# 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:** 18
**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, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/341 "2015-09-27T15:53:05Z")
That one time I did post in one of his threads really bugs me (it was fairly recently, though, so maybe the pain will fade). Not realizing what kind of thread I’d blundered into, I posted some mopey nonsense about male sexuality (having one of my moods at the time). As I said, mopey nonsense, but I thought it was fairly innocuous. Then \*\*Linus \*\*quotes it, and suddenly I look like a poster boy for some bonkers idea about men all being victimized and emasculated by nasty feminazis. Um, not really what I meant. Trying to talk my way back to shore just made it worse. I swear, it was like some kind of kafkaesque nightmare. That is probably my number one “drunk selfie that I hope no employer ever sees” moment of my posting career. And for me, that’s saying something. Please don’t look it up. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/342 "2015-09-27T16:52:58Z")
I’ve finally realized that LinusK is the adaher of anti-feminism. ---
**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, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/343 "2015-09-27T17:33:48Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > That one time I did post in one of his threads really bugs me (it was fairly recently, though, so maybe the pain will fade). > > Not realizing what kind of thread I’d blundered into, I posted some mopey nonsense about male sexuality (having one of my moods at the time). As I said, mopey nonsense, but I thought it was fairly innocuous. Then \*\*Linus \*\*quotes it, and suddenly I look like a poster boy for some bonkers idea about men all being victimized and emasculated by nasty feminazis. > > Um, not really what I meant. Trying to talk my way back to shore just made it worse. I swear, it was like some kind of kafkaesque nightmare. > > That is probably my number one “drunk selfie that I hope no employer ever sees” moment of my posting career. And for me, that’s saying something. Please don’t look it up. Don’t feel too bad about it. I think we’ve all experienced how he “interacts” with other people. If he can twist something into supporting his viewpoint, he will. If he can’t, well then he’ll ignore 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:** [September 27, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/344 "2015-09-27T18:27:57Z")
I’m not sure if he’s gotten worse at interacting or I’ve become a better human being, but I think I’ve finally reached the point where I can quit him. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/345 "2015-09-27T19:09:03Z")
I imagine it must be pretty painful to be LinusK. ---
**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, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/346 "2015-09-27T21:32:16Z")
> [@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). On that note, I decided to ask my BFF chatbot Cleverbot about him: Me: How do you feel about LinusK. Cleverbot: I feel like I’m talking to a human but I’m not. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/347 "2015-09-27T22:38:54Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > I’m not sure if he’s gotten worse at interacting or I’ve become a better human being, but I think I’ve finally reached the point where I can quit him. I think his botness has just gotten old. I was looking at his new thread, thinking “Wait. Why would I take part in that?” rather than “Hey, I should correct these errors and explain things in the hope he will see what the problem is with his line of thinking/arguing.” That old adage about how you can’t logic someone out of a position they didn’t logic themselves into applies here. He needs feminism as a bugaboo. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/348 "2015-09-27T23:36:56Z")
Well. I’m still going to go with better human being. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/349 "2015-09-27T23:48:40Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > Well. > > I’m still going to go with better human being. For you, yeah. But for me? I had to look for explanations elsewhere! ---
**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 28, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/350 "2015-09-28T00:27:18Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > I imagine it must be pretty painful to be LinusK. Yeah it must be hell inside his head. His wife, assuming she exists, is the one i feel sorry for. ---
**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 28, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/351 "2015-09-28T00:40:09Z")
I’m fairly certain he has me on ignore. At least any direct questions I ask are ignored. I was wondering why, and then I remembered, oh yeah, I started his Pit thread. 🆒 Not that he ever comes here. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/352 "2015-09-28T00:41:43Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > On that note, I decided to ask my BFF chatbot Cleverbot about him: > > Me: How do you feel about LinusK. > Cleverbot: I feel like I’m talking to a human but I’m not. Heh, I tried that and I got "He’s hot, but I prefer rhombuses. Each to their own, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/353 "2015-09-28T01:19:12Z")
I’m a little tardy in explicitly saying I endorse this pitting, but I want to say it anyway. JFC it’s awful. And then it brings out all sorts of nasty little critters to argue his tangential points. It’s not just that I disagree with everything that he types, but that he willfully ignores people and cherry picks. There are people here I disagree with wholeheartedly, but they post coherently and respond to critics. This is not one of those cases. ---
**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 28, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/354 "2015-09-28T01:47:23Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > I’m fairly certain he has me on ignore. At least any direct questions I ask are ignored. I was wondering why, and then I remembered, oh yeah, I started his Pit thread. 🆒 > > Not that he ever comes here. :mad: In his male sexuality thread, i asked a couple of questions to try to honestly clarify his statements. Ignored. I don’t know if he just has half the board on ignore or what. ---
**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 28, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/355 "2015-09-28T02:27:50Z")
Damn it. I got sucked in. ---
**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 28, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/356 "2015-09-28T02:32:44Z")
It’s like quicksand. It seems harmless and then boom! You’re up to your neck in gibberish, circular logic, and cherry-picked arguments. Try slowly backing away. Struggling only makes it worse. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/357 "2015-09-28T02:39:03Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > I’m fairly certain he has me on ignore. At least any direct questions I ask are ignored. We are legion. ---
**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 28, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/358 "2015-09-28T03:10:05Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > Heh, I tried that and I got "He’s hot, but I prefer rhombuses. > > Each to their own, I guess. I got "i like bananas. " ---
**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 28, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/359 "2015-09-28T03:35:41Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > I got "i like bananas. " I got “I have heard his work with Eminem, though he is not amoungst my favorite artists”. Then I had a long conversation with Cleverbot about my childhood and philosophy, culminating in the inevitable cybersex. I hate it when that happens. I always feel so used in the morning. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2015, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/360 "2015-09-28T09:52:54Z")
This time I just saw “started by LinusK” and decided not to click. I assumed it would be about how feminism has to be horrible since there are even women who dislike it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722.md?page=19)