# Okay, I admit it I miss... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249 "2010-03-29T20:45:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/41 "2010-04-04T12:03:28Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > You’re talking about _ **Argent Towers** _? Really? Yea, BION. Look at the Pit thread that was linked. He was repeatedly attacked and yet he kept his cool and repeatedly apologized and explained his thought processes. Where he felt he was right he defended himself. Where he re-thought his actions he apologized. Like I said, I’ve never agreed with him, ever And…I haven’t crossed paths with him very often. But in the few times I have, he has acted civilly and responsibly. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/42 "2010-04-04T12:38:46Z")
> [@raindog](#): > > I don’t remember reading **a single thing** hes ever posted That’s pretty much where I stand. ---
**Author:** ![arseNal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@arseNal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arseNal)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/43 "2010-04-05T00:42:01Z")
> [@raindog](#): > > Yea, BION. > > Look at the Pit thread that was linked. He was repeatedly attacked and yet he kept his cool and repeatedly apologized and explained his thought processes. Where he felt he was right he defended himself. Where he re-thought his actions he apologized. > > Like I said, I’ve never agreed with him, ever And…I haven’t crossed paths with him very often. But in the few times I have, he has acted civilly and responsibly. Well, there is the time he totally lost it when [another poster insulted his girlfriend.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=486176) ---
**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:** [April 5, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/44 "2010-04-05T01:47:31Z")
> [@arseNal](#): > > Well, there is the time he totally lost it when [another poster insulted his girlfriend.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=486176) To be fair, the guy did say: > [@](#): > > Argent Towers, I’m looking at you and your girlfriend who looks like a retarded Asian who was unfortunate enough to be beaten in the face with a barbed-wire baseball bat. That was pretty low. His response however was waaaaaay over the top, however. I think we can just say the guy was “interesting”, and leave it at that. ---
**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/45 "2010-04-05T02:17:50Z")
> [@arseNal](#): > > Well, there is the time he totally lost it when [another poster insulted his girlfriend.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=486176) Wow. I stand corrected. I new his username vaguely but we didn’t post in the same forums/threads so I knew little of him. When I did cross his path he said something _amazingly_ misguided (IMV) and pounced on him and found him to unrattled and rational. (to the extent wildly misguided posts can be considered “rational”) But clearly I was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/46 "2010-04-05T03:17:54Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > That was pretty low. His response however was waaaaaay over the top, however. I disagree. It was a _disgusting_ comment and even though **AT** ’s response broke Pit rules I completely understand his initial reaction. **AT** could be amazingly stubborn about things he was just wrong about, but there’s a lot of that on this board. He certainly wasn’t alone in that. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/47 "2010-04-05T04:06:45Z")
He gives them a hard time over their punctuation, and gets a racist slur directed at his girlfriend. His response was basically :‘If you were here in the real world, I’d beat you up for that racist, gutless, classless insult.’ The mods immediately called him on it. What should he have said, with the benefit of 2 years of hindsight? In that situation I doubt that most people would have been even that temperate. The guy has been here for ages, and has a ton of posts. If someone dug through all of my posts - a small number, by comparison - or even a prolific, well respected poster such as **Guinastasia** , - whom I respect very much - I suspect they’d find some bad calls. Anyway, the point is probably moot. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249/48 "2010-04-05T22:33:26Z")
> [@HazelNutCoffee](#): > > I disagree. It was a _disgusting_ comment and even though **AT** ’s response broke Pit rules I completely understand his initial reaction. > > **AT** could be amazingly stubborn about things he was just wrong about, but there’s a lot of that on this board. He certainly wasn’t alone in that. True, but mostly he didn’t seem to want to let it go. He reacted to the guy, okay. But then page after page of violent threads, and threats against the snackpit for some unknown reason, – just a wee bit of overkill. I didn’t say I hated the guy. Nor did I agree with what mshar or whatever his name was said. Just that sometimes **Argent** tended to be, a little, how do we say, “obsessive?” Most of the time, he was pretty cool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-it-i-miss/534249.md?page=2)