# Did I ever tell you about the time mswas met Obama? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 25, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577 "2009-08-25T00:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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:** [August 26, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/181 "2009-08-26T02:16:23Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I haven’t slept well for years now and I now keep a Ginsu knife under the pillow. Well, heck, if all you need is something sharper then an mswas, just get a spatula. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/182 "2009-08-26T02:26:52Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, heck, if all you need is something sharper then an mswas, just get a spatula. So you guys gonna be at the hatecrush meeting later? Man I really hate him, but it’s like… like I just wanna dry-hump him, you know? I guess I just have this thing for irrational cowards. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/183 "2009-08-26T03:08:58Z")
Wow you guys are STILL sucking my dick. Dayum. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/184 "2009-08-26T03:10:01Z")
Your dick’s not here to be sucked - it went whining to ATMB. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/185 "2009-08-26T03:13:20Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Your dick’s not here to be sucked - it went whining to ATMB. Oh yeah, just like that. That’s right, right there. While I was there I noticed that I am not your only hatecrush, that this is sort of just something that you do. I’m glad to hear it. It makes me feel better, it’s less creepy that way. Your obsession is the pathology and not me in particular. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2009, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/186 "2009-08-26T03:22:28Z")
Then leave the thread, if you can, and let me fester in what you claim is my own hatred. You’re just this week’s yarn-ball, to be batted about until something more amusing comes along. I’ll admit, your current behaviour is so very very yarny, and the batting will likely prove irresistible while it persists, at least through the next few days. Though if you do say something clever, as you almost did with the “Rifftrax” thing, I’ll again pause to acknowledge it. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/187 "2009-08-26T03:30:00Z")
By the way, if any OED researchers wander by, “yarny” means “tends to be self-snarling”. Be sure to spell my name correctly in the attribution. What am I saying, dictionary guys always spell correctly. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/188 "2009-08-26T03:33:32Z")
It’s my thread though. Why should I leave it? ---
**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:** [August 26, 2009, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/189 "2009-08-26T03:47:15Z")
Well, putting aside the issue of whose thread it is (assuming it’s actually anyone’s), I have to figure you’re free to stay or go as you choose. However, if you express the opinions that the thread is useless and ridiculous (it is, of course) _and_ that it’s full of hateful people who are beneath you, _yet you persist in staying_, well… that’s as yarny as yarny gets. …bat…bat…bat…purr… ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/190 "2009-08-26T07:55:53Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > You’re missing the fucking point man. > > […] > > Yeah, I used to have your attitude but I evolved. Do you honestly not see this? **begbert2** offered a reasoned and very polite argument that you have a tendency to hide behind attacks against your opponents intellectual capabilities while at the same time constantly pointing out your own superiority. You then rebut him by attacking his intellectual capabilities and pointing out your own superiority. Hell, even in the most recent [True Blood](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=529225) thread you couldn’t help but not-so-subtly allude to your eminence. There’s a bit of a pattern there, honestly. And you’re not humbly accepting the blame for some misunderstanding if you point to your ‘writing deficiencies’; you’re saying (and I don’t know, maybe even believing) that we’d surely have to be convinced of your awesomeness if only you’d manage to get it across right. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/191 "2009-08-26T12:12:01Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > I must confess I am a bit amused by all the smug accusations of smugness going around on these boards. He said smugly. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/192 "2009-08-26T12:29:52Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > Do you honestly not see this? **begbert2** offered a reasoned and very polite argument that you have a tendency to hide behind attacks against your opponents intellectual capabilities while at the same time constantly pointing out your own superiority. You then rebut him by attacking his intellectual capabilities and pointing out your own superiority. Hell, even in the most recent [True Blood](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=529225) thread you couldn’t help but not-so-subtly allude to your eminence. There’s a bit of a pattern there, honestly. And you’re not humbly accepting the blame for some misunderstanding if you point to your ‘writing deficiencies’; you’re saying (and I don’t know, maybe even believing) that we’d surely have to be convinced of your awesomeness if only you’d manage to get it across right. Come on, you can’t really be this dumb can you? Man if only you were as smart as me you would understand that I am not going to take a single thing that is said in this thread seriously by one iota. While we’re at it, you might get to the point where you realize I am being accused of the same by people who do it too. 😉 But nah, why let reality intrude, we’re pretending to have the moral highground here! Don’t you understand mswas? How can you be so stupid mswas? If only you were as smart as us mswas you’d see these things? I miss the putz smiley. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/193 "2009-08-26T12:38:05Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, putting aside the issue of whose thread it is (assuming it’s actually anyone’s), I have to figure you’re free to stay or go as you choose. However, if you express the opinions that the thread is useless and ridiculous (it is, of course) _and_ that it’s full of hateful people who are beneath you, _yet you persist in staying_, well… that’s as yarny as yarny gets. > …bat…bat…bat…purr… Yes, that’s about it. The thread is a ball of yarn to bat around. That’s pretty much it. I don’t understand why that’s so difficult for people to comprehend. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/194 "2009-08-26T12:44:43Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Come on, you can’t really be this dumb can you? > > Man if only you were as smart as me you would understand that I am not going to take a single thing that is said in this thread seriously by one iota. > > While we’re at it, you might get to the point where you realize I am being accused of the same by people who do it too. 😉 > > But nah, why let reality intrude, we’re pretending to have the moral highground here! > > Don’t you understand mswas? How can you be so stupid mswas? If only you were as smart as us mswas you’d see these things? > > I miss the putz smiley. Whatever, dude. The thing is just that you’re seen as a pathetic douchebag by just about every poster to this thread – seems like there has yet anybody to speak up in your defence – which is pretty much due to you behaving like a pathetic douchebag. Thing is, nobody cares why you do it – if you just want to get a rise out of people, share in-jokes with yourself, or if you’ve got confidence issues because you never could get your daddy to appreciate you properly, or whatever the latest pseudo-psych du jour is. Those things don’t carry over well in a purely textual medium. What people see is somebody hiding behind a giant, inflated self-image compulsively denigrating anybody and anything that even vaguely appears to threaten to burst that bubble. A pathetic douchebag, in other words. If you’re fine with that, well, your call. But it’s usually not everybody else’s fault. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/195 "2009-08-26T14:13:09Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > Whatever, dude. The thing is just that you’re seen as a pathetic douchebag by just about every poster to this thread Interesting how you don’t see much selection bias there. > [@](#): > > – seems like there has yet anybody to speak up in your defence – which is pretty much due to you behaving like a pathetic douchebag. Thing is, nobody cares why you do it – if you just want to get a rise out of people, share in-jokes with yourself, or if you’ve got confidence issues because you never could get your daddy to appreciate you properly, or whatever the latest pseudo-psych du jour is. Those things don’t carry over well in a purely textual medium. What people see is somebody hiding behind a giant, inflated self-image compulsively denigrating anybody and anything that even vaguely appears to threaten to burst that bubble. A pathetic douchebag, in other words. If you’re fine with that, well, your call. But it’s usually not everybody else’s fault. People regularly tell me they get what I am coming from and agree with me. My personal favorite that I’ve been getting regularly lately is. “Even though I usually think you’re an idiot, I totally agree with this.” I don’t compulsively denigrate anyone. I compulsively denigrate only my fellow douchebags. 😉 When I misfire and hit a non-douchebag I usually apologize. If you can give me one example of a person who didn’t get in the mud with me who I compulsively denigrated, I promise to apologize to them. ‘You don’t get it.’ or ‘You aren’t understanding what I am saying.’, or any variation thereof doesn’t count as an insult. This board’s atheists regularly call people insane and act like they have a monopoly on so-called ‘reality’ and yet for some reason that’s not supposed to be considered insulting. But if I say, “That’s not what I said, read it again.”, oh no! How dare mswas be so condescending! For instance, I think you’re a fucking moron now because you called **begbert2** ’s appeals to emotion, ‘well reasoned’. Oh noes, people might call me a coward and compare me to **lekatt**! BFD. Yeah, if you follow the retarded logic of this thread, then I’m going to have to conclude that you’re a retard. ‘Nobody likes you.’ stopped working on me in High School. It’s not true, plenty of people like me, I’ve got hundreds of Facebook friends get invited to far more parties than I could ever attend and have lots of close friendships in real life. So this whole, “A dozen or so people on the intarweb think you’re a doosh-bag.”, shtick doesn’t really have much impact on my self-esteem. You guys don’t represent a chisel on my armor, a light sandpaper at best. None of you really has my best interests at heart, you all have an agenda, you want me to think like you do and it pisses you off that I reflect the same ridicule that you guys hand out in healthy doses. I can’t think of anyone in this thread who has posted more than like twice who isn’t a smarmy fuckhead. Actually you are the one who I can least remember being a fuckhead. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/196 "2009-08-26T14:41:27Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Interesting how you don’t see much selection bias there. Fell, feel free to invite people who you believe will tend to defend you, if it matters. > [@](#): > > ‘Nobody likes you.’ stopped working on me in High School. Just out of curiosity, at what point are you likely to realize that variations on “I’m cumming in your mouth, gay sex, gay sex, gay sex!” don’t work on _us_? I roughly guess you’ve used such lines five to ten times, and I don’t recall it generating a reflexive homophobic rage, or indeed any kind of responsive rage. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/197 "2009-08-26T14:44:38Z")
I don’t think you’re a douchebag, **mswas**. I just think you would have been better served by letting this thread die quietly without response. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/198 "2009-08-26T14:46:15Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Interesting how you don’t see much selection bias there. > > People regularly tell me they get what I am coming from and agree with me. My personal favorite that I’ve been getting regularly lately is. “Even though I usually think you’re an idiot, I totally agree with this.” > > I don’t compulsively denigrate anyone. I compulsively denigrate only my fellow douchebags. 😉 When I misfire and hit a non-douchebag I usually apologize. If you can give me one example of a person who didn’t get in the mud with me who I compulsively denigrated, I promise to apologize to them. ‘You don’t get it.’ or ‘You aren’t understanding what I am saying.’, or any variation thereof doesn’t count as an insult. This board’s atheists regularly call people insane and act like they have a monopoly on so-called ‘reality’ and yet for some reason that’s not supposed to be considered insulting. But if I say, “That’s not what I said, read it again.”, oh no! How dare mswas be so condescending! > > For instance, I think you’re a fucking moron now because you called **begbert2** ’s appeals to emotion, ‘well reasoned’. Oh noes, people might call me a coward and compare me to **lekatt**! BFD. > > Yeah, if you follow the retarded logic of this thread, then I’m going to have to conclude that you’re a retard. ‘Nobody likes you.’ stopped working on me in High School. It’s not true, plenty of people like me, I’ve got hundreds of Facebook friends get invited to far more parties than I could ever attend and have lots of close friendships in real life. So this whole, “A dozen or so people on the intarweb think you’re a doosh-bag.”, shtick doesn’t really have much impact on my self-esteem. You guys don’t represent a chisel on my armor, a light sandpaper at best. > > None of you really has my best interests at heart, you all have an agenda, you want me to think like you do and it pisses you off that I reflect the same ridicule that you guys hand out in healthy doses. I can’t think of anyone in this thread who has posted more than like twice who isn’t a smarmy fuckhead. Actually you are the one who I can least remember being a fuckhead. The trouble is, you are irrational, as you believe in magic with no evidence. And you are a coward, because you’d rather stuff your fingers in your ears than actually justify your childish beliefs. The Lekatt and Kanicbird comparisons are spot on. I wonder, if anyone posted vociferously about bullshit stuff like chi if this board would attack their beliefs? Of course it would, and like I say, it’s easier for you to get hysterical about being oppressed than to back up your claims. Mswas = superstitious coward. But, he says he has a lot of Facebook friends… so we know he’s awesome. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/199 "2009-08-26T14:47:10Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Fell, feel free to invite people who you believe will tend to defend you, if it matters. It doesn’t. > [@](#): > > Just out of curiosity, at what point are you likely to realize that variations on “I’m cumming in your mouth, gay sex, gay sex, gay sex!” don’t work on _us_? I roughly guess you’ve used such lines five to ten times, and I don’t recall it generating a reflexive homophobic rage, or indeed any kind of responsive rage. Work on you? What exactly is it supposed to do? Does it communicate the level of contempt I have for what you are saying adequately? If so then it does it’s job. Unlike you, I don’t expect my juvenile posts to have some huge impact on your psyche. I am posting juvenile posts in response to your juvenalia because it’s fun and cathartic. Why do you keep continuing to think that I am posting FOR YOU? I’m in this thread entirely for me. It’s all about ME ME ME ME ME ME. You get that through your head, and then you’ll understand why I am posting here. You gave me a legitimate forum for my animus. (Can’t wait for one of you shit for brains to post this out of context in another thread as though it’s applicable. Especially since the same people posting here will all nod sagely at one another as though they are sharing a common thread.) You morons should thank me, I am building _asabiya_ for you. Nothing binds the groupthink together like a common enemy. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577/200 "2009-08-26T14:49:40Z")
Ah. Hence my confusion - most people here try to be _clever_ when expressing contempt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time-mswas-met-obama/507577.md?page=11)