# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/221 "2015-07-20T15:39:56Z")
I think they’re on to you **AB**. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/222 "2015-07-20T15:51:47Z")
> [@tnetennba](#): > > So it’s been a couple of years and AB can tell us now what top secret information regarding food package labeling to which he is privy. I think his brother, the famous scientist, stole his thunder by publishing the info and getting his picture on the cover of a big-time science journal. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/223 "2015-07-20T15:55:47Z")
> [@tnetennba](#): > > So it’s been a couple of years and AB can tell us now what top secret information regarding food package labeling to which he is privy. Information he must have gotten somewhere other than that McDonald’s that wouldn’t hire him, forcing him to try Radio Shack instead. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/224 "2015-07-20T18:41:37Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > That was a thing of beauty. I concur. That was fraggin’ sterling. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/225 "2015-07-20T20:52:10Z")
I’m scared I’ll get trapped typing like that forever. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/226 "2015-07-20T21:03:24Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > I’m scared I’ll get trapped typing like that forever. Don’t let anyone hit you on the back while you’re doing that. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/227 "2015-07-20T22:44:05Z")
Y’know, generally when a poster says something that rubs me the wrong way, it doesn’t create a lasting impression on me. So posters really have to do something especially ridiculous or make a habit of saying irritating shit. The talented **Amateur Barbarian** manages both! Just another of the many ways he is a clearly superior being. This pit thread is way overdue. The first time AB caught my attention (and kept it) was his thread about WeatherTech: > **[Fuck WeatherTech (car mats and liners)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=711932)** > > Wow. Just wow. Anyone who reads any of the car magazines knows what a big deal MacNeil Automotive makes about their WeatherTech mats, US manufacturing and bend-over-backwards customer service. Until this week, I’d have heartily endorsed that image... The first post seemed fine. But after someone pointed out he had reversed which models were related (gee, maybe he did that when placing the order, too…), it went downhill. Knowing what I know now of him and his snide, contemptuous attitude towards … well, everyone … I think that said attitude probably came through loud and clear in his emails and calls with customer service. But none of that was _quite_ enough to be memorable. No, that came after posters suggested he contact their various social media accounts\* and _a WeatherTech rep created an account and posted in that thread TWICE to help **AB** _ … AND **AB** REFUSES. Someone reaches out to you on a completely unrelated message board to help fix your problem that you extensively whined about and suddenly it’s all, “no way, it’s too late, they shoulda helped me earlier!”? Fucking bullshit, man. How dare they try to solve his problem? That would invalidate his OP and that can NEVER happen! - those fools! They didn’t realize that **AB** is far too amazing for those lowbrow “social media” sites, designed for the hoi polloi ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/228 "2015-07-20T23:11:28Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > Y’know, generally when a poster says something that rubs me the wrong way, it doesn’t create a lasting impression on me. So posters really have to do something especially ridiculous or make a habit of saying irritating shit. > The talented **Amateur Barbarian** manages both! Just another of the many ways he is a clearly superior being. That thread is, I suspect, a good representation of how he interacts with the world. His default communications mode is sneering condescension, and if he gets the slightest disagreement or pushback, he cranks it up to 11. The Pit threads he’s started all have the same monotonous theme: _everyone’s a fucking idiot except me_. ---
**Author:** ![CinnamonBabka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@CinnamonBabka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CinnamonBabka)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/229 "2015-07-21T15:40:59Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > Y’know, generally when a poster says something that rubs me the wrong way, it doesn’t create a lasting impression on me. So posters really have to do something especially ridiculous or make a habit of saying irritating shit. > The talented **Amateur Barbarian** manages both! Just another of the many ways he is a clearly superior being. > This pit thread is way overdue. The first time AB caught my attention (and kept it) was his thread about WeatherTech: > [Fuck WeatherTech (car mats and liners) - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=711932) > The first post seemed fine. But after someone pointed out he had reversed which models were related (gee, maybe he did that when placing the order, too…), it went downhill. Knowing what I know now of him and his snide, contemptuous attitude towards … well, everyone … I think that said attitude probably came through loud and clear in his emails and calls with customer service. > But none of that was _quite_ enough to be memorable. No, that came after posters suggested he contact their various social media accounts\* and _a WeatherTech rep created an account and posted in that thread TWICE to help **AB** _ … AND **AB** REFUSES. > Someone reaches out to you on a completely unrelated message board to help fix your problem that you extensively whined about and suddenly it’s all, “no way, it’s too late, they shoulda helped me earlier!”? Fucking bullshit, man. How dare they try to solve his problem? That would invalidate his OP and that can NEVER happen! > > - those fools! They didn’t realize that **AB** is far too amazing for those lowbrow “social media” sites, designed for the hoi polloi Wow. I’m amazed he wasn’t pitted just for that. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/230 "2015-07-21T15:51:10Z")
> [@CinnamonBabka](#): > > Wow. I’m amazed he wasn’t pitted just for that. Weather Tech won themselves a few new customers in that thread (myself included). I found that amusing. I’ve never seen a pit thread about a company end up helping the sales of the company being pitted, or at least not that quickly and transparently. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/231 "2015-07-21T18:28:34Z")
> [@CinnamonBabka](#): > > Wow. I’m amazed he wasn’t pitted just for that. I called him out on it on the second page of the thread. Of course, **AB** quickly figured out the real source of my problem – I can’t read. :rolleyes: No, fuckknuckle, SOMETIMES YOU ARE WRONG. [Wrong wrong wrong wrong/wrong wrong wrong wrong!](http://imageserver.moviepilot.com/wrong-gif-pierce-brosnan-as-batman-he-came-so-close.gif) (to the tune of the Westminster Chimes). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554.md?page=11)