# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/161 "2015-07-16T18:50:39Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > NEVER! Not that I’m claiming to be famous or anything. Are you sure you don’t have a [more famous sibling](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18443747&postcount=29) though? I won’t even talk to someone who isn’t the most famous person in their family. ---
**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 16, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/162 "2015-07-16T20:03:58Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Are you sure you don’t have a [more famous sibling](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18443747&postcount=29) though? I won’t even talk to someone who isn’t the most famous person in their family. Damn you, sibling whose fame eclipses my own! DAMN YOU! ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/163 "2015-07-16T20:09:14Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Are you sure you don’t have a [more famous sibling](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18443747&postcount=29) though? I won’t even talk to someone who isn’t the most famous person in their family. Can we get someone to nominate this for Threadspotting? It then appears on the cover of the Dope. \< **AB** drops mic\> ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/164 "2015-07-16T23:02:07Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > My name is my cite! She IS the Kwisatz Haderach! ---
**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 17, 2015, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/165 "2015-07-17T03:16:59Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > She IS the Kwisatz Haderach! Kwisatz Haderach Prospero ano y Felicidad. ---
**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 17, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/166 "2015-07-17T04:31:55Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Kwisatz Haderach > Prospero ano y Felicidad. I would hate you, but I feel you have increased my fame. Not that I’m counting, of course. Well really, who could count that high? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/167 "2015-07-17T05:25:05Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Kwisatz Haderach > Prospero ano y Felicidad. My anus thanks you, and wishes you a prosperous and happy butthole as well. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/168 "2015-07-17T11:01:36Z")
Question for etymologically-minded Dopers: Is there a difference between a _sneakbrag_ and a _stage-whisper brag_? You know a stage whisper: you talk adopting a whisper-ish tone while you are projecting to the seats in back 😉 Perhaps life is a performance for the Pittee? ---
**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 17, 2015, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/169 "2015-07-17T11:03:40Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I would hate you, but I feel you have increased my fame. Not that I’m counting, of course. Well really, who could count that high? Ah, but are you a Regionally Noted Trencherman yet? ---
**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 17, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/170 "2015-07-17T13:01:07Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Perhaps life is a performance for the Pittee? This question comes up pretty often on this board, doesn’t it? Can a person really be this needy (the endless forced interjections of coy stage whispers or sneak brags), nuts (using a rewards card is similar to killing people) and annoying? It must all be an act, right? If it is, it has been going on since before this board existed. ---
**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 17, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/171 "2015-07-17T15:05:38Z")
I can’t think of a single way in which using a rewards card isn’t exactly like killing large swaths of people, but that’s probably because I’m a decent human being, unlike the rest of you scum. ---
**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 17, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/172 "2015-07-17T15:21:08Z")
Wretched hive-sters! ---
**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 17, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/173 "2015-07-17T15:47:46Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > I can’t think of a single way in which using a rewards card isn’t exactly like killing large swaths of people, but that’s probably because I’m a decent human being, unlike the rest of you scum. Nutella is genocide. You heard it here first-ish. ---
**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 17, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/174 "2015-07-17T16:00:58Z")
Shaving with those horridly costly multi blade razors, which no one can afford, is akin to raping toddlers and is merely one more example of both how the system is geared against my success and how much better I am than any of you nonfamous people. There. That should cover it. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/175 "2015-07-17T16:58:45Z")
Jesus, how many toddler raping threads can the Pit handle? ---
**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 17, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/176 "2015-07-17T17:31:28Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > I can’t think of a single way in which using a rewards card isn’t exactly like killing large swaths of people, but that’s probably because I’m a decent human being, unlike the rest of you scum. But it’s true. Many are the carotid arteries I’ve sliced open with an accurate flick of a rewards card. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/177 "2015-07-17T17:35:53Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > But it’s true. Many are the carotid arteries I’ve sliced open with an accurate flick of a rewards card. Peasant. I use my [American Express Centurion Card](http://www.therichest.com/luxury/most-expensive/top-10-most-exclusive-credit-cards-in-the-world/?view=all)to dismember the _hoi polloi_. Actually, I don’t - I have one of my personal assistants do it, but the concept is the same. Regards, Shodan ---
**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 17, 2015, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/178 "2015-07-17T17:41:00Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > But it’s true. Many are the carotid arteries I’ve sliced open with an accurate flick of a rewards card. Nina Myers! I thought you were dead! ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/179 "2015-07-17T18:41:17Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Nutella is genocide. You heard it here first-ish. Nutella is even more deadly if you eat it while watching television. Not Netflix, however; that doesn’t count as “watching television.” ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554/180 "2015-07-17T18:48:59Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Peasant. I use my [American Express Centurion Card](http://www.therichest.com/luxury/most-expensive/top-10-most-exclusive-credit-cards-in-the-world/?view=all)to dismember the _hoi polloi_. > > Actually, I don’t - I have one of my personal assistants do it, but the concept is the same. > > Regards, > Shodan Isn’t that a job for a minion? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-amateur-barbarian/724554.md?page=10)