# Something for Conservatives **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 15, 2018, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671 "2018-01-15T08:05:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/81 "2018-01-16T20:36:11Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > You can’t chisel your way through C’hump cement. It’s the dumbest substance known to man. Thank you for proving my point, once again. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/82 "2018-01-16T20:38:05Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Clothy, keep leading with your chin. It’s good style. And thanks to you as well for proving my point. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/83 "2018-01-16T20:42:39Z")
Shut up. You’re contributing to global warming. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/84 "2018-01-16T20:43:39Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Some yo-yo on the Internet claims to be laughing at me for poorly-articulated reasons. Yeah, that really keeps me up at night. No, I’m laughing at you and the others because of the retarded posts you people keep putting up, while smugly thinking that you are so superior to me. You find that hard to believe? Go back to my original post in this thread. Read all the posts directed to me from that point onward. Only one post in that entire batch showed any intelligence whatsoever. The rest look like a compilation of mouth-drooling scribbles made by people with less than a room temperature IQ. You may now return to your regularly scheduled childish behavior… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/85 "2018-01-16T20:50:39Z")
Childish? This from the one who, when at a loss for words, responds with “Fuck off.” ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/86 "2018-01-16T20:56:38Z")
So, I wonder… is Clothy and SamuelA related? Brothers of a dumber mother, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/87 "2018-01-16T21:12:43Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > So, I wonder… is Clothy and SamuelA related? Brothers of a dumber mother, perhaps? Maybe it’s his kid. Same kicked-in-the-head thought processes. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/88 "2018-01-16T21:24:24Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > That cite says between 100 billion and 200 billion that human technology can detect. That’s a big qualifier, there. I also want to point out that there actually are only 100ish billion galaxies in the universe **now**. The reason that there are a couple trillion in the observable universe, is because the observable universe is the past. When we look billions of lightyears away, we are looking billions of years ago. [Galaxies merge and combine, so, when we look out to the distant past, shortly after galaxies first started forming, there were more of them, and they were smaller.](http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/universe-2-trillion-galaxies/) So, when we pulled out bigger and more powerful telescopes, and looked even further back into the past than we ever had before, we saw that there were more galaxies in the past than there are now. We did learn something about galaxies merging and how quickly that occurs and some other fun astronomy facts, but it did not invalidate the observation that there are 100ish billion galaxies in the observable universe **now**. I think in Rowe’s story at the bar, where the one guy frowned at his beer, he was trying to figure out how to explain that in a way that an actor and narrator would understand. In fact, nearly any time you manage to fluster a scientist, it is not because you have managed to upend scientific thinking, it is because they are trying to figure out how to explain all the things that you need to know in order to know how wrong you are. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/89 "2018-01-16T21:34:56Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Shut up. You’re contributing to global warming. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/90 "2018-01-16T21:36:15Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > No, I’m laughing at you and the others because of the retarded posts you people keep putting up, while smugly thinking that you are so superior to me. > … color added. There’s really no doubt about it clothy. You’re just a dumbshit in the wrong world. It’s not your fault, God fucked up. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/91 "2018-01-16T21:44:16Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > color added. > > There’s really no doubt about it clothy. You’re just a dumbshit in the wrong world. It’s not your fault, God fucked up. God is a 10 year old black belt. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/92 "2018-01-16T21:48:31Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > You may now return to your regularly scheduled childish behavior… Right, everyone was just waiting for your go-ahead. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/93 "2018-01-16T21:54:13Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > And thanks to you as well for proving my point. To who? ---
**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:** [January 17, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/94 "2018-01-17T01:16:58Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > And thanks to you as well for proving my point. “Sir, I think you just pissed on your own shoes?” “Thank you for proving my point!” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/95 "2018-01-17T13:19:39Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > God is a 10 year old black belt. Actually, [a 12 year old boy with Asperger’s.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Is_a_Twelve-Year-Old_Boy_with_Asperger%27s) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/96 "2018-01-17T14:03:58Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > No, I’m laughing at you and the others because of the retarded posts you people keep putting up, while smugly thinking that you are so superior to me. All due respect, but part of the problem (as I see it) is that you also smugly think that you’re so superior to everyone else here, and generally aren’t willing to accept that you may be either misunderstanding something that someone says, or willfully ignoring it. It puts people in an antagonistic mode. They know that you automatically discount their viewpoint, so why should they make an attempt to engage you civilly? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/97 "2018-01-17T14:54:34Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Childish? This from the one who, when at a loss for words, responds with “Fuck off.” Yes, childish. Incredibly so. And it certainly wasn’t a loss for words. When I tell someone to fuck off, they have gotten to the point where a tree stump can carry on a more intelligent conversation than they can. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/98 "2018-01-17T14:56:59Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > color added. > > There’s really no doubt about it clothy. You’re just a dumbshit in the wrong world. It’s not your fault, God fucked up. Thank you for proving my point yet again. Give up, **Morgenstern**. You are clueless and doomed to remain so. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/99 "2018-01-17T15:01:03Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > You may now return to your regularly scheduled childish behavior… > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Right, everyone was just waiting for your go-ahead. Oh, you certainly didn’t need my permission. You’ll continue to act childish anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671/100 "2018-01-17T15:03:48Z")
**Clothahump** can’t be _that_ stupid- just look at all the dozens of ways he’s come up with to say “no u”. Plus he’s doing a great job of making Mike Rowe look like a genius of science, logic and rhetoric, if only by comparison. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-for-conservatives/806671.md?page=6)