# Skald, please, please tell me I'm very, very wrong **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 18, 2011, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-please-please-tell-me-im-very-very-wrong/568065 "2011-01-18T10:48:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-please-please-tell-me-im-very-very-wrong/568065/81 "2011-01-23T03:32:24Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > Okay, so **Skald’s** made an appearance… How sporting of him. Do you think he (or you) will be posting a response to the OP? ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-please-please-tell-me-im-very-very-wrong/568065/82 "2011-01-23T07:34:20Z")
Well \*jeeeez \ ***splatterpunk** , I _did_ post a response to the OP that some believed to have been from him as me (or me as him - it’s not important) and there was a bit of history lesson and some humour junking and a lovefest about fucking indignant obnoxious trolling cunt socks or sock trolling cunts (or just cunts - it’s not important) and there was a bit of snarking and **Cat Whisperer** was confused and **Miller** did some moderate moderating and **Skald** dropped by to say that he never drops by… …where have you _been_? Do _I_ think **Skald** will be posting a response to the OP? Yeah, no. ---
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-please-please-tell-me-im-very-very-wrong/568065/83 "2011-01-23T13:50:29Z")
Goddamn, I’m famous for taking up for a friend of mine when he is criticized, but the work you’ve done here on behalf of an almost stranger (right?) is moving, **6ImpossibleSomethings**. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-please-please-tell-me-im-very-very-wrong/568065/84 "2011-01-23T15:33:06Z")
Ah, actually **Myrnalame** , the work I’ve done here was all because of the criticism of _me_. I’m touched that you’re moved by it. ---
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-please-please-tell-me-im-very-very-wrong/568065/85 "2011-01-23T17:18:23Z")
You’ve done great things here. Really. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-please-please-tell-me-im-very-very-wrong/568065/86 "2011-01-24T02:54:01Z")
If you mean what I think you mean **Myrnalene** I have no idea what you mean: which encapsulates the entirety of this thread really. The antagonist evaporates, the protagonist shows that he’s not showing and a red herring is dropped in hot water to see if it skalds. Whoever the fuck “Kim” is, is surely to blame. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-please-please-tell-me-im-very-very-wrong/568065/87 "2011-01-24T04:17:44Z")
I’m still confused. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-please-please-tell-me-im-very-very-wrong/568065/88 "2011-01-24T04:46:02Z")
> [@Laudenum](#): > > Now, I know you are writing a book, you’ve referenced it before. > > I know you try and do research for that book. > > I also know that this is a _hell_ of a leap, and I really hope that I am wrong. > > So my question to you is simply this: Are you attending a support group for rape victims in order to do research for your book? It’s better for people who are writing books on serious topics to NOT do in depth research? I’m sorry, but I don’t get where you’re coming from. You seem to be assuming that if he is going to a support group, he is doing so in the guise of a victim, trying to fool all of those around him into thinking that he’s not a person doing research for a book. Doesn’t it seem just an eensy teensy bit more likely that, if he is purely there for research, that he asked and was given permission by the group members to do so? And of course, it’s just as likely (if not more so), that he was there because something happened to himself, his spouse, or another relative. It’s not particularly my nor your business exactly how he ended up going to the support group, but the point is that you’re taking a rather massive leap into the least likely of all options. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-please-please-tell-me-im-very-very-wrong/568065.md?page=4)