# Milum, you're making things worse **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 1, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042 "2004-05-01T21:47:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/21 "2004-05-02T17:16:30Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > In supporting this godforsaken illegal war aren’t you wishing death on our troops? > > Or do you think war can be fought without deaths? If you don’t like America, you can just _get out_… ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/22 "2004-05-02T18:00:37Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > I´ve always thought of him as “the lights are on, but there´s nobody home” I picture him as that cartoon plantationer, posting to the SDMB with one hand and sipping a mint julep with the other, declaiming, “AAAAAAHHHH, MAGNOLIA!” His string tie and seersucker suit are, of course, given. His opinions about virtually anything are about as informed as those of a time-warped 1850’s Southern agrarian, too. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/23 "2004-05-02T18:40:39Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > I picture him as that cartoon plantationer, posting to the SDMB with one hand and sipping a mint julep with the other, declaiming, “AAAAAAHHHH, MAGNOLIA!” > > His string tie and seersucker suit are, of course, given. > > His opinions about virtually anything are about as informed as those of a time-warped 1850’s Southern agrarian, too. I was thinking a younger Fob James, so that works. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/24 "2004-05-02T22:17:49Z")
> [@UselessGit](#): > > If you don’t like America, you can just _get out_… Can we send you away instead? I am pretty sure that I would like America more if there were less mouth-breathers flinging shit like this. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/25 "2004-05-02T22:19:44Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > Can we send you away instead? I am pretty sure that I would like America more if there were less mouth-breathers flinging shit like this. On preview (or more accurately, review) I see by your location that you are already not here so I will amend my suggestion to that you just shut your pie-hole. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/26 "2004-05-03T05:13:47Z")
**Binarydrone** , I t’ink you bin whoooshed. Ja? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/27 "2004-05-03T10:57:09Z")
The word is “hippie”. Hippy is an adjective. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/28 "2004-05-03T12:48:33Z")
> [@Libertarian](#): > > The word is “hippie”. Hippy is an adjective. Although by now, a lot of aging hippies are indeed hippy. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/29 "2004-05-03T14:31:37Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > **Binarydrone** , I t’ink you bin whoooshed. Ja? Not the first time, probably won’t be the last. I will say that that particular sentiment is a bit of a sore spot for me. It seems of late that whenever I or someone is critical of the current administration, you can count on it being expressed. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/30 "2004-05-03T16:13:32Z")
> [@Libertarian](#): > > The word is “hippie”. Hippy is an adjective. Cite? [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com) doesn’t identify this difference. ---
**Author:** ![WernhamHogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/31 "2004-05-03T16:19:58Z")
The OED offers “hippy” as an alternative to the unkempt youth noun definition. No link because it’s long and unweildy and it’s a subscription site anyway. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/32 "2004-05-03T21:03:35Z")
> [@Jimmy Chitwood](#): > > Can we make this a sticky? While I appreciate the sentiment whole heartedly, I’m afraid that if I were to second it, or, worse yet if it were enacted, I’d be partially responsible for Milum gettin woody big pants. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/33 "2004-05-03T21:09:49Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > I picture him as that cartoon plantationer, posting to the SDMB with one hand and sipping a mint julep with the other, declaiming, “AAAAAAHHHH, MAGNOLIA!” > > His string tie and seersucker suit are, of course, given. Hey, that’s me. Make sure that you picture the julep in a silver tumbler frosted over from the carefully crafted concoction. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/34 "2004-05-03T21:14:06Z")
Hippies were not “unkempt youth”. We were politically aware ethics activists who gave you the world you have today. Okay. Maybe that one wasn’t so great, but… “hippy”? Blech. That’s [Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters](http://www.hippyusa.org/). ---
**Author:** ![WernhamHogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/35 "2004-05-03T21:20:20Z")
> [@Libertarian](#): > > Hippies were not “unkempt youth”. We … gave you the world you have today. So it’s YOUR fault! Just kidding. “unkempt youth” was from one of many definitions in the OED. It was not the first, but I used it because it was the funniest to me. If it makes you feel better, hippie is the older and much more common spelling offered in the various examples given in the OED. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/36 "2004-05-03T21:27:27Z")
Yes, thank you, Skutir. That is satisfying indeed. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/37 "2004-05-03T22:28:24Z")
> [@Libertarian](#): > > The word is “hippie”. Hippy is an adjective. You mean as in, “Hillary Clinton was a hippie in college, but now she’s hippy”? 🙂 As for **Milum** … not even worth pitting. Is there a more idiotic frequenter of GD? I can’t think of one. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/38 "2004-05-04T00:00:35Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > Is there a more idiotic frequenter of GD? I can’t think of one. Me! ME! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/39 "2004-05-04T01:02:38Z")
Dumb shit **Milum** called me a “creep” in a GD thread recently. Not even in an oblique reference. He quoted part of my post and said, “You are a creep.” You know you’re stupid when you’ve been around as long as he has and you _still_ can’t figure out the rule that makes that a Bad Move. Note, however, I don’t have hurt feelings from the insult, or anything like that. No, in fact, I await his final strike with something approaching giddy anticipation, and I will be proud that it was my post that in some small way contributed to his cyber-guillotining. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042/40 "2004-05-04T04:04:55Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > Me! ME! Nope, that’d be me, the poster seemingly incapable of deeper thoughts than driveby snottiness. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milum-youre-making-things-worse/243042.md?page=1)