# Shut the Fuck Up Alaric the Goth
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [January 26, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662 "2006-01-26T04:48:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/61 "2006-01-29T02:19:12Z")
_Romance — Older Men" to the point where it inflicted “severe emotional distress and physical injury that is of a nature no reasonable man could be expected to endure it.”_
God forbid I should hijack a thread of which I am the principle topic, but don’t you people ever lighten up enough to even glance at:
“Romance–Older Men”.
Pause in your efficient if weirdly motivated deconstruction of my posting style and ask yourself “wtf??” A chatroom.? It’s bad enough to expose one’s intellectual idiosyncrisies (look what it gets me…) but Romance, older men.?
I don’t think so…
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/62 "2006-01-29T02:26:06Z")
> [@slaphead](#):
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> My so-called friends are forever shouting me down for misusing the word ‘ironic’ as carelessly as Alanis Morissette, so I need an expert opinion:
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> **Is it or is it not ironic that Alaric is as incoherently whacked-out, inarticulate and incomprehensible as his beloved President G.W. ‘Chimpy McFlightsuit’ Bush?**
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> Any members of the Irony PD present?
But he does it (allegedly) without benefit of pharmacological intervention…I am but the student, he is the master…
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/63 "2006-01-29T02:43:35Z")
_a moebius post, as it were…_
At the risk of quoting myself (a hanging offense…) I repeat my brief reply above.
If it be not excessively churlish, may I urge the disappointment I feel that Ms.Rat showed no interest in this intellectual cheese.
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### Author:  [@Regardie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regardie)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/64 "2006-01-29T02:53:36Z")
> [@Frank](#):
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> Honestly, this here, this is a philosophy of life that I could go along with.
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> To start with, I’ll stop wearing a suit and tie while moderating. Baby steps, y’know?
For our sakes, please wear something!
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/65 "2006-01-29T02:55:56Z")
> [@Regardie](#):
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> For our sakes, please wear something!
you see, right there, a man tries to take a few steps towards freedom, some small minded observer steps up to slap him down…
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/66 "2006-01-29T02:58:02Z")
> [@DMC](#):
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> The funny thing is that the boy is holding his own just fine in this thread, even with the pile on in full force. He’s laughing at himself, fucking with people, whooshing them, laughing at them, etc. It reminds me of a gang of people crowding someone into a corner with scary looks on their faces, and then the camera pans out to show the person they were supposedly crowding standing behind them watching with a patronizing smile on his face. He may be crazy, but you’re not going to beat him this way.
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> I’m not too worried about his psyche at this point, as it’s pretty obvious that he’ll come out of this and every other pit thread completely unscathed.
If that’s what he’s doing, then isn’t that against the rules?
:dubious:
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/67 "2006-01-29T02:59:45Z")
which is not to say that a terry cloth towel laid upon the sitting surface to be used for the duration of the moderating session would mark one as excessively fastidious…
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/68 "2006-01-29T03:05:20Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> If that’s what he’s doing, then isn’t that against the rules?
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> :dubious:
alas, secondary to some strange neurochemical imbalance, or perhaps a selective dyslexia, I process “rules” as “suggestions”
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/69 "2006-01-29T03:07:25Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#):
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> _a moebius post, as it were…_
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> At the risk of quoting myself (a hanging offense…) I repeat my brief reply above.
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> If it be not excessively churlish, may I urge the disappointment I feel that Ms.Rat showed no interest in this intellectual cheese.
Oh no, I find you perfectly humorous. But writing back a post just to go “lol” is a bit excessive.
And I’m a Mister, but I’m not sexist so whichever you want to call me is fine. That is, up to the point that you try and feel me up of course. 😉
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/70 "2006-01-29T04:19:42Z")
- try and feel me up\*
call me small-minded, but I insist on the operation…
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### Author:  [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/71 "2006-01-30T02:30:03Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#):
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> - try and feel me up\*
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> call me small-minded, but I insist on the operation…
You’re small-minded.
Oh c’mon, you were asking for it. 😃
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/72 "2006-01-30T02:38:32Z")
> [@Hung Mung](#):
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> You’re small-minded.
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> Oh c’mon, you were asking for it. 😃
well, it’s kind of a sore point with me, for reasons utterly unrelated to the discussion at hand.
mygirlfirnd several back had an ineluctable urge to fuck a “fully-functioning pre-op trans=sexuial” (which is apparently a Niche identification, requiring a careful titration of estrogen (usually black-market) so as not to overwhelm the testosterone necessary for “full function”…)
She useed to reproach my insistence on the operation (hereabove reiterated) …by asking whether I would object to a POST op transexual fucking her witha strap on.
Well, she had me there…
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/73 "2006-01-30T12:17:58Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> If that’s what he’s doing, then isn’t that against the rules?
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> :dubious:
What, for a pitee not to take his pitting seriously? Where the hell is there a rule against that? You certainly can’t be accusing him of trolling in this thread, now can you? 'Cos it’s a pitting, started with a “STFU”, I’d say any coherent responses he chooses to give are above-board.
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### Author:  [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/74 "2006-01-30T15:37:19Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#):
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> I will never see ANY OF YOU face to face.
That’s what you think, buddy. Hold the line for a second, will ya?..
\<\\>
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/75 "2006-01-31T02:24:20Z")
> [@Mellivora capensis](#):
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> That’s what you think, buddy. Hold the line for a second, will ya?..
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> \<\\>
fiddle with your puny dials…
then look out the window
**all your women are belong to us!!**
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### Author:  [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2006, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/76 "2006-01-31T07:43:20Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#):
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> then look out the window
Bomb shelters don’t have windows.
\<\\>
Listen dude, Kowalski says you can keep the women, they only cause trouble anyway.
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### Author:  [@Regardie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regardie)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2006, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/77 "2006-01-31T08:36:00Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#):
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> fiddle with your puny dials…
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> !\*\*
That is what you do, yes?
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2006, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/78 "2006-01-31T08:55:51Z")
> [@Regardie](#):
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> That is what you do, yes?
no, I diddle with punny files
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### Author:  [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/79 "2006-01-31T14:57:07Z")
Sage Rat,
I should have just waited a day or so to figure out what was going on. The post- a-thon going on here is quite enough information for me. Thanks for your earlier insights.
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### Author:  [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-alaric-the-goth/341662/80 "2006-01-31T23:42:00Z")
> [@jali](#):
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> Sage Rat,
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> I should have just waited a day or so to figure out what was going on. The post- a-thon going on here is quite enough information for me. Thanks for your earlier insights.
AND WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED GRASSHOPPER?
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