# For Der Trihs **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 1, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601 "2008-04-01T23:43:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/221 "2008-04-04T16:47:04Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Ashtar] Stop lying. **badchad** was banned because he was told to stop using his sig to stalk **Polycarp**. When **Meatros** returned to the board to stop the spread of misinformation about his deconversion by, you guessed it, our dear friend **badchad** , he started using his sig to stalk him, too. He was _ **NOT** _ banned for being an atheist. You do your side no good by being a disingenuous prick. [/QUOTE] No, but perhaps he derives personal satisfaction from it. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/222 "2008-04-04T18:41:45Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip] Depending on who’s still around, I may cut to the front of the line… [/QUOTE] Well, **Der Trihs** is right about one thing, he’d be one of the first in the ovens. **Muttox** I see, so I only imagined that **Mr Dibble** and **Princhester** were defending **Der Trihs** , and that **Begbert2** thought that somehow my insults of **Der Trihs** were directed at him. I am clearly delusional, as it isn’t possible that I am describing a subset of atheists and not the superset of ‘all atheists’, that my imaginary friends keep accusing me of. ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/223 "2008-04-04T19:09:15Z")
I was replying to the section I quoted just above it. I’ll do it again just for you. [QUOTE=mswas] One of the things that amuses me the most about this board is how much atheists have no common denominator other than not believing in God, but they’ll always come to the defense of a fellow atheist when you express a personal distaste for that person. [/QUOTE] You specifically referred to ALL atheists on this board. You seem to think that because a few atheists argue with you, they all do. You are completely delusional about what ALL atheists ALWAYS do on this board or otherwise, thus the fantasy. Perhaps a counter-example would aid your reasoning ability? I’m an atheist and I haven’t said one word about Der Trihs. Ergo, you’re an idiot. Clear? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/224 "2008-04-04T19:20:13Z")
He didn’t say “all atheists”, he said “atheists always” and limited it to “this board”. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/225 "2008-04-04T21:00:56Z")
You know the whole problem with DT/ **Dibble** ’s “We’re the only people who know what’s going on” schtick? Everyone else uses it. _Everyone_. When DT calls theists deluded and **Dibble** calls us trusties, they sound exactly like the Aryan bro’s calling us n\*\*\*\*-lovers, the WBC calling us hellbound fag-enablers, and the communists calling us lackeys (No joke. I was called a lackey and lickspittle for praising Israel to some 50-year-old communist in the Downtown Crossing station, and when I say “communist”, I mean he tried to sell me a copy of the Maoist _Revolution_ weekly paper. I’m actually sorry I didn’t buy it.). Listening to the enlightened 0.01% bitching and moaning about being the lone persecuted voice in the wilderness is pretty heady when you’re a college freshman, but by the time you hit your thirties, it gets kind of old watching them prance around screaming about theocracies and police states, and yet somehow never being arrested. Whatever you say just makes them yell louder, and I’ve gradually come to the conclusion that “wilderness” is some sort of inner-sanctum code for “short yellow bus.” ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/226 "2008-04-04T21:43:22Z")
To be fair to MrDibble, he actually did live in a police state. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/227 "2008-04-04T21:46:23Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] To be fair to MrDibble, he actually did live in a police state. [/QUOTE] You’re right, and that’s a good point. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/228 "2008-04-04T22:00:59Z")
Well this thread has certainly taken on a life of it’s own. And I mean that in the most metaphysical sense. So in all seriousness, as I am relatively new (but posting like mad to catch up!), how many times has \*\*Der Trihs \*\* been pitted? It sounds like many. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/229 "2008-04-04T22:35:08Z")
[QUOTE=muttrox] I was replying to the section I quoted just above it. I’ll do it again just for you. You specifically referred to ALL atheists on this board. You seem to think that because a few atheists argue with you, they all do. You are completely delusional about what ALL atheists ALWAYS do on this board or otherwise, thus the fantasy. Perhaps a counter-example would aid your reasoning ability? I’m an atheist and I haven’t said one word about Der Trihs. Ergo, you’re an idiot. Clear? [/QUOTE] Well I am sorry I didn’t qualify it well enough for you. As I clarified that I wasn’t talking about ALL atheists, and you are still are arguing about it, it is you sir, that is the idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/230 "2008-04-04T22:37:23Z")
Even though **DT** and I don’t see eye to eye, I hate to see these threads. Hating on him is, in my opinion, what got him to where he is today. It’s a hard road to take, but sometimes, not saying what you really feel is the best thing to do. He has some pretty fucked up opinions but nothing said here will change that. It will only make him dig in deeper. I don’t want to spew a bunch of bullshit so I’ll just say this. For some people only death will bring peace. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/231 "2008-04-04T22:39:01Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] Even though **DT** and I don’t see eye to eye, I hate to see these threads. Hating on him is, in my opinion, what got him to where he is today. It’s a hard road to take, but sometimes, not saying what you really feel is the best thing to do. He has some pretty fucked up opinions but nothing said here will change that. It will only make him dig in deeper. I don’t want to spew a bunch of bullshit so I’ll just say this. **For some people only death will bring peace**. [/QUOTE] 🙂 I believe that may include the rest of the human race! ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/232 "2008-04-04T22:41:44Z")
[QUOTE=FoieGrasIsEvil] 🙂 I believe that may include the rest of the human race! [/QUOTE] For we are all fallen sinners. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/233 "2008-04-04T23:09:29Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] Even though **DT** and I don’t see eye to eye, I hate to see these threads. Hating on him is, in my opinion, what got him to where he is today. It’s a hard road to take, but sometimes, not saying what you really feel is the best thing to do. He has some pretty fucked up opinions but nothing said here will change that. It will only make him dig in deeper. I don’t want to spew a bunch of bullshit so I’ll just say this. For some people only death will bring peace. [/QUOTE] I see where you’re coming from here, **Omegaman** , and I do believe you’re the better man for it, but I have to disagree. Whatever happened to **Trihs** in high school or wherever is not our fault, and in any case, I will match scars with anyone on these boards. I know just how cruel children can be, and I have not yet undergone _any_ experience, even in the army, that matched the brutality I saw in my junior high school years. Still, I’m an adult now. So is **Trihs**. No one has held a gun to his head and made him post here, and so he has to answer for whatever he says. It would be a worse insult to treat him like an idiot child and let it go, because this would assume that he is somehow not mentally competent enough to be held responsible. **Trihs** might be addled, but he’s sane enough to know what he’s posting. He’s as accountable and open to ridicule as you or I. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/234 "2008-04-04T23:21:04Z")
[QUOTE=Linty Fresh] I see where you’re coming from here, **Omegaman** , and I do believe you’re the better man for it, but I have to disagree. Whatever happened to **Trihs** in high school or wherever is not our fault, and in any case, I will match scars with anyone on these boards. I know just how cruel children can be, and I have not yet undergone _any_ experience, even in the army, that matched the brutality I saw in my junior high school years. Still, I’m an adult now. So is **Trihs**. No one has held a gun to his head and made him post here, and so he has to answer for whatever he says. It would be a worse insult to treat him like an idiot child and let it go, because this would assume that he is somehow not mentally competent enough to be held responsible. **Trihs** might be addled, but he’s sane enough to know what he’s posting. He’s as accountable and open to ridicule as you or I. [/QUOTE] I know you’re right but still there is a part of me (maybe others can relate a little too) that was the pointy end of the stick that pushed him into the hole where he is. Fuck, I used to fuck with kids all the time and although I can see past that I know how it is to get shit on. I know you’re right. You get what you give. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/235 "2008-04-04T23:33:27Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] You get what you give. [/QUOTE] True. Of course, I have to admit that applies to me as well. Sooner or later, Karmic Kollection Agency reps are going to be knocking on my door too. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/236 "2008-04-04T23:43:29Z")
[QUOTE=Linty Fresh] True. Of course, I have to admit that applies to me as well. Sooner or later, Karmic Kollection Agency reps are going to be knocking on my door too. [/QUOTE] Thanks for speaking with me. You’re a mans man in my book. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/237 "2008-04-04T23:48:30Z")
[QUOTE=FoieGrasIsEvil] 🙂 I believe that may include the rest of the human race! [/QUOTE] I hope this didn’t offend you. I was speaking of myself, for the most part. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/238 "2008-04-04T23:50:33Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] Thanks for speaking with me. You’re a mans man in my book. [/QUOTE] Awwwww, you’re not so bad yourself. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/239 "2008-04-05T00:19:50Z")
Man, **Der Trihs** is just dirt fucking stupid. So are the rest of you lot who say, “Telling him you won’t argue with him isn’t a valid argument.” If the irony of that one is lost on you, yes, you really are too stupid to debate with. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/240 "2008-04-05T01:36:21Z")
Then don’t. We’ll get along, somehow. It will be hard at first, I’m sure… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601.md?page=13)