manhattan, wtf?

The BBQ Pit
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MadHatter, if you’re going to get anal about this, fine. But don’t be a fucking idiot. Your question (you know, the one that was looking for the “x answer”) was one in which that is VERY easily researched. How do you research it? Ask the question on GD. Do a search on it.

And in that light, any question that is easily researched should not be posted on General Questions, as is my understanding. Its a good thing you didn’t get reprimanded as well.

Also, I’d like to point out and add to Crunchy Frog’s statement that there are going to be any number of answers by Christians to this topic. In fact, I dare day that a veritable DEBATE would spring up. So if you were looking for the actual answer to the question, the actual answer is going to be an actual debate, which would of course belong in GD.

Thanks for playing. Unfortunately our lovely parting gifts have been replaced by medium sized piles of steaming poo.

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Wait…what? Sorry Unc, but I don’t get it…

Damn, and just when I thought I was paying attention…

43

“Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, the repetition kills the wretch at last.”
~(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal~

One can only hope.

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MadHatter

  1. Friend, take it from someone who has no knowledge of your earlier dealings with Manhattan or other moderators: you have lost perspective here. Thirteen posts in this thread alone, when your OP wasn’t closed, but simply moved to another thread? Furthermore, in GD, facts are posted along with opinions. If your question is answerable, it will be answered in GD as much as it would in GQ. You might even learn more than you expected, as the opinions offered may be interesting to you.

This doesn’t follow. An unanswerable question belongs in GQ only if it is a fact that it is unanswerable. For example: “what is the square root of negative 1?” is a GQ unanswerable question. Yours was not, because, even though it is unanswerable, many people believe they have the answer, and would provide it. Those answers would be opinions, and thus appropriate for GD.

  1. Manhattan should look to results of an OP, not intentions. Regardless of what you think is the nature of your OP, how people will respond is his appropriate focus. He knows people would respond to such an OP with opinions - thus GD is the appropriate forum.

SuaSponte (who is entirely too reasonable in the Pit.)

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Dear MadHatter,

In my mind, the most telling thing is that at the time of my posting here, you have not responded once, or contributed at all to the thread you started (now in Great Debates). This tells me that either you are really too upset to care anymore about the question, or you never really did care that much about the question.

Of course, I’m sure there are other answers. Regardless, not contributing yourself to keep your OP alive, or clarifying the OP to make it such that it is unambiguous as to whether it is a debate or not, or even just communicating/thanking those who post, can be seen as being quite rude.

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Am I the only one who is reminded of Vizzini from The Princess Bride?

“He moved my thread?!?!? Inconceivable!!!”

“Never go in against a Sicilian when my moved thread is on the line!”

Madhatter: “No more moved threads, I mean it!”
Fezzik: “Anybody want a peanut?”

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A clever man would spew venom in the BBQ Pit because he would assume that only a great fool would respond. manhattan is not a great fool, so he clearly would not respond to Madhatter’s post. But Madhatter must have known that manhattan was not a great fool, he would have counted on it, so manhattan clearly can respond in kind.

That said, SPOOFE, I do think that you are the only one reminded of Vezzini. I was thinking more of Jack Dean Tyler - monomaniacal and apparently resistant to any form of logic or argument. :slight_smile:

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Just out of curiosity, if you know that there are clear cut facts as to how Christians answer the question, then why did you pose the question you did. If you don’t know the answer to the question, how can you come back and say that it’s not debatable? It’s debatable how two Southern Baptists will answer the question, much less the whole of Christemdom.

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Therefore, just change the question to be “What does the Pope say…?” and you will be back in business!

If you don’t want to argue with the Pope, pick one other leader or Council-of-record. ArchBishop of Canterbury, Billy Graham, any one should do.

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MadHatter, methinks you should step outside, get a nice breath of fresh air, count to ten, then come back and look at all the ridiculous shit you’ve posted in this thread.

Either that or take a sedative.

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::yawn::

Well, after reading all the new posts to this thread, I have simply re-inforced my earlier theory. No matter what a mod does on this board, the vast majority of the teeming millions will mindlessly come running to the mod’s defence like the conformist bots they are, unable to express an original thought if it challenges what a mod has said. I’ll respond to the posts already here, then I will depart the thread with total, utter confidence that my theory is correct, as no one is yet to disprove it.

Douglips
“<your stupid examples that made no sense>”

  • All of your examples of GQ/GD questions ended in “how would you reply?”. NONE of my examples ended in that statement. So, no, you have not got the hang of it. Nice try though, but next time, post relevant examples.

UncleBeer

"No, yet again you are incorrect. Is this a habit? Or an obsession? The guidelines say, “This is the place for all complaints and other discussion regarding administration of the SDMB. How you equate “complaints and discussions” to “flaming the administration” is puzzling.”

  • Well, I had a big complaint to make about a moderator, TEHREFORE I flamed him. Get it? Just like number 2 comes after number 1. It’s called ‘logical sequence.’ You should familiarise yourself with this some time.

“You finally got something right. Except … you didn’t follow your analysis to a logical conclusion. There is only one right answer to the man on the moon question”

  • Are you stupid? Or just blind?

MadHatter: "Well, there’s also many possible answers to ‘Who was the first man to walk on the moon?’, but only one of them is going to be right.

“Yeah, I know. Kinda perverse, ain’t it? Maybe I enjoy beating my head against the wall.”

  • Yeah, that certainly wouldn’t suprise me.

Connor

“Also, I’d like to point out and add to Crunchy Frog’s statement that there are going to be any number of answers by Christians to this topic.”

  • Then guess what Einstein? If that’s correct, THEN THAT WOULD BE THE ANSWER TO MY QUESTION. How many times do I have to repeat myself before this sinks in to you ignoramuses?

"Wait…what? Sorry Unc, but I don’t get it…

Damn, and just when I thought I was paying attention…"

  • I don’t think many people understand UncleBeer when he is trying to be “intelligent”.

SuaSponte

“If your question is answerable, it will be answered in GD as much as it would in GQ.”

Yes, it’s still getting answered, but in GD people are answering the question “Why does God allow suffering?”. And that was not what my OP in GQ asked.

“This doesn’t follow. An unanswerable question belongs in GQ only if it is a fact that it is unanswerable. For example: “what is the square root of negative 1?” is a GQ unanswerable question.”.

  • Unanswerable? That’s funny, because I had a similar question on my year 12 mathematics exam, I wrote down an answer, and was given full marks for it. Very strange.

Anthracite

“<your post>”

  • That’s because people are answering a question there that I did not ask.

Well folks, it’s been nice arguing with mindless bots who are programmed to, under no circumstances, agree with someone who is disagreeing with a mod. Why is this so? I have no idea (well, I have SOME idea). But it sure as hell is true, because as of yet NOBODY has surfaced a thread where this has happenned.

Here’s hoping that one day, just maybe, just HOPEFULLY, you will be able to think for yourselves, and not have your opinions dicated by those who have the words Moderator written under their screen name.

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Lucky Rowdy Maddy Hatters got his magic goggles on. :rolleyes:

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If I could direct you to your original thread, the one that seems to have gotten your panties all tied up, I’d like to point out the very first response. Oddly enough, its from CrunchyFrog:

(Here’s the thread.)

Seems to me to be the answer you just admitted to.

And in regards to all the “Proper use of the BBQ Pit” crap, I’d like to ask: What forum was this thread originally posted in? Oh, that’s right. General Questions. “What the fuck?” of course being the question of generality.

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Ehhh, I know I said I wouldn’t return here, but making people look like damn fools because they can’t have an original thought is too good an opportunity to pass up. So discard my earlier statement.

Connor, what exactly was the point of your post? I “fucked up?” What? Where?

As for where this was originally posted, I’ve already answersd that, so next time you decide you might post something here, be sure to check the previous posts, it will stop you looking like a stupid fool.

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Hatter, you have questioned the actions of a moderator. This would be fine.

Except you originally posted your complaint in GQ, where you know damn well complaints about moderators don’t belong.

Then you completely ignore the thread you started just because it was moved to GD. As Anthracite suggested perviously, this could possibly indicate that you really weren’t interested in the question being answered. I’m going to go one step further and say that it wouldn’t surprise me if you deliberately posted a borderline thread in GQ just so manny would move it and you can go on one of your little anti-manny tirades. God knows petty grudges aren’t beneath you.

You then proceed to gratuitously insult people who support manny’s action. This is also a no-no. Even in the Pit.

This thread is a joke. It’s also closed. I think the fact anyone on this board even tolerates your whiny facade of intellectual superiority enough to attempt an appeal to whatever logic you are capable of is a testament to our patience and our fanatical desire to squash ignorance.

I’d advise you not to push it. Go take a nap.