# Libertarian is a snotty creep and a jerk **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 27, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-is-a-snotty-creep-and-a-jerk/63465 "2001-04-27T00:10:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-is-a-snotty-creep-and-a-jerk/63465/21 "2001-04-28T02:21:37Z")
Piggy was the orc who had really thick glasses and had “assmar” ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-is-a-snotty-creep-and-a-jerk/63465/22 "2001-04-28T02:34:12Z")
Thanks. I’m not sure that helps with the translation though. (You see, I knew it must be one of Saruman’s Orcs!) ---
**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:** [April 28, 2001, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-is-a-snotty-creep-and-a-jerk/63465/23 "2001-04-28T03:32:38Z")
I’ve come into this whole tussle rather late, but I’d be delighted to try to translate **Libertarian** ’s wonderfully weird little analogy. As I understand it: 1. You’ve participated in threads with **Libertarian** in the past. 2. In doing so, you are now **Libertarian** ’s good friend. Heck, maybe his best friend! I’m just guessing about that last part, though. 3. If you read a thread in which people are doing mean, horrible things to **Libertarian** , like not talking about what he wants them to, it’s your job as his good friend to put a stop to it. How else can you call yourself his good friend? [sub]oh wait, you didn’t…hmmm…anyway, nevermind[/sub] 4. Pointing out that **TVeblen** is also a moderator of MPSIMS does not make it less than 100% your fault that awful, unspeakable things happened to **Libertarian** in that thread, because **TVeblen** is not **Libertarian** ’s good friend. Had **TVeblen** tried to show a supportive MPSIMS presence, **Libertarian** would have had no way to recognize him [sub]except for his screen name[/sub], because they do not enjoy “good friend” status. I hope that clears everything up. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2001, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-is-a-snotty-creep-and-a-jerk/63465/24 "2001-04-28T03:37:07Z")
It should be noted that I accidentally mis-spelled “IMHO” as “MPSIMS”. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-is-a-snotty-creep-and-a-jerk/63465/25 "2001-04-28T03:38:41Z")
Giraffe: What about the orcs? ---
**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:** [April 28, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-is-a-snotty-creep-and-a-jerk/63465/26 "2001-04-28T03:41:12Z")
I must admit, I haven’t fully figured out the orc connection yet. He said he felt like a lesser-known orc (all of whose lines were apparently cut in later revisions of the books) from _Lord of the Rings_, which I assumed was merely a metaphor for how insignificant he feels when people talk about things he doesn’t want them to. Or maybe he looks like an orc. It really wasn’t clear. ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-is-a-snotty-creep-and-a-jerk/63465/27 "2001-04-28T04:51:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > **I think your criticism is valid. I committed a childish act, which I regret. I had assumed by then that no one interested in Survivor was reading the thread anyway. There was nothing there but jokes about Jesus Christ. I should have stopped to think that some might come in who had not participated in the hijack.** Well in my book, that sounds very like “Sorry I was wrong”. Closest a person gets down here in the pit anyway. I’m impressed **Lib** and thanks - as you know most people just know they were wrong but argue on endlessly about trivial details. To err is human, to admit to erring unheard of. Now I just wish I hadn’t put such a crappy title on the thread. Antipodean love, Rudeboss ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-is-a-snotty-creep-and-a-jerk/63465/28 "2001-04-28T05:17:41Z")
**Lib** , I gotta hand it to you. I opened this thread up again expecting to see a lot of bullshit and excuses. And, while I did, I also saw a pretty legitimate apology. Stuff like that doesn’t happen all that often in the pit. Consider yourself off my shit list, if not quite on my good list. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-is-a-snotty-creep-and-a-jerk/63465/29 "2001-04-29T00:12:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Czarcasm \* > BTW, _I_ didn’t close the thread. It seems that Lib forgot that there are two moderators. Uhm, that [“Jesus”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=68168) thread is still open. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-is-a-snotty-creep-and-a-jerk/63465/30 "2001-04-29T00:22:38Z")
Yes, but it’s an open kind of closed. Orcs are all skew-wise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libertarian-is-a-snotty-creep-and-a-jerk/63465.md?page=1)