# Oh, Immanual Kant was a real pissant **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 23, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781 "2005-04-23T18:36:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/1 "2005-04-23T18:36:09Z")
Who was very rarely stable. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/2 "2005-04-23T18:40:32Z")
[Johnny Carson] I did not know that. Weird, wild, wacky shtuff [/Johnny Carson] But I did know about Rene Descartes being a bloody fart who could drink you under the table. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/3 "2005-04-23T18:52:32Z")
G’day, Bruce. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/4 "2005-04-23T18:53:40Z")
Nietzsche was peachy, but Satre was smatre. Several years of philosophy in college, and that’s all I remember. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/5 "2005-04-23T18:53:56Z")
Who’s the new Bruce, Bruce? ---
**Author:** ![aurelian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@aurelian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurelian)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/6 "2005-04-23T18:54:10Z")
Meh. They got nuthin’ on poor Neitzsche. (Kierkegaard running a close second, I think). ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/7 "2005-04-23T18:57:55Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > Who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/8 "2005-04-23T18:59:35Z")
> [@pseudotriton ruber ruber](#): > > But I did know about Rene Descartes being a bloody fart who could drink you under the table. Actually, no. And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart “I drink, therefore I am” ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/9 "2005-04-23T19:06:17Z")
> [@MagicEyes](#): > > Nietzsche was peachy, but Satre was smatre. > > Several years of philosophy in college, and that’s all I remember. Camus can do, but Immanuel Kant. (Psst. It’s usually spelled ‘pietzche.’ ;)) ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/10 "2005-04-23T19:48:49Z")
David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel, And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schlegel. (If this damn song’s still in my head an hour from now I’m setting this place on fire.) ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/11 "2005-04-23T19:49:28Z")
Aristotle, Aristotle was a beggar for the bottle, Hobbes was fond of his dram; and Rene Descarte was a drunken fart; “I drink therefore I am”. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/12 "2005-04-23T20:33:27Z")
There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist (and I’ve heard that Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed). ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/13 "2005-04-23T20:39:57Z")
No poofters! ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/14 "2005-04-23T21:04:08Z")
Rule #1: NO POOFTERS! Rule #2: No member of the faculty of to maltreat the Abbos in any way whatsoever… if there’s anyone watching. Rule #3: NO POOFTERS! Rule #4: I don’t want to catch anyone here NOT drinking in their room after lights out. Rule #5: NO POOFTERS! Rule #6: There is NO rule 6 Rule #7: NO POOFTERS! That concludes the reading of the rules, Bruce. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/15 "2005-04-23T21:22:58Z")
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/16 "2005-04-23T23:51:20Z")
Descartes walked into a bar and sat down. The bartender came over and asked him if he wanted a beer. Descartes said, “I think not,” and disappeared. ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/17 "2005-04-24T00:21:53Z")
“Frankly, we find your American beer is a little like making love in a conoe” “Making love in a canoe?” “It’s fucking close to water.” ---
**Author:** ![EmeraldGrue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dc4da7/32.png) [@EmeraldGrue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmeraldGrue)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/18 "2005-04-24T02:33:34Z")
:sings boisterously: Aaaaaaaand Socrates himself is particularly missed… Aaaaaa lovelylittlethinker but a bugger when he’s pissed! G’day all. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/19 "2005-04-24T02:38:46Z")
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill. Or so I hear. I snuck into my philosophy professor’s class one day and copied this song onto his chalkboard. He had no sense of humor; didn’t even crack a smile. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781/20 "2005-04-24T03:43:57Z")
“Popeye” Descartes “I yamm what I yamm”. toot-toot!!! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-immanual-kant-was-a-real-pissant/300781.md?page=2)