# Everyone should know what an asshole Budget Player Cadet is **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 13, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027 "2014-04-13T18:22:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**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:** [April 21, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/281 "2014-04-21T15:49:23Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Geez, project much? I find it hard to see his silly little affectation as insulting to anyone, except possibly himself and even then only in the sense of making him look like the kind of person who compulsively uses silly little affectations. [He’s explicitly said he sometimes means it insultingly:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10503085&postcount=13) > [@Re: Regards, Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-regards-shodan/474699/13): > > The sign off is part of it. Sometimes it means exactly what it says, Sometimes it means “Fuck you”. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/282 "2014-04-21T16:02:57Z")
Don’t you recognize post-modernist irony when you see it? ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/283 "2014-04-21T16:21:10Z")
Best thread ever. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/284 "2014-04-21T16:35:33Z")
Well, serves me right for offering the benefit of the doubt. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/285 "2014-04-21T16:52:25Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, serves me right for offering the benefit of the doubt. He also lies about having said that, or tries to pretend he didn’t (as he just did a few posts up). ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/286 "2014-04-21T17:00:07Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Geez, project much? I find it hard to see his silly little affectation as insulting to anyone, except possibly himself and even then only in the sense of making him look like the kind of person who compulsively uses silly little affectations. I come from a place where painstaking, obsequious politeness means “fuck you and everyone looks like you”. It’s cool, because when anyone calls you up on your shit you can go “Who, \*moi \*? But I’ve only been nice all along, and no one can say different”. Further, there have been god fuck knows how many threads where irritated posters have asked, told, intimated, pleaded at him to cut the shit because it annoys the piss out of them. His reply has always been “No. Regards, Shodan”. If that’s not an explicit “fuck all o’ y’all” and plain jerk behaviour, I don’t know what is. He can imply “fuck you” all he wants. I’ll plainly state that I wish \*\*Shodan \*\*would spend the rest of his days being pelted with LEGO bricks. For the sig line alone, if his toxic style wasn’t enough of a reason to wish him to go fuck an echidnae. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/287 "2014-04-21T17:02:20Z")
Careful, that might seem like wishing harm. Better make it Duplo. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/288 "2014-04-21T17:06:59Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > He also lies about having said that, or tries to pretend he didn’t (as he just did a few posts up). I wouldn’t call that lying. The claim was that he insulted “everyone”, “in every post”, but what he said is that he “sometimes” does that and presumably it’s an insult only to the person he is responding to. Still, a jerkish thing to do, but not what was claimed by **Kobal2**. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/289 "2014-04-21T17:08:32Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I come from a place where painstaking, obsequious politeness means “fuck you and everyone looks like you”. I’m sorry you feel that way, and wish you well in the future. Regards, Shodan PS - I don’t think everyone looks like you. I’ve never even met you! ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/290 "2014-04-21T17:22:53Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I come from a place where painstaking, obsequious politeness means “fuck you and everyone looks like you”. I’m not from the south, so a Southerner had to explain to me that saying “Well, bless her heart” can be roughly translated as “Fuck that bitch.” ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/291 "2014-04-21T17:25:25Z")
All these people bringing up something **Shodan** said in an unrelated thread six years ago better watch out. Word is the mods don’t take kindly to popping into threads on totally unrelated topics to make personal remarks like that. It’s stalking behavior and probably will result in warnings. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/292 "2014-04-21T17:36:55Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I wouldn’t call that lying. When I said “he lies about it” I was referring to this post: > [@What is trolling?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-trolling/544298/258): > > PS - Bullshit. I started a thread asking, in general, if people found it irritating, and the consensus was that most didn’t care one way or the other. At one point, there was a ruling that it should be only done in a sig file, which I compiled with. Then there was an official ruling that signing your posts was OK. Yes, I know **pseudo whatever the fuck it is** kept claiming for a while that it was done to say “Fuck you” but he was making that up too. When I said “he tries to pretend he didn’t” I was referring to his post in this thread, which was disingenuous at best. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/293 "2014-04-21T17:52:09Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I’m sorry you feel that way, and wish you well in the future. > > Regards, > Shodan > > PS - I don’t think everyone looks like you. I’ve never even met you! _pat, pat_ Whosacleverboy ? Yousacleverboy ! Here, troll, fetch ! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/294 "2014-04-21T17:54:25Z")
> [@Debaser](#): > > I’m not from the south, so a Southerner had to explain to me that saying “Well, bless her heart” can be roughly translated as “Fuck that bitch.” Well, sometimes it just means “What are you gonna do, she’s dumber than a sack of hammers”. But yeah, that’s the kind of thing I’m talking about. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/295 "2014-04-21T18:02:46Z")
If we put him on our ignore list can we have “Disregards Shodan” as our sig? ---
**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:** [April 21, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/296 "2014-04-21T18:12:07Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I come from a place where painstaking, obsequious politeness means “fuck you and everyone looks like you”. It’s cool, because when anyone calls you up on your shit you can go “Who, \*moi \*? But I’ve only been nice all along, and no one can say different”. > > Further, there have been god fuck knows how many threads where irritated posters have asked, told, intimated, pleaded at him to cut the shit because it annoys the piss out of them. His reply has always been “No. Regards, Shodan”. If that’s not an explicit “fuck all o’ y’all” and plain jerk behaviour, I don’t know what is. > > He can imply “fuck you” all he wants. I’ll plainly state that I wish \*\*Shodan \*\*would spend the rest of his days being pelted with LEGO bricks. For the sig line alone, if his toxic style wasn’t enough of a reason to wish him to go fuck an echidnae. As the saying goes: You can change the world or you can change yourself. If something someone else does bugs you, especially some anonymous person on a MB, then you should learn to not be annoyed. It’s just a bunch of electrons. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/297 "2014-04-21T18:25:26Z")
I’m not annoyed by him in the least. For the good reason that I don’t see his posts. Once in a while I look at one, and then I remember why I don’t. Or I get warnings upon pointing out his intellectually dishonest bait 🙂 Long story short, I NO MAD, bro. Not that it would invalidate any thing I said. And I didn’t say it in a “ban \*\*Shodan \*\*now FFS AAAAAGH !” sense, either - I merely brought it up as a counterpoint to the whole “right wingers get banned, left wingers can be cunts all they want” persecution shtick that was going on ITT. Which is ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/298 "2014-04-21T18:46:26Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > As the saying goes: You can change the world or you can change yourself. If something someone else does bugs you, especially some anonymous person on a MB, then you should learn to not be annoyed. It’s just a bunch of electrons. No, no, no… The old saying goes “If someone likes to make antisemitic insults and stealth brags about fucking developmentally disabled fourteen year old girls and post it anonymously on a MB, then you should learn not be be annoyed. It’st just a bunch of electrons.” My grandfather used to tell me that all the time when I was a wee lad. He always was wrong about everything. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/299 "2014-04-21T18:54:43Z")
> [@Debaser](#): > > He always was wrong about everything. The seed is strong. ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027/300 "2014-04-21T19:04:36Z")
Hey, I remember you! You’re the guy who’s first post to this thread was saying that it’s only the “older posters” who disapprove of calling Jews vermin and that it was “like the same thing” as Lenny Bruce having a potty mouth. That’s quite a glass house your living in! I’ll repeat what **John Mace** responded… Humor needs to be funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-know-what-an-asshole-budget-player-cadet-is/686027.md?page=16)