# Operation Ripper please stop thread shitting and being a general snot. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 30, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-ripper-please-stop-thread-shitting-and-being-a-general-snot/374710 "2006-09-30T05:34:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**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 30, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-ripper-please-stop-thread-shitting-and-being-a-general-snot/374710/21 "2006-09-30T23:10:55Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] A new gem from **OpRip** , [So, King Arthur is a real person?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7826255#post7826255) all he provides as his Op is [Link.](http://www.newsdaily.com/TopNews/UPI-1-20060930-11214600-bc-us-goodrich-obit.xml) I did not realize how bad of a poster he is. Another good example. Thanks for the prior pitting, I see he is not just going for a flame out. Jim [/QUOTE] Someone should post in that thread telling him, “Can’t you just google it?” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-ripper-please-stop-thread-shitting-and-being-a-general-snot/374710/22 "2006-09-30T23:13:59Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Someone should post in that thread telling him, “Can’t you just google it?” [/QUOTE] Very good idea and [actually \*\*Colibri \*\* is one step ahead of us.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7826373#post7826373)😉 Nicely done by the way **Colibri**. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Hogwash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-ripper-please-stop-thread-shitting-and-being-a-general-snot/374710/23 "2006-09-30T23:19:27Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Someone should post in that thread telling him, “Can’t you just google it?” [/QUOTE] Or, better yet, we should build a time machine so that someone can go back and post ‘Yep.’ as the first reply. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-ripper-please-stop-thread-shitting-and-being-a-general-snot/374710/24 "2006-09-30T23:20:41Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Very good idea and [actually \*\*Colibri \*\* is one step ahead of us.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7826373#post7826373)😉 Nicely done by the way **Colibri**. Jim [/QUOTE] But of course. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-ripper-please-stop-thread-shitting-and-being-a-general-snot/374710/25 "2006-09-30T23:59:03Z")
Based on another thread he started and the replies in the one mentioned in the OP, I figured it was someone just throwing out meaningless posts to increase there total number of posts. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-ripper-please-stop-thread-shitting-and-being-a-general-snot/374710/26 "2006-10-01T00:02:34Z")
A relatively good Wikipedia account of [Riothamus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riothamus) as more-or-less-historical figure, with brief discussion of him as possible historical analog to Arthur. The Arthur-as-Scot meme, by the way, finds **very** little support except, as one might expect, among those romantic at heart in the Lowlands and Southern Uplands. There is minimal evidence for an Arthurian presence in Cumbria, as there is in much of western Britain. But other areas, notably Somerset, have a much stronger claim – insofar as anybody has a claim at all. (Like Atlantis, anything historical that might underlie the myth and legend is very elusive.) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-ripper-please-stop-thread-shitting-and-being-a-general-snot/374710/27 "2006-10-01T00:08:36Z")
The pervious post was, of course, supposed to go in the Arthur thread, not here. **Operation Ripper** seems to be part and parcel of a general decline in civility on the Dope lately. Thanks to **What Exit** and **Colibri** for addressing this concern. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-ripper-please-stop-thread-shitting-and-being-a-general-snot/374710/28 "2006-10-01T00:25:26Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] **Operation Ripper** seems to be part and parcel of a general decline in civility on the Dope lately. [/QUOTE] And that’ll continue, as long as people keep up with their “pervious” posts. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-ripper-please-stop-thread-shitting-and-being-a-general-snot/374710/29 "2006-10-01T00:59:20Z")
[QUOTE=HeyHomie] I find this whole “you can look that up on google in .04 seconds” business to be rather tiresome, not to mention IMO it defeats the purpose of General Questions. [/QUOTE] I agree with this and in particular find the phrase “Google is your friend” obnoxious. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-ripper-please-stop-thread-shitting-and-being-a-general-snot/374710/30 "2006-10-02T12:49:06Z")
Well, he hasn’t shown up here at his pitting and he has not posted for a day. Maybe that was his way of taking our advice? Jim ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-ripper-please-stop-thread-shitting-and-being-a-general-snot/374710/31 "2006-10-02T13:29:32Z")
Upon reading most of the threads, I find the Columbus thread really annoys me. Going around claiming only he knows what a whole culture thought or felt a 100 years ago and demanding everyone else to provide cites that they didn’t think his way. The sheer arrogance…it makes one grr. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-ripper-please-stop-thread-shitting-and-being-a-general-snot/374710.md?page=1)