# How many strikes does Collounsbury get? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 13, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224 "2003-07-13T20:14:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/301 "2003-07-17T02:54:08Z")
And this is what **Collounsbury** gets for padding his pit thread. Hey, I was all about the porn three pages ago. ---
**Author:** ![Blown\_Injected](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@Blown\_Injected](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blown_Injected)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/302 "2003-07-17T04:03:35Z")
IIRC, we have one basic rule “don’t be a jerk.” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/303 "2003-07-17T06:05:49Z")
Well since we have an odd number of pages now (undetermined, thank you Lib for pointing out the horror of user adjusted page counts, bloody hell). > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoe \* > You would have failed _my_ debate class if you had used the approach that you do in GD. Assertions, assertions my dear. As I said, a classroom is not the GD and vice versa. > [@](#): > > I always thought of fencing as a rather disciplined sport. It is, and those who do best are those who combine discipline with a bit of flair and an occasional drive right up to the edge, and beyond. Sitting back pretty on one’s heels, drill style, gets you nailed. One need only compare drilling with real for the prize bouts. Grace, dignity doesn’t win the tourney. So, speak to what you now and fuck off now with your namby pamby whinging. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/304 "2003-07-17T06:08:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lemur866 \* > \*\*Funny, I’ve got an odd aversion to irrational numbers. Some of my best friends are irrational numbers but would you want your integers marrying one of them? \*\* Oddly…hah… so do I. And no, I would never want a perfectly decent, law abiding integer getting shacked up with those rowdy miscreant by nautre irrationals. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/305 "2003-07-17T06:15:47Z")
Well, insofar as we’re working on page 8 and want to solidify the evens, iampunha has raised one point in Lib’s intervention that can be commented on analytically, let me follow through. Lib said “You also enjoy showing off your extensive, though myopic, knowledge of anything and everything to do with brown people although you yourself are not brown.” I must say I found this ironic, given your Indianess and its role in your public identity. As it happens, and as I have pointed out, in my opinion, ad nauseum, most of the people in the classic MENA region are hardly all that brown, depending on the benchmark on chooses. Obviously Scandinavians as the benchy will skew things a bit, but I would hazard the opinion that by demographic weight, most of my MENA people are really no more brown that your average mid-Italian or Greek, which in America is no longer Brown at all. In any case, I don’t believe my brownness, or lack thereof, is of real relevance, is it? Perhaps it is, I confess a sympathy, but are you so offended by that? Have you adopted that very PC, to use the standard stereotype, position one need be of the ethnicity to comment? Regardless, this was one item that I thought was inconsistent with the general Lib philosophy. But we are all human, so no matter. Now as to Truthy’s intervention. I agree to an extent, but I appreciate Sam’s intervention and the POV or warning. I will be thinking of that in the future, although again in my opinion it is exaggerated. I believe Truthy has it right in saying: “Truly high quality people” are annoyed by contentless abuse but they are also annoyed by contentless opinions that inevitably derail discusions just when they are getting interesting and complex.” Laying aside my irrational detractors, and those who simply are irritated by me personally and thus I can’t really address, I am not insensitive to input. Sure, my last incarnation I took for broke. As I told Gaudere, I went for it and stopped caring about limits. Amusing in its own way, but not something I should repeat, as I made clear representations to the Mods and Admin to the contrary, very much as before I did not. Now, what does this mean? Well, I said I was going to follow the rules, but I am, as Popeye said, what I am. Perhaps that means I am an asshole, as said by some. Perhaps just a bastard, or perhaps … well whatever. In any case, I do intend to banned again, and I endeavor to follow the rules. I may be skewed off to one side in the discourse, but I, despite some claims, am not operating beyond bounds as I am led to understand them by the moderators – although some of my Fan Club would love for that to be the case. ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/306 "2003-07-17T06:44:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Collounsbury \* > \*\*In any case, I do intend to banned again, and I endeavor to follow the rules. \*\* Inconsistent - you can’t be banned if you follow the rules! hehe, I did a debate thingy 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/307 "2003-07-17T06:47:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Collounsbury \* > \*\*Well since we have an odd number of pages now (undetermined, thank you Lib for pointing out the horror of user adjusted page counts, bloody hell). \*\* I think the default is 50 posts per page if that is of any assistance. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/308 "2003-07-17T06:51:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by leechbabe \* > \*\*Inconsistent - you can’t be banned if you follow the rules! > > hehe, I did a debate thingy 🙂 \*\* Oops, well I believe we all know I meant don’t. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/309 "2003-07-17T06:52:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by leechbabe \* > Inconsistent - you can’t be banned if you follow the rules! > > hehe, I did a debate thingy 🙂 Almost. **Col** said he endeavors/ed to follow the rules. That means he will try. That does not (for the purposes of this point, and meant to imply jack shit about anything else) mean he will succeed. I will leave the “point” that one can be banned and still have followed the rules to one of the resident “411 M0d5 4R3 N4z!5!!!111!!!1”-ites. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/310 "2003-07-17T07:03:28Z")
Well, Collounsbury, I hope you DON’T get banned again, even if I don’t always agree with you. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/311 "2003-07-17T07:07:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\*Well, Collounsbury, I hope you DON’T get banned again, even if I don’t always agree with you. \*\* Well you’re right out of the Fan Club then, right out. Er, by the way, for full clarifiction for that unfortunate line, I really read myself as saying “don’t intend” ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/312 "2003-07-17T07:22:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Collounsbury \* > \*\*Well you’re right out of the Fan Club then, right out. > > Er, by the way, for full clarifiction for that unfortunate line, I really read myself as saying “don’t intend” \*\* Well thats what you say now… ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/313 "2003-07-17T10:09:47Z")
Col > [@](#): > > In any case, I don’t believe my brownness, or lack thereof, is of real relevance, is it? No, it isn’t. But don’t dispair. The remedial reading comprehension class, where you will learn to discern meaning from combinations of words, begins on Friday. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/314 "2003-07-17T10:17:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*Col > > No, it isn’t. But don’t dispair. The remedial reading comprehension class, where you will learn to discern meaning from combinations of words, begins on Friday. \*\* Now you’re getting the hang of it! Bravo, good work. You need to throw in a bit more, but it’s a start. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strikes-does-collounsbury-get/188224/315 "2003-07-17T10:24:59Z")
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