# 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:** 15
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/281 "2008-04-11T09:32:05Z")
[QUOTE=RedFury] And neither will I ask, as it’s already way TMI. Must admit though, the llama thing piques my curiosity. Spit-showers, mebbe? Never mind. Let’s leave it at that. [/QUOTE] Just eww… Spit showers with the ex-Soviet women’s gymnastics team? And a llama? Any idea how much those suckers can spit? Just eww… ---
**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 11, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/282 "2008-04-11T12:27:14Z")
[QUOTE=GomiBoy] Just eww… Spit showers with the ex-Soviet women’s gymnastics team? And a llama? Any idea how much those suckers can spit? Just eww… [/QUOTE] You know, you guys are starting to make **Der Trihs** look halfway normal. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/283 "2008-04-11T12:37:17Z")
[QUOTE=Linty Fresh] You know, you guys are starting to make **Der Trihs** look halfway normal. :dubious: [/QUOTE] Hey, I was the one grossed out by it! I wasn’t in any way suggesting this lifestyle choice! Although having a llama spit all over Der Trihs just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/284 "2008-04-11T12:42:38Z")
Uhm ok, no, I think I remember. If \*\*Der Trihs \*\* is an underground Nazi and a French bridge is blown up by a…tax collector, does uhm. Uhh does \*\*Der Trihs \*\* play for a team? No. Clearly not. How does anyone blow up a bridge from underground? That makes no sense. None okay. You’re under the ground, hello McFly. Tunnels go under the ground, bridges go over the ground. You can’t play football underground either, unless it’s in a large cave of some sort. Did Nazis even play football? Nice trick question there. Hurrr. ---
**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 11, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/285 "2008-04-11T20:02:31Z")
[QUOTE=Grossbottom] Uhm ok, no, I think I remember. If \*\*Der Trihs \*\* is an underground Nazi and a French bridge is blown up by a…tax collector, does uhm. Uhh does \*\*Der Trihs \*\* play for a team? No. Clearly not. How does anyone blow up a bridge from underground? That makes no sense. None okay. You’re under the ground, hello McFly. Tunnels go under the ground, bridges go over the ground. You can’t play football underground either, unless it’s in a large cave of some sort. Did Nazis even play football? Nice trick question there. Hurrr. [/QUOTE] Dude! _Read the fucking post!!_ **Der Trihs** was playing bridge with the atheist resistance underground, but the French tax collectors blew up their bunker. That’s why I, along with every other red blooded American Atheist patriot _hate_ the fucking French. Everywhere you turn it’s Eiffel Tower this and Claude Monet that. Yeah? Well just keep your snail-loving theocracy out of _my_ country! Shit, Now I’m mad at the Internet too! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/286 "2008-04-11T21:21:44Z")
[QUOTE=Linty Fresh] Dude! _Read the fucking post!!_ **Der Trihs** was playing bridge with the atheist resistance underground, but the French tax collectors blew up their bunker. [/QUOTE] Fucking cheese eating surrender monkeys even cheat at golf, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/287 "2008-04-11T21:25:42Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] Fucking cheese eating surrender monkeys even cheat at golf, huh? [/QUOTE] Wee Wee Mon sewer’! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/288 "2008-04-11T21:44:07Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] Wee Wee Mon sewer’! [/QUOTE] Of course, that’s how you blow up a bridge from underground: plant a demolition charge in the sewer! Simple. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/289 "2008-04-11T21:50:44Z")
[QUOTE=GomiBoy] Just eww… Spit showers with the ex-Soviet women’s gymnastics team? And a llama? Any idea how much those suckers can spit? Just eww… [/QUOTE] Well, kinky as I am, 'fraid you’ll have to ask **Mr Shodan** for the exact use of the llama – if any. I was just trying to digest the information myself and I must admit that said llama’s possible role in his fascinating mix threw me as well. But then, sick bastid that I am, I thought “what are llamas known for?” And boom!that, erm…came out. But hey! Let’s see _you_ do any better on this whole llamagate thing. Or should that be worse? :dubious: Disclaimer: I did not name any particular member of his peculiar group as the recipient. So it’s on you that the Soviet ballerinas are involved in this slobbering mess. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/290 "2008-04-11T21:57:44Z")
So I was getting really confused and kind of entertained but I kept wondering – desperately – what this question was of **Prinny** ’s (above or behind or whatever Prinny is indeed a term of endearment)? It took scrolling back a few pages until I finally found it in a quoted post: > [@Princhester](#): > > So you’d say that someone in the French underground who paid taxes so as to keep their nose clean but who blew up German bridges at night was on the German team? Answer the question before you bother telling me Der Trihs doesn’t blow up bridges. It’s an analogy. Not every aspect of it is the same. Um… what? I mean, I’m really trying to figure out the analogy here, and I know I did okay on analogies in school, but I always thought they were supposed to describe analogous situations. I honestly cannot figure out what the argument is, nor what this question’s answer is supposed to reveal. If I were to guess (because I really don’t want to go through six pages again) I’m going to say that someone has trotted out Argument #217 Subsection B of Why **DT** Is A Dick by noting that he only has the right to shout about how much he hates Christians and America and American soldiers because he lives under the protection of those soldiers in that country in which the majority belong to that religion. Leaving beside the near-beatification of Our Much-Maligned Hero, leaving aside the attempt to sneak around Godwinizing by not actually invoking the H-word, leaving aside the fact that you’re basically comparing Christians and other religious folks to Nazis if this is meant to be an analogy with any substance, leaving aside the possibility that perhaps Our Hero should go to Swizterland and perhaps even lobby the benighted Americans to do something about the dreadful situation in his homeland, this analogy still sucks. Maybe if this scion of the French Underground was instead writing ink-splattered screeds about Germany and sticking them under people’s doors and pasting them on the walls and bitching at people in pubs when they order cabbage, this would work. You say the analogy isn’t perfect. It’s not even _analogous_. Sure, your theoretical Frenchman is holding his nose and doing what he can to defend his people, but he’s doing something _substantive_. **DT** just yells a lot and mostly nobody listens to him. The atheists who listen and agree listen and agree. The ones who don’t say “Dude, cool it.” The religiousfolk who listen for the first time say “WHAAAT?!” The ones who’ve heard this say “Dude, are you new?” ---
**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 11, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/291 "2008-04-11T22:00:37Z")
[QUOTE=GomiBoy] And a llama? Any idea how much those suckers can spit? [/QUOTE] If they \*really \* loved me, they’d swallow. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/292 "2008-04-11T22:02:14Z")
[QUOTE=Linty Fresh] If they \*really \* loved me, they’d swallow. ☹ [/QUOTE] Well, y’know, there are some things that even a llama won’t do. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/293 "2008-04-12T10:05:02Z")
[QUOTE=Linty Fresh] If they \*really \* loved me, they’d swallow. ☹ [/QUOTE] In your case, I think it’s more like animal cruelty. ---
**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 12, 2008, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/294 "2008-04-12T11:16:04Z")
[QUOTE=GomiBoy] In your case, I think it’s more like animal cruelty. [/QUOTE] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/295 "2008-04-13T12:58:05Z")
[QUOTE=Little Plastic Ninja] If I were to guess (because I really don’t want to go through six pages again) I’m going to say that someone has trotted out Argument #217 Subsection B of Why **DT** Is A Dick by noting that he only has the right to shout about how much he hates Christians and America and American soldiers because he lives under the protection of those soldiers in that country in which the majority belong to that religion. [/QUOTE] Nah. You guessed wrong. Sorry you wasted so many electrons on a wrong guess, but there you go. [QUOTE=Grossbottom] Uhm ok, no, I think I remember. If \*\*Der Trihs \*\* is an underground Nazi and a French bridge is blown up by a…tax collector, does uhm. Uhh does \*\*Der Trihs \*\* play for a team? No. Clearly not. How does anyone blow up a bridge from underground? That makes no sense. None okay. You’re under the ground, hello McFly. Tunnels go under the ground, bridges go over the ground. You can’t play football underground either, unless it’s in a large cave of some sort. Did Nazis even play football? Nice trick question there. Hurrr. [/QUOTE] Still don’t have the guts to answer, huh? The irony is that you are now trapped. My original question wasn’t a trap. But you’ve neatly trapped yourself because answering the question would mean backing down when you’ve made such a point of not doing so previously, and your ego won’t let you do that. But not answering the question makes you a gutless buffoon who is happy to spout complete crap with total confidence while calling those who disagree names, but who runs away squealing and obfuscating and making lame jokes to cover the fact that you don’t want to debate because you might lose. You’re a loudmouthed gutless buffoon. ---
**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 13, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/296 "2008-04-13T16:21:18Z")
[QUOTE=Princhester] The irony is that you are now trapped. My original question wasn’t a trap. But you’ve neatly trapped yourself because answering the question would mean backing down when you’ve made such a point of not doing so previously, and your ego won’t let you do that. [/QUOTE] Trying to make sense of this made my mind scream and turn inside-out. I am now a pro-life buddhist nun, so thanks a _fuck_ of a lot!! :mad: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/297 "2008-04-14T10:55:46Z")
[QUOTE=Princhester] Nah. You guessed wrong. Sorry you wasted so many electrons on a wrong guess, but there you go. Still don’t have the guts to answer, huh? The irony is that you are now trapped. My original question wasn’t a trap. But you’ve neatly trapped yourself because answering the question would mean backing down when you’ve made such a point of not doing so previously, and your ego won’t let you do that. But not answering the question makes you a gutless buffoon who is happy to spout complete crap with total confidence while calling those who disagree names, but who runs away squealing and obfuscating and making lame jokes to cover the fact that you don’t want to debate because you might lose. You’re a loudmouthed gutless buffoon. [/QUOTE] Wow, can I be just like you when I grow up? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/298 "2008-04-14T11:38:01Z")
[QUOTE=GomiBoy] Wow, can I be just like you when I grow up? [/QUOTE] No. By definition, growing up would preclude that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/299 "2008-04-14T11:46:33Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] No. By definition, growing up would preclude that. 🙂 [/QUOTE] \ ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-der-trihs/443601/300 "2008-04-14T11:56:36Z")
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