# RealityChuck, you're an ignorant twat. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 12, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567 "2012-02-12T00:27:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/61 "2012-02-13T02:42:10Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > So he’s volatile, obsessive, and at times grandiose. I’d expect no less of a history buff and nostalgiac. We’re all that way - we live on the fringes of society and reality. Yeah, that first sentence describes at least half the regular posters here. And I clicked the “several posts schooling you about the facts” link in the OP, expecting as someone else in this thread put it: “a smack down”. It wasn’t several posts, it was one. And he seemed confused on who was making what claims in the thread, and didn’t even really address the points in the post he was replying to. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/62 "2012-02-13T03:17:46Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Sadly, my book has won no awards. It’s done “pretty well” if your definition of that is “breaking even”. I expect my next royalty statement to actually be in the black for the first time. After over a decade on sale. (Don’t go into publishing for the money) Thanks for the clarification. While my books have never garnered any fame, they have all been written on contract. As a result I’m considerably in the black even if they don’t sell a single copy. There’s still actually big money in Sahara-dry nonfiction text books and mind-numbingly dull technical volumes. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/63 "2012-02-13T04:40:13Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > In WA state it’s illegal and the state patrol focused on pulling people over that were doing this about a year ago. > > Their goal is traffic flow and having cars blocking the passing lane was seen as working against that goal. I know, like I said, for pragmatic reasons, driving at the speed limit in the left lane is foolish. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/64 "2012-02-13T05:14:46Z")
He’s riled me [once.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=637198) ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/65 "2012-02-13T07:16:41Z")
This pitting, unlike **RealityChuck** , appears wise and true. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/66 "2012-02-13T07:41:48Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > Thanks for the clarification. > > While my books have never garnered any fame, they have all been written on contract. As a result I’m considerably in the black even if they don’t sell a single copy. There’s still actually big money in Sahara-dry nonfiction text books and mind-numbingly dull technical volumes. sure, if they feature time-traveling Nazi dinosaurs! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/67 "2012-02-13T13:18:37Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > [quote=] > Originally Posted by Illinois Rules of the Road [/QUOTE] I’ll never look at this phrase the same again after Jay and Silent Bob. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/68 "2012-02-13T14:53:25Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > So i wrote about decaying corpses (before they were cool), variable stars, and **oral transmission**. I prefer an automatic. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/69 "2012-02-13T15:37:42Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > He’s riled me [once.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=637198) Awesome. He was a condescending dick, and you got the warning. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/70 "2012-02-13T16:24:59Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Awesome. He was a condescending dick, and you got the warning. I don’t know. It seemed to me, in that case, that **RealityChuck** actually answered the question pretty well. And if all you can muster as the content of an OP is “Ugh, why?” you probably shouldn’t whine too much if people don’t give you the type of answer you’re looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/71 "2012-02-13T17:02:42Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I don’t know. It seemed to me, in that case, that **RealityChuck** actually answered the question pretty well. > > And if all you can muster as the content of an OP is “Ugh, why?” you probably shouldn’t whine too much if people don’t give you the type of answer you’re looking for. **MOIDALIZE** probably deserved that warning, but c’mon — it’s not as if people don’t realize that television stations schedule programming according to profit maximization. Dropping in to point that out just makes someone look pedantic and combative (and silly). ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/72 "2012-02-13T18:02:30Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > pedantic and combative (and silly). Sums up my impression of\*\* RealityChuck\*\*. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/73 "2012-02-13T18:24:38Z")
> [@emcee2k](#): > > Originally Posted by Beware of Doug > So he’s volatile, obsessive, and at times grandiose. I’d expect no less of a history buff and nostalgiac. We’re all that way - we live on the fringes of society and reality. > > Yeah, that first sentence describes at least half the regular posters here. Yeah, but still, **Chuck** has a particularly cool sense of the historic. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/74 "2012-02-13T19:11:47Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > pedantic and combative (and silly). > [@Crotalus](#): > > Sums up my impression of\*\* RealityChuck\*\*. Also not a bad description of the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/75 "2012-02-13T19:44:48Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Yeah, but still, **Chuck** has a particularly cool sense of the historic. That must be nice. At least the two of you can sit in your yurt at the fringes of society and regale each other with tales of the distant past, when people could still stand being around you. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/76 "2012-02-13T20:02:32Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Also not a bad description of the SDMB. Throw some kindness, meanness, humor, lack of humor, intelligence, stupidity, erudition and ignorance, and that’s the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/77 "2012-02-13T20:13:07Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > Throw some kindness, meanness, humor, lack of humor, intelligence, stupidity, erudition and ignorance, and that’s the SDMB. And old jokes, and people who hate old jokes, and a near-fanatical devotion to Cecil Adams! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/78 "2012-02-13T20:15:50Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > And old jokes, and people who hate old jokes, and a near-fanatical devotion to Cecil Adams! And smilies. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/79 "2012-02-13T20:39:14Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > And old jokes, and people who hate old jokes […] “On the next Maury: Opal-greeting death rays who burning your dog and masturbate like motherfucks while diving to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and the people who hate them. Don’t miss it.” ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567/80 "2012-02-14T01:18:08Z")
The way **Reality Chuck** expresses his views on _Aliens_ and salt have put him on my pay-no-mind list. He’s an authority in his own mind (as opposed to me, who should be a recognized authority on everything under the sun…but no one seems to realize that). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realitychuck-youre-an-ignorant-twat/612567.md?page=5)