# Pitting Jim\_B **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 4, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958 "2022-05-04T18:23:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/1 "2022-05-04T18:23:01Z")
Now normally you’re just an annoying fucking waste of skin dropping contactless turds into otherwise interesting threads or dumbass OPs that float to the bottom of the page. Your Elton John OP is another thing entirely. What exactly the fuck caused that lizard brain of yours to shit out that post? Are you a homophobic piece of shit or too god damned stupid to realize how offensive that was? > [@Kudos To Elton John](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kudos-to-elton-john/963951): > > I wasn’t sure where this should go on these boards. But I just wanted to say, kudos to Elton John. The guy is gay. Yet AFAIK he’s not HIV positive. You know, he wasn’t promiscuous or at least used protection, at a time, when few gay men did. I just think he should be given some credit for that. slightly_smiling_face ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/2 "2022-05-04T18:25:57Z")
I would agree, that thread is one of the most shockingly stupid ones I have ever seen posted by a long term poster. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/3 "2022-05-04T18:27:07Z")
I don’t bother to follow or try to remember most posters unless they are exceptionally clever or idiotic but every time I click on a new thread and see that the o.p. is blanked out because it was started by @Jim_B I feel like I got “Rickrolled” by the Joker. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/4 "2022-05-04T18:27:31Z")
> [@Martin\_Hyde](#): > > …most shockingly stupid ones… Man, you should review that poster’s history. I doubt this one is even in the top ten. Hey, OP, needs more giant smileys. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/5 "2022-05-04T18:38:37Z")
Completely apropos of nothing: am I the only one who’s looking forward to the right wing just dropping the dog whistles and just openly and proudly saying what they mean? I’m not sure if it’s because of how pathetically transparent the fig leaves are or if because I’m just tired of my intelligence being insulted. Or maybe it’s because if that happens, people will have realized that yes, they are racist. I’ll have a micron more respect for them if and when that happens. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/6 "2022-05-04T18:40:21Z")
Jim\_B is a: _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/6))_ ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/7 "2022-05-04T18:44:18Z")
I think he’s a fool, but he’s not benign, in that he’s polluting the boards with his ridiculous threads that people just can’t seem to resist. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/8 "2022-05-04T18:46:22Z")
I rank him among the select few posters on this board who have a signal-to-noise ratio of zero. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/9 "2022-05-04T18:48:59Z")
**Jim\_B** is not nearly smart enough to be a troll. He is quite possibly the stupidest poster on the Dope. But let’s not start a contest for that. Or perhaps a science experiment where someone put an 8 year old human brain into a 70 year old man, and gave it computer access. ---
**Author:** ![SpacemanSpiff\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@SpacemanSpiff\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpacemanSpiff_II)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/10 "2022-05-04T18:58:43Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Are you a homophobic piece of shit or too god damned stupid to realize how offensive that was? I believe Jim\_B is himself gay. (This would be at least the second time lately that a gay person on this MB has been accused of being a homophobe.) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/11 "2022-05-04T19:04:49Z")
Well then maybe he is just a fucking idiot. There is also this OP from him: > [@Celebrities Who Act Gay But DEFINITELY Aren't?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-act-gay-but-definitely-arent/957253): > > Because I personally don’t think that there is such a thing as gay mannerisms. But that question would be for a different section of these boards slightly_smiling_face . My question is, name a celebrity who acts gay, but who clearly isn’t. I personally am thinking mostly of males. But you can include females. I would like to start with Michael Dorn, who played the Klingon Worf on Star Trek: the Next Generation. He did do a convincing Klingon. But I have noticed that out of makeup he does act… ---
**Author:** ![SpacemanSpiff\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@SpacemanSpiff\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpacemanSpiff_II)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/12 "2022-05-04T19:12:34Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Well then maybe he is just a fucking idiot. There is also this OP from him: Your first sentence may or may not be true (I don’t know). But I’m not sure I understand what your point is about the other OP. What he’s saying there is that he personally doesn’t believe that the stereotypical gay mannerisms are actually associated with being gay, but they do exist in the public imagination. In line with that, he was asking for examples of heterosexual people who have these stereotypical gay mannerisms. Is your issue that this is offensive or that it’s stupid? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/13 "2022-05-04T19:15:23Z")
> [@SpacemanSpiff\_II](#): > > Is your issue that this is offensive or that it’s stupid? I think that it’s both. It was closed by the Mods specifically for being offensive. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/14 "2022-05-04T19:18:31Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > **Jim\_B** is not nearly smart enough to be a troll. He is quite possibly the stupidest poster on the Dope. But let’s not start a contest for that. Every community has its village idiot, and Jim\_B is ours. He’s even much dumber than acey and that counts for a lot. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/15 "2022-05-04T20:00:10Z")
I think he is a low grade troll that is clever enough to play at being stupid. He does this kind of crap a lot. Even his [prayer thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flos-carmeli-has-never-failed-for-me-once/963767), he is doing low grade whining his witnessing thread got moved to GD, the forum for witnessing. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/16 "2022-05-04T20:00:23Z")
Yeah, he’s a fool. I don’t think he’s malicious, but he’s never listened to any helpful corrections or criticism. Every time he posts, the board gets a little dumber. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/17 "2022-05-04T20:09:23Z")
He reads to me like a dopey-grin grandpa type with (a) no self control or filter and (b) a large and heavily used bong. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/18 "2022-05-04T20:22:18Z")
I tend to think of his as just being rather loopy. He reminds me of a now dearly departed uncle–who I mostly only talked to when he was drunk. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/19 "2022-05-04T20:47:36Z")
I think you’re all too kind to him, assuming he’s posting bullshit because of dope or booze. There’s a word in German for someone who’s naturally stoned, “naturprall”, and I think that’s the right adjective for Jim\_B. And I think he’s a very naive, unlearned person with little life experiences, though it seems like he’s not that young anymore. By the way, I’ve posted many times drunk or stoned here on the dope, but you wouldn’t catch me posting such inane things like him. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958/20 "2022-05-04T20:50:16Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > Or perhaps a science experiment where someone put an 8 year old human brain into a 70 year old man, and gave it computer access. > [@What\_Exit](#): > > I think he is a low grade troll that is clever enough to play at being stupid. -BTW, bravo for @Dallas_Jones, that was the perfect way of describing the posters patterns- I’m actually a bit between the two. IMHO, it’s the first, in that the poster seems to take a child-like delight in ‘discovering’ all sorts of stuff that a half-way educated adult would have checked an expert opinion on after having a morning ‘shower-thought’ and then dismiss. But, as @What_Exit points out, he does seem to take an equally child like delight in irritating everyone with his JAQ and pouty insistence on being taken seriously. It could be, based on his reported age, a version of senility, but if he’s having a second childhood, it’s one that’s a pouty, vicious delinquent of a child. This is not to say he is senile, or that he should be blamed if that was the case, but it’s a common trope for an older individual who seems bound and determined to -act- like a child. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-jim-b/963958.md?page=2)