# Hurricane Ditka, Shodan, Octopus, and BigT... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 16, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522 "2019-11-16T02:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/21 "2019-11-16T03:37:29Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Were these PMs sent to you personally? Yup, [among others.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21581143&postcount=60) **Scumpup** tries his best to be annoying, but I’ve come to regard him with pity. He describes himself as a recently retired teacher. But he evidently is so friendless that one of his main sources of amusement is to troll anonymous message boards like a twelve year old. He likes to portray himself as a ruff-tuff biker type and tell people about his great big knives, but he’s clearly a very lonely individual. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/22 "2019-11-16T03:40:51Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Why is that enjoyable to you? Because I’m bored and drunk on a Friday night 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/23 "2019-11-16T03:44:19Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Yup, [among others.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21581143&postcount=60) > > **Scumpup** tries his best to be annoying, but I’ve come to regard him with pity. He describes himself as a recently retired teacher. But he evidently is so friendless that one of his main sources of amusement is to troll anonymous message boards like a twelve year old. He likes to portray himself as a ruff-tuff biker type and tell people about his great big knives, but he’s clearly a very lonely individual. However that may be, you remain a hopeless little person who, absent his board title, would be that little nobody who shows up to say something shitty in Pit threads and then vanishes. You are nobody. You are utterly unimportant. Nothing you can say about me, even if true, will change your lack of consequence in the world outside this board. Fuck you and fuck your title, you miserable little wart. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/24 "2019-11-16T03:44:42Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Yup, [among others.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21581143&postcount=60) > > **Scumpup** tries his best to be annoying, but I’ve come to regard him with pity. He describes himself as a recently retired teacher. But he evidently is so friendless that one of his main sources of amusement is to troll anonymous message boards like a twelve year old. He likes to portray himself as a ruff-tuff biker type and tell people about his great big knives, but he’s clearly a very lonely individual. He sent a mod, among others, abusive messages and yet he still posts here. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/25 "2019-11-16T03:45:47Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > He sent a mod, among others, abusive messages and yet he still posts here. Huh. That is kind of strange. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/26 "2019-11-16T03:46:03Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > My money is on you swallowing a bottle of pills the day this place goes dark. Aren’t you a singular waste of space. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/27 "2019-11-16T03:48:58Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > However that may be, you remain a hopeless little person who, absent his board title, would be that little nobody who shows up to say something shitty in Pit threads and then vanishes. You are nobody. You are utterly unimportant. Nothing you can say about me, even if true, will change your lack of consequence in the world outside this board. Fuck you and fuck your title, you miserable little wart. Don’t know what your squabble is with **Colibri** , but long before he was a mod and while he is a mod, he has been educating many of us in science, especially biology. I know you’ve been around a long time but like me, you will not be noticeably missed when and if you leave. \*\*Colibri \*\*will be. OK, resume the weird pit thread. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/28 "2019-11-16T03:57:21Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > He sent a mod, among others, abusive messages and yet he still posts here. Huh. He received a warning for that one. Unfortunately others weren’t reported so we couldn’t take action. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/29 "2019-11-16T04:04:07Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Don’t know what your squabble is with **Colibri** , . The “squabble” is that I warned him for being a jerk to another poster, and he responded with abusive PMs. So now he takes every opportunity to attack me. He has a special ability to make himself look worse by the insults he chooses to post about others. I think they’re largely projection. Anyway, thanks for the remarks. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/30 "2019-11-16T04:05:40Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Because I’m bored and drunk on a Friday night 🙂 Oh, well that kinda sucks. I’m sorry. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/31 "2019-11-16T04:06:36Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > He received a warning for that one. Unfortunately others weren’t reported so we couldn’t take action. Well, shit, I never clean out my PMs, so I have a few lying around from back when he kept PMing me to call me princess in this weird, unsolicited-dick-pic kind of way. Four years old, though (the PMs, not him). Too late? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/32 "2019-11-16T04:19:45Z")
The board members I mentioned in my first post still have my admiration for the stated reason. **Colibri** remains a shitty little person who, absent his title and the protections it affords him, would have little to say outside the habits of hummingbirds, ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/33 "2019-11-16T04:25:55Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > The board members I mentioned in my first post still have my admiration for the stated reason. **Colibri** remains a shitty little person who, absent his title and the protections it affords him, would have little to say outside the habits of hummingbirds, That’s a very choadable observation on your part, I must say. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/34 "2019-11-16T04:36:31Z")
**Colibri** has my permission to post every PM I ever sent him here. He can also tell us how they gave him PTSD and made him cry himself to sleep at night. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/35 "2019-11-16T04:36:40Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > The board members I mentioned in my first post still have my admiration for the stated reason. **Colibri** remains a shitty little person who, absent his title and the protections it affords him, would have little to say outside the habits of hummingbirds, He does have the prettiest avatar on the boards though. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/36 "2019-11-16T05:11:10Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > He does have the prettiest avatar on the boards though. Thank you very much. Although we have had words, you have a much cuter avatar than you deserve. Credit where credit is due;) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/37 "2019-11-16T05:13:59Z")
One of the problems **Scumpup** has is that he’s too stupid to realize that he is so generally loathed that anything he posts in the Pit is going to turn into a reverse pitting within a few posts. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/38 "2019-11-16T05:20:30Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Although we have had words, you have a much cuter avatar than you deserve. Wow. Kinder words than I’ve ever received from Colibri. Good work!! Er, yeah, good work! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/39 "2019-11-16T05:26:04Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Wow. Kinder words than I’ve ever received from Colibri. Good work!! Er, yeah, good work! I don’t recall we’ve ever had words, but maybe I’m forgetting. But where’s your avatar, dude? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/40 "2019-11-16T05:28:17Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I don’t recall we’ve ever had words, but maybe I’m forgetting. But where’s your avatar, dude? Ok, I see I warned you three years ago, but you didn’t send me an abusive PM, which is a plus! Bygones!🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522.md?page=3)