# Piss off Arnold
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [February 11, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626 "2010-02-11T23:55:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/41 "2010-02-12T19:00:25Z")
> [@Broomstick](#):
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> He’s not carrying the torch - he’s trying to escape California’s annual wildfire season.
Any chance he won’t come back?
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### Author:  [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/42 "2010-02-12T19:09:49Z")
You’re upset that Arney the S is carrying the torch for a bit?! Really? Carrying the torch is pagentry not compitition, sheesh…
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/43 "2010-02-12T19:13:43Z")
“only Canada would celebrate an achievement that wasn’t even achieved.”
And only an amerikan could make such a crass remark about someone who accomplished something really remarkable in his short lifetime.
Canadian’s are largely regarded as easy going and polite, but you would be well advised to demonstrate a little respect for someone that they regard very highly.
Not for sinking baskets, porking starlets, being a wealthy attention whore or being Mr ‘Fucking Steroids’ Universe either!
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/44 "2010-02-12T19:15:52Z")
Then let him participate in the ‘pageantry’ when America hosts the games.
I stand by, “PISS OFF!”
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### Author:  [@Alan\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Bird)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/45 "2010-02-12T19:16:21Z")
> [@stpauler](#):
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> I remember vacationing on Minnesota’s north shore and my SO and I decided to drive up to Thunder Bay, ON for the day. We asked around about what we should see in their fine town and was directed to a statue of Terry Fox. (Which, incidentally, has a beautiful view of Lake Superior). The person told us the story about how this man planned to run from one side of Canada all the way to the other side, but stopped midway in Thunder Bay.
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> We thanked the man for that and got in the car and laughed that only Canada would celebrate an achievement that wasn’t even achieved.
This is probably the most ignorant post I’ve ever read here. “He stopped midway”? He wasn’t physically able to go any further.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/46 "2010-02-12T19:34:35Z")
Comments:
1. Dear OP, when you refer to Arnold in a thread title, please say Arnold S., I was ready to come in here and squash you like a bug.
2. The Swiss (including Arnold Winkelried) kicked Austrian butt at the [battle of Sempach](http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/yonge/deeds/sempach.html) and we’re ready to do it again! Arnold S. had better keep his nose clean is all I’ve got to say.
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### Author:  [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/47 "2010-02-12T19:37:17Z")
> [@Alan\_Bird](#):
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> This is probably the most ignorant post I’ve ever read here. “He stopped midway”? He wasn’t physically able to go any further.
Really, that’s the most ignorant thing you’ve read here? :rolleyes:
The man told us the story of a man who planned on running across Canada and Thunder Bay was where he stopped and didn’t finish. He didn’t mention the foundation, or the cancer, or blah blah blah. He just said that he was a man who was gonna do something and then didn’t finish it and they made a statue for him.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/48 "2010-02-12T19:38:59Z")
Before I share in the OP’s outrage, I would want to inform myself as to what has happened in past Olympics - are torch carriers typically citizens of the country in which the Olympics are being held?
If they wanted a Hollywood star to carry the torch, fellow Canadian William Shatner was ready to step up, I’m sure! Or Leslie Nielsen! Michael J. Fox! Brendan Fraser! Heck, any of [these guys!](http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/Canadians/actors.html)
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/49 "2010-02-12T19:43:00Z")
> [@stpauler](#):
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> Really, that’s the most ignorant thing you’ve read here? :rolleyes:
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> The man told us the story of a man who planned on running across Canada and Thunder Bay was where he stopped and didn’t finish. He didn’t mention the foundation, or the cancer, or blah blah blah. He just said that he was a man who was gonna do something and then didn’t finish it and they made a statue for him.
Well, if you actually did see the statue, then you would’ve known he [only had one fucking leg](http://www.qctonline.com/files/imagecache/lead_photo/files/leadphotos/Terry_Fox_Statue.jpg), so sorry–you still look like an asshole for laughing at the dead underachieving cripple.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/50 "2010-02-12T19:45:43Z")
> [@Giles](#):
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> And wasn’t he an Austrian? Perhaps this Schvartzenbeggar guy is Hitler’s grandson, or something.
If I remember correctly, asking Ahnold about his father and the Nazis was a quick route to him ending the interview and walking out.
> [@stpauler](#):
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> Really, that’s the most ignorant thing you’ve read here? :rolleyes:
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> The man told us the story of a man who planned on running across Canada and Thunder Bay was where he stopped and didn’t finish. He didn’t mention the foundation, or the cancer, or blah blah blah. He just said that he was a man who was gonna do something and then didn’t finish it and they made a statue for him.
And it didn’t occur to you that he got a statue made of himself for some reason other than not finishing something he started? You and your wife sound like a good example of the casual arrogance US Americans are so good at.
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### Author:  [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/51 "2010-02-12T19:46:55Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#):
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> Well, if you actually did see the statue, then you would’ve known he [only had one fucking leg](http://www.qctonline.com/files/imagecache/lead_photo/files/leadphotos/Terry_Fox_Statue.jpg), so sorry–you still look like an asshole for laughing at the dead underachieving cripple.
Yes, once we saw the statue and read the story, then we knew what was going on.
And if I look like an asshole, oh no. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/52 "2010-02-12T19:48:13Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> And it didn’t occur to you that he got a statue made of himself for some reason other than not finishing something he started? You and your wife sound like a good example of the casual arrogance US Americans are so good at.
Wife? I’m gay. So, it would be a, well, not a wife. But, should I chock up your heteronormative statement as casual arrogance? Or just not knowing all the facts?
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### Author:  [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/53 "2010-02-12T19:54:41Z")
The thread should be named “Piss off, Arnold!” “Piss off Arnold” reads like an imperative to go piss off Arnold. I’ve been trying to figure out all day why there haven’t been more tips or suggestions posted on how to piss him off.
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### Author:  [@Library\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Library_Boy)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/54 "2010-02-12T19:57:45Z")
> [@Alan\_Bird](#):
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> This is probably the most ignorant post I’ve ever read here. “He stopped midway”? He wasn’t physically able to go any further.
Well, to be fair, he did at least make the most ignorant post you’ve ever read in the stupidest thread currently on the board, so at least it’s all contained.
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### Author:  [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/55 "2010-02-12T19:58:05Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> Tomorrow’s forecast: 8 degrees C and rain.
> Official Olympic drink: Slushie
See we knew we should have accepted Atlanta’s bid to host the Winter Olympics.
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### Author:  [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/56 "2010-02-12T19:58:51Z")
> [@stpauler](#):
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> Yes, once we saw the statue and read the story, then we knew what was going on.
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> And if I look like an asshole, oh no. :rolleyes:
Wait, so you knew who Terry Fox was and what he’d done and you still needed to post that only Canadians would celebrate somebody not finishing something?
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### Author:  [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/57 "2010-02-12T19:59:10Z")
> [@stpauler](#):
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> We thanked the man for that and got in the car and laughed that **only Canada would celebrate an achievement that wasn’t even achieved.**
Yeah, that kind of [shit](http://binside.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834fd7f7353ef010536ccc557970c-pi) would never fly south of the border.
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/58 "2010-02-12T20:02:58Z")
> [@stpauler](#):
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> Really, that’s the most ignorant thing you’ve read here? :rolleyes:
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> The man told us the story of a man who planned on running across Canada and Thunder Bay was where he stopped and didn’t finish. He didn’t mention the foundation, or the cancer, or blah blah blah. He just said that he was a man who was gonna do something and then didn’t finish it and they made a statue for him.
Yet directly above your post, you quoted\*\* runner pat\*\*:
> [@](#):
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> Lost a leg to cancer, undertook a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research, died from cancer after running 3,339 on an prosthetic leg.
So now you DO KNOW these things, and you still tell a little story about how you found Fox’s achievement “laughable”? This is what makes you an asshole.
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### Author:  [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/59 "2010-02-12T20:05:37Z")
> [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](#):
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> The thread should be named “Piss off, Arnold!” “Piss off Arnold” reads like an imperative to go piss off Arnold. I’ve been trying to figure out all day why there haven’t been more tips or suggestions posted on how to piss him off.
You got it wrong, we should be receiving tips on how to correctly take a piss while standing on Arnold.
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/60 "2010-02-12T20:11:00Z")
Great, spelling Nazi’s weren’t enough? Now it’s the grammar, too?
I _would_ like to piss off Arnold, got any suggestions?
I believe we’ve already determined that making light of a national hero is a good way to piss off the overly polite Canadians.
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