# Covington Catholic High (in case it hasn't been mentioned already) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 20, 2019, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090 "2019-01-20T02:23:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 41
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/801 "2019-01-27T04:10:08Z")
WTF is this thread even about anymore? Folks sucking madly onto their partisan options, Huey taking giant dumps on folks left AND right, and those trying to make reasoned posts are just pissing into the wind. Is this SDMB 2019? I don’t like it, at all. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/802 "2019-01-27T04:21:31Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > WTF is this thread even about anymore? > > Folks sucking madly onto their partisan options, Huey taking giant dumps on folks left AND right, and those trying to make reasoned posts are just pissing into the wind. > > Is this SDMB 2019? I don’t like it, at all. Are you at all aware that you’re in the Pit? It’s the people making “reasoned posts” who are the threadshitters. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/803 "2019-01-27T04:30:33Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > Are you at all aware that you’re in the Pit? It’s the people making “reasoned posts” who are the threadshitters. Dude, even for the _pit_ it’s a fucken cesspool. Sure, ‘reason’ and ‘pit’ are normally mutually exclusive, but FFS, this thread could go on for bloody YEARS the rate things are going. Is this what the SDMB has become? And don’t give me some shit that it’s always been this way. The quality of argument has deteriorated substantially in the last couple of years, coincidentally since the advent of Donald and his shitsuckers who infest this board. Then you chuck in Huey and it morphs into something REALLY disgusting. Fuck. ---
**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 27, 2019, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/804 "2019-01-27T04:33:29Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Sure, ‘reason’ and ‘pit’ are normally mutually exclusive, but FFS, this thread could go on for bloody YEARS the rate things are going. No, just until America stops being racist. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/805 "2019-01-27T09:00:03Z")
WTF ---
**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:** [January 27, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/806 "2019-01-27T13:25:00Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > WTF is this thread even about anymore? > > Folks sucking madly onto their partisan options, Huey taking giant dumps on folks left AND right, and those trying to make reasoned posts are just pissing into the wind. > > Is this SDMB 2019? I don’t like it, at all. I’ve certainly lost interest in this thread, due to the participation of a couple of real dingdongs. But that’s happened to the occasional thread ever since I first joined the board; and elsewhere, right now, there are some threads with some very solid discussion (plus a couple of real dingdongs). ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/807 "2019-01-27T13:29:03Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > I don’t think I’ve dealt with you before, so I only had a rough idea from other posters that you were, let’s say not so bright and hyperpartisan. Congratulations, sir, because you blew my expectations away. I kinda suspected, but the depths of your ignorance is so vast, and your self-awareness so negligible that I’m actually kinda surprised. Walking while playing a hand drum is now harassment. The open mockery of it is perfectly acceptable. And the white, privileged teens who did it are the actual victims. My mind boggles at what it would actually take for you to not take your parties side on any issue. That was pretty good! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Huey\_Freeman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/huey_freeman/32/251_2.png) [@Huey\_Freeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huey_Freeman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/808 "2019-01-27T15:34:58Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Dude, even for the _pit_ it’s a fucken cesspool. > > Sure, ‘reason’ and ‘pit’ are normally mutually exclusive, but FFS, this thread could go on for bloody YEARS the rate things are going. > > Is this what the SDMB has become? And don’t give me some shit that it’s always been this way. The quality of argument has deteriorated substantially in the last couple of years, coincidentally since the advent of Donald and his shitsuckers who infest this board. > > Then you chuck in Huey and it morphs into something REALLY disgusting. Fuck. Let me tell you something. I was minding my own fucking business in this thread before [Guin came after me first](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21452600&postcount=739). I’m not taking no fucking prisoners with you white supremacists. That ship has sailed a long time ago. I insist on treating these monsters - these [carrion-eating vultures](https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8WH3aQMq--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/e0ivezzycrvmobdyn8eh.jpg)- the same way they treat me, and other people of color. Best believe that. If, for example, you came after me, I would ether (or in Guin’s case, shether) you, too. Go on, try me. Notwithstanding this, out of respect for the thread and because my presence has become as distraction, this will be my last post in this thread; but I swear to God, if you don’t want your resident 9th graders and your white supremacists (whom you love to protect) to get dogwalked, instruct them to keep my name (and that of my loved one’s) out their motherfucking mouths. Let them know that if they don’t start none, there won’t be none. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/809 "2019-01-27T15:59:42Z")
> [@Huey\_Freeman](#): > > Antidepressants and relationships don’t mix. See[this](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25012424) and [this](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158381/). Good luck, because you’re going to need it your baggage. Your clock is running out. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Lest anyone get the impression that Huey Freeman reads the papers he cites (as opposed to picking the first links that look relevant in a Google Scholar search), note that the first paper shows that certain types of antidepressants have very little effect on feelings in relationships – and for those that do have such an effect, it is reduced by _length of time in the relationship_. The second paper says that the tested antidepressant can cause recipients to value trust more, and improve relationships by improving perception of balance in emotional engagement: > [@](#): > > In contrast, male and female participants treated with citalopram rated the partners as equally in love with one another. Imbalance in emotional engagement is often a painful experience, and one which tends to signal problematic power imbalances (Sprecher, 1986). These results suggest that enhanced serotonergic activity is associated with judgements of closer reciprocity in emotional commitment; a state likely to be valued in intimate relationships. It also reduces the perceived importance of physical intimacy, but also “did not significantly diminish the rated quality of participants’ own physical relationships with their current partners compared to placebo.” Embarrassing. ---
**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 27, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/810 "2019-01-27T16:21:07Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > Embarrassing. Someone may have to volunteer to feel the embarrassment on his behalf, he seems to lack the necessary machinery. Not It. ---
**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 27, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/811 "2019-01-27T17:41:45Z")
He’ll be back. People always say that, but they never mean it. > [@Huey\_Freeman](#): > > [Guin came after me first](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21452600&postcount=739). How old are you? > [@](#): > > God, if you don’t want your resident 9th graders and your white supremacists (whom you love to protect) to get dogwalked, instruct them to keep my name (and that of my loved one’s) out their motherfucking mouths. Let them know that if they don’t start none, there won’t be none. > > Thanks Oh, the irony. And nobody was talking about your loved ones. Someone’s been [whooshed](http://www.fallacyfiles.org/loadques.html), big time. As for your comments on my personal life, it’s none of your business, what I do in my private time. Suffice to say, you know jackshit about mental illness, anxiety and depression. You’re just a vile, hateful creature. ---
**Author:** ![Huey\_Freeman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/huey_freeman/32/251_2.png) [@Huey\_Freeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huey_Freeman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/812 "2019-01-27T18:39:01Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > Lest anyone get the impression that Huey Freeman reads the papers he cites (as opposed to picking the first links that look relevant in a Google Scholar search), note that the first paper shows that certain types of antidepressants have very little effect on feelings in relationships – and for those that do have such an effect, it is reduced by _length of time in the relationship_. > > The second paper says that the tested antidepressant can cause recipients to value trust more, and improve relationships by improving perception of balance in emotional engagement: > > **It also reduces the perceived importance of physical intimacy, but also "did not significantly diminish the rated quality of participants’ own physical relationships with their current partners compared to placebo.**" > > Embarrassing. (bolding mine) Even when I offer the leave the fucking thread, you vultures just can’t help yourself in trying to sideswipe me on my way out of the door. The only thing that is embarrassing is your cherry picking. The [devil effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_effect)is real. Now, it’s your turn. Yes, the authors showed that anti-depressants increased feelings of mutual trust _but_ it also decreased feelings of intimacy. This is laid out for you in the abstract, Figure 4, and in the supplemental figures. Because I know ya’ll either can’t read or hungry to prove me wrong, I’ll walk you through this. > [@Abstract](#): > > Participants also indicated the importance of relationship features in their own close partnerships, and close partnerships generally. Citalopram reduced the rated quality of couples’ physical relationships and the importance attributed to physical and intimate aspects of participants’ own relationships. In contrast, citalopram also enhanced the evaluated worth of mutual trust in relationships Translation: The authors find citalopram treatment decreased feelings of intimacy and a “good physical relationship” (the authors words) while increasing feelings of mutual trust. > [@Figure 4](#): > > Participants who received citalopram ranked ‘mutual trust’ as more important in relationships than did participants who received placebo (median rank: 2 vs 1) (Figure 4), U = 114.00, P = 0.033. Citalopram-treated participants also tended to rank a relationship’s capacity to ‘endure’ as more important compared with the placebo-treated participants (median rank: 9 vs 7), U = 123.00, P = 0.061. In In contrast, the citalopram-treated participants ranked ‘intimacy’ as generally less important than the placebo-treated participants (median rank: 2 vs 4.5) (Figure 4), U = 104.00, P = 0.015. Translation: The authors find citalopram treatment decreased feelings of intimacy and a “good physical relationship” (the authors words) while increasing feelings of mutual trust. > [@Supplementary Table 6](#): > > Citalopram-treated individuals rated ‘intimacy’ and a good ‘physical relationship’ as less important in their own relationship than placebo-treated participants (intimacy: 80.00 ± 2.11 vs 85.30 ± 2.19, respectively, F (1,35) = 4.36, P = 0.044; physical relationship: 72.95 ± 3.28 vs 81.10 ± 2.22, respectively, F (1,35) = 4.49, P = 0.041) (Supplementary Table 6). Translation: The authors find citalopram treatment decreased feelings of intimacy and a “good physical relationship” (the authors words) while increasing feelings of mutual trust. > [@Supplementary Data](#): > > …the ratings of reduced importance of ‘intimacy’ in participants’ current partnerships provided by participants treated with citalopram compared to placebo (noted in the main text) remained significant after controlling for the effects of individuals’ attachment styles, β=0.473, p=0.047. Individuals classified as having low self-esteem in their attachment style rated a good ‘physical relationship’ as less important in their current relationship, β=-0.466, p=0.004. However, the reduced ratings of the importance of a good physical relationship with current significant partners among individuals treated with citalopram (noted in the main text) remained near-significant after controlling for the effects of attachment style, β=-0.381, p=0.089. Translation: The authors find citalopram treatment decreased feelings of intimacy and a “good physical relationship” (the authors words) while increasing feelings of mutual trust. Now, to your point (which I bolded above and below). You deliberately failed to include the information from the authors putting this sentence in context. Why would you do that? Why wouldn’t you quote that paragraph in full where the authors give context to that sentence? Why cherry pick like that just to claim victory? It’s cool, I’ll do it for you. Let me quote the entire paragraph in full without your cherry-picking. > [@Discussion](#): > > However, in this experiment,\*\* citalopram did not significantly diminish the rated quality of participants’ own physical relationships with their current partners compared to placebo.\*\* Given that our protocol involved a relatively brief, 8-day treatment period, it is possible that the effects of citalopram administration upon participants’ sexual activity with their own partners had not yet fully emerged (Montejo et al., 2010), but that the rCAT ratings were sufficiently sensitive to detect subtle alterations in inter-personal cognitions about sexual activity. Alternatively, participants may have felt uncomfortable reporting changes in their sexual relationships in our assessments. If so, ‘indirect’ instruments, such as the ratings of the rCAT, may be more successful in tapping sensitive areas of relationship function than direct questioning. Translation: While the treated patients did not report decreased quality of their sex lives with their partners, the authors found specific limitations related to this point. These limitations included brief treatment time and sensitivity in asking questions about one’s sex life. The authors surmise that the utilization of indirect methods to probe the participants’ sex life rather than direct questioning would be more “successful in tapping sensitive areas of relationship function”. Now, sit down. Your puzzle pieces are calling you. ETA: Guin, I see you responded but I’ve decided wave the white (lol) flag and leave you the fuck alone. For what it’s worth, I take no pleasure in ragging on females. Ya’ll get enough of that shit from white men. For your sake and to keep the peace, I encourage you to do the same and leave me the fuck alone. As I stated before, don’t start none, there won’t be none. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/813 "2019-01-27T18:53:43Z")
> [@](#): > > …if you don’t want your resident 9th graders and your white supremacists (whom you love to protect) to get dogwalked, instruct them to keep my name (and that of my loved one’s) out their motherfucking mouths. I’m guessing that you don’t see the irony in this. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/814 "2019-01-27T19:06:52Z")
> [@Huey\_Freeman](#): > > For what it’s worth, I take no pleasure in ragging on females. I was not involved on this side discussion, but me and many others can’t believe that. ---
**Author:** ![griffen2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce7236/32.png) [@griffen2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffen2)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/815 "2019-01-27T19:11:13Z")
> [@Huey Freeman](#): > > ETA: Guin, I see you responded but I’ve decided wave the white (lol) flag and leave you the fuck alone. For what it’s worth, I take no pleasure in ragging on females. BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Sure you don’t. > [@](#): > > Ya’ll get enough of that shit from white men. For your sake and to keep the peace, I encourage you to do the same and leave me the fuck alone. If you’re under the impression your posts do anything other than remind us all what a shit head you are then you’re sorely mistaken. > [@](#): > > As I stated before, don’t start none, there won’t be none. Given how comprehensively you keep getting your ass handed to you, this sentiment may be better expressed as “Don’t start none, because it’s not nice to pick on retards.” ---
**Author:** ![griffen2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce7236/32.png) [@griffen2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffen2)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/816 "2019-01-27T19:16:11Z")
> [@](#): > > BWAHAHAHAHA!!! > > Sure you don’t. btw, I did a quick search to see how many times you’d used the words ‘hoe’ and/or ‘thot’. The answer? 23. 10% of your posts contain at least one explicitly misogynistic slur. But yeah. You don’t hate women. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/817 "2019-01-27T19:39:54Z")
> [@Huey\_Freeman](#): > > he only thing that is embarrassing is your cherry picking. _My_ cherry picking? Dude, you’ve already shown a tendency not to read what you cite. History – and the papers in question – are on my side. BTW, you _did_ read the second paper you cited, right? The one that’s not open access? You wouldn’t cite a paper you didn’t read, surely. > [@](#): > > Translation: The authors find citalopram treatment decreased feelings of intimacy and a “good physical relationship” (the authors words) while increasing feelings of mutual trust. No, you ignorant nincompoop, that is NOT a translation. The right translation would be this, if you need me to spell it out for you in detail. By “Citalopram reduced the rated quality of couples’ physical relationships” the authors meant that the participants rated the quality of OTHER PEOPLE’S PHYSICAL RELATIONSHIPS, not their own. They showed a reduction in importance attributed to their own physical relationship, but that’s not necessarily a positive or negative. > [@](#): > > Translation: The authors find citalopram treatment decreased feelings of intimacy and a “good physical relationship” (the authors words) while increasing feelings of mutual trust. Also an extremely misleading “translation”. Participants attributed less importance to physical intimacy; nowhere did the authors say that participants had decreased feelings of having a “good physical relationship”. In fact, that pretty much applies to ALL your quotes from the paper. Here’s a clue-by-four, buddy: seeing less importance in the physical aspect of your relationship (and more importance in trust) does not. necessarily. mean. you. have. a. bad. relationship. And as for your last quote … the authors are giving a story about what MAY be happening to confound results. You can’t reasonably draw anything from that except that the paper has limitations. This absolutely does NOT support you using it as an “antidepressant use is bad for relationships” hammer to somebody’s figurative balls. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/818 "2019-01-27T22:29:59Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > …You’d think the guy trying to deny being a racist shithole would at least try to come off as a decent human being. Instead, you’re slowly making sure that anyone who thought there was anything good in you realize who you really are. … That’s the point of that account, I think. To claim to be a member of a particular demographic group, and smear the reputations of all in that group by being unremittingly nasty, unfair, and wrong (as with the writer’s apparently deliberate mis-characterization of the research on depression, as just demonstrated by PR in this thread). > [@](#): > > One of the most effective ways to plant barriers between whites and people of color is to tell white people that _ **they cannot get this right** _. Familiar themes include: > [ul] > [li]white people CANNOT understand people of color—no matter what efforts they make to do so[/li][li]white people may believe they aren’t racist but they, by definition, are racist[/li][li]white people CANNOT rectify wrongs perpetrated in the past[/li][li]white people are all alike (invariably in some uncomplimentary way, such as ‘being [/li]without empathy’) > [li]white people may believe they have acted in ways that will be helpful to black people, such as voting black people into political office–but that action is, somehow, harmful to people of color[/li][li]white people are simply incapable of being anything other than unfair and unjust[/li][/ul] > …and so on. > > This works to divide left-leaning white people and people of color by **implanting in white people the suspicion that people of color have fixed prejudices about them and nothing will change their minds—and implanting in people of color the exact same view of white people.** Thus, groups of the left are less likely to work together effectively, and individuals who might otherwise make useful contributions toward leftist goals, will be too dispirited, angry or otherwise preoccupied to do so. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21427216#post21427216](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21427216#post21427216) The writer is doing a pretty good job of it, too. Should put in for a bonus, if working for wages. But of course the writer might be doing this out of ideological fervor, and not for pay at all. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/819 "2019-01-27T22:35:16Z")
Huey, some of these folks have been engaged in this character assassination, cliquishness, and rude behavior for over 20 years and over multiple message boards. They’ve been having the same fights and the same toxic behavior for longer than you’ve been alive. You can’t kill, metaphorically speaking, that which has no life. On topic, how many pages will a thread attacking a teen because of non-approved hat and non group think run? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/820 "2019-01-27T22:39:33Z")
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