# It's time to officially Pit Joe Paterno and the Penn State football program. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 7, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167 "2011-11-07T14:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 122
**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:** [January 28, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2421 "2012-01-28T21:27:12Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > … What is it about the man boy anal rape that gets you so fired up unlike any thread ever in your history on these boards? And why do I keep reading about it? I do think there are posters with serious issues here (myself included), and that if people here faced these issues honestly, they’d talk to a professional. I pit myself for returning to this thread time and time again. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2422 "2012-01-28T21:30:38Z")
Y’know what? I’m going to be honest and name names. I wrote this a while ago but didn’t post it, frankly because I didn’t think it would do a bit of good… but here goes: Seriously, SA, this is not normal behavior. Counseling will help. Wouldn’t you love to be able to let things go and get on with more positive aspects of life? I have a number of students that’ve been diagnosed with mild autism or OCD or some sort of fixation where they just can’t relax and let things slide. With treatment, they’re much happier. Talk to someone. A real 3D person, as opposed to…well, us. We do NOT know what we’re doing here. Your problems are above our pay grade. Get a professional opinion. Please. ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2423 "2012-01-29T00:18:48Z")
Onion (per always) FTMFW: > **[Jerry Sandusky: I’ll Never Forget All The Things Joe Paterno Did For Me](https://www.theonion.com/jerry-sandusky-i-ll-never-forget-all-the-things-joe-pa-1819573238)** > > STATE COLLEGE, PA—As thousands of mourners gathered at Penn State's campus spiritual center Wednesday afternoon to say their farewells to Joe Paterno, former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky took the opportunity to express his "deep, everlasting... ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2424 "2012-01-29T02:32:15Z")
_::::yawn::::_ Why the fuck indulge **SA** ’s fantasies? This thread should have died a couple of months ago. But hey! Keep engaging the creep. No doubt he loves the attention – more than likely the only one he gets. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2425 "2012-01-30T05:35:24Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > Being a scientist I have a different set of oni. I have to convince others even if I’m 110% in the right. Every time. Again and again. Fun fact. Apart from being the plural of onus, oni is also the Japanese word for ogre/nature-demon. It works both ways! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2426 "2012-01-30T18:56:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Then in response to my defense of Paterno we have poster after poster insisting that it was rape, and how could Paterno not know it was rape, and what else could it be besides rape, and why don’t I care more about the boy who experienced horrible anal rape at the hands of Sandusky more than I care about Joe Paterno? In post after post I have set aside the idea of intercourse and asked you why Paterno did not report to the police the fact that Sandusky was showering naked with a boy. That alone warrants an investigation, but as I said before, there does not even need to be physical contact for there to be a crime. Meanwhile, your justifications as to why this could not be rape are idiotic. Are you seriously telling me that a man of Sandusky’s age, a former athlete, is too weak to squat? I guess in all those countries with squat toilets their elderly people keep falling down whenever the need to use the bathroom. Also, there must be an age limit at which you can no longer ski, or lift weights. Poor Jack Lalanne-he must have been falling over every time he did one of his workouts in his 90’s. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2427 "2012-01-31T05:21:20Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > In post after post I have set aside the idea of intercourse and asked you why Paterno did not report to the police the fact that Sandusky was showering naked with a boy. That alone warrants an investigation, but as I said before, there does not even need to be physical contact for there to be a crime. I disagree, on both counts. Children and adults legally shower every day in this country, whether with parents, relatives or in nudist colonies, and have historically been exposed to naked adults of both sexes at such non-conservative gatherings as love-ins, rock concerts, communes, gay pride parades and “naked bicycle rides” in San Francisco. Given all that, Joe Paterno can hardly be blamed for not being of the opinion that for a man and boy to shower together is not a freak-out-and-call-the-cops offense. Plus I’ve asked for cites as to your claim and no one so far has posted any sort of statute explicitly identifying man/boy showering as an illegal offense. > [@psychobunny](#): > > Meanwhile, your justifications as to why this could not be rape are idiotic. Are you seriously telling me that a man of Sandusky’s age, a former athlete, is too weak to squat? I guess in all those countries with squat toilets their elderly people keep falling down whenever the need to use the bathroom. Also, there must be an age limit at which you can no longer ski, or lift weights. Poor Jack Lalanne-he must have been falling over every time he did one of his workouts in his 90’s. I wouldn’t be so quick to call other people idiotic if I were you. In the first place, there are many ex-athletes - mostly former football players - younger than Jerry Sandusky who are seriously physically impaired and are living lives of limited mobility and constant pain. Still, Sandusky appears to be in pretty good shape and most like could handle squatting over a hole in the floor without toonmuch difficulty, however… ALERT! ALERT! PHYSIOLOGICAL PHYSICS AND UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS ENSUE!!! anal sex with the pelvis only two feet or so above the ground calls into play an entirely different set of physics and physiological circumstances. First of all, when one is squatting over a hole in the ground, the arms are kept close to the body (often resting just above the knees) to assist with balance. Further, the body is either bent forward at the waist or held in a relatively upright position with most of the upper body’s weight pressing down through the floor of the pelvis, angled downward and to the rear, with the bulk of the body’s weight resting on fully flexed knees and the back of the thighs and lower legs. In other words, the body’s weight is shifted down and to the rear and is mostly supported skeletally rather than muscularly. Now consider the weight, balance and muscle activity involved in a 6’3" man attempting to perform anal sex with his pelvis only slightly more than two feet off the ground with his hands held up and out two feet or so from his body. The weight of a body attempting copulatory movements in such a position is shifted forward at the pelvis and supported largely by the thigh, lower leg and back muscles, which, in addition to holding this large man’s weight largely suspended in mid-air, is simultaneously trying to counter-balance the body weight that gets shifted to the rear with the up-and-forward thrusts, and to perform those up and down, back and forth thrusts at the same time. I submit that it would be virtually impossible for the average person to pull this off for more than a few seconds without his muscles failing and falling backwards or straight down onto the floor. Someone as strong and disciplined as a Cirque du Soleil performer might last a somewhat longer, but gravity, combined with that unbalanced position and muscle fatigue would still likely cause him to fall back or collapse to the floor long before he could complete the act. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2428 "2012-01-31T06:40:20Z")
Showering alone? At 10pm? Uh huh. You are extremely, incredibly fucking disgusting. That you care so much about one man, whose main contribution to life was coaching football, that you would go into such detail about child molestation, in order to defend him, is dispicable and perverted. Frankly, you disturb me. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2429 "2012-01-31T07:23:49Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > OK, I see what’s going on now. You’re fucking around with me and you think you can do it by playing the victim. You forget I said I’ve read this entire thread; if you don’t think I’ve not seen you pull this stunt with others in here over 49 pages you’re deluded. I thought by treating you as an adult (how many people in here apologized to you for anything they said, aside from me?) I’d get some adult treatment back. I see that instead we’re back to SDMB 101. Actually you did get adult treatment from me. I posted to you in a respectful tone, I apologized for forgetting to thank you for your apology, and refrained from asking - in response to your high-toned lecture on my alleged away insinuations - why a person of your apparent training and accomplishment in engineering and science apparently has to work three jobs and up to seventy hours a week in order to make ends meet? Of course it’s possible you work that much out of love for what you do, but the point is I refrained from the snarky remark that would have produced an answer. > [@Una\_Persson](#): > > Mule muffins. This is another “fact” you’ve made up to salt your post and charge the atmosphere herein. Taking posting tips from **Huerta** , I see. > [@Una\_Persson](#): > > I did no such thing and anyone reading this thread can plainly see that. The only thing I mentioned about science to you was: Who said you bragged to me? What I said was that you came into the thread bragging, which is what you did in bragging about having schooled **Elvis** on science, engineering and guns. (That comment was also what caused me to assume you were a man, which illustrates once again the unreliability of assumptions.) > [@Una\_Persson](#): > > So the question is now why did you post the above false statement? And please don’t think you can shuck and jive _me,_ and don’t try to spring off my throwaway line to Evil Elvis in the thread as “proof” of “bragging” about “engineering;” that would be silly and ignorant. Ah, and here we’ve arrived at the point where you begin to intuit what I was talking about, and have therefore chosen to attempt to pre-emptively disqualify it rather than honestly admitting you may have been mistaken. Not really very sporting of you, I must say. > [@Una\_Persson](#): > > I brought it up to tell you why I would not be answering your disturbingly skeevy questions about the fine details of Sandusky’s alleged ass-raping techniques. You know, along the lines of that philosophy you yourself espouse of telling people why you won’t be answering their questions? You didn’t just “bring it up”; you were sarcastic and mocking in an outraged tone. Then, after belatedly (once again) realizing something that hadn’t occurred to before, you lamely acknowledged that perhaps I hadn’t kept a file on you and therefore didn’t know of your background. But you left the snark in, and that’s what was telling. > [@Una\_Persson](#): > > But I’m not going to even get into the crazy-quilt of side issues. All I’m going to do now is get you to unconditionally retract the lie you posted above, or I’m going to put you on Ignore as not being worth my bandwidth to read. This is a binary switch; pick one state. There’s no lie to retract. However there is one retraction I’d like to make though my comment seemed valid at the time, and that is in regard to the respect I felt your position on the board and my vague awareness of it caused me to feel toward you. In this post you have shown your true colors and revealed the animus you hold toward me which were you were masking behind a facade of civility in the beginning, and it’s clear the armor I thought a few chinks existed in before is in fact nonexistent. I can see now why you’ve come in for the abuse on this board that you mentioned before. As far as your putting me on ignore goes, I can’t imagine what besides an exaggerated sense of your own self worth would make you think I’d care in the slightest. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2430 "2012-01-31T07:31:17Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > anal sex with the pelvis only two feet or so above the ground calls into play an entirely different set of physics and physiological circumstances. First of all, when one is squatting over a hole in the ground, the arms are kept close to the body (often resting just above the knees) to assist with balance. Further, the body is either bent forward at the waist or held in a relatively upright position with most of the upper body’s weight pressing down through the floor of the pelvis, angled downward and to the rear, with the bulk of the body’s weight resting on fully flexed knees and the back of the thighs and lower legs. In other words, the body’s weight is shifted down and to the rear and is mostly supported skeletally rather than muscularly. > > Now consider the weight, balance and muscle activity involved in a 6’3" man attempting to perform anal sex with his pelvis only slightly more than two feet off the ground with his hands held up and out two feet or so from his body. The weight of a body attempting copulatory movements in such a position is shifted forward at the pelvis and supported largely by the thigh, lower leg and back muscles, which, in addition to holding this large man’s weight largely suspended in mid-air, is simultaneously trying to counter-balance the body weight that gets shifted to the rear with the up-and-forward thrusts, and to perform those up and down, back and forth thrusts at the same time. I submit that it would be virtually impossible for the average person to pull this off for more than a few seconds without his muscles failing and falling backwards or straight down onto the floor. Someone as strong and disciplined as a Cirque du Soleil performer might last a somewhat longer, but gravity, combined with that unbalanced position and muscle fatigue would still likely cause him to fall back or collapse to the floor long before he could complete the act. Why couldn’t he just pick the boy up and hold him at a comfortable height? Men have been known to do so with a small woman; it should be even easier with a ten-year-old boy. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2431 "2012-01-31T07:37:55Z")
> [@Huerta88](#): > > I will note for the (oh so tired) record that the sick fucker thinks he can get away with (once yet still again) slipping in (heh, no wait, it’d be impossible for it to fit!!!) the allegation that McQueary’s report to Paterno were “vague claims that indicate [he was] not sure what was happening,” contrary to anything in Paterno’s or McQueary’s sworn testimony and the Grand Jury complaint, which speak only of “some form of intercourse,” “fondling or sexual contact,” and “subjected to anal intercourse.” My, but what a profoundly dishonest little twit you are. McQueary did not tell Paterno anything about intercourse or rape and you perfectly well know it, and as I said roughly three dozen times, the fact that McQueary didn’t seem to know how to describe what he thought he saw may well have left Paterno thinking that perhaps McQueary had misinterpreted what he had seen…which is very likely in light of what an emotionally detached and analytical review of the facts strongly suggests. > [@Huerta88](#): > > Fucker’s also back to pretending that any of us have said proof of rape is what makes Paterno morally guilty… Nope, never said any such thing. This also is a lie. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2432 "2012-01-31T07:52:58Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > Why couldn’t he just pick the boy up and hold him at a comfortable height? > Men have been known to do so with a small woman; it should be even easier with a ten-year-old boy. I believe this would be difficult to do in a front-to-back configuration. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I believe thatvigorous thrusting in this position would propel the recipient (in this case let’s say a small woman who enjoys anal intercourse) too far forward, causing frequent, unwanted and troublesome disengagement. Plus I’d imagine that re-entry in that position would be more troublesome and time-consuming than might be the case with vaginal intercourse. Any time I’ve known of intercouse where the man holds the woman up in the air, the action has been face-to-face, often with the woman holding on, hands behind the man’s neck or some other way. Plus in the Paterno incident we need to remember that McQueary said has said nothing in any of his testimony to indicate that Sandusky was either in a crouching position or holding the boy in the air. In point of fact his testimony is contrary to the boy being held in the air, as he was described as standing in front of Sandusky with his hands against the wall. ---
**Author:** ![banjoDavid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@banjoDavid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/banjoDavid)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2433 "2012-01-31T08:09:21Z")
I know I am. Can someone ban this asshole SA, or stick a ball-gag in his mouth or something. JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2434 "2012-01-31T08:18:46Z")
So now you have proved you are also ignorant about the anatomy of the body and about the mechanics of sex. While I really really do not wish to sink to your level to disprove your assertions one by one, I will simply say that it is possible to lean forward during a sexual act such as you describe, which would be facilitated by the person in front bracing him- or herself against the wall with the hands so that the person thrusting would not be off-balance. The only reason I engage on the details is that I will match my medical knowledge against your “knowledge” any day and after doing a significant bit of urology I probably have a much better idea of male anatomy and function than you do as well as absolutely no problem discussing details of sexual function. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2435 "2012-01-31T08:31:16Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > SA, I just have one further question for you. You have two hundred and fifty posts in this thread. One out of every ten posts from hundreds of contributors comes from you. You’ve spent months MONTHS arguing this in detail. > You haven’t been this passionate in any Bush bashing thread. You don’t show your face in the stupid Republican idea of the day thread. Every day there’s a new thread about some crime committed somewhere and we don’t hear a peep. But here you take a stand > > What is it about the man boy anal rape that gets you so fired up unlike any thread ever in your history on these boards? Well, your premise is mistaken, to begin with. It isn’t anal rape that gets me “fired up”, it’s that this thread is like an 18-wheeler full of **SA** irritants. It contains pallet-loads of idiocy, hysteria, a witch hunt/lynch mob mentality that blatantly objects to and doesn’t want to hear the facts, my admiration of Joe Paterno is decades long and to see him pilloried like this on nothing but supposition is highly piss-offery, and as you might suspect, being called a pedophile or pedophile-enabler and having my personal history quizzed simply because I politely suggested early in the thread that we wait until we have evidence of deliberate wrong-doing before we excoriate Joe Paterno pissed me right off too.. People get called morons and accused of insanity around here all the time, but I’ve never seen it displayed so blatantly and nakedly aggressively as it has in this thread. I am frankly shocked at the was so many people are behaving in this thread. Despite the insults thrown around this board like confetti, I honestly don’t believe I’ve ever seen true and genuine insanity on this board prior to this thread, and it’s very difficult for me to let that insanity go unchallenged, lest that create the impression the nutjobs must be right because no one’s arguing against them. Plus, in the Bush days I was often battling it out in five or six threads at the same time (on a variety of subjects, not just Bush). Frankly though, I’ve finally become so thoroughly disgusted with the dishonest nature of discussion and argument on this board that my posting activity prior to this thread had dwindled to almost nothing. I think a check of my board history will show that in the two or three months prior to this thread and relatively speaking I was hardly posting at all. So no, anal rape isn’t what got me going on this thread, it’s been the all but unbelievable idiocy that has defined it. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2436 "2012-01-31T08:36:20Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Y’know what? I’m going to be honest and name names. I wrote this a while ago but didn’t post it, frankly because I didn’t think it would do a bit of good… but here goes: > > Seriously, SA, this is not normal behavior. Counseling will help. Wouldn’t you love to be able to let things go and get on with more positive aspects of life? I have a number of students that’ve been diagnosed with mild autism or OCD or some sort of fixation where they just can’t relax and let things slide. With treatment, they’re much happier. > > Talk to someone. A real 3D person, as opposed to…well, us. We do NOT know what we’re doing here. Your problems are above our pay grade. Get a professional opinion. Please. Trust me, there are plenty of people in this thread who would benefit from counseling, but I ain’t them! ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2437 "2012-01-31T09:01:06Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > So now you have proved you are also ignorant about the anatomy of the body and about the mechanics of sex. While I really really do not wish to sink to your level to disprove your assertions one by one, I will simply say that it is possible to lean forward during a sexual act such as you describe, which would be facilitated by the person in front bracing him- or herself against the wall with the hands so that the person thrusting would not be off-balance. The only reason I engage on the details is that I will match my medical knowledge against your “knowledge” any day and after doing a significant bit of urology I probably have a much better idea of male anatomy and function than you do as well as absolutely no problem discussing details of sexual function. I thought you were a doctor but you’ve been posting so stupidly that I thought I must be wrong. We aren’t talking about how if the participants were in some other position man/boy anal rape could be facilitated; we are talking about people in the position that McQueary reported he had seen. I have been very clear in my analyses to describe the difficulties that a 6’3" man would encounter in trying to have anal sex with a young boy in that position. And I’m afraid I’m at a loss to understand how your knowledge of urology makes you an expert on the physics of squat-sex. You’ve already shown you don’t know what you’re talking about with the Asian toilet scenario or the health of former football players, so I’m sure you’ll pardon me if I remain skeptical now. Still, it would be easy enough for you or anyone else to test. Just squat down about as far relative to your height as Sandusky would have to for his, and try pumping away at a paper towel tube held in front of you. I’m not asking that you report back to me, because a) you likely wouldn’t; and b) the sickos in this thread would accuse me of getting off on it, which of course is utter bullshit substantiated by my eight year, 12,000 post history on this board which has been totally free of skeevy attempts with the board’s female posters. So, go ahead, give it a try. Bet you can’t do it for more than a few seconds before you collapse or your muscles give out. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2438 "2012-01-31T09:14:47Z")
> [@banjoDavid](#): > > I know I am. > Can someone ban this asshole SA, or stick a ball-gag in his mouth or something. > JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!! 1. I hadn’t posted in two days to see if people really had reached the point where the thread should end. I even let them have the last word. Then there were a couple of insulting posts made today in the other thread, and **psychobunny** decided to come in here and start things up by challenging me on the basis that if a large, tall 63-year-old man could squat over a hole in the floor he could commit anal rape, presumably in the same position and as easily. And, 1. I am dealing in cold, hard facts. And fighting ignorance on a board devoted to it. If you don’t have the mental discipline necessary either to detach yourself and deal with those facts as they are, then at least grow up and have enough self-discipline to keep your ass out of the thread. It’s not the mods’ job to protect your delicate sensibilities. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/2439 "2012-01-31T09:26:27Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Showering alone? At 10pm? Uh huh. You are extremely, incredibly fucking disgusting. That you care so much about one man, whose main contribution to life was coaching football, that you would go into such detail about child molestation, in order to defend him, is dispicable and perverted. I’m not going into such detail to defend Paterno. I’m going into such detail because you people have been way too quick to jump to conclusions, you’ve completely shut down your critical thinking in service to an outrage you don’t want to let go of, and you are happily engaging in the most egregious example of willful ignorance and mob mentality than I’ve seen in my eight years on this board. > [@Guinastasia](#): > > Frankly, you disturb me. So you’ve said. Lots of times. And you vomit a lot. Big deal. ---
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