Read it again. Opal was the first one to be a bitch. She was the one who crapped all over somebody for giving her the information that she asked for.
Opal STARTED the shit, and no, she didn’t have a good reason.
This comparison only works if Buckeye is conceivably as offensive a name as Wounded Bleeding Baby Pie. As has been mentioned multiple times, Buckeye is a nut and a tree, the state tree of Ohio. It may have been named via a resemblance to a deer’s eye, but there’s no reason to be horrified at such a naming convention, not all deer have their eyes plucked out and eaten by hunters. It’s perfectly possible to see a deer’s eye and compare it to a nut while they (the deer) frolic about in the wilderness.
Indeed, there is more to it, a noticeable pattern of OpalCat requesting help/advice from this community, then complaining constantly about the help/advice she’s given, without being appropriately thankful of the time and thought people put into helping her.
I’ve barely ever noticed Opal before. I don’t read a lot of MPSIMS prattle. I opened the thread in question because it was a recipe thread. Her behavior there was jarringly inappropriate and rude. This pitting has nothing to with any past history on my part. It has to do with being irritated at the double whammy of ignorance and rudeness. The stupidity of thinking that a buckeye is literally a “dead deer’s eye” is pitworthy all by itself.
First: “buckeye” is NOTHING like wounded bleeding baby. The buckeye state, the buckeyes - what kind of mind automatically dismisses the common usage and thinks actual animal eyes?
Second:Anyone else would have said “thank you”.
Third - nope - don’t have a third and don’t need to follow someone’s rule.
As others have mentioned there are a lot of things known by names that someone or the other may find distasteful for their personal reasons.
If I asked for a dark cookie with vanilla cream, someone may suggest “oreo” without knowing that my uncle was considered an oreo by some in my family and it’s never discussed. For me to lecture that person on why I don’t use the term is just rude since the person was trying to help me find a cookie.
Fuck
Agreed. To be honest, I hadn’t noticed this issue the way others have in the past, not having much to do with Opal, but ‘past issues’ is brought up as if people are using this particular Pitting to pile on to her with unrelated crap. What it looks like is that this is the latest in a pattern of observable behavior in which Opal is consistently unappreciative of folks trying to help her. That the help isn’t always what she’s looking for doesn’t really make a difference, as folks aren’t mind readers and they are genuinely trying to be helpful.
What makes it worse in this case is that she got what she wanted, but instead of acknowledging the help she chose to snark on the name. Even with “Sweet-Old-Granny” in the overly exaggerated example, I’d’ve been inclined to think, “Well tough luck gramma, that’s what folks call it. I gave you the recipe, didn’t I?”
People are trying to point that out, too. There’s already, what, four or five other threads cited where the conversation goes like:
Opal: I need this thing.
Doper: How about this? Or this?
Opal: head spins around
Other Doper: How about this?
Opal: spits pea soup
etc.
This thread just got a Special Pittable Mention as the downright weirdest reaction to solicited advice ever, by a poster who has a history of weird reactions to solicited advice.
I searched ‘peanut butter balls+graham crackers+icing sugar’ and was provided links to several recipes for, but not labelled, ‘Buckeyes’ on the first page. There are also many recipe sites online which let you plug in known ingredients and the food type, e.g., dessert.
Yes, more (defined) is usually better where net searches are concerned, but a fellow doper has shown me sometimes less is more.
This pair of topics reminds me of how political factions tend to be at each other’s throats regardless of how many significant issues there are to be at each other’s throats about. If there’s not a war, there’s a cultural decline, and if not that then there’s a company firing some workers, and if not that then people are burning flags, and if not that then there’s one mostly dead person in a hospital who requires congressional intervention.
I just don’t get it. Several here seem to have known that Opal tends to react unfavorably to advice, and yet they go into the topic anyway and subsequently flip out and go into angry rant mode when she does - and judging from the immediate exaggerated vitriol of the responses, that seems to have been according to plan. What is the point? What do you get out of doing this? Is public anger a form of entertainment that I don’t appreciate? The OP questions her mental stability and compares her to Hitler for not being thoughtful in response to a recipe? I don’t think she’s the one suffering from chemical imbalances.
Not that I’m one to beat a dead horse, but, one more time.
The header of this message board is: “Fighting ignorance since 1973”, or some such hog wash.
Opal lives in the Buckeye State aka Ohio, yet she clearly doesn’t understand that the term does not refer to a Buck’s Eye. [Does she also Go Off wrt the state’s nickname? really??]
Opal then defends herself by saying, “…I’m a vegetarian girl from Arizona and calling them “buckeyes” grosses me out. (Not for sports reasons, but from dead-animal-body-part reasons).”
HUH? What “dead body parts”?? Even if the buckeye nut came to its name due to its appearance being like a male deer’s eye, where does the “dead” come from?
Do vegetarians see all animals as dead, or what? Whatever. It’s ignorance.
I’ll stop ranting now.
The problem with that is that “buckeye” is nowhere near “wounded bleeding baby pie”, for fuck’s sake. IT’S A TREE NUT.
Uh-huh. Except for that being not at all like what really happened. Try:
Sweet-Old-Southern-Granny: I need a recipe for those little beans with the black spots on them
HelpfulAnswerMan: You’re living in the South- they’re called “Black-eyed Peas.” Here’s a recipe.
Sweet-Old-Southern-Granny: My word, I’m not from the South. The South sucks. Your traditions are not my traditions. I’m leaving as soon as I can. Plus I’m vegetarian. And I’ll never call them that. Why should I? Why should I call a tasty legume by the name of a dismembered slave’s optical organ?
Everyone: Are you fucking nuts, Granny?
Quoted for truth.
This.
I’ll happily engage Opal in chit-chat but I won’t bother answering questions or trying to help.
So…
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: No, I’m a fourth level freemason from Paris, France where no one would ever think about abusing children (not for sport, but for making a mess reasons). I will never use your recipe for cobbler. Plus I’m from Paris, France.
SnarkMan: mmmmmmkay, well aren’t you special.
Everyone should stop picking on semiprecioushydratedsilicafelixdomesticus
It appeared as if it was as offensive to Opal.
Sometimes a word doesn’t work like its supposed to. If you are ever on the South side of St. Louis MO. walk into any corner tavern. Walk up to the biggest guy in the place and tell him he looks like a Hoosier. Then duck and run or at least pick up your teeth off the floor. He’s not upset because you thought he was from Indiana. He’s upset because around there, a Hoosier is the lowest form of white trash.
Taking this thread on its own, Opal was just plain offended by a word that she didn’t at all associate with yummy food
Then this makes the pitting justifiable. Apparently the thread that caused this pitting is the last straw. Everybody here is looking at the camel’s back while I’ve been looking at the straw. Consider my ignorance fought.
Wow! You grew up in Michigan, too? 
This picture plays on that exact fear. It’s a famous photoshop fake - link is to the Snopes site - but it really, really squigs me out.
If you are sensitive to such images, you probably don’t want to look. 
- Cannot
- Resist
- Hi, Jack
Mine is with a certain sharply-defined pattern of light and dark shoved together, though holes and bristles can trigger it sometimes. I’d always assumed it was a symptom of my mental illness, so it’s really interesting to find it popping up here. Somebody should start a thread on this. I would, but I never hang out in IMHO so I feel like a tool going there just to start one.
ALSO, DO NOT LOOK AT MALTHUS’ LINK IF YOU HAVE THIS PROBLEM. REALLY DO NOT. I peeked because I thought it might make for a good example, but it’s all too perfect of one, a nightmare quintessence of the pattern. Malthus, you say it squicks you too, so you must be one stone cold bastard.
Agreed. “Ooooh aren’t you special?” started it.
-FrL-