# I sick of ralph124c and his stupidity. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 3, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321 "2008-10-03T14:34:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/61 "2008-10-04T10:30:01Z")
> [@mshar253](#): > > I think this thread is pretty disgusting. I’m not going to quote that entire heap of garbage. Have you never been in the fucking pit before? Until this steaming pile of shit you dumped on **AT** this had been a pretty tame pitting. If you have an issue with **Argent Towers** this is certainly the place for it but that was just random, spiteful, and over the top. Flame him for something he’s said or done, he’ll have to accept that, but your comment was completely uncalled for. That was awful. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/62 "2008-10-04T10:31:18Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Seriously…do a search on gonzomax posts and read a few samples. It’s not JUST about the fact that the guy can’t put together a coherent sentence to save his life. But read for yourself. If you still feel he’s being persecuted unfairly come back.-XT I’ve followed your suggestion on about a dozen threads he’s started. I’ve not been aware of **gonzomax** before, but I can’t say that his posts strike me as being particularly out of the ordinary. A little problem with full stops, commas and spacing maybe - but nothing to write home about. For example: this one seems typical > [@](#): > > grass from seed > I am trying to fix patches of my lawn. I raked it the ground until it was rough then laid down seed. Then watered and used fertilizer. When I did it ,it was supposed to rain 3 out of 4 days. It rained once . So I take watering can and daily water it. > Not one blade has poked out in a little over a week. Am I in too much of a hurry? > How wet should I keep it..(muddy)?. How long do I wait before starting over? OK - you can critique it: there are errors. But the sense is perfectly clear. Not everyone has great writing skills. I didn’t realise that that is a prerequisite for participation in the SD. Sure - the better you can write, the better you can put across your response, but isn’t just a little bit snooty to pit those whose writing skills may not match your own? P.S. Maybe the ones I found weren’t typical. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/63 "2008-10-04T10:36:11Z")
> [@HongKongFooey](#): > > I’m not going to quote that entire heap of garbage. Have you never been in the fucking pit before? Until this steaming pile of shit you dumped on **AT** this had been a pretty tame pitting. If you have an issue with **Argent Towers** this is certainly the place for it but that was just random, spiteful, and over the top. Flame him for something he’s said or done, he’ll have to accept that, but your comment was completely uncalled for. That was awful. It’s also not true. My girlfriend is hot, plain and simple. Also, she was born and raised in the Philippines, where women do not take any shit, and if you ever said anything like that to her face you would probably be permanently deprived of your ability to conceive children. ---
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/64 "2008-10-04T11:04:36Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > My girlfriend is hot, plain and simple. Well you just know we’re going to need a cite for that . . . I’ve not tended to agree with you the few times we’ve interacted, but that attack from **mshar253** was way over the line. I agree with **Autolycus** , don’t rise to it. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/65 "2008-10-04T11:10:17Z")
If [this](https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/akentisa/Filemanager_Public_Files/may.jpg) is your idea of “a retarded Asian who was unfortunate enough to be beaten in the face with a barbed-wire baseball bat” then you really need to have your fucking eyes checked. (I’d be happy to do it for you, with my knuckles.) Even ignoring the incredibly offensive racial element, that has got to be the absolute lowest and most classless insult I have EVER heard in all of my years here. ---
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/66 "2008-10-04T11:16:19Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > If [this](https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/akentisa/Filemanager_Public_Files/may.jpg) is your idea of “a retarded Asian who was unfortunate enough to be beaten in the face with a barbed-wire baseball bat” then you really need to have your fucking eyes checked. No, you’re right on this one, she’s pretty. But even if she weren’t the comment was still devoid of class; don’t dignify it with attention any longer. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/67 "2008-10-04T12:22:01Z")
I’m not a mod in the BBQ Pit(thank Og), but I’m closing this one before it gets any worse. I would expect at the least to see some warnings added by the mods later today. Also, the mods can reopen this if they choose. I’m sure that some of you have forgotten the way to respond to general assholishness is by hitting the little triangle in the upper right hand corner of the post. It alerts a mod to take a look and respond if necessary. **samclem** Moderator General Questions. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/68 "2008-10-04T15:56:15Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > I’m not a mod in the BBQ Pit(thank Og), but I’m closing this one before it gets any worse. I would expect at the least to see some warnings added by the mods later today. Also, the mods can reopen this if they choose. We’re in the Pit, so I’m not seeing a need for closure, myself. Reopened. And **Argent Towers** , despite the extreme rudeness of the attack on your girlfriend, please refrain from threats of violence against other posters, even coached hypothetically. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/69 "2008-10-04T16:00:55Z")
[QUOTE=mshar253] Is it possible this mob mentality, this “let’s be the cool guys and gang up on two of the ‘dumb’ posters” would stem from so many Dopers being on the receiving end of that treatment throughout high school? Argent Towers, I’m looking at you and your girlfriend who looks like a retarded Asian who was unfortunate enough to be beaten in the face with a barbed-wire baseball bat. [/QUOTE] Dude, I was kind of nodding along with the rest of your post- I’m getting increasingly uncomfortable with this thread- but this is just beyond the fucking pale. Congratulations. You are _The Biggest Douchebag On the SDMB_. Get your speech ready. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/70 "2008-10-04T16:05:45Z")
**mshar253** must be **gonzomax’s** boy toy or something, because I can’t see any other conceivable reason why anyone would launch into such an unbelievably off-the-wall, random, _personal attack_ on me - bringing my girlfriend, of all people, into it, for God’s sake - because I made fun of the guy’s fucking SPELLING. Also you have a lot of nerve to tell ME that “I must have been on the receiving end of that treatment in high school” since generally the bitter, angry losers who did get stuffed into lockers in school are the only kind of people who make random comments about people’s girlfriends over the safety of the internet that in reality would earn them a beating. (For the record - when I was in high school I was 140 pounds and making open-field tackles on guys twice my size - the only thing I was on the receiving end of was a lot of respect.) I suspect that YOU are probably still IN high school. Anyway, you’re a little shit, and go fuck yourself with a hot poker. And my girlfriend is a sexier, smarter and cooler woman than anyone that you are ever likely to lay a finger on in your pathetic life. ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/71 "2008-10-04T16:18:43Z")
I agree the attack on your girlfriend was too much. Upon reflection though, I really find this out of character based on what little I know from **mshar253** ’s previous posts. He’s a Phillies fan, that’s about all I’ve got, but he’s never been an asshole in any threads I recall. Maybe it was a drunk post, maybe he regrets what he said. I think you should wait and see if he responds, if he’s even following this thread anymore. It’s too late for him to retract what he said but I’d hope for an apology; it’s easy to post rashly, especially in the pit. If he stands by what he said, then flame the hell out of him, but I don’t really think he meant to be that harsh. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/72 "2008-10-04T16:21:48Z")
Well, I’m waiting. Somehow I doubt he’s going to return. ---
**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/73 "2008-10-04T16:39:54Z")
Returned. What do you want me to say? You yourself said you didn’t want to engage in a fight over a message board. Yet, you’ve posted how many times since I said what I did? I think you’re a fucking douche–and while I may not post much (especially in threads that you consider acceptable), I’ve spent enough time reading at the SDMB to be absolutely certain that I’m correct. Whoever deemed me the “worst poster ever” can kiss my ass. I made one extremely insulting remark in the appropriate forum. Again, what do you want me to say? I dislike you as much as someone who doesn’t take a message board too seriously can dislike someone. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/74 "2008-10-04T16:48:08Z")
Well, so much for **HongKongFooey** ’s theory. I’m amazed that someone would think that a personal attack on someone else’s _girlfriend_ - which was racist and totally beyond any possible justification - would be the appropriate response to someone who you have never had any interaction with whatsoever in the entire time you’ve been on the same message board, for making fun of _another poster’s_ SPELLING. It’s like: “Hey Al, you’ve got the worst golf swing I’ve ever seen!” “Hey, lay off of Al! At least I’m not going out with a girl who looks like a retarded Asian who was hit in the face with a barbed-wire baseball bat!” See what I mean? I have never, ever seen a comeback that was more disproportional to the initial insult in my entire life. I think you’re a pathetic little cunt, and I also think you have pretty severe problems with your social skills if you would even for a millisecond consider that what you wrote was an appropriate thing to say to me. You’re the lowest, most dog-shit person I have ever come across on these boards, and I am never going to forget it, and neither is anyone else reading this thread. You’ve just solidified your reputation forever as a person of no consequence. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/75 "2008-10-04T16:52:53Z")
> [@mshar253](#): > > Again, what do you want me to say? I dislike you as much as someone who doesn’t take a message board too seriously can dislike someone. Well boo-fuckin’-hoo. You really are a loathsome, cretinous jerk. No decent human being would have stooped as low as you did. ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/76 "2008-10-04T16:53:33Z")
> [@mshar253](#): > > Argent Towers, I’m looking at you and your girlfriend who looks like a retarded Asian who was unfortunate enough to be beaten in the face with a barbed-wire baseball bat. You’re a moron. ---
**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/77 "2008-10-04T17:02:45Z")
Oh gee, no. Please no. Yeah… I don’t really care too much about “my reputation being solidified” by this. Like someone else said before, my posts are always been pretty benign, so if someone thinks I’m a dick in a thread about “The Office,” I think I’ll get over it. You, with your 7,000 posts or whatever, may consider the Dope a serious part of your social life, but I think I can drive on. I’m trying to think of more to say–I’m trying to make this look pretty long and carefully written–but I still have nothing to say. This fight doesn’t interest me. I said what I said, and it was my opinion. I’m sorry that you interpreted it as hurtful, but it certainly wasn’t racist. She’s Filipino–that’s Asian. OJ is black. I’m white. They’re rac_es,_ not rac_ist._ As someone said above, I didn’t know that having typing skills that meet _your_ standard was a prerequisite to having a good time at the Dope. My point, before making the Big Insult, was I don’t like the clique mentality here. Your response: “My friends and I are all going to remember this forever! You will never live this down!” Whatever. Go away now. If you’re so secure that I wasn’t right–I’m not looking at that new picture; the first one I saw had enough of an impact on me–then move on. Do I need to validate your significant other? ---
**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/78 "2008-10-04T17:04:23Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Well boo-fuckin’-hoo. You really are a loathsome, cretinous jerk. No decent human being would have stooped as low as you did. Um, OK. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/79 "2008-10-04T17:07:45Z")
You are far and away the most fucked-up, idiotic poster I have ever seen here. > [@](#): > > I’m sorry that you interpreted it as hurtful, but it certainly wasn’t racist. She’s Filipino–that’s Asian. OJ is black. I’m white. They’re races, not racist. You have got to be kidding me. Why the fuck did you bring up her race at all then? Here’s a little experiment you can try. Next time you get pissed off at someone who’s black, for whatever reason, why don’t you call them “a stupid black piece of shit.” I mean, you’re just saying their race! It’s not racist! You’re just stating a fact, right? See what kind of reaction you get. From the psychology of what you’re posting, I think that you have got to be autistic or at least severely handicapped in terms of social skills. ---
**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/80 "2008-10-04T17:10:10Z")
What _would_ someone do if I called him or her a “stupid black piece of shit?” Would he or she go berserk and run around in circles, trying to get me angry too? Unsuccessfully? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321.md?page=5)