# Do we have a thread for SlackerInc yet? Maybe we should **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461 "2018-12-02T20:21:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 46
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/903 "2020-09-12T00:11:26Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > as I had to mind my _animae dīmidium meae_ requests to cuddle and more Point, set, match **@GIGObuster**. I sit at your feet, learning. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/904 "2020-09-12T03:50:14Z")
No saccharine allowed in the Pit, c’mon. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/905 "2020-09-12T09:23:25Z")
Sunny is correct. And your translation sucked. You removed all of the “Poetry” and made it boring. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/906 "2020-09-12T13:36:12Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Mmmhmm. 🙄 Think what you like, but the reality is that yes, what I _choose_ to do is _stay off the board_ for about half the week. Which means I didn’t _see_ any of those comments you imagine I was “thinking up responses” to, until I returned to the board Wednesday evening. Sure, buddy. See you “next week” 😉 . ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/907 "2020-09-12T18:29:15Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > No saccharine allowed in the Pit, c’mon. Gotcha! **Slinc**. That would be ‘slink’ as in ‘slither’ as in “lower than a snake’s belly”. Envy does not become you, but then, so little does. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/908 "2020-09-13T04:29:57Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Sure, buddy. See you “next week” 😉 . Yup, my first post of the week will be a reminder on the poker thread late Wednesday afternoon about the game that evening. Just like it is every. single. week. There for anyone to see. Not sure why you’re doubling down on this! > [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > And your translation sucked. You removed all of the “Poetry” and made it boring. What you’re calling “poetry” is odd-sounding wording from an overly literal translation. The language does not sound affected in the original French, so you’re getting attached to something that’s not actually there, like a pigeon in a Skinner box. > [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Envy does not become you, but then, so little does. Envy of…? BTW, **GIGO** , you should be implicitly insulted by the patronizing way people shower praise on you, even in the Pit. That’s what people do when they think someone is “special” and are trying to overcompensate for a perception that the shortbus-rider is being unfairly picked on. (Which, FTR, I consider an unfairly unflattering underestimate of your cognitive capacity. You’re just a garden variety dumbass, not actually a person with an intellectual disability.) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/909 "2020-09-13T04:39:21Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > BTW, **GIGO** , you should be implicitly insulted by the patronizing way people shower praise on you, even in the Pit. That’s what people do when they think someone is “special” and are trying to overcompensate for a perception that the shortbus-rider is being unfairly picked on. (Which, FTR, I consider an unfairly unflattering underestimate of your cognitive capacity. You’re just a garden variety dumbass, not actually a person with an intellectual disability.) BTW you are an idiot if you think one would miss that you want to insult others while claiming at the same time that you care for them. It is indeed your same mode of operation when you do your concern trolling act when Democrats or other liberals gore your ox. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/910 "2020-09-13T04:55:38Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > BTW you are an idiot if you think one would miss that you want to insult others while claiming at the same time that you care for them. Who did I claim to care for, pray tell? (Okay, _now_ I’m gone. C ya Wednesday.) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/911 "2020-09-13T05:00:23Z")
Well, I see that calling you an idiot does stand. 🙂 As for your reply here, I guess you forget that you said that what they do to me is unfair to me and they underestimate my capacities. IOW, you do care… at least a little. . . . Must be your genes, you keep forgetting things, get help. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/912 "2020-09-13T09:18:35Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > That’s what people do when they think someone is “special” and are trying to overcompensate for a perception that the shortbus-rider is being unfairly picked on. If you think we hesitate to pick on people with obvious mental problems, how do you explain this thread? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/913 "2020-09-13T09:37:01Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > The language does not sound affected in the original French Look, we already know you have no clue about literature, no need to prove it any further. “Poetic” and “affected” are not synoyms, and Proust is indeed poetic in the original, even I can tell that. Something you sucked all the life out of, but Davis retains. And that’s no surprise, given she has a Booker prize for her own writing. But hey, you’ll always have your ACT certificate… ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/914 "2020-09-13T13:15:18Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > But hey, you’ll always have your ACT certificate… More likely a GED. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/915 "2020-09-13T14:03:29Z")
Now, now. That’s not fair. Plenty of good, decent, and intelligent non-racist people with GEDs. #NotAllGEDTakers ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/916 "2020-09-13T18:02:25Z")
You are absolutely right. Thank you for catching that. I should know better. Some of the most articulate and intelligent people I know have GEDs. Re: Slinc’s penultimate educational achievement is no doubt academic suspension at Trump University. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/917 "2020-09-16T20:44:29Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > If you think we hesitate to pick on people with obvious mental problems, how do you explain this thread? :rimshot: Take **Dibble’s** wife, please! Wokka wokka. He’ll be here all week, tip your waitresses, etc. > [@GIGObuster](#): > > As for your reply here, I guess you forget that you said that what they do to me is unfair to me and they underestimate my capacities. IOW, you do care… at least a little. You misunderstand me, sir (not for the first time, nor surely the last). I alerted you to the way others are patronizing you, not out of any motive of kindness, but rather a hope that the knowledge would bring with it the sting of humiliation. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/918 "2020-09-16T20:45:14Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > You misunderstand me, sir (not for the first time, nor surely the last). I alerted you to the way others are patronizing you, not out of any motive of kindness, but rather a hope that the knowledge would bring with it the sting of humiliation. And you failed miserably … as usual. So, yeah, that you are an idiot does stand. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/919 "2020-09-16T20:46:21Z")
So you have no shame? Yeah, I could see that. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/920 "2020-09-16T20:56:47Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > I alerted you to the way others are patronizing you, not out of any motive of kindness, but rather a hope that the knowledge would bring with it the sting of humiliation. 🙂 The irony, it burns. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/921 "2020-09-16T20:57:39Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > So you have no shame? Yeah, I could see that. I don’t think anyone in the thread is ashamed of calling you an idiot. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/922 "2020-09-16T21:07:15Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > :rimshot: Take **Dibble’s** wife, please! Wokka wokka. He’ll be here all week, tip your waitresses, etc. Aah, I see, your clever plan to prove you didn’t spend all “break” thinking of replies is going to be - being utterly devoid of any wit. Well, that’s certainly going to show me… …well, it would, if it wasn’t indistinguishable from your _usual_ lack of anything resembling wit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461.md?page=47)