# Shriekers here - MrDibble, Der Trihs **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 21, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467 "2013-11-21T19:31:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/61 "2013-11-21T21:35:03Z")
> [@Der Trihs Pitting du jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/294): > > I disagree.There’s no “maybe” about it. Anyone who _ever_ says anything remotely scientific-sounding, that uses the commonly used races, is a racist. That’s a stupid fucking statement right there. Using a commonly understood communicative construct without verbose caveats makes you a _racist_? Shrieker. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/62 "2013-11-21T21:35:15Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > I pointed out your error to you… That’s, ah… not exactly what happened there, **magellan**. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/63 "2013-11-21T21:36:04Z")
> [@MostlyUseless](#): > > I have no issue with Marley, but this is tiring and the day is over. > > Yall take all this and strain some gnats; I am done. Coward. Stay here and take your licks, don’t let magellan flail on his own! _You_ pitted _me_, remember? Least you owe me is some actual, you know, vitriol. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/64 "2013-11-21T21:36:55Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Holy shit! You fucking did it again! Are you really that stupid?! Or is it that you’re THAT dishonest?!!! OMG punctuategasm!?!!?? /dies ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/65 "2013-11-21T21:38:51Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > It’s Mendy’s, but I wouldn’t expect you to spell anything right either. Sob. I got the name of a restaurant in a TV show wrong by one letter. Win: Marley. (But keep in mind he gets to eat there with Jerry Seinfeld. I’ve never been. > [@Marley23](#): > > No, he wasn’t. Perhaps if you whined less about semantics and put a little more thought into understanding what people are specifically saying, you would not be so lost. Basically look at everything **magellan01** does and then do the opposite. And if you think you should be fair to other posters, arguing against what they actually say; claim they said what they _actually_ said, care about honesty, and think it behooves one to admit when they make an error, look to Marley and do the opposite of _that_. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/66 "2013-11-21T21:40:08Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > That’s, ah… not exactly what happened there, **magellan**. Oh, well in that case…:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/67 "2013-11-21T21:40:28Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Besides being wrong, you shouldn’t assume that everyone who posts here is American. **MrDibble** is not. To be fair, I do know what it means in a casual American context. But that wasn’t the context that particular discussion was happening in. > [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > That’s a stupid fucking statement right there. Using a commonly understood communicative construct without verbose caveats makes you a _racist_? No. Stubbornly clinging to using a discredited, outmoded, pseudoscientific concept willfully, in a context where it has been proven and acknowledged to be bad science, makes you a racist. > [@](#): > > Shrieker. Violet Fungus. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/68 "2013-11-21T21:43:04Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Here I was, getting out my torch and pitchfork for a good old fashioned Der Trihs Pitting and I have to go back home disappointed. This thread sucks. I thought it was going to be a thread warning **MrDibble** and **Der Trihs** about the [shriekers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrieker_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/69 "2013-11-21T21:47:52Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > To be fair, I do know what it means in a casual American context. Yeah, I expected you do, and I didn’t mean to imply that you didn’t, although my post could easily have been read that way. Mainly, though, I object to the use of “in this country” as if everyone who posts here is an American with an American view of things. Shouldn’t be surprising that our small-minded OP just assume that. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/70 "2013-11-21T21:50:44Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I thought it was going to be a thread warning **MrDibble** and **Der Trihs** about the [shriekers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrieker_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)). Reported for forum change. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/71 "2013-11-21T21:55:22Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Sob. I got the name of a restaurant in a TV show wrong by one letter. Real restaurant. Kinda famous. Do go on… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/72 "2013-11-21T22:01:02Z")
And then our intrepid heroes found themselves in the part of the thread where **magellan01** acts shocked and outraged and says things like “unbelievable” over and over again. For lo, **magellan01** failed to understand that his performance is not very effective because he pulls it about once a week and thus looks less like a stunned person and more like an attention whore who enjoys acting outraged. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/73 "2013-11-21T22:02:52Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Holy shit! You fucking did it again! Are you really that stupid?! Or is it that you’re THAT dishonest?!!! I pointed out your error to you and not only did you try to act the tough guy to minimize your error, you now repeat the same fucking error. > > Unbelievable. Please! Could you not shriek so loudly? ---
**Author:** ![Peaton\_of\_peat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecae2f/32.png) [@Peaton\_of\_peat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peaton_of_peat)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/74 "2013-11-21T22:06:18Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Violet Fungus. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I thought it was going to be a thread warning **MrDibble** and **Der Trihs** about the [shriekers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrieker_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)). Appropriately enough, shriekers attract the attention of wandering monsters. Kobolds, goblins, orcs, gnolls, you get the idea.😉 ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/75 "2013-11-21T22:58:45Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > And then our intrepid heroes found themselves in the part of the thread where **magellan01** acts shocked and outraged and says things like “unbelievable” over and over again. For lo, **magellan01** failed to understand that his performance is not very effective because he pulls it about once a week and thus looks less like a stunned person and more like an attention whore who enjoys acting outraged. You’re still wrong. You’re still dishonest. And you are of low character. But you know that the restaurant mentioned in a TV show was a real one. I’m so happy for you. ---
**Author:** ![Karrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71c47a/32.png) [@Karrius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karrius)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/76 "2013-11-21T23:01:23Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > You’re still wrong. You’re still dishonest. And you are of low character. Just so you know, I think most people on the board would take those kind of insults as a compliment, coming from you. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/77 "2013-11-21T23:03:48Z")
> [@MostlyUseless](#): > > That is precisely the post. I said I wanted to see what the context is, so I want a link to the post. Obviously we can’t rely on your interpretation of it. (And I’m not going to take your word that it was “precisely the post” until you demonstrate it.) ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/78 "2013-11-21T23:06:12Z")
> [@Karrius](#): > > Just so you know, I think most people on the board would take those kind of insults as a compliment, coming from you. Ah, and now we get the totally useless poster dropping by. How soon before you run away this time, dummy? ---
**Author:** ![Karrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71c47a/32.png) [@Karrius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karrius)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/79 "2013-11-21T23:11:33Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Ah, and now we get the totally useless poster dropping by. How soon before you run away this time, dummy? Thank you, I appreciate the kind words. I honestly feel better if that’s your judge of my character. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shriekers-here-mrdibble-der-trihs/674467/80 "2013-11-22T00:00:19Z")
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