# Michael Moore. You Frickin Idiot **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 13, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-you-frickin-idiot/553568 "2010-09-13T04:48:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 56
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-you-frickin-idiot/553568/56 "2010-09-13T23:29:20Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Unless my memory is exceedingly faulty, you do indeed have children and you are indeed a teacher. That leaves my reference to you having a wife as the point in question. You are just too funny! Your understanding of my own situation apparently parallels your understanding of history in general: for you, it’s nothing more than your own subjective experiences funneled through your own faulty memory and your own distorted worldview. Evidence doesn’t matter; facts don’t matter; all that matters is what you remember. Let’s compare your memory to the evidence shall we? > [@Have you ever been the other person in an affair?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-the-other-person-in-an-affair/544164/80): > > If i found out my wife was having an affair, **the fact that we don’t have kids** would not make me any less hurt or angry. > [@I pit crying babies in public places](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crying-babies-in-public-places/526368/93): > > Hey, moron, **i have no kids** , and i tend to get very annoyed that people whose children are loud and obnoxious in public places. > [@Single Fathers getting the short end of the stick](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-fathers-getting-the-short-end-of-the-stick/477773/26): > > I **choose not to have children** precisely _because_ spending my free time in certain ways is important to me. You can call it laziness or selfishness or whatever you want, but the fact is that **my choice not to have kids** was made largely because i understand how much time and effort they involve, and i didn’t want to do that. > [@When did your decision for/against having kids become important?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-your-decision-for-against-having-kids-become-important/463030/10): > > I’ve **known for years that i didn’t want kids** , although for quite a while it wasn’t a particularly strong objection, because i was young and the issue didn’t really come up. > > \ > > …and i’m married to someone who, **like me, is happy without kids**. All quotes collected from the last couple of years. If i went back further, i could find plenty more. Interesting that, despite the multiple occasions on which i’ve explicitly stated that i don’t want children and don’t have children, your memory was precisely the opposite. Tells us something about you and your memory, i think. It’s also interesting that, as per usual, you attempt to deflect attention from your factual inaccuracies (who wouldn’t, i guess, if they were wrong as often as you are?) to focus on what you think you know about me. Just like your factual assertions are generally nothing more than a reflection of your personal experiences and prejudices, so your claims about how i behave away from the boards, with my wife and in my classrooms, are based on nothing except sheer speculation and wishful thinking. Just because i treat you and a couple of other brain-dead assholes around here like the drooling imbeciles that you are doesn’t mean that i fail to uphold standards of professional conduct in my won classroom, or that i’m a poor partner to my wife. But hey, if believing otherwise helps you get through the day, knock yourself out. One more wild fantasy bouncing around in your vacant skull won’t make much difference. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-you-frickin-idiot/553568)._