# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/81 "2008-10-04T17:15:39Z")
> [@mshar253](#): > > 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? Your main argument in your original post was that there is a clique. To prove your point, you make a highly personal and charged remark about someone’s girlfriend IRL. This comment would pretty much piss anyone off, and is beyond the pale for most all message boards. When people jump on you for it; you say “Ah ha! I knew that you were part of hive mind! Your responses prove it!” But more interesting is the fact was that the form of your attack. Why AT? Why his gf? Why such a pointed remark? And most interesting of all, how did you remember who his gf was? Sure, after I clicked the link, I remember seeing the pic, but no way I would connect the dots. Why did you? Especially seeing that you assert that the 'dope has minimum impact on your life? ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/82 "2008-10-04T17:18:12Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > 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. Two wrongs do not make a right, you ignorant fuck. ---
**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, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/83 "2008-10-04T17:22:18Z")
> [@](#): > > 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? He would punch you in your stupid fucking face, and you’d richly deserve it. Go the fuck back to your stupid threads about _Lost_ and baseball, because you obviously do not have the brainpower to have an actual discussion with actual people. The only thing worse than a disgusting, moronic, arrogant piece of shit, is one who is also unrepentant and can’t even scrounge up enough class to apologize if he’s done something really retarded. You are the latter. > [@](#): > > Two wrongs do not make a right, you ignorant fuck. You know what, you’re right. I apologize for the autistic remark - it was way out of line. I’ve actually known people with autism and despite their issues even they would never say anything as moronic as what this guy did. So I apologize for that, really. See - you do something stupid, you apologize, and you can hopefully salvage some of your dignity. You refuse to apologize, and you just dig yourself deeper and deeper. You’re a cunt, **mshar253** , and you’re headed for some bad things in life if you make a habit of behaving the way you have done here. ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/84 "2008-10-04T17:24:00Z")
Thank you, now you may continue with your flame. 😉 ETA: I should have made myself clearer in my initial post, that using the term autistic wasn’t what pissed me off. It was like you where saying him being autistic was the cause of his total bullshit post regarding your gf. And that was an insult to people with autism. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/85 "2008-10-04T17:25:30Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > All I’m going to say is, you’re really lucky that this is a message board and not in person, or else you’d be really, really sorry that you said that. It’s really easy to make remarks like that on a computer. I’d like to see you try saying that to my face. I’d smash your face in so bad you’d wish you were fucking dead. This is all anybody needs to know about you. This is the spokesmen of ranting children. Wonder why it is hard to respect you guys. This guy makes it impossible. ---
**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, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/86 "2008-10-04T17:30:22Z")
You’re apologizing for the autistic remark… right after using “retarded” in a derogatory fashion? Honestly, your social skills seem to need a lot more work than mine do. I have said one thing in nine months of posting here that was out of line. You, with your “yak cock” and array of bizzare, angry posts, seem like someone who may have some real life troubles. My dignity has absolutely nothing to do with the Straight Dope Message Board. Absolutely nothing. If yours does, then I think you should take a break for a while and reevaluate what’s important in life. Also, I’m not headed for any bad things in life, unless, like you seem to continue to imply, you’re going to physically injure me. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/87 "2008-10-04T17:34:19Z")
> [@fisha](#): > > But more interesting is the fact was that the form of your attack. Why AT? Why his gf? Why such a pointed remark? And most interesting of all, how did you remember who his gf was? > > Sure, after I clicked the link, I remember seeing the pic, but no way I would connect the dots. Why did you? Especially seeing that you assert that the 'dope has minimum impact on your life? You know what? That’s a damned good point–I remember seeing a pic of **AT** ’s girlfriend and it stuck in my head because she was toting a pretty huge frickin’ rifle at the time and the incongruity of the image stuck with me. It’s rather a good question why in hell a n00b would A) go off on **AT** like that for no apparent reason, B) remember his girlfriend specifically enough to make a very pointed comment toward her appearance and then C) actually defend himself as though it were no thang. WTF, there, **mshar253**? Who pissed in your fucking cornflakes and why in hell are you so incapable of a simple apology? What, you can’t just say “shit, that **AT** dude just chaps my ass but ranking on his girlfriend’s looks like that was pretty out of line–sorry for that, but **AT** ’s still a douche?” Are your testicles gonna fall off if you admit you pulled a dick move? Fuck, have some goddamned class, you tool… Otherwise I’m going to be forced to assume you live under bridges fapping to other people’s girlfriend pictures. Not that I’m not already assuming such, mind you, given the tenor of your responses in this thread but it would be nice to be proven wrong for once. ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/88 "2008-10-04T17:36:18Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > I always picture **gonzomax** typing like Animal from the Muppets, just slapping away at the keyboard in a wild frenzy while yelling enthusiastically, spittle and crumbs flying in all directions. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve laughed out loud at something posted here. Congratulations, sir, for breaking that streak! ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/89 "2008-10-04T17:38:12Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > This is all anybody needs to know about you. This is the spokesmen of ranting children. Wonder why it is hard to respect you guys. This guy makes it impossible. **gonzo** , I don’t have anything against you, but this post is a pretty good example of the criticism others have put out there earlier in this thread. > [@](#): > > This is the spokesmen of ranting children. Huh? Are you trying to say something like, “You come across like the spokesman for ranting children”? > [@](#): > > Wonder why it is hard to respect **you guys**. Bolding mine. What “guys” are you referring to in this quote? ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/90 "2008-10-04T17:38:38Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > You know what? That’s a damned good point–I remember seeing a pic of **AT** ’s girlfriend and it stuck in my head because she was toting a pretty huge frickin’ rifle at the time and the incongruity of the image stuck with me. It’s rather a good question why in hell a n00b would A) go off on **AT** like that for no apparent reason, B) remember his girlfriend specifically enough to make a very pointed comment toward her appearance and then C) actually defend himself as though it were no thang. > > WTF, there, **mshar253**? Who pissed in your fucking cornflakes and why in hell are you so incapable of a simple apology? What, you can’t just say “shit, that **AT** dude just chaps my ass but ranking on his girlfriend’s looks like that was pretty out of line–sorry for that, but **AT** ’s still a douche?” Are your testicles gonna fall off if you admit you pulled a dick move? > > Fuck, have some goddamned class, you tool… Otherwise I’m going to be forced to assume you live under bridges fapping to other people’s girlfriend pictures. Not that I’m not already assuming such, mind you, given the tenor of your responses in this thread but it would be nice to be proven wrong for once. Thanks for putting into words my problem with the GF attack. I still don’t understand how he thinks it was remotely relevant except of course he is jealous or something. Next he will throw out “Argent your momma wears combat boots.” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/91 "2008-10-04T17:41:08Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > This is all anybody needs to know about you. This is the spokesmen of ranting children. Wonder why it is hard to respect you guys. This guy makes it impossible. Dude, the fucker INSULTED HIS GIRLFRIEND. I don’t know about you, but if some random asshole said something as shitty as that to me and my guy heard about it there’d be teeth on the floor in about a microsecond. Any guy who wouldn’t defend his girlfriend from as random and scuzzy an attack as that is some kind of a wuss–and yes, I’d do the same if somebody went after my guy as well, it’s just what people DO for their loved ones. Don’t stick up for the wrong person just because you’re feeling butthurt over **AT** ’s opinion–go after the guy who ranked on you, don’t support the total douchebag, please. You’re better than that, even if your punctuation is for shit, guy! 😛 ---
**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, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/92 "2008-10-04T17:41:13Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > Huh? Are you trying to say something like, “You come across like the spokesman for ranting children”? I think it’s pretty obvious what he’s saying. **AT** epitomizes a child having a tantrum. He’s right. ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/93 "2008-10-04T17:43:49Z")
> [@mshar253](#): > > I think it’s pretty obvious what he’s saying. **AT** epitomizes a child having a tantrum. He’s right. And your insult of his GF was adult like? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/94 "2008-10-04T17:47:48Z")
> [@RyJae](#): > > Next he will throw out “Argent your momma wears combat boots.” > 😛 I dunno, apples don’t fall far from the tree and **Argent** ’s momma might take that as a compliment! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![wmfellows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@wmfellows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wmfellows)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/95 "2008-10-04T17:48:55Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > You are such a crybaby. Waaaa ,the punctuation wasn’t perfect ,it was too hard for me to understand. This is not an essay board. It is a conversation board. We trade ideas. Boy you just keep on whining. I have to say, your bizarre inability to properly place the simple comma, thusly, grates mildly. Nothing to continually complain about, but it does grate. It’s so simple to get right, and yet you… don’t. ---
**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, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/96 "2008-10-04T17:53:46Z")
Who are we pitting again? I’ve lost track 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/97 "2008-10-04T18:14:28Z")
**What Exit?** , Your somewhat non-venomous little Pit thread has become quite the interesting little thing. There are douchebags, racial insults, prejudicial attacks on autistic people (comparing them to certain posters, thus impugning the autistic by association) and other exciting moments. **MBG** ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/98 "2008-10-04T18:27:49Z")
1. I would not post a picture of my SO on a message board. 2. If I did, I would expect some asshole to use it against me when they have no real argument. 3. Comments from some random poster about my wife’s appearance would make me chuckle not spazz out. Not because I don’t care about my wife but because I don’t care what random assholes think about her appearance. 4. The comment in question was really really really stupid and the guy who made it is a real douchebag. 5. The reaction by AT was equally stupid. 6. Hi, Somebody besides Opal… ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/99 "2008-10-04T18:29:53Z")
Thank you for reopening this **Giraffe**. > [@mshar253](#): > > I think this thread is pretty disgusting. They’re both paying members who, from what I’ve seen (and granted I don’t go into GD), are pretty harmless. Both of their spelling and grammar is a little suspect, but really, no one can get over it? No one can utilize the ignore feature for these people if it’s such a problem? > > I think Ralph has brought some things up that, at first, seemed pretty dumb, but turned into good conversation. > > 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. I don’t think it is fair to call this mob mentality. I started this as Ralph actually posts far too much misinformation and posts it as fact. It is noticeable and irritating. When a poster becomes irritating enough to others, he usually gets called for it. It is glib and easy to dismiss our complaints as mob mentality but it is also lazy and unjustified by Ralph’s poor history and the overall mild tone this pit had until you decided to insult another poster’s girlfriend. That is far more batshit crazy and out of left field than anything else I have seen in this thread. I don’t have a big problem with Gonzo, he probably should have been pitted in another thread, but as I am calling **ralph124c** on his stupidity, at least others calling Gonzo on his perceived stupidity fits the thread. What exactly did you think insulting a non-board member says about you and why would you bring it up? Does he link to a picture of her in a bunch of threads or something? What point where you trying to make? I get AT’s anger at you, you really did act far more juvenile with that post than anything you were accusing the rest of us of doing. However, this thread was a wasted effort as **ralph124c** is unlikely to return now and unlikely to take any constructive criticisms from it. He is still posting additional new threads of questionable intelligence. [Is Te American “Melting Pot” Unique?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=486302) & [Did Ancient Roman Cities Have Scheduled Trash collections](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=486160)? [QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] What Exit?, Your somewhat non-venomous little Pit thread has become quite the interesting little thing. There are douchebags, racial insults, prejudicial attacks on autistic people (comparing them to certain posters, thus impugning the autistic by association) and other exciting moments. MBG [/QUOTE] It sure did take an odd and unexpected turn. Jim ---
**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, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/100 "2008-10-04T18:42:34Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > However, this thread was a wasted effort as **ralph124c** is unlikely to return now and unlikely to take any constructive criticisms from it. He is still posting additional new threads of questionable intelligence. > > [Is Te American “Melting Pot” Unique?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=486302) & [Did Ancient Roman Cities Have Scheduled Trash collections](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=486160)? Jim Questionable intelligence? They’re good questions which (in the latter thread, at least) have had interesting answers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321.md?page=6)