# Is scumpup pro-alcoholic douchebag? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 21, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scumpup-pro-alcoholic-douchebag/644699 "2012-12-21T03:42:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scumpup-pro-alcoholic-douchebag/644699/21 "2012-12-21T05:08:44Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Jeez, I though you _wrote_ Candide, and you admit you’ve never even read it? I have \*read \*Candide a couple times, but it’s been a really long time. I suspected it might be a Voltaire reference, but wasn’t sure. It’s just a name. (note the lowercase) ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scumpup-pro-alcoholic-douchebag/644699/22 "2012-12-21T05:10:07Z")
> [@Docta\_G](#): > > All things are interconnected in this best of all possible worlds. Okay, that one sounded familiar. Shakespeare? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scumpup-pro-alcoholic-douchebag/644699/23 "2012-12-21T05:30:06Z")
I can’t believe no one has made the obvious rejoinder: [QUOTE=Docta G] Is scumpup pro-alcoholic douchebag? [/QUOTE] Nope. Strictly amateur. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scumpup-pro-alcoholic-douchebag/644699/24 "2012-12-21T06:04:12Z")
Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scumpup-pro-alcoholic-douchebag/644699/25 "2012-12-21T07:53:59Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > In his defense, I have read his posts when he wasn’t drinking, and alcohol isn’t his problem. I think alcohol was his mom’s problem. During the pregnancy, I mean. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scumpup-pro-alcoholic-douchebag/644699/26 "2012-12-21T13:11:17Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Deserve’s got nuthin to do with it. But I’ve cultivated a nice cactus in my garden for you to go fuck. > > You still get a big FAIL on the weak Pitting-parody attempt. If its weak, wouldn’t that just make it a better parody? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scumpup-pro-alcoholic-douchebag/644699/27 "2012-12-21T13:24:36Z")
I’m getting really tired of alcohol being scapegoated whenever a **Scumpup** -style tragedy occurs. It isn’t the C2H6O; it’s the neurotransmitters of the person who uses it. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve used ethanol to _defend_ against posters like **Scumpup** , but of course those incidents aren’t the ones that get reported. The answer definitely isn’t to take alcohol away from responsible drinkers, because then only drunks like **Scumpup** will be armed. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scumpup-pro-alcoholic-douchebag/644699/28 "2012-12-21T13:40:41Z")
Frankly, I’m not buying his “I was drinking” excuse for when his posts go wrong, because I don’t see any style differences between his posts when he is supposedly sober and the posts that(after they go south) he claims were made while he was drinking. “_I’m_ not fucking up here-the _drink_ is.” ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scumpup-pro-alcoholic-douchebag/644699/29 "2012-12-21T13:57:14Z")
I think that, in the spirit of the OP and to level the playing field, all posters replying to this thread should be shit-faced drunk when submitting their comments. Or in my case, dead sober. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scumpup-pro-alcoholic-douchebag/644699/30 "2012-12-21T14:21:39Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > I think that, in the spirit of the OP and to level the playing field, all posters replying to this thread should be shit-faced drunk when submitting their comments… I’m hungover, does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scumpup-pro-alcoholic-douchebag/644699/31 "2012-12-21T14:32:35Z")
> [@Docta\_G](#): > > Could be because he’s an alcoholic douchebag. You said pre-alcoholic, now you’re saying alcoholic. Does it really happen that fast? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scumpup-pro-alcoholic-douchebag/644699.md?page=1)