# Hi, I'm Esprix, an attention-hungry whore. Disagree with me, it makes me hot! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 30, 2002, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505 "2002-07-30T10:29:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kang\_and\_Kodos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8baadc/32.png) [@Kang\_and\_Kodos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kang_and_Kodos)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/1 "2002-07-30T10:29:01Z")
I looked at a boy the other day in a bar when I was drunkenly trolling, and he didn’t look back! That hatefull fuck! What’s his problem? How could he not want me? Definitely self-hating Dahmer-action going on with that bitch. Still, I’m in a mess. I passed a glance at a male in a situation, and he didn’t regard me. Am I losing it? Am I really an utter phoney? Thank God my pony-boy lackeys, who have never said an original thing in their lives, will back me up. Don’t worry, they’re at their best when they say “Me, too.” One-trick pony? I? You know how I hate being labeled. Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/2 "2002-07-30T10:38:19Z")
Did you not get the memo on parody threads? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/3 "2002-07-30T10:39:33Z")
Gosh, do we have some issues? You’d better post a link to the post you’re ‘parodying’ or you’re going to be in **trouble**. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/4 "2002-07-30T10:43:12Z")
_yawn_ ---
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/5 "2002-07-30T10:47:53Z")
Wow! No one’s ever flamed **Esprix** before! Dude, you are so original! And intelligent! And handsome! Only not. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/6 "2002-07-30T11:14:28Z")
Could you just be sure and put a cover letter on all your TPS reports? That’d be great. I’ll get you another copy of that memo. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/7 "2002-07-30T11:15:20Z")
(to the tune(chorus) of ‘Guide me o Thou great Jehovah’) [Women]Who the fucking, [Men]who the fucking, [Together]who-the-fucking-hell-are-you? [With grandeur]who…the…fucking…hell…are…you?[sustain] ---
**Author:** ![SpaceDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spacedog/32/9932_2.png) [@SpaceDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceDog)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/8 "2002-07-30T11:25:14Z")
I have nothing to say to the OP, but I just want to thank **Mangetout** for making me laugh out loud at work and further cementing my workmates opinion of me. Although I’ve got the tune stuck in my head now. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/9 "2002-07-30T11:29:06Z")
Alright, **K&K**. You’ve got two hours after my post to rephrase your OP. I want to know what you think is wrong with **Esprix** , I want to see examples, and I want to see links. The Pit is for bashing other posters, if you feel so inclined. But you cannot bash someone without a reason. Failure to produce a substantiated case will get this thread locked, and it might get you in trouble. The clock is ticking. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/10 "2002-07-30T11:29:55Z")
_Gawddamnit_, **Esprix** : Didn’t you get the memo? _I_ was supposed to get the next Pit thread by an attention-hungry loser. I’m sorry man, but this unacceptable. I expect your resignation on my desk tomorrow morning. Fenris, CEO, Attention Whores, Inc. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/11 "2002-07-30T11:49:51Z")
> [@](#): > > One-trick pony? I? You know how I hate being labeled. That’s funny. Last I heard, Esprix reveled in - and was loved for - his label as One-Trick Pony… ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/12 "2002-07-30T11:59:17Z")
this is an area thaqt has me confused, and until K+K gets back with an explination, perhaps we can make use of this thread. For want of better examples (and this is just to clarify, and not to condemn) hom many of the above comments could be classified as “pulling up deckchair” type posts? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/13 "2002-07-30T12:17:51Z")
**TwistofFate** - It’s _lawn_chair, not deck chair. Unless a nitpick post like this also violates the "no padding post counts with meaningless stuff like nitpicks or mention of seating arrangements in the Pit’ rule. Oh shoot. I’m standing up! I’m standing up! Regards, Shodan _(who is just as big an attention whore as anyone else on the SDMB, thankyouverymuch, but wouldn’t feel comfortable starting an “Ask the Lutheran about his sex life” thread)_ ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/14 "2002-07-30T12:18:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*For want of better examples (and this is just to clarify, and not to condemn) hom many of the above comments could be classified as “pulling up deckchair” type posts? \*\* In my opinion, none. > [@](#): > > Pulls up lawn chair, cracks open a beer and waits for Exprix to arrive. - Would obviously be one, as would: > [@](#): > > Oh man! I can’t wait 'till Exprix tears you a new asshole! My point being that, once again IMHO, the lawn chair posts are those that are calling for a scrap. I’ve always thought that they remind me of schoolkids in a playground, chanting “Fight, fight, fight”. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/15 "2002-07-30T12:22:20Z")
I suppose my points would have more weight behind them if I learned to spell **Esprix** correctly, huh? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/16 "2002-07-30T12:22:28Z")
Well, to my mind (such as it is), your quintessential “pulling up deckchair” post doesn’t actually address the issue - just indicates the poster’s awareness of the thread. Whereas most of the above posts implicitly or explicitly take a position on the OP (have you noticed, they all seem to be “against”? Weird, that, isn’t it? Almost as if people actually like **Esprix** , or something…), and the ones that don’t are actively addressing other posts. I think that distinguishes them from the total wastes of bandwidth the “no deckchairs” rule is meant to deal with. But what do I know? It’s damned hard to read the admins’ minds from this angle. To address the OP: we’re all posting this gibberish on a public message board, for the world and his wife to read… aren’t we _all_ really just attention whores? (Myself excepted, of course. I post _purely_ as a public service; no issues of ego are involved at any level. And if you believe that, there’s this bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you…) ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/17 "2002-07-30T13:00:05Z")
Whoah no, **Steve** m’boy, I fell for that bridge trick once. Not gonna happen again. But do you still have that oceanfront property in Arizona available for sale? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/18 "2002-07-30T13:13:16Z")
How exciting! By my clock, **Kang** has about 20 minutes! So it’s either a) a parody, in which case there’s no link or any other indicative info or b) a serious flame, in which it’s a little lame because … well, because we can’t figure out the point. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/19 "2002-07-30T13:16:07Z")
yawn Tripler I like pie. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-im-esprix-an-attention-hungry-whore-disagree-with-me-it-makes-me-hot/121505/20 "2002-07-30T13:20:16Z")
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