# NotfooledbyW, You Colossal Clod **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 10, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975 "2014-02-10T14:55:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/21 "2014-02-10T18:10:38Z")
I love that **Elvis** thinks his contributions to the board are qualitatively different from **Shodan** ’s. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/22 "2014-02-10T18:10:49Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > At first I thought his schtick was supposed to be a Republican parody of Democratic supporters. I was really, really disturbed when I figured out he meant it. Now I just don’t go into any threads he’s posting in. I’d encoutered him a couple of times, but decided he was best avoided. You could taste the crazy on him. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/23 "2014-02-10T18:11:53Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Really, the notion of **Shodan** Pitting **anything** is just too rich! 😛 Shouldn’t you be posting huge swathes of text from RationalWiki telling us the GOP will disappear in ten years? 😃 Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/24 "2014-02-10T18:16:36Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I love that **Elvis** thinks his contributions to the board are qualitatively different from **Shodan** ’s. The internal sig line was _sarcasm_. It’s a difficult concept, I know. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/25 "2014-02-10T18:21:09Z")
Right. Because it was the sig that prompted that post. ---
**Author:** ![LibrarySpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LibrarySpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LibrarySpy)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/26 "2014-02-10T18:27:28Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Shouldn’t you be posting huge swathes of text from RationalWiki telling us the GOP will disappear in ten years? Okay, now that was a sick burn. Who said conservatives can’t be funny? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/27 "2014-02-10T18:28:24Z")
It certainly wasn’t thought or fact or reason that _did_, there not being any such in evidence, child. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/28 "2014-02-10T18:44:57Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > So? A lot of DemDopers did some such thing to show election-year solidarity; not everybody changed it back afterwards. It’s amusing how every third post you make has to be a fucking taxonomy of something. Can’t you just spend more time in your 400th thread about Pew political typologies and wondering whether Main Street Religio-Conservatives will ever outnumber Blue Balls Ethno-Democrats? Now you manage to divide the board into those who changed their location, those who didn’t, those who did but changed it back, those who did but didn’t… and probably 25 other boring subdivisions that you’re just waiting to unveil to make us all kill ourselves out of inanity and boredom. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/29 "2014-02-10T18:49:09Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > It’s amusing how every third post you make has to be a fucking taxonomy of something. Can’t you just spend more time in your 400th thread about Pew political typologies and wondering whether Main Street Religio-Conservatives will ever outnumber Blue Balls Ethno-Democrats? > > Now you manage to divide the board into those who changed their location, those who didn’t, those who did but changed it back, those who did but didn’t… and probably 25 other boring subdivisions that you’re just waiting to unveil to make us all kill ourselves out of inanity and boredom. Do not fight the Taxonomy. The Taxonomy loves you . . . it wants you . . . it wants your **essence**. . . ---
**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:** [February 10, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/30 "2014-02-10T19:30:22Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > 1. He appears to keep some sort of record of other people’s posts, probably offline, because he periodically pulls out portions of old posts at weird times with strange quotation marks and time references. He might log posts into Excel or something; I’m pretty sure he doesn’t actually go back searching for those little snippets. He’s too stupid to know how to use Excel. In one of the recent threads he blew a gasket when I pulled a quote of his from 6 months ago to disprove one of his “I have never said…” statements. He conveniently forgot the time not too long ago when he pulled a quote of mine from a 2003 thread (yep, 10 years ago) that supposedly proved something that it didn’t. He also seems to think that he can say 1+1=3 and if you tell him that 1+1=2, he’ll claim you are ignoring “context”. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/31 "2014-02-10T19:38:51Z")
NFBW is like white noise - mind numbing if you try to pay attention, and ultimately easily tuned out of conscious awareness. Shodan is like a pungent fart. Despite his brevity and lack of substance, his odiousness leaves a distasteful residue that lingers well after he has gone. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/32 "2014-02-10T19:43:37Z")
I really think he posts while high, on what I’m not sure. I normally ignore him, but in the Egypt thread every single post of mine that he responded to he responded to twice, seemingly unaware that he had already replied to it. Being high could explain that, as well as his abominable spelling, punctuation, grammar, inability to properly quote, and his tortured Orwellian abuse of words. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/33 "2014-02-10T19:52:49Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > I really think he posts while high, on what I’m not sure. I normally ignore him, but in the Egypt thread every single post of mine that he responded to he responded to twice, seemingly unaware that he had already replied to it. Being high could explain that, as well as his abominable spelling, punctuation, grammar, inability to properly quote, and his tortured Orwellian abuse of words. No, he’s just stupid. That’s the easiest explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/34 "2014-02-10T19:58:27Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > It’s amusing how every third post you make has to be a fucking taxonomy of something. Can’t you just spend more time in your 400th thread about Pew political typologies and wondering whether Main Street Religio-Conservatives will ever outnumber Blue Balls Ethno-Democrats? _:snerk:_ No offence, but if possible I would prefer to concentrate on the distilled essence of stupid in **NotfooledbyW** ’s posts. Of course I represent (proudly) the Blue Balls Religio-Fascist wing of the conservative movement, so feel free to ignore the prompt if you prefer. I don’t know - does **NotfooledbyReality** ever post anywhere besides GD? I posted a link to this Pitting in one of the interminable GD threads where he is claiming whatever he has decided he means this week. Perhaps he will stop by and I can express my feelings in this forum in ways I am constrained from doing in GD. Something to hope for, at least. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/35 "2014-02-10T20:04:39Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Has there ever been a poster as dazzlingly dim as this fuckwit? I’ve seen dimmer, though metaphorical night-vision goggles were needed at times. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/36 "2014-02-10T20:08:24Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > As for animus, we’re \*supposed \*to have that against the spreaders of ignorance. Are you one of them too? > > Derision, > ElvisL1ves Yeah! So where were those 9/11 perps safely based, again? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/37 "2014-02-10T20:09:57Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > No offence, but if possible I would prefer to concentrate on the distilled essence of stupid in **NotfooledbyW** ’s posts. So says a guy who \*was \*fooled by W. Still is, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/38 "2014-02-10T20:13:45Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Yes, it’s kind of scary to realize that people who think like he does are allowed out of the house. > > It’s like debating the love child of **Diogenes the Cynic** and **gonzomax** - invincible stupidity coupled with absolute pig-headedness. > > Regards, > Shodan There’s a level of self-insight one does not often have the privilege of observing outside the context of The Pit or an in-prison AA meeting. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/39 "2014-02-10T20:16:41Z")
Heh, he’s like the Ring of Power with the potency of his idiocy–causing people who are united against this to bicker among themselves. This is the Pit; throw him into Mount Doom > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > At first I thought his schtick was supposed to be a Republican parody of Democratic supporters. I was thinking about starting a **NotfooledbyW** parody thread: **George W Bush caused mold on green cheese Moon. Obama’s proposed pasteurization proposal has already been proven to masterfully save Moon.** Or, something like that. But I’m starting to really wonder if he has mental or substance abuse issues. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975/40 "2014-02-10T20:31:41Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I don’t know - does **NotfooledbyReality** ever post anywhere besides GD? I posted a link to this Pitting in one of the interminable GD threads where he is claiming whatever he has decided he means this week. Perhaps he will stop by and I can express my feelings in this forum in ways I am constrained from doing in GD. Something to hope for, at least. I bet you a bajillion dollars that he will eventually see this thread, and will attempt to debate what everyone has said point by point, rather than understand that we are only interested in telling him to go pound sand. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notfooledbyw-you-colossal-clod/680975.md?page=3)