# Just for shits and giggles... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 26, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886 "2001-07-26T19:18:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886/41 "2001-07-27T17:54:15Z")
> [@](#): > > In what way am I trying to subvert your authority, dickhead? You say that moderators will consider changing thread titles or post phrasing if informed of offense or potential offense. > > I’m just informing you of my offense. Do with it what you will. I personally find the thread titles I referenced much more offensive than the one that was changed. I have a hillbilly uncle and I am now fearing for his life. Your attempt of subversion lies in your “demand” that we do something to please you; you wish us to act in your interest alone. Your words demand the action of the staff; you are **not** simply asking that we _consider_ acting. Nor do your latest histrionics do anything to persuade me your request isn’t that of one who wishes to be treated as petulant moppet. You’ve evinced no intent other than a wish to act absurdly. You show the self-satisfied smugness of a toddler making his first water on the pot. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886/42 "2001-07-27T18:01:29Z")
I don’t know about anyone else, but this thread has certainly increased my Prick Tolerance ten fold. jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![Mr.SeverhadKW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@Mr.SeverhadKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.SeverhadKW)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886/43 "2001-07-27T18:10:17Z")
I am just posting this to make sure my account here is activated. I hope everything is going wonderful for all. ~~S ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886/44 "2001-07-27T18:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m changing titles only after they are questioned by one, or more, of the members of this board, You’re right, I made more of a demand than a request. Fine. would you please _consider_ changing the thread titles I referenced. I am horribly offended by them. I’m sorry that you feel my offense is a challenge to your authority. I prefer, however, to consider it deference to your authority. If I did not respect your authority I would just sit in silence ignoring those things that offend me. Your authority is so awe-inspiring, however, that I feel empowered to seek out removal of those items I find less than savory. I hope my request receives all due consideration and will not be dismissed out of hand simply because I am hoping to eat out of the can of worms you opened. You have decided to protect us from offense, whether offense is reasonable or not, and I’m sorry if requesting the same protection makes me a petulant moppet. Thank you for your time. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886/45 "2001-07-27T18:27:01Z")
Fine. Email the forum moderator and/or an administrator with your “request” and we’ll take it under advisement. ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886/46 "2001-07-27T18:44:38Z")
Awww, somebody needs a hug! (((obfusciatrist))) There. Feel better? Here’s a cookie. Now go outside and play. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886/47 "2001-07-27T18:59:27Z")
Thank you, I will. Should I send one long email or individual emails for each point of offense? And I’m sorry for calling you a dickhead, it was an asshole thing to do. Kamandi: Touch me again and something horrible, but completely non-violent, may happen to you, but not in any way because of me. ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886/48 "2001-07-27T19:10:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > I’m sure this can’t actually be addressed to me, as there is no assertion anywhere in my post that my constitutional rights were violated. I’m well aware that the First Amendment does not apply to private entities. Censorship by a private entity is still censorship. It’s just not illegal censorship. I may not be a smug attorney but I am a smug paralegal. But thanks for your contribution. You are welcome for my contribution. Anything I can do to help. Let me explain. You insist that SDMB either not censor your writings, or in the alternative publish its rules and apply them without discretion. You, a non-paying user of this service, demand that They, act to accomodate you. In such circumstances, the only rights that are threatened are those of SDMB. > [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > minty applied a time-honored debating technique. > > Presenting a phony “quote” and pretending like it has some relevance to the point under discussion is indeed a technique that has been used for quite some time in debate. It’s a shitty tactic and hardly one that I’d call “honored” by time or anything reputable. ::Sigh:: What **minty** did was take your own argument, change the term to which the argument applied, and thereby demonstrate the illogic of the original argument. It is indeed time-honored - I just read an account of a 19th century French economist who, in order to demonstrate the illogic of protectionists, applied protectionist arguments in favor of banning the sun as unfairly competing with French candle-makers. Sua ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886/49 "2001-07-27T19:26:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > \*\*I’ve already found boards which have a “higher prick tolerance,” those being the ACLU boards which I moderate. \*\* And here I’ve been just aching to find a board with a “higher prick tolerance”, this getting rid of jerky behavior certainly lessens **my** enjoyment. > [@](#): > > \*\* as far as “thwarting the actions of the moderators” is concerned, since the moderators didn’t bother to explain their actions upon taking them, or indeed advise me that action was being taken at all \*\* well, since I pointed out that you’d started your thread several hours after **UB** had posted an entire thread asking that **in his forum** people be a little more restrained in thread titles etc., I can see how starting a thread so quickly after a mod had made such a request could be seen as ‘thwarting’. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886/50 "2001-07-27T19:28:48Z")
Hey, that’s pretty good, **Sua**. Makes me sound all intellectual and stuff, when really all I was trying to do was show that the “it was only a statement” argument was bullshit. ‘Course, 19th century French philosophizin’ usually don’t go over too good in Texas. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886/51 "2001-07-27T19:57:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by obfusciatrist \* > \*\*Kamandi: Touch me again and something horrible, but completely non-violent, may happen to you, but not in any way because of me. \*\* Prissy bitch. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886/52 "2001-07-27T20:09:52Z")
Otto, you are an intellectual dwarf with the testicular fortitude of rice. Stop acting like a fucking “Wah wah I’m not being noticed” asshole and _get over it_. So you think your ACLU board is better? Fine. Stay there. We’d all be happier. So you think the mods are inconsistent? I disagree. They’ve been remarkably consistent in judging each infraction on a case-by-case basis. They’ve been patient in dealing with spoiled little snots like you, they’ve been tolerant in having to take on such a tiring, thankless job for free. Get off your cross, climb down from your high horse, and pull that ten-foot-long pole out of your ass, you piece of whiny, snot-nosed, freshly-felched filth. It’s people like you who are the cause of all the problems you’re railing against. Dickhead. “Oh no, he called me names!” Damn skippy I called you names. It’s the only language you seem to understand, you sack of congealing donkey semen. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886/53 "2001-07-27T20:53:02Z")
OK I think we’re about done. If you have any further quesions… blah blah… email… blah blah blah… Thanks… blah blah… cooperation… blah. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-for-shits-and-giggles/73886.md?page=2)