# Overreaction in banning this guy? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 9, 2001, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805 "2001-07-09T10:31:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/121 "2001-07-10T15:08:45Z")
At the risk of another hijack. . . Hiya Twisty! Feeling better? ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2001, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/122 "2001-07-10T15:29:46Z")
Feeling great Diane!! 2 weeks in the Sun did wonders!! So, how do you think I’d look with a goatee? I’ve been growing it for the last 2 weeks. Its not quite strokable yet… but soon… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2001, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/123 "2001-07-10T15:54:45Z")
Ahhh yesssss. . . You would look very distinguished with a goatee (and very handsome as well). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/124 "2001-07-10T16:32:46Z")
I disagree. To use the words “goatee” and “distinguished” in the same sentence without the word “not” is logically impossible. pan ---
**Author:** ![FortMarcy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9de053/32.png) [@FortMarcy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FortMarcy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/125 "2001-07-11T06:43:25Z")
Thanks **Alphagene** and **wring** for clearing that up. Why did the hijackers take a powder? ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/126 "2001-07-11T09:45:43Z")
Oh **Fenris** mate! How can someone so right be so wrong? Turkish delight is a cube of gently-set pink jelly, with a slight crust, coated in powdered sugar. It’s presented on a silver tray, at the end of a meal, or at funerals. As you bite into it, there is first a sweet dusty feeling on your lips, then a crunch as the crust gives way, followed by the lascivious descent of your teeth into a gelatinous, welcoming-yet-resistant, mass of intense sweetness. The memory of a rose garden comes to you, the satisfying demolition of a dappled green pistachio nut satisfies you, the shrill sweetness of the gel makes you long for strong coffee. That’s enough, you think, then you see that there’s the other half of the cube left, and lust overtakes good sense. The second bite lacks the crunch of the first. The swooning richness of the roses overwhelms a satiated palate, and the remaining piece of nut catches in the previously-forgotten hole in your tooth. A tooth that is now on edge with a hectic sweetness. You are desperate for black bitter coffee. There is none. Thus, a simple confection is a metaphor for the vanity of all earthly pleasures. Thank you. Redboss ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/127 "2001-07-11T09:47:10Z")
That was my best post ever. I may retire. I bet nobody ever gets to read it, either. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/128 "2001-07-11T09:56:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Redboss \* > **I bet nobody ever gets to read it, either.** It was very impressive … but … … turkish delight still tastes like freeze-dried lard that’s been left in a Body Shop store for too long. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/129 "2001-07-11T09:57:35Z")
Thanks a lot **Redboss** , now I’m hungry. Git. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/130 "2001-07-11T10:14:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Redboss \* > \*\*Turkish delight is a cube of gently-set pink jelly, with a slight crust, coated in powdered sugar. It’s presented on a silver tray, at the end of a meal, or at funerals. > > As you bite into it, there is first a sweet dusty feeling on your lips, then a crunch as the crust gives way, followed by the lascivious descent of your teeth into a gelatinous, welcoming-yet-resistant, mass of intense sweetness. The memory of a rose garden comes to you, the satisfying demolition of a dappled green pistachio nut satisfies you, the shrill sweetness of the gel makes you long for strong coffee. > > That’s enough, you think, then you see that there’s the other half of the cube left, and lust overtakes good sense. > > The second bite lacks the crunch of the first. The swooning richness of the roses overwhelms a satiated palate, and the remaining piece of nut catches in the previously-forgotten hole in your tooth. A tooth that is now on edge with a hectic sweetness. You are desperate for black bitter coffee. There is none. > > Thus, a simple confection is a metaphor for the vanity of all earthly pleasures. > > \*\* Man, I have _got_ to get me one of those. **Redboss** , have you considered a career in advertising? ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/131 "2001-07-11T10:40:54Z")
I prefer Cypriot delights. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/132 "2001-07-11T10:49:10Z")
THen again, I dont like Swedes (the veg, not the people. I mean, how could you not like the Swedish? Abba! Volvo! Soda! Anniz! hooray for sweden!!) This post brought to you by Caffiene. mmm-mm, Caffiene. ---
**Author:** ![mske](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@mske](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mske)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/133 "2001-07-11T11:27:28Z")
Seeing as how the discussion currently going on here has absolutely **nothing** to do with the OP, and is unlikely to get back to it either, I am wondering why this thread isn’t being closed? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/134 "2001-07-11T11:35:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Redboss \* > \*\*A tooth that is now on edge with a hectic sweetness. You are desperate for black bitter coffee. There is none. > > Thus, a simple confection is a metaphor for the vanity of all earthly pleasures\*\* **Redboss** , compadre: you are my brother Doper and I admire the hell out of you, but while your words were beautiful, it’s clear that you are advertising the devil’s own jellied confection. While your words were a masterpiece of adjectives and nouns, a wonderful evening gown of literary brilliance, the evening gown was used to cover the pig of turkish delight. And a pig in an evening gown is still a pig. (Metaphor Torture courtesy of FenCo[sup]tm[/sup]) And black bitter coffee? Can we return to the subject at hand? Edmund, a 9 year old boy was _not_ given black bitter coffee by the White Witch, he was given a frothy heated chocolate drink which satisfied him completely (sugar on top of sugar. Perhaps he’s got a sugar deficiency?). No responsible adult would suggest that a child be given demitasse cups of black bitter coffee any more than one would suggest that short hairy men in pink tutus who preach on streetcorners about alien orbital mind control lasers are the best source of sound medical advice. Or, perhaps are your taste buds so shocked into insensibility by the 50 POUNDS of sugar used in each half-inch x one inch rectangle of Turkish Delight that they can no longer distinguish between black bitter coffee and frothy heated chocolate drinks? Can we at least agree that the Turkish Delight covered with chocolate is evil, regardless of the vast moral gulfs that seperate us on the powdered sugar covered variety? Fenris, shaking his head sadly at the thought of another soul lost to Turkish Delight. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/135 "2001-07-11T13:05:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Thanks a lot Redboss, now I’m hungry. Hungry? Hell, it made me horny. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/136 "2001-07-11T13:27:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mske \* > \*\*Seeing as how the discussion currently going on here has absolutely **nothing** to do with the OP, and is unlikely to get back to it either, I am wondering why this thread isn’t being closed? \*\* Er… because people are having fun? And no blood is being spilled? Seems good enough to me. And **Diane** … > [@](#): > > Hungry? Hell, it made me horny. I _was_ going to ask you what didn’t… but then I remembered that you’re a grandmother. Snicker. pan ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/137 "2001-07-11T14:14:07Z")
WHAP! WHAP! WHAP! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/138 "2001-07-11T14:46:08Z")
Hey Kabbes, If you think that Diane being a granny is funny, just remember that she’d recommend me to her Daughter 😉 Ha!! ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/139 "2001-07-11T15:19:41Z")
I opened this thread when it first began but haven’t again until now assuming, incorrectly, the direction it would likely take. Wrong again ! Love-fifteen. I assumed people understood the rationale behind the Silo tennis hijack as many later posted echoing my unspoken sentiment. It just struck me that everything that could possibly have been said had been and everyone was talking at, or past, each other to increasingly less effect but …heck, here’s what **Jester** wrote - there are many other posts in that Silo thread reflecting the same sentiment. It, and they, reflect my POV: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jester \* > Same situation. Bunch of people sitting around at dinner, having a conversation. A topic comes up that a large number of people at the table disagree on. Debate ensues. > Gradually, the debate turns into a grudge match. People are screaming, yelling, bringing up past incidents and whatnot, and it’s just getting all around out of control. They’re all talking past each other, saying the same arguments over and over again. Nothing’s sinking in, and they just keep getting angrier and angrier. One person at the table, we’ll call him Johnny, finally realizes that nobody’s going to get anything solved by all of this. Figuring that a change of topic would be preferable to someone getting a fork in his eye, Johnny chimes in with a Non Sequitor. For a second, the people arguing just stop and stare. Then, they come to the realization that nobody was getting anywhere with all that arguing anyway, and laugh. Conversation changes over to the humorous topic brought up by Johnny, and everybody’s friends again. Situation has been officially resolved. > > Sometimes it’s better just to resolve a fight, especially if nobody’s going to win it anyway. So I’m sorry if **CNoteChris** and others are disappointed with what happened but sometimes Pit Threads do drone on endlessly. I can understand\* if\* the Mods feel a little circumspect about closing them sometimes for fear of accusations of immoderate behaviour but, really, they do become terribly repetitious to the point that they gain 6 or 7 pages with nothing of apparent merit added after page 2, IMHO. Of course, if someone still feels something needs to be added, they post. That was the case in the Silo thread and the two subjects became increasingly entwined - and, I’d contend, without some of the previous vitriol. Sorry if you disagree with me but rather like Goran, I tend to think God is on my side and neither one of _us_ is crazy… ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805/140 "2001-07-11T17:37:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vanilla \* > \*\*So…when are Cnote and Gary getting married? > And whatever happened to the splinter in that persons finger??? \*\* Apparently, **Scylla** was able to remove his splinter, though I don’t remember exactly how. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overreaction-in-banning-this-guy/71805.md?page=8)