# So, that intention guy is kinda stupid, huh? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 17, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865 "2009-11-17T02:23:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/1 "2009-11-17T02:23:48Z")
One of a clot of anti-global warming ninnies that the dope enshrines, intention has continually brought up Senator Inhofe’s “List of 700 Scientists that Poop on Global Warming!!1” He’s been shown several times that the list is a bunch of hooey. But he’s too fucking stupid to understand things spoke plain. So allow me to flourish as only the pit can contain. Intention, you’re a fucking loon. A childish moron who believes in conspiracy theories and has decided to pick a side on AGW, no matter what the facts show. In this forum I cannot wish that some kind of mutant donkey that ejaculates live bees would fuck your asshole. Instead I wish that said mutant donkey would fuck a Real Doll™ sculpted to look just like you instead. Preferably on live television. [The thread for those interested.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11785999&postcount=134) ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/2 "2009-11-17T02:24:38Z")
Yeah well, you’re a tard too. But that being said, that list is stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/3 "2009-11-17T02:28:16Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Yeah well, you’re a tard too. But that being said, that list is stupid. I can totally feel the electricity of our burgeoning bromance, but I must warn you, I’m not going to get a Shiatsu with you, my religion forbids engaging in pseudo-science. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/4 "2009-11-17T02:32:35Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > I can totally feel the electricity of our burgeoning bromance, but I must warn you, I’m not going to get a Shiatsu with you, my religion forbids engaging in pseudo-science. > > 😃 Don’t worry, my religion forbids me from not murdering the godless slowly with my Qi. 😉 Oh yeah, and we’ll add to that people who don’t know what science is, and that Shiatsu is an art, not a science, real, fake or otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/5 "2009-11-17T02:33:10Z")
As long as this is in the Pit, **intention** is also completely full of shit with his “distressed Obama voter” pose. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/6 "2009-11-17T02:37:57Z")
It’s kind of sad, actually. I can remember a few years ago when **intention** would come around the global-warming threads at least attempting to present an actual argument for the skeptic viewpoint based on a particular article or data set. I’m not sure his arguments were ever very persuasive, and even to my layperson perspective it seemed that he got in over his head sometimes when debating with posters like **jshore** , but at least it seemed like an effort at making an honest case, if a little muddled in spots. Now he seems to have retreated into the full-blown denier camp, peddling conspiracy theories about how sinister puppetmasters at Wikipedia are destroying scientific reputations, and hawking the likes of Michael Crichton and James Inhofe as reliable scientific sources on climate change. There’s no real debate there anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/7 "2009-11-17T02:46:03Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Don’t worry, my religion forbids me from not murdering the godless slowly with my Qi. 😉 > > Oh yeah, and we’ll add to that people who don’t know what science is, and that Shiatsu is an art, not a science, real, fake or otherwise. Saying it’s an art is a cute way of pretending it doesn’t need evidence. Massages feel nice. No need for magical mumbo-jumbo. Feeling nice is its own reward. Now if you excuse me, I’m going to astral project into the past and kick the Yellow Emperor in the nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/8 "2009-11-17T02:52:15Z")
Like that Brazil guy, he has persistance. He’ll hang around spouting BS as long as someone keeps replying to him. He does not care how badly he is out-debated, or how embarassingly he gets crushed by more informed posters, his only goal is to get the last word. If they are even two different people, I think they are on some lobbying firms payroll, solely for the purpose of extending the debate in cyberspace. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/9 "2009-11-17T02:55:35Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Saying it’s an art is a cute way of pretending it doesn’t need evidence. Massages feel nice. No need for magical mumbo-jumbo. Feeling nice is its own reward. It has evidence, either it works or it doesn’t. That you think there is some sort of intellectual rigor that is required when it isn’t just shows how broken YOUR mind is that you cannot accept simply not knowing how something works and just accept that it does. > [@](#): > > Now if you excuse me, I’m going to astral project into the past and kick the Yellow Emperor in the nuts. He’d mop the floor with you. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/10 "2009-11-17T03:02:06Z")
Bah! Everybody knows _shiatsu_ is worthless when Mercury is retrograde! ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/11 "2009-11-17T03:03:45Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Bah! Everybody knows _shiatsu_ is worthless when Mercury is retrograde! Nah, two completely different cosmologies. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/12 "2009-11-17T03:04:19Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > It has evidence, either it works or it doesn’t. That you think there is some sort of intellectual rigor that is required when it isn’t just shows how broken YOUR mind is that you cannot accept simply not knowing how something works and just accept that it does. I bow to your freedom to believe whatever bullshit woo-woo that makes your life more bearable. > [@](#): > > He’d mop the floor with you. Well, since I would be going back to three thousand years before the invention of Shaolin Kung-fu, my Tiger-Crane style would look like crazy sci-fi martial arts to him. He would be all, “Day-um” and I’d be all, “Yeaaahhh”. It wouldn’t be pretty. Couple that with the fact that he was likely five foot nothing, I don’t think I’ll have much to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/13 "2009-11-17T03:07:01Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > I bow to your freedom to believe whatever bullshit woo-woo that makes your life more bearable. Thing is I don’t have to believe, I have had empirical proof that it works. 😉 > [@](#): > > Well, since I would be going back to three thousand years before the invention of Shaolin Kung-fu, my Tiger-Crane style would look like crazy sci-fi martial arts to him. He would be all, “Day-um” and I’d be all, “Yeaaahhh”. It wouldn’t be pretty. Couple that with the fact that he was likely five foot nothing, I don’t think I’ll have much to worry about. And he’d be like, “Your Qi is out of alignment.”, and without moving so that you could perceive it, he’d cripple you with pain. You’d say, “Why kind of eldritch magic is this?”, to which he’d reply, “I do not understand your heathen tongue. Now stop squirming you pussy this will only hurt for a second.” Since you are from a culture where stubbing one’s toe is a serious pain, and he is from a culture where they deal with greater pain on a daily basis. I’d still put my money on the yellow emperor. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/14 "2009-11-17T03:07:39Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Bah! Everybody knows _shiatsu_ is worthless when Mercury is retrograde! You’re forgetting Wiccan, vagino-love-auras… and the havoc they play with nearby Chakras during retrograde motion of any of the inner planets. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/15 "2009-11-17T03:12:02Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Thing is I don’t have to believe, I have had empirical proof that it works. 😉 Spoken just like a religious person… hmm, how odd. > [@](#): > > And he’d be like, “Your Qi is out of alignment.”, and without moving so that you could perceive it, he’d cripple you with pain. You’d say, “Why kind of eldritch magic is this?”, to which he’d reply, “I do not understand your heathen tongue. Now stop squirming you pussy this will only hurt for a second.” Wait, why is he speaking in 21st century English if he doesn’t understand me? Is this a Chi power? > [@](#): > > Since you are from a culture where stubbing one’s toe is a serious pain, and he is from a culture where they deal with greater pain on a daily basis. I’d still put my money on the yellow emperor. I tell you what, I’ll let you know how it goes. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/16 "2009-11-17T03:15:27Z")
To the matter at hand: we must all be tolerant and kindly, as we patiently guide him from the paths of error. Haven’t we had great success with this before? Remember all the posters who started out all belligerant and nasty, and we brought them around to thoughtful, tolerant, and insightful posters? Well, I can’t, actually, but I have memory issues, so that doesn’t count, but there must be bunches of them! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/17 "2009-11-17T03:19:20Z")
I’ve been spouting archaic netspeak lately so I’m not ashamed to trot out another one: God, you two, get a fucking room, already. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/18 "2009-11-17T03:20:38Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I’ve been spouting archaic netspeak lately so I’m not ashamed to trot out another one: God, you two, get a fucking room, already. No U! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/19 "2009-11-17T03:21:49Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Spoken just like a religious person… hmm, how odd. So you are denying that I have received a good massage, that I was just imagining it? It’s funny how you guys are so into telling people they didn’t experience what they did experience. And yet you think you know anything about empiricism. Talk about speaking from faith. 😉 You’re absolutely certain that my massage wasn’t awesome. Meanwhile, I will continue to get awesome massages. > [@](#): > > Wait, why is he speaking in 21st century English if he doesn’t understand me? Is this a Chi power? He wasn’t you were hallucinating due to the pain caused by his awesome mojo. > [@](#): > > I tell you what, I’ll let you know how it goes. I’d rather you died in agony and thus were unable to report back to us and that your major contribution to society would be as a scientific anomaly, causing geneticists to wonder how a modern strain of DNA could possibly have ended up in ancient China. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865/20 "2009-11-17T03:25:37Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > So you are denying that I have received a good massage, that I was just imagining it? > > It’s funny how you guys are so into telling people they didn’t experience what they did experience. And yet you think you know anything about empiricism. Talk about speaking from faith. 😉 You’re absolutely certain that my massage wasn’t awesome. > > Meanwhile, I will continue to get awesome massages. And they will continue to not be magical and have nothing to do with Chi. > [@](#): > > I’d rather you died in agony and thus were unable to report back to us and that your major contribution to society would be as a scientific anomaly, causing geneticists to wonder how a modern strain of DNA could possibly have ended up in ancient China. Wait, is he gonna let me bang his daughter before I die? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-intention-guy-is-kinda-stupid-huh/517865.md?page=2)