# 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:** 4
**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, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/61 "2004-06-28T20:29:15Z")
apparently I’ve been unclear. when I think of someone ‘walking away’ from a thread/hijack it’s not “continue to answer while saying you’re walking away”. not that anyone seems to want to do that, of course. ---
**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, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/62 "2004-06-28T20:30:36Z")
you’re right wring. I know you’re right. Here, let me get you that pony. ---
**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, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/63 "2004-06-28T20:35:01Z")
::Smmooooch::; how did you know I’ve always wanted a pony!! ---
**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, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/64 "2004-06-28T20:38:39Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > …Personally, i’ve always thought that the fact that someone would actually _join_ Mensa says more about their intelligence than the fact they qualified in the first place. That’s what guys with very tiny penises think. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/65 "2004-06-28T20:39:31Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. [Steven Wright(ish)] But if they’ve met something you’ve said previously with personal insults, haven’t they already gotten the vitriol out of their systems? [/Steven Wright(ish)] BTW, **Duffer** , I hope you’re paying attention here. You want to be an Olympic-level Attention Ho? Just keep your eye on **Starving\_Artist** and **Jarbabyj**. Notice how they’ve so deftly stolen your thread out from under you that you didn’t even know it was gone until just now, when I told you? Frickin’ masterclass, baby. ---
**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, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/66 "2004-06-28T20:51:43Z")
> [@jarbabyj](#): > > Then what’s wrong with being called a cocksucker, sweetheart? Because it sure got your panties in a bunch, ya li’l gunslinga Well, lemme 'splain it to ya this way, baby. It wasn’t so much that I got called a cocksucker, it’s that \*you \*were the one who did it. Someone who I had previously thought was a pretty sweet and cool person, and who I tried to be considerate of in the other thread, especially once I found out you’d been raped, and apologized insofar as I felt I should and backed out of the thread which then continued on for a very long time without me. I would have thought you’d scarcely remembered me. But no…instead you come charging in here completely out of the blue like some avenging trailer-park barfly and call me a cocksucker. And for what? For nothing more egregious than trying to explain what \*\*duffer \*\*might have meant by his Mensa comment, since he appeared to be away at the time. > [@jarbabyj](#): > > No, go ahead and spew yer bullshit anywhere but don’t expect anyone to do anything but laugh when you boldly proclaim: I don’t expect anything, sweetie-pie. I just speak the truth and let the chips fall where they may. > [@jarbabyj](#): > > as if I’m supposed to be RRREEEEL scared of your awesome fuckingwith talent. “As if,” all you want, hotstress, I couldn’t care less. But don’t go around claiming I said things I didn’t, and assigning to me positions I don’t hold, and expect it to go unanswered. > [@jarbabyj](#): > > No, walk away again, god I love how your hips sway. Is this the part where we fall passionately into each other’s arms (Ugh…hack, hack, patooie!), or do we disprove Cecil and fire at twenty paces? Cheers, angel-face… 😛 ---
**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, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/67 "2004-06-28T20:58:56Z")
Sorry, **duffer**. ---
**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, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/68 "2004-06-28T22:04:33Z")
'Course, the **j-babe** did have a valid point. You pretty much _were_ sucking his dick, **Starvin’**. In a purely figurative sense. ---
**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, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/69 "2004-06-28T23:14:16Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > [Steven Wright(ish)] > > But if they’ve met something you’ve said previously with personal insults, haven’t they already gotten the vitriol out of their systems? > > [/Steven Wright(ish)] > > BTW, **Duffer** , I hope you’re paying attention here. You want to be an Olympic-level Attention Ho? Just keep your eye on **Starving\_Artist** and **Jarbabyj**. Notice how they’ve so deftly stolen your thread out from under you that you didn’t even know it was gone until just now, when I told you? Frickin’ masterclass, baby. Yeah, I saw where the thread was going. It just didn’t fit into the whole purpose of it. But thanks for thinking of me. Attention Ho? Maybe. But everyone that is stuck on that drivel please reread my previous post. This was more an attempt to start fresh. Unfortunately, some want to hold an opinion on people based on posts from a half year ago. That’s cool. I’ll go back to being a dick. (get away jarbabe, you know it’s not for 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, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/70 "2004-06-28T23:20:03Z")
Hey, this is still a relatively young thread, **duffer**. Surely you have enough antagonists around that would love to come here and bash you, they just haven’t gotten off work yet, or they just haven’t found the thread yet. Have you thought about going into some of the other threads here and in GD and inviting comments? And not to worry about **jarbabyj** and me. Anything further between us will be taken to her thread. In hindsight, I should have taken it there in the first place. My apologies. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/71 "2004-06-29T06:15:05Z")
> [@litost](#): > > 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. This is a trend I’ve been seeing more and more of lately. It’s amusing, to say the least. (Aren’t conservatives supposed to support rugged individualism and less of the “nanny state” And yet I see quite a few here whining about how unfair it all is.) \*Note-not ALL conservatives here. Just some. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/72 "2004-06-29T06:49:32Z")
> [@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. Thanks for the permission. Your username sucks. ---
**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 29, 2004, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/73 "2004-06-29T07:51:44Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#): > > Thanks for the permission. > > Your username sucks. pot, meet kettle…kettle, meet pot. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/74 "2004-06-29T12:09:36Z")
You’re too nice. You should have left that grin smiliey out of the last post. Someone asked earlier in the thread, “What is your handicap?” Please answer… (A guy that loves golf can’t be all that bad). ---
**Author:** ![Tigers2B1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/75 "2004-06-29T14:46:09Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > This is a trend I’ve been seeing more and more of lately. It’s amusing, to say the least. (Aren’t conservatives supposed to support rugged individualism and less of the “nanny state” And yet I see quite a few here whining about how unfair it all is.) Have you no heart? If you were a true liberal you wouldn’t find this “assuming” at all. Why don’t you take responsibility for me and my feelings? Understand, the “whining” is not my fault — it’s the result of bad childhood experiences. So why isn’t the government helping me?? ☹ > [@](#): > > \*Note-not ALL conservatives here. Just some. Wait------ I take it all back. Allowing a general statement to be understood as a general statement is an _impossibility_ for a liberal. They HAVE to use the asterisk. They simply can’t help themselves. This inborn pattern of behavior is the unmistakable mark of a true liberal. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/76 "2004-06-29T14:57:54Z")
Hardly know ya, won’t bash ya. Welcome to SDMB. ---
**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 29, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/77 "2004-06-29T17:58:15Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > This is a trend I’ve been seeing more and more of lately. It’s amusing, to say the least. (Aren’t conservatives supposed to support rugged individualism and less of the “nanny state” And yet I see quite a few here whining about how unfair it all is.) Well, speaking for myself only, I think this is a matter of misperception on your part, and on the part of most of the other liberals, independents, Green Partyers, and what have you around here. (As you can tell, I’ve been corrected for sometimes referring to someone as a liberal when they weren’t.) I’ve mentioned several times in explaining my sometimes prolific posting style to others that I often find myself outnumbered 10 to 15 to one in a particular thread and that in order to answer everyone I have to post that much more than they do. _In every single case_, I’ve been accused of complaining or whining about this being unfair. _This is not so!_ I am simply stating a perfectly obvious fact and the effect it has on the number of my posts. Yet all the lib/Dem/Greenies, etc. in these forums – who are so anxious to grasp at any straw in their efforts to feel they hold the higher ground – gleefully proclaim this to be whining on my part. I suspect similar misperceptions at work with regard to the postings of my conservative counterparts as well. ---
**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 29, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/78 "2004-06-29T18:05:24Z")
I almost forgot again…aren’t we supposed to be bashing **duffer** here? C’mon you guys…let’s get with it! ---
**Author:** ![Tigers2B1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/79 "2004-06-29T19:14:58Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > I almost forgot again…aren’t we supposed to be bashing **duffer** here? > > C’mon you guys…let’s get with it! **duffer**?? — what sort of username is that? At least **Tigers2B1** seems to be trying – but **duffer** – ha!! What a loser. I bet he is a duffer or a huffer. A Huffer Duffer. A Dufferboy. Daffy Duffy. Duffer Bag. I got something you can buff duffer — got it right here. What’s you going to do Buffer? Umm. OK – I’m done here - ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521/80 "2004-06-29T19:20:07Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > I’ve mentioned several times in explaining my sometimes prolific posting style to others that I often find myself outnumbered 10 to 15 to one in a particular thread and that in order to answer everyone I have to post that much more than they do. _In every single case_, I’ve been accused of complaining or whining about this being unfair. _This is not so!_ I am simply stating a perfectly obvious fact and the effect it has on the number of my posts. Hey, pal – you really don’t have to state the obvious. We know you’re outnumbered. It’s not relevant to the substance of your rebuttal, so you don’t need to repeat it, as it will undoubtedly sidetrack at least one respondent into raising the “whining” issue. Frankly, it DOES come across as whining for you to say it again and again, even though that’s not your intention. So, if I were you, I’d just make my points without the “outnumbered” aside, perhaps with an eye to encapsulating your response to a number of posts in one reply, if the arguments seem close enough to justify that. I doubt that many people are keeping score on who makes the most posts in any particular thread, in any case. It’s my observation that most Dopers are looking for the substance of the message (if only so they can gleefully refute it), rather than grasping at any opportunity, no matter how tenuous, to trash a perceived opponent. And now, back on track: **duffer** , what is your stance on guinea fowl? Helmeted or vulturine? Your standing with me hinges upon the correct response! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-duffer-bashing-thread/252521.md?page=5)