# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/61 "2019-11-16T16:16:58Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Also, you really should do something about the misogyny implicit in your choice of insults. Don’t be such a skirt. ---
**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, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/62 "2019-11-16T16:17:06Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Yeah, whatever. > > See you again, next time you start to feel like you’re running on fumes and need your tank filled. My God! Your wit cuts like a razor and pierces like a rapier! Kayla is truly blessed to have a dad with your command of the English language. ---
**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, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/63 "2019-11-16T16:57:56Z")
**Scumpup** is also too stupid to understand that to be effective, an insult has to have some element of truth. You can’t insult Manute Bol for being short, or Bill Gates for being poor, or Kate Moss for being fat. Also, random insults that have nothing to do with the poster don’t work. **Scumpup** does his best to piss people off, but all he succeeds in doing is have people ridicule him. He isn’t even an effective or interesting troll. Anyway, I’m out. Seeing someone who is evidently in his late sixties (at least) getting his jollies by trolling a message board is just too sad and pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/64 "2019-11-16T17:12:53Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > **Scumpup** is also too stupid to understand … You have to hand it to Scumpup, Octopus, HD and the usual suspects for building up a brand name on the board. It’s a lot like seeing a building with the Trump name on it. You don’t care about what’s in it, you instinctively have the urge to burn it down because you just know that nothing in it can come to any good. ---
**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, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/65 "2019-11-16T17:19:29Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > It took you, what, two or three hours to compose that? Be honest now, when you posted it, you did so with a real sense of triumph, didn’t you? You never posted a pic in the Arnold Gallery did you? Oh no, that would be waay to good to be true! You’re rising fast in the posters I want to see and enjoy in my “Schadenfreude in Doper Portraits” , right behind Shagnasty and Annie X-mas… ---
**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, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/66 "2019-11-16T17:32:38Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > You have to hand it to Scumpup, Octopus, HD and the usual suspects for building up a brand name on the board. It’s a lot like seeing a building with the Trump name on it. You don’t care about what’s in it, you instinctively have the urge to burn it down because you just know that nothing in it can come to any good. HD? You can type the name H u r r i c a n e D i t k a. I spelled it out slowly just for you. He’s not Voldemort. He can’t hurt you. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/67 "2019-11-16T17:35:23Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Shouldn’t you include that poster Scumpup also? 🙂 I don’t know what he’s saying because I have the dumbfuck on “ignore”. I don’t have any of the posters listed in the title on “ignore” even though I disagree or dislike some of them, because at least they’re posters within ordinary parameters. Scumpup is a useless piece of shit and a waste of time. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/68 "2019-11-16T17:40:30Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > My God! Your wit cuts like a razor and pierces like a rapier! Kayla is truly blessed to have a dad with your command of the English language. I don’t usually engage in threads like this one, but I have to say that you’ve actually got a good grasp of the language and are able to put together some amusing ripostes. But (yes, the dreaded ‘but’) it’s sort of like a person who has a state-of-the-art computer, but uses it to drive fence posts. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/69 "2019-11-16T17:48:03Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > HD? You can type the name H u r r i c a n e D i t k a. I spelled it out slowly just for you. > > He’s not Voldemort. He can’t hurt you. Not worth the effort. Whereas, **Octoputz** , just rolls off the fingertips. ---
**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, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/70 "2019-11-16T17:54:22Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > You never posted a pic in the Arnold Gallery did you? Oh no, that would be waay to good to be true! You’re rising fast in the posters I want to see and enjoy in my “Schadenfreude in Doper Portraits” , right behind Shagnasty and Annie X-mas… Ok. I just browsed that gallery… I’ll say this, even though it’s the pit and you can be mean and all down here, it takes a bit of courage to post your photo like that. With image search and face recognition too much information can be potentially gathered. And that doesn’t even take into account the mean wisecracks people can make about people’s appearances or attire. That said, there are definitely a few outliers in that gallery. ---
**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, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/71 "2019-11-16T18:09:43Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > How many variations on the I’m rubber/you’re glue gambit can Dopers post? We’ll keep finding them as long as one of us saying “Blücher!” makes you whinny nervously. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/72 "2019-11-16T18:58:06Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > My money is on you swallowing a bottle of pills the day this place goes dark. That’s a fucked up thing to say. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/73 "2019-11-16T19:04:25Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > However that may be, you remain a hopeless little person … 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. … Like you, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/74 "2019-11-16T19:06:44Z")
> [@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, They’re a bunch of assholes, and are some really sorry motherfuckers. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/75 "2019-11-16T19:08:04Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Ok. I just browsed that gallery… > > I’ll say this, even though it’s the pit and you can be mean and all down here, it takes a bit of courage to post your photo like that. With image search and face recognition too much information can be potentially gathered. And that doesn’t even take into account the mean wisecracks people can make about people’s appearances or attire. > > That said, there are definitely a few outliers in that gallery. Stoid is way hotter than I expected. So are a couple others. The men??? :o :o ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/76 "2019-11-16T19:10:28Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Don’t be such a skirt. Oh shit. Is he fixin’ to FLOUNCE now? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/77 "2019-11-16T20:44:45Z")
Nobody can be bothered to comment on my poetic effort in #49? :mad: I’m putting all y’all on Ignore. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/78 "2019-11-16T21:19:21Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > My money is on you swallowing a bottle of pills the day this place goes dark. > [@SteveG1](#): > > That’s a fucked up thing to say. Oh, good. He’s still on message. ---
**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, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/79 "2019-11-16T21:53:35Z")
I was actually just about to comment that it’s quite a poem. Non-french speakers probably would appreciate a translation. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522/80 "2019-11-16T23:31:52Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > **Scumpup** does his best to piss people off, but all he succeeds in doing is have people ridicule him. He isn’t even an effective or interesting troll. > > Anyway, I’m out. Seeing someone who is evidently in his late sixties (at least) getting his jollies by trolling a message board is just too sad and pathetic. You’re a mod, he is a troll, he is trolling people. So why not moderate him? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522.md?page=5)