# Heres my 0.2c Lute Skywatcher **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 15, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018 "2012-05-15T20:37:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/181 "2012-05-16T22:01:24Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > He strikes me as a guy that has never given in his life. Just take and mooch. This is not true, but the details are none of your business, and I will not provide a cite. Why do you keep coming back here and shrieking about this? I can understand being upset, but you won’t let it alone. Dude(or Dudette as the case may be) there are other more important things in this world to be obsessed about. I don’t think anything we can say now will be worse than how he’s probably feeling. Take a deep breath and let it alone for a while. I think we should apply the rules for gossip. _Is it true? Is it fair? Is it necessary? If not, then shut up._ I love the Dope and it bums me out to see stuff like this going on here. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/182 "2012-05-16T22:07:09Z")
Update: still no checks when I got home from work. ಠ\_ಠ ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/183 "2012-05-16T22:13:00Z")
Me neither. Of course, I never gave him anything, but I still think that would be a nice gesture on his part. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/184 "2012-05-16T22:23:28Z")
Except he didn’t apologise. He made a goddamn excuse then flounced out when people didn’t accept “I’m mentally ill, honest!” as an excuse for his lying and trying to scam people. There’s plenty of mentally ill people on these boards who have never tried to scam people out of money by being lying, disingenuous shitheads. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/185 "2012-05-16T22:26:17Z")
**ntucker** , I agree with you. I think **Lute’s** biggest crime wasn’t the begging, but not giving a for-real apology. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/186 "2012-05-16T22:29:46Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Understood. PM me for PayPal details. I snorted - coworkers are wondering. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/187 "2012-05-16T22:35:41Z")
> [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](#): > > [FreakFreely Freely Freaks Out](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=37697) > [Beryl Mooncalf gets her ass handed to her by Bricker, Jodi, et al](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=211820) > [Burning dogs just isn’t as much fun without baffling grammar](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=203185) > [TVAA posts a Pit thread that I’m amazed anyone was able to finish the OP without a Tex Avery-style question mark over their head](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=179913) For your continued amusement, the fun on [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=509580&page=5) starts at post 247 (page 5 for me) when Springs1 joins the fun. THE MENU IS THE GOD OF ORDERING. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/188 "2012-05-16T22:57:18Z")
Can’t you people understand? The executors of his trust fund sternly cautioned him that selling any more shares could put him in a higher tax bracket for FY 2012. And obviously selling any of his personal stock would result in capital gains taxes and might weaken his position on the Tokyo markets. If he had to dwell on these unpleasant costs right before his upcoming vacation to Tuscany he would barely even be able to touch his pasta primavera, and would probably spend the whole trip surfing his brokerage accounts online from the hotel room. But seriously if you gave someone a gift because they said ‘help, I need money for an unexpected repair’ then you presumably gave it because you wanted them to have it whatever the other circumstances. While finances might not be the root of the problem after all they did perceive their situation as being problematic to the point of asking for help. I don’t think this was an outright fraud as some are saying. Often when someone winds up in a situation where they need to ask for help they are wrong about what they think it is that they need help with. (I’m just glad to know I can always turn to you guys if my dog’s jacuzzi finally breaks. My brother was supposed to repair it years ago!) ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/189 "2012-05-16T23:16:25Z")
Maybe other Dopers know more about **Lute** than I do, but there wasn’t enough information contained in the OP to warrant even looking at my wallet. No explanation for why $3000 was an insurmountable expense. No explanation why he was coming to the Dope for help. No description of the “we” involved (children? spouse? elderly parents?) Not even background information about the kind of domicile the guy was living in (I assumed he was living in an old shell of a house he’d inherited from dead parents). The OP was essentially “Brother broke HVAC and won’t help me no more. Now I need $3K. Gimme.” He could have expended a little more effort to illicit sympathy, IMHO. Anyone who would have written a check based on such sparse information almost deserves to be taken advantage of. I say this guiltily, knowing that I’m a stingy hard-hearted meano who wouldn’t have given him anything regardless of how he’d written it. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/190 "2012-05-16T23:21:17Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Makes me understand how people make money off scams. “Send me money.” “OK.” What, no questioning? To a user name online? Yup. Pretty much. **Astro** I mailed the check today. Honest I did! ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/191 "2012-05-16T23:26:47Z")
I am just going to create a separate bank account that I am going to link to Paypal and then I am just going to give out the password and trust all you fine folks I have never met to only take what you need and only if it is kind of an emergency. Of course I am sure you will all pay me back, so no biggie. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/192 "2012-05-17T00:04:06Z")
> [@czarcasm](#): > > i’m sorry-“_one of_ my retirement plans”? I actually did LOL. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/193 "2012-05-17T00:07:08Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I’ve seen you type this twice, and laughed both times. I’m silly. Yeah that made me Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there too. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/194 "2012-05-17T00:12:51Z")
My cats need a new scratching post. Not one of those ordinary ones – they REALLY want the kind with all the perches, and the little toys hanging everywhere. I’ll even set something up on Paypal, how about that? I’ll call it, “Guin’s Cats’ Fancy Scratching Post Emergency Fund”. Who’s in? (It should cost about $399.99) But seriously, I’m surprised that the mods still allow people to ask for donations. In fact, it would NOT surprise me if this leads to a rule banning it. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/195 "2012-05-17T00:55:27Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > No! What he did is unprecedented on the Dope. Haven’t retards on this website financed some bitch’s boob-job? I don’t know what kind of board you think you’re on. > [@A Monkey](#): > > The guy was hustling the dope for money. He was a whiny, rabbit-cooling, drama-queening, money-groveling assclown but I dislike you more at this point. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/196 "2012-05-17T01:06:53Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > This is not true, but the details are none of your business, and I will not provide a cite. Convenient. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/197 "2012-05-17T01:12:28Z")
> [@Myrnalene](#): > > But **fuck you** for bringing it up in this thread to deflect criticism from your asking people for money for a luxury item so you don’t have to tap into “one of” your retirement accounts. > [@Myrnalene](#): > > Also, **twickster** , your “wahwah how can you flame the mentally ill person” comment was patronizing as fuck. Just so’s you know. [Moderating] Two things. First, saying “fuck you” to other posters is a violation of the Pit’s language rules. Second, if you have a complaint or criticism about a moderator’s official actions, the proper place to complain is ATMB, not the pit. No warnings issued. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/198 "2012-05-17T01:47:00Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Haven’t retards on this website financed some bitch’s boob-job? I don’t know what kind of board you think you’re on. No. You’re thinking about a rumor about one of the spinoff boards. While I don’t always hold the Mods here in the highest esteem, I am pretty confident they wouldn’t greenlight that charity thread. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/199 "2012-05-17T02:05:52Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > No. You’re thinking about a rumor about one of the spinoff boards. While I don’t always hold the Mods here in the highest esteem, I am pretty confident they wouldn’t greenlight that charity thread. I think someone did solicit funds for gastric bypass, though. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018/200 "2012-05-17T02:10:35Z")
My rabbit needs a boob-job, send cash (or gold, you know who you are). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-0-2c-lute-skywatcher/622018.md?page=11)