# I pit jtur88 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 4, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309 "2017-01-04T14:39:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/21 "2017-01-04T23:48:15Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > Is there a name for this. I have an ex-friend who took the opposite side of anything I would say. Ummm… “contrarian”? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/22 "2017-01-04T23:53:07Z")
He also advised getting a [fake service dog certificate](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=812439) if you want to travel with your pet, but don’t want to put them in cargo. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/23 "2017-01-05T00:06:59Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > I one-thousand percent support this pit. He’s a bitter misogynist, which explains why he thinks there was no crime with regard to that thread. What a useless bag of water. That’s “useless _ugly_ bag of _mostly_ water.” ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/24 "2017-01-05T00:44:58Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > Is there a name for this. I have an ex-friend who took the opposite side of anything I would say. It’s not necessarily precisely the same, but it brings to mind the diagnosis (for children) of Oppositional Defiant Disorder: [[QUOTE=webmd.com](http://QUOTE=webmd.com)] What Are the Symptoms of Oppositional Defiant Disorder? Symptoms of ODD may include: [ul] [li]Throwing repeated temper tantrums[/li][li]Excessively arguing with adults, especially those with authority[/li][li]Actively refusing to comply with requests and rules[/li][li]Deliberately trying to annoy or upset others, or being easily annoyed by others[/li][li]Blaming others for your mistakes[/li][li]Having frequent outbursts of anger and resentment[/li][li]Being spiteful and seeking revenge[/li][li]Swearing or using obscene language[/li][li]Saying mean and hateful things when upset[/li][/ul] In addition, many children with ODD are moody, easily frustrated, and have a low self-esteem. They also sometimes may abuse drugs and alcohol. [/QUOTE] Perhaps some children with ODD who grow up to be somewhat functional spend their spare time offering up turds on message boards. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/25 "2017-01-05T00:46:17Z")
Others register as Republicans and get elected to Congress. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/26 "2017-01-05T01:06:04Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > Ummm… “contrarian”? Yes, this. Or maybe just “old coot”? IIRC he’s an older gentleman. I’ve always just read his posts as someone who really really wants the world to get off his lawn. His very exotic lawn that he cultivated from seeds he obtained from some arcane rain forest whilst he subsisted on lemur feces. And he liked it, damn it! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/27 "2017-01-05T01:09:04Z")
Lemur feces are perfectly safe to eat – you don’t know what you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/28 "2017-01-05T01:39:24Z")
I once found some lemur feces someone had discarded in a dumpster. I just washed off the coffee grounds, cigarette ashes and dumpster slime and it was a perfectly fine meal. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/29 "2017-01-05T01:59:50Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > That’s “useless _ugly_ bag of _mostly_ water.” I was paraphrasing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/30 "2017-01-05T02:04:02Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > We call him **jturd** over on another message board. Just sayin’ Your post prompted me to do a Google search on jtur88. On another board, his “About me” page says > [@](#): > > Interests > Always provoking disagreements and hijacking threads with arguments. (supplied by moderator) Now, this might be another jtur88, but it does sound familiar. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/31 "2017-01-05T02:17:34Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > ISTR a “Dilbert” character doing exactly this but the character is too minor to show up in the usual character lists. You may be thinking of Topper, who always has to up the ante on whatever anyone else says. No matter what exotic locale someone mentions, it turns out **jtur88** has lived there for several years or at least visited it multiple times. If he’s really been every place he says he has, he must be 988 years old. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/32 "2017-01-05T02:33:53Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Lemur feces are perfectly safe to eat – you don’t know what you’re talking about. This. Lemurs eat cinnamon and gourds so it’s kind of like pumpkin pie. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/33 "2017-01-05T03:05:07Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You may be thinking of Topper, who always has to up the ante on whatever anyone else says. > > No matter what exotic locale someone mentions, it turns out **jtur88** has lived there for several years or at least visited it multiple times. If he’s really been every place he says he has, he must be 988 years old. Sometimes seems like that; but from my own experience I spent about 12 years overseas and six of those were nothing but travel, as often as 2-3 times a month. It’s not difficult to cover a lot of ground doing that. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/34 "2017-01-05T03:51:27Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Sometimes seems like that; but from my own experience I spent about 12 years overseas and six of those were nothing but travel, as often as 2-3 times a month. It’s not difficult to cover a lot of ground doing that. [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19441220&postcount=4)he claims to have been in every county or parish in 48 states, most of them at least twice. There are more than 3,000 counties and county equivalents in the US. I don’t know how many miles you would have to travel to accomplish that. More important, I can’t comprehend for what reason you would do it. What kind of job would require that? Or why would you want to visit every county in North Dakota as a tourist? (Maybe if you were obsessive you would want to visit every county to check them off your list, but why would you visit them _twice_?). Despite expressions of incredulity from several posters and requests to explain, he simply ignored them and proceeded to tell tales about his international travels. ---
**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 5, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/35 "2017-01-05T04:47:11Z")
It bugs me when he says things that appear contradictory, and then doesnt bother to explain, even when asked Like: [“Being near home [for Thanksgiving] is pretty non-traditional for me”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19805939&postcount=18) and ["It will be the first time in a decade I’ve been away from home on Thanksgiving. "](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19804767&postcount=16) ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/36 "2017-01-05T06:49:52Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > It bugs me when he says things that appear contradictory, and then doesnt bother to explain, even when asked > > Like: > > [“Being near home [for Thanksgiving] is pretty non-traditional for me”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19805939&postcount=18) > > and > > ["It will be the first time in a decade I’ve been away from home on Thanksgiving. "](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19804767&postcount=16) Nothing to explain. He’s full of shit. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/37 "2017-01-05T07:21:53Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > It bugs me when he says things that appear contradictory, and then doesnt bother to explain, even when asked > > Like: > > [“Being near home [for Thanksgiving] is pretty non-traditional for me”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19805939&postcount=18) > > and > > ["It will be the first time in a decade I’ve been away from home on Thanksgiving. "](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19804767&postcount=16) Much like when he claims in one thread that he drives, or in another that he doesn’t drive. His only consistancy is that he’s stupid, and has at times offered dangerous/unethical advice. (Don’t go to the doctor, it’s okay to eat spoiled food, get a phony license for a service animal, etc) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/38 "2017-01-05T08:17:22Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Nothing to explain. > > He’s full of shit. You’d be full of shit too, if you ate what he claims to eat. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/39 "2017-01-05T14:32:06Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > You’d be full of shit too, if you ate what he claims to eat. I’d think just the opposite, actually. Wouldn’t a diet of dumpster delicacies, roadkill, truck windfalls and banana peel smoothies tend to clean one out quite effectively? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/40 "2017-01-05T16:31:03Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19441220&postcount=4)he claims to have been in every county or parish in 48 states, most of them at least twice. There are more than 3,000 counties and county equivalents in the US. I don’t know how many miles you would have to travel to accomplish that. More important, I can’t comprehend for what reason you would do it. What kind of job would require that? Or why would you want to visit every county in North Dakota as a tourist? (Maybe if you were obsessive you would want to visit every county to check them off your list, but why would you visit them _twice_?). > > Despite expressions of incredulity from several posters and requests to explain, he simply ignored them and proceeded to tell tales about his international travels. Missed that gem. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309.md?page=3)