Really? Come on, we can do better than this. If people wanna yank our chain in Mundane Pointless Stuff or IMHO forums, I’ve got no problem with that - we have yank cranker forums. But Great Debates is where, in theory, great minds should meet, and that’s just a total shit-ass thread and people here know that.
Meh. Which forum isn’t always important.
Meh, it was fun for a time, and a bit of an indulgence.
Here’s the link to the thread, which is now locked.
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=880221
Thank you, Bone.
God forbid it isn’t all serious. More importantly, he posits his kingship of America, a position he expects might generate opinions in opposition to his opening statement. How this that not a GD thread? Just because the subject isn’t serious enough?
I reported it for the link to his petition, which is still there.
Ok fair enough, that’s clearly not ok without mod approval.
I… I am…
Bwaa-haaaa-ha-ha-ha-haaaa
:coughs and spits:
Haa-ha-ha
Sorry, carry on.
Great Debates isn’t a joke forum?
Well, yeah. What you described are the requirements for IMHO. GD, aka Great Debates, is the forum for serious topics, “the great questions of our time,” along with “witnessing” and “religious debates.” That’s the difference between it and IMHO, which is far more casual.
Eh. I considered it witnessing.
Witnessing for what exactly?
The thread should have been moved at the first report.
In the unlikely event he starts another like that, break out the instaban hammer.
It was a publicity stunt.
For what? He made that whitehouse.gov petition the same day that he posted here, but he never posted his screed anywhere else. The actual claim is incoherent and easily refuted even by CT standards. The numerology based off of the painting’s informational pamphlet was particularly migraine-inducing.
The whole thing reads like somebody playing at being a conspiracy theorist and not doing a great job.
Owner: …It was a pun.
Mr. Praline: (pause) A PUN?!?
Owner: No, no…not a pun…What’s that thing that spells the same backwards as forwards?
Mr. Praline: (Long pause) A palindrome…?
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Witnessing for what exactly?
The thread should have been moved at the first report.
In the unlikely event he starts another like that, break out the instaban hammer.[/QUOTE
For Og’s sake, can we cool it with the requests for bans?
I saw the link to whitehouse.gov. I thought it was more humorous than anything and thought, lighten up, Francis.
when I first reported it i said "its spam but we should keep it open for the lulz and we did for as long as they could … maybe should of moved it to imho or mpims tho
but we gotta have fun with the fools sometimes …
Exactly. It was a fun thread, but there is no way it belonged in GD. I figured that it was only a matter of time before it was shut down. It was fun while it lasted and thanks to the mods for indulging us as long as they did.