# Our little nest of vipers: Ramira. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 22, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231 "2018-01-22T18:51:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/21 "2018-01-22T21:45:24Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > So which one are you, Ken Read or Steve Podborski? He’s got to be a Sam. ---
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/22 "2018-01-22T21:47:13Z")
I’m Dave. No, not that Dave, the other Dave. (For those wondering if I finally lost it, [https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/crazy-canucks](https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/crazy-canucks) ) ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/23 "2018-01-22T21:49:47Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > He’s got to be a Sam. Can’t be. Only other Canadian names are Bob and Doug. Both hosers. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/24 "2018-01-22T21:52:05Z")
> [@Crazy\_Canuck](#): > > I’m Dave. No, not that Dave, the other Dave. > > (For those wondering if I finally lost it, [https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/crazy-canucks](https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/crazy-canucks) ) No fucking kidding, dude?!?!? You guys were my idols growing up! I raced some in college. Couldn’t touch any of you. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/25 "2018-01-22T23:01:24Z")
> [@Crazy\_Canuck](#): > > I’m Dave. No, not that Dave, the other Dave. > > (For those wondering if I finally lost it, [https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/crazy-canucks](https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/crazy-canucks) ) DAVE?! DAVE!? Dave’s not here. > [@QuickSilver](#): > > Can’t be. Only other Canadian names are Bob and Doug. Both hosers. Hey man, I’M A CANADIAN, man.😃 ( Well, Tommy Chong/BobBitchin’ is Canadian…I/me/SDMB member posting this is a loud American:dubious:) On topic, I say if ya wanna spread your attitude around you HAVE to learn to say “I’m sorry” when you were an ass and " I was wrong" when your mouth over runs yer brain. It happens to me in real-life all the time. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/26 "2018-01-22T23:47:19Z")
I like how the Ramira inserts the unnecessary definite articles in every sentence. I mean _the_ sentence. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/27 "2018-01-23T00:09:14Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …then you won’t have any trouble at all finding those “others” and sharing them here and (possibly) making your pit thread a little less lame. … just out of curiosity, do you start every post with an ellipsis? I am not going to go investigate, but it’s been very noticeable in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/28 "2018-01-23T00:10:45Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > No fucking kidding, dude?!?!? You guys were my idols growing up! So not Dave, or the other Dave?.. Colour me disappointed. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/29 "2018-01-23T00:30:03Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > … just out of curiosity, do you start every post with an ellipsis? > > I am not going to go investigate, but it’s been very noticeable in this thread. He does and it’s awful. Almost as bad as the guy who uses carats to indicate quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/30 "2018-01-23T00:36:08Z")
Yeah, the guy who is somehow being forced to read this thread and its links, post here and wants all that time back. Unfortunately, this is not a magic universe. Hermione Granger ain’t going to appear with a time-turner to settle this. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/31 "2018-01-23T00:42:43Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > He does and it’s awful. It makes every post of his look like he’s being a snide teenager. “… seriously?” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/32 "2018-01-23T00:44:53Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > … just out of curiosity, do you start every post with an ellipsis? > > I am not going to go investigate, but it’s been very noticeable in this thread. Because he’s another one of the boards’ idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/33 "2018-01-23T01:12:31Z")
BB is bound by the chivalric code to white knight for any female poster in distress. Ellipses are mostly because it isn’t easy to type wearing steel gauntlets. As for the Ramira, yeah she is acerbic and sometimes an arrogant asshole but a) she’s French (I think) and b) who cares? Sometimes it’s annoying and sometimes it’s warranted or at least understandable. It just depends on the thread. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/34 "2018-01-23T01:14:12Z")
Guys, he’s got a legitimate excuse. He’s been [doing it since 1997](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20717208). Do you have any idea what happens if you just quit cold turkey, after being an irritating twat for 21 years? I sure don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/35 "2018-01-23T01:22:11Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I like how the Ramira inserts the unnecessary definite articles in every sentence. I mean _the_ sentence. So you’re mocking someone for not being fully fluent in her third language? Just out of curiousity, how good are you when writing in your third language? ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/36 "2018-01-23T01:31:52Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > So not Dave, or the other Dave?.. > > Colour me disappointed. ☹ Damn. I have great memories of a trip we took to Whistler when I was a kid to watch those guys. There’s nothing like experiencing a World Cup downhill in person. /hijack ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/37 "2018-01-23T01:39:44Z")
This thread makes me think trump is building the wall on the wrong border. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/38 "2018-01-23T01:41:42Z")
Depends which way the exit doors lock. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/39 "2018-01-23T01:42:22Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Just out of **curiousity** , how good are you when writing in your third language? How good are you in your first? 😃 Ramira’s “the” thing is clearly at this point a deliberate affectation. Her English is good enough that the fifty thousand times it has been pointed out to her would have sunk in if she wanted it to. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231/40 "2018-01-23T02:02:15Z")
If only it were that easy with a foreign language. {sigh} [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-little-nest-of-vipers-ramira/807231.md?page=3)