Well, I’d say vanadium tricarbonyl, but the electron count is all wrong. Need more ligands.
I don’t know his goddamn history either. Look up my posting history. I’m not sure I’ve ever interacted with the guy. It’s possible, I don’t know. I don’t post too often (the past couple days being kind of an exception), and when I do, it’s usually a bad joke or a funny anecdote.
But VCO3 managed to annoy even this easy going simian today. Do you still wonder why he gets pitted?
To quote Mr. Garrison: “There are no stupid questions, children. Only stupid people”
right…
How’s that going for you?
Read the post that was linked, idiot. And give me a little artistic license in the pit. But you conveniently snipped that part out, didn’t you?
I think people get it just fine. It’s OK to blow off steam here, but if you could add a dash of rationality and make it a bit less strident, I think you might fare much better.
And I don’t see this place as cliquish at all. It’s just that people who type posts that are articulate, interesting, witty, and non-confrontational tend to get more positive responses.
Uh, this might be an example of the type of posting people have complained about.
I don’t know. I usually agree with him in Cafe Society threads (in re: music, especially), but there was one Pit thread where I thought he was a total dick - the one about movie theaters being open on Christmas (at least, I think that was him). So, in my experience, he’s been exactly like every other human being on the planet - sometimes cool, sometimes a total douchebag. Which I guess translates to: I bear him no ill will.
I don’t mean it as an attack on that guy - he’s awesome! I just mean him as an example of someone with thousands of posts and a long history, but who isn’t a “board celebrity.” I was reading one of his (great) posts the other day, and I realized, “Man, I didn’t even know this guy existed - and he posts here every day!”
Maybe it’s just a case of choosing words more carefully, then. I know i’ve said things that looked worse than I meant them.
The VCO3-hate train started up over the coffee-spitting incident and it’s never really let up since then. And while VCO3 never actually admitted to spitting in coffee, it’s morphed into one of those Clinton-like “That depends on what the definition of is is” things.
While he may not have spit in someone’s coffee, he did go into great detail about other vile things he did to people’s food as a server and then would constantly throw up his hands with a reply of “What’s wrong with that?”
Mr. Rogers would be hated if he tried to pull shit like that.
Of course, I have to side with the defense too. While I think VCO3 is an ass hole, he’s got a lot of interesting (and occasionally funny) stuff to say in a variety of threads.
Ha! Come on. Posting on a message board is sort of incompatible with “wanting” anonymity to start with, and that goes double for your “I hope those little kids get cancer oh my god!!!” routine.
“Troll” has become such a term of art here that it’s not even worth using. But your posts are what they are, and I think you’ve done pretty well to earn your reputation. Don’t fall back on this “who, me?” shit now.
Yeah, okay, kinda funny - but do you remember what he was actually upset about? He was flying off the handle because some kids made suggestions about the menu at their school, and said only spoiled rich kids have even heard of steak and lobster at the age of five. It was pretty dumb.
Oh, I forgot about that thread. Yeah, that was some dumb-ass shit there. Still, his percentages of decent/dumb-ass keep him in line with most people, IMO.
Yes, it was certainly dumb-ass. I’d get all indignant about it had every single one of my posts ever in the history of the board been flawlessly brilliant.
Well, there’s a big difference between making a dumb-ass post and making a dumb-ass post and following it up at every reply with yet more dumb-assery. But like I said, I don’t have it out for the guy, so I don’t really know what you’re getting at - your post actually came off pretty indignant towards me, which kinda negated the point I think you were trying to make.
The thing that tends to get him into trouble isn’t dumb-assness so much as deciding that something is “known to be true” and a common stereotype. When in fact it’s almost never something commonly known, nor a stereotype ever held by man. And assertions otherwise are just foolhardy on a board devoted to fighting ignorance.
But ohhh, everyone knows that people obsessed with musical equipment whack off 20 times a day and snort cremated bodies. …why is that by the way? No really, I mean it.
Wow. You are one enigmatic bitch.
Did it? Sorry, not my intention. What I meant to say was there but for the grace of God I’d be the pot calling the kettle a glass house.
Or something like that.
I’ve done my own dumb-assery plenty of times.
And yeah, VCO3 sticks to his guns when the guns are clearly wrong, but we all do that to some extent. It’s human nature, defending that in which we’ve just invested our identities. Dale Carnegie explained it quite well.
He’s a guy.
Yes, and he’s an enigmatic bitch.
True, but some of us at least know where the broad side of the barn is.
I like him.
I think whoever says there aren’t cliques around here is just plain fucking wrong. Wander through MPSIMS or CS and see some of the most flagrant hand-jobbing you can stand.
I also think he unfortunately plays in sterotypes sometimes and that riles up the offenderati in these parts - God forbid you question the work ethic of the obese or the socialization of role-playing gamer or comment on the proclivities of adult entertainers or reference perceived cultural phenomona within race-defined subcultures.
Still, if I ever caught him messing with my food, I’d kick him in the balls. That’s just fucked up,