# Is Shodan more retarded lately, or has he maintained a consistent level of retardation all along? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 24, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530 "2012-01-24T20:31:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 52
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1021 "2012-02-18T02:54:27Z")
Fuck off **elucidator** you’re the only person more worthless than **Shodan**. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1022 "2012-02-18T03:31:14Z")
I am? Your Mom passed away? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1023 "2012-02-18T14:46:02Z")
> [@Docta\_G](#): > > I’ve forgotten more than you’ll ever understand. It took you three weeks to get up to post #16? Remember what they told you in remedial reading - don’t move your lips. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1024 "2012-02-18T15:01:05Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Remember what they told you in remedial reading - don’t move your lips. Is it any wonder you know what is said in remedial reading class? :dubious: ---
**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:** [February 18, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1025 "2012-02-18T15:17:49Z")
Oh yeah, this thread. I never heard a reply from **Sam**. If history is a guide, he’ll grudgingly approach an acknowledgement of error in about 7 years or so. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1026 "2012-02-18T17:26:04Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I am? Your Mom passed away? That would explain that bargeload of dicks that got turned away from the New York docks. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1027 "2012-02-18T17:43:38Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Is it any wonder you know what is said in remedial reading class? :dubious: I used to teach it. Sometimes on the SDMB I feel like I still am. Regards, Shodan ---
**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:** [February 18, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1028 "2012-02-18T17:49:31Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I used to teach it. Sometimes on the SDMB I feel like I still am. > > Regards, > Shodan Trying to explain the trailer park’s lease to your illiterate relatives isn’t _teaching remedial reading_. It is however, very nice of you to do. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1029 "2012-02-18T17:50:13Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I used to teach it. Sometimes on the SDMB I feel like I still am. > > Regards, > Shodan Is this one of those “those who can’t do” kind of situations? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1030 "2012-02-18T18:31:39Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Trying to explain the trailer park’s lease to your illiterate relatives isn’t _teaching remedial reading_. It is however, very nice of you to do. Ahem Double-wide here. Of course, I’m a peckerwood from Waco, so we aspire to trailer trash. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1031 "2012-02-18T18:45:55Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Ahem Double-wide here. Of course, I’m a peckerwood from Waco, so we aspire to trailer trash. Proof, as if it were needed, that a man can transcend his surroundings to attain greatness. 😃 I know that plenty of decent, hard-working, well-off people own mobile homes. I was just suggesting that Shodan’s family is more in _The Hills Have Eyes_ category. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1032 "2012-02-18T19:00:07Z")
Oh, its OK, my neighbors and I have quite a bit of fun with that particular meme. “Have you seen the new neighbors? Nice young men, a bit scruffy. Motorcycle hobbyists, it seems…” “But science enthusiasts, from all those glass tubes and such…” “And that odd aroma, reminds me of a dentist’s office, for some reason, or model airplanes…” “Did you notice they go outside to smoke? Sometimes twenty, thirty yards away before they light up…” Cost me ten grand, ten years ago. Pay about $350 to rent the space. Got a friend in New York City, whenever we talk, try to find a way to work it into the conversation. Grind his 'nads a little… ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1033 "2012-02-19T05:32:48Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Grind his 'nads a little… And this _ **'nad-grinding** _ is an activity that occurs on a regular basis, whenever you and your presumably male friends get together…? ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1034 "2012-02-19T05:36:47Z")
So what do I have to do to get a 20+ page thread about me? The last one, and only one, about me, iirc, barely managed to crack two pages. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1035 "2012-02-19T05:38:32Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > So what do I have to do to get a 20+ page thread about me? The last one, and only one, about me, iirc, barely managed to crack two pages. It takes charisma to get people to hate you. You, just don’t seem worth the effort. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1036 "2012-02-19T05:41:34Z")
> [@digs](#): > > And this _ **'nad-grinding** _ is an activity that occurs on a regular basis, whenever you and your presumably male friends get together…? Eat your heart out. ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1037 "2012-02-19T05:56:17Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > It takes charisma to get people to hate you. You, just don’t seem worth the effort. It doesn’t take hate to get a thread about you. Also if you hate someone on the internet, I think that is probably a poor reflection upon yourself. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2012, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1038 "2012-02-19T06:23:52Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > It doesn’t take hate to get a thread about you. Also if you hate someone on the internet, I think that is probably a poor reflection upon yourself. I don’t know you as a person, so I can’t feel anything about _you_. I’m sure you love your kids. I’m sure your hold your wife in the cold and give her your jacket. I’m sure you work hard and have dreams. I don’t hate _you_. I hate what _your posts represent_. A most-likely decent person mislead by lies and misinformation. And I know there are too many more just like you, just like Shodan. People who honestly think they’re doing the right thing, because they have been tricked into possessing an alternate set of facts that bear no relation to the real world. Shodan has people posting in this thread over and over, because he is a prick with razzle-dazzle. You need to up the volume and contrast if you want similar treatment. ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1039 "2012-02-19T06:49:32Z")
I don’t have a wife. I don’t have any kinds, either (praise God, Jesus, Allah, whoever :D). If I was all “anti-truth/anti-information”, I’d be a raging liberal as then it’d be easy. Just turn on the TV and listen to the everything the news tells you. If someone gets under your skin that much that you have to “hate”, or however it you want to phrase it, them then it’s probably because you perceive there to be an air of truth to their statements. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530/1040 "2012-02-19T07:20:57Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > It doesn’t take hate to get a thread about you. Also if you hate someone on the internet, I think that is probably a poor reflection upon yourself. I suppose I would despise you if I gave you any thought. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530.md?page=51) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shodan-more-retarded-lately-or-has-he-maintained-a-consistent-level-of-retardation-all-along/610530.md?page=53)