# Ryan\_Liam, a moment please... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 7, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174 "2002-12-07T19:41:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/41 "2002-12-09T14:58:10Z")
I would humbly suggest **Kwyjibo** , that you dislodge whatever object it is that appears to be firmly planted in your ass. The kid needs some guidance and support, not randomly jumping on him in his thread. If it was that much of a problem, email a mod, or email **ryan** himself. There many were appropriate ways to handle this, but pitting him was not one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/42 "2002-12-09T15:15:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Honey \* > \*\* > It’s a little bit like “Peter and the Wolf”. \*\* You mean “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”. Peter never cried wolf, he shot th’ damned wolf! 😃 But point taken otherwise. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/43 "2002-12-09T15:52:20Z")
Thank you, **Fen**. I was assuming she was comparing **Ryan** ’s compulsive thread-starting to Prokofiev’s use of the individual instrumental motif in thematic development, and was about to question the validity of her argument. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/44 "2002-12-09T16:41:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > \*\*You mean “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”. Peter never cried wolf, he shot th’ damned wolf! 😃 > > But point taken otherwise. > > Fenris \*\* :smack: You’re right, thanks \*\* Fenris\*\* ::Note to self, do not post after consuming more than 2 glasses of wine:: ---
**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:** [December 9, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/45 "2002-12-09T20:38:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > \*\*Eh, I don’t have a dog in this fight, I just think “If you don’t like it, don’t read it!” is a poor response to a complaint about someone’s threads. If you disagree with the OP, say why. \*\* Thought that was pretty obvious, but I’ll lay it out, bare bones for ya: This isn’t about too many threads. This isn’t about the subject of the threads. This is about **Ryan\_Liam** not being entertaining enough for **Kwyjibo**. It’s about a guy obvious self-esteem problems being attacked for having obvious self-esteem problems. It’s about trying to start a dogpile on a guy for being _boring_ f’rchristsake! I’ll take a dozen of **Ryan-Liam** ’s pity party posts over one snotty, baseless attack thread like this one, any day. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/46 "2002-12-10T01:55:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elf6c \* > \*\*I thought it was also inspired by the repeated time travel threads. > > 😉 \*\* You mean I’m _not_ going to go to the future with Sir Gary Coleman? Bummer. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/47 "2002-12-10T16:07:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*This isn’t about too many threads. This isn’t about the subject of the threads. This is about **Ryan\_Liam** not being entertaining enough for **Kwyjibo**.It’s about a guy obvious self-esteem problems being attacked for having obvious self-esteem problems. It’s about trying to start a dogpile on a guy for being _boring_ f’rchristsake! \*\* “Oh look Toto! Here comes the scarecrow!” :rolleyes: Not entertaining enough? Give me a break. My beef is with him is over the numerous pointless threads for no other reason to bring attention to himself. Have low self esteem? Looking to get attention? Fine, do it elsewhere. (Like LiveJournal.) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*I’ll take a dozen of **Ryan-Liam** ’s pity party posts over one snotty, baseless attack thread like this one, any day. \*\* So I started a dumb pit thread. No one’s making you read it. ---
**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/48 "2002-12-10T16:20:54Z")
As far as I can tell, there are exactly 2 reasons for starting threads here. One is to ask an actual question, the other is to draw attention to yourself. If you don’t like the attention-seeking threads, I would suggest that you not read anything from the ‘MPSIMS’ or ‘The BBQ Pit’ forums. The OP’s in those forums are all about drawing attention to yourself, not about asking questions. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/49 "2002-12-10T19:07:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kwyjibo \* > \*\* > So I started a dumb pit thread. No one’s making you read it. \*\* I’m up to my neck in irony here…Someone throw a rope!!! ---
**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:** [December 10, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/50 "2002-12-10T19:08:43Z")
I knew it would only be a matter of time before someone told _me_ that if I didn’t like this thread, I didn’t have to read it. Thank you for maintaining my expectations, **Kwyjibo** , but I’m just playing by your rules. I don’t like this thread, so I can pitch a tantrum and whine about it until the target of my attack gives up and goes home. That’s how **you** play the game, right? Really sucks when you’re on the receiving end, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/51 "2002-12-10T19:35:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*I knew it would only be a matter of time before someone told _me_ that if I didn’t like this thread, I didn’t have to read it. Thank you for maintaining my expectations, **Kwyjibo** , but I’m just playing by your rules. I don’t like this thread, so I can pitch a tantrum and whine about it until the target of my attack gives up and goes home. That’s how **you** play the game, right? Really sucks when you’re on the receiving end, doesn’t it? \*\* :rolleyes:Bite me. I wrote that for no other reason than for you to see how stupid your first post in here was…guess ya missed it. I guess I should have put in the old “:rolleyes:” for you ‘wooshable’ folks. (The irony was intended.) But seeing as that it’s being pushed, please explain how my thread is ‘_baseless_’. Did you not see the threads I linked to? You don’t see his multiple threads as being annoying and for not other reason than to get notices? (The mods sure did, hence the new rule, and that’s enough for me!) My rules? :rolleyes: Give me a break. How can you look at Ryan’s posts and not think that he is tr…oops…_vying_ for attention? I have no problem with wanting attention per sa, but this isn’t the place to do it. And not in a manner that he has demonstrated. Look at the list of threads I linked to in the OP! If he doesn’t know WHY he likes something HE likes, then self esteem is the least of his worries. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/52 "2002-12-10T19:52:57Z")
**Kwyjibo** , if you had emailed a mod and kept your fucking whining to yourself, I wouldn’t have had to read this trainwreck waste of a thread. You owe me 3 minutes. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/53 "2002-12-10T20:08:31Z")
Of COURSE he wants attention, you fathead! What the fuck do you think the point of half the forums on this board are? Why else did you post _this_ thread, except that you could push some newbie around and make yourself look big by comparison? And yeah, I got that you were trying to be ironic. You failed. Now, is there any chance of you shutting up any time soon? ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/54 "2002-12-10T20:57:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > **Of COURSE he wants attention, you fathead!** I’m not the one denying this fact, he is. (And he wen’t about it the wrong way…a way that some here found annoying.) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > **Why else did you post _this_ thread, except that you could push some newbie around and make yourself look big by comparison?** So is it official then? Can I take the title of The SDMB Bully? :rolleyes: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*And yeah, I got that you were trying to be ironic. You failed. Now, is there any chance of you shutting up any time soon? \*\* Sure there is. When you stop coming in here I guess. 😉 Mods, I do think it’s time to close this up. I have to agree that it has gotten out of hand. (Feel free to wait until Miller has responded if he so wishes.) ---
**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:** [December 10, 2002, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/55 "2002-12-10T21:05:54Z")
Naw, lock it up. I’ve got nothing left to say to this guy. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/56 "2002-12-11T18:04:44Z")
FWIW, I’ve changed my mind, he’s just a fuckwad. [What is a monopoly?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=2702871#post2702871) Ryan, either you’re a troll or your IQ is below 80. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/57 "2002-12-11T18:21:37Z")
oh, come to add to the ball of twine,eh? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/58 "2002-12-11T18:34:33Z")
Ryan, firstly, this is my second post in this thread (hint: you can look one page 1). Secondly, the question you asked could have easily been answered by looking it up in a book. I went to Manchester Uni. We had stuff like books back then. Has something changed? If you are to lazy to turn a page, the I belive there plenty of online dictioanaries available. If you cannot understand why people are getting pissed off, then you need to some serious thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/59 "2002-12-11T18:38:33Z")
READ THE THREAD: My brother has used my username to basically act like a bastard on the boards. To everyone sorry. Won’t happen again. ---
**Author:** ![NYR407](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@NYR407](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NYR407)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174/60 "2002-12-11T18:40:26Z")
Ryan, can you even explain why you posted that “Monopoly” thread? If you had enough computer know how to find this board you should have easily found the “Reference Site Sicky” at the top of the GQ page. There you would have found a link the Merriam-Webster Dictionary web site. Come on already!! [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=149223](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=149223) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan_liam-a-moment-please/141174.md?page=4)