# Rand Rover, you want to associate with us? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 30, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734 "2009-07-30T01:09:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ajb867](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@ajb867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajb867)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/41 "2009-07-30T02:48:42Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > I’m also pretending that I’m typing this from the bridge of the Enterprise whilst I sit upon my loyal pegasus. Which Enterprise? Can I pet your pony or does he bite? ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/42 "2009-07-30T02:50:06Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Rand isn’t popular So how many 40 page threads are about you? Yeah, I thought so (BURRRRN!). ---
**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:** [July 30, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/43 "2009-07-30T02:53:04Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > So how many 40 page threads are about you? Yeah, I thought so (BURRRRN!). I’m not popular, either, and it’s also for good reason. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/44 "2009-07-30T02:54:10Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > So how many 40 page threads are about you? Yeah, I thought so (BURRRRN!). I prefer threads about me to be because people like me. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/45 "2009-07-30T02:55:34Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > So how many 40 page threads are about you? Yeah, I thought so (BURRRRN!). Isn’t that thread about universal health care? And curlcoat? And Guinastasia? Mostly. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/46 "2009-07-30T03:00:28Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > Isn’t that thread about universal health care? And curlcoat? **And Guinastasia**? Mostly. NO!! You take that back!!! I do NOT have a secret crush on Guinistasia, please stop insisting that I do!! I do NOT have a “sex with an epileptic” fetish for gods’ sakes, that is gross!!! I would NOT risk my family and career just to steal her used panties, you pervert, stop saying that!!! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/47 "2009-07-30T03:04:29Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > You wanted to hurt his feelings and be spiteful. And now you’re claiming that you’re exactly the same way in person so, well, probably not a whole lot of tears shed over you not being at a dopefest, huh? Probably not. Too bad, too sad. Like I care. There are some posters I wouldn’t mind meeting in real life. There are some posters I would not want to meet in real life. I don’t expect that after calling the latter names for the extent of my membership on the board that they would want to meet me. **Rand Rover** does expect that, and that’s why I started the thread. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/48 "2009-07-30T03:08:09Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Probably not. Too bad, too sad. Like I care. > > There are some posters I wouldn’t mind meeting in real life. There are some posters I would not want to meet in real life. I don’t expect that after calling the latter names for the extent of my membership on the board that they would want to meet me. **Rand Rover** does expect that, and that’s why I started the thread. Isn’t it entirely possible that internet persona and the real person behind it are completely different things? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/49 "2009-07-30T03:09:36Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > I’d let just about anybody buy me a drink, but then I am a raging alcoholic. In MY case, I’d let just about anybody buy me a drink, but then I am a raging cheapskate 😃 Besides, I don’t get roudy anymore, I just fall asleep 😛 ---
**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:** [July 30, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/50 "2009-07-30T03:11:01Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > In MY case, I’d let just about anybody buy me a drink, but then I am a raging cheapskate 😃 I don’t drink, but I’ll buy a drink for just about anybody because I’m easily entertained. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/51 "2009-07-30T03:11:03Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > NO!! You take that back!!! I do NOT have a secret crush on Guinistasia, please stop insisting that I do!! I do NOT have a “sex with an epileptic” fetish for gods’ sakes, that is gross!!! I would NOT risk my family and career just to steal her used panties, you pervert, stop saying that!!! That, which I wasn’t going to bring up, but now that you mention it… and you are obviously incredibly jealous of curlcoat because she’s twice as aggravating as you are, without even meaning to be, while you spend all this energy and still FAIL. She’s still the Queen, and you are just her knave. Quit trying to take credit for her awesome power to turn any thread into a 40 page trainwreck. It ain’t all about you, dog. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/52 "2009-07-30T03:11:27Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Isn’t it entirely possible that internet persona and the real person behind it are completely different things? My post #33 may answer this question. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/53 "2009-07-30T03:15:22Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Isn’t it entirely possible that internet persona and the real person behind it are completely different things? It’s not just possible to me; it’s probable. Frank probably doesn’t go around threatening people in person. Rand probably doesn’t go around kicking puppies and talking about his mansion and his yacht. Lots of people I meet in person don’t know that I’m a rabidly pro-choice atheist who publicly admitted to a crush (minor, okay! Stop judging me!) on Wallace Shawn. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SmashTheState](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@SmashTheState](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmashTheState)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/54 "2009-07-30T03:15:29Z")
Randroids are some of the most boring and annoying people I have ever met. In fact I can’t recall ever associating with a Randroid I didn’t loathe in the first 5 minutes. They are inevitably puffed-up, pontificating blowhards who consider themselves smarter than everyone else in the room, and will bore you for hours with boasts about their financial success and material possessions. They’re Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, only with bad haircuts and their sociopathy couched in faux-irony because they’re physical cowards. You couldn’t pay me to socialize with someone I knew in advance was a Randroid. Whatever else people have to say about anarchists, at least we’re never dull and we know how to fucking party. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/55 "2009-07-30T03:19:21Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > That, which I wasn’t going to bring up, but now that you mention it… and you are obviously incredibly jealous of curlcoat because she’s twice as aggravating as you are, without even meaning to be, while you spend all this energy and still FAIL. She’s still the Queen, and you are just her knave. Quit trying to take credit for her awesome power to turn any thread into a 40 page trainwreck. It ain’t all about you, dog. All of us have that power within us. We just have to find multiquote so incredibly hard I didn’t go to college I am rich I was eating napkins my parents didn’t love me I don’t want to pay for your babies that I didn’t go to college isn’t my fault it’s your fault and you’re poor so there. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/56 "2009-07-30T03:19:35Z")
I’m no Randroid, pal. For one, I ain’t so sure that the Aynster actually conquered the “is-ought” problem (go ahead and google that, Smashy, I know you have no idea what I’m talking about). I generally am not interested in Rand’s metaphysics (i.e., the “A is A” stuff), I just think that not fucking with the productive is a better way to run a society. Also, you may not want to come to the Chidope, because Frank may stab you. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/57 "2009-07-30T03:19:55Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > You want to meet us? Why, to demonstrate your social skills? Np, because he’s [interesting](http://www.slate.com/id/2218849/). I think he’d be fun to meet. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/58 "2009-07-30T03:23:26Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Frank probably doesn’t go around threatening people in person. The implied threat in the OP was conditional on my being drunk, and - yes - under certain circumstances that has happened in real life. I see very little difference between Rand Rover’s attitude towards me and the guy’s attitude towards me who called me a traitor shortly after the invasion of Iraq, and I see very little reason as to why I would react to them differently were the circumstances similar. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/59 "2009-07-30T03:23:37Z")
HA! I just coined a new term for Obama’s cap-and-trade bill: \*\*\* cap-and-fap\*\*\*!!! Because you know Obama masturbates to the thought of sticking “it” to the big bad companies that are warming our globe or whatever!! Everyone is free to pass this on to whomever they choose (like herpes). ---
**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:** [July 30, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734/60 "2009-07-30T03:24:50Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > The implied threat in the OP was conditional on my being drunk, and - yes - under certain circumstances that has happened in real life. Then you’re a worse person than someone who plays a Randian on the internets. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-rover-you-want-to-associate-with-us/504734.md?page=4)