# I just posted in Great Debates **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2014, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426 "2014-05-01T09:26:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/1 "2014-05-01T09:26:52Z")
because it got my “Irish” up. I rarely go there, don’t see the sense of it. It was a New Topic I reacted to. Can we get that list annotated with hot peppers like on a Chinese food menu? ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/2 "2014-05-01T09:51:38Z")
I was so nervous my first time. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/3 "2014-05-01T12:03:43Z")
It’s like a circle jerk; oddly compelling but a bad memory. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/4 "2014-05-01T12:50:15Z")
I have almost never posted in GD. Don’t even visit it for years at a time. But I posted in the recent Aereo thread. (I only knew it existed since it started elsewhere before being moved.) Got worried. Goofed a bit. No one jumped down my throat. Okay, then. Maybe go back in 2018. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/5 "2014-05-01T12:53:12Z")
Relax. It’s far from great. And rarely a debate. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/6 "2014-05-01T13:01:57Z")
I’ve done a bad thing, Becky. I’ve followed that trail and um… posted there. _ashamed_ It was a bombshell in yesterday’s news buried by Putin’s shirtless flexing in the Ukraine, some plane that crashed over a month ago, racism discovered in the NBA, an end for the need for warrants in PA, tornadoes dropping on people from the Atlantic to the Rockies whether they believe in Global Warming or not, a train that’s burning in VA, a jail that exploded in FL (that Rick Scott wants to swap for the burning train) and of course News In Canada (evidently its illegal to bet on whether the dead whales or Rob Ford will explode first, but small children are advised to avoid either to minimize collateral damage). All I really learned from the GD thread is that Hollywood got it wrong: “The End of Days” is evidently Not heralded by a kinky three-way with Gabriel Byrne… ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/7 "2014-05-01T13:16:02Z")
Cite? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/8 "2014-05-01T13:39:25Z")
Her post is her cite. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/9 "2014-05-01T13:58:47Z")
For the curious, here is Becky’s post - [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17338423&postcount=3](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17338423&postcount=3) In which she defends IRA commander and accused murderer Gerry Adams as an honest man being hounded by yellow journalism for political reasons. > [@](#): > > Bow up and whoa there, jack. Adams was instrumental in the peace while people were still carrying guns and shooting each other in the kneecaps. For him to now be “against” blah blah Commision is politics. “Widowed mother” the article goes…(push another button why dontcha)…all _I_ see is Too easy—fall guy—and political manipulation. The Troubles are too complex to understand easily but at the end of the day, an honest man is still honest and a knot may be for naught. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/10 "2014-05-01T14:42:44Z")
What is the American English (as opposed to Irish/Welsh/Canadian/Australian/English English) translation of - “Bow up and whoa there, jack”? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/11 "2014-05-01T14:51:28Z")
Well, a true debate has to have opposing sides. There is a role to be filled by being an the wrong side, and you filled it well. Sorry, the focking IRA pushes MY buttons. Murdering thugs. Gerry Adams was “instrumental in the peace process” just like Hitler was “instrumental” in the Nuremberg trials, i.e., the reason they exist. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/12 "2014-05-01T15:21:21Z")
No, no. The peace process wouldn’t have happened at all without Adams’ buy in. He deserves credit for his part in that - even if he did benefit personally by way of greater respectability and authority. But he’s no innocent and he’s not an honest man. I’m glad Jean McConville’s family will get their day in court. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/13 "2014-05-01T15:22:52Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > What is the American English (as opposed to Irish/Welsh/Canadian/Australian/English English) translation of - “Bow up and whoa there, jack”? “I am about to say something silly,” judging by the context (though admittedly the OP wasn’t very accurate either.) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/14 "2014-05-01T15:36:41Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Relax. It’s far from great. And rarely a debate. It’s mostly the same 10-20 posters going round and round and round. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/15 "2014-05-01T17:20:31Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Cite? > > Regards, > Shodan Sight! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/16 "2014-05-01T17:45:16Z")
My very first post on the Dope was in GD.\* I was sneeringly applauded for being brave enough to do so. \*I was rude about something **Johnny L.A.** said way back then that ticked me off. I am sorry, sort of. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/17 "2014-05-01T18:55:15Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Well, a true debate has to have opposing sides. There is a role to be filled by being an the wrong side, and you filled it well. > > Sorry, the focking IRA pushes MY buttons. Murdering thugs. > > Gerry Adams was “instrumental in the peace process” just like Hitler was “instrumental” in the Nuremberg trials, i.e., the reason they exist. > [@Merneith](#): > > No, no. The peace process wouldn’t have happened at all without Adams’ buy in. He deserves credit for his part in that - even if he did benefit personally by way of greater respectability and authority. But he’s no innocent and he’s not an honest man. I’m glad Jean McConville’s family will get their day in court. Take the debate to the appropriate thread – which isn’t this one. Thanks, **twicks** ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/18 "2014-05-01T23:04:20Z")
I usually stay right the hell out of Great Debates. I never post there and seldom lurk there. I find it saves my sanity - what little of it I have, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/19 "2014-05-01T23:11:22Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > “I am about to say something silly,” judging by the context (though admittedly the OP wasn’t very accurate either.) Basically it means WAIT a minute. I’m going to have to do a better job of noticing where I’m posting. 😛 I’ve gone to the Pit a few times but don’t feel comfortable there, either, but I think a lot of folks feel that way. Just getting the hang of catching on to zombie threads. Oh well, it’s a process… ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426/20 "2014-05-02T17:11:27Z")
GD always has someone lurking just for one reason to ask you for a cite and then they do more research than you do to prove you wrong … when they could’ve looked up their own damn cite in the first place and then they expect you to sit around all day playing ping pong with their wisdom compared to your wisdom. They should call it the pit and get it over with … 😃 One more complaint if someone else has already had a thread on your subject your not suppose to bring it up … duh unwritten rules! You don’t think this thread will go there do you? I would hate for them to find out what I think lol [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-posted-in-great-debates/687426.md?page=2)