# 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:** 23
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/441 "2015-10-20T19:43:40Z")
[QUOTE=raventhief] You’re an idiot. [/QUOTE] My crystal ball tells me that between **raventhief** and me one is an idiot, and the other has a PhD in Mathematics. Thus **raventhief** has a PhD in Mathematics and deserves our respect. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/442 "2015-10-20T20:08:53Z")
That’s more like it! Whip out your dick so you feel good about yourself! ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/443 "2015-10-20T20:13:50Z")
I know plenty of real doctors who are idiots, and a PhD really doesn’t buy you any more respect around these parts. We like to judge people by their words and not simply by what papers you have earned. Although if there is a math question up for answer we may defer to a specialist. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/444 "2015-10-20T20:20:25Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > My crystal ball tells me that between **raventhief** and me one is an idiot, and the other has a PhD in Mathematics. Thus **raventhief** has a PhD in Mathematics and deserves our respect. Let me see that crystal ball. When will CCitizen grow the fuck up and join the rest of the adults? Hmmm. It says when mommy and daddy let him. And it also says yes, CCitizen is an idiot! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/445 "2015-10-20T20:37:17Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > But on this forum I am wearing a cybermuzzle – an order from moderators to abstain from using certain words on a forum where I have invested energy and time resources in building my cyberprofile. That was not an instruction from me as a moderator, that was a comment from me as a poster, and carries no sanction any more extreme than my own personal disapproval. Moderator instructions will be clearly and unambiguously marked as such. Absent such indicators, it is safe to assume that any post made by someone with “Moderator” under the screen name is posting as a regular member, and not in their official capacity as a moderator of this message board. Incidentally, two other terms you should avoid using: “cyberprofile” and “homo interneticus.” Because you sound like an absolute ass-squirt of a human being when you use those phrases with a straight face. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/446 "2015-10-20T20:48:32Z")
OK, I will leave this forum until '16. Hopefully by that time the righteous anger of those who pursue me for my cyberoffenses will cool down. PS. The technical help I have received on this forum wrt computer science is very valuable. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/447 "2015-10-20T20:53:55Z")
Man, you fold up easier than a deck chair. > [@](#): > > Hopefully by that time the righteous anger of those who pursue me for my cyberoffenses will cool down. Don’t count on it. Memories like elephants, the people around here. Also, don’t say “cyberoffenses.” Honestly, just stop adding “cyber-” to other words. The other words don’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/448 "2015-10-20T20:57:11Z")
Right sentiment, wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/449 "2015-10-20T21:18:18Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > Actually, I hope you’re a troll. Otherwise, I’m forced to believe that you’re actually as miserable and pathetic a human being as you purport to be, and that gives me a major sad. Oh, he’s definitely a troll. What makes _me_ sad is that people who actually have autism spectrum disorders have enough problems as it is without vile little creeps on the Internet claiming to have Asperger’s syndrome as a cover for their trollery. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/450 "2015-10-20T22:06:23Z")
Oh, he could be on the spectrum. Unfortunately I think he’s got a full boat of other things going on. Doesn’t mean he’s not trolling though. We’ll see if he actually makes it until 2016 without another post. Is there a penalty for being a deliberate troll? Because **Linus** has crossed that line with his latest thread. And **FX** has pretty much crossed the line, kept going into the next time zone, and established his own state. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/451 "2015-10-20T22:22:52Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > OK, I will leave this forum until '16. > > Hopefully by that time the righteous anger of those who pursue me for my cyberoffenses will cool down. > > PS. The technical help I have received on this forum wrt computer science is very valuable. I don’t see any anger, righteous or otherwise. And certainly no one is pursuing you. People are responding to you, with considerable disdain, on an internet _discussion_ board. If you consider negative responses to be anger, stalking, mansults (dear God), etc., you’re probably best off avoiding the internet entirely. Which of course leaves you with no life.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/452 "2015-10-21T01:26:18Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > OK, I will leave this forum until '16. Could you provide those cites before you go? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/453 "2015-10-21T02:31:08Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Oh my god, shut the fuck up CCitizen. Maybe this is why you have no goddamn friends. Since the beginning of fucking time you men have put us into menstruation huts, blocked us from going to temple or church, made sure we know we were goddamn second class citizens and somehow we took this shit. We raised your sons and your daughters. We kept your homes clean. When you couldn’t defend us - cause remember, you told us not to take up arms cause it wasn’t feminine - we got raped by your enemies. When we tried to protect ourselves we were told we were someone else’s property. When we tried to enjoy sex we were called sluts. When we didn’t, it was frigid. Our fathers and then our husbands were the keepers of our virginities and our sexualities. And even nowadays you try to keep us home, you don’t like public breastfeeding, you don’t want us to work, you take away our birth control and our right to an abortion, you try to make it as difficult as you can with our careers, since we kind of HAVE to take time off to have babies, you run the whole goddamn world! And a few of us have stood up and said NO MORE and you somehow think the tides have turned and now men are the abused sex. > > I will tell you what you have been telling us - toughen the fuck up, Princess! Nobody promised you a bed of goddamn roses. Live the life you have been making us live. And let us live without calling us angry militant feminists just for wanting the same thing you do. > > And that goes for your little dog too! > > Ugh. That was brewing up for a long time. /rant over I don’t want to offer any kind of clichéd, formulaic, demeaning, or minimizing reply. But I really like this response and really wish I could accompany you to face everyone who spews this kind of misogynist claptrap in our country and deliver this exquisite smackdown and demand a response. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2015, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/454 "2015-10-21T08:56:04Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > My crystal ball tells me that between **raventhief** and me one is an idiot, and the other has a PhD in Mathematics. Thus **raventhief** has a PhD in Mathematics and deserves our respect. Why does your crystal ball have a hard on for PhDs, and is it specific to Doctors of Math? I think it would do much better work if it didn’t use such irrational ways of judging whom to respect. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/455 "2015-10-21T20:44:49Z")
You can’t swing a cat around here without hitting three or four PhDs. This causes us to be a little less impressed with someone claiming to have any advanced degree. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/456 "2015-10-21T22:22:38Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I don’t want to offer any kind of clichéd, formulaic, demeaning, or minimizing reply. But I really like this response and really wish I could accompany you to face everyone who spews this kind of misogynist claptrap in our country and deliver this exquisite smackdown and demand a response. I would like to second this – that was a \*very \*nice response. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/457 "2015-10-22T01:31:14Z")
Yeah, Anaamika, that was a thing of beauty. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/458 "2015-10-22T02:03:45Z")
That was just outstanding **Anaamika**. > [@Emiliana](#): > > I don’t see any anger, righteous or otherwise. And certainly no one is pursuing you. People are responding to you, with considerable disdain, on an internet _discussion_ board. If you consider negative responses to be anger, stalking, mansults (dear God), etc., you’re probably best off avoiding the internet entirely. Yes, really, by now it’s becoming a plague of people claiming persecution and hate when their proposition does not get a favorable response, or when the other posters do not at least affect a false pretense of equivalence. Be it sex, gender identity, race, religion, nationality, ideology, class. They just don’t get it, they truly believe it’s all just a matter of playing a “victim card” and they should be equally entitled to draw it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/459 "2015-10-22T23:41:39Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > By about a factor 10:1 in the Mainstream Media. Then you’re delusional. I could go into greater detail but Anaamika has already done so more effectively than I could. Stay or leave if you wish. But don’t expect that the responses you’ll get in 2016 will be any different from those you’re getting in 2015 unless you change between now and then. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/460 "2015-10-23T02:37:01Z")
Mother of all that’s holy and bright, that dude is stupid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722.md?page=24)