# So, Fear Itself, are we helium-impaired imbeciles, or not? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 7, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060 "2010-01-07T19:58:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/1 "2010-01-07T19:58:26Z")
**Fear Itself** - congratulations on your triple crown! You’re the biggest idiot, the biggest asshole, _and_ the biggest weasel all simultaneously in the same [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=546686). Most of us go for one of the three but, showman that you are, you’ve shown us all how it’s supposed to be done. Kudos. After showcasing your supreme idiocy (you managed to hold off **FinnAgain** in a photo finish) by [asserting](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11966152&postcount=351) a greater familiarity with Australian culture and social norms than natives and casually slandering KFC Australia, you took it to another level when you pulled the asshole move of implying an ethnic slur (ironically enough, in a thread ostensibly devoted to the discussion of racial sensitivity). [To wit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11965210&postcount=316): > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Fear Itself** > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by **Fuji** > > Furthermore, Irish people don’t sound like helium-impaired imbeciles. > > So many straight lines, so little time Then, when called on your implication and asked to clarify, you decided to play the [weasel](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11965623&postcount=325) card: > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Fear Itself** > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by **Fuji** > > If that is the case, then why don’t you just come out and say it, so we can take this to the Pit and “settle” it there? > > Because I am not allowed to in this forum. You are free to pit me if you feel you must. My [rejoinder](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11965891&postcount=331) to you gave you the opportunity to grab that final bit of weasel glory. And you did not disappoint! > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Fear Itself** > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by **Fuji** > > Before doing so, could you be so kind as to confirm that I was correct in reading your intent? > > If I were to confirm your inferrence, it could be construed as an insult in and of itself, which would violate the rules of this forum. My comment was intended to be ambiguous, and it shall remain that way. I apologize if you find that unsatisfying. So once again, congratulations on a job well done. You da man! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/2 "2010-01-07T20:03:27Z")
I see stupid people. They’re walking around like normal people. _They don’t know that they’re stupid!_ ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/3 "2010-01-07T20:22:08Z")
Fear Itself must be working at McDonals, cleaning the toilets and is trying to get a better job by making up shit about KFC. For someone who is as sensitive as him/her to this ad being racial, s/he’s pretty inconsiderable when it comes to his/her comments. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/4 "2010-01-07T20:23:37Z")
> [@Doughbag](#): > > For someone who is as sensitive as him/her to this ad being racial, s/he’s pretty **inconsiderable** when it comes to his/her comments. I do not think this word means what you think it means. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/5 "2010-01-07T20:26:02Z")
What does “helium-impaired” even mean? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/6 "2010-01-07T20:30:32Z")
High-pitched. People who _sqweel_, in other words. Gosh, I crack me up. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/7 "2010-01-07T20:35:14Z")
I wanted to be annoyed about your quote, but after reading that thread, I can only be…awed. How the fuck can people do that, go around and around in circles talking the same shit over and over again, all in a high and mighty tone of false courtesy? I mean, the trolls are easy to spot (No way in hell Finnagain is anything but a troll judging by that) but even the people responding to them need slapped. I feel like shaking them and shouting, “HE’S TAKING THE PISS, AND YOU ARE ENABLING HIM”. I have never had much time for (so-called) Great Debates, and I think I know why. I might just be too honest for it. ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/8 "2010-01-07T20:35:55Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > What does “helium-impaired” even mean? ['Tis truly magic!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OedK4wR3xM8) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/9 "2010-01-07T20:37:54Z")
You are neither helium-impaired or not. It’s ambiguous. It is ambiguity in a forum dedicated to debate, on a board dedicated to fighting ignorance. Some people don’t like ambiguity. That is their loss. ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/10 "2010-01-07T20:39:27Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > You are neither helium-impaired or not. It’s ambiguous. It is ambiguity in a forum dedicated to debate, on a board dedicated to fighting ignorance. > > Some people don’t like ambiguity. That is their loss. Are you sure about that? :dubious: Unambiguously? ---
**Author:** ![kingbighair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kingbighair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingbighair)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/11 "2010-01-07T20:45:44Z")
I am in awe of the performances put on by **Fear Itself** and **FinnAgain**. They are like the one guy in the woman’s lit class in college continuously ripping on men because he thinks it will get him a date. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/12 "2010-01-07T20:45:48Z")
I’ve read much of the thread in question, and I just don’t see what’s so wrong about saying that if you feel awkward about being in a big group of black people carrying on, the best way to calm them down is to break out the fried chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/13 "2010-01-07T20:47:26Z")
I hadn’t really considered that. I mean, as stereotypes go, it’s a pretty mild one. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/14 "2010-01-07T20:50:04Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I hadn’t really considered that. I mean, as stereotypes go, it’s a pretty mild one. Well, when they start making my head hurt with all their music and their wild dancing, if I don’t have watermelon on hand, I always pull out the fried chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/15 "2010-01-07T21:00:28Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I do not think this word means what you think it means. Thanks for pointing this out and yup, it certainly did not mean what I thought it meant, maybe something to do with English not being my native language. I think, this is the word I wanted to use : inconsiderate ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/16 "2010-01-07T21:38:32Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > Well, when they start making my head hurt with all their music and their wild dancing, if I don’t have watermelon on hand, I always pull out the fried chicken. Let’s not forget their hippity-hop music and low rise automobiles. > [@Doughbag](#): > > Thanks for pointing this out and yup, it certainly did not mean what I thought it meant, maybe something to do with English not being my native language. > > I think, this is the word I wanted to use : inconsiderate See what happens when you don’t fill in the location field? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/17 "2010-01-07T21:45:35Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Let’s not forget their hippity-hop music and low rise automobiles. If you don’t get them calmed down with chicken, they’re apt to start having wild sex. Especially with your girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/18 "2010-01-07T21:55:41Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > See what happens when you don’t fill in the location field? 😃 LOL… Location is Ireland, so I should be able to spell proper English, but I’m not a native so to speak…even after 11 years living here, although I would consider myself Irish-by-choice at this point. ---
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/19 "2010-01-07T21:57:24Z")
Please don’t talk about my friend **FinnaAgain** that way. He is a nice fellow, deserving of your highest praise. Also, I am afraid he will come in here and post tons of tl;dr rants that really just boil down to him calling people stupid. Help keep our pit… well, if not _clean_, at least not retarded. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060/20 "2010-01-07T21:59:37Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > Please don’t talk about my friend **FinnaAgain** that way. He is a nice fellow, deserving of your highest praise. > > Also, I am afraid he will come in here and post tons of tl;dr rants that really just boil down to him calling people stupid. Help keep our pit… well, if not _clean_, at least not retarded. How remarkably similar to your rants. But to your credit, at least your rants are usually short. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fear-itself-are-we-helium-impaired-imbeciles-or-not/524060.md?page=2)