# iamnotbatman is a pseudo-intellectual twat. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 20, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323 "2011-01-20T14:46:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/21 "2011-01-20T15:59:45Z")
> [@Rumor\_Watkins](#): > > Wait wait wait, we’re not talking about [Charles Cain](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills_Cop_2) ? Nah. We’re talking about [Citizen Cain](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Noonan). ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/22 "2011-01-20T16:00:05Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > “Encomiums”? He sure has a big vocabulary for someone from New Jersey! not really. New Jerseyans are quite good with vocabulary - dontcha know they have 40 different words for “Fist Pump” ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/23 "2011-01-20T16:02:31Z")
> [@iamnotbatman](#): > > Spelling? Really?? OK, so I’m not so insecure that I spell-check every post I make. I think I do OK, for a moron. When you don’t have enough of an investment in a work of art to even get the name correct, you don’t dazzle people with your knowledge of the artwork, sunshine. It’s not a spell-check issue, it’s a “If you’re going to be a pretentious douchebag (and you’re sure making the attempt), at least _do it right_” Imagine some pompous dickhole like you coming into a cheese thread and saying “Yeah, I don’t get ignorant people who don’t like complex cheeses. I myself love bree and canonbear and people who don’t are dumb.” ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/24 "2011-01-20T16:03:54Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Imagine some pompous dickhole like you coming into a cheese thread and saying “Yeah, I don’t get ignorant people who don’t like complex cheeses. I myself love bree and canonbear and people who don’t are dumb.” durrrrrrr! I’m just not insecure with my assertions that I don’t need to do the spell check. ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/25 "2011-01-20T16:09:01Z")
Ironically, “boring” is _exactly_ what I’ve always said about the _Goldberg Variations_ —and I love Bach! (I was, at one point, a perfectly decent musician, too.) Okay, I guess I’m just a Philistine. ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/26 "2011-01-20T16:10:37Z")
> [@straight\_man](#): > > Ironically, “boring” is _exactly_ what I’ve always said about the _Goldberg Variations_ —and I love Bach! (I was, at one point, a perfectly decent musician, too.) > > Okay, I guess I’m just a Philistine. I look down upon you, sir. ---
**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/27 "2011-01-20T16:19:53Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > When you don’t have enough of an investment in a work of art to even get the name correct, you don’t dazzle people with your knowledge of the artwork, sunshine. > > It’s not a spell-check issue, it’s a “If you’re going to be a pretentious douchebag (and you’re sure making the attempt), at least _do it right_” > > Imagine some pompous dickhole like you coming into a cheese thread and saying “Yeah, I don’t get ignorant people who don’t like complex cheeses. I myself love bree and canonbear and people who don’t are dumb.” Being called-out for mis-placing one letter in quickly-typed post on an internet message board is _extremely_ nit-picky. I would never be so arrogant as to judge _anything_ based on so little. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/28 "2011-01-20T16:22:13Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > “Encomiums”? He sure has a big vocabulary for someone from New Jersey! When they handed out meconium, **iamnotbatman** thought they said “encomium,” and proceeded to heap it upon himself. ---
**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/29 "2011-01-20T16:22:31Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > There’s nothing wrong with appreciating the (so-called) finer things in life. IMHO, it’s when you take that step of judgmentally looking down on and sneering at those who don’t that you turn into a douchebag. And yes, that includes being “irritated” with them. That attitude cannot exist without an implied feeling of “I am better than you because I like better things than you do”. Despite what you think I have implied in my posts, I do not think I am “better” than anyone. What I think is that I have been very ignorant about many subjects, and _in every case_ the more I learned about them, the more interesting they became. I think it is arrogant to assume that you are entitled to your “boredom” with a subject because you feel you are so smart you don’t need to figure out “what you are missing” before laying down your final assessment. The only thing that makes me irritated is the smug resistance to the possibility of needing to learn more about a subject in order for it to appear more interesting. You think _I_ lack humility? > [@Smeghead](#): > > If there is a mark of someone who is more “enlightened”, or however you want to phrase it, I suspect it involves a certain level of humility and respect for those around them, regardless of circumstance or other shallow measures. I agree. But I’m not lacking in respect for those around me. I’m simply insisting that calling something “boring” is, as a general rule, indicative of having not explored that subject deeply enough to “get” what is interesting about it. ---
**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/30 "2011-01-20T16:33:59Z")
> [@straight\_man](#): > > Ironically, “boring” is _exactly_ what I’ve always said about the _Goldberg Variations_ —and I love Bach! (I was, at one point, a perfectly decent musician, too.) > > Okay, I guess I’m just a Philistine. I would only think you were a Philistine if you had no interest whatsoever in researching why some people think the Goldberg Variations are incredible. I also found them boring. But then I said “Huh, I wonder why they are regarded by some as one of the greatest pieces of music ever written?” So I started listening to and reading about variations. Long story short, now I find them enchanting. Does it make me a prick to point this out? I hope not! I think it’s rather good-natured. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/31 "2011-01-20T16:39:31Z")
It could be that some, like myself, have only limited lifespan. There simply is not time to study everything in depth. Why would I want to spend any portion of that trying to make myself be interested in something that I find boring when I could be spending that time pursuing something in which I have an intense interest? Other, I mean, than being able to say that I am living up to the expectations of some pretentious douchebag on the internet whom I’ve never actually met? ---
**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/32 "2011-01-20T16:48:02Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > It could be that some, like myself, have only limited lifespan. There simply is not time to study everything in depth. Why would I want to spend any portion of that trying to make myself be interested in something that I find boring when I could be spending that time pursuing something in which I have an intense interest? Other, I mean, than being able to say that I am living up to the expectations of some pretentious douchebag on the internet whom I’ve never actually met? I’m not expecting you to study everything in depth. I’m expecting you to have enough humility to refrain from calling something boring unless you have given an earnest effort to figure out exactly what it is you are “missing” and then be able to explain why you reject it. Take sports, for example. I “don’t get” watching most sports. But then I took up tennis, and I began to see how one’s perspective and interest in watching a sport can be affected by your understanding of the game. Now I have enough humility to say “I don’t know enough about hockey”, rather than calling it “boring” just because I have never played it or taken the time to immerse myself in it enough to really appreciate it. On the other hand, I find “tic-tac-toe” boring. I can explain in detail exactly why it is boring, because I have taken the time to see (as most have) that the rules for winning/drawing are easily memorize-able. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/33 "2011-01-20T16:51:19Z")
Now if only had enough humility to say “other people don’t have to live up to my expectations.” ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/34 "2011-01-20T16:52:50Z")
> [@iamnotbatman](#): > > I would only think you were a Philistine if you had no interest whatsoever in researching why some people think the Goldberg Variations are incredible. I also found them boring. But then I said “Huh, I wonder why they are regarded by some as one of the greatest pieces of music ever written?” So I started listening to and reading about variations. Long story short, now I find them enchanting. Does it make me a prick to point this out? I hope not! I think it’s rather good-natured. > [@](#): > > I’m not expecting you to study everything in depth. I’m expecting you to have enough humility to refrain from calling something boring unless you have given an earnest effort to figure out exactly what it is you are “missing” and then be able to explain why you reject it. > > Take sports, for example. I “don’t get” watching most sports. But then I took up tennis, and I began to see how one’s perspective and interest in watching a sport can be affected by your understanding of the game. so you’re basically swayed in your opinions by others’ opinions. how very avant-garde of you. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/35 "2011-01-20T16:53:38Z")
> [@iamnotbatman](#): > > I would never be so arrogant as to judge _anything_ based on so little. Really? > [@iamnotbatman](#): > > And if someone says “Shakespeare? Boring,” it irritates me. Why? Because all of my experience tells me that this person is ignorant ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/36 "2011-01-20T16:56:40Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Why do I have the feeling that “Rosebud” ain’t gonna be a sled? Ah, perfectly set up too. Marvelous. ---
**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/37 "2011-01-20T17:01:05Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Really? You snipped out the part where I go on to explain what I was basing my judgment on, which isn’t anything like a single letter spelling mistake. ---
**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/38 "2011-01-20T17:06:30Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Now if only had enough humility to say “other people don’t have to live up to my expectations.” Apparently I don’t live up to your expectations. Did you have the humility to not start a pit thread? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/39 "2011-01-20T17:07:33Z")
> [@iamnotbatman](#): > > Apparently I don’t live up to your expectations. Did you have the humility to not start a pit thread? Oh, fuck me. The psuedo-intellectual version of “I know you are, but what am I?” ---
**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323/40 "2011-01-20T17:10:08Z")
I was pointing out that your statement was hypocritical nonsense. Call it what you will. And please, continue to act childish! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iamnotbatman-is-a-pseudo-intellectual-twat/568323.md?page=3)