# Do you have to be offended by personal insults for them to count **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 10, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229 "2010-07-10T17:16:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/181 "2010-07-13T23:35:40Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Which would be to report the post to the moderators and let them handle it, or at least ask them for advice on how _you_ should handle it. > Right? No. Because I did exactly that when you were a moderator, and you not only blew me off without even bothering to look at the merits of the complaint, you were thoroughly rude and unprofessional about it. With that as the standard of moderator assistance, why would I bother? My only options are to just take it, or to pit the provocateur. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/182 "2010-07-14T00:16:12Z")
This thread just got 10x better ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/183 "2010-07-14T00:28:40Z")
Hmmm. Perhaps \*\*Moonpants Joe \*\* has sent us a karmic signal? I suspect **Czarcasm** and I would be in full agreement on what should happen in the immediate future considering that contribution. What about it, **Czar**? Wanna dance? Hammer Time! Can’t touch this! dadadada–dada-dada Can’t touch this! ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/184 "2010-07-14T00:51:57Z")
[Crazy raving of now-banned poster was previously quoted here–Gfactor] And now for something completely different . . . ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/185 "2010-07-14T01:02:07Z")
I KNEW IT! i ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/186 "2010-07-14T01:19:43Z")
What on earth is this all about? ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/187 "2010-07-14T01:49:23Z")
Hard to believe that would happen in a town like [Cleveland](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM) ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/188 "2010-07-14T01:53:53Z")
[LOL](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxhusYmn5oo) ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/189 "2010-07-14T02:06:04Z")
Hmmm…that post got wished to the cornfield, so I’m guessing Socko McSockitty. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/190 "2010-07-14T02:06:57Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Hard to believe that would happen in a town like [Cleveland](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM) Oh christ I laughed myself stupider watching that. > [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > [LOL](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxhusYmn5oo) Lord have mercy. This guy has got to be on several lists if our law enforcement system is working at all properly. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/191 "2010-07-14T02:10:38Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Hmmm…that post got wished to the cornfield, so I’m guessing Socko McSockitty. To be clear. I’ve deleted one post for the usual reasons. **Gfactor** Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/192 "2010-07-14T02:10:58Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Lord have mercy. This guy has got to be on several lists if our law enforcement system is working at all properly. I only watched the first 2 minutes of it when I made that link. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/193 "2010-07-14T02:21:09Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > I only watched the first 2 minutes of it when I made that link. Yeah, it was pretty funny at first, but then its time for “Kindergarten Orgasm Song” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/194 "2010-07-14T20:28:58Z")
> [@Gfactor](#): > > To be clear. I’ve deleted one post for the usual reasons. > > **Gfactor** > Administrator And now, the tail end of this thread makes about as much sense as Fidel Castro banning the export of Cuban cigars! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229/195 "2010-07-14T20:54:59Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > And now, the tail end of this thread makes about as much sense as Fidel Castro banning the export of Cuban cigars! ☹ You really didn’t miss anything. It was only a couple lines of garbage. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-to-be-offended-by-personal-insults-for-them-to-count/546229.md?page=9)