# Senoy, not a pit, just an ask, please? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 23, 2018, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099 "2018-08-23T07:12:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/1 "2018-08-23T07:12:24Z")
**Senoy** , paragraphs are really handy things, especially on a messageboard like this where reading stuff is what we do. Nowadays, I see your posts but my eyes just glaze over mate…because it’s just TOO HARD to read your swathes of text. I do appreciate your contributions to this board, but can ya PLEASE break up your posts into paragraphs? Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/2 "2018-08-23T13:17:18Z")
You couldn’t have just PM’d this question? ---
**Author:** ![senoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@senoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/senoy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/3 "2018-08-23T18:19:55Z")
I’m not likely to change anyway. 🙂 I’m a windbag by nature and tend to lump thoughts into large paragraphs. I can try, but a couple sentences a thought just doesn’t seem to work for me for very long. ---
**Author:** ![senoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@senoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/senoy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/4 "2018-08-23T18:26:09Z")
Is there a thread in which I am being particularly egregious? ---
**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:** [August 23, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/5 "2018-08-23T18:29:31Z")
> [@senoy](#): > > Is there a thread in which I am being particularly egregious? Dammit, could some brave soul break this word salad down for me, please? I just don’t have the stamina. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/6 "2018-08-23T19:21:19Z")
My life hack for folks likes this is I’ll highlight the entire post, then as I’m reading, I’ll mouse over an unhighlight each line as I’m reading. It’s still annoying, but a workable solution. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/7 "2018-08-23T19:23:29Z")
> [@senoy](#): > > I’m not likely to change anyway. 🙂 I’m a windbag by nature and tend to lump thoughts into large paragraphs. I can try, but a couple sentences a thought just doesn’t seem to work for me for very long. You can have the same thought and break it up into smaller paragraphs. I learned to do it when I was 12 or so. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/8 "2018-08-23T19:27:23Z")
Even poor man’s paragraphs are better than none: just break them up every few sentences or so. They don’t have to be proper paragraphs. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/9 "2018-08-23T19:28:20Z")
I just looked at 10-12 fairly recent Senoy posts and I fear I cannot support this (not)-pitting. Yeah, he has a tendency to write about 3 more sentences than necessary to get his thought across, but the sentences are fairly well-structured, grammar is good, and he doesn’t seem (IMHO) to get off topic. So yeah, the paragraphs are a bit longer than most dopers, but they are on-topic and readable (again, IMHO). I think it is incumbent upon kambuckta and/or others to provide examples for examination. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/10 "2018-08-23T20:06:08Z")
Pssst… “message board” is two words. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/11 "2018-08-23T21:05:14Z")
Told you it wasn’t a Pit. Oh well, carry on then. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/12 "2018-08-24T02:30:26Z")
\*Let us now talk of the words of Senoy, Casually tossed, ensured to annoy. Gathering storms of enormous wrath Just from the want of a few paragraphs. Consciousness streams as he shares all his thoughts, But the fury resulting brings all this to naught. Use the RETURN, how hard could it be? It’s easy to spot, it’s the fattest of keys. Is your right pinky broken? Is its use out of season? Did your Yakuza boss want it chopped for some reason? We tense as your sentences run on for hours Our free time, your endless extension devours. I know breaking up can be quite hard to do But streams of cognition can spray, flood and spew. “White space” sounds racist, I cheerfully cede. But please have some pity on we who must read.\* ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/13 "2018-08-24T02:33:53Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Did your Yakuza boss want it chopped for some reason? Why did you use Yakuza here instead of Mafia? Same number of syllables. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/14 "2018-08-24T02:51:00Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Why did you use Yakuza here instead of Mafia? Same number of syllables.🙂 See the line immediately preceding it: it is concerned with the state of Senoy’s pinky. In popular culture, Yakuza members are at times portrayed cutting off and offering up parts of fingers to atone for mistakes. The author alludes to this as a further possible example of mishap having befallen Senoy’s littlest finger, in turn as a possible explanation for imperfect utilization of the “return” key. Had he incorporated leaving guns and taking cannoli, I’m sure he would’ve used Mafia. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/15 "2018-08-24T02:59:57Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > See the line immediately preceding it: it is concerned with the state of Senoy’s pinky. In popular culture, Yakuza members are at times portrayed cutting off and offering up parts of fingers to atone for mistakes. The author alludes to this as a further possible example of mishap having befallen Senoy’s littlest finger, in turn as a possible explanation for imperfect utilization of the “return” key. Had he incorporated leaving guns and taking cannoli, I’m sure he would’ve used Mafia. Huh, I didn’t know that. A cool thing that happened while I was looking up “Yakuza cutting off fingers” was that I stumbled upon this: [Ex-Japanese Gangsters Turn to Prosthetics for Normal Life](https://abcnews.go.com/US/prosthetic-fingers-reform-japans-feared-yakuza-gangsters/story?id=19337750) That’s pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![senoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@senoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/senoy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/16 "2018-08-24T17:00:12Z")
Personally, I’m just happy to have my own pit page. I feel like I have really made it now. Honestly, I would have preferred it be over some obscure philosophical argument where my rapier wit and incisive debate left no recourse but to begin petty pit insults, but I’ll take a page based on me being a windbag. It’s truly just an honor to be nominated. [/bow] ---
**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:** [August 24, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/17 "2018-08-24T18:53:22Z")
You could consider developing a rapier wit; then you might get that other kind of Pitting. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![senoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@senoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/senoy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/18 "2018-08-24T19:03:38Z")
I have to make do with the tools I have available to me. You can’t expect a dolphin to win a tree-climbing contest. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/19 "2018-08-24T23:05:11Z")
> [@senoy](#): > > You can’t expect a dolphin to win a tree-climbing contest. Racist! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2018, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099/20 "2018-08-25T05:02:50Z")
> [@senoy](#): > > I have to make do with the tools I have available to me. You can’t expect a dolphin to win a tree-climbing contest. It could if a land shark were chasing it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senoy-not-a-pit-just-an-ask-please/820099.md?page=2)