# Jackals of the Dope, I pit you! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 11, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708 "2007-04-11T22:11:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/101 "2007-04-12T04:43:04Z")
[QUOTE=Klaatu] Now you have just bought yourself a ticket to join the rest of us in detention on Saturday. I hope you are ashamed of yourself. Got a cigarette? I have some whiskey. Just don’t tell Mom. [/QUOTE] Actually, I brought sushi. Want one of my earrings? ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/102 "2007-04-12T04:44:03Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] That didn’t make any sense 😃 But thanks for playing. 'Course you’re the guy singing the song the little kiddles in kindygarten sing, after all. [/QUOTE] It makes perfect sense. You are acting like a hall monitor for the Pit, and we are giving you shit about it, including kiddie school type shit because you are seemingly advocating that type of treatment here for people that don’t fit your childish view of what the Pit is for. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/103 "2007-04-12T04:51:05Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] But whatever. Carry on - if you enjoying being the hall monitor, who are we to criticize. [/QUOTE] Not. The. Point. Which you appear to be adept at missing. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/104 "2007-04-12T04:54:04Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] Not. The. Point. Which you appear to be adept at missing. [/QUOTE] No - I get your point. Everyone gets your point. You’ve repeated your point in this and other threads ad nausium. You don’t feel that there’s any need to be so nasty in the pit. Why can’t everyone be nice, and get along. Everyone should be nice to everyone all the time unless it’s a mean closet door manufacturer. What YOU don’t seem to be getting is that a whole bunch of us don’t agree with you. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/105 "2007-04-12T04:54:46Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] But the narsty vicious ones are, IMHO, unnecessary. [/QUOTE] Unnecessary? Who the fuck are you, and why should we give a shit about your opinion? I’m with **Klaatu** and **alice** on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/106 "2007-04-12T04:55:57Z")
In other words, you don’t seem to understand that everybody here for the most part is an adult, and goes into this forum knowing full well one might get their ass flamed off. Whether for posting stupid shit like the latest trainwreck, or for posting stupid shit period. We are not babies who need to be coddled, and don’t need self-appointed arbiters of what is “right” or “wrong” here. Once again. if you don’t like the vitriol of the Pit, fuck off back to MPSIMS. I hear they have pretty kitty pics and hugs and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/107 "2007-04-12T04:59:28Z")
[QUOTE=Klaatu] We are not babies who need to be coddled, and don’t need self-appointed arbiters of what is “right” or “wrong” here. Once again. if you don’t like the vitriol of the Pit, fuck off back to MPSIMS. I hear they have pretty kitty pics and hugs and stuff. [/QUOTE] And just to add to this **QG** - you don’t get to pick and choose what gets posted in this forum. This isn’t your board and this isn’t your forum and the fact that you don’t like it the way it is, is only of concern to you. If you like to read nasty pit threads about politicians or companies or baby-rapers, but not about other posters, well…close the friggin’ threads about other posters. I don’t care for the RO threads so I don’t read them. E-Z. You know, this doesn’t seem like a hard concept. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/108 "2007-04-12T05:05:38Z")
You jackals turning on **Quiddity** now? ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/109 "2007-04-12T05:06:56Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] You jackals turning on **Quiddity** now? [/QUOTE] woof ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/110 "2007-04-12T05:08:18Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] You jackals turning on **Quiddity** now? [/QUOTE] We gotta have somebody to chew on. Plus, she makes it so easy. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2007, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/111 "2007-04-12T05:08:27Z")
[QUOTE=Ellis Dee] Unnecessary? Who the fuck are you, and why should we give a shit about your opinion? [/QUOTE] Well, frankly, her opinon is just as valid – and carries just as much weight – as anyone else’s, and the snippet you supplied of her comment does include “IMHO”. She isn’t making declarative statements of fact; she’s giving an _opinion_…and one which I happen to agree with in this instance. And another thing (I can’t believe I’m defending **Quiddity** , of all people. I hope she’ll forgive me 😛 ), what is this meme of her wanting only sunshine and light in the Pit. Why, I, myself, have been the target of some rather pointed barbs fired from her direction. I think the problem she has is the same one I have, namely, when things become both personal and cruel, things have gone too far. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/112 "2007-04-12T05:09:12Z")
[QUOTE=Klaatu] It makes perfect sense. You are acting like a hall monitor for the Pit, and we are giving you shit about it, including kiddie school type shit because you are seemingly advocating that type of treatment here for people that don’t fit your childish view of what the Pit is for. [/QUOTE] And don’t forget that nastiness in the Pit according to Miz Quiddity Glomfuster is predicated on how much she likes the participants. Just like that narsty old schoolmarm, she plays favorites. Really, her incessant but arbitrary (designed to reflect maximum righteousness on herself) scolding and clucking at people who she doesn’t like, while excusing the hijinks of those she does, all under the guise of making the Pit a kinder, gentler place is just… hilarious. Annoying, but hilarious. ::shoots spitball into QG’s hair, draws cartoon of her on the desk with a Sharpie… no, you can’t have my Cap’n Crunch and Pixie Stix sandwich:: ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/113 "2007-04-12T05:12:53Z")
Jackals deserve to be pitted, annoying creatures! Coyotes, on the other hand, are quite wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/114 "2007-04-12T05:13:05Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] No - I get your point. Everyone gets your point. You’ve repeated your point in this and other threads ad nausium. You don’t feel that there’s any need to be so nasty in the pit. . [/QUOTE] BEEEEP. Wrongo. Try again. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/115 "2007-04-12T05:15:08Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] And just to add to this **QG** - you don’t get to pick and choose what gets posted in this forum. This isn’t your board and this isn’t your forum and the fact that you don’t like it the way it is, is only of concern to you. [/QUOTE] Well, actually not, since you might recall that I was not the OP here and that others have, in fact, agreed with the idea the OP was conveying. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/116 "2007-04-12T05:16:05Z")
I dipped her hair in my inkwell when she leaned back. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/117 "2007-04-12T05:16:26Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] Well, frankly, her opinon is just as valid – and carries just as much weight – as anyone else’s, and the snippet you supplied of her comment does include “IMHO”. She isn’t making declarative statements of fact; she’s giving an _opinion_…and one which I happen to agree with in this instance. And another thing (I can’t believe I’m defending **Quiddity** , of all people. I hope she’ll forgive me 😛 ), what is this meme of her wanting only sunshine and light in the Pit. Why, I, myself, have been the target of some rather pointed barbs fired from her direction. I think the problem she has is the same one I have, namely, when things become both personal and cruel, things have gone too far. [/QUOTE] OK, I had to get up from a dead faint that you and I are agreeing on something but we are. Now I need chocolate and smelling salts 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/118 "2007-04-12T05:17:42Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Jackals deserve to be pitted, annoying creatures! Coyotes, on the other hand, are quite wonderful. [/QUOTE] Should have known you would would weigh in. Where’s that roadrunner anyway. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/119 "2007-04-12T05:19:21Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] BEEEEP. Wrongo. Try again. [/QUOTE] Well, no. I don’t think I will. You’ve made your point. You root for the underdog. If someone is getting lambasted you’re on their side, regardless of how shitty their behaviour is. We all get your schtick. It’s lame, and annoying and you’re not nearly as interesting or entertaining as **Autolycus** , so cut it the fuck out. Please. Really. Just stop. I have no idea what sort of board persona you’re trying to create, but “Stick-up-the-ass-snot” seems like a strange choice. ::_Every party has a pooper, That’s why we invited you, Party pooper! Party pooper!_:: ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708/120 "2007-04-12T05:21:04Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] OK, I had to get up from a dead faint that you and I are agreeing on something but we are. Now I need chocolate and smelling salts 😛 [/QUOTE] It’s even worse than that. I’m agreeing with the both of you. GAH!!! There is definitely something wrong here. Can I make the disclaimer that I’m distancing myself from everything else you say except this one small point? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackals-of-the-dope-i-pit-you/399708.md?page=7)