I hate to do this, handy...

You’re all welcome to join the handy depreciation society.

Am I the only one who secretly hopes that he does something really stupid and gets banned with 9,999 posts?

Also, sometimes Anniz and I will play a game while reading the boards together called “Along comes handy.” The game is to look at the list of threads in a forum (usually GQ), and figure out which ones handy will post to.

Oh, and Demo, add me to the “me too” list, but it’s all in vain: handy’s too good to read Pit threads about him, apparently.

Wow, Billdo, great research. Well done!
Monfort, sorry I missed that thread. I’m not usually one to visit The Pit much. I have noticed that he conveniently ignores any corrections or criticism.
Mods, maybe, instead of banning, you could put something like “Misinformation Propagator” instead of “member”. :smiley:

When that last discussion went on for so long, I noticed that he never seems to turn up in the pit, so I sent him an email informing him of the thread. I got a reply back that he knew about his “fans”. He probably reads them, though his handle is a normal word, and doesn’t lend itself to doing searches for mention of himself.

(Just in case, hi, handy. I’ll continue to discuss him in the third person, however, as appropriate for pit analyses.)

He’s usually misinformed, occasionally funny, and once in a while makes a decent practical suggestion. It doesn’t bother me that much because he’s also brief. I would debate that most of his postlets are followed by somebody immediately correcting him. I would say that most of them simply pass without comment.

Sometime, when you see his name as the last poster on a number of threads, look at the elapsed time between replies. “Drive by posting” is a damn good description. However, we’ve all seen long rambling stream-of-conciousness tripe from posters who just post whatever comes into their head while they type. A “brief encounter with handy” is infinitely prefferable to those jokers. And far easier to shrug off.

That was my interpretation of Billdo’s post.

I think you all are easily bothered and should find something more important to complain about.

I hope you don’t tear apart people in this fasion in your everyday lives. In fact I am certain you don’t, so why do you find it so easy here? Is it like road rage where you feel protected and isolated by your car? Internet make you feel the same way?

For what purpose? Is the ultimate outcome to drive handy away? If its that much of a priority to you I think you need to check your priorities.

I’ve on occassion been irritated by handy’s comments. Generally, though, I’ve been here long enough to know his MO, and tend to view him in a Monty Python sense; as the guy who meanders through the board and offers the Top-o-me-mind to ya. If this were a physical town, I’d share a sandwich, chat a bit, and go back to work. He’s an odd guy, grant you that, but I hope we have room for all kindsa odd sorts here.

Don’t dis the mascot. :smiley:

I don’t mind him. However, I must somewhat concur on the point of misinformation, I’ve literally cringed on a few occasions in GQ. Conversely, 69% of the misinformation is funny so there’s a bright side.

Nope, the ultimate outcome is to fight ignorance, something I don’t see handy doing.

What the mods should do is erase his post count. I have noticed that spammers generally start posting 10 actual good posts instead of 100 crappy ones:) (of course that only happened when the whole board’s post count is erased)

::starts tying the noose::

Quit your own bullshit. Post what you want about what you know. Fuck Your knowledge… and please listen.
Humility.

Coming from the only poster who seriously flipped out over Satan’s inevitable banning (“Ed is a moron for this one.”), this is an interesting accusation. Jeezit, Whammo, handy himself seems less annoyed by handy rants than you. Talk about easily bothered.

This is the Pit, Whamms. You can agree or disagree with the OP, but rants here range from the trivial and insular, al the way up to bitching about the Major Issues of Our Time. There’s no required minimum of gravity. Besides, a person’s posting style has always been fair game.

There’s always legally incorrect information. That’s bound to end in tears:

Lyric Site Legality

I’ve figured it out.

Handy is the Devil. - Since he is the Devil, he knows The Truth

The Truth can bring about world peace, end hunger and overpopulation, eradicate the national debt, stop school violence, and even make Dubya intelligent(impossible as that may seem). It can cure cancer, the common cold, depression, mad cow and hoof and mouth disease (at the same time!), nicotine addiction, stubborn acne and the heartbreak of psoriasis. It can help you lose those unwanted pounds. It can make Eve a best seller, manhattan so wealthy he throws the largest Dopefest in history, MarkSerlin broadminded and unselfish, bj0rn intelligible, and get Odieman a date.
Handy knows that The Truth is not immediately obvious - on first reading it may seem silly or downright stupid.
Handy knows that we are the people best suited to implementing The Truth and making all of this come true.

And The Truth can be expressed in one or two sentences. This is handy’s diabolical plot - his drive-by style of nonsensical posting is tricking us into believing that everything he says is wrong. Then one day he will post The Truth and none of us will believe him, in fact, if any of us had happened upon this truth in our thinking, that poster will immediately reject that train of thought and we will continue to have warfare, cancer, and Dubya as President. And once more confusion and ignorance will reign in the land, and that’s the way handy likes it.

Maybe handy’ll post his 10,000th post in here? :smiley:

[sub]Sorry, sorry, bumping an old thread, I’m a bad person, sorry, couldn’t resist the joke, sorry…[/sub]

Esprix

I didn’t read it, but Jebus, was that your fucking Master’s Thesis?

Or here. I’d be flattered if he did. :rolleyes:

I wanted to see handy get reset to 0 on his 9999th post:)

Good one Montfort!

Actually, if you divide his post count by the amount of real information contained, he’s down around a thousand posts and one of the newbies here. Miraculously, I almost never see his posts and can only express disdain that anyone could consume so much bandwidth at these boards and, seemingly, have so little of worth to say.

I guess I’m in the minority on this thread, but I’m with Whammo. Handy shouldn’t be a problem fo you, Demo. Your record isn’t all that much better. It’s like talking in a pub- everyone just comes for a little fun and a little chat, and you are free to listen to whoever you want and ignore whoever you want without being a crybaby about it.

Citations, please? That would basically be showing where Demo was wrong in GQ, or an asshole anywhere but the Pit, or something of that nature.