IKR? Of all hills to die on…
Y’all coulda fuckin’ WARNED me before I moved here.
Just kidding. I love the area, and most of the people are pretty chill, even if the random MAGA dude refuses to take his hat off indoors every now and then. Pretty sure they’re the exact same assholes that would yell at me for doing the same 20 years ago.
You wore a MAGA hat 20 years ago? Before it was mainstream?
You think you’re just dropping a dad joke, but I’ve long been an ardent supporter of Make America Grate Again. There is far too many prepackaged grated cheese in the grocery store, and it disgusts me.
And of course the cheese connoisseurs devised their slogan as a pun on the Make America Gyrate Again movement of the '60s.
Aaaaand, Flyer’s been banned.
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=890531
WTF. What a way to flame out. Some people don’t know how to stand up and walk away from the computer.
He was just an all-around fundamentalist. Doing anything differently than him wasn’t just a difference, but sinfully wrong. That’s not uncommon on here, or the Internet generally, but he took it to an extreme. The most absurd example I can think of is that he insisted that the S in Louisville must be pronounced because the letter S is always pronounced and goddamn all those illiterates who disagree.
Another example: The only proper way to pay bills is by writing a check and sending it in the mail, and if you don’t, you’re an idiotic failed adult.
In isolation, it might be seen as hyperbole, but I don’t think it was. That’s how he saw literally everything. He was the universal expert on Christianity, conservatism, bill-paying, phonics, photography, child porn (see post 78), etc., and those who disagreed were worthy of all-consuming scorn.
Nice quote! Fortunately Flyer has now flown away for good.
(Bookend post): I’m gonna miss him.
And yet, this was only the second dumbest way for a flyer to take themselves out this week.
Holy smokes. The last one reminds me of the police raid in The Fifth Element.
Both of those are hilarious. I wouldn’t mind reading any other examples.
If you check out the links I put up a while ago earlier in the thread, you’ll see that most of his commentary was not so much hilarious as unmitigated evil.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21403023&postcount=114
So that’s what people were talking about when they talked about going to mixers.
I rolled my eyes at this:
Except Louisville was name for King Louis XVI of France, so French pronunciation rules apply.
One wonders how he pronounced words like ‘island’. Guess we’ll never know. Alas.
My favorite part of that thread is** Magiver** popping in and totally being Magiver.
Thread title: Flat-Earther Builds a Rocket
Everybody in thread: “Wow, a flat-earther is going to build a rocket to prove the Earth is flat? What an idiot!” Then later,“Wow, a flat-earther just died after launching his rocket trying to prove the Earth is flat? What a dead idiot!”
ISWYDT… he warned about it himself!