# Der Trihs, do you realize how goofy you come across? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 27, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109 "2007-08-27T16:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/21 "2007-08-27T18:51:25Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] I see no reason to believe his any different from what he posts here. And if he says here what he “fears” to say in the open, that would mean that he believes what he says. How would that be any indication that he’s a “good person”? One would have to believe he is able to completely repress his true feelings about the world-- not something your ordinary person can do. [/QUOTE] Well that would mean I would have to call him a liar. I don’t know him that well. Perhaps you do. It is a courtesy I extend to all who have not given me reason to believe otherwise. In any case I do not pass judgment on my fellow man so readily until I see their works with my own eyes. Kind of tough in this particular medium where words rule. I guess I should kind of take your word for it considering your lengthy posting history. I’ll take it under advisement. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/22 "2007-08-27T18:53:24Z")
[QUOTE=bump] Also… I’m willing to bet that he got/gets picked on a lot in real life. His writing just has that odor of petty persecution that you usually get from the 17 year old kid who gets swirlies from the jocks. [/QUOTE] I believe that he once told us that was exactly the case. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/23 "2007-08-27T19:01:57Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] Der Trihs, do you realize how goofy you come across? [/QUOTE] I think this is kind of unfair. Although I further to the right on the continuum and I think never agree with him, I appreciate his sharing the position of the left. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/24 "2007-08-27T19:04:41Z")
[QUOTE=Waverly] He’s channeling Stoid, but the excessive and excited punctuation is still missing. We’d better up his dose… [/QUOTE] Steady up there. Damn good folks, **Stoid**. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/25 "2007-08-27T19:06:46Z")
At this point, I’ve pretty much stopped reading his posts on any politically charged issue. Even when he’s talking about positions I agree with, as others have posted, I believe that his in-your-face attitude with those issues does more to calcify opposition than anything else. Making his “arguments” less than useless. On the other hand, when we’re talking in Cafe Society, his insights to works of fiction are fun and interesting. I like him. I just wish he’d swallow some of the vitriol. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/26 "2007-08-27T19:07:10Z")
[QUOTE=magellan01] I think this is kind of unfair. Although I further to the right on the continuum and I think never agree with him, I appreciate his sharing the position of the left. [/QUOTE] Please, not again. He is sui generis, remember? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/27 "2007-08-27T19:09:33Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Steady up there. Damn good folks, **Stoid**. [/QUOTE] where is she? ---
**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:** [August 27, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/28 "2007-08-27T19:09:33Z")
[QUOTE=magellan01] I think this is kind of unfair. Although I further to the right on the continuum and I think never agree with him, I appreciate his sharing the position of the left. [/QUOTE] “The” position of the left? ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/29 "2007-08-27T19:09:43Z")
[QUOTE=Crotalus] Please, not again. He is sui generis, remember? [/QUOTE] 😃 On preview, Revenant, 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/30 "2007-08-27T19:11:23Z")
> [@](#): > > I think this is kind of unfair. Although I further to the right on the continuum and I think never agree with him, I appreciate his sharing the position of the left. Der Trihs isn’t representing the left. We’ve got plenty of reasonable liberals on this board. Der Trihs is off by himself. He’s too extreme left wing for the mainstream on this board - which is amazing. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/31 "2007-08-27T19:11:33Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] “The” position of the left? [/QUOTE] We are Legion. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/32 "2007-08-27T19:12:42Z")
No, _I’m_ Spartacus! ---
**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:** [August 27, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/33 "2007-08-27T19:13:01Z")
Whooshed. Oh, the shame of it all! Nice one, though. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/34 "2007-08-27T19:13:52Z")
[QUOTE=magellan01] I think this is kind of unfair. Although I further to the right on the continuum and I think never agree with him, I appreciate his sharing the position of the left. [/QUOTE] Dude, I’m on the left and about as close as one can come to being an atheist without saying so… and I don’t think _I’ve_ ever really agreed with him either. So take that for what it’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/35 "2007-08-27T19:17:37Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Steady up there. Damn good folks, **Stoid**. [/QUOTE] You have your opinion and I have mine. My opinion is colored by a habit of posting knee-jerk histrionics with little regard for the facts of the matter. When liberals melt down, that seems to be their favored path. Conservative apologists, who I don’t like any better, seem to melt down with an equal disregard for facts but with vague rationalizations in place of histrionics. Liberal nutters pay for their passion by making slightly more spectacular fools of themselves than their conservative nutter brethren. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/36 "2007-08-27T19:18:21Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] As he once noted no one knows what he does outside of these boards. He could be one of the worlds greatest humanitarians. I see no reason to doubt he is good person. Many say here what they fear to speak in the open. [/QUOTE] Having encountered him off-board, I can vouch that he seems like a pretty decent guy. Until I read one of his Pit or GD posts, that is. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/37 "2007-08-27T19:20:42Z")
[QUOTE=Who\_me?] Dude, I’m on the left and about as close as one can come to being an atheist without saying so… and I don’t think _I’ve_ ever really agreed with him either. So take that for what it’s worth. [/QUOTE] Easy, easy, my little marionette. But if you have time to be whooshed certianly you have time to answer the question I posed to you in that other thread, no? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/38 "2007-08-27T19:25:09Z")
[QUOTE=Waverly] … My opinion is colored by a habit of posting knee-jerk histrionics with little regard for the facts of the matter… [/QUOTE] Too nice a guy to exploit this, not nice enough to ignore it. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/39 "2007-08-27T19:26:50Z")
[QUOTE=Maus Magill] Having encountered him off-board, I can vouch that he seems like a pretty decent guy. Until I read one of his Pit or GD posts, that is. [/QUOTE] Without being to direct and asking you to betray a sort of confidence, may I ask you three questions to check if my theory as to his true identity is correct? 1. Is he in prison? 2. Does he have a swastike carved into his forehead? 3. Is he responsible for one of the greatest quotes of all time when asked about the newest crop of murderous madmen: “Crazy? I was crazy when it meant soemething to be crazy.”? (Forgive the paraphrase.) ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109/40 "2007-08-27T19:27:44Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Too nice a guy to exploit this, not nice enough to ignore it. [/QUOTE] 🙂 You obviously know what I meant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-do-you-realize-how-goofy-you-come-across/417109.md?page=3)