# People who get all stuck up/condescending when somone asks an honest question. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 17, 2014, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474 "2014-12-17T06:02:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/21 "2014-12-17T19:02:52Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Man, good thing we have a safe haven here at the SDMB where nobody ever acts like an asshole in answering a question. What a stupid thing to say. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/22 "2014-12-17T19:09:01Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > What a stupid thing to say. Woosh? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/23 "2014-12-17T19:12:01Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Har-Har! Poor ignorant bastard thinks there’s an actual God! Got any proof? Hee-hee! Oblivious fool thinks I was serious… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/24 "2014-12-17T19:12:16Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Woosh? Third base! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/25 "2014-12-17T19:13:20Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Umm, you do know I was thus a newbie once, right? There is a certain amount of “garb snarking” often done behind someones back, _but since people don’t talk “Elizabethan/Jacobean” in the SCA_, it’s hard to imagine you’re correct. It’s like you saying SCAers snark on people for not wearing a historically accurate Civil War uniform. No, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that they spoke Elizabethean in the SCA. But they definitely snark about your name, if you don’t get it right, or the period, or your clothes, or really anything. I have also encountered incredibly nice people in the SCA. It certainly goes both ways! I think I said that in my very first post. It’s just that the SCA, by its nature, does attract an awful lot of pedants. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/26 "2014-12-17T19:21:16Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > No, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that they spoke Elizabethean in the SCA. But they definitely snark about your name, if you don’t get it right, or the period, or your clothes, or really anything. > > I have also encountered incredibly nice people in the SCA. It certainly goes both ways! I think I said that in my very first post. It’s just that the SCA, by its nature, does attract an awful lot of pedants. I agree there. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/27 "2014-12-17T19:28:58Z")
> [@gregorio](#): > > Woosh? [Take a guess.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17984735&postcount=7) ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/28 "2014-12-17T20:11:09Z")
I did. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/29 "2014-12-17T20:17:06Z")
> [@ArztWolf](#): > > I am involved in multiple dog forums, I volunteer at an animal shelter and I go to PetSmart a lot. > > I absolutly hate it when someone asks a simple question, like in this hypothetical exchange: > Someone is walking in a dog park/PetSmart/etc and they see a person with a “Small Brown Dog”, they ask the owner if the SBD is a “Insert Breed”. Owner responds, "Mr. Fluffykins is an “Different Breed” in the tone of someone being asked if the sky is green. I don’t know if this is the sort of thing you are talking about, but I am extremely tired of having my dogs misidentified as the mixed doodle dogs. So there may have been times when I’ve been less than polite in my response. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/30 "2014-12-17T20:22:27Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > I don’t know if this is the sort of thing you are talking about, but I am extremely tired of having my dogs misidentified as the mixed doodle dogs. So there may have been times when I’ve been less than polite in my response. Ah the Golden Rule: > [@](#): > > If someone has been an ass to you it makes it completely ok for you to be an ass to a different person. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/31 "2014-12-17T20:42:15Z")
Relevant xkcd: [xkcd: Ten Thousand](http://xkcd.com/1053/) ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/32 "2014-12-17T21:08:03Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > I don’t know if this is the sort of thing you are talking about, but I am extremely tired of having my dogs misidentified as the mixed doodle dogs. I’m willing to bet _they_ don’t give a fuck. Unless they’re intact males, I suppose, in which case they probably give everything a fuck. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/33 "2014-12-17T21:33:06Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Ah the Golden Rule: Hardly. > [@andros](#): > > I’m willing to bet _they_ don’t give a fuck. > > Unless they’re intact males, I suppose, in which case they probably give everything a fuck. Well, yeah, the dogs don’t care, but hearing it thousands of times it does start to grind on me! ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/34 "2014-12-17T22:12:36Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > There is an old Punch cartoon – 1800’s, I think – which shows a British fox hunt. The whole regalia, all the nobs in their coats, etc. And they’re all rolling around screaming in laughter, at the expense of one poor confused fellow… “The chap who referred to the hounds as ‘dogs.’” You may be remembering [H. M. Bateman’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._M._Bateman) “The Man Who…” series of cartoons, in which minor _faux pas_ are greeted with mass horrified astonishment: [The Cad Who Was Improperly Dressed At The Lido.](http://www.hmbateman.com/images/watermarked/8_the_cad_wm.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/35 "2014-12-17T22:13:33Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > There is a certain amount of “garb snarking” often done behind someones back I feel incredibly vindicated about having never attended an SCA event by learning that the phrase “garb snarking” exists. That’s, like, the dialectical equivalent of a “kick me” sign. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/36 "2014-12-17T22:14:29Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > As you talking about Renfair?😕 Cause I am never seen this in my forty years in the SCA. Actually few folks try to talk like that at all. We do pepper conversations with a lot of “My Lord” “My Lady” etc, yes. Alas, no, Calafia/Caid. Not always about speech: costume also comes in for the snarky kind of criticism too. But…I do hasten to say it isn’t ALWAYS the case. Just often enough to be noticeable and a tad irksome. In the main, SCA members and events are jolly fine fun, and most education is of the “constructive criticism” mode, not the snide kind. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/37 "2014-12-17T22:26:10Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > . . . but since people don’t talk “Elizabethan/Jacobean” in the SCA\* . . . Art mad, sirrah? Fuck yeah they do! (Obviously, not all the time, but definitely betimes.) ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/38 "2014-12-17T23:27:20Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Heh. No, SCA. Renfair people are super easy going and don’t care what you wear or how you talk or even if you try. SCA people go on and on and on because someone wore _nylon_ under their clothes at an event, for heaven’s sakes. Heh, my intended referred to the SCA as the “Society of Consenting Adults”; he said it was an excuse for geekly sorts to drinketh meade and getteth off with eayche othyr whilst in fancy dresse. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that; we are both geeky sorts.) ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/39 "2014-12-17T23:30:44Z")
Yup. If you can’t get laid in garb, you can’t get laid. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474/40 "2014-12-18T00:47:09Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Well, yeah, the dogs don’t care, but hearing it thousands of times it does start to grind on me! But the person who asks you the thousandth time is only asking the first time for them. They don’t know about the other 999 people who have asked you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-get-all-stuck-up-condescending-when-somone-asks-an-honest-question/707474.md?page=3)