# Coldfire -- Not a warning my eye. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 9, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008 "2003-12-09T20:22:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/1 "2003-12-09T20:22:15Z")
Coldfire: In [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=4329703#post4329703) you said: > [@](#): > > Moderator Notes > … > Satisfying Andy Licious, you’re really fucking annoying. That’s not a warning, it’s an observation. But who knows, it might become a warning when you keep this sort of behaviour up. So when you place the label “Moderator Notes” at the top then say this is not a warning but it could be, could you explain how it that **not** a warning? The point I was making was **entirely valid,** and it was **in the pit,** and others on the thread agreed with it. At this point I feel that you were objecting to the politics expressed, and not the way they were expressed, as there others using profanity. And you, of course, used your moderator status to employ profanity as well. From this, I am feeling that your assesment of what is “fucking annoying” is tied to your politics. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/2 "2003-12-09T20:32:37Z")
I like quick studies. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/3 "2003-12-09T20:36:12Z")
Not to speak for Coldy, but maybe his assessment is close to mine, that you are a fucking annoying and semantical git with a large stick up his ass when it comes to women? Your behavior in the aforementioned thread was worse than pathetic. You’re pathetic. Go piss on someone else’s begonias. ---
**Author:** ![Ben\_Hicks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Ben\_Hicks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben_Hicks)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/4 "2003-12-09T20:38:40Z")
But you are really fucking annoying though. Just my opinion, you understand, but, well, you are. ---
**Author:** ![ShoNuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@ShoNuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShoNuff)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/5 "2003-12-09T20:47:53Z")
Well, **Andy,** from what I saw on that thread, I’d agree with **Coldfire**. **Slainte** wrote a fairly benign story. Nowhere does she talk about victimization, or allege anything serious. In fact, she claims the rant to be weak. I actually found it fairly humorous. _You_ were the one who began to discuss victimization. _You_ were the one who brought politics into the discussion. What’s **highly ironic** is that, when **Coldfire** expressed his own opinion, not on your views but on your general demeanor, **you** are the one who immediately begins a thread declaring yourself a victim! Lighten up, pull that huge stick out of your caboose, and use it to knock that huge chip on your shoulder. :wally ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/6 "2003-12-09T20:52:42Z")
You mean to tell me that **Coldfire** used the…gasp… **F-word**? :eek: Next I suppose you’re going to tell me that the Pope is Catholic. What? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/7 "2003-12-09T20:57:55Z")
I see your point about the non-warning. Of course you’re still full of shit about feminism, but that is quite possibly less than entirely relevant. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/8 "2003-12-09T21:02:53Z")
**Andy** , she insisted several times in the thread that it was supposed to be hyperbolic. Not entirely taken at face value. Now, were you: A) Trying to save her from a week’s suspension, fearing she had crossed the line on joke threads? or B) Pissing all over a thread by insisting that she’s a man-hater? ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/9 "2003-12-09T21:11:30Z")
You were acting like an ass, which is dangerously close to being a jerk. Therefore, **Coldfire** told you you were acting like an ass, and that you were coming dangerously close to a warning. I have to say, **Coldfire** ’s post was one of the bright spots of my day. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/10 "2003-12-09T21:17:04Z")
Another vote that **Andy** is annoying, so much so the OP requested the thread be closed. Congratulations you vomitous punk. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/11 "2003-12-09T21:18:05Z")
**’Licious** , you injected your wacky politics into a thread that had nothing to do with politics. That’s highjacking. You insulted the OP, who had done nothing to deserve it. That’s being a jerk. I don’t give a rat’s ass about your sexual paranoia, and I’m sure **Coldfire** doesn’t either, but you behaved like an asshole in that thread, and he told you so. Grow the fuck up. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/12 "2003-12-09T21:19:01Z")
And I think what **Coldfire** was trying to say was that you weren’t being Warned as in going on your “permanent record” or one more warning and you’re toast, or whatever, but that he was letting you know that you were perhaps tiptoeing close to jerk-dom in his Moderator-ing opinion. But that’s just my guess. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/13 "2003-12-09T21:21:34Z")
I dunno, I’m kind of siding with Andy on this one. Granted, he seems to have taken the OP too seriously, and maybe deserved to get flamed for that. (Some of you may remember that I started a thread about the very subject of taking rants too seriously). But you’ve got to admit it’s a pretty fucking good point that not only is it _not_ true that Hallmark makes fewer “daughter” cards, but that they in fact make MORE of them. The stuff from **cuauhtemoc** was WAY more fucked-up than anything Andy wrote: > [@](#): > > Wow, look who’s talking now. I know you’re just trying to stir shit, as usual, but since a whiny little turd like you wouldn’t know the difference between “crying victim” and a legitimate Pit thread, here’s a clue: The OP was a semi-serious rant about a frustrating shopping experience. Any one of your posts in this is an example of “crying victim”. Also, the OP is about the least self-absorbed person you will never have the pleasure of knowing. You, on the other hand, are a pathetic jerk. > > Slainte, in case you didn’t know, SAL is a one-trick-pony. His trick is misogyny. Ignore him, seriously. I mean, Jesus Christ, is that ever over-the-top. IMO, Coldfire deserves the pitting for not resisting the temptation to use Moderator status to take a parting shot at one person while ignoring all the other crap. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/14 "2003-12-09T21:30:12Z")
I’m torn on this. On the one hand, **Andy** is a major tool. Get on his bad side, and he’ll follow you around lying about you, desperately trying to get a rise out of you. Like a puppy with mange, a high bark, and sharp little teeth, he’s not so much threatening as repellent. On the other hand, **Coldfire** closed that thread before I got to give **Andy** a good old Nelson laugh for getting his whiny butt told off by **Coldfire**. I mean, that’d be immature of me and all, but goddammit, I’ve earned a good Nelson laugh at **Andy** for the obnoxiousness to which he’s subjected me. Sure, I could’ve started my own thread on the subject to get the Nelson laugh in, but that’d smack of doing to **Andy** what he’s been doing to me – namely, following me around just to be annoying. I **was** torn, you see: **Coldie** both amused me and thwarted me, all in one go. But then **Andy** , bless his doofus little heart, opened up this thread, neatly reconciling my two desires. Ahem. [Nelson] Ha ha! [/Nelson] Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/15 "2003-12-09T21:31:18Z")
[Nelson] Hah Hah! [/Nelson] **Coldie** got pitted… **Coldie** got pitted… (again…) I say Coldfire? Some people just can’t take a hint can they? Heh Heh Heh Funny stuff. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/16 "2003-12-09T21:34:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blowero \* > **The stuff from cuauhtemoc was WAY more fucked-up than anything Andy wrote:** What can I say? I don’t like bullies. I especially don’t like bullies who try to portray themselves as victims and those they try to bully as aggressors. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/17 "2003-12-09T21:38:20Z")
> [@](#): > > _Quoted from the now closed thread_ - > \*\*Margin - clearly Andy can cite till the cows come home. If your query is genuine just have a little patience. \*\* He can. He has. It wasn’t. She won’t. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/18 "2003-12-09T21:42:10Z")
How is **cuauthemoc** ’s contibution, which was directed at ONE person more fucked-up than **SAL** ’s shit-spewing directed not only at the OP, feminists in general? Condemning one person is not equivalent to broad-brush tarring. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/19 "2003-12-09T21:50:37Z")
I just read that thread and wow, what an ass. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008/20 "2003-12-09T21:51:09Z")
**Andy** , you remind me of a scene in _Starship Troopers_ – the book, not the movie. It’s a scene in boot camp – the drill sergeant marches in a recruit, accusing him of disobeying a direct order. The drill sergeant has a black eye, but doesn’t mention it, and nobody says anything about it. The recruit makes excuses, and insists on dragging things out – and that’s his right. But he finally yaks enough that it comes out that he hit the drill sergeant in the eye – a capital offense – and the recruit is hanged. Had he kept his mouth shut, he’d’ve gotten off with a few lashes (yeah, Heinlein’s a brute). The comparison I’m making here is that **Coldfire** , like the officers, is striving not to take official notice of your actions, while still letting you know that you’re digging yourself a hole. Like the recruit in this story, you seem to be too dumb to take advantage of it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-not-a-warning-my-eye/218008.md?page=2)