# The art of not posting too much. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 27, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273 "2018-03-27T13:46:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/61 "2018-03-27T21:12:16Z")
So… Crane Kick? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/62 "2018-03-27T21:13:03Z")
> [@Crazy\_Canuck](#): > > Where did I claim that? All I have mentioned in this thread is using lethal force, which is a term that can be applied to a variety of weapons, or even a person with no weapons at all. I doubt anyone mentally armed with nothing more than a pool-noodle is much of a threat to anyone else. By anyone, I mean you troll. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/63 "2018-03-27T21:16:38Z")
Wait… you’re Canadian, right? Are you a “scanner”? ---
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/64 "2018-03-27T21:47:07Z")
So Morgenstern, before I put you on ignore and move on, there’s one thing I want to be clear on. I’m not a troll. **I’m an asshole** , and I’m also proud of it. With that said, have a nice life. > [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Wait… you’re Canadian, right? Are you a “scanner”? LOL, if I could make people’s heads blow up with the power of my mind I’d be making a killing as a government assassin instead of processing and collecting accounts receivable for a living. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/65 "2018-03-27T21:51:15Z")
> [@digs](#): > > …(But seriously, the vague pronoun thing does make this more passive-aggressive) “The vague pronoun thing” (technically known as “unclear antecedent”) is just as much of a hindrance to communication as the passive voice. My friend’s new puppy had a big ol’ tapeworm, but puppy got a shot and now she’s all better. A puppy story always lightens the mood, right? RIGHT? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/66 "2018-03-27T22:30:19Z")
> [@Crazy\_Canuck](#): > > So Morgenstern, before I put you on ignore and move on, That will give you 2 things in common with Clothahump. > [@Crazy\_Canuck](#): > > there’s one thing I want to be clear on. I’m not a troll. **I’m an asshole** , and I’m also proud of it. With that said, have a nice life. Yes. You are a troll. I will be there, in the future, to point out your trollery. > [@Crazy\_Canuck](#): > > LOL, if I could make people’s heads blow up with the power of my mind I’d be making a killing as a government assassin instead of processing and collecting accounts receivable for a living. I don’t think people have much to worry about there. Troll on noodles. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/67 "2018-03-27T23:21:17Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > I will be there, in the future, to point out your trollery. Oh, no. Are you going to be one of those angry, tiresome old coots who follow a poster from forum to forum, calling them a troll when they post their peach cobbler recipe? I need to add that to my list of warning signs that I’m ready to go to The Home: > [@](#): > > … > 12. Turning left from the right lane. > > 1. Yelling at other drivers for honking at me (possibly because I turned left from the right lane). > > 2. Turning down bacon. > > 3. Accosting strangers and uttering the phrase: “You killed my father. Prepare to die.” > > 4. Uttering the phrase: “I will be there, in the future, to point out your trollery.” ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/68 "2018-03-27T23:55:03Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Stephen Hawking may have died, but his voice lives on. Have you (or any of us) ever actually heard his voice? I have heard his speech generator on numerous occasions, but I do not recall ever hearing his voice. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/69 "2018-03-28T00:09:05Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > That will give you 2 things in common with Clothahump. > > Yes. You are a troll. I will be there, in the future, to point out your trollery. > > I don’t think people have much to worry about there. > > Troll on noodles. This reminds me of when my toddler stands on a chair and shouts the same word over and over ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/70 "2018-03-28T00:22:19Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Have you (or any of us) ever actually heard his voice? I have heard his speech generator on numerous occasions, but I do not recall ever hearing his voice. I remember hearing him speak on some PBS documentary back in the 1970s. His voice was very slurred and almost completely unintelligible (the documentary used a voiceover, like a simultaneous translation, that repeated what Hawking said). There are YouTube clips of Hawking’s actual voice if you’re curious. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/71 "2018-03-28T02:38:39Z")
So a pitting is what I get for returning from Cecil’s Gulag? Yeah, I admit that I’m the SDMB’s Grandpa Simpson, full of tales about obsolete technology and people you don’t know, but I am ready to admit that my love affair with Win XP is over and that Russian hackers of XP don’t even bother translating anything into English, expecting me to learn Russian, which isn’t happening because the hostess of the local PBS station’s Russian class wasn’t as pretty as the hostess of their Greek class and if I need a translation I have my SIL from Siberia, but y’all coulda at least said “welcome back.” Harumph. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/72 "2018-03-28T04:31:32Z")
Welcome back!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Teddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Teddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teddie)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/73 "2018-03-28T06:06:18Z")
> [@Teddie](#): > > I moved from the UK to Sweden to Russia and tried hard in both countries to learn the language > > Unlike my husband who is blessed with an ear for language and picked Swedish & Russian within 10 month, I struggled and cried until it sent us so mad we returned to the Sweden where English was spoken within a year of moving to Russia > > We are now back in the UK. I have my Grandad to look after as neither his daughter (my mother) or his son with take on the challenge, he 82, alone…I’m the only one prepared to do it Sorry for the confusion, wrong thread…wrong message board! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/74 "2018-03-28T07:10:10Z")
> [@Teddie](#): > > Sorry for the confusion, wrong thread…wrong message board! But funnily enough, it worked in this thread! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/75 "2018-03-28T14:05:04Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Have you (or any of us) ever actually heard his voice? I have heard his speech generator on numerous occasions, but I do not recall ever hearing his voice. Yeah! Back in the day he would speak and he had a fellah standing nearby to ‘translate’. It was kind of surreal to see because Steve-o would say something brilliant like, “err-rrr-rreer-rre-r-rr-ee-r-rrrrr” and the translation would be something like “[science science science science pun]” [Cite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8wujvBQc3Y). Ok, sorry. Really: [cite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJjC9T_k4j4). (go to 3:00) ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/76 "2018-03-28T14:26:56Z")
> [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#): > > This reminds me of when my toddler stands on a chair and shouts the same word over and over I guess this struck a nerve because someone is now following me around the Pit to stand on other chairs and shout. Morgenstern is a cowardly little bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/77 "2018-03-28T14:31:25Z")
> [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#): > > I guess this struck a nerve because someone is now following me around the Pit to stand on other chairs and shout. Morgenstern is a cowardly little bitch. I didn’t follow you around you hapless cretin. I posted in a zombie thread that you bumped calling you were a clueless dumb fuck, in so many words. And you ran back here to complain? Are you this confused with everything in life? ---
**Author:** ![Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delicious)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/78 "2018-03-28T16:08:18Z")
Morgenstern is a poopy bum head! Hehe hehe ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/79 "2018-03-28T16:21:41Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “The vague pronoun thing” (technically known as “unclear antecedent”) is just as much of a hindrance to communication as the passive voice. > > My friend’s new puppy had a big ol’ tapeworm, but puppy got a shot and now she’s all better. A puppy story always lightens the mood, right? RIGHT? Who got better? The puppy or the tapeworm?[/passive aggressive voice] ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273/80 "2018-03-28T16:25:01Z")
> [@Teddie](#): > > Sorry for the confusion, wrong thread…wrong message board! I thought the post was brilliant performance art. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-of-not-posting-too-much/811273.md?page=5)