# Rioter, thanks for getting that tattoo **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 20, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369 "2021-02-20T23:25:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/21 "2021-02-21T21:42:39Z")
Is this an admission of trolling? ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/22 "2021-02-21T21:49:16Z")
What? Comments were made about my “old news” so I attempted a humorous reply to indicate I would do better next time. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/23 "2021-02-21T21:55:46Z")
Wow, that was an odd leap. Also, how in the world is this thread trolling? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/24 "2021-02-21T22:22:25Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Right, they were out and proud, happy to be showing their faces, names and work badges. Until the consequences set in. Then, to quote the seldom-heard last verse of _Yankee Doodle_: > _It scared me so, I hooked it off,_ > _Nor stopped, as I remember,_ > _Nor turned about till I got home,_ > _Locked up in mother’s chamber._ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/25 "2021-02-21T22:37:53Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Wow, that was an odd leap. Also, how in the world is this thread trolling? I’ll try to unpack this. First of all, it’s pretty well-established that the OP is no friend of the protesters from last summer. Secondly, recent threads on the Dope about disturbers of the peace facing consequences for their actions have largely been about schadenfreude being directed at supporters of the America-hating fuckstick. This thread, begun by this OP, appears to be what he may think of as retaliatory in nature, in that it aims some schadenfreude in the direction of BLM supporters. IMHO, it it doesn’t take much squinting to see that this at least casts a similarly-shaped shadow to trollery. Just my hot take. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/26 "2021-02-21T23:02:59Z")
No, not the thread. The specific post. It sure reads to my like he’ll try and whip up something more salacious next time since this thread got a general meh + comments about it being old. And since thus us the pit ya, I’m pretty sure mrmrmrmr is a troll ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/27 "2021-02-21T23:06:42Z")
My good sir, theses slanderous charges against me are baseless and without merit. I have no problem with peaceful protesters. If you are with rioters , you are a rioter, just like if you are with Neo-nazis you are a Neo-natzi. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/28 "2021-02-21T23:21:29Z")
> [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > My good sir, theses slanderous charges against me are baseless and without merit. > I have no problem with peaceful protesters. If you are with rioters , you are a rioter, just like if you are with Neo-nazis you are a Neo-natzi. Hush, you. I rather suspect you would have preferred that we rush to the dumbasses’ defense, but that didn’t happen. Feel free to alert us to more recent incidents of misbehavior by dumbasses who happen to nominally share some of our values (when you find them), and we won’t defend them then, either. ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/29 "2021-02-21T23:34:25Z")
You can suspect anything you want, far be it for me to restrict your rich mental fantasy life . If I had my druthers, you would respond to things I actually post. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/30 "2021-02-22T01:23:11Z")
The OP is only on this board to troll liberals, and they’re actually doing a pretty clever job of it. It’s just that the culture here is too naive to notice what @MrMrmrmr is doing. They stopped understanding troll behavior about a decade or so ago. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/31 "2021-02-22T01:51:01Z")
That’s why it’s fun to turn the thread towards Republican terrorism. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/32 "2021-02-22T01:52:43Z")
When I saw the title, I immediately thought of Shaman Dude and other ink’d insurrectionists on 1/6. So if it’s trolling, it’s truly inept. BUT, as a thread idea, it’s good. A chance to make fun of those idiots who identified themselves… through the bad decisions they’d made years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/33 "2021-02-22T04:35:43Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > No, they didn’t think of covering it up because they thought that they were Big Damn Heroes 1776ing. Which brings me to wonder why they’re not all proudly declaring to the judge they’re guilty of what they did. An aside: I got the biggest kick out of seeing those traitors aving around a fringed/tassled United States flag. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/34 "2021-02-22T04:40:33Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I once saw a prisoner with a life-sized scorpion tattooed on his face and I was thinking “Once you decided to become a criminal, you were always one line-up away from going to prison.” Pity. One of my favorite tattoos from [Science Ink](https://carlzimmer.com/books/science-ink-tattoos-of-the-science-obsessed/) is a tattoo of a scorpion done in UV reflective ink. You can’t see it without a black light. If he had only known. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/35 "2021-02-22T05:07:21Z")
> [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > You can suspect anything you want, far be it for me to restrict your rich mental fantasy life . If I had my druthers, you would respond to things I actually post. Your “druthers” may rejoice, then, upon re-reading post #4 of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/36 "2021-02-22T05:07:30Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Pity. One of my favorite tattoos from [Science Ink](https://carlzimmer.com/books/science-ink-tattoos-of-the-science-obsessed/) is a tattoo of a scorpion done in UV reflective ink. You can’t see it without a black light. If he had only known. Blacklights matter. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/37 "2021-02-22T05:11:44Z")
> [@digs](#): > > A chance to make fun of those idiots who identified themselves… through the bad decisions they’d made years ago. Seriously. Storming the Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the government because Donald Trump told you it was a good idea is not beginner stupidity. You have to practice with years of making poor choices to reach that level. This was like the Bad Decision Olympics. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/38 "2021-02-22T05:22:22Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > [@Yllaria](#): > > > > Pity. One of my favorite tattoos from [Science Ink](https://carlzimmer.com/books/science-ink-tattoos-of-the-science-obsessed/) is a tattoo of a scorpion done in UV reflective ink. You can’t see it without a black light. If he had only known. > > Blacklights matter. I want you to go to your room and THINK about what you did. I’m not angry, just very, VERY disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/39 "2021-02-22T05:30:44Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Blacklights matter. OUCH! Ow, ow. That hurt. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369/40 "2021-02-22T06:54:47Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > > [@digs](#): > > > > A chance to make fun of those idiots who identified themselves… through the bad decisions they’d made years ago. > > Seriously. Storming the Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the government because Donald Trump told you it was a good idea is not beginner stupidity. You have to practice with years of making poor choices to reach that level. This was like the Bad Decision Olympics. Well, Klete Keller is extra qualified, then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rioter-thanks-for-getting-that-tattoo/933369.md?page=3)