# I'm not giving up my seat **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 16, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431 "2013-01-16T22:34:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 73
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1441 "2013-01-24T04:59:40Z")
> [@resting](#): > > How many years can you post here before the mods let you get away with baseless accusations and petty insults? For guests it usually takes 3 years or 2,000 posts, whichever comes first. For members it’s about half of that. ---
**Author:** ![Doggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@Doggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doggo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1442 "2013-01-24T06:10:43Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Very odd way for the mind to think, but we’re dealing with a different breed of animal here, my friend. > > O’RLY? So when you go to the movies with your girlfriend, you say to her, “All right, babe, you go sit over there and I’ll catch you when the movie’s over”? Just when I thought you kids couldn’t get any sillier… Yes, I have had to sit seperately when there were no empty seats beside each other. We both go because we both want to see the movie, not so we can discuss things or play together. Sitting apart does not change our enjoyment of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1443 "2013-01-24T06:34:14Z")
> [@resting](#): > > How many years can you post here before the mods let you get away with baseless accusations and petty insults? Six, you cumguzzling knob gobbler. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1444 "2013-01-24T06:37:26Z")
> [@Doggo](#): > > Yes, I have had to sit seperately when there were no empty seats beside each other. We both go because we both want to see the movie, not so we can discuss things or play together. > Sitting apart does not change our enjoyment of the movie. I’m guessing that your companion is not of the opposite sex. ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1445 "2013-01-24T06:56:20Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > I’m guessing that your companion is not of the opposite sex. Put it this way: that thing you’re resting your arm on? It’s not the armrest. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1446 "2013-01-24T07:25:17Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Having not participated in this thread, I took the liberty of reviewing your posts in it. From what I can tell, you’re either a troll, a total asshole. > > Your choice, I suppose. I tend to consider the two choices synonyms, but that’s me. Is there a meaningful difference between “troll” and “total asshole”? ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1447 "2013-01-24T08:14:57Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I tend to consider the two choices synonyms, but that’s me. > > Is there a meaningful difference between “troll” and “total asshole”? There is a pretty big difference, actually, although these days the terms seem to be used interchangeably. An asshole is just someone who you really don’t like. A troll is someone who posts outrageous things that nobody could possibly believe are meant in earnest. Case in point: this recent post from the “Men that refuse to take it up the butthole” thread. > [@Men that refuse to take it up the butthole...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-that-refuse-to-take-it-up-the-butthole/647244/96): > > I like to fuck girl up the bum but i hate it when people touch my bum… beacause its feel like bumbsecs This is classic troll. It’s all there: Pokemon character username, fractured grammar with implausible misspellings, and an autohomophobic sentiment so hackneyed that even Tosh.O is over it. **resting** , by contrast, has posted mostly straightforward insults with the occasional sarcastic remark thrown in. These remarks are not trolling, since they are pretty obviously meant to be perceived as ironic. Perhaps he is guilty of some degree of textual opacity, but I see no reason to brand him a troll just by his posts in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1448 "2013-01-24T12:08:01Z")
I was always looking for a thread, where you could post some random words in… ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1449 "2013-01-24T13:51:35Z")
> [@resting](#): > > How am I an asshole? How? Good question. I’d say it seems to come naturally for you. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1450 "2013-01-24T13:53:52Z")
> [@resting](#): > > How am I an asshole? I hate to be a grammar Nazi, but there should be a comma after the first word and the last punctuation should be an exclamation point not a question mark. ---
**Author:** ![resting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@resting](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/resting)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1451 "2013-01-24T14:07:51Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > How? Good question. I’d say it seems to come naturally for you. You didn’t answer my question. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1452 "2013-01-24T14:17:07Z")
I thought it was rhetorical. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1453 "2013-01-24T15:22:09Z")
> [@resting](#): > > You didn’t answer my question. To give your question its due, I will require access to a large broccoli, feta cheese and chorizo frittata and at least two hours to “prepare my response.” ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1454 "2013-01-24T15:34:10Z")
Just remember the old saying: “If you’re playing poker and you’re not sure who the asshole is, it’s **resting**.” ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1455 "2013-01-24T17:06:10Z")
“Better to keep quiet and be thought a fool than to be \*\*resting \*\*and remove all doubt.” ---
**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:** [January 24, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1456 "2013-01-24T17:22:08Z")
I thought Einstein said it best: “Imagination is more important than **resting**.” ---
**Author:** ![resting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@resting](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/resting)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1457 "2013-01-24T18:01:29Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I thought it was rhetorical. It was a genuine question. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1458 "2013-01-24T18:09:02Z")
Listen, Skippy, I’m not your shrink. If you can’t figure out how you’re being an asshole in this thread, then you have bigger problems than me not answering your whiny little questions. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1459 "2013-01-24T19:39:06Z")
“Yeah? Well the \*JERK \*Store called, and they’re running out of **resting**!” ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1460 "2013-01-24T19:46:56Z")
“excuses are like restings, everybody has one and they all stink” sorry, couldn’t help myself. i have no real feelings about resting as a poster one way or another. i just enjoy these word-jokes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431.md?page=72) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431.md?page=74)