# Please Join Me for the Pitting of LinusK **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 20, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722 "2015-07-20T20:14:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Jack\_of\_Words](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@Jack\_of\_Words](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_of_Words)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/321 "2015-08-23T10:26:20Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > I just want to make sure you realize that you’re doing exactly that thing, where you were wrong about the facts but somehow are still tickled fucking pink (and it should be tickled blue, why are the blues sad but pink is happy, fuck that estrogenocidal nightmare rhetoric) about how right you are. I mean, in a shitload more words than necessary, but still, the same thing. Being wrong about it has actually strengthened your initial impression and you think it’s not super stupid to say that! It concerns me; I’m concerned. I’m here for you, bro. We gotta stick together with these bitches at our throats for custody, you know what I’m saying? “bitches at our throats for custody”? No, I don’t know what you’re saying, any more than I knew your earlier fantasy about my being, how would you say it…ah yes, “tickled fucking pink”. Do you realise that _you_ are doing exactly _that_ thing - showing me I am right, that you have no interest in examining the ideas you hold, when it’s so much easier to pretend that anyone who questions those ideas is the bogyman of your imagination, who must be distracted from discussing the flaws of your ideology by any measure… That impression (evident from your earlier fantasies, from the specific post you reference, and from this post I’m responding to) is confirmed by your determination to _avoid_ discussion of ideas, preferring the playing field of ‘I know a word you didn’t know yet! So your ideas are wrong!’. Which tells us a lot about the thinking that led to the ideas… You see (you don’t, because you daren’t, but I strive to remain polite), it _wasn’t_ stupid (or even ‘super stupid’, because people are so easily swayed by superlatives, eh?) to point out that your picking, pecking and crowing is indicative of so much. Here’s a thing, that you just said: _“where you were wrong about the facts”_ What a super dishonest thing to say! Or super stupid? Which did you mean me to infer? if there’s a ‘fact’ in this, it’s that ‘complaisant’ can be found in most dictionaries. You’re right, for all the words I do now, that one was new to me. I do continue to learn - I commend that to you, you should try it. So one ‘fact’ (though not really germane to the ideas, nor properly a fact). Not fact **s** though, of any level of irrelevance or liberality of definition. So was I _wrong_ about one irrelevant almost-‘fact’? No, I simply asked you if you meant one of two possible other words (because, as noted, your favouring of fantasy over accuracy, combined with your choice of an unusual word unknown to me, led to very reasonable conclusion - that you _might_ be wrong). So when you say: _"where you [del]were wrong[/del] about the [del]facts[/del]_ You actually mean _"where I used an unconventional word and you asked if I meant something else. Wow, what a super stupid poopyhead you are, I found one word you didn’t know_. Everything else you say must be wrong. _Super_ wrong!"\* \*I’m willing to bet there’s at least one more, you should go look for it. Your dishonesty is a product of your ideology, which is itself dishonest. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/322 "2015-08-23T12:43:07Z")
I’m sorry that you’re disappointed with your C-, Jack, but your grade reflects the quality of your work, not the amount of time and effort you put into it. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/323 "2015-08-23T18:34:37Z")
> [@Jack\_of\_Words](#): > > That impression (evident from your earlier fantasies, from the specific post you reference, and from this post I’m responding to) is confirmed by your determination to _avoid_ discussion of ideas, preferring the playing field of ‘I know a word you didn’t know yet! So your ideas are wrong!’. Which tells us a lot about the thinking that led to the ideas… You don’t have any ideas, my bitter, pompous friend. You’re the tax the rest of us pay for having ideas. You’re the kid who interrupted the teacher to demand an acknowledgment that all of this is “just theories” and declared victory while the rest of the class rolled its collective eyes and moved on. Everybody else has already thought about everything you’ve posted, before you posted it, and determined that: it is stupid. You’ll get there too someday. Of fucking course I don’t want to talk “ideas” with you at this point. You don’t have anything. The first interaction we had was me asking you to explain one of your “ideas” and you shucked and jived and told me to “do my homework” and dropped some rhetorical questions like shitty smoke bombs that didn’t mask your getaway, as if everyone else would forget what you said if you did, because that’s all you are - a counterpuncher with no hands. If you’d wanted to talk “ideas,” it would have happened already. But you don’t, because you can’t, because you didn’t get any of those from the shitty blogs you read by shitty people who want to sell you shitty e-books about who you are before you notice who they are. You want someone else to say something of substance so you can pick and tear at the corners for a week, because you think it’s a secret that you don’t understand any of it, and you think you can keep it a secret by making irrelevant analogies for three paragraphs and dropping some insults ripped from the headlines of young adult television drama, and doing it over and over. You got ignored in the other thread once that became clear, so you came here, where I’m not obliged to ignore you, and I can tell you you’re stupid. So that’s what I’m doing now, stupid. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/324 "2015-08-23T19:06:26Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > So that’s what I’m doing now, stupid. You sure told him! And because saying something makes it true, it must be true. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/325 "2015-08-24T00:12:43Z")
> [@Jack\_of\_Words](#): > > you have no interest in examining the ideas you hold > … > You’re right, for all the words I do now [sic], that one was new to me. Let’s make a list of all the other words \*\*Jack \*\*probably doesn’t know. I’ll go first: he probably doesn’t know the word _projection_. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/326 "2015-08-24T00:14:00Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > Let’s make a list of all the other words \*\*Jack \*\*probably doesn’t know. I’ll go first: he probably doesn’t know the word _projection_. He doesn’t appear to know the definition of the word _feminist_. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/327 "2015-08-24T01:07:44Z")
He doesn’t appear to know the definition of the word _definition_. (And no bets regarding his knowledge of the word _word_.) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/328 "2015-08-24T02:08:26Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > He doesn’t appear to know the definition of the word _feminist_. You just identified 99% of his problem (speaking only of the anti-feminist thread. I suspect that in a broader context he has much bigger problems). ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/329 "2015-08-30T17:19:45Z")
Am I being unfair here, or does he also lack basic reading comprehension? [Legal analysis of the Owen Laurie rape case](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18644423) ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/330 "2015-08-30T19:57:18Z")
Naita! Ixnay on the inuslay or ackjay will have more ordsway. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/331 "2015-08-30T21:38:37Z")
Awww. But I was hoping they’d do a haiku on pronouns. But I feel the good LK confirmed my suspicion. I don’t think he even understands his own posts when he reads them again. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/332 "2015-08-30T21:49:46Z")
So many perfidious females, so many opportunities to bemoan their ignominious natures. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/333 "2015-08-31T00:15:58Z")
> [@naita](#): > > Am I being unfair here, or does he also lack basic reading comprehension? > > [Legal analysis of the Owen Laurie rape case](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18644423) Based on the anti-feminism thread, I’d say he lacks not only reading comprehension but _writing_ comprehension. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/334 "2015-09-27T03:23:31Z")
[Again?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=770074) The worst part is Linus K never even has a thesis in his posts, they’re just vague questions so he never has to state his position. Even when he’s disagreeing, he posts 99% in vagaries. It’s not even the anti-feminism that gets me at this point, it’s that Buzzfeed lists have more of a thesis than his posts. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/335 "2015-09-27T05:07:15Z")
Well, he’s deigned to say this much: Quote: Originally Posted by LinusK Although feminists generally align with liberals, when you look beneath the hood they are at heart authoritarians. Honestly, when I saw the thread start I groaned. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/336 "2015-09-27T05:15:46Z")
I posted in a thread started by \*\*LinusK \*\*once. _Once_. I’m not making that mistake again. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/337 "2015-09-27T13:28:01Z")
It’s fascinating, in an extremely annoying way - it seems almost like having a racist white person holding forth on what it means to be a black person. “I’m an anti feminist; let me tell you what a feminist really thinks.” it doesn’t matter how feminists enter his threads to explain their own views; clearly he knows better! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/338 "2015-09-27T13:46:33Z")
Also, [it’s DNA’s fault.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=770061) ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/339 "2015-09-27T15:05:06Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > [Again?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=770074) > > The worst part is Linus K never even has a thesis in his posts, they’re just vague questions so he never has to state his position. Even when he’s disagreeing, he posts 99% in vagaries. It’s not even the anti-feminism that gets me at this point, it’s that Buzzfeed lists have more of a thesis than his posts. We’ve had GD posters who were crazier and/or more hostile than **LinusK** , but I think he may actually be the single worst debater we’ve ever had in that forum. I’m not sure he’d even pass a Turing test. A bot could probably do just as good a job of cutting and pasting material from anti-feminist websites, making grammatical but incoherent remarks, and ignoring everything that didn’t match up with its pre-existing “beliefs” (programming). ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/340 "2015-09-27T15:12:32Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > We’ve had GD posters who were crazier and/or more hostile than **LinusK** , but I think he may actually be the single worst debater we’ve ever had in that forum. I’m not sure he’d even pass a Turing test. A bot could probably do just as good a job of cutting and pasting material from anti-feminist websites, making grammatical but incoherent remarks, and ignoring everything that didn’t match up with its pre-existing “beliefs” (programming). Yeah that’s the thing that really gets me about his threads–he simply doesn’t respond any time one of his factual claims is soundly refuted. It’s like he has added truth to his ignore list. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722.md?page=18)