# fauxpas, I'm trying to help. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 28, 2002, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345 "2002-12-28T11:04:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/1 "2002-12-28T11:04:10Z")
I’ve watched you turn GD threads into bizarre orgies of horrendous grammar and [questionable career planning](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=152925). [In this thread, for instance, you posed a question nearly unanswerable in its unintelligibility.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=152618) So far, the mods have not seen fit to move it. Fair enough: I suppose it has some qualities of a true General Question. But you aren’t helping. Saying things like: > [@](#): > > Actually Derleth if youd like to go to the pit, fine by me, but im not a social blunder, first of all fax pas is latin for false pass or trail. Yes, ill accept apologies. and > [@](#): > > sod off! PLEASE! YOu havent been here before…sorry…sorry. The other guys may say that but you, no, you just got here to read this. and, finally, this gem that sparked this thread: > [@](#): > > Talking behind ones back AND using coarse language in not highly opted for you to do! will not turn the thread into a forum for getting factual answers. Personal restraint eventually wears thin, and when it does bad things happen. Before my personal restraint is gone, let me offer some advice: [ul] [li] **Learn English** : I know you can fake it in your posts, and that most Dopers have reading comprehension skills enough to understand even severely malformed sentences. But can you seriously expect us to understand this?[/li][quote] [Originally here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2775397#post2775397) lol…somewhat disturbing bred with your opiate with positions of masses! [/quote] That sounds like the output of a computer programmed to generate random text. [li] **Restrain Yourself** : Taking personal offense to people knowing more than you is not good. I know you’re probably one of the smart kids back home, used to being the one who can look down on everyone else. _So are the rest of us._ I’d wager that 70-80% of all Dopers have above-average intelligence, and in GQ certain people really have a chance to shine. Accept that you have a long way to go yet, and know that the path of knowledge does not include blind jealously or rage.[/li][li] **Lurk a While** : This could well be the most important piece of advice I have. By lurking, you will gain English skills by reading the usually quite literate posts around here. You will also get a feel for what constitutes normal social interaction in this environment. Look at this as an anthropology experiment: Observe the native Dopers, learn their folkways and traditions, get a good feel for their culture and history, and _then_ enter the culture full-time. It’s worth it.[/li][/ul]Accept this advice in the spirit it was given: Pointers from someone who wants to see you become a productive member of this message board, and who has some knowledge on the topic. ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/2 "2002-12-28T11:05:54Z")
Yeah man… You could become a truly great poster… ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/3 "2002-12-28T11:08:19Z")
In the first sentence, replace GD with GQ. Guadere is a harsh mistress. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![trader\_of\_shots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trader\_of\_shots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trader_of_shots)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/4 "2002-12-28T11:09:05Z")
Cool … i helped give birth to a monster. SD - you are too dry, may i rub some oil into you ? ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/5 "2002-12-28T11:10:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by trader\_of\_shots \* > \*\*Cool … i helped give birth to a monster. > > SD - you are too dry, may i rub some oil into you ? \*\* ::Backs away very, very fastly: ---
**Author:** ![trader\_of\_shots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trader\_of\_shots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trader_of_shots)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/6 "2002-12-28T11:10:59Z")
Oh shut up - in reference to your humour being dry ya git. I’m as gay as you are ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/7 "2002-12-28T13:57:48Z")
Not to mention being [needlessly snotty](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=152985) to **MEBuckner** in GQ after being told to [reread what each forum is for](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=152974). ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/8 "2002-12-28T14:06:56Z")
1. He’s only 13. 2. It’s Christmas vacation. 3. School starts January 2, 3, 4, depending. 4. Expect peace and quiet by this time next week. ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/9 "2002-12-28T14:08:57Z")
Unlike me. ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/10 "2002-12-28T14:10:05Z")
I mean ofcourse I will be here beyond the time the holidays are over. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/11 "2002-12-28T16:44:41Z")
I’ve got to agree with the spirit of this thread. I don’t think fau is an asshole or anything, but he needs to eat a few books or something. At least one Dictionary and a set of World Book encyclopedias. Even at 13 I knew what words I could safely use and which ones I couldn’t. And FTR, this kid has got to have the SDMB record for the most massive amount of posting in the shortest amount of time from a poster who was not intentionally trolling or spamming. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/12 "2002-12-28T16:49:30Z")
**Smiley** is closing in on 22 posts per day. Handy-esque. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/13 "2002-12-28T16:50:40Z")
53 ppd is a problem. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/14 "2002-12-28T17:06:04Z")
**fauxpas** is 13? He said he was 14 in another thread. But then again he also said he had written 5 games, and was then asking for advice on where to learn computer programming, in another thread. ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/15 "2002-12-28T18:32:54Z")
Not to mention the quintessentially short attention span (like in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=152618)). MOMMY ! I WANT IT NOW! ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/16 "2002-12-28T18:43:51Z")
I’m only two years older than fauxpas. It seems like he’s acting like a nine year old sometimes. He reminds me of my nine year old cousin with ADHD. And I thought I was posting too much at 3.5 ppd; he’s posting over 50 ppd. Not only does he not contribute to many discussions he posts in, but he provides false information. Kinda gets on your nerves. :smack: :smack: ;j ---
**Author:** ![d12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@d12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d12)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/17 "2002-12-28T20:31:39Z")
AMEN! I was about to post something VERY similar to this. I REALLY can’t stand this kid. Hacking Furby, getting a high risk bank loan? Ugh. Can you say ADHD? ---
**Author:** ![d12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@d12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d12)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/18 "2002-12-28T20:38:46Z")
Jesus fucking H Christ! This kid pisses me off! He has NO clue what hes talking about… I can’t help but vent here. The only young ones (that I know of) that make the slightest sense here are: 1. Myself (and I’m not too sure about that) 2. Tripler (at least I think he’s a teen) 3. Speaker For The Dead (not too sure about him being a teen aswell) 4. (your name here) Anyone remember this guy? Now I feel a little arrogant but I still hate fauxpas. ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/19 "2002-12-28T20:42:07Z")
You forgot me, **d12**. I’m 15. Unless you’re implying that I don’t make sense. ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/20 "2002-12-28T20:45:14Z")
Isn’t it strange that fauxpas hasn’t replied to this thread yet? He’s posted in every single thread on the SDMB except for this one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345.md?page=2)