# Lissener finally comes clean as to what he really is. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 11, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678 "2006-12-11T13:51:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/21 "2006-12-11T17:40:34Z")
I agree with Airman Doors, lissener’s post about “dance, monkey, dance” was an obvious confession of trollery on his part. I don’t see how a reasonable person could read it any other way. ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/22 "2006-12-11T17:45:09Z")
[QUOTE=McNew] By the same token, \*Showgirls \* on HDTV is as much of an oxymoronic ludicrosity. Can you \*smell \* the funk coming from Gina Gershon’s nethers? No! Can you \*feel \* the slap of Elizabeth Berkley’s funbags upside your head? No! [/QUOTE] Exactly! No “show,” no “girls,” just a flat representation of real life. A ludicrosity indeed. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/23 "2006-12-11T17:48:15Z")
[QUOTE=McNew] Can you \*smell \* the funk coming from Gina Gershon’s nethers? No! Can you \*feel \* the slap of Elizabeth Berkley’s funbags upside your head? No! [/QUOTE] Try the Sony. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/24 "2006-12-11T18:39:09Z")
[QUOTE=McNew] Can you \*smell \* the funk coming from Gina Gershon’s nethers? No! Can you \*feel \* the slap of Elizabeth Berkley’s funbags upside your head? No! [/QUOTE] Sure wish I could, though. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/25 "2006-12-11T19:05:58Z")
[QUOTE=zut] Well, _there’s_ your problem. **Lissener** wasn’t talking about sports, per se. He was calling “sports on HDTV” an “oxymoronic ludicrosity.” And he’s right! Sports on HDTV aren’t really sports! They’re a 2D construct, a representation, an image. Can you _smell_ the dirt and sweat of the players on HDTV? No! Can you _feel_ the slap of the dodgeball upside your head? No! Sports are meant to be _experienced_: smelled, and felt, and tasted. The pale construct represented on HDTV isn’t “sports.” It’s a ludicrosity. And you’d do well to remember that. [/QUOTE] But why _HD_TV in particular? It’s just as far removed from the authentic experience on the RCA of my youth as it is in the showroom at Paul’s King of Bigscreen. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/26 "2006-12-11T19:11:15Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] This is retarded ludicrosity. I don’t know which is worse, **lissener’s** obvious trollery or your long-winded, pedantic analysis. At least **lissener’s** comment was kinda funny, in junior-high kind of way. [/QUOTE] _De gustibus_, I guess. I enjoyed the deconstruction more than I did the original thread-crap. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/27 "2006-12-11T19:37:38Z")
I don’t think **lissener** is a troll, but he certainly seemed to be trolling then. Sadly the rules don’t differentiate between the two. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/28 "2006-12-11T19:45:27Z")
[QUOTE=zut] Exactly! No “show,” no “girls,” just a flat representation of real life. A ludicrosity indeed. [/QUOTE] My chances of seeing Gina Gershon nude in real life are so miniscule that they can’t be measured with 21st century technology. I’ll take a 2D representation as the next best thing. Lacking as it may be, it is of the same order of magnitude better than no nude Gina Gershon at all. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/29 "2006-12-11T20:05:51Z")
[QUOTE=FinnAgain] I am convinced that people like **Lissener** will, eventually, drive the development of new technologies. Technologies which will, in time, allow you to punch someone in the mouth via the internet. [/QUOTE] I laughed out loud as I formed the visual on this one! ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/30 "2006-12-11T20:21:32Z")
[QUOTE=FinnAgain] I am convinced that people like **Lissener** will, eventually, drive the development of new technologies. Technologies which will, in time, allow you to punch someone in the mouth via the internet. [/QUOTE] I pray every day that this breakthrough will come. Dear OG do I pray… ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/31 "2006-12-11T20:25:51Z")
The emperor is naked. Film at 11. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/32 "2006-12-11T20:40:19Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] …I don’t know which is worse, **lissener’s** obvious trollery or your long-winded, pedantic analysis. At least **lissener’s** comment was kinda funny, in junior-high kind of way. [/QUOTE] Well, if you don’t _know_, copy off your buddy’s paper. You won’t get caught. Actually you’ve got a point. Tell you what: from now on I’ll begin all my posts with a fart joke. That will give you something to chortle at (quietly, please) while anyone who _likes_ long-winded and pedantic analysis goes on to read the other, longer parts. That way, fewer people will feel that I’m shirking my obligation to entertain them. Okay, **Airman** , it’s not about you, or sports, or HDTV: it’s just another episode of _Pro-Bono Troll Hunter_. Carry on, and when it’s over I’ll be the one saying, “…and we never got a chance to thank him.” ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/33 "2006-12-11T21:48:41Z")
Wait, people are upset that lissener seemed to thread fart in a …Cafe Society thread? No? A MPSIMS thread? No? An IMHO thread? No? A General Questions thread? No? A Great Debates thread? No? \*\*A…wait, hold on…lissener gets Pitted because he crapped in a PIT THREAD??? \*\* _giggle_ Was **Ideocracy** a documentary? ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/34 "2006-12-11T22:01:00Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] Wait, people are upset that lissener seemed to thread fart in a …Cafe Society thread? No? A MPSIMS thread? No? An IMHO thread? No? A General Questions thread? No? A Great Debates thread? No? \*\*A…wait, hold on…lissener gets Pitted because he crapped in a PIT THREAD??? \*\* _giggle_ Was **Ideocracy** a documentary? [/QUOTE] He has made it a clean sweep, every forum crapped in. The occasion deserved some sort of acknowledgement. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/35 "2006-12-11T22:17:39Z")
[QUOTE=The King of Soup] Okay, **Airman** , it’s not about you, or sports, or HDTV: it’s just another episode of _Pro-Bono Troll Hunter_. Carry on, and when it’s over I’ll be the one saying, “…and we never got a chance to thank him.” [/QUOTE] I didn’t even have to hunt. He came to me. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/36 "2006-12-11T22:24:13Z")
Somebody pissed off **Airman**? Laid-back, easy-going **Airman**? Hard to grasp, its like visualizing Sheriff Andy of Mayberry pistol-whipping Otis. ---
**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/37 "2006-12-11T22:25:34Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] Was **Ideocracy** a documentary? [/QUOTE] A documentary about rule or government based on ideology or theory? Like _Triumph of the Will_ ? ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/38 "2006-12-11T22:35:39Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Somebody pissed off **Airman**? Laid-back, easy-going **Airman**? Hard to grasp, its like visualizing Sheriff Andy of Mayberry pistol-whipping Otis. [/QUOTE] Wait ‘till you see it in HD. There’s practically blood and teeth in your living room. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/39 "2006-12-11T22:38:25Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Wait ‘till you see it in HD. There’s practically blood and teeth in your living room. 😃 [/QUOTE] With redder blood and…greener teeth? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678/40 "2006-12-11T22:50:26Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] \*\*A…wait, hold on…lissener gets Pitted because he crapped in a PIT THREAD??? \*\* [/QUOTE] I am pretty sure that he got pitted because he admitted to trolling in a Pit thread. (Glances up at thread title.) Yep. That was it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lissener-finally-comes-clean-as-to-what-he-really-is/383678.md?page=3)