# Octopus is having a meltdown... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 28, 2018, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098 "2018-09-28T08:26:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/21 "2018-09-28T14:56:53Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Well you never had logic or cites. Shut up, Octopuke. Your “Will do absolutely _anything_ for attention!” shtick is pathetic, and the best thing the mods could do at this point would be to ban you and transfer your hateshit posts to the cornfields. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/22 "2018-09-28T14:59:18Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Well you never had logic or cites. Aah, would this be _another_ case of you displaying a truly _remarkable_ knowledge of the posting history of someone who was here for a decade before you? :dubious: ---
**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:** [September 28, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/23 "2018-09-28T15:02:14Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Shut up, Octopuke. Your “Will do absolutely _anything_ for attention!” shtick is pathetic, and the best thing the mods could do at this point would be to ban you and transfer your hateshit posts to the cornfields. You aren’t very bright. Once again, you demonstrate your unfitness to have any responsibility on a message board. You can barely read. Now get off the office computer and get back to mopping. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/24 "2018-09-28T15:05:49Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > You aren’t very bright. Once again, you demonstrate your unfitness to have any responsibility on a message board. You can barely read. Now get off the office computer and get back to mopping. Before you get banninated, are you going to tell us whose sock you are? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/25 "2018-09-28T15:06:15Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Aah, would this be _another_ case of you displaying a truly _remarkable_ knowledge of the posting history of someone who was here for a decade before you? :dubious: Another one who isn’t very bright. Large vocab but lacks reasoning. You have at least one eye or functioning fingers? You evidently can read individual words even if sentences trip you up. Well there are things called books, tv shows, and something called “Google.” These are tools that help learn about things from the past, other parts of the word, and even the moon! Check this out, open a thread and click it. See those words? They are from the past yet you can read them now?!? :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: What sorcery is this? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/26 "2018-09-28T15:06:19Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > I visit here and every day it is still not much more than a platform for SA and Octopus. And I go away again. I’ve personally never felt the need to try out the Ignore List feature, but isn’t that pretty much what it’s for? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/27 "2018-09-28T15:07:48Z")
Honestly, these past couple of years have really shattered the notion that I have any idea what an “obvious troll” is. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/28 "2018-09-28T15:13:02Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > You aren’t very bright. Once again, you demonstrate your unfitness to have any responsibility on a message board. You can barely read. Now get off the office computer and get back to mopping. Does this mean that your hypocritical bitching about how people talk to each other in The BBQ Pit is going to stop…for the brief time you have left here? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/29 "2018-09-28T15:14:55Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Before you get banninated, are you going to tell us whose sock you are? 1. I am not getting banninated, Trogdor. 2. You know you are posting a lie. Talk to one of your mod buddies. One that actually has a bit more sense then you and get whatever information they have. You are once again demonstrating my point. You and others repeat a lie over and over and over again not because you think it’s true. You do that to reshape a narrative. I’m not going to stop pointing out exactly what you do in a thread. Sure, it won’t matter to those who engage in the same tactic. But people who can read and don’t let irrational personal feelings that are in part shaped by liars like you will see who is consistently discussing difficult issues appropriately and those who want to run off any that don’t submit to the so-called hive. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/30 "2018-09-28T15:16:09Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Check this out, open a thread and click it. See those words? They are from the past yet you can read them now? So you, what, looked up all **SteveG1** ’s past posts? Is _that_ your ass-covering claim? And you somehow think that makes you come across as _better_ than a sock? You really _are_ losing it. Socks, at least, aren’t crazy stalkers. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/31 "2018-09-28T15:20:09Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I’ve personally never felt the need to try out the Ignore List feature, but isn’t that pretty much what it’s for? That would require agency which is apparently lacking. They are somehow forced to read what I write. Then they are somehow forced to lie about what I write and then complain about the lie upsetting them. Yes. It would be nice if some of the functionally illiterate would ignore me and let me communicate in peace with the grown ups who can handle a real discussion without weaponized faux outrage being used to manipulate. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Does this mean that your hypocritical bitching about how people talk to each other in The BBQ Pit is going to stop…for the brief time you have left here? What in the world are you talking about? This is what I mean by functionally illiterate. You can read words like Dibble but sentences are a killer! ---
**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:** [September 28, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/32 "2018-09-28T15:24:06Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > So you, what, looked up all **SteveG1** ’s past posts? Is _that_ your ass-covering claim? And you somehow think that makes you come across as _better_ than a sock? You really _are_ losing it. Socks, at least, aren’t crazy stalkers. Wait? You are taking Pit things such as “no logic” 100.000001% literal? :smack: and then you think that a teensy bit of hyperbole is some sort of grand GOTCHA! :dubious: How about you go back to amusing yourself with hiding hyperlinks in periods as some sort of grand display of cleverness and stop thinking you are Sherlock Holmes? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/33 "2018-09-28T15:25:13Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > What in the world are you talking about? Senility is your excuse now? > [@octopus](#): > > This is what I mean by functionally illiterate. You should use the dictionary next time, instead of making up your own definitions-less embarrassing that way. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/34 "2018-09-28T15:27:09Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Wait? You are taking Pit things such as “no logic” 100.000001% literal? :smack: and then you think that a teensy bit of hyperbole is some sort of grand GOTCHA! :dubious: > > How about you go back to amusing yourself with hiding hyperlinks in periods as some sort of grand display of cleverness and stop thinking you are Sherlock Holmes? The Nigel Bruce version of “Watson” could see through your crap. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/35 "2018-09-28T15:39:37Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > There was a story in the news recently about giving an octopus ecstasy, and how it would react. It would seem that sometimes it freaks out. Is there a freak-out tent near here? Octopus is pitching one even as we speak, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/36 "2018-09-28T16:22:19Z")
I’ve said it before, but I really don’t understand the octo-hate. He doesn’t have the same opinions as everybody else here, sure enough, but even when he says something fairly innocuous no small number of posters here will act as though he has just shit on the kitchen table. It’s fairly off-putting. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/37 "2018-09-28T16:28:15Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > You aren’t very bright. Once again, you demonstrate your unfitness to have any responsibility on a message board. You can barely read. Now get off the office computer and get back to mopping. So you also just happened upon the fact that Czarcasm used to be a mod as you perused threads 4 years before you joined? It’s odd because your normal arguments are rarely researched or cited but you sure have researched the board membership. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/38 "2018-09-28T16:38:35Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > I’ve said it before, but I really don’t understand the octo-hate. > > He doesn’t have the same opinions as everybody else here, sure enough, but even when he says something fairly innocuous no small number of posters here will act as though he has just shit on the kitchen table. It’s fairly off-putting. It’s amusing to read though. Keep up the good fight Octi! ---
**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:** [September 28, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/39 "2018-09-28T16:40:24Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > So you also just happened upon the fact that Czarcasm used to be a mod as you perused threads 4 years before you joined? It’s odd because your normal arguments are rarely researched or cited but you sure have researched the board membership. The fact that people read forums they post in is so confounding isn’t it? It’s preposterous! Never done before. But guess what? I read forums I don’t post in as well. Such witchcraft! What madness? I read reddit. Never post. Can’t figure out 4chan. I read financial forums. Home improvement forums. Something called city data forums. I read all kinds of forums! Really only post over here. So to think that people who like to read might know just a tiny bit about the place they post at doesn’t seem all that crazy now does it? :dubious: But really I guess you got me with those profound deductions. You are given Czarcasm a run for his money with dopey reasoning. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/40 "2018-09-28T16:42:29Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > I’ve said it before, but I really don’t understand the octo-hate. > > He doesn’t have the same opinions as everybody else here, sure enough, but even when he says something fairly innocuous no small number of posters here will act as though he has just shit on the kitchen table. It’s fairly off-putting. Yeah it’s off putting. I was fine when it was just posters and mods posting as posters. But now it’s spread beyond that. Especially since it’s a repeatable tactic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098.md?page=3)