# The "asian prostitute" thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011 "2003-02-14T06:02:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/1 "2003-02-14T06:02:23Z")
Coldfire shut down the “Ask the guy who used to frequen Asian prostitutes!” thread. Was there a rule broken here? Or is it just arbitrary, “I don’t happen to like this so I’m pulling the plug?” I’m new here and just trying to get a feel for what to expect. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/2 "2003-02-14T06:27:35Z")
More importantly, can **Coldfire** swear when closing a thread? ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/3 "2003-02-14T06:31:52Z")
Here’s the link, by the way: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=162916](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=162916) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/4 "2003-02-14T06:37:01Z")
Just looks like downsizing. Why employ 2 threads when 1 can do the job. ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/5 "2003-02-14T06:47:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TGWATY \* > **Was there a rule broken here? Or is it just arbitrary, "I don’t happen to like this so I’m pulling the plug?"** Not much of a reader, are you kid? > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Coldfire in the original thread_ > **One prostitute thread is enough. Share your information there.** Is that not clear enough for you? ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/6 "2003-02-14T06:48:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don’t ask \* > \*\*Just looks like downsizing. Why employ 2 threads when 1 can do the job. \*\* Right. Especially when the subject matter kind of skirts the edge of acceptability as it is. Encouraging illegal activities and all that. As for swearing, it is to chuckle. You’re upset because **Coldfire** said “shit”? In a thread about prostitutes? Seems a tad oversensitive to me. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/7 "2003-02-14T06:53:16Z")
Ack. Should have added a smiley. It was a take on [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=156526), but it was a bit obscure. ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/8 "2003-02-14T06:59:11Z")
D’oh! Whoosh on me then, I guess. I haven’t been around much for the past few months. Carry on. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/9 "2003-02-14T07:09:33Z")
At first I thought it was a parody…but then, when I found it was serious, I agreed with the over-abundance, so to speak. It was taking up space that a useful TMI thread could’ve taken, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/10 "2003-02-14T08:28:32Z")
Wanna know about asian prostitutes? You should just email Late Night with Conan O’Brien announcer Joel, the running gag with him is “asian male prostitutes.” He was stocking up on them after the terror alert went orange, just in case of disaster, lol. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/11 "2003-02-14T11:57:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samarm \* > More importantly, can **Coldfire** swear when closing a thread? **Coldfire** can do whatever the fuck he wants. Not only is he Dutch, but he’s _on fire_ and still manages to be ice cold. You know what kinda balls you need to be able to do that? Balls the size of grapefruits, at least. **Coldfire** is a free agent. He has diplomatic immunity in the whole fucking world. He can close a thread, punch your cat and kick your dog. And to top it all off, he can make passionate love to your mother, bringing her to multiple orgasms, right in the middle of a public park. The worst that will happen to him is a dissaproving glare from a prudish schoolmarm. **Coldfire** can fly. He can change colors to blend in with his environment. He can become invisible. In his spare time, he uses his telekinetic abilities to to cause coolant failures in automobiles belonging to hot young Dutch girls, just so he can pull up in his black Corvette and “rescue” them. **Coldfire** has been seen winning a pissing contest against Arnold Schwarzenegger. He can slam dunk a medicine ball in a regulation net. **Coldfire** can hit a home-run with a bat made of noodles, and he can do similarly amazing things in bizarre Dutch sports involving windmills. Please don’t question **Coldfire** ’s abilities ever again. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/12 "2003-02-14T12:12:55Z")
Are you the guys who used to taunt the little freckled girl in third grade? Tgwaty is hosting one of the [best threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=161530) going right now. He’s new here. He followed board guidelines and asked a question about a moderator’s actions here in the Pit. Quit being jackasses. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/13 "2003-02-14T12:45:16Z")
No way man. Freckles are hot. ---
**Author:** ![tevya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tevya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tevya)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/14 "2003-02-14T12:53:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*Are you the guys who used to taunt the little freckled girl in third grade? Tgwaty is hosting one of the [best threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=161530) going right now. He’s new here. He followed board guidelines and asked a question about a moderator’s actions here in the Pit. Quit being jackasses. \*\* I agree **Lib**. TGWATY asked for clarification of a mod’s actions in the appropriate forum. You **can** be civil in the pit. I think **Joe K** gave the most civil and informative post. Thanks **Joe**. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/15 "2003-02-14T13:06:23Z")
**friedo** : a black Corvette? Don’t make me mad, now. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/16 "2003-02-14T13:13:52Z")
Sorry. I meant a black tricycle. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/17 "2003-02-14T13:28:55Z")
That’s better, friedo. I closed the thread because of redundancy. If I closed everything I didn’t like, MPSIMS would be emptier and the Pit would be fuller. And I can ïndeed swear when closing a thread. Ed Zotti told me I could, so nyah. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/18 "2003-02-14T13:39:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\ ***friedo** : a black Corvette? Don’t make me mad, now. \*\* You know I was expecting a _you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry_ line from you **Coldfire** 😃 But then again, maybe I’m geared up for the hulk movie a little too much… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/19 "2003-02-14T13:44:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*Ed Zotti told me I could, so nyah. \*\* Now _that’s_ telling him! ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011/20 "2003-02-14T15:23:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kamandi \* > \*\*Not much of a reader, are you kid? > > Is that not clear enough for you? \*\* Practice your reading skills, Kamandi, and take another look my original question. Now does redundancy fall under “rules” or “I don’t happen to like this?” I was just wanting to know if this is the kind of board where anything goes as long as it doesn’t explicitly violate a rule, or is it one where moderators exercise personal judgment calls about what is appropriate? In the latter case, you get surprised more often. Now I know I have to keep in mind that after going to the trouble of starting a thread, it might get shut down **unexpectedly**. It makes one a little more cautious. On the other hand, if the thread had broken a rule, I wanted to know what that was. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-asian-prostitute-thread/155011.md?page=2)