# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/121 "2020-02-16T01:47:51Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > As has often been said by the suddenly oh-so-concerned hand wringing group in this very thread no one is forced to read the pit. So what? The intent is different whether the fellow Doper chooses to read it or not. I mean, if you feel zero sense of community with the other posters here, what you say makes some sense. But if you like hanging out with the people here, it’s not cool to be quite so mean. Don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/122 "2020-02-16T02:00:30Z")
> [@pool](#): > > I treat cancer patients for a living. I was a disturbed child but I’m not an attention whore unlike some others I could mention. Straight up, this is the sort of stuff that I wish were verboten in the pit. I don’t care how manipulative margin may or may not have been, pool’s responses weren’t just insulting, they were indicative of a shittiness that oughtta be offloaded. Edit: [clearer comments here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22141259&postcount=105). ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/123 "2020-02-16T02:41:04Z")
I feel like this thread has justifiably become the **pool** Pit thread now. ---
**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 16, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/124 "2020-02-16T02:42:31Z")
> [@pool](#): > > I treat cancer patients for a living. I was a disturbed child but I’m not an attention whore unlike some others I could mention. Your trolling in this thread fits the very definition of “attention whore.” ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/125 "2020-02-16T02:45:54Z")
> [@pool](#): > > I treat cancer patients for a living. I was a disturbed child but I’m not an attention whore unlike some others I could mention. I beg to differ - when you make light of another poster’s dead pet and are just being a generally distasteful poster, you’re attention whoring. Try again. You’re just going through a “fuck you, planet” stage - I get it. It’s better if you own up to it. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/126 "2020-02-16T02:47:20Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Your trolling in this thread fits the very definition of “attention whore.” Beat me to it. I mean, FFS, it was another poster’s pit thread, and he became the pitted subject. How the fuck does that happen? Answer: it doesn’t - unless you’re trolling and attention whoring. ---
**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 16, 2020, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/127 "2020-02-16T02:52:11Z")
I hope he doesn’t joke about his patients’ dead pets when he’s treating them. Probably does. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/128 "2020-02-16T03:17:48Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Straight up, this is the sort of stuff that I wish were verboten in the pit. I don’t care how manipulative margin may or may not have been, pool’s responses weren’t just insulting, they were indicative of a shittiness that oughtta be offloaded. > > Edit: [clearer comments here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22141259&postcount=105). You know, I looked back and what’s his face’s attack on me was _designed_ to put me in “What the \* fuck\*, dude?” mode. It just so happens that there’s been one thing occupying me this week and it’s pretty specific. He _wanted_ me on the defensive so then he could pat himself on the back in response for his superior intellect or emotional stability or whatever. If Fuckwit there had pulled this _two_ weeks back, I’d have been, “What the _fuck_, asshole, since when do I work for you?” I mean, you want to set my schedule, you better be signing a paycheck. And maybe Bernie Sanders isn’t The Way, The Truth, and The Light. \* \*Please note: this is not to suggest that Bernie Sanders is or is not a philosophy for living, veracity itself, or a table lamp. ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/129 "2020-02-16T03:44:53Z")
> [@pool](#): > > … I’m not an attention whore unlike some others I could mention. Wow, not only did you manage to steal the original Pittee’s Pitting, but you even managed to work in the original alleged offense (Insufficient Self-Awareness) along with your Wanton Cruelty. That’s quite a feat. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/130 "2020-02-16T05:40:39Z")
> [@pool](#): > > I treat cancer patients for a living. I was a disturbed child but I’m not an attention whore unlike some others I could mention. Ted Bundy worked in a suicide hotline. According to Ann Rule, who worked with him, he was one of the most dedicated people on that job. There’s no point in being a sociopath with a god complex if you can’t deal out life as well as death. All we know is what you post here. You are a malignant sociopathic troll with deep issues about women. But you’ll be OK. The mods only care if you break rules. Look how long Cesario lasted, and he never actually hurt anything. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/131 "2020-02-16T07:08:02Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > The pit is a disturbing place. That’s the point of its creation. The problem is some animals are more equal than others around here. So then why, if you hate it so much, is the vast majority of your posting here? :dubious: Fucking troll. It’s only a matter of time before they ban your sorry ass and you bloody well know it. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934/132 "2020-02-16T08:27:36Z")
[Moderating] Well, this thread has gone to absolute shit. I’m closing it. If someone wants to open a new one about the original topic, that’s fine, but I don’t want to see any mention of dead cats in it, from anyone. (The poster **Dead Cat** is excepted.) **pool** , there are limits even in the Pit, and you blew way past them. I’m giving you a warning for being too much of an asshole even by Pit standards. [/Moderating] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margin-has-the-self-awareness-of-a-barnacle/847934.md?page=6)