# Is it just me or is this site kind of soft? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 2, 2005, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509 "2005-06-02T06:06:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/81 "2005-06-04T18:11:18Z")
From one of **hauss** ’s page 1 postings: \*It’s just that I know what is knowledge/truth and what is speculation and I demand knowledge when most people would settle for supported speculation. \* Well my ape’s brain cannot comprehend that subtle distinction. In GQ, a typical questoin might be “What is the mass of the Sun?” and within a few minutes someone comes back with 2 x 10[sup]33[/sup] grams. There we have it - problem solved. But **hauss** does that answer have to be qualified with “this is supported speculation” OR “this answer is 77% supported speculation 22% knowledge and 2% other” ? And since you said you demand knowledge, are you going to take someone else’s word for the Sun’s mass or are you going to do some firsthand experimentation? and a quote from the second page: _I use technology only in cases where I know for a fact it will help me._ Yeah somehow I had a feeling that computers and the Internet do not offend your scientific sensibilities. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/82 "2005-06-04T18:13:54Z")
[disclaimer] Percantages may not total 100% due to rounding errors [/disclaimer] ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/83 "2005-06-04T18:22:24Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > I knew you knew, and I knew you knew I knew, and you knew I knew you knew I knew, but for the others, who didn’t know, I felt I had to be more concrete. > > You know? 😉 :: carefully mops his brains off the wall and floor before they set and cause stains :: Just wanted to make sure you didn’t think I thought you were actually “quick to anger.” I just like the quote. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/84 "2005-06-04T19:03:26Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > But now I see **hauss** implying I said things that I clearly did not. That makes me angry. And as a wizard, um I mean a doctor, I’m not going to let that pass. Lordy, does a day go by without misrepresentations of what people say? From what I gather, unless you write a three-page treatise leaving no nuance of inference untouched, then you’re fair game. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/85 "2005-06-04T19:06:21Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the MercotanAnd as a wizard, um I mean a doctor, I’m not going to let that pass.[/QUOTE] He turned me into a newt! ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/86 "2005-06-04T19:20:46Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > He turned me into a newt! A newt? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/87 "2005-06-04T19:23:39Z")
I got better. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/88 "2005-06-04T19:28:11Z")
No no no. Should be… … … … I got better… The pause is **_key_.** ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/89 "2005-06-04T19:34:56Z")
What works even better is if someone doesn’t come along immediately after and micro-analyze the joke. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/90 "2005-06-04T19:49:17Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > He turned me into a newt! :eek: [The horror!](http://www.famouspeople.com/famous/_images/55.jpg) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/91 "2005-06-04T20:19:14Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > What works even better is if someone doesn’t come along immediately after and micro-analyze the joke. 😃 (I guess I won’t go into why this comeback is witty and amusing . . . ) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Kenneth\_Noisewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@Dr.Kenneth\_Noisewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Kenneth_Noisewater)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/92 "2005-06-04T20:24:00Z")
> [@hauss](#): > > Who will be laughing in the end when you realize you could have just sipped some vinegar to treat your acid reflux but instead you spent all that money and all the side effects on pills your whole life? Depends on where you get your jollies. > [@](#): > > I use technology only in cases where I know for a fact it will help me. Additionally, I use science to make decisions only when I know they are fact and when I can interpret the data correctly. Otherwise, I can live my biological life just fine without technology or science. Two weeks ago I was going to pit my brother for this same degree of ignorance. Just because someone synthesized it does not mean it’s bad for you. We are not brainwashed slaves opiated by Nutrasweet and Tylenol. > [@](#): > > This is a matter of preference and not sanity. This is a matter of value judgment not obsessive/compulsive behavior. It’s about risk aversion and not paranoia. It’s about choosing default behavior as a temporary solution (natural living) in the presence of a lack of available truth. That’s your opinion. Risk aversion is a euphemism for paranoia. If you continue to delegate your trust so meticulously I wish you a good time living in your own ‘safe’ little world. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/93 "2005-06-04T20:27:24Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Lordy, does a day go by without misrepresentations of what people say? From what I gather, unless you write a three-page treatise leaving no nuance of inference untouched, then you’re fair game. I would disagree with that, _at least_ in GQ. There, I do strive to be factual, and I therefore will take great exception to being misrepresented. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/94 "2005-06-04T21:26:59Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > I would disagree with that, _at least_ in GQ. There, I do strive to be factual, and I therefore will take great exception to being misrepresented. I would disagree with it too. In fact, I regularly do. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/95 "2005-06-04T22:58:42Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > I hope I’m not too late to add: Don’t let the door hit [you](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=312879) on [your ass](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=291701) on the way out. Oh, man, I didn’t realize this is THAT guy. Yes, by all means, hauss, instruct us on the proper ways to live our lives. Please. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/96 "2005-06-04T23:22:00Z")
> [@hauss](#): > > I use technology only in cases where I know for a fact it will help me. Additionally, I use science to make decisions only when I know they are fact and when I can interpret the data correctly. Otherwise, I can live my biological life just fine without technology or science. You’re using technology right now. You’re sitting about a foot away from a computer monitor. I’ve heard they emit radiation. If I were you I’d hurry on down to the organic computer parts store and buy a tofu monitor. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/97 "2005-06-04T23:27:34Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Oh, man, I didn’t realize this is THAT guy. Yes, by all means, hauss, instruct us on the proper ways to live our lives. Please. Oh, ick. I forgot he was that guy too. Well, I’ll remember from here on out. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/98 "2005-06-04T23:30:44Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > You’re using technology right now. You’re sitting about a foot away from a computer monitor. I’ve heard they emit radiation. If I were you I’d hurry on down to the organic computer parts store and buy a tofu monitor. Here’s the [monitor](http://aiko.la/images/philippines01/monitor%20lizard.jpg) I use. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/99 "2005-06-04T23:57:33Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Here’s the [monitor](http://aiko.la/images/philippines01/monitor%20lizard.jpg) I use. Taking a poor, innocent lizard out of his natural environment, and trapping him to serve as an information display? I’m calling PeTA on you, you monster! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509/100 "2005-06-05T00:12:23Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > I’m calling PeTA on you, you monster! 🙂 Sorry, the local chapter is busy protesting the beating of dead horses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-site-kind-of-soft/306509.md?page=6)