# 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:** 50
**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 19, 2020, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/983 "2020-09-19T09:45:43Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > It blows my mind that any of you are into LOLing over memes within literally minutes after the announcement that RBG has died. Ha ha ha! Hiding behind _that_? Clearly the memes hit their mark in a way words never could. Of course, we knew you were verbally challenged, given your own “writing”, but that about seals it. Obviously only pictures get through - that’s triple-9 brains for you. Also, as pointed out, the Notorious RBG had a sense of humour (unlike you), so she’d no doubt have lolled too. > [@SlackerInc](#): > > I have no idea what you’re talking about with the fourteen year old thing, and I’m not out to research your uncited and bogus-sounding claim. We’ve already established your memory of your own posts is more full of holes than a fine Emmentaler, you don’t have to keep it reminding us. But because I do pity you, and you claim to be so smart, I’ll try and jog your memory - The king of _which_ country died 3 weeks ago? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/984 "2020-09-19T13:02:26Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > It blows my mind that any of you are into LOLing over memes within literally minutes after the announcement that RBG has died. Jesus. I can see you’re overwrought at the tragic loss of a beloved iconic public figure. Consider fucking off the internet and grieving privately so you don’t risk coming across as your usual shameless attention whore. ---
**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 19, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/985 "2020-09-19T16:52:10Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > It blows my mind that any of you are into LOLing over memes within literally minutes after the announcement that RBG has died. Jesus. It blows my mind that despite your deep grief over the news, within minutes you came running to this thread to see what people were saying about _you_. If you are so upset, _what the fuck are you doing reading this thread?_ Once again, you show a lack of self-awareness that boggles the mind. ---
**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 19, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/986 "2020-09-19T21:23:06Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Clearly the memes hit their mark in a way words never could. I figured you’d try to claim that. The reality is that I was genuinely disgusted to see that in the immediate wake of her death, and would not have reacted that way had it been an hour or two earlier. I might have even given non-sarcastic credit for a “sick burn”, something you’ll see I have been willing to do many times if you search. Memes certainly beat the weaksauce variations on “I know you are, but what am I” you guys have been serving up lately. It was just a shockingly inappropriate moment for it. I have a great sense of humor, BTW. You guys should come play poker on Wednesday or Friday nights and join the Discord chat–you’ll see. I’m actually a very pleasant, engaging kind of person to talk to, hard as you may find it to believe in this medium. (I guess “the king of which country died three weeks ago” is some kind of pun or something? I haven’t heard anything about it, and the most recent king dying per Google is the king of Thailand in 2016. So…whatever.) > [@Colibri](#): > > If you are so upset, _what the fuck are you doing reading this thread?_ Srsly? I just always clear all my notifications from the icon on the upper right, as soon as they appear, whenever I have the site open. Same as I do on Facebook and Twitter (or Messenger for that matter). Is that not what everyone does? I guess I am slightly OCD or something, as it would bug the shit out of me to just leave them there. ---
**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 19, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/987 "2020-09-19T21:39:06Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Srsly? I just always clear all my notifications from the icon on the upper right, as soon as they appear, whenever I have the site open. Same as I do on Facebook and Twitter (or Messenger for that matter). Is that not what everyone does? I guess I am slightly OCD or something, as it would bug the shit out of me to just leave them there. You don’t have to post to clear the notifications. And I notice that you were so dreadfully upset that you immediately began a game of poker, which you thought was super fun! What hypocrisy. > [@Come join the Memeing Tillions poker club!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/161): > > That was super fun! GG, Mental Guy: I accidentally closed the window too quickly to say it at the table. We ended up with five players, and three people had to wait while two of us played a kind of “play-in game” like you see right before the NCAA hoops tourney begins. So I had to win three matches to take down the tourney, and in all three I was down 2-1 or worse at one point or another and had to fight my way off the ropes. Then at the end I had MG on the ropes for a long long time but he … ---
**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 19, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/988 "2020-09-19T21:55:13Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I notice that you were so dreadfully upset that you immediately began a game of poker That game was scheduled days in advance. I’m the host/emcee of the poker club (which occurred because of the inspiration in this thread–thanks for that, to whomever that was), so I have to be there, and keep the enthusiasm going. ---
**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 19, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/989 "2020-09-19T22:03:26Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > That game was scheduled days in advance. I’m the host/emcee of the poker club (which occurred because of the inspiration in this thread–thanks for that, to whomever that was), so I have to be there, and keep the enthusiasm going. You were recruiting players for the game _immediately after_ you posted here criticizing people for making fun of you. And if you were able to have some much fun despite being so horribly upset, why shouldn’t others have fun insulting you? Total hypocrisy. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/990 "2020-09-19T22:26:48Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > I have a great sense of humor, BTW. Another for the Office? Maybe this would fit a stern looking Angela. ---
**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 19, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/991 "2020-09-19T22:32:22Z")
I was already working on it! With a lead-in quote: [![](https://i.imgflip.com/4fl1t9.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/4fl1t9.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/992 "2020-09-19T22:33:44Z")
Great! I can just imagine RBG’s hearty laugh! ---
**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 19, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/993 "2020-09-19T22:39:24Z")
Unfortunately, in that first quote, **Slack** is advocating (or at lesson condoning) violent police reaction against unarmed protesters and criminal suspects who _might_ be armed. (With knives). So I think RBG would be pretty upset. To be fair. ETA: > [@Controversial encounters between law-enforcement and civilians - the omnibus thread #2](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread-2/912531/254): > > [Per the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2020/08/26/jacob-blake-had-knife-car-but-otherwise-unarmed-tased-kenosha-officer-rusten-sheskey-shot-in-back/5639429002/) Officers tried to arrest Blake. One of the officers deployed a Taser to try to stop him, but it did not work.[…] Blake had a knife on the driver’s side floorboard and had no other weapons, the DOJ said in a news release. I’m going to bet that, like the vast majority of people, you don’t have the slightest clue how big “knife range” [actually is.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js0haocH4-o) And let’s get this straight: you are saying that someone who resisted arrest, shrugged off a taser, and wrestl… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/994 "2020-09-20T00:21:12Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You were recruiting players for the game _immediately after_ you posted here criticizing people for making fun of you. And if you were able to have some much fun despite being so horribly upset, why shouldn’t others have fun insulting you? Total hypocrisy. I noticed this too and was going to call him out on it as well. “How dare you have any fun when someone so important just died?” “Hey, let’s have some fun with poker tonight!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/995 "2020-09-20T00:35:47Z")
Guys, he has a **responsibility** to play poker. Lay off. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/996 "2020-09-20T00:36:09Z")
You don’t get it. As the organizer, there is no possible way he could have suggested to everyone that under the circumstances the game should be postponed on account of such a tragic loss. The game must go on! ---
**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 20, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/997 "2020-09-20T02:37:05Z")
Oh man, you had a truly brilliant one going here (the quote on top is _perfect_ for Dwight, or Gareth as I still think of him), but then you blew it by muddying it up with something unrelated on the bottom. That’s a shame. “Leon Lett!” ---
**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 20, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/998 "2020-09-20T03:17:18Z")
^And there’s the punchline, folks. Guy who has a self-proclaimed “great sense of humor,” doesn’t. Although perhaps the joke falls flat for him because he doesn’t “get” how the first statement clashes with the second. The kind of contradiction, whether in tone or in substance, that made Dwight Schrute hilarious to an outside observer even as he must have been a true horror to work with. As a fictional character. But alas, I fear **Slack** is quite real, and already such a non-presence that he could hardly be “cancelled.” Analogous, on a moral level, rather than financial level, to what the personal injury lawyers call “judgement proof.” ---
**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 20, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/999 "2020-09-20T03:23:46Z")
No dude, that was _your_ fail. You “put a hat on a hat”. You made it “too busy”, in artistic terms. ---
**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 20, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1000 "2020-09-20T03:26:22Z")
Sixteen year olds, dude. Fucking children. ---
**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 20, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1001 "2020-09-20T03:26:54Z")
Not children. Postpubescent, nubile chicas. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1002 "2020-09-20T03:33:48Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Not children. Postpubescent, nubile chicas. Another one! Creed, probably. Or maybe Kevin? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461.md?page=49) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461.md?page=51)