# How can you all be so horrible? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 15, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575 "2013-07-15T17:34:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/41 "2013-07-15T20:26:13Z")
I think the OP is asking: How can people be so heartless? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/42 "2013-07-15T20:28:04Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I think the OP is asking: How can people be so heartless? Aztecs. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/43 "2013-07-15T20:37:57Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I think the OP is asking: How can people be so heartless? I need someone with the user name \*\*Mola Ram \*\*to be a part of this thread, now. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/44 "2013-07-15T20:38:36Z")
> [@Troppus](#): > > No, we’re not. She just rolled in with the devotee reference too soon. You’ve got to warm up the crowd first, jaymac instead of jumping in with both feet. Heartless cant. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/45 "2013-07-15T20:45:18Z")
We’re in a heartless pursuit of dollars and c\*nts. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/46 "2013-07-15T20:45:29Z")
> [@Troppus](#): > > No, we’re not. She just rolled in with the devotee reference too soon. You’ve got to warm up the crowd first, jaymac instead of jumping in with both feet. You’re just guilty of getting too excited about your pet fetish and finished up way too soon. Next time go a little slower and think about baseball or your grandmother’s cankles or something. Slow your roll if you want a big finish. I wish the dopers had taken this advice too. I fear the beat-downs drove her away too quickly, and she showed a lot of potential for epic threads if we’d milked it a bit more. “Yeah, those Umkay threads were good, but remember Jaymac?!” Oh well, it’s back to watching the matt357 thread and hoping he makes a reappearance there. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/47 "2013-07-15T21:10:18Z")
I have a doctorate in Horribleness. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/48 "2013-07-15T21:11:55Z")
It could be worse. Many of us are on anti-horribleness meds. ---
**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 15, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/49 "2013-07-15T21:12:14Z")
I am: abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, heinous, hideous, loathsome, lousy, lurid, mean, nasty, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, scary, shameful, shocking, sickie, terrible, terrifying, ungodly, unholy, unkind… _BUT_ I am **NOT** horrible! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/50 "2013-07-15T21:16:20Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I’m still in Triple-A but I’m hoping to get called up at the break. Have you taken care of that shower-shoe fungus problem yet? > [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Yoo’re still nae allowed tae caa posters cunts. I vote that this line be added to the Official Straight Dope Rules. > [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > I have a doctorate in Horribleness. You hammered away at it until you got it, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/51 "2013-07-15T21:19:02Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Heartless cant. If I were from Russia, I could be a Gregorian cant. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/52 "2013-07-15T21:53:16Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > You hammered away at it until you got it, eh? Yep, had trouble walking for a few days but it was worth it. ---
**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 15, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/53 "2013-07-15T21:57:35Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I think the OP is asking: How can people be so heartless? How can people be so cruel? Easy to be harrrrd, easy to be coooold. You [were](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeXcaRYNlSQ) singing, right? ---
**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:** [July 15, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/54 "2013-07-15T22:04:28Z")
Hey, what’s going on? I just got here. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/55 "2013-07-15T22:09:32Z")
> [@jaymac1](#): > > I’m fucking sickened with the way you’re all treating me when I’ve just come onto the forums. OK I’ve been reading the forums for a lot longer than I said (about 18 months) so I know about Umkay already but I did nae say because I thought I may get a bad reception asking an admitadly similar thing. I haven’t even fully accepted my disability yet and you all make me feel like nothing. I just wanted to ask a very fair question. I’m not Umkay, I’m not even in thee same country. Surely there must be a way to check IP addresses? Your all a bunch of c\*nts and I don’t want to be on this shitty forum anymore. Goodbye. Speaking as a poster, not a Mod: There have been fewer than 40 posters who have joined in this thread and the original attack on you. There are several hundred posters on this board. We “all” are not attacking you. (Even the 40 or so participants have included some defending you.) If you simply refrain from opening The BBQ Pit forum and refrain from reading the attacks on you, all those catcalls turn into invisible, inaudible mutterings by anonymous busybodies who have no affect on your life. If you persist in reading and responding to the catcalls, it gives a number of posters the impression that you enjoy the attention, and gives some of them the impression that you are here explicitly for that attention. It is your choice, but the easiest way to not encounter nasty stuff is to refrain from opening the nasty threads. Then, if you establish a record of posting in a reasonable manner, the majority of posters will decide that you are not here to be disruptive or to troll for attention and only a few posters who always harbor nasty thoughts will be left to mutter among themselves. Again, it is your choice, but continuing to fight with other posters will do nothing to make the catcalls go away. Ignoring the catcalls while posting reasonably, (with a minimum of TMI), will silence the critics more effectively than joining their dance. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/56 "2013-07-15T22:16:35Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > If you persist in reading and responding to the catcalls, it gives a number of posters the impression that you enjoy the attention, and gives some of them the impression that you are here explicitly for that attention. But we, the rabble need attention too. What about US! What about OUR needs?!?! 😕 :eek: 😕 :eek: ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/57 "2013-07-15T22:22:14Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Aztecs. You mean like Colibri? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/58 "2013-07-15T22:23:07Z")
**jaymac1** can try to ignore us, but she will always know that we are over here, waving our genitals in her general direction. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/59 "2013-07-15T22:25:36Z")
> [@jaymac1](#): > > I’m fucking sickened with the way you’re all treating me when I’ve just come onto the forums. OK I’ve been reading the forums for a lot longer than I said (about 18 months) so I know about Umkay already but I did nae say because I thought I may get a bad reception asking an admitadly similar thing. I haven’t even fully accepted my disability yet and you all make me feel like nothing. I just wanted to ask a very fair question. I’m not Umkay, I’m not even in thee same country. Surely there must be a way to check IP addresses? Your all a bunch of c\*nts and I don’t want to be on this shitty forum anymore. Goodbye. Whether the story is true or not, finally Dick Van Dyke gets dethroned as the worst accent ever. ---
**Author:** ![Implicit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Implicit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Implicit)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575/60 "2013-07-15T22:54:57Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Speaking as a poster, not a Mod: > > There have been fewer than 40 posters who have joined in this thread and the original attack on you. There are several hundred posters on this board. We “all” are not attacking you. (Even the 40 or so participants have included some defending you.) > > If you simply refrain from opening The BBQ Pit forum and refrain from reading the attacks on you, all those catcalls turn into invisible, inaudible mutterings by anonymous busybodies who have no affect on your life. > > If you persist in reading and responding to the catcalls, it gives a number of posters the impression that you enjoy the attention, and gives some of them the impression that you are here explicitly for that attention. > > It is your choice, but the easiest way to not encounter nasty stuff is to refrain from opening the nasty threads. Then, if you establish a record of posting in a reasonable manner, the majority of posters will decide that you are not here to be disruptive or to troll for attention and only a few posters who always harbor nasty thoughts will be left to mutter among themselves. > > Again, it is your choice, but continuing to fight with other posters will do nothing to make the catcalls go away. Ignoring the catcalls while posting reasonably, (with a minimum of TMI), will silence the critics more effectively than joining their dance. Or, he/she can ignore this sage advice and prolong the umkay drama by opening a thread titled [Ask a paraplegic girl](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=696628). :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-all-be-so-horrible/663575.md?page=4)