# Jesus Bricker, you just can't stop, can you? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 7, 2007, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839 "2007-07-07T12:54:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/21 "2007-07-07T16:53:38Z")
[QUOTE=CarnalK] The OP may be an over-reaction (I have seen this complaint about Bricker before, maybe it just hit some tipping point) but you don’t seem correct about the “just too busy”. **Bricker** posted at 3:30 my time, **Chronos** corrected him at 6:30 and Bricker’s “last activity” is at 10:30 pm. What do you and **mhendo** see? [/QUOTE] I noticed the same thing (adjusted for time differences) when I checked this, and I’m tempted to ask over in ATMB what specifically is meant by “last activity.” Does it mean the last time a thread was viewed? the last time the poster logged out? the last time the poster turned his computer off without logging out? the last time the poster closed a browser window with the SDMB active? So many possibilities. That said, I went to the linked thread, and tried to find something where **Bricker** talked about case law covering allowable governmental actions in the case of solar shutdown. **'toon** , you snookered me, ya SOB! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/22 "2007-07-07T16:55:43Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Is that really **Bricker** ’s first name? [/QUOTE] No, I think he just likes to think of himself as a fan. His first name, as far as I’ve been able to discern, is Rick. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/23 "2007-07-07T16:56:31Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Is that really **Bricker** ’s first name? [/QUOTE] Yes, and you’ll _never_ guess what his middle names are! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/24 "2007-07-07T16:58:24Z")
Didn’t _Lewis vs. Massachussetts (1911)_ establish that it is illegal to loiter inside the sun? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/25 "2007-07-07T17:05:26Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Is that really **Bricker** ’s first name? [/QUOTE] My first brother and I grew up thinking our names were heyyou and goddamnit. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/26 "2007-07-07T17:11:56Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] My first brother and I grew up thinking our names were heyyou and goddamnit. [/QUOTE] “First brother”? What happened to him? Did your parents send him back for a warranty issue and the manufacturer replaced him with a newer model? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/27 "2007-07-07T17:19:11Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] “First brother”? What happened to him? Did your parents send him back for a warranty issue and the manufacturer replaced him with a newer model? [/QUOTE] Having eight younger siblings, I tend to refer to them (outside the family) in numerical order. Just a style I’ve got. My second brother is the baby of the family, and thought his name was sweetie. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/28 "2007-07-07T17:31:58Z")
Outside of the Sun, a dog is Man’s best friend. Inside the Sun, there’s just too much pressure to allow for building long lasting, close relationships. Oh, how I long for the strong nuclear force! ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/29 "2007-07-07T18:05:51Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Is that really **Bricker** ’s first name? [/QUOTE] I would totally not be surprised. Betcha he can walk on water, too. No, he’s not sinking. Look. See. Water. Under his feet. Technically, he’s walking on it. Admittedly, he’s reached neutral buoyancy, but he’s got water under his feet, and he is making walking motions. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/30 "2007-07-07T18:29:25Z")
Just trying to keep my SDMB scorecard up to date. Is **Cartooniverse** now the paladin of the SDMB? I don’t see how he has any dog in this fight and yet here is the pitting. > [@](#): > > You were wrong, fucknugget- and yet despite the monicker, " Straight Dope Scientific Advisory Board" you’ve got hanging beneath your name > [@](#): > > Nor, sadly, did it matter that a colleague of yours on SDSAB posted in quite intelligently You do realize that SDSAB just means that they have written Staff Reports in the past right? (Also former Mods get this title) I have never seen Bricker or anyone else throw this around as some sort of special qualification. Bricker has written some staff reports. Pretty good ones if I recall correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/31 "2007-07-07T18:30:23Z")
[QUOTE=hawthorne] You’re the “friendly dogs are satan’s minions” guy, right? This is up there. [/QUOTE] He also thinks that Colin Farrel is a pedophile because he kissed a sixteen year old girl on the cheek in _The New World_. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/32 "2007-07-07T18:38:23Z")
[QUOTE=CarnalK] The OP may be an over-reaction (I have seen this complaint about Bricker before, maybe it just hit some tipping point) but you don’t seem correct about the “just too busy”. **Bricker** posted at 3:30 my time, **Chronos** corrected him at 6:30 and Bricker’s “last activity” is at 10:30 pm. What do you and **mhendo** see? [/QUOTE] Well, i went to his post, clicked on his name, and hit the link that said “Find all posts by Bricker.” The resulting list—which is in reverse chronological order—shows that his last actual post to this board was the post for which he is being criticized in this thread. And that is still the case now, at 2.37 p.m. Eastern US Time. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/33 "2007-07-07T18:53:27Z")
[QUOTE=zut] Are we individually pitting posters every time someone gives a wrong answer in GQ? [/QUOTE] Not hardly. And, I don’t go around making any effort to see when a poster was or was not last online. Uh… **that** is over the top, IMHO. Nice, to have a life. I’ve got one too. No doubt he does as well. At some point, he may or may not see this Pitting. It doesn’t matter much if he does, since he won’t go back in there and apologize for shitting on that guy’s post with an attitude not exactly in keeping with Straight Dope Scientific Advisory Board tone. We’re here to fight ignorance, not to shit on people. If he wanted to shit on the OP’er, he would have been within his rights to come in here to the Pit and pit the guy. Fine. But in that thread? In G.Q. ? Sorry. Doesn’t fly, and this is not the first time he’s come sailing in obnoxiously. I’m not the only one waiting for an apology for the vitriol spewed out during the best/worst of the Duke rape/Nifong threads. No, I pitted him because of a well-recognized pattern of absolute statements and absolute refusals to admit he was incorrect. Fine. He knows the law. Mazel Tov. However, he has never proved to us that his area of expertise ( and the area he is relied upon to provide assistance in SDSAB ) is even remotely connected to Astronomy. So. Read the OP again, then read his post again with care. I wasn’t pitting him because _he_ gave a wrong answer, I was pitting him because of his incredibly snarky shitting of the poster he quoted in his post. Everyone makes mistakes, and either admits it or gets called on it and then admits it. Everyone but our dear **Bricker**. **Loach** , that’s an interesting post you threw in there. Last time I checked, The Pit is the place to flame other posters as well as issues and ideas. As for **hawthorne** and **Miller** , you guys are precious. The best you can come up with by way defending **Bricker** ’s behaviors is to whine about past posts of mine? --grin-- Well, nicely done fellahs. You sure put me in my place. 🙂 None of which changes the simple fact that his behavior really was shitty in there. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/34 "2007-07-07T18:56:26Z")
[QUOTE=Crafter\_Man] Had a bit too much coffee this morning, **Cartooniverse**? [/QUOTE] You know, there are a lot of decaffinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/35 "2007-07-07T18:58:06Z")
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse] Not hardly. And, I don’t go around making any effort to see when a poster was or was not last online. Uh… **that** is over the top, IMHO. [/QUOTE] I don’t generally make a habit of it either. But if you specifically accuse someone of being a “spineless cocksucker” for not returning to a thread to correct an error, then you should first check whether that person’s absence is due to spinelessness, or might be explained by the fact that he hasn’t actually been at the computer. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/36 "2007-07-07T19:07:24Z")
Point very well taken. When I see him go in there, admit that **Chronos** explained it properly and his slamming of the OP’er was utternly without scientific proof or validity, I will be delighted to come in here and withdraw my pitting and ask the thread to be locked. In other news, pigs grow wings, give eagles a run for their money. Film at 11:00 :rolleyes: Yeah. I’m familiar with what SDSAB means. I’ve read Staff Reports that are posted for all to see as well. His legal acument is sometimes on rather shaky ground too, but at least he was at one time a member of the bar in Virginia, or so he said. ( NO idea if he still is, so I cannot very well say I know he’s a member, now can I? ). I could have saved this thread and simply quoted him in that thread and said, “Cite?” but this is not the first time he’s done this and we all know it. The level of hubris has caused finer Dopers than I to decry his posts. I don’t drink caffeine but gosh those jibes sure stung !!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/37 "2007-07-07T19:21:19Z")
Whatever dude. You are pitting about a reply in a thread that you didn’t even have enough interest in to put in an appearence. This seems like a personal vendetta to me. Sorry if we are not reaching for the torches and pitchforks like you hoped. > [@](#): > > We’re here to fight ignorance… Give me a fucking break. That is only a corporate logo. There is very little evidence that it is actual policy. I have seen no evidence in any of your posts. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/38 "2007-07-07T19:24:18Z")
Maybe he’s helping get a little blind girls kitten out of a tree? Who knows how long it takes to get a restraining order on a tree, maybe days! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/39 "2007-07-07T20:26:43Z")
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse] No, I pitted [**Bricker**] because of a well-recognized pattern of absolute statements and absolute refusals to admit he was incorrect. … As for **hawthorne** and **Miller** , you guys are precious. The best you can come up with by way defending **Bricker** ’s behaviors is to whine about past posts of mine? --grin-- Well, nicely done fellahs. You sure put me in my place. 🙂 [/QUOTE] And we’re just commenting on your well-recognized pattern of being absolutely batshit insane. Oh, and I’ve seen **Bricker** admit he was wrong plenty of times. You? Not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839/40 "2007-07-07T20:52:24Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] Is **Cartooniverse** now the paladin of the SDMB? [/QUOTE] Impossible. He hasn’t fought his dark self on Mt. Ordeals yet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-bricker-you-just-cant-stop-can-you/410839.md?page=3)