# Official duffer bashing thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 28, 2004, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521 "2004-06-28T08:08:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tigers2B1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/41 "2004-06-28T17:47:25Z")
> [@jarbabyj](#): > > Sharon Stone is also in Mensa… I think that is just a rumor started somewhere. While she apparently qualifies, that was a rumor - I think. Note however that there are quite a few sites on the Internet which indicate that she is ---- Anyway, here’s part of her bio that indicates otherwise – > [@](#): > > …Admitted she’s not a member of Mensa - to the genius organization’s immense relief. > > Highly intelligent in addition to being a local beauty pageant queen, she won a scholarship to Pennsylvania’s Edinboro University when she was fifteen. > > IQ of 154 (Source: The Times, March 25th, 1998)… Or maybe you just have Sharon Stone confused with the actress who played “mom” in _Stuart Little_ – both 1 and 2 – Geena Davis. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/42 "2004-06-28T17:50:34Z")
> [@jarbabyj](#): > > I can name of 65 people on this board smarter than you without taking a breath. Wow. Sixty-five names in one breath. Now that’s a set of lungs. . . Sorry, **duffer** ; I’d love to participate in this little honorarium, but I don’t recall ever having been flung by you. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/43 "2004-06-28T18:01:49Z")
> [@jarbabyj](#): > > Very well, did you know that I was raped when I was sixteen and still today don’t feel someone should have **WASTED HIM** while he was doing it? I’m aware of that, and while I don’t agree with your anti-gun, anti-death penalty stances, I recognize you have a right to them, unlike you, who seems to feel free to condemn me for beliefs I hold that you don’t agree with. And I recognize the nobility of your thoughts in regard to rapists, having been a victim yourself, and that was part of the reason for the respect for you I spoke of. > [@jarbabyj](#): > > Remember, in that thread you didn’t say “fire a warning shot” or “threaten him with the gun” you said “walk up and waste him”. Yes. And I also remember you saying in this thread that I would happily blow someone’s head off. You still haven’t provided a cite for this. So let’s call it what it is: a meaning \*you \*attached to my comments…not something I myself ever said or indicated. > [@jarbabyj](#): > > Just because you didn’t blow someone’s head off in your bedroom doesn’t mean you aren’t willing to. Ahhh…how charming. In addition to misstating my willingness to shoot someone, you now display an already disproven ability to read my mind and predict my behavior. > [@jarbabyj](#): > > And you’re right. I’m not in mensa, so I must be an airhead. I addressed this already. Unfortunately, I had to leave the computer before I could refute the rest of your eminently refuteable post. > [@jarbabyj](#): > > You really fucked with me there, pal. But please, get back to your love of duffer. Certainly, I’ll be happy to since you seem to have had enough here. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/44 "2004-06-28T18:10:47Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > Sorry, **duffer** ; I’d love to participate in this little honorarium, but I don’t recall ever having been flung by you. Er, I think that would be “flang.” ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/45 "2004-06-28T18:26:40Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Now, about the Mensa thing. It was more a statement that I’m not a knuckle-dragger than prrof I’m one of the great minds. Mensa’s ok, as sort of a secondary indication that you can string together a neuron or two, but around here, the gold standard is a G.E.D. Have you got _your_ G.E.D.? ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/46 "2004-06-28T18:40:47Z")
Ewwwww, Starving Artist, that exposed nerve is SHOWING. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/47 "2004-06-28T18:56:02Z")
Not even a nice try. Pretty lame, actually. Sorry. But feel free to try again, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/48 "2004-06-28T18:57:29Z")
no thanks. I’ll leave you and duffer to your love fest. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/49 "2004-06-28T19:06:31Z")
> [@jarbabyj](#): > > no thanks. I’ll leave you and duffer to your love fest. I can just _feel_ the love in this thread. In all honesty, **duffer** , you are getting better at argumentating. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/50 "2004-06-28T19:10:36Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > Well, proficiency at cock-stroking happens to be one of the perks of being gay! huh. Coulda sworn it had to do with being male. 😉 re: OP - I don’t personally recall any self pitting thread that ended well. Of course, I’ve only been around since 2000, so I may have missed one. RE:unsolicited advice #2 **Jar9** you’ve been around long enough to realize that the sort of back and forth about an old thread snipe gig that you’re doing here doesn’t really reflect well on either. I don’t recall the original thread that you’re referring to, obviously you both have strong feelings about it still. Is here really the place to air it all out? And, from what you’ve alluded to here, is it really worth your time? **Starving** unsoliticted advice #3 - the sort of old thread sniping you’re engaging in here hardly ever reflects positively on the participants. Obviously you’ve got strong feelings about the issue, but, as I stated - is this thread **really** the place to air it out? FWIW - proll’y not too much - I often respect more the person who walks away from a snipefest. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/51 "2004-06-28T19:20:35Z")
> [@wring](#): > > **Starving** unsoliticted advice #3 - the sort of old thread sniping you’re engaging in here hardly ever reflects positively on the participants. Obviously you’ve got strong feelings about the issue… You are correct, of course. However, what cranked me in this thread, and the reason for my vitriol toward her, is her coming in here out of the blue and assailing me for my attempt at explaining **duffer** ’s comment about being in Mensa, and calling me a _cocksucker_. This from a victim of rape herself, and who one would presume to have rather delicate feelings in regard to matters sexual, yet she comes on here completely unprovoked and accuses me of sucking **duffer** ’s cock! The comment I made to her was days ago, and once I found out she had been raped I backed off, more or less apologized and told her I’d have been more sensitive had I known, and had nothing more to say on the subject. Many others followed my post, some with the same point of view as I. Had she not come charging in here as she did, she’d have heard nothing else from me. FWIW - proll’y not too much - I often respect more the person who walks away from a snipefest. [/QUOTE] ::SA steps back, saunters on his way whistling a happy tune::😃 ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/52 "2004-06-28T19:21:45Z")
additional points to be made: 1. Some complex series of global influences stuffed that “9” at the end of “jar”. I do, indeed, know **jarbabyj’s** name. 2. At the time when I was typing said post, neither participant had ‘walked away’. So, at this point, I’m left w/ [Emily Latille voice on] “never mind” [ELVO] ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/53 "2004-06-28T19:28:45Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Now to defend myself. No, I’m not under 30. Yes, I have been accepted to Mensa. No, I have no common sense as long as you’re counting a message board. Yes, I have a college degree. Huh. I read this as, “I have to defend myself for being a doofus. Here’s why I’m a doofus…” Sorry. Didn’t realize you weren’t a doofus. All the best geniuses pit themselves. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/54 "2004-06-28T19:34:18Z")
oh for the love of christ. Contrary to your delicate sensibilities, sufferers of rape very often go on to have sex and indeed suck cock following their trauma. I referred to you as a cocksucker not to imply that you were _gasp_ _gay_, but that you were kissing duffer’s ass on more than two occasions in this thread and in the Waste The Rapist thread. Also, your condescending pronouncement of no longer respecting me (as if you were the fucking queen of sheeba) got my ire up. I’ve had my face torn off in this pit by people more respected than you and your mewling in the corner does nothing to interrupt or cause me to reconsider my beliefs that you and duffer are complete jerkwads. ---
**Author:** ![litost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@litost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/litost)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/55 "2004-06-28T19:34:30Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > **jarbabyj** , I don’t believe \*\*duffer \*\*ever claimed he was the smartest one here…or _anywhere_ for that matter. I think he was trying to illustrate that he is not a dumbass or moron as he will surely be called just by virtue of his being of the more conservative turn of mind. I can’t let this pass. If you can show me where a poster has been called a dumbass or moron for merely being a conservative, not by one isolated poster (which is very possible), but by a reasonable sample of Dopers, I’ll agree this is a problem. I’m getting a little tired of self-proclaimed conservatives playing martyr on this board when often times, it is the manner and substance of their posts. December law invoked. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/56 "2004-06-28T20:10:41Z")
> [@litost](#): > > I can’t let this pass. If you can show me where a poster has been called a dumbass or moron for merely being a conservative, not by one isolated poster (which is very possible), but by a reasonable sample of Dopers, I’ll agree this is a problem. > > I’m getting a little tired of self-proclaimed conservatives playing martyr on this board when often times, it is the manner and substance of their posts. December law invoked. Where the hell did that come from? I’m not self-pitting, I’m allowing others to pit me if they see fit to do so. In other threads I come off as either a curious, reasonable fellow, or a raving lunatic. I’ve been trying to be the former more often than the latter. However, when the latter occurs, it’s (sometimes rightly) met with personal insults. So I wanted to open this thread to let everyone get the vitriol out of thier systems and start anew. But I see with some, there is no chance at rehabilitation. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/57 "2004-06-28T20:11:52Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Mensa’s ok, as sort of a secondary indication that you can string together a neuron or two, but around here, the gold standard is a G.E.D. Have you got _your_ G.E.D.? You really know how to kick a guy when he’s down, you prick. If I had spelled my name right, I would’ve passed that fucker! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/58 "2004-06-28T20:16:12Z")
> [@jarbabyj](#): > > oh for the love of christ. Contrary to your delicate sensibilities, sufferers of rape very often go on to have sex and indeed suck cock following their trauma. Great! Suck all the cock you want. It wasn’t \*my \*delicate sensibilities I was trying to defer to. > [@jarbabyj](#): > > I referred to you as a cocksucker not to imply that you were _gasp_ _gay_, but that you were kissing duffer’s ass on more than two occasions in this thread and in the Waste The Rapist thread. Again with the erroneous assumptions. I dare, double-dare and triple-dog-dare you to find one anti-gay sentiment I’ve ever expressed anywhere on this board. :dubious: > [@jarbabyj](#): > > Also, your condescending pronouncement of no longer respecting me (as if you were the fucking queen of sheeba) got my ire up. Tough shit! Is there a list somewhere of everyone’s respective respectability quotient, so I can check it before I dare to comment on my own respect or lack thereof regarding someone? > [@jarbabyj](#): > > I’ve had my face torn off in this pit by people more respected than you and your mewling in the corner does nothing to interrupt or cause me to reconsider my beliefs that you and duffer are complete jerkwads. Super! As long as idiots like you disapprove of my postings, I know I’m on the right side of the issue. Now would you like me to walk away _again_, or do you want to continue your silly provocations? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/59 "2004-06-28T20:18:48Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Where the hell did that come from? I’m not self-pitting, I’m allowing others to pit me if they see fit to do so. George: All I want is something just for me. Is that so selfish? Jerry: Actually, that’s the definition of selfish. You opened a thread in the Pit asking people to flame you. That’s called “pitting yourself.” That you say you are allowing others to pit you is more than a little amusing, as if you have, in the past, exercised the power necessary to _prevent_ people from pitting you, but you now relinquish that power so that people may swarm forward in their ire-filled masses and express their outrage in shrill voices of disdain and fury. Well, thanks. That’s big of you. Too bad you missed out on the attention whore thread. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/60 "2004-06-28T20:27:56Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > Again with the erroneous assumptions. I dare, double-dare and triple-dog-dare you to find one anti-gay sentiment I’ve ever expressed anywhere on this board. :dubious: Then what’s wrong with being called a cocksucker, sweetheart? Because it sure got your panties in a bunch, ya li’l gunslinga > [@](#): > > Tough shit! Is there a list somewhere of everyone’s respective respectability quotient, so I can check it before I dare to comment on my own respect or lack thereof regarding someone? No, go ahead and spew yer bullshit anywhere but don’t expect anyone to do anything but laugh when you boldly proclaim: > [@](#): > > (See? This is what you get for calling people cocksuckers. Fuck with me, and I’ll fuck with you back! See how it works?) as if I’m supposed to be RRREEEEL scared of your awesome fuckingwith talent. > [@](#): > > Now would you like me to walk away _again_, or do you want to continue your silly provocations? No, walk away again, god I love how your hips sway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521.md?page=4)