# Pitting Amateur Barbarian **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 8, 2015, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554 "2015-07-08T08:05:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Niterover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Niterover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Niterover)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/1 "2015-07-08T08:05:33Z")
First time poster, long time lurker. It was you Amateur Barabarian who moved me to finally register and post. Its your constantly harping on New England. First of all we yankees are pretty smart, stop lumping us all in the same boat. Secondly New England is made up of 6 states not just Connecticut. I lived in Vermont for 26 years am not currently there but hope to return this year. I am sorry you had a bad experiance with you health care providers however constantly refering to them as cows and saying they each weighed 3000 pounds is wrong and you know it. I really really think you should go back to California because you clearly do not belong where you are. Of course we have some bad apples EVERY state does but you really have to stop slamming Nwlingland (as you put it wrongly) or get the hell out. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/2 "2015-07-08T08:18:21Z")
If you’re a long time lurker, you should know it’s polite to post a link to whatever the fuck it is you’re pitting. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2015, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/3 "2015-07-08T08:39:52Z")
If you’re so dang smart, what’s with all the run-on sentences and bad spelling? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/4 "2015-07-08T08:42:43Z")
New England is worse than old England. New England sucks a big one. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/5 "2015-07-08T08:48:05Z")
A shame. Such a small bucket dipped into such a deep well. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/6 "2015-07-08T09:24:24Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > If you’re a long time lurker, you should know it’s polite to post a link to whatever the fuck it is you’re pitting. [Link.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=761581) I find Amateur Barbarian to be a fairly annoying know-it-all, of the “there he goes again” eye-rolling variety. He’s overly impressed with his own intelligence, and overly impressed with his own ability to communicate and argue a point. In kind, he’s not that much different from a lot of us that post here. The degree to which he takes it is just ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Niterover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Niterover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Niterover)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/7 "2015-07-08T10:23:35Z")
Okay I forgot to link. Have to learn that Will take my lumps there Do tell Monty what spelling and I never said I was smart just some of us yankees are trying reading the post pal. I 'll learn and do better, next time maybe wait untill I cool down a bit. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/8 "2015-07-08T11:04:02Z")
Fucking Patriots. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/9 "2015-07-08T11:10:27Z")
I find it hard to believe the OP is a long time lurker. This pitee is a pompous, obnoxious asshole. There are so many other really good reasons to pit him. A long time reader would know that. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2015, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/10 "2015-07-08T11:10:42Z")
> [@Niterover](#): > > Okay I forgot to link. > Have to learn that > Will take my lumps there > Do tell Monty what spelling and I never said I was smart just some of us yankees are trying reading the post pal. > I 'll learn and do better, next time maybe wait untill I cool down a bit. Worst free verse I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/11 "2015-07-08T12:14:12Z")
> [@Niterover](#): > > Secondly New England is made up of 6 states not just Connecticut. Keep in mind that Connecticut is the best of the New England states. Of that, there is no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/12 "2015-07-08T12:24:49Z")
He’s a Ninglander now so he can complain about it just like the rest of us do. The problem is with his claims that other places are better. He just hasn’t learned our motto yet, “We’re better than you”. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/13 "2015-07-08T12:30:19Z")
Free Wi-Fi or Die! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/14 "2015-07-08T12:55:31Z")
Yeah I found that thread a little annoying too. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/15 "2015-07-08T13:01:06Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > I find it hard to believe the OP is a long time lurker. This pitee is a pompous, obnoxious asshole. There are so many other really good reasons to pit him. A long time reader would know that. He said he lurker, not a long time reader. Maybe he just keeps the forum up on an inactive tab. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/16 "2015-07-08T13:02:40Z")
Well, he’s not a professional barbarian, so I don’t really expect all that much from him. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/17 "2015-07-08T13:02:59Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Keep in mind that Connecticut is the best of the New England states. Of that, there is no doubt. Only if you’re a Breatharian. Try driving through the state and looking for road food. Apparently the Powers That Be decided it would be too déclassé to make franchise restaurants accessible from the highway. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/18 "2015-07-08T13:06:05Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > New England is worse than old England. New England sucks a big one. Yeah, but Classic England isn’t much better, and it’s changed since it was just old England. We should all switch to America. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/19 "2015-07-08T13:10:38Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > He just hasn’t learned our motto yet, “We’re better than you”. Not a motto, just a statement of fact. Except for all the fucking snow. That finally drove me out. To a place where there are still a lot of New Englanders around. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/20 "2015-07-08T13:25:12Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > it’s changed since it was just old England. We should all switch to America. Nah, he doesn’t want to change the world, he’s just looking for a new England. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554.md?page=2)