# 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:** 8
**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 23, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/141 "2011-03-23T18:21:45Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Don’t take it upon yourself to speak for everybody, please. Until this thread, I was unaware that **expectopatronum** even existed. I may or may not decide to take him seriously, but it won’t be on the basis of capitalization alone. I was speaking for the other people in this thread who said the same thing, which should have been screamingly obvious. ---
**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 23, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/142 "2011-03-23T18:23:30Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Don’t take it upon yourself to speak for everybody, please. Until this thread, I was unaware that **expectopatronum** even existed. I may or may not decide to take him seriously, but it won’t be on the basis of capitalization alone. thanks, and just for the record, i’m female. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/143 "2011-03-23T18:35:15Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > I was speaking for the other people in this thread who said the same thing, which should have been screamingly obvious. What should be screamingly obvious is that you could simply skip his posts instead of derailing this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/144 "2011-03-23T18:37:50Z")
> [@expectopatronum](#): > > thanks, and just for the record, i’m female. Not a surprise. Soooo cutesy! ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/145 "2011-03-23T18:38:24Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#): > > What reason might you have to not capitalize words that should be? Since your writing is otherwise decent, and it requires so little effort to use the shift key when appropriate causes folks to wonder why you’re either deliberately trying to be annoyingly different. Or just simply an incredibly lazy arse. > > Either way, it detracts and distracts from the quality of your content and how you’re perceived. I mean you’ve made it this far in the realm of coherency. Why not go the full nine yards, use the goddamn shift key? If you’re using a mobile device it can be a PITA. Its one reason why kids don’t use it. ---
**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 23, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/146 "2011-03-23T18:40:50Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > What should be screamingly obvious is that you could simply skip his posts instead of derailing this thread. Back atcha. Speaking of derailing, “he” just pointed out he’s a she. ---
**Author:** ![elninost0rm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ed655f/32.png) [@elninost0rm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elninost0rm)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/147 "2011-03-23T18:43:38Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > Oh my fucking God, if you can’t figure out how to use the shift key I cannot listen to anything you say. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. ---
**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 23, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/148 "2011-03-23T18:53:20Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Not a surprise. Soooo cutesy! your interpretation is…off, to say the least. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/149 "2011-03-23T19:12:46Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > I’m not angry. **I don’t give a shit about you** one way or the other. But you know it’s incorrect, **you know it makes people here unwilling to take you seriously,** and you know it’s “not that big a deal” to capitalize, yet you refuse to do so, so the only conclusion to be drawn is that you’re doing it on purpose to be “different”. Sounds like a teen to me. Bolding mine. Reply to first bolded part: For not giving a shit you sure are spending a lot of time giving a shit. Two days worth of giving a shit in fact. Reply to second bolded part: Who are these “people” you’re talking about? It sure as shit doesn’t make me go all fucking crazy and go whining for two days just because someone doesn’t capitalize. I find it funny that most of the people throwing a hissy fit because **expectopatronum** doesn’t capitalize didn’t even capitalize their own username. You people do know that people here are unwilling to take you seriously if you won’t even take your own username seriously by capitalizing it. Edit: > [@elninost0rm](#): > > You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. Nope. She’s that much of a bitch. ---
**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 23, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/150 "2011-03-23T19:27:54Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > Bolding mine. > > Reply to first bolded part: > For not giving a shit you sure are spending a lot of time giving a shit. Two days worth of giving a shit in fact. > > Reply to second bolded part: > Who are these “people” you’re talking about? It sure as shit doesn’t make me go all fucking crazy and go whining for two days just because someone doesn’t capitalize. > > I find it funny that most of the people throwing a hissy fit because **expectopatronum** doesn’t capitalize didn’t even capitalize their own username. You people do know that people here are unwilling to take you seriously if you won’t even take your own username seriously by capitalizing it. > > Edit: > Nope. She’s that much of a bitch. It’s called being bored at work. You’re lucky if you can’t relate. If you think I’ve been fuming for 48 hours rather than just occasionally refreshing multiple tabs waiting for something new to respond to here or on Facebook or Twitter between having shit to do - well, do you honestly know anybody like that? I’m here to be edified and amused. But again, I don’t give a shit. Think whatever you wish of me. If you want, you can picture me with a spittle-flecked chin and wild unkempt hair, eyes bulging cartoonishly. That would be cool. As for the second bolded part, I already answered it. Try to keep up. Third, I _don’t_ take my username seriously. It’s always been meant as a joke. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/151 "2011-03-23T19:31:00Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > If you’re using a mobile device it can be a PITA. Its one reason why kids don’t use it. I don’t understand why they can’t work like Word and automatically capitalize the beginning of every sentence, as well as “i” whenever it’s by itself. My cheap Net10 cellphone does at least the former. ---
**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 23, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/152 "2011-03-23T19:42:50Z")
i don’t post from my phone, for whatever it’s worth. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/153 "2011-03-23T21:37:29Z")
> [@expectopatronum](#): > > if people file me under illiterate, i can’t stop them, but i think i’ve demonstrated that i can read and write just fine I’d say you’ve demonstrated precisely the opposite. ---
**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 23, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/154 "2011-03-23T21:50:38Z")
rude ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/155 "2011-03-23T21:58:19Z")
I’ve waited quite a while for Susanann to be pitted. This derailment makes me ☹ . ---
**Author:** ![Cyningablod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Cyningablod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyningablod)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/156 "2011-03-23T22:10:36Z")
> [@expectopatronum](#): > > rude But true. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/157 "2011-03-23T22:12:34Z")
She’s stopped punctuating, now. I think the problem is metastasizing. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/158 "2011-03-23T22:15:15Z")
> [@expectopatronum](#): > > it’s not a gimmick **Yes it fucking is. Of course it is.** (This post has been beed by the beeist.) Anyway, my fave **Susannan** post is where she blames the Japanese tsunami victims for living near the coast. Classic stoopid. ---
**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 23, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/159 "2011-03-23T22:17:05Z")
no, i just don’t have much more to say about it. you’ve all made your point. i know the dope enjoys beating dead horses but it’s getting boring. and no, it’s not. you can say it all you want, doesn’t make it true. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346/160 "2011-03-23T22:32:41Z")
Yes it is a gimmick. You’ve stated that you know it’s expected, you know it’s correct, but you choose not to captialise. Denying it doesn’t make it false. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-susanann-do-not-feed-the-idiot/575346.md?page=9)