# Congratulations. I used to look up to you. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 29, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078 "2014-01-29T22:36:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/41 "2014-01-30T18:07:33Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > But what if I do open the thread and want to tell the 20-something who wrote it that it sucked? What do I do then?? You start another thread. Obvs. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/42 "2014-01-30T18:34:26Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Okay, you win! I yam not really crazy, wrong, stupid, or full of bullshit! I yam just pulling your leg to see if you were serious! > > Unfuckin’believable. I think I’ve spotted the problem. You appear to be locked in an endless argument with Popeye. Or possibly a potato. Unfortunately, you also appear to be losing. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/43 "2014-01-30T18:43:10Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Always a bit disappointing to find out the people you admired when very young are really just glib assholes. Evel Knievel was _not_ a glib asshole! Just a regular asshole, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/44 "2014-01-30T19:25:49Z")
Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel. I was crushed. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/45 "2014-01-30T20:09:21Z")
All the subjects in the OP 's rant are beyond both his and the sorta uncles influence. Therefore, your opinion does not really matter . It does to you, obviously, but not to the issue at hand. To get worked up about it, well who has the time for that? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/46 "2014-01-30T21:21:46Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Evel Knievel was _not_ a glib asshole! Just a regular asshole, apparently. Point taken. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/47 "2014-01-30T21:39:56Z")
> [@Phatlewt](#): > > It’s been going this way with my dad, as of late. When Snopes became “leftist,” I figured there wasn’t any point in talking about that any more. I had a Facebook friend link to an article that off-handedly referred to the “left-wing website [Factcheck.org](http://Factcheck.org).” I had to point out to my friend that even his own sources are admitting that the facts are liberal. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/48 "2014-01-30T22:29:53Z")
You could send your erstwhile role model the URL to this thread and invite him to join the board. I’m only partly kidding. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/49 "2014-01-31T05:32:09Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > Snakes are ducks? > > Well … who knew? No, crocodiles are, remember! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/50 "2014-01-31T05:40:16Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Snopes is run by a bunch of communist pinkies who helped get Obama elected, with the help of the Russians and the Chinese, to ruin America. > > [luk 88-hb88 kim](http://defeatcommunism.com/profiles/blogs/snopesanother-propaganda-tool) > > [Snopes' Liberal Agenda - Not the Ultimate Source of Truth](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2195441/posts) > > [Snopes.com is a secret tool of the Democratic party to promote...](http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/s/snopes.htm) Actually, the last one debunks it. It seems kind of like a Snopes-type site. I haven’t looked through it enough. ---
**Author:** ![FightMyIgnorance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71e660/32.png) [@FightMyIgnorance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FightMyIgnorance)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/51 "2014-01-31T05:54:48Z")
I don’t get Smurf’s game here. Providing conflicting sources for a statement which sounds almost laughably satirical? This _has_ to be a whoosh. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/52 "2014-01-31T06:00:55Z")
Gee, ya think? ---
**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:** [January 31, 2014, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/53 "2014-01-31T06:33:59Z")
Smurf’s shtick, as best I can figure, is to just say the opposite of whatever the majority opinion in the thread is. Sometimes it’s funny, more often it’s trolly. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/54 "2014-01-31T09:51:46Z")
I think the point of that post was to show on one hand “This is a thing that exists” and on the other “this thing that exists is also incredibly dumb”. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/55 "2014-01-31T13:48:23Z")
> [@FightMyIgnorance](#): > > I don’t get Smurf’s game here… Usually **Candy Land** , but using a **Risk** board. And cheating. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/56 "2014-01-31T14:09:42Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Smurf’s shtick, as best I can figure, is to just say the opposite of whatever the majority opinion in the thread is. Sometimes it’s funny, more often it’s trolly. Depends on what kind of day he had after getting a load on and going out to score Sudafed. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/57 "2014-02-04T22:23:56Z")
So… yeah, he just pulled out Gary Null. I don’t even know why I’m posting this. Half “point and laugh at this guy” and half “feel bad for me because my friends are stupid motherfuckers” I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/58 "2014-02-05T03:11:16Z")
Didn’t Stephen Colbert say “Reality has a liberal bias”? I got stuck in a waiting room with a CT. His rant was that the Gumment was engaged in an ongoing program of disappearing people they didn’t like. His proof? THERE IS NO EVIDENCE! THEY’RE COVERING IT UP, CAN’T YOU UNDERSTAND? THE LACK OF ANY EVIDENCE IS THE PROOF!!! I’ve been led to believe the true wing nut uses green ink. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/59 "2014-02-05T03:49:38Z")
I would have had some fun trolling him. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078/60 "2014-02-05T11:13:34Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Didn’t Stephen Colbert say “Reality has a liberal bias”? > > I got stuck in a waiting room with a CT. His rant was that the Gumment was engaged in an ongoing program of disappearing people they didn’t like. His proof? > > THERE IS NO EVIDENCE! THEY’RE COVERING IT UP, CAN’T YOU UNDERSTAND? THE LACK OF ANY EVIDENCE IS THE PROOF!!! > > I’ve been led to believe the true wing nut uses green ink. Yes, in the sick mind of the conspiracy theorist, a lack of evidence _is_ evidence. This is a circular argument that makes no fucking pretentions towards sense. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-i-used-to-look-up-to-you/680078.md?page=4)