fedman

The BBQ Pit
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Perhaps we’re going to need a thread to call out fedman’s asshattery, before someone loses patience and ends up getting a warning for giving his nonsense the response it deserves somewhere outside the Pit. I suppose if the mission is to fight ignorance, we need ignorant members. Mind-numbingly stupid members, not so much.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21293917&postcount=4
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=871687

In which he claims that smoking doesn’t have any serious health consequences, it’s all fearmongering. He is apparently “going by guestimates (no names or actual empirical evidence)”.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=872046

In which, although he does not speak the English language well enough to produce a sentence of his own without grammatical errors, he attacks standard usage of the word “only” and ignores several patient referenced replies.

If he’d stick to posting nonsense about the English language, I suppose that’s better than posting nonsense about major health issues. I have a feeling there is more to come.

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[off-topic] (Curiosity about web interface.)

Nitpick: When I click any of these links, I leave the friendly world of Straightdope v.3.7.3 and get plunged into the SultanBugs skin. I consider this offense to be as grave as those of fedman. (What does that username refer to, btw?)

It appears that the problem is the use of ‘http’ instead of ‘https.’ Oddly, I can fix the defective view by clicking Straightdope v.3.7.3 in the lower-left, but SultanBugs re-appears after the next click. To fix the tab permanently, I must manually change the ‘http’ back to ‘https.’

Surely a detailed explanation of this behavior will be more interesting than further armchair psychology of Mr. Fedman. :slight_smile: My guess is that https cookies aren’t seen by the http access.

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Is it related to the fact that my browser has been telling me that SDMB is “not secure” for the past couple of weeks?

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There’s a problem with Chrome at least. I’ve been having the same problem as well. You may need to manually enter https:// instead of http://

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He also loves anti-Semitic tropes:

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21524890&postcount=175
He’s gotta be a troll. No one could be that stupid, could they?