# Grow up, leander. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 19, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451 "2008-11-19T15:00:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/221 "2008-11-25T16:52:57Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > I don’t think even the _minor_ participants think it’s doing anyone any good. But they’re still at it. Jeeez. “am not” “are too” “you’re a doodyhead” “well, you’re a doodyhead times infinity”. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/222 "2008-11-25T16:55:23Z")
I like turtles. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/223 "2008-11-25T17:02:19Z")
Turtle-lover! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/224 "2008-11-25T17:06:29Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > I don’t think even the _minor_ participants think it’s doing anyone any good. Point taken, but why not just close this thread then as it is down to just a few of us dopes taken pot shots at each other? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/225 "2008-11-25T17:09:10Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Point taken, but why not just close this thread then as it is down to just a few of us dopes taken pot shots at each other? I suspect that it would generally be up to the Pit mods, since the thread isn’t actively a loose cannon that needs to be shut down. It also would die all by itself if the certain few dopers taking pot shots at each other would, say, stop posting to the thread. Just a thought. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/226 "2008-11-25T17:20:18Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I chose not to honor the request of someone who spends most of his time in GD twisting words and pursuing minor little side points to avoid the fact that you mainly spread disinformation about Climate Change. Lol. Nice rationalization, liar-boy. Funny how you can’t even quote one instance of my supposed dishonesty or twisting of words. ---
**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 25, 2008, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/227 "2008-11-25T17:47:28Z")
> [@wring](#): > > It also would die all by itself if the certain few dopers taking pot shots at each other would, say, stop posting to the thread. Just a thought. What’s it to you? What’s with this ridiculous compulsion you have to step in and start clucking your tongue and waving your finger under people’s noses like a dried-up old schoolmarm? Can’t you just, y’know, ignore it? If they want to pointlessly argue back and forth, let them; it doesn’t concern you, so cram a sock in it. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/228 "2008-11-25T17:48:54Z")
I don’t pay enough attention to anybody’s posting habits to know or care if they’re googling or have a pattern of dweebishness or whatever…it boggles my mind that there are people out there that have the time and motivation to do so, and am futher perplexed at how anyone could be so butthurt about it. Unless, of course, it’s not any real offense that’s being taken, but rather a premeditated action upon a preordained target in order to impress one’s droogs elsewhere…which would make sense, in a Junior High sort of way. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/229 "2008-11-25T17:50:02Z")
It’s nothing to me if you wish to continue to act like an uninteresting whiney child. But, if any of the participants had believed that they were coming across as anything but that, I thought it prudent to mention it. By all means, carry on w/your crusade. ---
**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 25, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/230 "2008-11-25T17:51:56Z")
Prudent, my ass. You just wanted to cluck and scold. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/231 "2008-11-25T17:54:29Z")
And thanks, so much, for the glowing opportunity, and it’s not even my birthday! ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/232 "2008-11-25T18:10:35Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Point taken, but why not just close this thread then as it is down to just a few of us dopes taken pot shots at each other? (a) I’m not a Pit mod, and (b) As long as **Q.E.D.** and **leander** are pissing on each other here, they might do less of it elsewhere, so why not leave it open? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/233 "2008-11-25T18:21:17Z")
I’m still enjoying the thread. ---
**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 25, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/234 "2008-11-25T20:01:17Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > As long as **Q.E.D.** and **leander** are pissing on each other here, they might do less of it elsewhere, so why not leave it open? Nah, I sense the wind has been sucked from his sails. I’m done. Also, you’re an idiot if you really think I’d bother sniping at him outside this forum. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/235 "2008-11-25T20:07:32Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > (a) I’m not a Pit mod, and By this do you mean that moderators can’t moderate fora other than their own? Because we’ve certainly been led to believe otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/236 "2008-11-25T20:10:03Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > By this do you mean that moderators can’t moderate fora other than their own? Because we’ve certainly been led to believe otherwise. That had me scratching my head too with the recent \*\*Frank \*\*pitting of **Marley23**. I figured it was just his way of saying he felt it was worth taking a quick snipe at us but not worth closing the thread though. Which honestly seemed fair enough to me. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/237 "2008-11-25T20:30:32Z")
> [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](#): > > I like turtles. Eek! Zombie! ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/238 "2008-11-25T22:19:00Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > Nah, I sense the wind has been sucked from his sails. I’m done. > > Also, you’re an idiot if you really think I’d bother sniping at him outside this forum. Come on, Cliffy. Do you really want me to go find another bunch of examples of you being an idiot Google boy? I suggest you scurry of now. This clearly hasn’t gone the way you hoped. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/239 "2008-11-26T10:08:26Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > (b) As long as **Q.E.D.** and **leander** are pissing on each other here, they might do less of it elsewhere, so why not leave it open? This is wisdom. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451/240 "2008-11-26T10:09:45Z")
> [@leander](#): > > Come on, Cliffy. Do you really want me to go find another bunch of examples of you being an idiot Google boy? > > I suggest you scurry of now. This clearly hasn’t gone the way you hoped. You still owe me 16 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grow-up-leander/473451.md?page=13)