# Can't we all just get along? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 17, 2000, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709 "2000-08-17T09:12:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/61 "2000-08-21T21:46:54Z")
Drop you dickhead. I used the retard comment in EXACTLY the same way as you used stupid and pig rimmer. The only difference is that you decided that you are so far above the rest of us that you could use a denegrading term and the rest of us can’t. > [@](#): > > And being a jagoff didn’t seem to interfere, either. Our educational system is so wonderful! A jagoff off? Did you learn that in school? What the fuck is that and what does it mean as far as education is concerned? And that last statement " Our educational system is wonderful!" Is that a lame attempt at sarcasm? Because it makes no sense when taken in the context of what you are trying to say which amounts to nothing. Calling me a jagoff validates nothing except for your limited vocabulary. > [@](#): > > However, there is a direct correlation between behaving like a bully and being one. In this thread you have chosen to act like a bully. So you have opted to come down here with the rest of us rabble and point that out huh? Go fuck yourself. > [@](#): > > Right. Mine was merely gross. Yours was offensive to more people here than the OP. Says who? YOU? I don’t see anyone posting here saying that I have offended them. Just your inane accusatory post saying that I have. All I see is you trying to win sympathy of other posters to come to your rescue. Stand up for your own self and quit trying to drag others into it.l > [@](#): > > No. Lower intelligence provide by nature is no character flaw. Choosing to behave in a stupid manner is. So if I were to rim a pig I would still be intelligent? Is that your argument? > [@](#): > > I apologize. Next time I want to post an opinion in the Pit I will submit it for your approval first. Apology accepted. And if I have time I will give you my approval or disapproval. If I don’t you will just have to wing it. > [@](#): > > The BBQ Pit as it exists is a blight and I want it to go away. And so it shall, as soon as you quit clicking on it. ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/62 "2000-08-21T21:52:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Many of you, when outside the Pit, are like that. Here you seem to turn into spiteful seventh-graders. This is not in keeping with the spirit of the Straight Dope itself nor the rest of the SDMB. The BBQ Pit as it exists is a blight and I want it to go away. I’ll keep this simple for you Dropzone. A. Inside or outside of the pit, I am the same. I may use a bit different invectives outside the pit, but nothing else changes. Most pitizens are like this too, in case you had not noticed. B. The spirit of the SD? Since when do you define the spirit of the Straight Dope or it’s message board? C. It is not for you to determine what the merits of the BBQ pit are or are not. If you don’t like it, stay the hell out! ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/63 "2000-08-21T22:25:30Z")
Dropzone, you must be a bit slow on the uptake. That’s OK. Most people in this world are. I’ll explain the Pit for you. The BBQ Pit is a huge joke. It exists solely to be inane, stupid, vulgar, obscene, inflammatory, and offensive. In other words, it exists as a counterpoint to the General Questions and Great Debates boards. In GQ and GD certain standards are maintained. In the Pit those standards are dropped, sometimes completely. Its very name is a joke based on the widely-used term ‘flame’, meaning ‘insult or obscene post or comment’. That is this board’s charter, purpose, and intent. If you don’t like it, don’t come here. The rest of us are having fun. aha: I laughed my ass off at your little joke. Now I realize where Sofa King got his nick. I’ll giggle every time I see it. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![FreakFreely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@FreakFreely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreakFreely)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/64 "2000-08-21T23:02:45Z")
Dropzone, you’re a retard. No, you’re right, I shouldn’t have said that. Saying that will offend people. Especially retards. ---
**Author:** ![FreakFreely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@FreakFreely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreakFreely)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/65 "2000-08-21T23:22:22Z")
Here are some other insults I suggest we dispense with. **Dumb:** This offends people who can’t speak. **Goat Felcher:** This offends both goats and felchers. **Mother Fucker:** This offends practicers of incest. **Dumb-Goat-Felching-Mother-Fucker:** This offends you. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/66 "2000-08-22T00:18:19Z")
We should also dispense with this… **Dropzone:** This is an offense to humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/67 "2000-08-22T00:25:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE Bo Diddly \* > \*\*Go mung a day-old corn-fed cow, you boot-licking spittle-bopping son of a satanic chicken rapist! > > \*\* Does it have to be corn-fed, cause that pretty specific and might take awhile to find… ---
**Author:** ![Kaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaz)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/68 "2000-08-22T01:13:46Z")
Before we laugh at the newbie, and he gets his ass a nice hot flaming, what the shit does “felch” mean? ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/69 "2000-08-22T01:26:28Z")
Ohhh jeez kaz…I would 'splain it but it’s too awful. Freak will do it tho I bet. He’s a felchin kinda guy. 😉 jk freak ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/70 "2000-08-22T01:45:01Z")
> [@](#): > > It exists solely to be inane, stupid, vulgar, obscene, inflammatory, and offensive. Funny, I always thought it was a place where discussions and arguments from other forums were moved when they became too heated or a place to just come bitch. Inane, stupid, vulgar, obscene, inflammatory, and offensive becomes very boring within the first few words. I really would hate to think the BBQ Pit is nothing more than a place behind the barn to go say naughty words without mamma hearing. aha - I’ve never seen you like this before! I have to say that it is making me more than a little hot. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/71 "2000-08-22T02:40:23Z")
> [@](#): > > aha - I’ve never seen you like this before! I have to say that it is making me more than a little hot. Ohh Diane do you umm err cyber? 😉 Seriously though I am a peace loving guy. Dropzone threw the first stone in this fracus. I don’t think I have ever picked a fight on this board and don’t ever intend to but I will not be verbally slapped around either. I think it’s time to be done with this thread and move on to sunnier climes. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/72 "2000-08-22T04:39:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FreakFreely \* > \*\*Here are some other insults I suggest we dispense with. > > **Dumb:** This offends people who can’t speak. > **Goat Felcher:** This offends both goats and felchers. > **Mother Fucker:** This offends practicers of incest. > **Dumb-Goat-Felching-Mother-Fucker:** This offends you. \*\* Now THAT was funny. Gross and offensive, but clever. That’s MUCH more like it. I actually have a gross and offensive sense of humor, thus the accusations of hypocrisy when I fail to rein it in. Yeah, **aha** , I threw the first stone. I apologize for singling you out when you are normally a fairly reasonable Doper. I got mad about something you said—I’m still mad about it—and I hope I made a (positive) point with somebody. But peace is good. **Diane** is right. “It was a place where discussions and arguments from other forums were moved when they became too heated or a place to just come bitch…I really would hate to think the BBQ Pit is nothing more than a place behind the barn to go say naughty words without mamma hearing.” May I quote the blurb on the opening page of the message boards? It says, “If you gotta flame, do it here. This is the place for all complaints and other discussion regarding administration of the SDMB.” Complaints and discussion along with the flames. Not just flames. As for the rest of you, what would you have to do between troll wars if I didn’t come in here now and then and kick sand in your faces—knit? Complain about each other? Abuse the French? ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/73 "2000-08-22T09:53:48Z")
> [@](#): > > If you gotta flame, do it here. This is the place for all complaints and other discussion regarding administration of the SDMB Where, exactly, does it say “This is where you demand that everyone act contradictory to the purpose of the Pit”? > [@](#): > > Complaints and discussion along with the flames. Not just flames. And I believe, Mr. Zone, that there is much discussion to go along with the flames. However, does that mean that every flame requires a discussion? No. Does that mean that every discussion requires a flame? Hell no. So what, exactly, is your problem? That you’re probably not as superior as you once believed? Who cares! Suck it in, dammit, you’re hardly winning here! ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/74 "2000-08-23T00:38:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FreakFreely \* > \*\*Dropzone, you’re a retard. > > No, you’re right, I shouldn’t have said that. Saying that will offend people. Especially retards. \*\* Well, call me a retard then Freak, I am one of the ones offended by the term retard… have you ever looked up the definition? Like I tell my son everytime some asshole calls him that, sticks and stones and ignorance among us. Yep I hate that term. Call me an asshole instead, it much better describes me. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/75 "2000-08-23T04:27:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE Bo Diddly \* > **So what, exactly, is your problem? That you’re probably not as superior as you once believed? Who cares! Suck it in, dammit, you’re hardly winning here!** I’m not “winning” because you have not changed your tune? This is a competition and only the winner is allowed to post his opinions? And you think I don’t know how the Pit, or any forum for free expression, works? Having you try to shout me down, or me trying to shout **aha** down, hardly qualifies us for “superiority.” I would just as soon let this thread die, but I wouldn’t like to give you the satisfaction of thinking you “won.” Look at **CanadianSue** ’s post and tell me that calling somebody a “retard” ANYWHERE, INCLUDING THE PIT, is a good thing that you have the right to do and that anybody who calls you on it is wrong. It was a mean thing to say when you were in the sixth grade and you should know better now. Those of you who used it or supported those who used it are simply wrong. Face the truth. ---
**Author:** ![FreakFreely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@FreakFreely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreakFreely)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/76 "2000-08-23T04:58:27Z")
In case you hadn’t noticed, it was a joke. I was suggesting that retards would be offended to be put in the same category with him. Now, here’s the thing, people always use insults that we don’t intend to imply what they actually mean. Retard is a commonly accepted insult that doesn’t even imply that someone is actually retarded. If someone **were** mentally handicapped, then it **would** be offensive to use that word _on that person._ Kind of like if I were to call a white guy a nigger. Most people would just say “huh?” ---
**Author:** ![FreakFreely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@FreakFreely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreakFreely)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/77 "2000-08-23T05:00:29Z")
Dropzone, the whole idea of the Pit is to be mean. Why don’t you get that? ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/78 "2000-08-23T05:30:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Here are some other insults I suggest we dispense with. > > Dumb: This offends people who can’t speak. > Goat Felcher: This offends both goats and felchers. > Mother Fucker: This offends practicers of incest. > Dumb-Goat-Felching-Mother-Fucker: This offends you. Okay, you have to get this bronzed. It’s an instant classic. It’s great, I love it. Awesome. 10-point-fuckin’-O. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/79 "2000-08-23T10:29:04Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m not “winning” because you have not changed your tune? This is a competition and only the winner is allowed to post his opinions? And you think I don’t know how the Pit, or any forum for free expression, works? > > Having you try to shout me down, or me trying to shout aha down, hardly qualifies us for “superiority.” I would just as soon let this thread die, but I wouldn’t like to give you the satisfaction of thinking you “won.” What the fuck are you talking about? Oops, I’m sorry, I’m an inferior being because I used the word “fuck”. I’ll lay it out for you really clear, jackass… you are wrong. Incorrect. Mistaken. Your assessments of the Pit and its Pitizens are off base. In short, you have your head up your ass. Inaccurate. Spouting ignorance out of every orifice. Don’t know what you’re talking about. Full of shit. I don’t know how many other ways to say it, but you are, quite simply, wrong. Nobody is being a bully here. Nobody is acting inappropriately (aside from you). Nobody is trying to say “I won!” except for you. The rest of us are saying, have been saying, and will continue to say, you, Dropzone, are **wrong**. Now, is that clear enough, or are you going to drag in Parliament? Perhaps you’d like to settle this with pistols at dawn? Or maybe a duel with rapiers? Like gentlemen? Fuckin’ A, Drop, why the hell are you acting like such a jackass?!? ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-we-all-just-get-along/29709/80 "2000-08-23T18:58:47Z")
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