# nonpolar, front and center **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 1, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553 "2004-09-01T08:10:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/101 "2004-09-02T03:49:03Z")
I saw the blowfly one. Didn’t he slap a steak on it but it wouldn’t come out? ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/102 "2004-09-02T03:53:25Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > I saw the blowfly one. Didn’t he slap a steak on it but it wouldn’t come out? Yes! I tried to search on google, but I’m stumped for search terms. Blow fly television? Blow fly pet? Just not working out for me. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/103 "2004-09-02T03:56:06Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Um, Teddy, perhaps? What? Only one? Piker. Why stop there when you can [have](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109844880/109845126zwrFgw) [all](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109845260/109845260szqruk)[three](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109845488/109845488HFErNl)? I hope I’m not [boring you into oblivion](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109845598/109845598OqjDTl), or getting your knickers [in a twist](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109846547/109846547qSmGNn). Just trying to [widen your horizons](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109846713/109846713qIDOkt). 😃 But heavens – just look at the time! I’ve got to stop spending so much time [on the computer.](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109844880/109851935EpnhDD) ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/104 "2004-09-02T04:16:15Z")
Piker. I think I just learned a new word. Can you tell me what it means? Cute pictures, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/105 "2004-09-02T04:18:48Z")
> [@Sisyphus' Stone](#): > > Pathetic, really. > > Three thousand, five hundred people die of starvation around the world **every day - twenty-four hours**. Most of these three thousand, five hundred people are children, mostly from undeveloped, third-world countries and mostly between the ages of one to three. And you have compassion for someone whose horse dies? > > I don’t know anything about your value system and what you hold dear, but I’ll reserve my compassion for the people dying of starvation. Yes, I mourn for the starving of the world and not for the pampered horse. Weird, I guess in a world where a greedy country invades Iraq for oil while undeveloped country’s people starve. > > Perspective, I guess. Yet you are here still typing that out, whilst those children die, how careless of you. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/106 "2004-09-02T04:19:47Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Piker. I think I just learned a new word. Can you tell me what it means? > > Cute pictures, by the way. Piker = quitter ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/107 "2004-09-02T04:21:43Z")
> [@Sisyphus' Stone](#): > > Perspective. > > While one dotes on a horse, feeding and pampering to the point of ridiculous ends, people, mainly in undeveloped countries and with unrealised potential, die of starvation. Maybe the attention and devotion to meeting the needs of a horse might be better served by attending the needs of starving humans. Maybe resourses expended into supporting a bloody horse, redirected into the starving millions, might save a real life. I don’t know but I do know where my efforts are to be exerted. > > I see no possible comparison. > > While compassion knows no bounds, and there is infinite compassion in the world, still, children die of starvation. > > Stuff the horse. Yet, you _still_ type this message and do nothing to better the situation. Well, stop whining and complaining and get off your ass and do something! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/108 "2004-09-02T04:25:35Z")
> [@cazzle](#): > > Piker = quitter Quitter is a bit strong, I think. Someone who takes half measures, who doesn’t follow through, doesn’t go as far as he could. Quitter, but not quite as harsh as that word all by itself. If it didn’t have different connotations, **ETF** (the poster, not the blowworm) would have used quitter instead of piker. ---
**Author:** ![TastesLikeBurning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@TastesLikeBurning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TastesLikeBurning)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/109 "2004-09-02T04:28:43Z")
I am sorry for ETF’s loss, but I am also sorry for the horse and the pain it went through up until its death, so I would appreciate it if posters not assume that my sympathies only lie with ETF. As for \*\*Syphilis Stoned \*\*, how about you let me know where I can get hold of this list that tells me how to prioritise my feelings across the great species divide? Or perhaps you don’t have one? Fuckhead. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/110 "2004-09-02T04:35:17Z")
> [@](#): > > I saw the blowfly one. Didn’t he slap a steak on it but it wouldn’t come out? I really fail to see where masturbation would help at all in this scenario…except, you know, mentally. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/111 "2004-09-02T05:22:02Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Piker. I think I just learned a new word. Can you tell me what it means? > > Cute pictures, by the way. I’d be glad to, but **This Year’s Model** already nailed it. Would you like another new word? Here ya go: “[futtock](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=futtock)”. Alas, its meaning is merely: “One of the curved timbers that forms a rib in the frame of a ship”, and it most likely is derived from “foot hook”, as [this snippet explains](http://www.abc.net.au/classic/breakfast/stories/s1079422.htm). Such a shame it’s so innocent; it sounds so, well… Pit-ethipetical, don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/112 "2004-09-02T05:55:49Z")
‘ethipetical’? Now you’re making them up, **Ed**. You’re not in play-off with **Qadg the Merc** by any chance? ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/113 "2004-09-02T06:00:10Z")
Gosh, am I the only one who realizes that **ETF** ’s horse isn’t dead yet? She was just talking about how she’d have to make the decision at some point in the not-unforseeable-future. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/114 "2004-09-02T06:07:22Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > Odds that **Sisyphus’ Stone** will ever be able to post again without someone replying with “PERSPECTIVE!!”: Zero. > > [sub]I’m still a little saddened that “Reported!!” and “PINWORMS!!” never caught on…[/sub] I’ll use my sig more, then. ---
**Author:** ![Sisyphus\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sisyphus\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sisyphus_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/115 "2004-09-02T09:42:11Z")
Pinworms? Find some perspective, mate. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/116 "2004-09-02T10:41:59Z")
**EddyTeddyFreddy** , the more love of life we have in the world, the better off we all are. I’m sorry for what you are going through. I grew up around horses and I’ve seen the kind of bond that you have even though I’ve not experienced it myself. I see no signs of compassion in **SS** or **nonpolar** _yet_. Compassion spreads from concern for people to concern for life in all forms. Sometimes it starts the other way around. It’s a way of life. It doesn’t try to feed the body and starve the heart. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/117 "2004-09-02T11:06:54Z")
> [@Sisyphus' Stone](#): > > Pinworms? > > Find some perspective, mate. > > 😃 Good Christ! Are you still here?!? I saw on the news tonight there are still kids in Sudan dying because the thugs won’t let the aid food in! **Sissy Stone** , please tell us why you hate children so much. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/118 "2004-09-02T11:14:50Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Good Christ! Are you still here?!? I saw on the news tonight there are still kids in Sudan dying because the thugs won’t let the aid food in! > > **Sissy Stone** , please tell us why you hate children so much. :mad: Stop making fun of **Syphilis’ Stone**! It’s unbecoming, you know… ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/119 "2004-09-02T11:24:57Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > Stop making fun of **Syphilis’ Stone**! It’s unbecoming, you know… Oh, man! Can I be a prick or what!? :eek: 😃 ---
**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:** [September 2, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/120 "2004-09-02T12:27:33Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > ‘ethipetical’? Now you’re making them up, **Ed**. You’re not in play-off with **Qadg the Merc** by any chance? :smack: :o :smack: DAMN these dyslexic fingers! :mad: What I’d meant to type was: “Pit-epithetical” of course. Well? Don’t give me that :dubious: look. Just because I totally screw up at trying to get off a pithy witticism. Oh, yeh? Well, how do you think YOU’D look trying to dance in clown shoes? 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553.md?page=7)