# I say, Doorhinge, old chap... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 7, 2016, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420 "2016-04-07T11:29:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/1 "2016-04-07T11:29:17Z")
…it \*would \*be of considerable assistance to the civility and utility of [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19240885#post19240885)if you paid ever so slightly much more attention to the exact content of what other posters are saying, so as to attempt to avoid completely unintentional and entirely understandable errors on your part that I’m sure are totally random and aren’t in the tiniest teeniest bit an attempt at something that even vaguely resembles an attempt to construct humanoid shapes of dried grass, and which I’m entirely not suggesting might be a deliberate strategy; because if you _could_ possibly lift your game a tad in this respect it might avoid unfortunate confusion and unnecessary and unseemly wrangling and misunderstandings. Thanks ever so. Fabulous. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/2 "2016-04-07T11:32:38Z")
Spiffing OP, old boy. However, I’m afraid our DIY-monikered chum may not be playing with an entirely straight bat, what what. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/3 "2016-04-07T11:43:22Z")
Come, come, Sir. I won’t hear a word said against Mister **Doorhinge**. Least of all that he might be less than sporting. Why, in the subject thread he said quite a few things that have a strong basis in fact; and I won’t for a moment tolerate any suggestion that he did so purely by accident. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/4 "2016-04-07T11:55:45Z")
I love **doorhinge** – my only concern for him is his tendency for self-repression. Specifically, repression of his [innate, subconscious desire](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17982307#post17982307) to frolic with burly, honey-covered firemen. So I greatly hope **doorhinge** embraces all that he is, with the honey-dipped heroes of his mind’s eye, and everything else. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/5 "2016-04-07T11:57:45Z")
One of the hinges on a bathroom door in our new house was making an annoying popping noise every time the door was closed. I oiled it but it didn’t help. Figuring the hinge was bad, I replaced it, but the new one did the same thing. So, I just took it off. And you know what? The door works fine. No more irritating noise. It was weird at first having no door hinge there, but now I don’t even notice. It obviously served no real purpose other than to take up space and get on people’s nerves, so everybody’s much happier now that it’s gone. I only wish I’d gotten rid of it sooner. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/6 "2016-04-07T12:17:31Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I love **doorhinge** – my only concern for him is his tendency for self-repression. Specifically, repression of his [innate, subconscious desire](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17982307#post17982307) to frolic with burly, honey-covered firemen. Now, my good man there is no need to be unseemly. We all have to do our best to put behind us the condiment spattered evenings we spent fagging for Mr Smokey the Headmaster in his rooms on Sunday evenings. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/7 "2016-04-07T12:25:01Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > One of the hinges on a bathroom door in our new house was making an annoying popping noise every time the door was closed. I oiled it but it didn’t help. Figuring the hinge was bad, I replaced it, but the new one did the same thing. So, I just took it off. And you know what? The door works fine. No more irritating noise. It was weird at first having no door hinge there, but now I don’t even notice. It obviously served no real purpose other than to take up space and get on people’s nerves, so everybody’s much happier now that it’s gone. I only wish I’d gotten rid of it sooner. Perhaps you could have replaced the offending item with Mister **Doorhinge**! Ha ha, what a fine one! I say, did you smoke that one, Mister **Turnip** , d’you see? You could replace the part from your door with Mister **Doorhinge**! Oh deary me. I must tell the chaps at the Club that one. But of course I’m sure you’re not implying that our beloved Mister D is anything less than a purposeful and worthwhile fellow who does anything but spread good cheer amongst all who come across him. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/8 "2016-04-07T12:48:38Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > But of course I’m sure you’re not implying that our beloved Mister D is anything less than a purposeful and worthwhile fellow who does anything but spread good cheer amongst all who come across him. Good cheer, and honey. Unless you wear gloves. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/9 "2016-04-07T12:57:26Z")
I did my part, extending an olive branch to the Only Poster Whose Name Rhymes With Orange by suggesting he change his name to **D’Orange** (pronounced \de.ʁɑ̃.ʒe\ ?). I was afraid that otherwise Dopers might rename him **UnHinged**. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/10 "2016-04-07T16:00:56Z")
He’s very strange. His debating style is to keep repeating whatever it is he’s saying. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/11 "2016-04-07T16:07:38Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > He’s very strange. His debating style is to keep repeating whatever it is he’s saying. As I once [similarly noted](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18751604&postcount=1246). ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/12 "2016-04-07T17:24:06Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > He’s very strange. His debating style is to keep repeating whatever it is he’s saying. I used to have a friend like this. People would get very angry with him and he’d be confused. After some time, he admitted to me that he didn’t actually listen to what the other people said, he was just hearing that they disagreed with him, and since he was so convinced he was right, all he could think of was how to rephrase it so that they’d get what he was saying. I suggested that he needed to start listening, because people were clearly telling him how he was wrong, or how what he was saying didn’t make any damned sense. Of course, he’d also call me from the store he worked in, be very clearly dealing with a customer, talking to them, ringing things up, and then tell me that he was on his way over, in his car two blocks from my house. :rolleyes: Who knows. Maybe Doorhinge is the same guy. If so, good luck. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/13 "2016-04-07T17:27:11Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > He’s very strange. His debating style is to keep repeating whatever it is he’s saying. [And not even that is original.](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/PRATT) ---
**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:** [April 7, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/14 "2016-04-07T17:35:11Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > He’s very strange. His debating style is to keep repeating whatever it is he’s saying. This. He seems to think that if he pretends to not understand what people are talking about, then he somehow wins the argument. Or maybe he really doesn’t have a clue what people are talking about. Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/15 "2016-04-07T17:49:55Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > …it \*would \*be of considerable assistance to the civility and utility of [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19240885#post19240885)if you paid ever so slightly much more attention to the exact content of what other posters are saying, so as to attempt to avoid completely unintentional and entirely understandable errors on your part that I’m sure are totally random and aren’t in the tiniest teeniest bit an attempt at something that even vaguely resembles an attempt to construct humanoid shapes of dried grass, and which I’m entirely not suggesting might be a deliberate strategy; because if you _could_ possibly lift your game a tad in this respect it might avoid unfortunate confusion and unnecessary and unseemly wrangling and misunderstandings. Thanks ever so. Fabulous. How about a little scarecrow, fire? ---
**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:** [April 7, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/16 "2016-04-07T18:10:17Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > …it \*would \*be of considerable assistance to the civility and utility of [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19240885#post19240885)if you paid ever so slightly much more attention to the exact content of what other posters are saying, so as to attempt to avoid completely unintentional and entirely understandable errors on your part that I’m sure are totally random and aren’t in the tiniest teeniest bit an attempt at something that even vaguely resembles an attempt to construct humanoid shapes of dried grass, and which I’m entirely not suggesting might be a deliberate strategy; because if you _could_ possibly lift your game a tad in this respect it might avoid unfortunate confusion and unnecessary and unseemly wrangling and misunderstandings. Thanks ever so. Fabulous. So. \ Are you saying that you hate **doorhinge** with the passion of a thousand burning suns, and want him to stop posting anything ever again? Because that’s just so mean of you, and you should be ashamed of yourself. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/17 "2016-04-07T18:13:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > So. > > \ > Are you saying that you hate **doorhinge** with the passion of a thousand burning suns, and want him to stop posting anything ever again? Because that’s just so mean of you, and you should be ashamed of yourself. Actually, he’s admitting he’s on the side of the LSM/DNC/Democrat collective. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/18 "2016-04-07T20:37:46Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > So. > > \ > Are you saying that you hate **doorhinge** with the passion of a thousand burning suns, and want him to stop posting anything ever again? Because that’s just so mean of you, and you should be ashamed of yourself. My good fellow really how could you take me so? Mister Doorhinge is an upstanding chap with only the most forgivable minor tendency to lose his way. How could you miss my sentiment so badly? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/19 "2016-04-07T20:45:50Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Actually, he’s admitting he’s on the side of the LSM/DNC/Democrat collective. Oh _really_. Let us be serious. No one could with a straight visage purport to reach a contrary conclusion to Mister **Doorhinge** while hoping to avoid giving away their true self as a damned red scoundrel. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420/20 "2016-04-07T21:10:08Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > He’s very strange. His debating style is to keep repeating whatever it is he’s saying. Don’t forget that he also employs the brilliant tactic of prefacing his replies with “Hahahaha.” Absolutely devastating! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-say-doorhinge-old-chap/751420.md?page=2)