# Colibri's insult in General Questions **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 11, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibris-insult-in-general-questions/757139 "2016-06-11T19:36:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibris-insult-in-general-questions/757139/41 "2016-06-30T00:17:34Z")
You can call a post bullshit. How its interpreted by the poster who made it is of no consequence. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibris-insult-in-general-questions/757139/42 "2016-06-30T02:17:02Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Distinction without a difference. “your posts are worthless” isn’t any less insulting than “you are a worthless poster” All I can say, again, is that you do not understand the board rules about insults. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibris-insult-in-general-questions/757139/43 "2016-06-30T02:56:01Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Distinction without a difference. “your posts are worthless” isn’t any less insulting than “you are a worthless poster” Given that you seem to have altered **Colibri** ’s statement by removing the “in this thread” part, you’ve created that lack of a distinction yourself. Including that part, someone could make worthless posts in a thread without being a worthless poster by simply posting with value elsewhere. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2016, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibris-insult-in-general-questions/757139/44 "2016-06-30T05:18:30Z")
UberArchetype was being pretentious, Colibri was being mildly and not particularly cleverly insulting, world keeps spinning. ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibris-insult-in-general-questions/757139/45 "2016-07-13T22:06:33Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I said his efforts “for our education” were of no value, since he said he didn’t care whether his statements were correct or not. Really. You could look it up. > > I did not insult anyone personally. I made a comment on the value of their contributions to the thread. You insulted him and now are trying to pretend that isn’t what happened. How very Clintonian of you. Slee ---
**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:** [July 13, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibris-insult-in-general-questions/757139/46 "2016-07-13T23:27:48Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > UberArchetype was being pretentious, Colibri was being mildly and not particularly cleverly insulting, world keeps spinning. > [@sleestak](#): > > You insulted him and now are trying to pretend that isn’t what happened. How very Clintonian of you. > > Slee All I can say, again, is that you do not understand the board rules about insults. (And if my response was insulting, certainly both these remarks would qualify as insulting as well.) ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibris-insult-in-general-questions/757139/47 "2016-07-14T00:33:12Z")
**Colibri** has explained himself and given his answer many times in this thread, to the point where he’s actually pulling a “me” and repeating himself verbatim from both his third and second to last reply in this thread. Since that was two weeks ago and this was bumped up despite nothing changing and very little being added, I’m going to close this. If new info comes to light or if someone wants to add something not yet pointed out and consequently answered, feel free to make a new thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibris-insult-in-general-questions/757139.md?page=2)