# I'm here to help, Velocity **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 26, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986 "2016-07-26T22:59:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/61 "2016-09-06T19:04:31Z")
> [@Batfish](#): > > I disagree. Yeah ? Well fuck you ! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/62 "2016-09-06T19:08:49Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I recognize that name as French, still say it “man get out,” and have no idea how to say it properly, or what it means \It’s pronounced something almost but not quite entirely unlike “mange (as in the disease) toot”. It means both “will eat it all” and “would eat anything”. Also it’s the name of a specific species of beans whose shell is almost as tasteful as the beans themselves, therefore you “eat all [of it]”.\ ---
**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:** [November 1, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/63 "2019-11-01T14:13:15Z")
**Velocity** keeps JAQing off. Just in the last day, I’ve asked him questions in two separate threads without response. I’m bumping this thread in case someone wants to comment on the JAQ-off without wasting a _Start Thread_ click. In yet a third recent thread, Velocity manages to invert the definition of political correctness: > [@Political correctness - allowing China to dictate what we (Western nations) do or say.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-correctness-allowing-china-to-dictate-what-we-western-nations-do-or-say/841478/8): > > This is very much indeed about political correctness. There are three topics that China generally works very hard to stifle any talk about - sometimes dubbed “The three T’s - Tibet, Taiwan and Tienanmen.” (Hong Kong is also now joining that list.) They are, generally, the most politically-incorrect topics that one could talk about within China. Now, it’s not remarkable at all that the CCP would clamp down within its own borders, but when Western companies and governments and scholars bend over backwards to accommodate Beijing on this, that’s caving in to China-PC. I think **Velocity** was being cutesy, extending the definition of “pc” so he could lump liberals with China’s government. What was amusing is when **Doltopus** missed the ploy and, trying to defend **Velocity** , made fools of them both! > [@Political correctness - allowing China to dictate what we (Western nations) do or say.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-correctness-allowing-china-to-dictate-what-we-western-nations-do-or-say/841478/17): > > PC is thought control using mob violence, physical or economic, as the enforcement tool… ---
**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:** [November 8, 2019, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/64 "2019-11-08T04:42:49Z")
Fuck off, Dimwit **Velocity**! I almost posted this in the recent _Elections_ thread where **Velocity** laid another of his dimwitted turds. ```auto [quote="Velocity, post:28, topic:843103"] So:.... [/QUOTE] Coming soon to an SDMB thread near you: ***Headline:** Joe Willis, an apprentice plumber in Oshkosh, would like his AK-47 bullets to be 10% cheaper. * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No, I haven't fully connected the dots here. Let's see how many of you other dimwits even understand why this was a sarcastic rejoinder to the dimwitted thread about Joy Behar. ``` ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/65 "2020-11-09T14:50:38Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > Hey, **Velocity** , how’s it going, bud? Have a seat. I know this is a bit late in coming but it’s been a busy couple of weeks, and I’ve only just now seen my way clear to very quickly glancing over some of the words in the 31,000 threads you’ve started. Many thanks to you for mostly keeping the posting at a minimum once you’ve stapled those OPs to the ol’ telephone pole. Anyway, I’m here now. And you know what? - Rather than start a new thread to tread the same old ground, I’m going to stand on the shoulders of giants (as it were) and remind @Velocity that simply opening cans of worms and running away to avoid cleaning up the mess you started is annoying as fuck. I know it’s a thing with you but you knock this shit right off now. Find a path to evolve and grow. Or indeed: > [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > So here I am, and here it is: shut up. No; shut up. That’s not a good point, that isn’t incisive, you haven’t exposed anything, the obvious answer to your should’ve-been-rhetorical question is the correct answer, and next time, instead of starting a thread on a trash fire of a premise only to be immediately corrected and never own it, here’s what you can do. Shut the fuck up, just for like a little while. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/66 "2020-11-09T15:10:47Z")
I got a few posts into this thread before I realised the OP is over 4 years old. The fact that it still seems to me to be largely on point is rather damning. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/67 "2022-08-01T19:10:57Z")
Resurrecting this topic because @Velocity opened [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-3rd-party-kicks-off-forward-party/968684) about a new political party, dropped a couple of content-free posts (i.e. “I look forward to supporting them”), and refused to return to the thread to answer anyone’s questions or engage any further. Why open a thread and then refuse to actually discuss the topic? ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/68 "2022-08-01T19:13:32Z")
If you’re **Velocity** , that’s just how you roll. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/69 "2022-08-02T00:53:43Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Why open a thread and then refuse to actually discuss the topic? Someone who can’t slow down enough to reply. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/70 "2022-08-02T01:55:01Z")
Seems to be a little friction? ---
**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:** [November 19, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/71 "2023-11-19T18:26:40Z")
Velocity is reviving the bullshit, straw-man based, pseudoscientific “race and intelligence” crap: > [@Unsupported Science Beliefs You Hold](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsupported-science-beliefs-you-hold/993365/45): > > That’s kind of the attitude I was alluding to. We have no problem acknowledging that racial differences can lead to physical differences - sickle-cell traits, eyelid shapes, skin color, higher or lower rates of lupus or Type-2 diabetes, stomach cancer, etc. But somehow we pretend as if the brain cannot be influenced by genetics likewise. The odd thing is, we even acknowledge that the brain can differ on gender/sex, can differ even in political differences (it’s known that conservatives have g… ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/72 "2023-11-20T14:26:32Z")
Sickle cell? _Eyelid shapes_? Man, these motherfucking racists only know the one tired tune, don’t they? Not even going to bother going into that shit-show of a thread to debunk any of that crap. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/73 "2023-11-20T17:00:54Z")
But the OP tackled geology! > I think that more geographic features than are generally acknowledged are the result of meteorite/comet impacts. These include the Gulf of Mexico, Hudson Bay, and the Great Lakes. > > I believe that the continents were formed well after life developed, when the deposits of sea creatures were subducted into the mantle and the relatively light minerals reemerged via volcanism to form continents that “floated” on the heavier rock. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/74 "2023-11-20T17:07:41Z")
I was just talking about the racism part. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/75 "2023-11-20T17:09:19Z")
I don’t know why anyone bothers replying to Velocity. He’s well known for dropping a controversial howler into a thread and just walking away. Just an absolute waste of space. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/76 "2023-11-20T17:15:38Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I was just talking about the racism part. I was just saying, there is other garbage for you to rip apart, too. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/77 "2023-11-20T19:48:42Z")
Meh. That OP is just wrong, but not _offensive_-wrong. I’ve come across the “Why is the Gulf so circular?” crap before, it’s just misguided. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986/78 "2025-08-09T02:15:20Z")
Not a good enough poster to warrant a mention in WWYT, but not necessarily (I’m 50/50 on this) a troll, either. I also don’t want to hijack a thread about the death of an American hero to call **Brakepedal** out over yet another random bit of not-necessarily-true trivia: > [@RIP Jim Lovell](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jim-lovell/1021876/5): > > I’ve always found it intriguing that people who survive harrowing near-death situations, like Apollo 13 or Holocaust survivors, usually live a much longer life than normal folks. Uhhhh… cite please? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-here-to-help-velocity/760986.md?page=3)