# Do you ever think it's not worth casting you pearls before swine? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2005, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224 "2005-11-22T08:29:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/1 "2005-11-22T08:29:53Z")
Ever get an idea for a discussion, or start to compose a contribution to an ongoing discussion, and then think, what the heck!, these guys won’t get it and don’t deserve it? Should there be a separate forum for stuff that’s just too lofty for the average doper? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/2 "2005-11-22T08:50:00Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Should there be a separate forum for stuff that’s just too lofty for the average doper? There already is **roger thornhill** andd we look forward to seeing you there …one day. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/3 "2005-11-22T09:13:56Z")
Trying to spirit me over to the dead, I mean, dark, side, eh? Snarky! ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/4 "2005-11-22T10:07:10Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Should there be a separate forum for stuff that’s just too lofty for the average doper? Not too lofty, but too emotional. I had a thread a while back that I started about five times, but each time tossed it out after saying, “why the fuck would I want to open my heart to these people?” I’d been getting frustrated will how the tone here seemed to be changing, and how a number of people I’d previously had a lot of respect for had really changed for the worse. Anyway, that was when I knew I had to take some time off or I’d have a meltdown, so I let my membership lapse. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2005, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/5 "2005-11-22T11:14:43Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Ever get an idea for a discussion, or start to compose a contribution to an ongoing discussion, and then think, what the heck!, these guys won’t get it and don’t deserve it? > > Should there be a separate forum for stuff that’s just too lofty for the average doper? You been sniffing that rarified atmosphere air again? :dubious: It’s like anything else **RT** , some people will agree, others will disagree, some won’t care and others won’t get it. Meh, just another day on the SDMB boards. Go ahead and cast 'em though. If it makes just one person stop and think, then it’ll have been well worth it. We’re (presumably) fighting ignorance here… this is no time for intellectual snobbery. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/6 "2005-11-22T13:41:05Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Trying to spirit me over to the dead, I mean, dark, side, eh? Snarky! **roger** , you started this thread by basically saying you had a topic of conversation that was just too “lofty” for “the average doper” (whoever _that_ is), and you expected … what? For us to beg you to bestow your great wisdom upon us poor unenlightened souls? In case you don’t get it, your OP essentially insults the entire message board. Somehow I don’t think people are going to take kindly to it. ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/7 "2005-11-22T16:16:07Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > In case you don’t get it, your OP essentially insults the entire message board. Somehow I don’t think people are going to take kindly to it. My name is **AndyPolley** , and I take kindly to this thread. Although, I wonder if you even deserve my response. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/8 "2005-11-22T16:24:54Z")
Well, then **AndyPolley** , I am obviously missing **roger** ’s joke. Please explain it to me. > [@AndyPolley](#): > > I wonder if you even deserve my response. While you’re at it, please explain this joke, too. See, to my ears, this sounds like you are saying you are too good to talk to me, which sounds like an insult. Since we are in MPSIMS, I must be mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/9 "2005-11-22T17:25:50Z")
Explaining the sublime & subtle wit of **roger thornhill** would only serve to dilute it, and that is not something I am interested in doing. 😉 I’m also not interested in insulting other Dopers so I will offer an apology to you. I meant no insult or disrespect with my post. I was merely weighing in with an un-insulted opinion. You said, in a way that had a hint of confrontation to it: > [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > In case you don’t get it, your OP essentially insults the entire message board. Somehow I don’t think people are going to take kindly to it. I wanted to be one who said, “It didn’t insult me. In fact, I find this thread rather amusing.” So although I disagree with you **PS** , I didn’t mean to insult you. I should have made my post a little more clear. At any rate, since we’re in MPSIMS, perhaps you should have realized that the OP was little more than a mundane and perhaps a little bit pointless question. A question that made a few of us smile. I invite you to cheer up a little. If you’d rather not, why not go Pit **Rog** for his arrogant & insulting tone in this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/10 "2005-11-22T17:35:05Z")
Well then, I must be one of those average dopers that didn’t catch the humor too. The first part of the post seemed to be going in one place, then came this lofty forum business, and it just didn’t seem like a joke. I wouldn’t call it arrogant or insulting though. In any case, if there was a forum of stuff intended to be too lofty for the likes of me, I’d probably just be tempted to go in and pollute the waters just to lower the collective loftiness of the place. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/11 "2005-11-22T20:35:04Z")
Oink, baby. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/12 "2005-11-22T20:42:39Z")
I think **roger** ’s right. Clearly his thinking is a lot loftier than mine is. At least, I’m assuming that’s why I can never figure out exactly what it is he is talking about… ---
**Author:** ![groman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@groman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groman)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/13 "2005-11-22T20:47:06Z")
Look, we all have to operate under the assumption that a lot of dopers are smarter than us and a lot of dopers are dumber, for we have no way of ascertaining if that is not the case. There’s so many of us, that for any subject you might wish to discuss there will be people a lot less informed and a lot more informed than you are. Every time you post to dope you have to decide if dealing with the ignorant and the dumb is worth the gems that might come from the informed and the brilliant. Sometimes, the subject is such that you feel it is more likely to attract dumbass attacks instead of reasonable discourse, and … well what the OP said. Pretending there are no stupid dopers is kind of silly. Hell, if you insist no doper is stupid, I will try to be even dumber…-er just on principle! I don’t know if that’s possible, but I can try, damn it! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/14 "2005-11-22T20:57:11Z")
> [@don't ask](#): > > There already is **roger thornhill** andd we look forward to seeing you there …one day. Shuuuuut uuuup… \ ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/15 "2005-11-22T21:04:47Z")
> [@don't ask](#): > > There already is **roger thornhill** andd we look forward to seeing you there …one day. (slaps forehead) Oh, you meant the **secret** forum! Whooosh! Boy, I missed that one! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/16 "2005-11-22T21:27:26Z")
Constantly. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/17 "2005-11-22T21:35:52Z")
Plenty of lofty threads here. Remember the one about the best way to loft a goat? ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/18 "2005-11-22T21:39:54Z")
> [@AndyPolley](#): > > Explaining the sublime & subtle wit of **roger thornhill** would only serve to dilute it, and that is not something I am interested in doing. 😉 Agreed. I certainly don’t always understand his wit, but I like him and think this place is better because he’s around. Other than that, my response to the OP is just what **groman** said. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/19 "2005-11-22T21:43:50Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Ever get an idea for a discussion, or start to compose a contribution to an ongoing discussion, and then think, what the heck!, these guys won’t get it and don’t deserve it? > > Should there be a separate forum for stuff that’s just too lofty for the average doper? Could you say that again without all the big words and such? ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224/20 "2005-11-23T01:26:08Z")
> [@AndyPolley](#): > > I wonder if you even deserve my response. You swine! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-think-its-not-worth-casting-you-pearls-before-swine/332224.md?page=2)