# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/61 "2002-12-29T05:37:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Splanky \* > **techchick68** , look six posts up. He’s 25 🙂 Well, I was _right_!!! Hehe, I guess I need to read more. \< hangs head in shame \> ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/62 "2002-12-29T05:41:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBill \* > \*\*50 posts an hour, huh, kid? Don’t make me search you posts and show the timestamps. Liar. \*\* ROFLMAO neener _neener_ neener you got cought :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/63 "2002-12-29T05:46:49Z")
**Lobsang** , how have I been mean towards **fauxpas**? I’ve tried to give him advice, here and in the GQ threads of his I have read, and I have been more than fair with him even as he takes a piece of my board and turns it into Romper Room. Just to give you an idea of what my general opinion of him is, I don’t think the mods would be far wrong in banning him as a pre-emptive measure. He’s just on the edge of being able to post here constructively, and he has displayed a temper far too quick for the general tone of General Questions (among other fora). I think it’s time for him to shape up or ship out before he shits in his own lunchbox and the mods ship him out. I’m trying to help him shape up. ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/64 "2002-12-29T05:47:40Z")
I’m glad someone has stepped up and filled the void left by BZ000000. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/65 "2002-12-29T05:54:18Z")
**Derleth** > [@](#): > > (obviously that does not apply to anyone who may have been nice to fauxpas/rule breakers in general) (me) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/66 "2002-12-29T06:00:34Z")
**Derleth** the best thing in the world a doper can do is be nice when they teach another doper about the rules/temprement etc. You claim to have been nice. So I have nothing against you. In the past I have been changed and brought into-line by the dopers that have been nice to me. The ones that have sworn at me and belittled me have done absolutely nothing to change me (except make me ever-so-slightly more likely to step out of line). ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/67 "2002-12-29T06:29:53Z")
How nice of you to be condescending towards me immediately after decrying condescension in others. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/68 "2002-12-29T06:42:07Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by techchick68 \* > Ummmm, **Tripler** is the cutest guy in the AIR FORCE of the U.S. that I have ever known and I live in a city where there are tons of AF men and of course women._\* I don’t know whether to swoon and pass out or to put on a tux and start singing Sinatra. . . 😃 Tripler Speechless, for once. . . ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/69 "2002-12-29T06:43:09Z")
I vote Sinatra, **Trip**. Then the rest of us can swoon and pass out. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/70 "2002-12-29T06:46:19Z")
**chikkiboo** , don’t tempt me, I’ve won “King of Karaoke” twice with my Sinatra. . . Unless of course, you _want_ to swoon. 😃 Tripler But I ain’t gonna answer to **Gunslinger**. . . ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/71 "2002-12-29T06:49:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmileyDeath \* > \*\*I (usally) spell fine, use grammar and punctuation fine and am trying to shy away from attention grabbing behavoiurs. SO, then what am I doing wrong? \*\* I saw the locked thread where you wanted people’s opinions about you, not very subtle. Listen, you have recently said you are changing for the better. Let that ride for a little while. SHOW you’re changing, don’t only SAY you are changing. This crowd can take some time before they see a change, some folks may read a post of yours from three or four days ago when they turn on the computer tomorrow morning, and form an opinion based on that. It is YOU from four days ago, but to THEM it is realtime. Chill. Keep doing better, but don’t expect immediate recognition, it’ll take some time not only for the reasons I mentioned, but some will wait to see if the maturity lasts. Don’t take it personally, it is the dynamics of a board like this. I guarantee a vast majority of the long-time and well respected posters do not like seeing their early work here. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/72 "2002-12-29T07:03:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tripler \* > I don’t know whether to swoon and pass out or to put on a tux and start singing Sinatra. . . 😃 > > Tripler > Speechless, for once. . . Rawer, er rawer, er, what the heck are all you cool people writing these days? Anyhow, sing me some jazz and I am your buttercup. Sinatra will do in a pinch. Don’t worry about the tux, come nude, I wont mind. \< damn I hate being older than him. \> ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/73 "2002-12-29T07:18:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by techchick68 \* > \*\*\< damn I hate being older than him. \> \*\* I like women, even if they are older than me. . . \*I’ve got youuuuu under my skinnnnn. I’ve got youuuuuuu deep in the heart of meeeee. . . \* Tripler King of Karaoke ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/74 "2002-12-29T07:20:07Z")
Just keep in mind that while you may think you may be “older” than I am, I think “you may have a few things to teach me”. 😃 Conversely, I can pass them on to the younger ladies. 😃 Tripler Okay, now everyone thinks I’m a freak. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/75 "2002-12-29T07:24:01Z")
But one who can sing Sinatra. And that’s always a point in your favor. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/76 "2002-12-29T07:29:49Z")
Duly noted. At least I got _one_ point. 😃 Tripler Maybe a half-point above the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/77 "2002-12-29T07:29:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > **I get the feeling that if most established dopers had their way every doper would be exactly the same.** You **will** be assimilated. Resistance is futile. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/78 "2002-12-29T07:32:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racinchikki \* > \*\*How nice of you to be condescending towards me immediately after decrying condescension in others. \*\* It’s an entirely different situation. You were condescending first. And I am not merely decrying condescension to others. I am decrying it to newbies and people who don’t deserve it. ---
**Author:** ![fauxpas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e480ec/32.png) [@fauxpas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fauxpas)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/79 "2002-12-29T07:33:45Z")
UncleBill and to all of you other people out there, I will not give up, in fact I will prevail you all. I was going to apologize and then wait for all of your arrogant posts to manipulate me and make me feel bad, but then I read the rest of the other people, I apologize to all about what I said, but I still won’t take it back, I mean every little (or mean huge) word I’ve said. And to the rest of you, don’t try to falsely judge me…_cough…unclebill…cough_ ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/80 "2002-12-29T07:35:03Z")
**Derleth** I didn’t realize this was your thread. Anyway what I said about the thread was about what people had posted to it, not about the OP. I know this is the third thread in reply to yours. I did not realize it was your thread when I was composing the other two. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345.md?page=5)