# Cafe Society **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 27, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426 "2007-07-27T20:54:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nikki_Tikki_Tavi)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/21 "2007-07-27T21:23:49Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] FUCK OFF. I’m getting very irritated by people suggesting that I’m a troll, especially since I’ve been trying to modify my behaviour as suggested, subscribing to threads, starting and participating in plenty of things I’m not interested in that much, toning down my language, etc. I even made the effort to post here with a damaged keyboard (after being away for a couple of days and told off for that!) and some people disbelieve me for reasons only known to themselves. You are the trolls, not me. [/QUOTE] Why would you start threads or participate in threads that don’t interest you? And who cares if you “made the effort” to post with a broken keyboard? Why would that prove or disprove trollishness? ---
**Author:** ![Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/22 "2007-07-27T21:25:16Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] To the OP, have you read all the threads you classify as low brow, and what deffinition of low brow are you working off of? [/QUOTE] Nope, just had a look in for the first time and felt the urge to comment immediately! [QUOTE=NAF1138] (Points if you know why I picked Shakepeare and Tchaikovsky) [/QUOTE] Do I get a clue? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/23 "2007-07-27T21:26:01Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] (Points if you know why I picked Shakepeare and Tchaikovsky) [/QUOTE] They’re cousins of yours and you’re trying to bump up sales? ---
**Author:** ![Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/24 "2007-07-27T21:26:17Z")
[QUOTE=Nikki Tikki Tavi] Why would you start threads or participate in threads that don’t interest you? And who cares if you “made the effort” to post with a broken keyboard? Why would that prove or disprove trollishness? [/QUOTE] Because in an earlier thread someone said that I was sounding trollish through only starting controversial threads. So I’ve tried to diversify. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/25 "2007-07-27T21:27:36Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] Nope, just had a look in for the first time and felt the urge to comment immediately! [/quote] Word of advice. Don’t be a smartass to the few people who are making an attempt to actually talk to you. > [@](#): > > Do I get a clue? Certainly. Your clue is, pop culture. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/26 "2007-07-27T21:29:08Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] They’re cousins of yours and you’re trying to bump up sales? [/QUOTE] Ding Ding Ding! There is a secondary reason, but this is the better answer. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/27 "2007-07-27T21:29:09Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] Fuck off [/QUOTE] I’m really enjoying how the font gets smaller. Next post: fuck off ---
**Author:** ![Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/28 "2007-07-27T21:29:14Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] Word of advice. Don’t be a smartass to the few people who are making an attempt to actually talk to you. [/QUOTE] I’m not being a smartass, I’m being completely honest - the only one of those threads I read at all was the vagina one, and that’s because I saw it in an earlier thread. [QUOTE=NAF1138] Certainly. Your clue is, pop culture. [/QUOTE] ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/29 "2007-07-27T21:30:37Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] I’m really enjoying how the font gets smaller. Next post: fuck off [/QUOTE] You are no different to the Victorians who thought all the evidence for evolution was a test from God. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/30 "2007-07-27T21:31:55Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] Certainly. Your clue is, pop culture. [/QUOTE] Google has found me [http://www.tommcmahon.net/2007/06/jayne-mansfield.html](http://www.tommcmahon.net/2007/06/jayne-mansfield.html) Is this right? I don’t know anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/31 "2007-07-27T21:32:52Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] This isn’t a pitting, it’s just an observation put in the pit, because I think it is the correct place to put it according to the categories. [/QUOTE] No, I’m pretty sure this should go in MPSIMS, with the rest of the dipshit threads. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/32 "2007-07-27T21:34:55Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] Google has found me [http://www.tommcmahon.net/2007/06/jayne-mansfield.html](http://www.tommcmahon.net/2007/06/jayne-mansfield.html) Is this right? I don’t know anything about it. [/QUOTE] I was looking for, both were considered to be very lowbrow in their day. But I like that answer almost as much as Frank’s, so I will give you second place. My own answer will sadly take third. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/33 "2007-07-27T21:37:21Z")
[QUOTE=woodstockbirdybird] No, I’m pretty sure this should go in MPSIMS, with the rest of the dipshit threads. [/QUOTE] But the bold, 30-point “Fuck Off” would clash with the MPSIMS curtains. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/34 "2007-07-27T21:42:59Z")
**Small British Shop Owner** is an excellent advertisement for why guests shouldn’t be allowed to start threads in any forum except GQ. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/35 "2007-07-27T21:45:18Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] (Points if you know why I picked Shakepeare and Tchaikovsky) [/QUOTE] Because Tchaikovsky used folk melodies in his work and Shakespeare has enough vagina jokes to satisfy a dirty old man? ETA: Well, apparently I overthought it, and had to look up Tchaikovsky to be sure he used folksongs. I maintain that my answer isn’t all that different from **NAF1138** ’s, though. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/36 "2007-07-27T21:49:15Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] Because Tchaikovsky used folk melodies in his work and Shakespeare has enough vagina jokes to satisfy a dirty old man? [/QUOTE] YAY! SOMEONE GOT IT! ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/37 "2007-07-27T21:50:51Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] You are no different to the Victorians who thought all the evidence for evolution was a test from God. [/QUOTE] In an attempt to communicate, I ran this through Babelfist, English to Troll and then Troll to English and got “You any by others to Victorians thought entire proof for the development was testing from the god.” So you’ll have to be a little less, ah, dense, in your metaphors. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/38 "2007-07-27T21:51:01Z")
Check my edit, similarly-thinking buddy. Hooray for us! ---
**Author:** ![Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/39 "2007-07-27T21:55:21Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] In an attempt to communicate, I ran this through Babelfist, English to Troll and then Troll to English and got “You any by others to Victorians thought entire proof for the development was testing from the god.” So you’ll have to be a little less, ah, dense, in your metaphors. [/QUOTE] It should be fairly obvious. You have decided on your position, and whatever evidence you get will support it your position once you have interpreted it. Trolling is against the rules here AFAIK. Pretending to be British would surely be being a jerk. Submit your evidence to the powers that be. Or put it in this thread. Otherwise why should anyone believe you? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426/40 "2007-07-27T21:55:35Z")
[QUOTE=kidchameleon] But the bold, 30-point “Fuck Off” would clash with the MPSIMS curtains. [/QUOTE] Ah, those curtains are already covered in kitten vomit anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cafe-society/413426.md?page=3)