# Giraffe - Fuck you. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 18, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229 "2008-11-18T02:17:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/41 "2008-11-18T02:50:52Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Along with failing to understand how to pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel. You’re not very bright, are you? No. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/42 "2008-11-18T02:51:01Z")
Your threads annoy the everlovin’ fuck out of me, too, **Lobsang**. \*\*Giraffe \*\*did the right thing. Get a goddamn LJ. Get some friends on it, and voila! There is your attention-whoring. Oh, and while I’m here, quit starting your question in the “title” box and finishing it in the OP. It’s really annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/43 "2008-11-18T02:53:50Z")
**Lobsang** , are you drinking again? I’m not saying that you are, but your recent change in posting behavior tends to make me think that something significant has changed in your world and/or inside your head. I’m making no judgements. But I am curious, and a tad worried. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/44 "2008-11-18T02:54:09Z")
Actually **Lobsang** lately your posts have been totally wackado. Bad spelling. Missed letters. Bizarro World sentences. Cracked out topics. I actually wondered if you were on a dunken bender and had been posting snoggered for the past month, although I assume the answer is no if you post from work. Maybe you need a hobby or something. Anyhow, the thread might have been ok in MPSIMS but it was lamo to the n’th degree for the Pit. Also, Giraffe is a lovely orange colour with attractive brown spots so you shouldn’t pick on him. ETA: OK, **Qadgop’s** post wasn’t there when I posted. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/45 "2008-11-18T02:55:35Z")
alice, the thread was in the MPSIMS. And I think there are dopers who’d have liked it to be kept open. And my behaviour on the dope (if what you say is true) is therefore clearly mirroriing my outlook on life - life is shit, the world is shit, the world is controlled by shit people, what fucking hope do I have of a nice life. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/46 "2008-11-18T02:55:51Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Fourth - I’ve been here for six years. Why do you still open them? 😃 Point taken. Actually, I generally read the titles before the OP author and sometimes I’ll read the whole OP before I realize . . . and then ``` . . . it's too late . . .another OP read . . . for nothing. ``` And oh wait, this is what you wanted all along, wasn’t it. . . more attention whoring. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/47 "2008-11-18T02:57:17Z")
**Lobsang** , at this point the best thing you can do for yourself is to request this thread be closed and then take some time away from the boards. Even if it’s just a few days, it’ll do you some good. Give some serious thought to doing that, okay? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/48 "2008-11-18T02:59:23Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Giraffe. I’ve got to say. I admire the level-headedness with which you’ve taken this ill-meaning attack on your character. This raises you in my estimation. Jesus, first you pit the motherfucker and now you’re kissing his ass? **Giraffe** what kind of mystical voodoo mod hold do you have over Dopers? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/49 "2008-11-18T03:00:14Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > Jesus, first you pit the motherfucker and now you’re kissing his ass? **Giraffe** what kind of mystical voodoo mod hold do you have over Dopers? It makes more sense if you read them in a sarcastic voice. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/50 "2008-11-18T03:00:26Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > alice, the thread was in the MPSIMS. If we’re talking about the one that was just closed, no, it wasn’t. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/51 "2008-11-18T03:00:57Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > You think you’ve scored a point but you haven’t. You’re right. That was at least a three pointer. Seriously, though. Stop posting in this thread. You’re not doing yourself any favors by prolonging this. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/52 "2008-11-18T03:01:11Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > It makes more sense if you read them in a sarcastic voice. You’re being too damn modest. [/sarcasm] ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/53 "2008-11-18T03:01:21Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > **Lobsang** , at this point the best thing you can do for yourself is to request this thread be closed and then take some time away from the boards. Even if it’s just a few days, it’ll do you some good. Give some serious thought to doing that, okay? Nice try Q.E.D. You are one of the dopers I like. But in all seriousness what I’ll probably do is go to bed, then continue tomorrow as if nothing happened. You see I am not actually going through a meltdown here, this, and other ‘meltdowns’ are manufactured by the other dopers, not the doper considered to be having a ‘meltdown’. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/54 "2008-11-18T03:02:18Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > alice, the thread was in the MPSIMS. > > And I think there are dopers who’d have liked it to be kept open. > > And my behaviour on the dope (if what you say is true) is therefore clearly mirroriing my outlook on life - life is shit, the world is shit, the world is controlled by shit people, what fucking hope do I have of a nice life. **delete** Just read the last paragraph…{{{{{{Loby}}}}}} ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/55 "2008-11-18T03:03:18Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > You’re right. That was at least a three pointer. > > Seriously, though. Stop posting in this thread. You’re not doing yourself any favors by prolonging this. Advice taken. I agree I’m probably not helping myself. Goodbye and see you all tomorrow (oh boy that’s going to be one hell of an embarrasing thread of conversation to recap) ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/56 "2008-11-18T03:04:01Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Advice taken. I agree I’m probably not helping myself. Goodbye and see you all tomorrow (oh boy that’s going to be one hell of an embarrasing thread of conversation to recap) Drink one for me! ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/57 "2008-11-18T03:05:56Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Goodbye and see you all tomorrow (oh boy that’s going to be one hell of an embarrasing thread of conversation to recap) Honestly, **Lobsang** , if this has been an alcohol-induced wig out I really hope you’ll take some of the advice that’s been offered and get help. It sucks that you feel like your life is shitty right now – don’t go all self-destructive on us. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/58 "2008-11-18T03:07:30Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > alice, the thread was in the MPSIMS. ??😕?? The part up at the top says The BBQ Pit. Anyhow, I’m sorry you’re having a rough time lately. However, you may be correct - your posts lately have just not been normal. Not even for you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/59 "2008-11-18T03:21:31Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > You see I am not actually going through a meltdown here, this, and other ‘meltdowns’ are manufactured by the other dopers, not the doper considered to be having a ‘meltdown’. I didn’t say you were. You know yourself better I do, of course; I’m not going to attempt to psychoanalyze your posts like that idiot, **leander** , likes to do but IMO your recent posts reek of elevated stress levels. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229/60 "2008-11-18T03:36:12Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Honestly, **Lobsang** , if this has been an alcohol-induced wig out I really hope you’ll take some of the advice that’s been offered and get help. It sucks that you feel like your life is shitty right now – don’t go all self-destructive on us. Giraffe, first of all, you cool as hell. So, I can’t get on board with a Giraffe pitting. But I’m gonna go ahead and admit something I always secretly felt. Lobsang said something that I have always felt…some of the famous meltdowns on these boards do seem to be…uh, helped along by those that are ‘trying to help’. Even after the man says, “ok, sure. I need to chill”…mad people jump in to say, "Dude! Chill!! Take it easy! SIR, SIR, CALM _DOWN_ SIR! That shit never helps. ETA: I’m not saying this because I have always liked Lobsang. He does have that balance of insecurity and arrogance that I find interesting. I’m saying it because I am a fan of trainwreck threads, and that is one component of them that I do often notice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-fuck-you/473229.md?page=4)