# "Flame yourself" 2: Electric boogaloo **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 18, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-yourself-2-electric-boogaloo/616150 "2012-03-18T18:40:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-yourself-2-electric-boogaloo/616150/21 "2012-03-19T19:54:33Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Get off this message board and _finish the story you’re working on!_ Are you Lois McMaster Bujold? If so, then I agree with you. Get back to work, damn it! Your fans are waiting (somewhat impatiently). ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-yourself-2-electric-boogaloo/616150/22 "2012-03-19T20:23:38Z")
Finn, you ruggedly handsome genius, stop being so awesome. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-yourself-2-electric-boogaloo/616150/23 "2012-03-20T02:11:28Z")
**gamerunknown** … Get a job, you hippy bum. Perhaps a good place to start on that proposal would be to stop obsessively reading Straight Dope threads till 2 in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-yourself-2-electric-boogaloo/616150/24 "2012-03-20T02:25:53Z")
**Dr. Girlfriend** , you idiot… Your boyfriend is not your ex-husband. He has never treated you as badly as your ex did. He doesn’t come home shit-faced drunk, he isn’t cheating on you, and he’s never raised a hand against you. Quit looking for trouble where there is none. Learn to trust someone again for crying out loud. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-yourself-2-electric-boogaloo/616150/25 "2012-03-20T02:37:47Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Get off this message board and _finish the story you’re working on!_ > [@Stauderhorse](#): > > **Stauderhorse** …Tvtropes will be there when you get back… > [@gamerunknown](#): > > **gamerunknown** … stop obsessively reading Straight Dope threads till 2 in the morning. **OK, everybody out of the pool!** _[piercing coach’s whistle]_ We can all go back in the Pit when we get our stuff done. Hmmm, in fact, it could be a reward… ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-yourself-2-electric-boogaloo/616150/26 "2012-03-20T07:08:05Z")
> [@Dendarii Dame](#): > > Get off this message board and finish the story you’re working on! > [@digs](#): > > **OK, everybody out of the pool!** _[piercing coach’s whistle]_ > > We can all go back in the Pit when we get our stuff done. Hmmm, in fact, it could be a reward… But I did the story! Really I did. Edited, spell checked, saved twice and emailed to the group. I was _good_. And now you remind me of all the other shit I haven’t done today and should have done yesterday. Damn you \*\*'\*\ ***pye** , off yer ass and into action. ---
**Author:** ![SticksAndString](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@SticksAndString](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SticksAndString)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-yourself-2-electric-boogaloo/616150/27 "2012-03-20T10:34:08Z")
**DrunkySmurf** –I modified that from something one of Slim’s preK teachers used to say about cutting in line: No Cuts, no Buts, no Coconuts. I don’t even really LIKE coconuts to be honest, except for the smell. They smell amazing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-yourself-2-electric-boogaloo/616150/28 "2012-03-20T14:47:49Z")
Well, **Dorkness** , since you’re \*such \*a good communicator and so \*great \*at dealing with emotions and having rational discussions, you should know damn well there’s a difference between encouraging someone to voice their thoughts and goading them into an argument. You asked whether anything was up, and you got a clearly disingenuous but definitive “no”. At that point, anything other than a cheerful “Okay, then!” is officially Poking the Bear. You Do NOT Poke the Bear. But you poked the bear, and you got your finger bitten off, and now you have no one but yourself to blame. So don’t sit there feeling smug because you’re willing to talk about things that bother you. If someone else _isn’t_ willing, and you push the issue, _you’re_ the asshole. Also, you lazy-ass imbecile: so you’re putzing around and avoiding work because you’re feeling tense and stressed? You know what would relieve a lot of that stress? Getting your fucking _work done_, you fucking genius. Get off the Dope and get your shit together. If you want to wallow in righteous indignation, you have to be righteous first. Dumbass. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-yourself-2-electric-boogaloo/616150/29 "2012-03-20T20:08:20Z")
Oh, I ended up going to bed at 6am and waking up at midday. Managed to get laundry, shopping and exercising done, plus made my lecture, but still no closer to getting a job. and I’m absurdly left wing! **Grr**! ---
**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:** [March 20, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-yourself-2-electric-boogaloo/616150/30 "2012-03-20T20:57:33Z")
> [@digs](#): > > **OK, everybody out of the pool!** _[piercing coach’s whistle]_ > > We can all go back in the Pit when we get our stuff done. Hmmm, in fact, it could be a reward… We seriously need this to be an app here - surf the Dope for an hour, get kicked off for an hour. I am so fucking sick of the soundtrack in my head - “You need to find a job.” “I’m tired of the work I’m qualified to do.” “You need to find a different kind of job then.” “But I don’t know what other kind of work I want to do.” “Well, you need to do something.” “Well, I don’t know what I want to do.” on and on and on and on and on and on… You probably got tired of that just reading it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-yourself-2-electric-boogaloo/616150.md?page=1)