# I pit the world and me and you **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 16, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164 "2008-06-16T23:22:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/41 "2008-06-17T03:38:28Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Listen, if he comes back in here ranting and raving about Objectivisim and The Fountainhead then you have to deal with him. Jesus Pete, that would be like giving whiskey and car keys to teenagers. [/QUOTE] I wondered if anyone was going to get that. Really, the Ayn Rand is just to prep him to embrace the works of Heidegger. After that, we won’t hear any more sniveling over what we ‘owe’ the third world. ETA, Oh, mine’s a ham and provolone on wheat, extra Dijon, please. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/42 "2008-06-17T03:47:53Z")
Look at the waste of [this](http://www.dubaigolf.com/egc/) or this. Or think about how the world holds up the perpetrators of acts of genocide as heroes, or the how the world holds up societies that committed act of genocide as great societies. I am sorry about writing “swallow” instead of “shallow.” ---
**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:** [June 17, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/43 "2008-06-17T03:50:05Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] Look at the waste of [this](http://www.dubaigolf.com/egc/) or this. Or think about how the world holds up the perpetrators of acts of genocide as heroes, or the how the world holds up societies that committed act of genocide as great societies. I am sorry about writing “swallow” instead of “shallow.” [/QUOTE] Dude, what the FUCK are you on about? Jesus, I cannot WAIT until the day you are finally nailed as the fucking troll you really are, and they ban your sorry ass out of here. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/44 "2008-06-17T03:51:19Z")
I hate me and you. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/45 "2008-06-17T04:14:49Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] Look at the waste of [this](http://www.dubaigolf.com/egc/) or this. [/QUOTE] It takes a lot for me to consider somebody a troll, but you seem like an intelligent guy and I just can’t reconcile the above inanity with the fact that the US Open just finished today. Yes, it’s obvious the world is fucked when people have sufficient leisure time and resources to play golf. They should build a cross out of golf clubs and crucify every player. They could even put the crosses out in a driving range. Bonus points for head shots. OK that’s enough bitter sarcasm for one day. As for that sandwich, I’m a big roast beef fan 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/46 "2008-06-17T04:15:46Z")
[QUOTE=vibrotronica] I hate me and you. [/QUOTE] Hey, what’s wrong with _me_? ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/47 "2008-06-17T04:23:18Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] It takes a lot for me to consider somebody a troll, but you seem like an intelligent guy and I just can’t reconcile the above inanity with the fact that the US Open just finished today. Yes, it’s obvious the world is fucked when people have sufficient leisure time and resources to play golf. They should build a cross out of golf clubs and crucify every player. They could even put the crosses out in a driving range. Bonus points for head shots. OK that’s enough bitter sarcasm for one day. [/QUOTE] Maybe I am not as intelligent as you think, but I cannot see any justification for spending millions and millions of dollars for playgrounds for the rich when people are starving to death. But, people do not need a justification. This is just what the lucky people do. They have their fun while the rest of humanity suffers. This is just how it is, and how it will be until the end of humans. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/48 "2008-06-17T04:26:10Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] Maybe I am not as intelligent as you think, [/QUOTE] That’d be hard to do. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/49 "2008-06-17T04:27:33Z")
Geez, now I feel guilty about dragging our whole office to that Astros game a couple of weeks ago. OTOH they won, which is more than I can say about them lately. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/50 "2008-06-17T04:27:44Z")
[QUOTE=The Sonoran Lizard King] Hey, what’s wrong with _me_? [/QUOTE] You have not contributed sammiches. I am amused in a morbid sort-of way that after 2.5 went as far as to tell me in another post (too tired to look it up now) that power is the only thing that matters and that public opinion of the US is completely unimportant, he (I’m only assuming it’s a he) is posting this. I’m going to do what I always do. Keep my power needs low, try to help out those I can, and, in this case, make a sammich. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/51 "2008-06-17T04:29:40Z")
Shut the fuck up, you fucking troll. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/52 "2008-06-17T04:37:21Z")
[QUOTE=ArrMatey!] You have not contributed sammiches. I am amused in a morbid sort-of way that after 2.5 went as far as to tell me in another post (too tired to look it up now) that power is the only thing that matters and that public opinion of the US is completely unimportant, he (I’m only assuming it’s a he) is posting this. [/QUOTE] That is one of things I am pitting―the amoral universe. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/53 "2008-06-17T04:44:13Z")
Bullshit. You cannot simultaneously condemn the amoral universe and [defend it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=471555). You are, as you always are, trying to provoke a reaction, and the day the admins finally push the ban button will be a day of celebration. Now shut the fuck up. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/54 "2008-06-17T04:52:12Z")
I’ll take a sammich, if anybody’s still offerin’. Pastrami on rye, please. And just in case the OP is serious (I have my doubts) - the world is a big, ugly, brutal, violent, terrifying, wonderful, beautiful, compassionate, interesting, and ultimately fantastic place. Do what you can, with what you can, where you are. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/55 "2008-06-17T04:53:18Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Bullshit. You cannot simultaneously condemn the amoral universe and [defend it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=471555). You are, as you always are, trying to provoke a reaction, and the day the admins finally push the ban button will be a day of celebration. Now shut the fuck up. [/QUOTE] I was not defending it, I was looking at the legal issue from an objective viewpoint. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/56 "2008-06-17T04:56:21Z")
Shut the fuck up, you fucking troll. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/57 "2008-06-17T05:30:03Z")
It’s pretty funny that anyone would choose professional golf as a counterpoint to charity. Have a look at how the PGA tour works: every tournament is run so that local charities receive all the profits. The players, however well paid, are just travelling around collecting money for charity - many, many millions of dollars of it. This is a perfect model for helping others. You can’t help the poor by becoming one of them. The more I earn the more I contribute - this year I added a payroll deduction to [The Wesley Mission](http://www.wesleymission.org.au/homepage.asp). But I kept my TV. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/58 "2008-06-17T05:38:19Z")
[QUOTE=vibrotronica] I hate me and you. [/QUOTE] I hate you but you hate yourself too I hate to be honest but I’d hate to be you ~The Bloodhound Gang ---
**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:** [June 17, 2008, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/59 "2008-06-17T05:44:08Z")
\*Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo \*- The Bloodhound Gang ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164/60 "2008-06-17T05:49:17Z")
In an effort to expedite Cervaise’s good work in this thread: %Define Macro Cervaise(Target,N) %do %i = 1 %to &N %literal(“Shut the Fuck Up, &Target, You Fucking Troll”) %end %Close macro cervaise; %Cervaise(TwoandAHalfInchesofFun, Avogadro’s Number) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-world-and-me-and-you/453164.md?page=4)