# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 198
**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:** [October 25, 2018, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098/198 "2018-10-25T05:39:07Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Look at what you said: either you were an asshole then (you told him to go to the gym) or you’re an asshole now. You can’t argue that you’re the one being picked on when you’re the one who drops turds in “nice conversations” - in the middle of an argument about how you don’t make nasty comments. Hello Sunny Daze! You understand how context works and how you are the one turd dropping? In a different Pit thread that you started about yours truly I was having a pleasant conversation with begbert in the midst of a group of nuts flaming me. Well, it was pleasant for a little bit. He brought up something about the ladies. 😉 About not having luck in the romance department. So, instead of giving him a bingo stamp, I put on my Dr. octopus hat and gave some helpful advice. Which I will copy and paste below: > [@Octopus here's your own thread to shit all over](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/211): > > Dr. octopus can help. First you got to change your daily habits so that you can increase potential interactions. Gym is good. But don’t be a creep. It takes time to meet people. > > Finding romance is hard so that will take a few sessions. > > But you had more questions! Not just romance. > > 1. Maybe I am crazy? It’s not impossible. But the evidence I see is that online harassment does make its way into the real world. We have children who commit suicide after relentless harassment. We have people who get doxxed or swatted because of online disagreements. The world has changed and the speed and reach of communication is vastly different now. > > Perhaps my interpretation isn’t 100% accurate. I’d still disagree that in this day and age we shouldn’t be cautious with real life info because it has been used to hurt people. You might be comfortable posting a photo and your real life address here but I wouldn’t. > > 1. I believe the vast majority of the people here are fine. I also like reading and debating with folks who have a different point of view than my own. I don’t want to be part of an echo chamber. That is no way to be challenged intellectually and is a recipe for stagnation. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/report.php?p=21010143](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/report.php?p=21010143) Notice: I am in the middle of the Pit in a thread you, of all people, start. I am being flamed by the usual pack of nutty jackals. I engage with someone who mentioned something to me in a decent tone. I suggested going to the gym just as an example where people hang out. Not to creep on women. But to do something positive with life and perhaps have a chance to build rapport and meet women. It was just an example. Honestly, if I were single now I’m not sure if the gym idea still is good. I’ve been out of the dating game so long that my advice may be outdated or ineffectual. However, it was not motivated out of a desire to ridicule or be an asshole. I was having a normal conversation with someone in the midst of me being pitted. What we need is a facepalm smiley for posts like yours in threads like these. Even my explanation to you, in another pit thread inspired by a stupid outcome in ATMB was far more polite and far more accommodating than anything you or multiple others have shown me. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-is-having-a-meltdown/822098)._