# Just So's We're Clear.... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 8, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509 "2006-02-08T05:21:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/81 "2006-02-09T02:28:12Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Eat me. Are you two married? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/82 "2006-02-09T02:59:08Z")
> [@rayh](#): > > Are you two married? You’d think so, the way they flirt shamelessly… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/83 "2006-02-09T03:02:43Z")
> [@if6was9](#): > > 4 out of 5 scienticians think so. But are they nucular scienticians? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/84 "2006-02-09T03:13:44Z")
> [@if6was9](#): > > 4 out of 5 scienticians think so. Hee. Finally, this thread makes me laugh–thanks, I needed that! ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/85 "2006-02-09T04:07:55Z")
> [@Boo Boo Foo](#): > > So slam me. Go nuts. I won’t give a shit because that’s how projection works you see. People have issues about something, and they project those issues onto other people and then try to convince those people that those issues are actually the recipient’s issues. I know lots of folks on this board who offer stellar psychological advice. Until this thread, I’ve never come across someone who has as much of an issue with that as you do. No, you’re the homo! What? **Scumpup** is talking about the armchair Dr. Phils (read: full of shit) out there, not the people who really have a clue. I’m more interested in your (over)reaction to him. Now who’s projecting, Princess Projecta? ---
**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:** [February 9, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/86 "2006-02-09T05:34:54Z")
I’m kinda thinking that if you’re getting your psychological advice from a message board, you’re getting what you paid for. Anyone here is free to give any advice they want to, and the recipients are free to do what they want with it (which, often, is completely ignore it and/or get mad at the givers.) ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/87 "2006-02-09T09:59:03Z")
What is interesting (and ultimately sad) about this entire schemozzle is that the mods have closed all the threads that precipitated _this_ one, but have allowed (perhaps encouraged??) a mass pile-on to continue here unabated. If they were truly sincere about not wanting such shit to infect the board, shouldn’t this one have been closed too? Or are they vicariously glorying in the roasting that **Inkleberry** and **DrLoveGun** are getting here? This thread smells really bad, and it’s not because of rotting towels. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/88 "2006-02-09T12:15:00Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > What is interesting (and ultimately sad) about this entire schemozzle is that the mods have closed all the threads that precipitated _this_ one, but have allowed (perhaps encouraged??) a mass pile-on to continue here unabated. If they were truly sincere about not wanting such shit to infect the board, shouldn’t this one have been closed too? I am not a mod, but this thread was at least started as a discussion of the rules. That’s legal pit material. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/89 "2006-02-09T12:46:26Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > What is interesting (and ultimately sad) about this entire schemozzle is that the mods have closed all the threads that precipitated _this_ one, but have allowed (perhaps encouraged??) a mass pile-on to continue here unabated. If they were truly sincere about not wanting such shit to infect the board, shouldn’t this one have been closed too? > > Or are they vicariously glorying in the roasting that **Inkleberry** and **DrLoveGun** are getting here? > > This thread smells really bad, and it’s not because of rotting towels. Time was, “You made your bed; you lay in it” was not at all uncommonly applied to threads like this. As these lovely folks obviously crave the attention, I don’t know why you’re trying to keep them from it in the only thread they have left from which to reap it. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/90 "2006-02-09T12:56:28Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > But are they nucular scienticians? :dubious: I work for some of those… Is anybody else wondering if a thread called Pick Up Milk on the way Home is going to pop up in **MPSIMS**? ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/91 "2006-02-09T13:39:16Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Or are they vicariously glorying in the roasting that **Inkleberry** and **DrLoveGun** are getting here? > > This thread smells really bad, and it’s not because of rotting towels. Considering that the subjects seem to be enjoying the attention (see Post 49 by the good Dr.) I don’t see why the mods would consider closing it. Even so, it’s the pitting of off-board issues with members that is verboten, not the pitting of mod decisions, which are definitely legitimate pit fodder. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/92 "2006-02-09T15:20:22Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > \ > Is anybody else wondering if a thread called Pick Up Milk on the way Home is going to pop up in **MPSIMS**? Or “Go to bed, you loser - you have to get up in the morning.” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/93 "2006-02-09T15:53:20Z")
Or: _ **I blasted through my savings – again!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/94 "2006-02-09T16:57:56Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > I am not a mod, but this thread was at least started as a discussion of the rules. That’s legal pit material. Bingo. I thought it would be unfair to close this thread without allowing **inkleberry** and/or any other interested posters the opportunity for follow-up discussion. I can’t say I’m too concerned about the trauma of a pile-on, though. It’s a public message board. If you act like a moron, don’t be surprised if a lot of people hold a similar, negative opinion of your behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/95 "2006-02-09T17:07:20Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Does one use therapizing to get to the truthiness of things? > Just asking. > > 🙂 It would be a perfectly cromulent approach. ---
**Author:** ![Creative\_Munster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Creative\_Munster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creative_Munster)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/96 "2006-02-11T13:00:59Z")
DrInkGuns is an interesting couple. I find it hilarious that she is a mental health professional. It must’ve been extraordinarily easy to get your degree at whatever college she ended up at. Can’t she tell that she is inflating her ego and covering up her own inadequacies by berating and belittling her husband? And doesn’t she realize that DrLoveGun tolerates it because he suffers from extremely low self esteem and believes he deserves the constant emotional abuse? The relationship is so perfectly dysfunctional. It really should be made into a mental illness case study. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/97 "2006-02-11T15:31:11Z")
> [@Creative\_Munster](#): > > DrInkGuns is an interesting couple. I find it hilarious that she is a mental health professional. It must’ve been extraordinarily easy to get your degree at whatever college she ended up at. Can’t she tell that she is inflating her ego and covering up her own inadequacies by berating and belittling her husband? And doesn’t she realize that DrLoveGun tolerates it because he suffers from extremely low self esteem and believes he deserves the constant emotional abuse? The relationship is so perfectly dysfunctional. It really should be made into a mental illness case study. Now **THAT’s** some therapizing. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/98 "2006-02-11T16:35:21Z")
> [@if6was9](#): > > 4 out of 5 scienticians think so. At least, that’s what it says on all the signage. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/99 "2006-02-11T18:51:59Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Now **THAT’s** some therapizing. Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509/100 "2006-02-11T18:58:16Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Seconded. thriced. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-sos-were-clear/343509.md?page=6)