# greenslime1951 is snarky and arrogant ... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 17, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567 "2012-07-17T22:30:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/61 "2012-07-18T16:45:27Z")
> [@digs](#): > > \*“Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for Dunning–Kruger Overdrive!” > \* Get to the working overtime part! ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/62 "2012-07-18T16:47:16Z")
One place mats of green slime form is under bridges. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/63 "2012-07-18T17:58:11Z")
Now don’t be slagging the newbies, because of this slime. That ain’t fair. Our very best newbies have likely not even shown themselves yet and are still lurking and observing our ways. Let’s not make them twitchy and scare them off. After all, it’s likely they’re the keepers in the cohort, at any given time! This greenslime however is like a nasty mould, fouling the air and stinking things up! ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/64 "2012-07-18T18:42:38Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Join date: 2012. Nuff said. At least these days. Can anyone name a 2012 join date poster that they LIKE? **Tapu** seems rather intelligent and enjoyable. I think she’s a July (but maybe June) join-date. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/65 "2012-07-18T19:39:55Z")
> [@Peanut\_Gallery](#): > > Thanks for pitting this worthless asshole. I hope he joins this thread so people don’t have to gently talk around his obnoxiousness like they do in every thread he posts in. Doubtful. He has fulfilled the Troll’s Credo of Douchebaggery by becoming the object of so much attention, rather like a slimy green glob that washes up on the beach, emitting a foul stench, but wanting desperately to fit in with the humanoids that have gathered to mock it. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/66 "2012-07-18T20:28:08Z")
I don’t think Slime is a troll. I think he makes the mistake of thinking his position is RIGHT and that anyone who disagrees with him is misinformed and if they just had more information they would see they are wrong and he is right. My perception of Slime is that (and I have no basis for this, just how I picture him) is someone who really is relatively smart but swims in a small pond. He is youngish but not TOO young…maybe early 30’s. He is someone who is college educated but probably doesn’t have the greatest job with the greatest respect and is probably frustrated by lack of upward mobility and salary. Combine this arrogance of swimming in a small pond with the frustration of not doing well respect/pay career-wise and you get someone like Slime. 🙂 Of course, I could be completely wrong 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/67 "2012-07-18T20:32:16Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > It actually kind of makes sense. If his level of competence is spending the last 10 years “debating” high school sophomores it would certainly explain his ability to defend his arguments here. Debating high school sophomores whom he gives grades to. No wonder he is so shocked that people ask him for cites or dispute his economic genius. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/68 "2012-07-18T20:37:34Z")
> [@kenetic](#): > > He claims to be a [high school English teacher](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15279841#post15279841)… Ha! Perfect. This fits my perception. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/69 "2012-07-18T22:53:45Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > If being snarky and arrogant is a pittable offence now, we’re going to need a bigger pit. It’s perfectly fine to be snarky and arrogant. However, snarky, arrogant \*and \*wrong ? Utterly and completely wrong, of the “herp derp” variety ? Down into the well with you, along with the fire ants covered in acid and the syphilitic howler monkeys with the teeth filed into needle points. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/70 "2012-07-19T02:27:15Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Now don’t be slagging the newbies, because of this slime. That ain’t fair. Our very best newbies have likely not even shown themselves yet and are still lurking and observing our ways. Let’s not make them twitchy and scare them off. After all, it’s likely they’re the keepers in the cohort, at any given time! Thank you for this post. I’m a 2012 newbie, but that’s only because --with the heat and all-- my flock decided to cut the fucktard migration short this year. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/71 "2012-07-19T02:32:25Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Down into the well with you, along with the fire ants covered in acid and the **syphilitic howler monkeys with the teeth filed into needle points**. Why aren’t people telling me about all this new cool shit you can get? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/72 "2012-07-19T02:33:39Z")
> [@kenetic](#): > > He claims to be a [high school English teacher](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15279841#post15279841)… He must be a real joy in the classroom. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/73 "2012-07-19T03:27:33Z")
> [@Enkel](#): > > Thank you for this post. I’m a 2012 newbie, but that’s only because --with the heat and all-- my flock decided to cut the fucktard migration short this year. Slacker ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/74 "2012-07-19T04:52:56Z")
> [@Enkel](#): > > Thank you for this post. I’m a 2012 newbie, but that’s only because --with the heat and all-- my flock decided to cut the fucktard migration short this year. Bravo, sir. _sniff_ They grow up so fast. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/75 "2012-07-19T11:23:22Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > He must be a real joy in the classroom. O’Reilly was a teacher. Must have been torture. ---
**Author:** ![Latro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@Latro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latro)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/76 "2012-07-19T12:37:52Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > O’Reilly was a teacher. Must have been torture. Dang! He certainly talks like O’Reilly, maybe he _is_… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/77 "2012-07-19T12:41:00Z")
Least amongst **greenslime** ’s debating skills is his hairtrigger defense mechanism. It’s like the rhetorical equivalent of Detritus’ crossbow, going off with great force and noise and accomplishing nothing constructive at all: **GS** : “We need to reform the voting system because the Democrats having been dressing up ducks in wigs and allowing them to vote for Obama.” **Random non-crazy Doper** : “Um, do you have a cite for the duck thing…” **GS** “CITE?!? CITE?!? What is it with you people and cites? Do I need to provide you with my Kindergarten transcripts? I’m not going to do all the work for you! Everyone on this board is so obsessed with cites! It just proves that you can’t refute my arguments! This is typical of the Obamessiah libtard mindset! etc. etc. etc.” On a more positive note, those wishing to un-tar a few worthy newbies are invited to my shiny new thread here: [The Bestest SDMB Newbies of Summer 2012 Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15288726#post15288726) ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/78 "2012-07-19T13:08:27Z")
bah! Cites are tropes. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/79 "2012-07-19T13:35:19Z")
Well, as Marcello Truzzi\* said, “An extraordinary claim requires an extraordinary proof”. If you want to make wild assed claims, you’d better be able to prove them. Political extremists are quite fond of making outlandish claims and then acting offended when people ask for proof. - It was only popularized by Carl Sagan. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567/80 "2012-07-20T01:51:38Z")
> [@Peanut\_Gallery](#): > > Go fuck yourself Slime. [Moderating] **Peanut Gallery** , telling other posters to fuck themselves is a violation of the Pit language rules. Please avoid language like this in the future. No warning issued. [/Moderating] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenslime1951-is-snarky-and-arrogant/628567.md?page=5)