# OK. I give up. Why all the hate on Guinastasia? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 17, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654 "2011-09-17T19:45:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [September 20, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/121 "2011-09-20T23:09:37Z")
Sorry, that’s all she wrote. Until I can get my computer fixed, I can’t upload any pics. You’ll have to make do for now. ---
**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 20, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/122 "2011-09-20T23:15:16Z")
She turned me into a newt! See in this movie once people are accusing someone of being a witch and they are throwing out all sorts of wild examples that prove she’s one. One of the guys says the above quote and it’s funny because clearly, he’s not a newt. Oh, I forgot the punchline: I got better! lol. Anyways, I really think Guin should move the frig out of her parent’s attic, but I don’t hate her for it. It’s kind of sad. I mean seriously, Bosda moved out on his own, Guin. BOSDA! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/123 "2011-09-20T23:19:26Z")
Yeah, but he works in local government (or something), not in a cool floating ice cream castle in the sky like I do. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/124 "2011-09-20T23:21:26Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Am I being whooshed? Please tell me yes. ‘Cuz if that kind of post is what has people’s panties in a bunch, then folks are just hatin’ for no good reason. I know, but take that kind of post, multiply it by 20,000, and add in what people were saying about how she waits to see which way the wind is blowing before piling on, etc. It truly was annoying. But like I said, she’s gotten a lot better the last couple of years or so. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/125 "2011-09-20T23:59:19Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > So a pitting of Guin turned into a pitting - sort of - of Lindsay Bluth? > > Anyway, like others have said, once you get a reputation around here it’s a bit hard to shake off. I should know. I had a deserved reputation around here for flirting, which I never thought to be a problem, but now I think I have finally shaken the reputation, long after I cut flirting waaaaaaaay down. (Now I only do it if someone else does it first.) > > Plus it helps that I don’t care anymore if someone does say it to me - same with Guin, I think. She’s learned to be like a penguin and let it roll off her back. Or some such appropriate metaphor. > > And it really pisses me off that I cannot write four paragraphs without my computer freezing up for 2-10 seconds, like it does every five minutes or so. How YOU doin’? ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/126 "2011-09-21T00:13:58Z")
I must admit that on one occasion I _did_ attempt to flirt with a penguin, only to be thoroughly ignored. At the time I suspected that she was merely of insufficient intellectual development to grasp the nuances of human courtship, but now I’m wondering if she was just letting it roll down her back. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/127 "2011-09-21T00:36:03Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I had a deserved reputation around here for flirting, which I never thought to be a problem, but now I think I have finally shaken the reputation, long after I cut flirting waaaaaaaay down. (Now I only do it if someone else does it first.) The boards have never recovered. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/128 "2011-09-21T12:24:41Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > I must admit that on one occasion I _did_ attempt to flirt with a penguin, only to be thoroughly ignored. At the time I suspected that she was merely of insufficient intellectual development to grasp the nuances of human courtship, but now I’m wondering if she was just letting it roll down her back. Clearly a lesbipenguin. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/129 "2011-09-21T13:16:39Z")
I love penguins. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/130 "2011-09-21T13:30:05Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I love penguins. Sounds hot! Or cool. His place or yours? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/131 "2011-09-21T13:33:11Z")
Mine; his place is much too cold. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/132 "2011-09-21T17:55:49Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Clearly a lesbipenguin. > > -Joe Not a Penguian ? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/133 "2011-09-21T17:56:32Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Mine; his place is much too cold. There must be something in the lair that can help with that, Commissioner. Take what you need and charge it to the account of whoever you feel needs to be taken advantage of unfairly. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/134 "2011-09-21T20:17:19Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Clearly a lesbipenguin. > > -Joe You know, in hindsight that seems completely obvious. She _was_ wearing a tuxedo. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/135 "2011-09-21T23:19:33Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > I must admit that on one occasion I _did_ attempt to flirt with a penguin, only to be thoroughly ignored. At the time I suspected that she was merely of insufficient intellectual development to grasp the nuances of human courtship, but now I’m wondering if she was just letting it roll down her back. > [@Merijeek](#): > > Clearly a lesbipenguin. Or a nun. ---
**Author:** ![Mewl\_Dear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/136 "2011-09-22T00:49:31Z")
Guin seems cool to me The scorn for the girl is wrong Get over yourself ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/137 "2011-09-22T01:32:20Z")
Not bad, not bad. I’ve seen worse haikus than that. ---
**Author:** ![Mewl\_Dear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/138 "2011-09-22T02:19:30Z")
:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/139 "2011-09-22T02:27:55Z")
It is a haiku, whether intentional or not. 7 - 5 - 7. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654/140 "2011-09-22T19:46:53Z")
I used to think of her as **Diogenes** ’ flunkie, back when I thought **Diogenes** was a bully, but I view him differently now and no longer have such a strong association between them. The only time she really ever spoke up was to rail on someone else. Still not really worthy of that much hate though - a lot of posters are like that. But this thread makes me like **Guin** , and her pictures are cute. And learning someone is struggling with a chronic illness makes me more sympathetic, not less so. I wish she posted more about her life and less just to insult people. But as so many people feel this is an improvement, I suppose it just goes to show you can’t please everyone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-why-all-the-hate-on-guinastasia/596654.md?page=8)