# I Pit all the MPSIMS tards who are currently drowning the Pit in boring crap **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614 "2009-07-01T19:34:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/61 "2009-07-01T23:49:47Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > You’re a humorless nitwit. Please don’t stand too close to me, as I’m desperately afraid that whatever’s wrong with your head might be contagious. Oh, I forgot to mention this. Seriously? I can see you right now: “I just called someone a **nitwit**!” Did you get that from Highlights magazine? You’re probably enjoying a little thrill as you think to yourself that you might be crossing the line from Gallant to Goofus. But you’re still a pre-pubescent boy with a name that could have come from the Zappa family hanging out in the Raiders locker room during a debate between Andrew Dice Clay and Richard Pryor. Pussy. ---
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/62 "2009-07-01T23:53:43Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > True enough. I’ve been getting that all day, from a variety of sources. The fact is, I just wasn’t feeling the righteous wrath. After all, the people posting all the tepid OPs weren’t doing it to bug me, they just didn’t know any better. Like a puppy that pees on the floor. > > Still, I wish I’d had you write the OP. Your post is much better than mine. It’s actually been bugging me for some time, but I just haven’t had the energy. Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that. But you have piqued my desire to invent a way to hit people with a rolled-up newspaper over the internet. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/63 "2009-07-01T23:58:24Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > But you have piqued my desire to invent a way to hit people with a rolled-up newspaper over the internet. Now, _there’s_ a pussy image. I say use a mallet. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/64 "2009-07-01T23:59:11Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Now, _there’s_ a pussy image. I say use a mallet. Electric shocks, baby. The computer _already has electricity in it_! ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/65 "2009-07-02T00:32:17Z")
> [@Gfactor](#): > > I’ve moved threads based on those rules, and I’ll continue to do it. I’ve been a bit distracted lately, and I don’t think I got any reports, and I didn’t notice how many there were. I’ll try to keep a better handle on it. But if you see a thread and you think I should move it, please report it. It makes my job easier. > > **Gfactor** > Pit Moderator Any thread with “Lame”, “Weak”, or OG forbid “Mini-rants” right in the thread title should be moved or closed, IMO. If it’s that lame, and it _always_ is, why can’t the tards post in MPSIMS? ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/66 "2009-07-02T00:51:45Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > i dunno, i could definitely find uses for a middle finger smiley. and WALLAH! ‹^› ‹(•¿•)› ‹^› ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/67 "2009-07-02T01:02:20Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > and WALLAH! ‹^› ‹(•¿•)› ‹^› That’s “voila”, you uneducated oaf. Hey, just trying to keep in the spirit of things. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/68 "2009-07-02T01:03:22Z")
> [@HongKongFooey](#): > > Really? That’s the kind of moronic shite you _want to read about?_ Wow, that’s some riveting outrage right there. I’d love to read about whiny lameasses who crying about bent books. Fuck-ing exciting that is. Different strokes for different folks. The mailman thread was interesting to me. Although I guess this one is too, because here I am posting in it again, right? But my initial reaction to this OP was, “ugh, this stupid rant again?” People aren’t ranting about things that **Giraffe** thinks are rant-worthy. Boo fucking hoo. I’m sorry I’m not more riveted by the outrageousness of this thread topic. Wait, actually I’m not sorry at all. ETA: That being said – and I am really only bothering to edit this post because of the total rarity of what I’m about to say – I agree with **Carol Stream** that if you’re already announcing that your thread is lame or weak in the actual thread title, you might as well not post it at all. ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/69 "2009-07-02T01:08:52Z")
> [@mswhatsit](#): > > wait, actually i’m not sorry at all. omigod, ULTIMATE BURN!!! ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/70 "2009-07-02T01:13:42Z")
Out of genuine curiosity, why are there no caps in my quoted text or username? Did you actually go to the trouble of retyping the entire quote? Why not just hit the Quote Post button? ---
**Author:** ![Pedro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pedro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pedro)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/71 "2009-07-02T01:42:04Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > You’re different from me. And that’s bad. Is it my problem if you’re limited to words? Your gripe is like me bitching about you using too many "w"s in one of your posts–you know which one. Smileys exist for a reason. Only an ignoramus could not envy and admire your scholarly mastery of smiley language. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/72 "2009-07-02T03:02:13Z")
**Gfactor** , can you please recommend some threads that are good for the Pit? Then I can decide if you are right. “The BBQ Pit is the forum for rants about the outside world…” That could mean a lot of things, so I just want to know what you think that means. Like, in terms of what should be put in this forum. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/73 "2009-07-02T03:22:00Z")
> [@Creaky](#): > > **Gfactor** , can you please recommend some threads that are good for the Pit? > Then I can decide if you are right. > > “The BBQ Pit is the forum for rants about the outside world…” That’s very general, but with any set of rules, you can’t just read the opening phrase and stop. The rules that I quoted explain the sorts of things that _aren’t_ appropriate, and if those get reported, I move them. I don’t necessarily have a vision of what’s “good for the pit.” Some of the threads that \*\*Giraffe \*\*and others cited above are examples of threads that don’t belong in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/74 "2009-07-02T03:30:04Z")
Thank you for reading and responding. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/75 "2009-07-02T03:34:48Z")
It’s supposed to be ‘Thank you for reading and responding, _cockmongler_.’ This is why we can’t have nice things in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/76 "2009-07-02T03:38:54Z")
> [@Jeff](#): > > It’s supposed to be ‘Thank you for reading and responding, _cockmongler_.’ > > This is why we can’t have nice things in the Pit. Unfortunately my, like, totally severe WASP training only allows me to think things like that, not write or say them. (Shyeah, right. :D) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/77 "2009-07-02T03:45:15Z")
Maybe it would help if you typed out the words FO EN ET IK ALY. GEEF ak TOR is a CAWK mun guh ler. Try it and see! ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/78 "2009-07-02T03:47:03Z")
> [@Jeff](#): > > Maybe it would help if you typed out the words FO EN ET IK ALY. > > GEEF ak TOR is a CAWK mun guh ler. > > Try it and see! Okay, that was funny. I swear, it took me a couple of reads to get that! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/79 "2009-07-02T04:48:02Z")
Be funny if this thread were bounced to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-the-mpsims-tards-who-are-currently-drowning-the-pit-in-boring-crap/501614/80 "2009-07-02T04:54:01Z")
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