# Pitting Max\_S **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 8, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074 "2022-02-08T00:26:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 50
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2023, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/981 "2023-07-04T22:33:04Z")
Just an FYI … > [@Bigotry versus genuine religious belief](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bigotry-versus-genuine-religious-belief/921434/270): > > Why is Anatole France suddenly demanding I channel him? ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/982 "2024-08-23T00:14:44Z")
Who knew our racist, homophobic, psychopathically avaricious friend would be such a snowflake? See his whiny butthurt ATMB thread. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/983 "2024-08-23T00:25:49Z")
It’s good of Max to periodically make sure everybody knows what he is. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/984 "2024-08-23T06:48:30Z")
Hey @Max_S ? If you are correct that sexual orientation is a choice then clearly you yourself can change your sexual orientation, right? ~~Pics~~ PornHub videos or it didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/985 "2024-08-23T11:46:09Z")
He’s my least favorite kind of stupid person: the kind who thinks he’s smart and so he engages in these lengthy and pompous diatribes. You have to read paragraphs just so you can say “what a fucking moron.” ---
**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:** [August 23, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/986 "2024-08-23T12:01:45Z")
Hey, I’m pompous too. I’m just usually pompous with _brevity._ ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/987 "2024-08-23T12:05:38Z")
Wait, Max is still spouting witless, pointless drivel all over the fucking board? Shocking! He has an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, yet is literally incapable of learning anything and is completely convinced any thought he has _must_ be correct. And just since I’m here, FUCK YOU MAX\_S YOU FUCKING IGNORANT PIECE OF WALKING DUNNING-KRUGER DATA. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/988 "2024-08-23T12:09:44Z")
He doesn’t want negative feedback to his viewpoints, and he doesn’t want to be hit with the same labels this board typically applies to conservatives. Maybe he should consider using AI-generated supportive conservative audiences instead of this board if he’s that much of a snowflake. He doesn’t see that non-political commentary can result in negative feedback too, and this board certainly doesn’t protect the piled-upon, except to advise “Take it to the Pit.” ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/989 "2024-08-23T12:49:03Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > He’s my least favorite kind of stupid person: the kind who thinks he’s smart and so he engages in these lengthy and pompous diatribes. > > You have to read paragraphs just so you can say “what a fucking moron.” Well said. I don’t use “ignore,” but past experience has led to me blasting right by certain posters’ wall-of-text manifestos. If I occasionally miss something insightful, oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/990 "2024-08-23T13:26:49Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > If I occasionally miss something insightful, oh well. You may have better odds playing scratchers ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/991 "2024-08-23T13:30:13Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > WALKING DUNNING-KRUGER DATA. I love this ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/992 "2024-08-23T13:45:32Z")
Cue a thousand word post from Max about how this is a misunderstanding of Dunning-Kruger. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/993 "2024-08-23T13:55:25Z")
Totally unfair to underestimate his verbosity to such a degree ---
**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:** [August 23, 2024, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/994 "2024-08-23T13:59:24Z")
We shouldn’t generalize by saying that all tone-trolling sealions are like Max\_S. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/995 "2024-08-23T14:10:23Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > PornHub videos or it didn’t happen I have seen bad shit. I have seen the fucking weirdest the early internet gave us. Tubgirl. Rotten. com (broken link, do not go there unless you are insane) in its prime. Octupus girl. Pterodactyl girl. Gentlemen having sex (coitus? It was in the cloaca, not sure if that counts) with dinosaurs. I have seen bad shit. But not that bad. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/996 "2024-08-23T14:15:50Z")
All those moments are still on the Wayback Machine, like porn stashes in the woods… Time to die. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/997 "2024-08-23T15:05:21Z")
I’m pretty sure I’m on his ignore list, I lose a lot of sleep over it. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/998 "2024-08-23T18:36:02Z")
I find Max a little tedious, but not really worth the acrimony. He’s intelligent and appears knowledgeable. I read his posts, I occasionally learn something. That’s kind of what we are all here for, right? To learn. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/999 "2024-08-23T18:36:46Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I read his posts, I occasionally learn something. That’s kind of what we are all here for, right? To learn. The problem is that if you read something Max posted and believe him, you might be gaining ignorance, not knowledge. That’s the opposite of what (at least most of us) are here for, I assume that applies to you too. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/1000 "2024-08-23T18:46:43Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I assume that applies to you too Yes, but… (always a great start to a rebuttal) I take many posters with a little pinch of salt. People like @Stranger_On_A_Train need no pinch, they are erudite, knowledgable and well respected for this. Max is well educated and can often support his arguments. However, he needs that pinch of salt, in my opinion. He’s not wrong very often, in my opinion (engage your salt shaker now), but he does belabour the point very often. That’s just poor debate style, IMHO. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074.md?page=49) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074.md?page=51)