# Dumb-Ass on another thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 24, 2015, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241 "2015-12-24T05:35:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/41 "2015-12-24T21:21:13Z")
> [@HawaiianBeachBoy\_1959](#): > > Know-it-alls in and of themselves don’t piss me off. I deal with them on a daily basis. Know-it-alls who insult me like that fellow did? Those piss me off quite a bit. I have an immense respect for the cultures that make Honolulu unique, and the vibrant mix of people who, in my eyes, aren’t Japanese or Chinamen or Polynesians, but simply Honolulans. (That’s what a resident of Honolulu is called) > > Again, I could have handled the insult a lot better than I did. You made a list of Western artists. Exapno made an incorrect assumption. You decided that amounted to an insult. You won’t do well here if your skin is that thin. We have a number of posters who take joy in demonstrating their superiority through their posts. It occasionally irks me but then I realize what sad little lives they must have and try to bring them some joy through my own irrational behavior. ---
**Author:** ![HawaiianBeachBoy\_1959](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58956e/32.png) [@HawaiianBeachBoy\_1959](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HawaiianBeachBoy_1959)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/42 "2015-12-24T21:49:02Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > You made a list of Western artists. Exapno made an incorrect assumption. You decided that amounted to an insult. You won’t do well here if your skin is that thin. We have a number of posters who take joy in demonstrating their superiority through their posts. It occasionally irks me but then I realize what sad little lives they must have and try to bring them some joy through my own irrational behavior. Well…There’s also a poll that I put on that thread, and ten cities/vicinities that users could vote on if they had to pick a city to replicate the huge conglomeration of artistic talents in Paris after WWI. They were: Vancouver, Seattle, Miami/Other in Florida, Honolulu/Other in Hawaii, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Tokyo, Melbourne/Sydney, Bahamas/Caribbean. THAT list was where his “biased Westerner” comment came from. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/43 "2015-12-24T22:00:42Z")
Well, some of my best friends are brown. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/44 "2015-12-24T22:01:26Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > A two-day member. That must be the fastest anyone’s made it to my Ignore list. Banned by Boxing Day would be my guess. We just can’t get quality socks/trolls these days. I blame off-shoring. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/45 "2015-12-24T22:16:43Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Banned by Boxing Day would be my guess. > > We just can’t get quality socks/trolls these days. I blame off-shoring. \*Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale A tale of a blowhard twit That started posting on this board About some artists’ riches His arguments were fucking sad They stank of old manure The dopers thought he’d go away In three hours more In three hours more \* ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/46 "2015-12-24T22:20:15Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Psssssttttttttt… > > _Join Date > 12-23-2015 > Total Posts > 23_ > > Week? Damn, I was actually giving him the benefit of the doubt, but it’s worse than I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/47 "2015-12-24T22:58:17Z")
> [@HawaiianBeachBoy\_1959](#): > > I am a regular at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie, [slight hijack] So, is the coffee they serve there as good as they say…? 😉 [/slight hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/48 "2015-12-25T01:09:29Z")
> [@HawaiianBeachBoy\_1959](#): > > Know-it-alls in and of themselves don’t piss me off. You mean know-it-alls _qua_ know-it-alls? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/49 "2015-12-25T02:01:08Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > [slight hijack] So, is the coffee they serve there as good as they say…? 😉 [/slight hijack] It’s not as good as the coffee at the King Kamehameha Club. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/50 "2015-12-25T02:34:10Z")
> [@HawaiianBeachBoy\_1959](#): > > I am not the kind of **man** who just randomly throws people in the Pit. You have to offend against me to earn such a fate. > [@HawaiianBeachBoy\_1959](#): > > What angered me so much about that fellow’s post wasn’t that he was being a professional know it all. I certainly wouldn’t put a **man** in here for that. (Otherwise I’d have pitted half this site) > > . . . . > > The way I reacted, though, was wholly unacceptable, and I have to be a **man** and own up to acting like an ass on my FIRST THREAD, no less. > > “It is the measure of a **man** when he can admit to being wrong.” --Abraham Lincoln. > > Well, I am admitting to being wrong and backing out before this gets more ridiculous. How very manly of you. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/51 "2015-12-25T02:37:36Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Banned by Boxing Day would be my guess. > > We just can’t get quality socks/trolls these days. I blame off-shoring. At least you _have_ socks/trolls…Nah, you know what? Fuck it. That joke has been done to death. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/52 "2015-12-25T02:41:29Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I only opened the thread to see if the topic was me. > > It’s not, apparently. I know, right!?! I thought the exact same thing! I saw the thread title, got a little anxious, and said to myself, "_I bet this is about Bryan Ekers."_ …just kidding 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/53 "2015-12-25T02:48:29Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Banned by Boxing Day would be my guess. > > We just can’t get quality socks/trolls these days. I blame off-shoring. Indeed. Maybe we should also start a pool as to which banned poster he’s the sock of. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/54 "2015-12-25T02:57:59Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > You made a list of Western artists. Exapno made an incorrect assumption. You decided that amounted to an insult. You won’t do well here if your skin is that thin. Which is exactly why he didn’t do well here the first time around! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/55 "2015-12-25T04:09:49Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Banned by Boxing Day would be my guess. > > We just can’t get quality socks/trolls these days. I blame off-shoring. See, this is why we need a Box. Then every day can be Boxing Day. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/56 "2015-12-25T04:27:08Z")
> [@HawaiianBeachBoy\_1959](#): > > Know-it-alls in and of themselves don’t piss me off. I deal with them on a daily basis. Know-it-alls who insult me like that fellow did? Those piss me off quite a bit. I have an immense respect for the cultures that make Honolulu unique, and the vibrant mix of people who, in my eyes, aren’t Japanese or Chinamen or Polynesians, but simply Honolulans. (That’s what a resident of Honolulu is called) > > Again, I could have handled the insult a lot better than I did. “Chinamen?” are you from 1936 or something? ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/57 "2015-12-25T04:37:56Z")
As a member of the Algonquin Round Table, Exapno should be trusted on the lifestyles of 1920s authors. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/58 "2015-12-25T04:53:54Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > “Chinamen?” > > are you from 1936 or something? Nah. He’s Captain Ed. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/59 "2015-12-25T05:16:20Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Join date Dec. 2015. Someone’s wearing his Christmas socks. And for a lame silly pitting, no less. What a pampered life one must lead for this to get the dander up. First world selfish upper class white people problems. Ammaright? ---
**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:** [December 25, 2015, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241/60 "2015-12-25T05:32:08Z")
> [@HawaiianBeachBoy\_1959](#): > > a pseudo-intellectual college know-it-all Well there’s definitely one of those in this thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-ass-on-another-thread/741241.md?page=4)