# margin has the self-awareness of a barnacle. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934 "2020-02-14T14:18:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/61 "2020-02-15T16:00:54Z")
I move we turn this thread into a cat picture thread and fuck **pool** and **Mr. Duality**. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/62 "2020-02-15T16:41:52Z")
This is one nasty thread. What the fuck, **pool**? Was it really necessary to go there? That was seriously shitty. But **Mr. Duality** is definitely the tool of the week. That post below is about the stupidest thing that I’ve seen in forever. He demanded that someone had twelve hours to respond to his post or they will OMG face the serious consequences of him making a Pit thread. **margin** literally didn’t even login in that time as if anyone would be intimidated by threat from such an insignificant clown anyway. And the threatened Pit thread was such a pathetically weak effort. All of that just because she said something that you didn’t agree with about Bernie. Lame. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22137711&postcount=23](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22137711&postcount=23) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/63 "2020-02-15T16:48:21Z")
**Mr. Duality** , You have exactly 6.5 hours to respond to my post or there will be severe consequences. I will think horrible things about you and will scorch you with such a mean post that it will make you cry and everyone will cheer for me and give me high fives. It doesn’t matter if you are busy and don’t read the post. You are responsible for knowing about it anyway through psychic powers or something. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/64 "2020-02-15T17:12:28Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > **Mr. Duality** , You have exactly 6.5 hours to respond to my post or there will be severe consequences. I will think horrible things about you and will scorch you with such a mean post that it will make you cry and everyone will cheer for me and give me high fives. It doesn’t matter if you are busy and don’t read the post. You are responsible for knowing about it anyway through psychic powers or something. You’re going to feel a right git if his pet just died. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/65 "2020-02-15T17:15:53Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I move we turn this thread into a cat picture thread and fuck **pool** and **Mr. Duality**. I agree. Not my kitty but looks just like her right down to the split color face. [![](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0344/6469/files/1-tortie.jpg?v=1538506545) ](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0344/6469/files/1-tortie.jpg?v=1538506545) Deepest deepest sympathies **margin** and **Helena3030** ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/66 "2020-02-15T17:31:28Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > **Mr. Duality** , You have exactly 6.5 hours to respond to my post or there will be severe consequences. I will think horrible things about you and will scorch you with such a mean post that it will make you cry and everyone will cheer for me and give me high fives. It doesn’t matter if you are busy and don’t read the post. You are responsible for knowing about it anyway through psychic powers or something. The tools are those of you who allow yourselves to be manipulated by this parasite. Anyone with a firm grip on reality can see through the pretense of victimhood put on by **margin**. Enjoy the mental masturbation. And fuck those of you who don’t get satire. I set out to prove she didn’t put me on ignore, and I succeeded. I heard Bernie’s cat died the week before he went to that Noriega thing. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/67 "2020-02-15T17:39:50Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > And fuck those of you who don’t get satire. Gotta love the irony here. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/68 "2020-02-15T18:03:33Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > You’re going to feel a right git if his pet just died. It’s actually worse than that. My Mom is dying and I’m stuck halfway around the world because of a canceled flight which would have had a stopover in Hong Kong. It was canceled because of the nCov19 thing. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/69 "2020-02-15T18:28:50Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > It’s actually worse than that. My Mom is dying and I’m stuck halfway around the world because of a canceled flight which would have had a stopover in Hong Kong. It was canceled because of the nCov19 thing. I’m sorry to hear about your mom. It must be a very difficult time for you and your loved ones. I hope you get home safely and without further delays to be there for each other. See?.. It’s not that hard to not be a complete & utter cunt towards someone you learn is going through something. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/70 "2020-02-15T18:40:37Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > And fuck those of you who don’t get satire. Nah, you don’t get to be a cunt… (can we call someone _cunt_ anymore? fuck it, that’s what I’m going with)… a cunt and claim some sort of artistic value to your assholery. > [@Mr.Duality](#): > > It’s actually worse than that. My Mom is dying Sorry about your mom. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/71 "2020-02-15T18:40:58Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > This is one nasty thread. What the fuck, **pool**? Was it really necessary to go there? That was seriously shitty. > > But **Mr. Duality** is definitely the tool of the week. That post below is about the stupidest thing that I’ve seen in forever. He demanded that someone had twelve hours to respond to his post or they will OMG face the serious consequences of him making a Pit thread. **margin** literally didn’t even login in that time as if anyone would be intimidated by threat from such an insignificant clown anyway. And the threatened Pit thread was such a pathetically weak effort. All of that just because she said something that you didn’t agree with about Bernie. Lame. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22137711&postcount=23](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22137711&postcount=23) Oh noes! The pit is too mean! Maybe this will trigger another stampede to ATMB, much hand wringing, and a slew of pointless stickies. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/72 "2020-02-15T18:42:50Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Oh noes! The pit is too mean! Maybe this will trigger another stampede to ATMB, much hand wringing, and a slew of pointless stickies. Silence! Imbecile. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/73 "2020-02-15T18:44:52Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > I’m sorry to hear about your mom. It must be a very difficult time for you and your loved ones. I hope you get home safely and without further delays to be there for each other. > > See?.. It’s not that hard to not be a complete & utter cunt towards someone you learn is going through something. Sorry about your mom. Now to read pool’s responses and substitute mom for cat. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/74 "2020-02-15T18:51:40Z")
☹ > [@slumtrimpet](#): > > I agree. > > Not my kitty but looks just like her right down to the split color face. > [https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0344/6469/files/1-tortie.jpg?v=1538506545](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0344/6469/files/1-tortie.jpg?v=1538506545) > > Deepest deepest sympathies **margin** and **Helena3030** [This should link to a few pictures](https://www.flickr.com/photos/84741860@N02/)of my little orange girl, Baby, the tortie I just lost, Fred----the world’s first puppy in feline form, who was Baby’s big brother, and Morgue, the giant white floof. Three of them are gone, the little bastards. Maybe that’s what happens when somebody dumps a kitty on you. Fred had a wounded paw and Baby and Molly were both very undersized kitties. The Humane Society told me that feral kitties often experience kidney damage as a result of not having reliable sources of clean water. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/75 "2020-02-15T18:55:50Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Gotta love the irony here. It’s always these edgy assholes who claim it’s satire but they always seem to satirize the same groups their dads hate: women, POC, LGBTQ, and so on. Limbaugh and others on the reichwing _love_ to call it satire. Molly Ivins said satire was the weapon of the weak against the powerful, but every white bro ever only uses it after they’ve been asshole. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/76 "2020-02-15T18:58:13Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > The tools are those of you who allow yourselves to be manipulated by this parasite. > > Anyone with a firm grip on reality can see through the pretense of victimhood put on by **margin**. Enjoy the mental masturbation. > > And fuck those of you who don’t get satire. > > I set out to prove she didn’t put me on ignore, and I succeeded. > > I heard Bernie’s cat died the week before he went to that Noriega thing. Look at those goal posts move. I do have you on ignore, you overgrown toddler, but your whining about satire made me make an exception. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/77 "2020-02-15T19:48:21Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Silence! Imbecile. Sorry to interrupt the fedora wearingM hypocritical white knight brigade. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/78 "2020-02-15T20:03:00Z")
“fedora wearing”? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/79 "2020-02-15T20:09:23Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > “fedora wearing”? Clearly that octopus is wearing a top hat. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/80 "2020-02-15T20:35:34Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Clearly that octopus is wearing a top hat. “I can’t believe you didn’t put [a sea lion in a hat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqx62EXbAO0)!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934.md?page=5)