Seethruart...why do you do this to me?

[Jack_Batty]

Alas, the fruitcake has gone. The thread is locked. This is truly the end of an era. Ok, so the era was only a few days long, but still …

[Ogre]

I’m rather in awe. Did even JDT cause such a ruckus?

Will Seethruart be back?

[Mangetout]

He’s still about I think; he’s been posting drivel in a few other threads too.

[wring]

*Originally posted by Ogre *
**I’m rather in awe. Did even JDT cause such a ruckus?

Will Seethruart be back? **

Question # 1: yes :
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=46061

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45500

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=44175

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=43031&pagenumber=1
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45330
Question #2 Who (A) knows/ (B) cares?

[Cervaise]

Did even JDT cause such a ruckus?

Not really, and I think the reason is that JDT seemed, at least at first, to be semi-rational. Obsessed, yes, but at least willing to engage in a conversation that simulated the give-and-take of actual discussion. It took a couple of weeks before the epic scale of his lunacy became apparent.

Seethruart, on the other hand, arrives and immediately begins spreading his delusionary manure, and unlike JDT is totally, absolutely immune to naysayers right from the get-go. Sure, we get our fair share of head jobs, but rarely do we see one who can stay so glibly on-message despite everybody’s best efforts to batter down their deranged defenses.

Look at it this way: JDT was a wreck on the freeway. We pass him, we slow down and look, and drive on. Then, later, we drive past that same spot, and the wreck is still there. Hmmm, we think. The next day, the wreck is in the exact same place, apparently unchanged, and we slow to look closer. What’s going on here? And days later, we’re fascinated by the persistence of this unfortunate event, but it’s taken a while to realize how bizarre it really is.

Seethruart is also a wreck on a freeway, but he’s a wreck where a school bus has broadsided a petroleum tanker and the whole flaming tangle has rolled off an overpass and landed on a procession for a mass funeral. People are running in circles, on fire, and all the cadavers have been flung out of the hearses to be impaled on road signs, hood ornaments, the semi’s vertical exhaust pipe, etc.

In other words, Seethruart is a wreck you pass and slow down to look at, and then you get off at the next exit and circle around to look at it again. Yeah, it’s a horrible tragedy, but you can’t stop looking at it.

[Esprix]

Originally posted by Cervaise

He has made it clear in the last few additions to that thread that he’s not listening to anything anybody says, and that he’ll keep posting his information to the thread in an effort to keep driving traffic to his website. How much clearer a confession of trolling do we need before somebody decides to eject this sad headcase?

I’ll second that. Admitted blatant trolling ought to be right out - people have been banned for less.

The person I feel most for is Bad Astronomer. My God, man - what did he do on your site? My condolences for having to deal with not only him but all the schmuckfuck loonies out there.

Esprix

[Cap_n_Crude]

I’d just like to thank the inimitable jarbabyj for causing me to waste an entire Wednesday. Mad props to you, my dear. Darn thee to heck.

I woke this morning (or was it afternoon) and perused my email and the SDMB, standard practice when I’m not employed. I saw this thread, and something compelled me to open it. Maybe it was the expectation of a first-class jbj Pit rant, I guess we’ll never know.

It started harmlessly enough, in fact so harmlessly that I didn’t really understand it. I opened both referenced threads. [sub]cue Twilight Zone music[/sub] The horror began.

As has been shown previously, there’s something fascinating about watching a train wreck; we pause to watch the street fight before continuing on to Happy Burger. We overcome our revulsion at the photo of the leap-tall-buildings suicide to ask, “hey, is that corn?” In similar spirit, I started reading both threads.

Let’s just say, I don’t think it’s any coincidence that I’ve had an unshakable headache all day today. The twists and turns of seethruart’s quasi-logical constructions, deft evasions of the burden of proof, and stunning martyr-like perseverance in the face of insurmountable reason left me with severe whiplash. I expect that looking upon the non-Euclidian architecture of forgotten R’Lyeh where Cthulhu lies dreaming would have a similar effect. In other words, have mercy on the tattered remains of my soul, for I read every post.

Sweet merciful crap, this guy’s more than nutty; he’s the entire Chocolate Goo-Goo Cluster of circular argument. Squirrel munchies. A complete ankle-biter.

The only consolations I have gained from this war of brain cell attrition are the knowledge that at least some dopers can be truly dangerous in a debate while maintaining a humorous edge, and some sweet pictures of cuddly widdle raccoons, courtesy of OpalCat. Fuzzy critters always make my day.

Now it’s Thursday. Time for nappy-bye, so maybe I can salvage a decent night’s sleep out of this.

Fnord. Secrecy is job one.

[saepiroth]

originally posted by cervaise
Look at it this way: JDT was a wreck on the freeway. We pass him, we slow down and look, and drive on. Then, later, we drive past that same spot, and the wreck is still there. Hmmm, we think. The next day, the wreck is in the exact same place, apparently unchanged, and we slow to look closer. What’s going on here? And days later, we’re fascinated by the persistence of this unfortunate event, but it’s taken a while to realize how bizarre it really is.

Seethruart is also a wreck on a freeway, but he’s a wreck where a school bus has broadsided a petroleum tanker and the whole flaming tangle has rolled off an overpass and landed on a procession for a mass funeral. People are running in circles, on fire, and all the cadavers have been flung out of the hearses to be impaled on road signs, hood ornaments, the semi’s vertical exhaust pipe, etc.

In other words, Seethruart is a wreck you pass and slow down to look at, and then you get off at the next exit and circle around to look at it again. Yeah, it’s a horrible tragedy, but you can’t stop looking at it.

oh god. i laughed for ten minutes.

especially at this:

all the cadavers have been flung out of the hearses to be impaled on road signs, hood ornaments, the semi’s vertical exhaust pipe, etc.

hmm? oh, yes, i AM morbid. how’d you guess?

[iampunha]

*Originally posted by Ogre *
I’m rather in awe. Did even JDT cause such a ruckus?

IMO, the ruckus JDT caused could never BE close to anything seethuart does. Why? Because going on and on about circumcision is funny. Going on and on about a moon landing hoax has been done so many times here that anyone who starts in gets bombarded. The same was not true in JDT’s case; we didn’t have prepared arguments as much.

JDT was also an ass in GD and got warned a bunch . . . seethruart doesn’t even seem to be able to comprehend his own idiocy, while JDT was at least capable of semi-intelligent debate (though he was, and always will be, a total fucking loon).

To sum up: if JDT had been a “moon hoax” person, he would’ve been worse, I think. After all, he DID take classes in astrophysics at UCLA;)

[tiny_ham]

And really, let me say that to this day, I’m still sad that I was only a lurker when the JDT Fiasco went down. :: shaking head::

[Acco40]

Originally posted by Cervaise:

Look at it this way: JDT was a wreck on the freeway. We pass him, we slow down and look, and drive on. Then, later, we drive past that same spot, and the wreck is still there. Hmmm, we think. The next day, the wreck is in the exact same place, apparently unchanged, and we slow to look closer. What’s going on here? And days later, we’re fascinated by the persistence of this unfortunate event, but it’s taken a while to realize how bizarre it really is.

Seethruart is also a wreck on a freeway, but he’s a wreck where a school bus has broadsided a petroleum tanker and the whole flaming tangle has rolled off an overpass and landed on a procession for a mass funeral. People are running in circles, on fire, and all the cadavers have been flung out of the hearses to be impaled on road signs, hood ornaments, the semi’s vertical exhaust pipe, etc.

In other words, Seethruart is a wreck you pass and slow down to look at, and then you get off at the next exit and circle around to look at it again. Yeah, it’s a horrible tragedy, but you can’t stop looking at it.

I laughed soooo hard at this passage I was repremanded at work! Excellent! That is what the SDMB is for!