# I pit burglars **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 19, 2017, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535 "2017-01-19T12:04:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/101 "2017-01-19T22:53:21Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Well if youa re quibbling like that, then it sounds like you are OK with him being vandalized. Not in that I would advocate or condone such actions of vandalism, but in that I care that his window was broken, not one bit. Were he robbed, I’d care slightly. Were anyone to actually suffer injury, I would actually care quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/102 "2017-01-19T22:56:27Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Hey, look: another Republican asking a liberal to bail him out of his financial difficulties. > > Must be Thursday. Hey, look - another jackass braying in this thread and exhibiting total lack of reading comprehension skills. Must be just another day on the Dope. Miller, go back and read what I posted until you understand it. Big clue - I was NOT asking him to bail me out. Does that help? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/103 "2017-01-19T23:05:16Z")
Awwww. Did the pity party not go as you expected? So sorry. Do you still not give a shit for those people who are going to lose their healthcare? ---
**Author:** ![Grim\_Render](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Grim\_Render](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grim_Render)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/104 "2017-01-19T23:07:52Z")
So thats what you take from this. > [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > A lot of it is because of the whole fighting ignorance thing and a lot of it is a genuinely hostile environment for anyone with conservative views. Fair point. But I think a lot of that comes from what modern conservatism have evolved into, and how its pretty much allied to ignorance. I suspect that back in the 70s when the left was gibbering about how Albania was the lighthouse of socialism and absolutly something to pattern out economic policies on, the positions would have been reversed. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/105 "2017-01-19T23:18:45Z")
Clothahump, in your other thread, I asked a question. A serious question, and one I (and others) were genuinely interested in hearing the answer. I was ignored. That’s fine. I expected to be sworn at, so I guess ignoring is an improvement. But watching you repeatedly tell posters to \*Fuck Off \*makes me wonder about your offline persona. If you are as thorny as you are here, I would count myself lucky, if I were you, that everything inside the school was not shredded and vandalized. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/106 "2017-01-19T23:25:24Z")
Sorry your school got vandalized/broken into. (I’m assuming the former, but it doesn’t really matter.) Hope they get the prick. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/107 "2017-01-19T23:57:19Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > [Interior shot.](http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/Clothahump/Taekwondo/SchoolInterior_zpsx1ryzktb.jpg) Why do you keep calling that a school? Is that some American thing, trying to pretend legitimacy for a crappy little business by calling it a school? Whats wrong with “gym” or “storage space”? ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/108 "2017-01-20T00:55:45Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Why do you keep calling that a school? Is that some American thing, trying to pretend legitimacy for a crappy little business by calling it a school? Whats wrong with “gym” or “storage space”? Oooh, I hadn’t seen this. Yeah, its not unusual to call it a tae kwon do dojang a school. Why is that weird? How is it any different than a music school or art school? What I want to know is who is the grand poobah with the fancy looking staff. ---
**Author:** ![HeXen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/109 "2017-01-20T01:00:18Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Whine whine whine. [Suck it up, buttercup](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=816352). The burn > [@Clothahump](#): > > Fuck off. The butthurt ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/110 "2017-01-20T01:05:30Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Hey, look - another jackass braying in this thread and exhibiting total lack of reading comprehension skills. > > Must be just another day on the Dope. > > Miller, go back and read what I posted until you understand it. Big clue - I was NOT asking him to bail me out. Does that help? You’re the guy who thought “micro aggression” was referring to your broken window. And you’re telling others that they can’t read? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/111 "2017-01-20T01:26:43Z")
I think I finally get the OP’s username after learning he’s a Tae Kwan Doer. It’s “Clot the hump,” much like “hit that punk on side the head.” ---
**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:** [January 20, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/112 "2017-01-20T01:34:58Z")
Broken window, huh? Why not call over your hero Rudy Giuliani to fix it? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/113 "2017-01-20T01:35:23Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I think I finally get the OP’s username after learning he’s a Tae Kwan Doer. It’s “Clot the hump,” much like “hit that punk on side the head.” In truth, it’s the name of one of the main characters in Alan Dean Foster’s _[Spellsinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellsinger)_ series. > [@](#): > > The old turtle wizard Clothahump brings Jon-Tom to his world while casting a spell seeking an otherworldly wizard to help save his own world. **His magic sought to bring an “engineer” to his world, and he got what he was seeking in Jon-Tom: a part-time janitor or “Sanitation Engineer.”** He is notoriously manipulative of his associates, albeit in the service of benign intentions. This is why our **Clothahump** is so viciously hateful toward “political correctness”. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/114 "2017-01-20T01:56:38Z")
Not just political correctness. ---
**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/115 "2017-01-20T02:00:16Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > We can take this to the butt hurt snowflake thread but the fact of the matter is that a lot of folks on the left are incredibly butthurt little snowflakes right now. Particularly the “Ready for Hillary” crowd. Well, yeah, it’s clear _you_ think this - and it obviously bothers you, which, fine, whatever gets your dander up. But it’s bad form to accuse your opponents of playing politics (referencing C’s political opinions to mock his misfortune) while calling them butthurt snowflakes. And no, I don’t feel the need to go roond and round with you about how butthurt which snowflakes are. I got my hair cut today - the conversation in the barbershop provided my ration of macho political preening for the next few weeks. (One patron’s solution to illegal immigration: pull up your van to Home Depot, load up some day laborers, drive 'em down to TJ, and repeat! Haw, haw!) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/116 "2017-01-20T15:01:09Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > In truth, it’s the name of one of the main characters in Alan Dean Foster’s _[Spellsinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellsinger)_ series. OK, that just totally makes my brain melt. Clot is named after a turtle wizard? That is so not the avatar I would associate with him. It’s like G. Gordon Liddy using a Care Bear as his icon. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/117 "2017-01-20T15:10:16Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Oooh, I hadn’t seen this. > > Yeah, its not unusual to call it a tae kwon do dojang a school. Why is that weird? How is it any different than a music school or art school? I’m a bit surprised he’d use the term “school,” with all its negative associations with ivory-tower intellectuals and their libraries of condescending “books” filled with so-called “facts” derived from “evidence” and “research” and “scholarship,” as if one couldn’t get a perfectly solid education just from listening to Rush and Hannity and reading World Net Daily and liking anti-Obama memes on Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![Grim\_Render](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Grim\_Render](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grim_Render)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/118 "2017-01-20T15:21:53Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > OK, that just totally makes my brain melt. Clot is named after a turtle wizard? That is so not the avatar I would associate with him. It’s like G. Gordon Liddy using a Care Bear as his icon. Yes, I immediately got the wrong impression when I first saw his username. It is a very hippy book series too. I was quite amused by the city guardsman scolding off the overly social communist Dragon which was burning down his city, because he was so high on drugs he was convinced the Dragon was a hallucination. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/119 "2017-01-20T17:24:09Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > I’d be glad to donate to the cause of you getting a clue, but unfortunately I don’t think my petty cash will help in that fool’s errand. That’s what I thought. Just another running mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/120 "2017-01-20T17:25:40Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > I agree, and almost regret my attempt at some humor in this thread. > > . . . however, it does feel a bit galling for someone to spend a lot of energy intentionally acting like an ass to other people on this board, and then turn around and implicitly ask those same people for sympathy. > > A broken window is a low-stakes, low-impact piece of suffering, and if folks want to take this opportunity to say, “how dare you call on us for comfort, after the way you’ve treated us,” well, I don’t blame them too much. I wasn’t asking for sympathy. I was pitting a burglar, nothing more. If I were looking for sympathy, I’d be asking for donations to help pay for the window. I’m not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535.md?page=7)