You people are all wrong about him.
I read it in a book.
Holy crap.
In the thread on a hiker being left behind by his coworkers, I replied to CalMeacham’s post when he was left behind on a tour at Stonehenge. I related a story of almost being left out of the Colosseum - both because the tour director didn’t count.
So of course Dr Dipshit criticizes my post because it wasn’t life threatening like the OP. Trying to create conflict in a thread where none should exist.
He got mad at me in the thread about what actors you don’t like for not liking actors.
He is definitely on a swing into his hyperliteral fussy jerk phase. He doesn’t live there, but he visits pretty regularly. I hope he leaves it soon.
On several occasions he’s told me I was absolutely wrong when I was describing something I’d seen and experienced. If it’s not part of his personal experience, it hasn’t happened. Dip shit.
Damn right. We should all respect his authority: he’s a (former) federal (treasury?) agent!
He’s a dim-witted and very basic guy, when he hears something that doesn’t fit in his narrow world view, he flips the fuck out.
He posted the most long winded shit about Tide Pods and kids eating them. In the Commercials I hate, thread.
I ask him did he have kids.
Nope, but he knows exactly why, how, where, when kids eat detergent. And it must be the colors.
Not because Mom was in the living room swizzling gin and smoking cigarettes that baby got into the detergent.
It’s all Tides fault. Cause, pretty! Pods.
That a really shitty and ignorant thing to say. Did kids die from eating Tide pods when they didn’t look like candy? No. Do even the best of parents ever lose sight of a kid for a quick minute? Do kids climb? Should a child die even if the parent is drunk because the detergent company colors their poison pods like candy?
Just call him DrDK (for Dunning-Kruger).
Slow. Clap.
I kind of like “DeathbyDK”.
No way! DrDeez would never do such a thing. Oh wait, I must have been having a stroke, that’s exactly something he’d do. In the recent My Lai massacre thread in GD, he dropped a gem turd about the French Foreign Legion recruiting former members of the SS, doing his usual bit of making quoted material italicized instead of using the [quote][/quote] function like a normal human being would, and topping it off by not even linking to where he was quoting from and topping even that off by using as his source a work of fiction.
Even more to the point, the FFL and Nazis had jack and shit to do with the topic of the OP, namely if the My Lai massacre was a unique event by the United States during the War in Vietnam.
When called on this, he of course recognized that it had nothing to do with the OP and apologized for threadjacking. I jest, of course. He went off on a wild tangent about how the author of work of fiction he was quoting from claimed it was a true story, admonishing me for not reading the article. Which of course I had read, and he hadn’t. If he had actually read even his own initial quote from the wiki article, he might have noticed it stating that the authors claim of a battalion sized unit composed entirely of Germans was utter fiction with absolutely no evidence to support it.
Far from realizing from my questioning of what Nazis had to do with the OP that he was hijacking the thread, he needed an official mod note that it was, in fact, a hijack with nothing to do with the OP.
A few teens died on a dare.
Babies and Toddlers get sick every day from eating stuff they shouldn’t. We are so much better now, more informed what we should lock up, put up. The Tide pod thing was just another silly thing that went viral. Detergents have never been good to ingest. Nothing new.
Kids been putting crap in their mouths since the beginning of humans. It’s a carry over from primates eating and tasting things to see if it’s good and safe.
Ok I guess the Parent drinking and smoking was an ugly thing to say.
A smart, aware parent puts cleaning supplies away from children.
The vast majority of kids grow up without being poisoned in their own home. Anyway.
There are so many dangerous things kids can get into. Personally I never worried about Pod cleaning things. Because they are out of reach of a small child, in my laundry room.
A teen could get to them. By then surely you’ve taught them not to eat poisons or take dares or challenges off Tik Tok.
Blame social media, not Tide.
Yeah, sorry I said that about Mom swilling gin and smoking cigarettes. That was so rude of me.
At least you didn’t have her watching Captain Kangaroo.
Or playing solitaire until dawn with a deck of 51
Which no one is denying and of course you were the bestest parent who ever lived, but children still climb and parents still turn their backs for a moment. You are not better than them, just luckier.
I’m not talking about teen TikTok challenges. Of course, if the pods didn’t look like candy, the challenges wouldn’t have been a thing, but trying to stop a teen from being stupid is a hopeless job.
*I have a friend who found her 3-yr-old on top of the refrigerator one morning. She wasn’t even drunk yet.
This song is now my latest earworm, thanks to you two.
The Captain Kangaroo line seemed especially comprehensible to me, as I first heard the song in the mid 80s and I only remember watching the show very early in the morning in the early 80s. I understood the line to mean that the only reason the singer was awake in order to watch it was that he had stayed up all night. Also, because it genuinely was the best thing on television at 6:30, you watched even if you were just desperate for distraction like the song’s singer.
According to Wikipedia it was on at 7 or 8 for most of its run, including when it was mentioned in the song, which is still pretty early if it was 7, but late enough to ruin a lot of my previous understanding of the line.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Of course she wasn’t. A drunk 3-year-old could never get on top of a fridge.