# Naxos Is From An Alternate Universe **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 29, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704 "2011-05-29T22:16:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/121 "2011-05-31T14:14:37Z")
I loves me some Laurie Anderson. Some William S. Burroughs, too. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/122 "2011-05-31T14:28:38Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > When you Pit someone, your popularity as a board member has to be high, or else the pitting will backfire on your ass. Unless the Pitee comes to your rescue and proves beyond doubt that the OP has merit. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/123 "2011-05-31T14:52:54Z")
This is known as “A pit on both your houses”. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/124 "2011-05-31T14:59:09Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > This is known as “A pit on both your houses”. Or “I pit on your grave”. ---
**Author:** ![Lorski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Lorski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorski)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/125 "2011-05-31T14:59:25Z")
> [@Naxos](#): > > I meant to, but I didn’t post about a couple more reports in the news about the degeneracy of Texas. > > They now allow gun carrying in colleges and universities. There’s another news bit that I forget… relating to their conservative based ignorance of what Science is all about. I’ll post if I remember it. > > Texas should slide off to the sea.. nobody will miss that cesspool of ignorance and hostility. So you are saying that for the last 29 years I have been living in a cesspool? Have you ever even been here? I’d rather live here in Texas than in some wimpy bleeding heart sheeple state. STFU. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/126 "2011-05-31T15:01:40Z")
> [@Lorski](#): > > So you are saying that for the last 29 years I have been living in a cesspool? Have you ever even been here? > I’d rather live here in Texas than in some wimpy bleeding heart sheeple state. STFU. I was all prepared to be on your side until you used the word “sheeple.” Let me guess: You own guns and think of yourself as a “sheepdog,” don’t you? Douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/127 "2011-05-31T15:10:36Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > I was all prepared to be on your side until you used the word “sheeple.” Let me guess: You own guns and think of yourself as a “sheepdog,” don’t you? > Douchebag. Ironically, with **Lorski** presenting us with an example of Texan “ignorance and hostility” the premise is thus proved. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/128 "2011-05-31T15:12:58Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadai] I think if Qin weren’t a tween, he’d get a lot more grief on here for the shit he posts. [/QUOTE] > [@Gyrate](#): > > I concur. I think we’re hoping he’ll grow out of it. A conversion to rationality and critical thinking, if you will. Or people figure that thinking you have all the answers is just one of the occupational hazards of being a 13-year-old. Kinda like boners at awkward moments. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/129 "2011-05-31T15:17:45Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Or “I pit on your grave”. Or maybe “the Sorrow and the Pitee.” ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/130 "2011-05-31T15:20:38Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I had no views on the poster before reading this thread but them’s fighting words! [Naxos](http://www.naxos.com/) do cheap CDs (£5 here) of good performances of a lot of rarely-recorded classical music and I won’t hear a word against them. Ah it was just a joke, I have a number of Naxos cds too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/131 "2011-05-31T15:20:43Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > Kinda like boners at awkward moments. I miss that like you have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/132 "2011-05-31T15:24:04Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Or maybe “the Sorrow and the Pitee.” Nonono, it’s _The Pit and the Pendulum_. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/133 "2011-05-31T15:26:11Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Language is a virus from outer space. “Logic is a lovely bunch of flowers that smells bad.” – Spock of Vulcan ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/134 "2011-05-31T15:36:25Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > “Logic is a lovely bunch of flowers that smells bad.” – Spock of Vulcan [Ahem](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlMegqgGORY): _Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad._ —Mr. Spock [/nerd\_nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![Lorski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Lorski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorski)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/135 "2011-05-31T18:07:42Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > I was all prepared to be on your side until you used the word “sheeple.” Let me guess: You own guns and think of yourself as a “sheepdog,” don’t you? > Douchebag. Sheepdog? Nope. I don’t usually identify myself with a canine. I just take offense at someone calling my state a cesspool that needs to slide off the map. How does that make me a douchebag? Apparantly “sheeple” has a different meaning for me than it does for you. I did not know it was offensive, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Lorski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Lorski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorski)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/136 "2011-05-31T18:09:40Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Ironically, with **Lorski** presenting us with an example of Texan “ignorance and hostility” the premise is thus proved. I’m lost. He said my state was a cesspool. I defended it. How is that ignorance and hostility?? 😕 I don’t know what I did to offend you guys, but whatever it was, geez, I’m sorry! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/137 "2011-05-31T18:18:45Z")
> [@Naxos](#): > > So, now that I think I won’t be banned, here is the story: > > If you haven’t read that from me yet, here it is: Religion is a mental disorder. > > It’s a dysfunction of the human brain that causes antisocial, aggressive and hostile behaviors. It most likely resulted from the evolution of the brain to have the capability of analyzing its environment and try to change it, something like the transition from gather/hunterer to agrarian societies we evolved in about 20 thousand years ago. > > So, basically, anything anyone says in support of religion is not only moronic and worthless, but, in our times, also ignorant and a clear indicator of stupidity. Lighten up, Francis. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/138 "2011-05-31T18:25:16Z")
> [@Lorski](#): > > Sheepdog? Nope. I don’t usually identify myself with a canine. I just take offense at someone calling my state a cesspool that needs to slide off the map. How does that make me a douchebag? Apparantly “sheeple” has a different meaning for me than it does for you. I did not know it was offensive, sorry. It looks like I wrongly flew off the handle at you. At the various gun discussion boards that I frequent, “sheeple” is an insult thrown pretty much exclusively at the people who don’t own guns. The same people there who use it almost always like to style themselves as “sheepdogs.” I’ve been fighting the use of both terms for so long that I guess I’ve become hypersensitive. My apologies. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/139 "2011-05-31T18:29:21Z")
> [@Naxos](#): > > So, now that I think I won’t be banned, here is the story: > > If you haven’t read that from me yet, here it is: Religion is a mental disorder. > > It’s a dysfunction of the human brain that causes antisocial, aggressive and hostile behaviors. It most likely resulted from the evolution of the brain to have the capability of analyzing its environment and try to change it, something like the transition from gather/hunterer to agrarian societies we evolved in about 20 thousand years ago. > > So, basically, anything anyone says in support of religion is not only moronic and worthless, but, in our times, also ignorant and a clear indicator of stupidity. You know, I was about ready to back you up on this… And then I read: > [@Naxos](#): > > First of all, metal sucks and it’s not music. DOWN WITH NAXOS. ---
**Author:** ![Lorski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Lorski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorski)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704/140 "2011-05-31T18:31:26Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > It looks like I wrongly flew off the handle at you. At the various gun discussion boards that I frequent, “sheeple” is an insult thrown pretty much exclusively at the people who don’t own guns. The same people there who use it almost always like to style themselves as “sheepdogs.” I’ve been fighting the use of both terms for so long that I guess I’ve become hypersensitive. > > My apologies. Oh. A miscommunication. I have never heard it used like that before. Apology accepted, and thanks for enlightening me. I will not use that word again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naxos-is-from-an-alternate-universe/583704.md?page=8)