# 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:** 5
**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, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/81 "2002-12-29T07:39:48Z")
But to Derleth and rest…I’m sorry…im a-hole…I admit…but not to the ones that won’t give me a chance to “mature”. (I admit that my posts are sometimes non-comprehensional and as well as confusing…but if you want me to know do what Derleth said to do…) ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/82 "2002-12-29T07:44:14Z")
**fauxpas** , all you need to do is say something like “Thanks for the advice, **Derleth** , I’ll take it on board.” You can ignore all the rest. Forget it. Don’t worry about it. ---
**Author:** ![censored](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@censored](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/censored)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/83 "2002-12-29T07:45:54Z")
**fauxpas** , you appear to be missing the fact that this is not a contest. There is nothing to win, no mountain to conquer, and nothing to “prevail you all” over. You don’t need to apologize for what you’ve said, you don’t need to “take it back,” you merely need to recognize the folly within some of what you have said and take that and improve. You say that **UncleBill** is falsely judging you - well, his judgment is presumably based upon your posts at this message board, as are the judgements of the rest of the posters here. Here, you are what you write, and you need to remember that. Maturity is a property of the person; you can’t rely on other posters constantly telling you when you err. This is all up to you. If you know that your posts are “non-comprehensional” and “confusing,” then fix them! ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/84 "2002-12-29T08:02:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fauxpas \* > \*\*Yeah, I’m a pain, I’m a teen, im mean, I’m not begging you guys to read everything I post, no I’m not obsessed witht this site at all, in fact i read books when I’m not here, I only waste about one hour a day here, and it’s not my fault I’m trying to help, and leave Trader of Shots out of here, he didnt do anything, so what if I represent other teens here badly! I’m not everyone, I’m myself, well yeah of course I know what Ethernet is, I am not stupid! If I was I would answer this thread with an aroogant sly smile and not make sense at all and use some fould langugae, and yes I’ll still be here after Christmas Vacation and most likely will post even more, but my answers are not made up, but you guys are either jealous(most likely not) or you’re just crude and non-existant towards me! With that said, I have nothing against Trader of shots, if he does well I’m sorry man, im really mean somethimes (including now) geeze…who would of thought just by speaking correctly I would be judged worngly… and what I say you can either look it up or just believe me…in most cases I’m not lying, why would I. But you guys dont care jack, probably of what I say. \*\* Oh my god kiddo. You really need to take a break from the board for a while and regroup because if you think that this speaking correctly then you have something to deal with somewhere in your life. ---
**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, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/85 "2002-12-29T08:02:37Z")
Or not! Sometimes non-comprehensional and confusing are fun to read! I’d take incoherent/unintelligable over condescending/judgemental _ **anyday!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/86 "2002-12-29T08:08:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by trader\_of\_shots \* > \*\*Pfft you are a suck, fine if you don’t the attention may i have yours ? \*\* Oh my fucking lord! Tell me that this is joke writing or sarcasm here! I read a few lines about you in this thread but had never actually read anything posted by you until this one. There is no way your first language, or second, or third , could possibly be english. Can someone please translate this post of his for me? ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/87 "2002-12-29T08:10:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by trader\_of\_shots \* > \*\ ***racinchikki** - Why be an arse ? \*\* Lobsang \*\* i can dig it man. Although me associating myself with any right now will smear them. I have to say i agree. \*\* :eek: ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/88 "2002-12-29T08:12:43Z")
I think he’s using altavista babelfish to translate his posts to english… ---
**Author:** ![censored](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@censored](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/censored)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/89 "2002-12-29T08:13:08Z")
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**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, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/90 "2002-12-29T08:14:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Or not! Sometimes non-comprehensional and confusing are fun to read! proof… > [@](#): > > Pfft you are a suck, fine if you don’t the attention may i have yours ? I laughed out loud at the sheer incomprehensibility of it. ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/91 "2002-12-29T08:20:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmileyDeath \* > \*\*Maybe I was trying to grab attention before but not anymore. I’m in no way comparable to them. \*\* Yes, you have gotten quite a bit better from when you started out. But I still open threads and see you and **trader** bouncing bad jokes off eachother and making unnessicary posts to drive up your count. Sometimes I see 2 or 3 post in a row from you continuing thoughts. I realize you think about things after you post but seeing it time after time is annoying. I haven’t see it done lately so I hope your over that. However I think your starting to get it and soon enough you’ll be a welcome addition to the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![RobertTB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RobertTB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobertTB)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/92 "2002-12-29T08:39:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmileyDeath \* > \*\*I think he’s using altavista babelfish to translate his posts to english… \*\* I am using Google to translate of Spanish, then the English, then again to Spanish. After some of test works, it looks like to generate some Yoda speaks. Errors of the spelling that I can pardon easily. Equal it goes stops most of the errors in the grammar. But I cannot be shutdown to the people who use all very small ones. I will someday fly in a rage murderous due to that one. ---
**Author:** ![Erroneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71c47a/32.png) [@Erroneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erroneous)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/93 "2002-12-29T10:35:55Z")
[English-Portugese-English] I think badly I am correct to imply that he has some luck of the style affixing standard of SDMB that newbies are exerted pressure on ‘in if to conform,’ it is really just a substance of not being a donkey immature, incomprehensible. Exactly that one can be a little restrictive, in the truth; immature occasional, incomprehensible donkey-as the post can completely amuse. But when you to affix close to fifty of them each day… ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/94 "2002-12-29T10:49:04Z")
English to Spanish to english: I think personally that fauxpas and the retailer of shots is hidden, because I have never seen such grammatical, spelling, or incoherence of poor excrement in my life. God, porqué just does not learn some appropriate abilities of speech of goddamn and later they do not become. Esperanzadamente will be goings for the end of the vacations of the winter. ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/95 "2002-12-29T11:12:55Z")
How long until he starts posting about a nationwide network of suicide machines? ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/96 "2002-12-29T13:42:00Z")
Huh? ---
**Author:** ![FauxPass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FauxPass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FauxPass)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/97 "2002-12-29T13:57:04Z")
Good God, it looks like I have a relative hanging around these here parts. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/98 "2002-12-29T14:03:06Z")
**FauxPass** , you may not want to be associated with your relative. You had the prior registration, of course, but you may wish to consider changing your username. email a mod if so. Otherwise, you may get a bit of mis-aimed flak. ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/99 "2002-12-29T14:14:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FauxPass \* > \*\*Good God, it looks like I have a relative hanging around these here parts. 😉 \*\* Yup… ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345/100 "2002-12-29T14:31:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmileyDeath \* > \*\*Yup… \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmileyDeath \* > \*\*Huh? \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmileyDeath \* > \*\*I think he’s using altavista babelfish to translate his posts to english… \*\* > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Polycarp_ (about 14 hours earlier) > **After running fauxpas’s comment through Babelfish (English \> French \> German \> English \> Italian \> English), I found that he really meant:** **Smiley** , is there anything sensible, original or useful inside your head? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fauxpas-im-trying-to-help/145345.md?page=6)