# Der Trihs Pitting du jour **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 7, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714 "2011-01-07T04:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/1 "2011-01-07T04:39:35Z")
Yes, I know it’s a bit Yogi Berra-esque (“It’s like deja vu all over again!”) but Der Trihs’ latest swipe [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13321909&postcount=72) was (yet again) over the top: > [@It should be ilegal to smoke on the street.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-should-be-ilegal-to-smoke-on-the-street/566434/72): > > Of course not, this is a mostly American board and America is a nation largely composed of near-sociopaths. I wouldn’t expect most people to care if I was dying in agony. When asked for a cite [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13322170&postcount=76) and [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13325150&postcount=84), surprise, surprise, not even a peep. I realize that this is par for the course when it comes to Der Trihs. This time, though, his inane “debating” has gotten out of hand. Actually, it’s derailed the thread. One might even call his posting style jerkish. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/2 "2011-01-07T04:50:26Z")
They say it’s sure sign of mental illness when you think everyone is wrong but you. How someone as otherwise intelligent as he is can think that every religious person is mentally ill, or that anyone with any connection to the Iraq war including desk jockeys should be killed, or that most of a nation’s populace is verging on being sociopaths, cannot see that something must be wrong with his own mind is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/3 "2011-01-07T05:01:10Z")
Well, living in America, he’s obviously a sociopath. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/4 "2011-01-07T05:20:47Z")
Der Trihs is a bit, um, fixated. No doubt. And he has a serious hard on about America (as well as religion in general and Christianity specifically). If you attempt to engage him on either subject you are just going to get the same BS rantage. Simply, there is no debate with him on either subject…asking him for a cite concerning his opinion of America and Americans is just futile. Even for him that seems to be over the top though. It’s bordering on trolling, since he’s smart enough to know the reaction he’s going to get by tossing that out in GD. -XT ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/5 "2011-01-07T05:33:12Z")
**Der Trihs** is like **Dio** if you replace the latter’s views on relationships with the former’s views on America. I like both of them. ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/6 "2011-01-07T06:11:33Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > **Der Trihs** is like **Dio** if you replace the latter’s views on relationships with the former’s views on America. I like both of them. I did notice both of them got pitted in the same week. (And the sun rose in the east this morning – I think. Didn’t bother to check.) > [@kidchameleon](#): > > Well, living in America, he’s obviously a sociopath. Naah…we’re mostly about narcissism here. Especially here in So-Cal. And I’m the best, naturally. 😉 ---
**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 7, 2011, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/7 "2011-01-07T07:52:18Z")
That is pretty obviously a personal opinion and not in need of a cite. ---
**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 7, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/8 "2011-01-07T13:33:21Z")
I’m Canadian and I can’t honesty say Trihs’ agony is something I could summon much concern over, as I don’t actually know him. Maybe a cursory “Lung cancer, huh? That’s a shame” post, but not much beyond that. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/9 "2011-01-07T13:46:44Z")
What the heck is a near-sociopath, anyway? And **DT** , if you’re out there somewhere, I’d care if you were dying in agony, despite your being a drama queen of the first order. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/10 "2011-01-07T13:58:06Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > That is pretty obviously a personal opinion and not in need of a cite. He’s his own cite. No, wait, that’s the other one. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/11 "2011-01-07T14:02:39Z")
> [@fuzzypickles](#): > > I did notice both of them got pitted in the same week. (And the sun rose in the east this morning – I think. Didn’t bother to check.) > Naah…we’re mostly about narcissism here. Especially here in So-Cal. > > And I’m the best, naturally. 😉 That’s possible since I don’t live there. If I did, there would be no contest. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/12 "2011-01-07T14:50:31Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > What the heck is a near-sociopath, anyway? It’s the same thing as a sociopath, but you get to say didn’t actually call anyone such. See: weasel words. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/13 "2011-01-07T15:05:04Z")
Take it easy on him; he has to live inside that head. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/14 "2011-01-07T15:06:55Z")
Take it easy on him; he has to live inside that head. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/15 "2011-01-07T15:20:16Z")
Echo… Echo… Echo… ---
**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:** [January 7, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/16 "2011-01-07T16:40:07Z")
Oh, wait. American’s aren’t just “near-sociopaths”. [We’re:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13315417&postcount=6) > [@DT](#): > > …your typical American is a murderous sadistic thug. I’m waiting for he chorus of \*\*DT \*\*apologists who usually show up in these threads saying he’s misunderstood and just says things that a lot of “us” are thinking, but are too reticent to say. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/17 "2011-01-07T16:41:05Z")
Or that in threads about comic books, he is a _delight_. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/18 "2011-01-07T17:10:10Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Or that in threads about comic books, he is a _delight_. Narrow expertise doesn’t make up for a maladjusted personality. More often, it just confirms one. (I’m a little this way myself and have known many others.) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/19 "2011-01-07T18:25:26Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Or that in threads about comic books, he is a _delight_. I love him in Cafe Society and especially comic book threads but I’ve learned to just ignore him anywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/20 "2011-01-07T18:26:51Z")
It’s fairly clear he can see things than none of the rest of us can see, too… Like hordes of [armed thugs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13327102&postcount=15). I’m rather disappointed, myself- I always wanted to be an armed thug, but despite holding a GOP voter’s registration, and being a firearms owner, I wasn’t called. I wonder If **DT** can tell me how /where to join? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714.md?page=2)