I’d rather know about the stains on the mattress.
Seriously – why hasn’t this guy been banned? Is there any signficant difference between being a total jackass and being a jerk?
On further reflection, I have decided that diggleblop’s questions aren’t bad questions, necessarily. What they are is “Why, Mommy?” questions. They remind me of the kind of things a young child asks, when he’s going through the phase where the world is new to him and he’s looking around at everything and trying to make sense of it all, and he wonders aloud without stopping to worry about how appropriate or answerable his question is.
“Why is the sky blue? How come birds can fly but monkeys can’t? Why is that man’s skin a different color from mine? Why is that dog on top of that other dog? Why do my boogers taste salty? Why, Mommy, why?”
The fact that he admittedly doesn’t stick around for more than the first response or two suggests that, also like a child in the “Why, Mommy?” phase, he just wants an answer, not necessarily a detailed or nuanced or correct answer. An explanation in the form of a fable or just-so story would do him just fine.
“Mommy, why are you noisier than Daddy when you have sex?”
And he doesn’t seem to notice that there is a difference between a “pattern of behavior” and an occassional stupid post or question.
Which is why my answer to pool would be, no, it isn’t that bad, as long as you were thinking of putting your question in either IMHO or MPSIMS, not GQ.
One need not post every question that comes into your head, but sometimes even stupid questions can lead to interesting disscussions.
My favorite example of that–long predating diggleblop–was a poster who asked whether the red white and green lights on airplanes had anything to do with the colors of Italy’s flag. (Short answer: No. Longer answer involved a fascinating description from several pilots of just what makers of various planes have done to accommodate the need for these lights on planes and helicopters of various sizes).
Hoo boy. Now he wants to be a homicide dick.
Yes, it’s easy, but…
At least he’s got the dick part down.
The annoying questions worked for Columbo, and he was a successful detective.
Columbo understood forensics, alibis and motive.
No doubt Diggleblop would be asking:
“Why is that man looking at the body? Why does he have gloves on?”
“Why does it matter if nobody saw you there?”
“Would being a jackass be motive to kill someone?”
Yeah, but did Columbo get bored after the first two or three sources and then move on to something else?
On the upside of things, a couple more threads like this one might eventually affect a positive change.
Solidarity folks!