# Re Susanann: Do Not Feed The Idiot **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 20, 2011, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346 "2011-03-20T10:58:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/181 "2011-03-24T15:25:33Z")
Wow, I’ve seen some threads get derailed, but this is fucking ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/182 "2011-03-24T16:40:16Z")
Well, I don’t know about you, but my gasser guy is E.F. Hutton, and _he_ says: “The joke’s getting old, right?” ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/183 "2011-03-24T16:46:35Z")
To be fair, the joke was old in 1981. ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/184 "2011-03-24T17:24:53Z")
> [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > This post has been tomatoed by the Tomatoist. > > Now can we go back to PALATR-ing **susannan** and the gasser guy? i’m down, but i think that ship may have sailed. ---
**Author:** ![Algorithm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/algorithm/32/12204_2.png) [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/185 "2011-03-24T18:52:42Z")
PERHAPS **eXpectopatronum** IS TRYING TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS BUT DID NOT REALIZE THE BOARD DOES NOT ALLOW THAT AND WILL JUST MAKE THE LETTERS LOWER CASE INSTEAD. REGARDLESS, FOR THOSE CONCERNED HERE IS YOUR QUOTA OF CAPITAL LETTERS FOR THIS THREAD. LET ME KNOW IF I’VE MISSED ANY. ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/186 "2011-03-24T18:59:27Z")
wow, clever. i’m impressed. please continue to post witty remarks. i’ll be right over here on the edge of my seat. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/187 "2011-03-24T19:41:00Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Really, the Reality Distortion Field hovering about this poster… I just love the expression “Reality Distortion Field”. 🆒 We should keep using it. I can think of another poster we could apply it to, namely **Commissar** ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/188 "2011-03-24T22:31:09Z")
How about we get back to making fun of Susanann, yes? The stupidity she is currently showing in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=601551&page=3) about Detroit is massive. She doesn’t seem to realize that cities in different countries, with different laws, governments, and populations just might behave differently. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/189 "2011-03-24T23:23:58Z")
Does anyone doubt she’s read the entire _Left Behind_ series? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/190 "2011-03-24T23:31:00Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > How about we get back to making fun of Susanann, yes? The stupidity she is currently showing in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=601551&page=3) about Detroit is massive. She doesn’t seem to realize that cities in different countries, with different laws, governments, and populations just might behave differently. Susanann: “There are DIFFERENT! countries?!?!” ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/191 "2011-03-24T23:51:27Z")
Well, you know, E.F. Hutton is both my christian-book-author _and_ my geographer. Know what he says? ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/192 "2011-03-25T01:19:19Z")
it’s her attitude about having kids that gets to me. i don’t want kids, and for someone to tell me my life is pointless because of that really grates. admittedly, part of that could be because i have the occasional doubt that i’m missing something. most of the time, i’m comfortable with that decision. i look to my aunt as a role model- she never had her own children. she’s now 70, doesn’t look a day past 50, retired, financially comfortable, travels constantly, and is perfectly happy. but in susanann’s distorted world, her life(and mine) is a waste because we haven’t reproduced. nice indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/193 "2011-03-25T01:21:38Z")
The moment I thought she was nutty was when she said she thought it was weird for people to listen to music not from their generation. Even though she thought the music from her generation was great it skeeved her to think of younger people enjoying it. It just seemed the antithesis of intellectual curiosity. I honestly have no idea why someone with that attitude would find interesting about a board like this. No clue. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/194 "2011-03-25T01:31:04Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > How about we get back to making fun of Susanann, yes? The stupidity she is currently showing in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=601551&page=3) about Detroit is massive. She doesn’t seem to realize that cities in different countries, with different laws, governments, and populations just might behave differently. And Detroit would be a better place if only it wasn’t such a bad place. Or something: > [@Detroit dopers - Why all the burned out homes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detroit-dopers-why-all-the-burned-out-homes/575485/26): > > Anyway, I agree with what you say. > As you say, all Detroit has to do is: > > 1. to eliminate crime, > 2. get good schools, and > 3. reasonable taxes > > …and businesses would come back, employed married people would come back, and Detroit would boom once again as it did 10 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/195 "2011-03-25T01:39:08Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > And Detroit would be a better place if only it wasn’t such a bad place. Or something: Holy crap, I was sure you made that up. That is weapons grade stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/196 "2011-03-25T02:34:02Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Holy crap, I was sure you made that up. That is weapons grade stupid. Why is it so stupid? It’s totally true! The Detroit city government must be really dumb, not being able to figure out that having good schools, low crime rate, and reasonable taxes are helpful for running a city. I can’t believe I went to the trouble of getting a masters degree in public policy when the answers to policy problems are _that simple_. Thanks for showing us the error of our ways, **Susanann**. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/197 "2011-03-25T04:43:29Z")
Well, to be fair, nobody was mentioning the fact that nobody would live in Detroit if they could live somewhere else, no matter how damned good the schools are. Do you people not realize there are places it doesn’t snow? And when it does you get to stay home? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/198 "2011-03-25T04:57:54Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > The moment I thought she was nutty was when she said she thought it was weird for people to listen to music not from their generation. Even though she thought the music from her generation was great it skeeved her to think of younger people enjoying it. ??? Say whut? ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/199 "2011-03-25T05:18:42Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Well, to be fair, nobody was mentioning the fact that nobody would live in Detroit if they could live somewhere else, no matter how damned good the schools are. Do you people not realize there are places it doesn’t snow? And when it does you get to stay home? Personally, I’d rather live in a snowy place than a state that flies a racist flag on its state capitol. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/200 "2011-03-25T05:31:07Z")
Ooh, zing. But seriously the whole confederate flag thing is getting old, south. sometimes i don’t capitalize and leave off punctuation because i can’t be bothered [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346.md?page=11)