Its really annoying!
Don’t tell me what I knead.
I would be inclined overall to be kinder to doorhinge. I would say, imagining what it would be like to have a conversation with a doorknob, that doorhinge and a doorknob have approximately the same level of intelligence with no clear win for either. But the doorknob is definitely more benign and lacking in annoyance. Neither one understands the first thing about climate change, for instance, but at least the doorknob doesn’t spout extremely annoying stupid bullshit about it.
Dumber than a doorknob on a cat door.
I was thinking just now of starting a new thread
Poll: Who is the stupidest Doper of all? I nominate doorhinge.
… but noted that there are already six BBQ Pit threads with doorhinge in the title. So I’m bumping this one.
Long before Trump became the nuisance he is, I noted that doorhinge is the much sought-for “word that rhymes with Orange.” With his support for the short-fingered orange-skinned man, it seemed apt to spell his name D’Orange.
In GD we’re discussing gerrymandering and D’Orange has posted several times, each post stupider than the one before.
There are intelligent right-wingers of course. Bricker would say “Of course that was gerrymandering! Your side does it too but less successfully since you’re not as smart as us. Ha ha. We win!! Get over it, chumps.” And let me go on record — though some will call me a hypocrite for it — as stating that if gerrymandering were the way to wrest control of America from the kleptocrats and return it to the people, I’d be in favor.
Although D’Orange surely has no more than moron-level IQ, I’m not sure he meets the clinical definition of imbecile, let alone idiot. Part of me wants to believe that hominids capable of producing complete sentences on a message board can understand the concept of gerrymandering, when it’s explained slowly, with very simple words.
In that case, I wonder what D’Orange’s game is. Why does he stubbornly refuse to understand gerrymandering? Surely this would reverse if it were the Democrats who were gerrymandering. Does he think any Doper is even stupider than himself?
My working hypothesis is that his refusal to understand the basic elements of gerrymandering is akin to the salivations of Pavlov’s dog. By reaching conclusions that seem to serve the GOP some secretions in his reptilian brain experience a pleasure that overrides any of D’Orange’s efforts to utilize even his moron-level cognition.
I tried to convince him he could find sources of news that fit his criteria of who, what, where, when and how. I sent him two news sources reporting on the same story that fit all his criteria as an example of what was out there. He became convinced there were only two news sources in existence that were reliable after that. He’s like an hourglass that only permits one grain of knowledge to fall through his narrow passage, and it has to be forced through with a piledriver.
‘CV’ also stands for ‘coefficient of variation,’ the standard deviation as a proportion of the mean.
But it’s hard to imagine a situation where it wouldn’t immediately be clear from context which meaning of CV was intended.
Nah, the Doors made some pretty good music.
doorhinge is an apt name for this poster. As a hackneyed, disappointing attempt at creating a rhyme for ‘orange,’ ‘doorhinge’ is a joke that was funny once, with the ‘once’ being a long long time ago. And ever since then, it just grates.
Meh. It’s teachable moments for anyone who doesn’t know better. The bottom decile exists too, yanno!
And control voltage.
Perhaps “Unhinge”? Though I do like “D’Orange”. Classy, that.
There was that time I posted the famous depression-era photo of the worried woman, with the caption “woman deciding between health care and iPhones”. Unhinged took me seriously, started accusing me of spreading “fake news”, then when ppl started mocking him, he took the “ha-ha, I knew it was a joke all along, in fact, YOU were the one who didn’t know you were joking!” tact which fell out of favor among us when we were 9.
Good times!
It’s about how you pronounce doorhinge.
The ‘h’ is silent. Pronounced ‘dooringe’ 
I mean, really. disgusted :rolleyes:
Basically this.
Like, the other night my friend said she had to go to an ATM before we went out shopping
I was so freaking confused. I didn’t know what she meant
Air Traffic Management?
Asynchronous Transfer Mode?
A Thousand Miles?
At the Moment?
Awareness Through Movement
Adobe Type Manager?
Arabian Travel Market?
Automatic Teller Machine?
Anything that Moves?
According To Me?
Around the Moon?
Apollo Telescope Mount?
Airborne Topographic Map?
Advanced Toastmaster?
Ate Too Much?
Against the Mainstream?
Application Traffic Management?
Annual Technical Meeting?
Air Turbine Motor?
Alternative to Money?
Addicted to Music?
Abstract Test Method?
Abstinence 'Til Marriage?
Automated Theorem Prover?
Advanced Trauma Management?
Association of Textile Managers?
Adipose Tissue Mass?
I was so fucking confused. I didn’t know what my friend meant. I was paralyzed by confusion. Then she said she was expecting UPS to deliver a package and my head exploded. It’s like she wasn’t even speaking English.
Whatever you do, do not Google that with SafeSearch off. Or maybe do search it with SS off. Depends on what you might be into.
It’s not a teachable moment if the guy is not willing to learn.
And the contempt we treat doorhinge with is likely to make anyone who thinks like he does think he’s just a victim of those librulz. So we’re not teaching others.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t mind. Not everything anyone ever says is about fighting ignorance. The Pit isn’t (primarily) a place where we’re trying to teach people, but a place to vent our frustrations.
And boy is doorhinge’s idiocy frustrating.
May not be a question of native, in-born intelligence. He may not be dumber, but simply less well informed.