boldly proceed, even if I am the LAST person on the board fighting ignorance even as Cecil commands us to DO! Paranoia much? > [@](#): > > Let any bona fide New Ager come forth and pit me here. There are none who will do so. Too embarrassed to admit they know you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bryan-ekers-you-are-a-thread-pissing-dumbfuck/349864.md?page=6)