# I don't give a FUCK if your car is "For Sale" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 6, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592 "2006-08-06T19:30:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/261 "2006-08-09T14:54:46Z")
[QUOTE=Crotalus] Have you read through [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=367256) mess? Hardly mellow, certainly off-the-wall. [/QUOTE] That, by the way, is an excellent example of him fleeing when challenged. His rationalizations for not taking the bet define mealy-mouthed. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/262 "2006-08-09T15:15:47Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] unless he’s gaming us, which would be uncharacteristic of him in the past. [/QUOTE] You’re kidding? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/263 "2006-08-09T16:21:11Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] [There could be a reasonable explanation for this trainwreck!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9P-5w6BzXU) [/QUOTE] **drmark** logged in as **Aeschines**? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/264 "2006-08-09T22:17:24Z")
Why is this thread still open? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/265 "2006-08-09T22:42:46Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Why is this thread still open? [/QUOTE] You’re not exactly helping. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/266 "2006-08-09T22:49:15Z")
[QUOTE=duffer] You’re not exactly helping. :dubious: [/QUOTE] Yeh, well, look who’s typing! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/267 "2006-08-09T23:19:42Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Why is this thread still open? [/QUOTE] Why should it be closed? ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/268 "2006-08-10T00:34:20Z")
O ye foolish, O ye abased! Surely you have heard the myth of [Procrustes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes): > [@](#): > > In Greek mythology, Procrustes (the stretcher), also known as Damastes (subduer) and Polypemon (harming much), was a bandit from Attica. He had his stronghold in the hills outside Eleusis. There, he had an iron bed into which he invited every passerby to lie down. If the guest proved too tall, he would amputate the excess length; if the victim was found too short, he was then stretched out on the rack until he fit. Nobody would ever fit in the bed because it was secretly adjustable: Procrustes would stretch or shrink it upon sizing his victims from afar. Procrustes continued his reign of terror until he was captured by Theseus, who “fitted” Procrustes to his own bed and cut off his head and feet (since Theseus was a stout fellow, the bed had been set on the short position). Killing Procrustes was the last adventure of Theseus on his journey from Troezen to Athens. > > **Derived meanings** > > A Procrustean bed is an arbitrary standard to which exact conformity is forced. On the SDMB, we have the Cecrustean Bed (Cecil + Procrustes). Any post or series of posts that a) does not kiss the ass of the self-styled elite here and b) is not immediately intelligible to that same elite and their toadies will be forced post haste into one of the following categories: 1. Meltdown/flameout 2. Insanity/failure to take medication 3. High-intensity drug use 4. Trolling My posts are none of these, but if it makes you comfortable thus to categorize them–as apparently it does–then I suppose there’s no stopping you from doing so. But you ignorant. You are foolish. You are the oyster that would spit out the pearl-building grain of sand. You are the mob both of myth and reality. There have been many who would not let your ignorance and pettiness and mob mentality stand. They have been the victims of your autos de fe, the ultimate source of your joy: Banning. The purification of the tribe. Their names include, but are not limited to, **Reverend Mykeru, Snakespirit, drmark200, mswas.** Fighting ignorance? To an extent. Abetting ignorance? To an extent. Representing how ugly and destructive the sociology of an anonymous board must always be? You bet. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/269 "2006-08-10T00:36:54Z")
You spent all day writing that? ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/270 "2006-08-10T00:51:28Z")
> [@](#): > > In Greek mythology, Procrustes (the stretcher), also known as Damastes (subduer) and Polypemon (harming much), was a bandit from Attica. He had his stronghold in the hills outside Eleusis. There, he had an iron bed into which he invited every passerby to lie down. If the guest proved too tall, he would amputate the excess length; if the victim was found too short, he was then stretched out on the rack until he fit. Nobody would ever fit in the bed because it was secretly adjustable: Procrustes would stretch or shrink it upon sizing his victims from afar. It’s a little known fact that Procrustes was not actually trying to do anyone any harm. He thought the bed was supposed to work that way, because the operator’s manual proved to be one of **Aeschines’s** half-assed translations from the original Japanese. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/271 "2006-08-10T00:56:51Z")
[QUOTE=Aeschines] But you ignorant. [/QUOTE] You not brightest bulb on neon sign yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/272 "2006-08-10T00:58:32Z")
[QUOTE=Linty Fresh] He thought the bed was supposed to work that way, because the operator’s manual proved to be one of **Aeschines’s** half-assed translations from the original Japanese. [/QUOTE] Actually, I don’t translate instruction manuals. I translate Japanese into ad copy, press releases, and other promotional materials used around the world. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/273 "2006-08-10T01:06:07Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] Naah. **Aeschines** has been a relatively mellow arguer for admittedly off-the-wall viewpoints in the past. This appears to be either an extended meltdown or some sort of serious problem surfacing – unless he’s gaming us, which would be uncharacteristic of him in the past. [/QUOTE] You’re joking, right? **Aeschines**? Mellow? The guy’s just about the most arrogant, rage-choked asshole on the entire board. Calling **Aeschines** “mellow” is like calling the Sahara desert “damp.” ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/274 "2006-08-10T01:14:19Z")
Is it me, or are we running late on this one. Normally Aeschines rails against the board elite and mourns the loss of his kindred spirits on page three or four. Gotta love him though. He hates hates hates hates the board and all of the cliqueish snobs on it but he keeps on paying the dues. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/275 "2006-08-10T01:29:12Z")
[QUOTE=Aeschines] Actually, I don’t translate instruction manuals. I translate Japanese into ad copy, press releases, and other promotional materials used around the world. [/QUOTE] I think I might have read some of your stuff. "If you drink the Soy Milk, you will receive the many smilingly feelings and have happy happy intercourse. If you don’t, you’re a fucking moron. Soy Milk. Not for fucking morons who not wish to have happy happy intercourse." ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/276 "2006-08-10T01:29:31Z")
[QUOTE=Aeschines] 1. Meltdown/flameout 2. Insanity/failure to take medication 3. High-intensity drug use 4. Trolling [/QUOTE] 5. Twat ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/277 "2006-08-10T01:36:00Z")
[QUOTE=Linty Fresh] Soy Milk. Not for fucking morons who not wish to have happy happy intercourse." [/QUOTE] Ah yes, a very successful campaign. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/278 "2006-08-10T01:48:56Z")
[QUOTE=Aeschines] Actually, I don’t translate instruction manuals. I translate Japanese into ad copy, press releases, and other promotional materials used around the world. [/QUOTE] Hmmm… Remember in the early to mid '80’s when it just didn’t seem possible for the US to keep up with Japan? Now we know why the Japanese economy took a relative turn for the worse. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/279 "2006-08-10T01:55:18Z")
[QUOTE=duffer] Hmmm… [/QUOTE] Why are you even here, **duffer**? You and I are not enemies, nor are you like the others. You are their despised wretch, their laughing stock! You have no purpose in this mob. I will not ask you to join me, as I must stand alone, but I may and do ask you to stand apart from this vulgar rabble. Be your own man! Proclaim your independence! ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592/280 "2006-08-10T01:58:32Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] The guy’s just about the most arrogant, rage-choked asshole on the entire board. [/QUOTE] Calumny. Lies! I’m not arrogant. I merely stand independently for truth and against the base groupthink of these boards. Indeed, to the false elite here, independence equals = arrogance. Like **duffer** , **Miller** , you have the power to think for yourself. Yet you choose not to _act_ for yourself. What a waste. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-your-car-is-for-sale/367592.md?page=15)