# CanvasShoes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 24, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274 "2003-08-24T04:00:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ryle\_Dup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ryle\_Dup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryle_Dup)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/21 "2003-08-24T07:11:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \* > \*\*No kidding. > > So you flame someone else because you can’t seem to express your thoughts? I am not following any of this. > > So, I just got a big bag of sunflower seeds. Anyone else like sunflower seeds? \*\* Why would you, you can’t follow much. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/22 "2003-08-24T07:15:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ryle Dup \* > Why would you, you can’t follow much. Ah, I see—we are still having trouble being articulate, aren’t we? Come back later when you can express a complete and comprehensible thought. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/23 "2003-08-24T07:26:27Z")
Please speak more clearly. I can’t understand you. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/24 "2003-08-24T07:28:54Z")
**yosemitebabe** , the reason she’s typing like that is because she has some sort of disease that makes her tired and stuff. Why she can’t come back when she can actually write it out is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/25 "2003-08-24T07:35:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Why she can’t come back when she can actually write it out is beyond me. Me too. She’s not the first Doper to suffer from a condition that makes them tired. The difference with the other Dopers is that they don’t usually start nonsensical threads that have no substance and make no sense, and then cite their condition as an “explanation” for it all. ---
**Author:** ![Ryle\_Dup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ryle\_Dup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryle_Dup)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/26 "2003-08-24T07:54:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \* > \*\*Me too. > > She’s not the first Doper to suffer from a condition that makes them tired. > > The difference with the other Dopers is that they don’t usually start nonsensical threads that have no substance and make no sense, and then cite their condition as an “explanation” for it all. \*\* I’m male. It wasn’t an explanation, merely a way to help understand. You’re wrong in GD, you’re a condescending bitch, and just because I’m having trouble thinking doesn’t change something else I just forgot now what I was saying. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/27 "2003-08-24T07:57:08Z")
Why don’t you go gather your thoughts and get back to us later? ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/28 "2003-08-24T08:11:27Z")
Ryle Dup, if you can’t gather your thoughts, then DON’T POST IN DEBATES OR PIT PEOPLE! It’s simple as that. People will call you on both the threads, especially when you give no evidence to support your claims. Do it some other time when you are actually up to debating. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/29 "2003-08-24T08:12:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ryle Dup \* > It wasn’t an explanation, merely a way to help understand. All it helps me understand is that you are incapable of doing something many other Dopers (some with similar or more severe conditions) have learned to do, which is get some rest and wait until they know they can make sense. That’s what all of us should do, come to think of it. If we type when we are “impaired” for whatever reason, then we have to come back and “explain” what our “impairment” is, and really, why should any of us want to put ourselves in a position where we feel compelled to do that? > [@](#): > > You’re wrong in GD, you’re a condescending bitch, and just because I’m having trouble thinking doesn’t change something else I just forgot now what I was saying. You want condescending? I’ll give you condescending. Take a nap, my little dear. Have a lie down, my little sweetie darling. Take a nap, pookins. Get some rest, sweetheart. Don’t come back—don’t type _another sentence_—until you’ve rested up and can actually make some modicum of sense. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/30 "2003-08-24T09:42:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ryle Dup \* > \*\*Why would you, you can’t follow much. \*\* And yea, God spoke unto Abraham, and He said, “Abraham, you must kill your son,” and Abraham said, “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you, you need to speak _directly into the microphone_…” ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/31 "2003-08-24T10:27:46Z")
I’m watching one of those police-chase-and-violent-crash television programs right now. This thread is uglier. Ryle Dup, I generally agreed with you in the 14-year-olds-bonking thread, but I think you’ve lost the plot, dear boy. I agree, take a deep breath, regroup, collect yourself, then see if you can dig yourself out of this mess, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/32 "2003-08-24T11:09:41Z")
Pass the seeds \*\* yosemitebabe\*\*. **Larry Mudd** its easy typing and eating seeds… it just takes practice. This is why I like the net… the heightened sense of surrealism and the chance to say “Boy, am I glad I am not like that guy.” Here’s lookin at you **Ryle Dup**. ---
**Author:** ![Bugnorton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bugnorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bugnorton)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/33 "2003-08-24T11:55:00Z")
Sunflower seed pie anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/34 "2003-08-24T12:02:45Z")
Folks, please go easy on the lad. There’s more going on than you know. CJ ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/35 "2003-08-24T12:04:14Z")
This thread is verging on hamster abuse. ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/36 "2003-08-24T12:24:24Z")
No wait, what is the deal with CanvasShoes? Is she actually a pair of canvas shoes of some sort? I mean, if you’re going to have wierd vague names like that you’re bound to get a penalty on a reaction roll. My name is simple: **Eternal** , because I am the beginning and end of time, and it is I alone who will govern the fate of the universe come the Day of the Billions. So maybe CanvasShoes should consider a name change to something that’s not stupid, or perhaps just something like a particular _brand_ of shoe. I think that would greatly decrease the tensions here. And I’m really tired right now and I can’t really see what I’m writing but that made perfect sense so stop ragging on Ryle Dup. His name makes sense, you bastards. When you sound it out it sounds like real words. Which is more than I can say for this guy **Siege**. What the fuck is a “siege”? You can’t just make up words and call it a “name”. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/37 "2003-08-24T12:38:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Siege \* > Folks, please go easy on the lad. There’s more going on than you know. That usually means it’s a good time to avoid all controversial threads and chill out for a while, rather than taking out one’s frustration/anger/grief/depression/whatever on a bunch of strangers who aren’t the source of that ill feeling. I sympathize when people are going through rough times - heck, the wife of a friend of mine committed suicide last week and my head’s been badly messed up over that - but not so much when they start lashing out at others over stuff like this. ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/38 "2003-08-24T14:25:37Z")
I agree **Ferret Herder** , I don’t think people should be given a “free pass” when they’re not themselves for whatever reason. If they’re feeling that bad, they should stay off the boards, or just lurk. We’re all adults here (well, most of us) and there’s no excuse for acting like children sneaking on the computer while mommy goes to get more medicine. If you make a fool out of your self for whatever reason, own up to it, don’t blame it on whatever condition you happen to have at the time. You are accountable for everything you post here and people will react accordingly. That said, is this pitting a joke or something? Have we all been wooshed? ---
**Author:** ![Shaolinrabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Shaolinrabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaolinrabbit)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/39 "2003-08-24T14:39:55Z")
No, **Ryle Dup** has a legitimate concern in his view, regarding the condescending nature of **CanvasShoes** ’s posts. It’s nothing compared to most pittings, really. I think there was enough smarmy to go around in that thread if we’re placing blame. So, basically we’re waiting for a coherant list of grievances to evaluate. At this point we’re in a waiting pattern, adjust flames accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274/40 "2003-08-24T15:01:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Siege \* > \*\*Folks, please go easy on the lad. There’s more going on than you know. > > CJ \*\* Care to explain what you mean by this? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canvasshoes/197274.md?page=3)