# 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:** 61
**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:** [January 13, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1205 "2021-01-13T22:39:47Z")
> [@Drsunflower1](#): > > When I was an intern in a large teaching hospital they had a so-called trophy room where they collected all the stuff they had succesfully removed from people’s asses… I would pay to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1206 "2021-01-14T05:26:34Z")
Is it just me or do the “Cheerios” logos just make it worse? ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1207 "2021-01-17T12:12:35Z")
👍 👍 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1208 "2021-01-17T18:17:04Z")
I’ll bet if I don’t click on that I’ll know anyway it’s the Pungent Stench _Been Caught Buttering_ front album cover. (I spose I’ve been wrong before, though, but I think I’m not, here.) > [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Democrats will not be held hostage by their extremists because they are too smart to do dumb things like vote for a malignant narcissist conman to be leader of the free world but Republicans are too dumb to see that… This is the crux of the matter that **Octopus** is too cowardly / disingenuous to acknowledge. He knows perfectly well that the Republican cray-cray exceeds the dem cray by a metric shit-ton, but that won’t conveniently fit into his agenda, and so has to FUCKING TEDIOUSLY re-hash the same alt-right talking points because he has nothing else to fall back on. Guess I haven’t been paying attention - “socialist” has been added to the Octo Lexicon, then? I need to keep up: statist pottymouth virtue signalling hive minded tds read a history book I’m sure I’m missing some. None of those, btw, are in any way uncommon, but your (unsubstantiated, at that) overuse of them has, by now, completely diluted any weight they might have once had. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1209 "2021-01-17T20:51:57Z")
If the Dems have anyone in their pool of talent remotely resembling Donald in character and (lack of) intelligence, that person would never stand a chance of winning a presidential primary. Our far lefties may be a little out there for much of the electorate but don’t bullshit us and tell us that Bernie and AOC aren’t smart or make shit up every day. Policies, my ass. It’s not just that you’re a stupid piece of work, Octo, it’s that you insult us by assuming that we’re equally stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1210 "2021-01-17T22:10:15Z")
If Democrats were as craven and devoid of morality as Republicans, we’d be inaugurating Michael Avenatti on Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1211 "2021-01-18T02:12:08Z")
^^^^^ Like. ^^^^^ ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1212 "2021-03-04T17:30:00Z")
I haven’t read any of this thread, but I think I’m finally getting a sense of Octopus. While it’s my sincere belief that he/she is genuinely quite bright, I think the thing that gets him/her into conflict around here is a profound cognitive rigidity and an outsized reliance on a pretty specific ideology. He/she seems to work backward from his/her deeply-held belief about the world As It Should Be _to_ whatever issue is at hand. The frame almost never fits, and he/she stresses it shockingly beyond its original engineering design parameters in a valiant, if pathetic, effort to _make it_ fit. But anything other than getting the frame of simplicity around such complex issues would cause him/her relatively much more cognitive dissonance and intellectual angst than the judo match with the antiquated frame. There’s also a bit of an academic’s take on everything. He/she seems well educated, but like a PhD who’s never worked in the real world, he/she becomes an impediment to getting important work done. Those who’ve worked on teams in large organizations usually remember at least one like we’re talking about here: you know what their answer will be _regardless_ of what the issue at hand is, or what problem you’re trying to solve. You learn to work around them if you can’t get rid of them. They add no value and become caricatures of themselves. I’m also reminded of this keyboard study tied to conservative/liberal brains: “A study by scientists at New York University and the University of California, Los Angeles, found differences in how self-described liberal and conservative research participants responded to changes in patterns. Participants were asked to tap a keyboard when the letter “M” appeared on a computer monitor and to refrain from tapping when they saw a “W.” The letter “M” appeared four times more frequently than “W,” conditioning participants to press the keyboard on almost every trial. Liberal participants made fewer mistakes than conservatives when they saw the rare “W,” indicating to the researchers that these participants were better able to accept changes or conflicts in established patterns. The participants were also wired to an electroencephalograph that recorded activity in their anterior cingulate cortex, the part of the brain that detects conflicts between a habitual tendency and a more appropriate response. Liberals were significantly more likely than conservatives to show activity in the brain circuits that deal with conflicts during the experiment, and this correlated with their greater accuracy in the test.” Source ([**PDF**](http://www.uky.edu/AS/PoliSci/Peffley/pdf/Study%20finds%20left-wing%20brain_%20right-wing%20brain.pdf)) Octopus is simply constitutionally incapable of **not** typing ‘M.’ ---
**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:** [March 4, 2021, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1213 "2021-03-04T17:34:22Z")
M… Drat! ---
**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:** [March 4, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1214 "2021-03-04T17:53:15Z")
Well-played, sir. ---
**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 15, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1215 "2022-08-15T16:05:40Z")
> [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/6996): > > Lol. Of course. I’m just saying don’t expect the targets to remain silent and act all huffy when they don’t. Hey ink for brains? Were you trying to out yourself as a trock? ---
**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:** [August 15, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1216 "2022-08-15T16:08:53Z")
A certain metaphor about wrestling pigs may apply here. ---
**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 15, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1217 "2022-08-15T16:16:11Z")
Wrestling pigs, dancing monkeys, quasi-fish creatures . . . pretty soon this is going to be a _Journey to the West_ ---
**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:** [August 15, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1218 "2022-08-15T16:51:01Z")
Don’t forget pigeon chess. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1219 "2022-08-15T19:01:08Z")
I say “Hey Octo, Truth Social is just an app away.” He says “I’m not looking for agreement. I’m looking for honest debate, which this place used to have before it became a hive mind and resorted to personal insults, inane depravity and disrespectful madness.” So he spews ink-spattered excrement at us to provoke us into honest debate. That always works. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1220 "2022-08-15T19:22:30Z")
> [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/6965): > > So, as I said, I found it jarring that the progressive left with their radical language about defunding the police, abolishing the police, community justice, elimination of incarceration, etc… were now changing their tune and changing it quite aggressively. All it demonstrates is that the message and demand for change weren’t honest and instead they were and are a mechanism to exploit emotions to energize an electorate. @octopus, as you may or may not have noticed, I’ve been moderately tolerant of you in the past, but it appears that this was mostly because I never really read much of what you’ve posted, and just remarked that the purple octopus with the top hat and monocle was kinda cute. But having read the recent exchanges in which you (and others, but always prompted by you) have derailed the Trolls R Us thread, my opinion has changed very much for the worse. And it’s bullshit like that quoted above that has done it. This is such a complete load of crap that you are either delusional or trolling. In what universe is “defunding the police”, “abolishing the police”, or “elimination of incarceration” supposed to represent the prevailing opinion of progressives? (Not sure what “community justice” is supposed to mean.) Progressives seek a peaceful and just society and have been appalled at the brutality and outright killings regularly inflicted by some police forces against Black people. What they have called for is reform of police culture so that all citizens are treated fairly under the law, and preferably not killed by the likes of Derek Chauvin. To characterize this as wanting to abolish police forces and eliminate incarceration is the most reprehensible kind of dishonesty and reckless attempt to smear your opponents, exactly the attempt “to exploit emotions to energize an electorate” you accuse others of doing, in yet another unsurprising and unintended projection. > [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/6965): > > To address the FBI retrieving documents, of course at this stage it’s going to appear politically motivated. So it’s your honest considered opinion that the FBI retrieving _ **top secret documents that were said to include highly sensitive nuclear secrets** _, signed off by an FBI director appointed by Trump, an AG noted for his political neutrality, and a highly respected magistrate judge, was politically motivated by Trump haters? Or at least, that _ **rational** _ people will see it that way? You either a liar, delusional, a troll, or maybe all three. > [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/6965): > > The other is practical where I know that due to the human tragedy of addiction and overdose, especially with more and more dangerous drugs entering society, the negative externalities of letting Darwin do the work would make that approach unacceptable. That said, even with a crackdown on narcotics being the law, I do think we need to be very careful about the erosion of civil liberties while enforcing the law. You will note that the context of what you’re responding to is about cannabis. To use terminology like “addiction and overdose” and “narcotics” in that context is just more totally delusional right-wing blathering. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1221 "2022-08-15T19:23:54Z")
It’s nice when, on a forum such as SDMB, you tell a good joke, and get some responses like “Nice one”. Or if you make a good point in a discussion, and someone says “That makes sense - thanks for the cite!” It gives a sense that you’re contributing something, and have been appreciated. For those who lack the ability to converse like an adult, or tell a good joke, or contribute anything to a discussion, they still seek the feedback and acknowledgement from others _that they even exist._ So they shit the bed for attention. Sure, it’s negative attention, but at least someone is responding to them. They drop a turd into the punchbowl at the party where others are discussing interesting topics. They can’t contribute to any sort of complex discussion, but Boy-Howdy! Now people are discussion the turd in the punchbowl! What fun! I did that! My Turd! This is what we’re dealing with here. ---
**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 15, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1222 "2022-08-15T19:25:38Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > In what universe is “defunding the police”, “abolishing the police”, or “elimination of incarceration” supposed to represent the prevailing opinion of progressives? Whichever this one is, of course. > [@I am SERIOUSLY WORRIED that these riots are going to get Trump re-elected](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seriously-worried-that-these-riots-are-going-to-get-trump-re-elected/919092/56): > > burning down cities > [@octopus](#): > > mobs of Biden supporters burning down cities ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1223 "2022-08-15T19:29:48Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > mobs of Biden supporters burning down cities Now I regret wasting my time with a serious response to this fucking dipshit troll. ---
**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 15, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1224 "2022-08-15T19:34:44Z")
I’m still waiting for the eight legged one to tell us what cities were burned down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550.md?page=60) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550.md?page=62)