# Octopus here's your own thread to shit all over **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 6, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550 "2018-06-06T15:40:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 31
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/603 "2020-08-26T21:01:33Z")
The **Will Farnaby** topic saw you [cite](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/844695/59) a then-ex-administrator, and it saw moderators [dis](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/844695/60)-[regard](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/844695/65) your cite. You had a _different_ topic in mind? A sticky in the Pit… [searches brain] Did it have something to do with the [banning of](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/828587) **Huey Freeman**? Am I remembering that right? No, you didn’t provide any cites there… Now that I think about it, “Just how reprehensible do you want to be in the Pit” was an ATMB thread before **Miller** stole the title and made his own topic down here. There’s this great feature of the new Discourse software that lets me click on your name in any thread, then click this weird yield-sign shaped button, and then I only see your posts in the thread. Lo and behold, here too you [cite](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/843820/19) Ed Zotti. It’s the same cite and the same interpretation as you later raised in the **Will Farnaby** topic, by the way. A word of caution for all: while I am not a moderator, I don’t think we are supposed to criticize official moderator actions in the Pit, see the final bold listing in the current rules. And I have it on good authority that debate over this particular interpretation of this particular cite is no longer welcome in ATMB. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/604 "2020-08-26T21:26:06Z")
Same reason the Biden supporters burning and looting aren’t facing charges. Sympathetic or cowardly local leadership. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/605 "2020-08-26T21:30:28Z")
I don’t care and no that’s not it. Can’t prove double standards and dishonesty because any discussion that proves it is forbidden? That’s why it’s a farce. The ‘cite’ game would at least be an honest game if many of the people here didn’t post as unholy spawn of Baghdad Bob and Humpty Dumpty. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/606 "2020-08-26T22:12:37Z")
Your insults need work, unless humpty-dumpty has a new meaning. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/607 "2020-08-26T22:13:52Z")
"I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’ " Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’” “But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected. “When _I_ use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you _can_ make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/608 "2020-08-26T22:13:55Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > I don’t care and no that’s not it. I’ve made three guesses in good faith, so I’ll cut my losses here. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/609 "2020-08-26T22:15:25Z")
If he really didn’t care, he’d stop posting here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/610 "2020-08-26T23:17:02Z")
Or we would. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/611 "2020-08-28T15:39:18Z")
Man, reading Octopus’s post straight up, filtered so that’s all what’s listed, there’s a lot of cowardice there. It’s a trip. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/612 "2020-08-28T17:32:28Z")
So, you’re saying octopus have no backbones? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/613 "2020-08-28T19:33:24Z")
Don’t you mean octopuses? Or alternately, Pink Octopus has no backbone? Personally, I’d go with the latter. No reason to malign perfectly good sea creatures that have done us no wrong. Except Ursula in the ‘Little Mermaid” of course. “Grammatically speaking, the **plural** for **octopus** is **octopuses**. As the Merriam-Webster dictionary points out, people use three different terms, however: octopi, **octopuses** , and octopodes. While “octopi” has become popular in modern usage, it’s wrong.Nov 1, 2018.” [QZ.com](http://QZ.com) ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/614 "2020-08-28T19:57:23Z")
Right, because octo pi is 25.132741256 ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/615 "2020-08-29T02:05:27Z")
Good Christ, now he’s ranting that the Rittenhouse kid was only acting in self defense. The country can not move forward with this kind of rampant assholery. Fuck Shodan, too. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/616 "2020-08-29T03:05:09Z")
Since when did moving forward become the new code word for ‘peaceful’ looting and arson? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/617 "2020-08-29T03:29:04Z")
Given the number of times you’ve complained about arson we’re at, what, the second or third burning of ashes? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/618 "2020-08-29T06:48:58Z")
Don’t know about the plural of octopus, but I do know we can call our guy Octopussy. ‘Oohh, noooo, people have burnt down a 7-11 in a city 1,200 miles away, whatsoever shall I do but turn to authoritarian fascism?’ [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/WieEeOwf1EVzC7lBV4FbGWN-1dSZcvPe296pVw0c3KK4xkC5b4bIDK8H1VUhJQbJXqwaRYAXXGDYIaLTV4kbU2NsNOvOPjl44R6NtFx6egfmVoyBBaG4mDxhUqos0SM51dxp22E1Lw=w220-h165-p-k "New item by John Thornton") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/Q6cpvKLa15cfjDnG8) ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/619 "2020-08-29T09:26:16Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Looks like self defense to me. Of course, it’s illegal to defend oneself from the mobs of Biden supporters burning down cities, looting, and beating folks. So he’ll probably fry. Oh look, it’s the village idiot defending obvious criminal behavior again, because it’s directed at the left. Totally shocking! ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/620 "2020-08-29T14:12:36Z")
You are indeed a giant pussy if you think a few demonstrations against injustice are cause for increased skull cracking to keep you and your fellow conservative pussies safe. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/621 "2020-08-29T14:16:44Z")
Not necessarily. It may not be fear, but hatred and a desire to see people he doesn’t like hurt and killed that motivates him. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/622 "2020-08-29T14:33:51Z")
Me thinks octoputz doth protest too much. He is just too cowardly and dishonest to admit that he is really enjoying that which he decries. There is no cure for his vicious cretinism and persistent trollery. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550.md?page=32)