# Fix this piece of fucking you shit, you retarded apes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 3, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409 "2007-10-03T19:15:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ReuvenB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@ReuvenB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReuvenB)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/61 "2007-10-04T00:00:24Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] I just wanted to chime and say how much I completely despise that nerdy, stupid, dorky, irritating, cutesy, far too clever for its own good term - “winter of our missed content.” It sounds like the types of jokes and puns that Mensa members make among themselves to try to feel clever and superior but which just reveal them for the pathetic, lonely, former High School Drama Club Rocky Horror fans that they are. Seriously, can we crossbreed AIDS with cancer, make it airborne, and then give it to that term? Please? [/QUOTE] Honestly, VCO3, it’s like you eat shit. And then you vomit, and it turns into words. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/62 "2007-10-04T01:10:42Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat] Fucking stapler! You fucking piece of shit! Fix this motherfucking stapler, you retarded apes! There! Did that work? Or did it turn your stapler [red?](http://imdb.com/title/tt0151804/') [/QUOTE] Well - the first two phrases did come out of my mouth. And it was red to begin with… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/63 "2007-10-04T01:12:05Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] I just wanted to chime and say how much I completely despise that nerdy, stupid, dorky, irritating, cutesy, far too clever for its own good term - “winter of our missed content.” It sounds like the types of jokes and puns that Mensa members make among themselves to try to feel clever and superior but which just reveal them for the pathetic, lonely, former High School Drama Club Rocky Horror fans that they are. Seriously, can we crossbreed AIDS with cancer, make it airborne, and then give it to that term? Please? [/QUOTE] No. That label is a nice, easily recognized and remembered description of one of the biggest events this board has ever had. You know how common language always nicknames things (Nipplegate, anyone?) - I don’t think it can be avoided. Except in the case of the decade we’re currently living in. Strange aberration. How about the other big event - The Unpleasant Incident? Do you hate that term, too? ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/64 "2007-10-04T01:59:24Z")
[QUOTE=XWalrus2] Honestly, VCO3, it’s like you eat shit. And then you vomit, and it turns into words. [/QUOTE] Now if he had the shit put into him by an enema, and then he puked it, maybe it would be food. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/65 "2007-10-04T03:04:04Z")
I don’t mind retarded apes. It’s the damn dirty ones I can’t stand. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/66 "2007-10-04T03:15:33Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] What the fuck DO you people do at work…work!? :eek: [/QUOTE] Yeah, some of us actually work. I can’t access the internet while at either of my jobs, so I just have to _:::gasp:::_ work. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/67 "2007-10-04T03:27:28Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] Yeah, some of us actually work. I can’t access the internet while at either of my jobs, so I just have to _:::gasp:::_ work. [/QUOTE] You poor bastard. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/68 "2007-10-04T03:39:23Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] You poor bastard. [/QUOTE] That should be ‘You poor **bitch**.’ Actually, it’s not that bad. Sometimes I can take a nap or watch TV for a couple hours. Just no intarwebs. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/69 "2007-10-04T04:10:36Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat] I sincerely hope you mean Ctrl- **C** rather than Ctrl- **V** , at least if you are copying TO the clipboard, not FROM it. Otherwise, you will wipe out your selection. [/QUOTE] Yeah, ^A ^V is **not** a good frustration-preventer! ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/70 "2007-10-04T07:46:01Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] The message board is temporarily offline. The message board is temporarily offline. The message board is temporarily offline. The message board is temporarily offline. The message board is temporarily offline. The message board is temporarily offline. The message board is temporarily offline. [/QUOTE] We at the Straight Dope Message Board apologize for the inconvenience. Next time you get this message 195 times in a row, we advise you to take a break instead of hitting submit for the 196th time. If you find this upsetting, you are invited to go away and never come back. ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/71 "2007-10-04T07:56:55Z")
[QUOTE=villa] All I meant, **Voyager** , was that different people tolerate different levels of service on everything they pay for. Comcast haven’t got to the level of annoyance that would lead me to cancel them. Nor has SDMB. I am a pretty light user here, so I would imagine my tolerance level is higher than many. It’s also the only message board I visit, so I honestly have no clue (and I am also a technical illiterate) what to expect. What I do know is that for the tiny amount of money I pay, this would be worth it (for me) if I could only access 2 hours a day. Other people have different threshholds. I personally couldn’t raise that degree of vitriol over the lack of performance, but that could also be linked to the fact I don’t really know what level of performance is viable given the money available. None of this, of course, lessens anyone’s “right” to complain about performance for something for which they are paying. Just noting that it doesn’t irk me to the level where I think it is worth complaining, even in a general Pit post kind of way. Then again, I just spent 15 minutes cursing in my office because my freaking stapler misstapled a 19 page case 8 freaking times in a row. And the staples don’t cost me anything. We all have our triggers, I guess. [/QUOTE] Word. Especially the stapler part. I fucking hate staplers. Want to piss me off? Ask me to staple something. Zero to red in under two seconds. Fucking muppet fuckers. ---
**Author:** ![Buckwheat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Buckwheat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckwheat)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/72 "2007-10-04T16:30:36Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] No. That label is a nice, easily recognized and remembered description of one of the biggest events this board has ever had. You know how common language always nicknames things (Nipplegate, anyone?) - I don’t think it can be avoided. Except in the case of the decade we’re currently living in. Strange aberration. How about the other big event - The Unpleasant Incident? Do you hate that term, too? [/QUOTE] Ummm…'scuse me, but could someone enlighten me as to what “The Unpleasant Incident” is referring to? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/73 "2007-10-04T16:31:11Z")
[QUOTE=Mellivora capensis] Word. Especially the stapler part. I fucking hate staplers. Want to piss me off? Ask me to staple something. Zero to red in under two seconds. Fucking muppet fuckers. [/QUOTE] I’m not sure why you have to insult muppetlove. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/74 "2007-10-04T16:40:02Z")
[QUOTE=Buckwheat] Ummm…'scuse me, but could someone enlighten me as to what “The Unpleasant Incident” is referring to? Thanks. [/QUOTE] Wasn’t that the Civil War? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/75 "2007-10-04T16:43:56Z")
[QUOTE=Buckwheat] Ummm…'scuse me, but could someone enlighten me as to what “The Unpleasant Incident” is referring to? Thanks. [/QUOTE] Someone hacked the board a few years back, and the whole cite was offline for a while until they fixed it. They weren’t able to restore all the data, so a few months worth of posts got lost forever as a result. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/76 "2007-10-04T17:02:18Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Someone hacked the board a few years back, and the whole cite was offline for a while until they fixed it. They weren’t able to restore all the data, so a few months worth of posts got lost forever as a result. [/QUOTE] No, that was the Winter of Our Missed Content. The Unpleasant Incident was Stage Manager and TubaDiva (if I am recalling this correctly myself). Let’s see if I remember how it went - Stage Manager was an alleged child molester and had his info posted on a registered sex offender list, and TubaDiva used behind-the-scenes info from the Dope that she got from her position as an Administrator to out him as a registered sex offender. Tuba didn’t get any punishment for her actions, and many Dopers quit in protest. It was A Bad Thing all around. (Sorry, **Bibliocat** - I’ll try to get that right next time. 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/77 "2007-10-04T17:07:36Z")
That’s the Winter of our Missed Content. The Unpleasant Incident is probably the Stagemanager thing. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/78 "2007-10-04T17:24:48Z")
[QUOTE=villa] Wasn’t that the Civil War? [/QUOTE] No, the Civil War was “The Recent Unpleasantness”. Or “The War of Northern Aggression” 🙂 recently transplanted Yankee, slowly being indoctrinated in the ways of the South ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/79 "2007-10-04T17:42:08Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] No, that was the Winter of Our Missed Content. The Unpleasant Incident was Stage Manager and TubaDiva (if I am recalling this correctly myself). Let’s see if I remember how it went - Stage Manager was an alleged child molester and had his info posted on a registered sex offender list, and TubaDiva used behind-the-scenes info from the Dope that she got from her position as an Administrator to out him as a registered sex offender. Tuba didn’t get any punishment for her actions, and many Dopers quit in protest. It was A Bad Thing all around. (Sorry, **Bibliocat** - I’ll try to get that right next time. 😃 ) [/QUOTE] Fuck that, that was “Tubagate.” Fucking dorks. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409/80 "2007-10-04T18:27:12Z")
What does “you shit” mean? Is he saying the board is retarded ape shit? And what would that mean? Anyway, I find it awfully _convenient_ that the board always goes down before **VCO3** posts one of these crazy rants about how bad the board is. It’s almost like he knows they’re going to happen. :dubious: It’s annoying when the board doesn’t work, even though the cost of posting is nominal. But at some point, **VCO3** , don’t you have to be wishing airborne AIDS ass cancer on yourself? You’re still posting here, subjecting yourself to the delays. You know, ‘fool me once…’ Of course, adjusting for you, that might be more like ‘fool me 168 times.’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fix-this-piece-of-fucking-you-shit-you-retarded-apes/421409.md?page=5)