# Dick Dastardly, quit with the ignorance **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 9, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389 "2009-09-09T04:14:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/1 "2009-09-09T04:14:17Z")
Look, Dick, if you assert a fact, provide support for that fact when called on it. Don’t float an absurd assertion out of your ass and parade it about as a fact. A fart is not a fact. Quit with the ignorance. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11533516&postcount=30](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11533516&postcount=30) > [@I'm tired of mainstream media insisting on "balanced" news](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-mainstream-media-insisting-on-balanced-news/508859/30): > > I’m not retracting anything. Ownership of media by companies that do business with the government isn’t allowed anywhere else in the world, or at least in anyo other democracy. I can’t remember where I read it and I’m not getting any luck with google but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true. > > Prove me wrong. Find another democracy where media is owned by a company that does government contracting. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/2 "2009-09-09T04:51:43Z")
Well, you successfully found another democracy where media is owned by a company that does government contracting, so you proved him wrong. Good man. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/3 "2009-09-09T04:56:48Z")
In Italy, don’t they have a guy that pretty much owns the country for PM? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/4 "2009-09-09T05:07:51Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > In Italy, don’t they have a guy that pretty much owns the country for PM? That’s a little bit of an exaggeration, but Berlusconi is a major business owner and a media magnate. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/5 "2009-09-09T05:19:57Z")
Isn’t Rupurt Murdoch in charge of the Republicans over here? Or is it just the more generalized conservative opinion machine? ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/6 "2009-09-09T05:27:29Z")
**Muffin** , I know I told you to chill a bit in the other thread, but the following quote does deserve a head smack. Good on you for taking it here rather than continue a highjack. > [@Dick Dastardly](#): > > I can’t remember where I read it and I’m not getting any luck with google but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true. And I saw the Loch Ness monster. I can’t remember where and I can’t prove it, but he asked me for three fifty. It’s true! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/7 "2009-09-09T05:29:27Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Isn’t Rupurt Murdoch in charge of the Republicans over here? Or is it just the more generalized conservative opinion machine? Rupert Murdoch owns Fox, among other things, which tells a great deal of Republicans what and how to think. He’s not the sole contributor, but he influences it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/8 "2009-09-09T13:50:46Z")
I, for one, welcome our not very new Australian overlord. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/9 "2009-09-09T21:08:36Z")
But, if we couldn’t float absurd assertions out of our asses and parade them about as facts, none of us would have anything at all to say\*! - disclaimer: this absurd fact is of rectal origin and utterly lacks substantiation or, most likely, factual basis. ---
**Author:** ![Dick\_Dastardly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@Dick\_Dastardly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dick_Dastardly)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/10 "2009-09-10T00:31:56Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Look, Dick, if you assert a fact, provide support for that fact when called on it. Don’t float an absurd assertion out of your ass and parade it about as a fact. A fart is not a fact. Quit with the ignorance. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11533516&postcount=30](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11533516&postcount=30) I’m still waiting for you to prove me wrong and I don’t think this needs its own thread. You can answer me in the original thread or play with yourself to your heart’s content in this one. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/11 "2009-09-10T00:41:02Z")
> [@Dick\_Dastardly](#): > > I’m still waiting for you to prove me wrong and I don’t think this needs its own thread. You can answer me in the original thread or play with yourself to your heart’s content in this one. Listen, you stupid jackass, _you_ made the claim, and _you_ have to fucking back it up. Put up or shut the hell up. ---
**Author:** ![Jerseyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Jerseyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerseyman)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/12 "2009-09-10T00:43:38Z")
Italy ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/13 "2009-09-10T00:44:57Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Look, Dick, if you assert a fact, provide support for that fact when called on it. Don’t float an absurd assertion out of your ass and parade it about as a fact. A fart is not a fact. Quit with the ignorance. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11533516&postcount=30](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11533516&postcount=30) I farted. And that’s a fact. Ask my wife and two dogs if ya don’t believe me ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/14 "2009-09-10T00:59:26Z")
But did the government ban your fart? ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/15 "2009-09-10T01:02:36Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > But did the government ban your fart? It should. My dogs are still hiding behind the couch and my wife still wont talk to me.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-dastardly-quit-with-the-ignorance/509389/16 "2009-09-10T01:11:57Z")
You might be able to get some federal cash if you can have your home declared a superfund site: [http://www.epa.gov/superfund/](http://www.epa.gov/superfund/)