# Opal, what the fuck is your problem? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 16, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368 "2008-12-16T06:10:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Unsquare\_Dance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b3f665/32.png) [@Unsquare\_Dance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unsquare_Dance)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/301 "2008-12-17T00:51:11Z")
I always thought they were called buckeyes because bucks are bad ass and they will stare into your soul and make your soul explode. _rubs lucky buckeye_ Oh hells yeah! ---
**Author:** ![timbicile59](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@timbicile59](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timbicile59)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/302 "2008-12-17T00:51:13Z")
My first pit post and i forgot to say fit shuck. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Priori\_Tea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@A\_Priori\_Tea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Priori_Tea)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/303 "2008-12-17T00:51:14Z")
I got a new book today, as an early Christmas present. I kept having to re-read paragraphs, because that goddamned picture would pop into my head and I’d forget the last thing I’d just read and lose my whole train of enjoyment. I think, after mulling it over in detail and imagining all the things that squick me out the most about it, in detail, that I am finally developing an immunity. No doubt I will shortly be proven wrong when I try to sleep. Damn you. Damn you all. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/304 "2008-12-17T00:54:16Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > This thread has been pure- d- comedy. But this post here shall NOT be lost in the shuffle. Oh no…because Lick my hairy nutsack you crazy ass bitch MUST be the new number three on all lists on the SDMB, for my laughing pleasure. Please. I hardly ever ask you folks for _anything!_ I’ll vote for it. Rolls right off the tongue. Oh wait. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/305 "2008-12-17T00:57:01Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Sold! Except I don’t see any reason for the pasta. Perhaps some Jello instead. Don’t forget to use _unsweetened_ pineapple juice with your cup of sugar! ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/306 "2008-12-17T00:58:52Z")
[QUOTE=Nzinga, Seated] This thread has been pure- d- comedy. But this post here shall NOT be lost in the shuffle. Oh no…because Lick my hairy nutsack you crazy ass bitch MUST be the new number three on all lists on the SDMB, for my laughing pleasure. Please. I hardly ever ask you folks for _anything!_ [/QUOTE] And it’s almost Christmas! C’mon, people. I was leaning toward, “3. Buckeyes!” myself but our distinguished seated colleague convinced me. She’s right, so right. This updates a horridly stale chestnut (note vegan-friendly nut reference) that has plagued the board for too long as it is. Do it for Nzinga. Do it because you know it’s _right_. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/307 "2008-12-17T00:59:20Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > I remembered what else I wanted to say - any other poster would have gotten their asses handed to them a long time ago acting like **Opal** has been acting when she asks for advice. It is her repuation/status/whatever you want to call it here that let her get away with it with relative impunity for so long. I recall a thread about 6-8 months ago in Cafe where she asked something and I posted something that was just a bit “similar but not OP”. Opal threw a hissy fit about how I was not on topic (like a lot of other people) and if we didn’t stop doing it (on Page 3 of the thread), she’d have the whole thing shut down. :rolleyes: Made me wonder if she was such a control freak about conversations in her real life. _No! I said we’re talking about beaches in Florida! Not other things in Florida, not beaches in other places. If you don’t stop talking about other things, I’m stopping this entire conversation and going home! Nyah!"_ ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/308 "2008-12-17T00:59:32Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > There’s a taco stand in town that serves eyeball (ojos) tacos. I’ve been trying to psyche up to eat one. I’m a little afraid of mad cow disease, but I think I’ll man up just for the purposes of this thread. That one way down on lower Chapala? I always wondered if the tacos de ojo are real or maybe there is a different meaning we don’t know about. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/309 "2008-12-17T01:10:05Z")
Am I the only one who’s still debating whether to dig back through the thread to find the link to the picture that’s sent everyone over the edge? ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/310 "2008-12-17T01:10:14Z")
The SDMB has been a place of education for me for almost ten years now. Granted, the forms that education has taken has varied wildly, but suffice it to say that most of them have been covered in this thread. Also, I don’t have a problem with clustered holes, nor much of one with rashes, but combine the two and put in on a breast… that I have a problem with. :shudder: ---
**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/311 "2008-12-17T01:10:18Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Try imagining that Opal hadn’t been the one responding. > > **Sweet-Old-Granny:** I need a recipe for Cherry cobbler > > **SnarkMan:** Oh you mean “Wounded Bleeding Baby” pie - here’s a recipe > > **Sweet-Old-Granny:** My word, how terrible of a name. I don’t even like to think of that! > > **Everyone:** Fuck you Granny! I’d go with **Crazy Person:** I’d like to rent _Pie From That Country Arizona Is In_, but I can’t find it on Netflix. **Non-Crazy Person:** I think you’re looking for [_American Pie_](http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163651/&ei=sFBISaGDBaiaee_EpJAB&usg=AFQjCNGs6Xh-hpKLskVwQ5FRNPAF-laLow). **Crazy Person:** Oh. Em. Gee. I don’t call it that because pubic hair is disgusting, and fake pubic hair is even worse. Also, I’m a feminist, and [merkins](http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/743/what-is-a-merkin&ei=YFFISZvOKI_ftgetzvyYDg&usg=AFQjCNE8umt9_LIhV4LxnXEJpEvVwQmQXg) are the tools of the oppressor! **Everyone Else:** Fucko off. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/312 "2008-12-17T01:13:10Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Ha. Ha. > > Duly noted–an apology from you is meaningless and facile. Yes. That is what I said. > [@](#): > > (and I don’t believe you’ve never asked anyone in your life, EVER, for an apology. Seriously–that is something.) I don’t know what to say. I don’t ask for apologies. If you did something bad to me, that is in the past. I don’t care what you say about how you feel about it now. Rather, I care what happens in the future. If you did something really bad, and feel serious remorse and guilt, then I can commisserate with you in your sorrow. I won’t be an ass if you say you’re sorry. But I wouldn’t ask for an apology. I don’t really care what words you say about what happened. > [@](#): > > I didn’t say you asked for an apology or offered one (except for your “joke”). By putting “joke” in quotes do you mean to imply I’m being insincere when I say it was a joke? The previous post about apologies was the _reason_ I put in the line about an apology being in order in the latter post. That’s the only reason the notion of “apology” occured to me. I thought it was a lame joke because out of context, the line “Maybe apologies are in order?” doesn’t really make sense in the post. It’s not something one would naturally have said in that situation. But I decided to leave it in because I did want to communicate some levity somehow in that post. > [@](#): > > IMO you were fairly forceful in your own opinion re the uselessness of apologies. I may have failed in my intention then. For my intention was to write a small confessional interlude, confessing my own imperfection by giving expression to the imperfect way in which I think. There are plenty of pointers to this in the post. The starkest example is the spot where I say “I know [this] is not the right way to think…” > [@](#): > > Kudos to you for being honest. But with that is the issue that your apologies will now be seen as false. By two groups of people. One: Some people on a message board. Two: Those IRL who are close enough to me to understand that I don’t show remorse by uttering magic words but rather by trying to do something to make the situation better. (Similarly, if it’s a situation where I’m supposed to be apologized to for some reason, they know I don’t put truck in magic words but I _do_ understand their remorse and am sympathetic and will work with them sincerely to find ways to make the situation better.) > [@](#): > > This is why we say please and thank you and I’m sorry to other people. Sure, there’s a chance the speaker doesn’t really mean it, but there’s a chance s/he does. There is such a thing as being too forthright in conversation and social interactions. You end up offending people for no good reason. Just sayin’. I know, that’s why, as I’ve said, I’ll play the game to the best of my ability, even though I don’t believe in it as anything more than a game. Because I genuinely don’t want people’s feelings to be hurt for no important reason–and my own personal hangups are not an important reason. -FrL- ---
**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:** [December 17, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/313 "2008-12-17T01:15:40Z")
What about [Cat’s Eye](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymophane#Cymophane)? Or [Tiger’s Eye](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_eye)? Let’s hope no one buys her a piece of jewelry set with either! And dammit, **Aesiron** , I take PRIDE in being one of the punching bags of the SDMB, mmkay? (Fortunately, I’ve seen the “lotus boob” photo so many times, it doesn’t phase me anymore. I’ll even admit it’s a fairly skillful photoshop job) ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/314 "2008-12-17T01:19:40Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > What about [Cat’s Eye](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymophane#Cymophane)? Or [Tiger’s Eye](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_eye)? I might check out a tiger, but I’ll be damned if I eat cat back strap. Great dane or pit bull? I’d give it a try. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/315 "2008-12-17T01:24:11Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > There’s a taco stand in town That’s a euphemism for “whorehouse,” isn’t it? Damn you and your references to the female sex parts! The last thing I want to think about when I’m on the Internet is a soft, pink, glistening, slightly fuzzy… Wait a second, I **like** coochie. Carry on, sir. Taco taco taco. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/316 "2008-12-17T01:26:14Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > That’s a euphemism for “whorehouse,” isn’t it? Damn you and your references to the female sex parts! The last thing I want to think about when I’m on the Internet is a soft, pink, glistening, slightly fuzzy… > > Wait a second, I **like** coochie. > > Carry on, sir. Taco taco taco. A friend of mine told me you can actually find pictures of soft, pink, glistening, slightly fuzzy . . . . coochies on the internet. Is this possibly true? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/317 "2008-12-17T01:27:40Z")
> [@Omega\_Glory](#): > > Am I the only one who’s still debating whether to dig back through the thread to find the link to the picture that’s sent everyone over the edge? Please do. People should really quote the link if they’re going to exclaim: “ew gross!” ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/318 "2008-12-17T01:31:16Z")
This thread has everything! ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/319 "2008-12-17T01:33:43Z")
> [@Omega\_Glory](#): > > Am I the only one who’s still debating whether to dig back through the thread to find the link to the picture that’s sent everyone over the edge? I did. And then I accidentally opened it two more times while closing some tabs. That picture has become a movie in my head. The little buggers have made it all the way to her navel, and now I’m remembering a scene from _Smilla’s Sense of Snow_. ETA: [Knock yourself out!](http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/breastrash.asp) ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368/320 "2008-12-17T01:37:08Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Please do. People should really quote the link if they’re going to exclaim: “ew gross!” No, it should take effort to conjure demons. Oh yeeessssssssss findssss the picturessssssss, it’sss what it wantsessssss. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opal-what-the-fuck-is-your-problem/477368.md?page=17)