# Hey...You....Get off of my side **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 21, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860 "2007-03-21T14:18:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![furlibusea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@furlibusea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furlibusea)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/1 "2007-03-21T14:18:48Z")
Ok [morons](http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=580318). Listen Up. I fully understand being frustrated with the war. I agree that it is an abomination, and illegal and all that stuff, but inane vandalism of recruitment offices does nothing for the cause but make us all look like idiots and makes the message look as immature as you cretins. You cheapen the real cost of the war, and therefore I pit you. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/2 "2007-03-21T16:12:14Z")
I’m outraged. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/3 "2007-03-21T16:15:14Z")
You must be _this_ outraged to enter The Pit. You fail. Now, if eyes were ripped out, that’s different. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/4 "2007-03-21T16:30:06Z")
You guys are too quick on the RO trigger, relax. ---
**Author:** ![furlibusea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@furlibusea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furlibusea)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/5 "2007-03-21T16:44:24Z")
So we are now not supposed to comment about stupid political speach in our own State? Bullshit! What the fuck is the point of posting about anything without having someone relieve his constipated ass all over every thread in the pit. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/6 "2007-03-21T16:47:09Z")
I agree, this doesn’t qualify for RO. It does, however, blatantly qualify for hyprocrisy at its finest. Hey, there’s violence in Iraq. Let’s be violent to show how [del]fucking dumb[/del] peaceful we are! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/7 "2007-03-21T16:53:48Z")
Not only is it not an RO thread, Furlibusea, but it’s a damn good rant and makes a very important point. The last people you need on your side when you’re trying to make political progress is a bunch of kooks who serve only to prove your opponents correct. You’ll appreciate a quote from one of my favorite modern philosophers, Daniel Dennett: **There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.** ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/8 "2007-03-21T17:03:54Z")
So now every pit thread is going to be shit in with this RO crap now, purely by reflex? ---
**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:** [March 21, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/9 "2007-03-21T17:07:40Z")
RO bashing is the new black. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/10 "2007-03-21T17:10:04Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] So now every pit thread is going to be shit in with this RO crap now, purely by reflex? [/QUOTE] I am not a full time resident of the Pit, please explain this RO stuff to me? I get the general idea (I think) but I don’t know the specifics. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/11 "2007-03-21T17:17:14Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] So now every pit thread is going to be shit in with this RO crap now, purely by reflex? [/QUOTE] Count on it. Pathetic, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/12 "2007-03-21T17:18:02Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] I am not a full time resident of the Pit, please explain this RO stuff to me? I get the general idea (I think) but I don’t know the specifics. [/QUOTE] RO = recreational outrage > **[Can we please ban "recreational outrage" posts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=411800)** > > So many are popping up lately that this board is looking less like the SDMB and more like a rotten.com message board. Can the Mods please put their foot (feet? foots?) down and ban child murder/animal murder/rape threads across the board? I don’t... ---
**Author:** ![Hogwash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/13 "2007-03-21T17:19:07Z")
This isn’t RO. There aren’t any dead or injured animals, women or children. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/14 "2007-03-21T17:26:29Z")
[QUOTE=furlibusea] Ok [morons](http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=580318). Listen Up. I fully understand being frustrated with the war. I agree that it is an abomination, and illegal and all that stuff, but inane vandalism of recruitment offices does nothing for the cause but make us all look like idiots and makes the message look as immature as you cretins. You cheapen the real cost of the war, and therefore I pit you. [/QUOTE] I agree. Though I thought at first (til I clicked on the link) you were talking about this story about our local Congress Critter (a particularly scummy version, I might add, who had been one of Bush’s most stalwart cheerleaders until oh, what, January of this year?. It was most amusing to me that during the Foley scandal, the most used clip of Foley walking along outside included Rogers grinning and walking nearby. But I digress). fixed link ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/15 "2007-03-21T17:51:47Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] RO = recreational outrage > **[Can we please ban "recreational outrage" posts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=411800)** > > So many are popping up lately that this board is looking less like the SDMB and more like a rotten.com message board. Can the Mods please put their foot (feet? foots?) down and ban child murder/animal murder/rape threads across the board? I don’t... [/QUOTE] Thanks missed that thread. And no the OP is not in that category. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/16 "2007-03-21T17:59:51Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus] RO bashing is the new black. [/QUOTE] Nice 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/17 "2007-03-21T19:24:23Z")
[QUOTE=Hogwash] There aren’t any dead or injured animals, women or children. [/QUOTE] Not _yet!_ (he said impatiently, tapping his foot). Come _on!_ Get _with_ it! I have unfocused anger I need to express, and no convenient targets! Let’s slaughter some helpless innocents so I can get pissed off about it! Attacks on buildings are just… just… _not_ satisfying to me! Stomp that kitten! Irradiate that baby seal! Dress that toddler in Lycra! Come _on!_ ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/18 "2007-03-21T19:34:41Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus] RO bashing is the new black. [QUOTE=FordPrefect] Nice 🙂 [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] I liked this too. Whenever someone bumps into me (for whatever reason) really hard and through obvious carelessness and they don’t acknowledge it, I say to them, using whatever predominant color I’m wearing (usually black), “What, [color] is the new invisible?” If I can’t pick just one color, I say, “What, Negro is the new invisible?” I use “Negro” purposely to get their attention and I don’t care if race had nothing to do with why they bumped into me. End of hijack. If people want to be recreationally outraged, let 'em. Especially in the Pit. As has been said before, if you’re not interested, walk on by. Oh, and don’t trash army recruiting offices; it doesn’t help anything. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/19 "2007-03-21T20:37:17Z")
I’m sure it would be quite instructive to sit down with those arrested and soak up their incisive grasp of world politics. ---
**Author:** ![Li\_l\_Pluck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee59a6/32.png) [@Li\_l\_Pluck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Li_l_Pluck)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860/20 "2007-03-21T20:54:21Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] “What, Negro is the new invisible?” [/QUOTE] [hijack continuation] I’ve been saying the same thing for years, just not in those words. I really like your version, though, and I may have to co-opt it. (Yeah, the royalty check is in the mail.) 😉 [/hijack continuation] And though only the dick-brained on the other side would generalize about anti-war folks based on the actions of a few (the arrestees were young and impetuous, it seems), your point stands: Defacing recruitment offices or engaging in other acts of violence proves nothing, except that there’s asshattery on both sides. Pity, that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-you-get-off-of-my-side/396860.md?page=2)