# Pitting either a)careless or b)intentionally ambigous or c)outright inflammatory email **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 13, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847 "2010-01-13T22:45:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/81 "2010-01-19T00:00:28Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > As an avid shooter, just let me say: You are a moron if you think that shooting at a picture of a person is in any way complimentary to that person. > > You can’t really be that stupid, can you? Even after you’ve heard otherwise, straight from the horse’s mouth? You’re a moron if you think, after all we’ve heard from those guys in this thread, that they’re secretly racist. And hate Elvis. And the Beatles. You can’t be that obtuse, can you? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/82 "2010-01-19T00:17:19Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Even after you’ve heard otherwise, straight from the horse’s mouth? You’re a moron if you think, after all we’ve heard from those guys in this thread, that they’re secretly racist. And hate Elvis. And the Beatles. > > You can’t be that obtuse, can you? Well, I think that calling you an idiot is a complement. It really doesn’t matter what the majority thinks. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/83 "2010-01-19T20:11:23Z")
:smack: **beowulff** , it’s OK to be wrong sometimes. You don’t have to cry about it and stomp your feet. Now apologize to the nice shooting club and go to your room until you’re ready to play nicely again. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/84 "2010-01-19T20:35:41Z")
**Chessic Sense** , there may be a difference between being \*malicious \*and being _dangerously oblivious_, but it doesn’t make the latter okay. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/85 "2010-01-19T21:00:35Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > I’m glad to know > > that even with a dearth of common sense > > you still have a wealth of carriage returns. That bothered you, did it? Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/86 "2010-01-19T22:26:27Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > That bothered you, did it? Interesting. Neither a wall of text nor an overspaced post be, as my old dad used to say. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/87 "2010-01-20T00:22:21Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Neither a wall of text nor an overspaced post be, as my old dad used to say. Your dad was _amazingly_ savvy with modern internet stuff. My dad’s an EE and never even analogized me to an integrated circuit. Of course, he doesn’t analogize me to much of _anything_, come to think of it. Maybe he doesn’t love me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/88 "2010-01-20T00:42:38Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] That bothered you, did it? Interesting. [/QUOTE] Of course it didn’t _bother_ her. Rather it suggested a lack of message board savvy and as such was ripe for a little target shooting of our own. That’s what the Pit’s for, didn’t you know? Here is where you should always be an asshole to everyone for no reason other than self-congratulation, even if they’re not even really a member and were posting only in response to the board members who had essentially summoned them. We must protect this house, woof woof, etc. It’s good to see that pointlessly orthogonal internet harassment is alive and well, at least. I was worried. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/89 "2010-01-20T01:09:13Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > :smack: > > **beowulff** , it’s OK to be wrong sometimes. You don’t have to cry about it and stomp your feet. Now apologize to the nice shooting club and go to your room until you’re ready to play nicely again. I really owe you an apology. When I called you an idiot before, I was just exercising some hyperbole. But, after reading your pathetic reply above, I realize that you actually do have a metal deficiency, and it was really unfair of me to pick on you. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/90 "2010-01-20T17:31:20Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > Rather it suggested a lack of message board savvy Message board, schmessage board–try _basic fucking composition_. I don’t care \*what \*medium you’re writing for: putting in that many line breaks is not conducive to reading. In fact, it hampers it. Also, I really love the word hamper. It just sounds so _jolly_. > [@](#): > > pointlessly orthogonal internet harassment Yet again, I am aggrieved that I already have an excellent username. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/91 "2010-01-20T17:36:26Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > In fact, it hampers it. Also, I really love the word hamper. It just sounds so _jolly_. Are you Yogi Bear? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/92 "2010-01-20T17:39:52Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Are you Yogi Bear? Well, I am smarter than your average bear. But given that I’m human, that’s not terribly surprising. So… maybe? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/93 "2010-01-20T20:30:10Z")
[QUOTE=Shot From Guns] Message board, schmessage board–try basic fucking composition. I don’t care what medium you’re writing for: putting in that many line breaks is not conducive to reading. [/QUOTE] That’s true; it’s a bit harder to read when spaced that way, and as far as I can tell nobody has disputed that. Still, if I order some Chinese food, and if by house rule the front door of my house is the Mock the Dickheads Who Sound Funny Zone, when the delivery guy shows up I’m still an asshole if I go “What? _Flee?_ The egg rolls are _flee?_ Don’t you tell my appetizer to run away.” > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Are you Yogi Bear? Yogi Bear’s an American; as such, he knows that food doesn’t go in those things you throw your dirty drawers in. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/94 "2010-01-20T22:38:42Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > Still, if I order some Chinese food, and if by house rule the front door of my house is the Mock the Dickheads Who Sound Funny Zone, when the delivery guy shows up I’m still an asshole if I go “What? _Flee?_ The egg rolls are _flee?_ Don’t you tell my appetizer to run away.” 1.) Written language != spoken language. Anybody who’s taken even a basic course in linguistics should understand the distinction. Consequentially: 2.) Mocking someone’s L2 accent is nowhere near comparable to mocking a native speakers poor composition technique. One is a natural feature of language; the other is just poor learned technique. In summary: 3.) Wash the sand out of your vagina. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/95 "2010-01-20T23:38:08Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > 2.) Mocking someone’s L2 accent is nowhere near comparable to mocking a native speakers poor composition technique. Missed an apostrophe there. HUR HUR HUR. And you were still being an asshole, whether or not you know what an analogy is. It’s fine with me if it’s fine with you, your predictable return to misogynistic vitriol – your favorite crutch when arriving in a thread for no reason but to amuse yourself, I’ve noticed – notwithstanding. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/96 "2010-01-21T00:33:19Z")
I hate it when guests fight. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/97 "2010-01-21T15:36:31Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > And you were still being an asshole, whether or not you know what an analogy is. Of course I was being an asshole. That’s the point. If you don’t like it, hie on back to MPSIMS and you’ll see me being perfectly polite. Oh, and I got your analogy–I was just pointing out why it was a shitty one that revealed on your part a paucity of understanding of basic linguistics. > [@](#): > > your predictable return to misogynistic vitriol I’m so glad you caught that. 😃 I deliberately put it in there with the hope that it would just piss you off more, so it’s nice to know my efforts didn’t go to waste. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/98 "2010-01-21T19:25:11Z")
Why do some assholes assume that being in the Pit means they _have_ to be abrasive? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/99 "2010-01-21T20:02:02Z")
Can your vitriol by mysogynistic if you’re a chick? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847/100 "2010-01-22T15:44:21Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Why do some assholes assume that being in the Pit means they _have_ to be abrasive? Why do some thin-skinned people get all bent out of shape when someone mocks another person for doing something stupid in a venue designed for mocking other people when they do something stupid? > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Can your vitriol by mysogynistic if you’re a chick? Absolutely yes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-either-a-careless-or-b-intentionally-ambigous-or-c-outright-inflammatory-email/524847.md?page=6)