# Peter Morris, What is your problem? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 31, 2008, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358 "2008-03-31T08:46:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/1 "2008-03-31T08:46:47Z")
Wow. You’ve really proven yourself to be quite the…well, I don’t want to use the language that comes to mind, in the [Fed Court: Mumia must have new penalty hearing..](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=461396) thread. I don’t recall ever having any interaction with you whatsoever before now. And given your posts in that thread, it’s a happy thing. In the linked thread, you made the completely asinine comment about a murdered police officer’s widow: {Post 32} > [@](#): > > She doesn’t want to get away from this. She has been chasing publicity for 27 years. I then made a comment about that: {Post 56} > [@](#): > > Are you serious? She’s been trying to protect her husband’s name and reputation from the attacks on same from his killer and the killer’s supporters. Your next stellar (yet still asinine) comment followed: {Post 57} > [@](#): > > Could you perhaps read the message I was responding to please. > > Someone claimed that she moved accross the country to get away from the constant Mumia barrage. > > To which my reply was that is the one creating a large percentage of the barrage. > > Do you doubt this? So, what part of **rocking chair** ’s post did I not read? Of course I doubt your asinine assertion. It has no basis in fact. The woman is not chasing publicity. It’s quite obvious that, had she her druthers, she’d rather have her husband alive. It’s also quite obvious that she doesn’t want her killer’s fan club to get away with tarnishing her departed husband’s reputation. I then made this comment in response to you: {Post 58} > [@](#): > > I cannot reply to you properly in this forum. And I’m not going to waste my time doing it in the other forum. Which you decided to respond to jerkishly: {Post 61} > [@](#): > > What, can’t bear to admit error? Well, here’s your chance, although I’m fairly certain it’s, as I said, it’s a waste of time to pit you. Enlighten us with how your comments about the widow aren’t cruel, aren’t just plain stupid, aren’t just the comments of a jerk. Explain to us what your problem is. From where I sit, the problem is you’re a jerk in that thread. And that’s even after the moderator told you to quit being a jerk (but not in so many words). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/2 "2008-03-31T12:29:54Z")
The little worm also jumped all over Argent’s misstatement to cover the fact that he had flat out called Faulkner a violent racist without a scrap of proof whatsoever. Then he claims to have let Argent: [QUOTE=Peter Morris] I offered you the chance to withdraw your statement with honour. [/QUOTE] But what did he actually ‘offer’? [QUOTE=Peter Morris] Perhaps you would care to admit your mistake, offer a **humble, groveling apology** , and withdraw your comment. [/QUOTE] So apparently ‘honor’ for Peter equals figuratively bending over and getting raped by him. And again, this outrage from Peter was just a farted smokescreen to cover up his bullshit racism accusation ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/3 "2008-03-31T12:53:51Z")
Peter is fine as long as he sticks to little GQ’ish logic puzzles and so on. Once he gets riled up over a GD’ish topic he just loses it and turns into this snarling, illogical, insulting, sneering jerk. He probably won’t come into the pit: he’s happy to sneer and intellectually insult in GD where he can walk a line just _this_ side of actionable, but he does not like to be somewhere that others can freely dish it out back. In short, he ain’t worth the electrons. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/4 "2008-03-31T14:16:19Z")
He’s also quite sensible when discussing James Randi. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/5 "2008-03-31T14:21:33Z")
[QUOTE=1920s Style “Death Ray”] He’s also quite sensible when discussing James Randi. [/QUOTE] ‘Sensible’ definition 4?: _capable of being perceived by the senses_. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/6 "2008-03-31T14:23:47Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] ‘Sensible’ definition 4?: _capable of being perceived by the senses_. [/QUOTE] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/7 "2008-03-31T15:00:30Z")
The playing innocent “is there a problem officer?” bullshit he pulled when he got called on it was what pissed me off the most. Nevermind, I take it back. Offering someone the choice to make the “honourable” decision to “make a humbling, groveling apology” was the worst. What the fuck? He smeared shit across half that thread, and then was “honestly confused” about why the mods told him to knock it off. Peter Morris was a complete asshole in that discussion, and his opinion about the issue was 100% wrong. The woman didn’t start an active anti Mumia campaign until she learned that there was a free Mumia movement, and that he was making graduation speeches and radio broadcasts and having streets named after him. He rotted in prison for over a decade before she started her movement. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/8 "2008-03-31T15:07:48Z")
Edit: By the way, the mistake Argent Towers made when quoting him was obvious to everyone EXCEPT our lead character here. He used a pronoun in the wrong place, and it was unclear of exactly who “him” referred to. I honestly interpreted the post in the same way that Argent Towers did, to mean “that doesn’t justify killing Mumia”, considering that the ENTIRETY OF YOUR POST was about your support for intervening to prevent his death sentence. Fucking grow up already. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/9 "2008-03-31T17:55:20Z")
I don’t even care about the debate over Mumia - I was just stunned by the nerve of that guy to say he was going to _report me to the moderators_ (what is this, fourth grade?) and for what? I’m not even sure for what? For “misrepresenting him?” That’s not something that you report people to moderators for. And then saying I should “grovel” before his great fountain of wisdom? I’m going to chalk this up to him being drunk or something while he was posting. Otherwise, I can’t see how anyone could be so pompous. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/10 "2008-03-31T18:29:04Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] I’m going to chalk this up to him being drunk or something while he was posting. Otherwise, I can’t see how anyone could be so pompous. [/QUOTE] No, he was jumping all over you to cover the fact that he had just called Faulkner, the victim in this case, a violent racist without a scrap of evidence. The more pompous and bombastic he was with you the less attention he hoped would be paid to the slimeball comments he made about Faulkner and his widow. He’d rather be seen as a complete and utter pompous jerk than admit he might have been the slightest bit wrong in any way. Personally, I think he’s holding back and truly wants to express his love for the cop-killer. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/11 "2008-04-01T14:31:12Z")
**Argent Towers** , yeah, you have nothing to apologize for. It was clear that your quasi-“quote” was not putting words in his mouth but was revealing the only possible argument he could have been making. In a manner brutally destructive to his case, such as it was. He was totally out of line. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/12 "2008-04-01T14:46:32Z")
Wow, and before this, I only knew **Peter Morris** as the guy with the bizarre hard-on for James Randi. It’s nice to know he isn’t a one-trick pony. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/13 "2008-04-01T23:20:27Z")
Sadly, **Peter Morris** isn’t the only WONJ in that thread. How many times does it take for it to sink into **gonzomax** ’s mind that he’s regurgitating untrue stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/14 "2008-04-01T23:37:36Z")
[QUOTE=Monty] How many times does it take for it to sink into **gonzomax** ’s mind that he’s regurgitating untrue stuff? [/QUOTE] **gonzomax** is an lucid, intelligent poster with impeccable grammar, immaculate spelling, and a host of well-thought out ideas. He is an invaluable asset to this board and his posts can be used as cites. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/15 "2008-04-01T23:42:44Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Ashtar] **gonzomax** is an lucid, intelligent poster with impeccable grammar, immaculate spelling, and a host of well-thought out ideas. He is an invaluable asset to this board and his posts can be used as cites. [/QUOTE] There’s a website on which I’ve found the opinion that he isn’t so you’re wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/16 "2008-04-02T03:36:02Z")
Got to love an apologist for a cop killer. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/17 "2008-04-02T04:09:36Z")
Yeah. I don’t know which character trait is worse: his being an apologist for a cold-blooded killer or his being a jerk of a liar. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2008, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/18 "2008-04-02T05:04:00Z")
[QUOTE=Monty] How many times does it take for it to sink into **gonzomax** ’s mind that he’s regurgitating untrue stuff? [/QUOTE] _The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind,_ _The answer is blowing in the wind…_ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/19 "2008-04-02T11:56:18Z")
Great. Now the thread is locked because Peter can’t stop personalizing his attacks. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358/20 "2008-04-02T12:01:00Z")
Yes, he used to shut down Randi threads in a similar way. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-morris-what-is-your-problem/443358.md?page=2)