# Qin Shi Huangdi, what is your pupose? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 28, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562 "2010-12-28T00:52:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/221 "2011-06-16T01:42:21Z")
He used to annoy me, but I’ve increasingly come to like him. I don’t agree with his political views, but he’s a million miles ahead of most 14 year olds (or 18 year olds for that matter) when it comes to defending them. Sure, sometimes it’s glaringly obvious that he hasn’t really thought them through, but he can at least offer a reasonable explanation for holding them. Anyway, why the hell would we not want him around? We’re mostly here instead of 4chan because we were just like him at the same age. Imagine how much further ahead we’d all be if we’d been having the sort of discussions we have here when we were 14. Stick to your guns, kid. Except that ridiculous “to-day” affectation. Spelling things the way British people do is one thing. Spelling them the way British people did in 1850 is taking it too far. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/222 "2011-06-16T13:23:00Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Except that ridiculous “to-day” affectation. Spelling things the way British people do is one thing. Spelling them the way British people did in 1850 is taking it too far. I had my own brief “British spellings r kewl” phase as a teen. With luck, **QSH** will look back on his with as much embarrassment as I do mine. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/223 "2011-06-16T14:24:50Z")
> [@athelas](#): > > I expect **Dallas Jones** to accurately and humbly adjust his priors about the results of homeschooling vs. public schools. Well then I shall fail to meet your expectations. If you have home schooled your kids or know of others who have been home schooled without getting fucked in the social skills dept that’s great. It is not my experience. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/224 "2011-06-17T14:59:17Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > With luck, **QSH** will look back on his with as much embarrassment as I do mine. One of the best parts about growing up is getting to be embarassed by all the things you used to do. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/225 "2011-06-17T15:01:56Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > One of the best parts about growing up is getting to be embarassed by all the things you used to do. One of the best parts of being an medium-to-old fart is that there wasn’t an internet (that I had access to) to post embarassing stuff to at 13. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/226 "2011-06-17T15:21:40Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > One of the best parts of being an medium-to-old fart is that there wasn’t an internet (that I had access to) to post embarassing stuff to at 13. This is a profound idea worth remembering. I had computers and bulletin boards as an adolescent, but the potential for self-harm was reasonably contained. A few years later, every kid whose skull-plates have barely fused together has a box in his bedroom that’s a potential doorway to a lifetime of humiliation. Today, they carry the power to fuck up their lives forever around in their pockets. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/227 "2011-11-25T04:50:40Z")
I don’t feel like granting the benefit of doubt for his youth when I see him posting something deeply based in bigotry like this: > [@Why was Mexico's revolution less successful than the American one?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-mexicos-revolution-less-successful-than-the-american-one/603750/55): > > Largely due to its Hindu culture, which British administration failed to fully reform. In areas where British culture has been far more strongly adopted the differences are obvioous. In addition Mexico has the benefit of being right next to the US. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/228 "2011-11-26T04:15:53Z")
Just be glad he’s probably just some middle-aged postal worker, because if he’s really 14, then I’ve never seen a more likely school shooter. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/229 "2011-11-26T04:20:25Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I don’t feel like granting the benefit of doubt for his youth when I see him posting something deeply based in bigotry like this: There is a difference between cultural supremacism (which practically everybody holds unless one says Aztec sacrifices or the Indian caste system is a-ok) and biological racial supremacism (which is illogical. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/230 "2011-11-26T04:32:57Z")
Your comment had nothing to do with any kind of rational or logical criticism. It was nothing more than generalized, sweeping, bigoted bullshit. Your extensive track record of small-mindedness, jingoism, irrationality, ignorance, prejudice, and bigotry has long ago cost you the benefit of the doubt in these matters. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/231 "2011-11-26T04:55:10Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Just be glad he’s probably just some middle-aged postal worker, because if he’s really 14, then I’ve never seen a more likely school shooter. Really?! You’ve never seen a more likely school shooter?! I know this is the Pit, but I find that a bit fucked up to be calling him a likely school shooter. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/232 "2011-11-26T04:56:41Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > Really?! You’ve never seen a more likely school shooter?! I know this is the Pit, but I find that a bit fucked up to be calling him a likely school shooter. Perhaps its because I share a last name with a rather famous one. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/233 "2011-11-26T05:00:06Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > Really?! Really. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/234 "2011-11-26T05:00:36Z")
Instead of criticizing Curtis, we should congratulate him on finally learning how to spell “Hindu.” Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/235 "2011-11-26T05:01:42Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Perhaps its because I share a last name with a rather famous one. Harold from Harold and Kumar, and Margaret Cho also have your last name. That doesn’t mean you’re funny. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/236 "2011-11-26T05:13:16Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Really. Then you’re a fucking idiot. You wouldn’t know a potential school shooter if he had a AK47 in your face. **Qin** may be a teen with a lot of problems, but he’s not that messed up. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/237 "2011-11-26T05:22:47Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Really. You’d better contact the authorities too, moron. Because if you’re right and he does go on a shooting spree, then you’ll have blood on your hands because you saw it coming when no one else did and did nothing to stop it. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/238 "2011-11-26T17:06:12Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > Really?! You’ve never seen a more likely school shooter?! I know this is the Pit, but I find that a bit fucked up to be calling him a likely school shooter. If by “fucked up” you mean “hilarious,” then yes. I laughed my tits off at that. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/239 "2011-11-26T17:59:13Z")
Pardon me, ma’am— I think you dropped your bags. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562/240 "2011-11-26T18:19:10Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > You’d better contact the authorities too, moron. Because if you’re right and he does go on a shooting spree, then you’ll have blood on your hands because you saw it coming when no one else did and did nothing to stop it. What will really keep you awake at night, is wondering if he would ever have gone on to shoot up that school if it hadn’t been suggested to him here first??? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qin-shi-huangdi-what-is-your-pupose/565562.md?page=13)