My dreams are crushed. 
The way you word your posts some times come off as if it is all about you instead of whatever topic is being discussed.
For instance:
from this post:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20399571&postcount=23
I’m pretty sure you have me on ignore but I thought I’d chime in anyways.
Oops. Forgot my new sig.
Isn’t that the first guitar riff everyone learns?..“Smooooke… up your asses!!!”
I’ve really tried to give BigT a chance and read his posts, but by the second line my eyes glaze over, and I spin the mouse wheel in an effort to get those few lifeless seconds back. He just sucks the life out of the thread.
I’ve never noticed BigT being one of the people who really derails a thread. I’ve seen quite a few situations where people derailed threads by threadshitting, too. Yeah, there’s some derailment sometimes when BigT comes along, but even then I’ve only noticed it being people harassing him, not a result of him behaving in some manner inappropriate to this board. People with far more disruptive behavior get to drop their turds into threads without more than a momentary “Huh?” But BigT posts to a thread, it doesn’t matter what he posted, somebody will run up to yell at him “BigTard!” to prove how cool they are and that they know the secret codewords. I’ve yet to see a post from BigT that justified the odd behavior towards him.
Is he lecturing? Sure. Is that unusual on this board? Nope…
Your second post was more accurate. He is sanctamonius. He could get his point across without the finger wagging.
Having said that, he is a lot better than he used to be and where I once skipped over all his nannying posts I’ll now take the time to read them because they (usually) have substance.
What caught my eye is your comment that he is an easy target. How so? All we know about each other is what we post in black and white. We are all equal here. If he appears to be a target somehow it has to be his post’s content or posting style. Since his content is usually OK, I’m going with the finger wagging that makes him an easy target.
FWIW, I have nothing against him and I don’t think he derails theeads.
Ugh. BigT. If I knew him in real life I’d try really hard to not hit him with my car.
There are some people that are just fucking lame and nobody can stand them, even other lame asses. I think his posting style sort of transcends the message board format and people pick up on his real personality and they don’t like it, because it reminds them of annoying, panty-waist, little goody two-shoes people they know in real life and can’t stand. He’s singled himself out and it’s just too easy to shit all over anything he says, and the he comes back and asks for seconds.
Do you have any idea how much you say “I”? Your problem isn’t that you’re sanctimonious, it’s that you’re utterly self-obsessed. Your moral proclamations from your basement pulpit aren’t comments on how other people talk to one another, they’re a constant update of your infatuation with your own thoughts, such as they are.
Personally offended by words on the internet is more BigT’s thing but if you want I’ll be happy to check myself.
Not all of his posts, not at all, just the painfully unaware soapboxing.
I’d be lying if I said I read every word of those posts, generally when I realise its one of the lectures I just skip to the next post with an inaudible little “for fucks sake”.
Oh, thats it, right there, thats the good shit. Purestrain BigT.
Big T’s not angry, he’s just very, very disappointed.
Two sentences, 5 personal pronouns. If BigT were delivering the Sermon on the Mount he’d find a way to make it about him: “I want you not to judge others, lest they judge you. I don’t judge other people unless they fail to live to my standards, and you should do as I do, because I will be disappointed otherwise. I think you should all try to live up to my standards of non-judgement. Where were we? Oh yeah, the Golden Rule, or as I like to call it, The BigT rule”.
I don’t pretend to understand BigT’s Law. I merely espouse upon it.
If you think you encounter a lot of “panty-waist, little goody two-shoes” who you can’t help but shit on, you are probably just an asshole.
Ironically, the very counseling that could help address your fragile masculinity is probably out of reach because that’s a bunch of sissy shit, or whatever.
I already told **BigT **off once (heck, I don’t even remember what the thread was about)so I don’t feel the need to go through the whole thing again. Bucketybuck gave a classic example:
[QUOTE=BigT]
Still, when I see someone acting like an asshole, I want to be able to call them out. And when I see someone missing something obvious, I want to be able to break it down as simply as I can so they can have a chance at understanding.
[/QUOTE]
The fuck? :smack: How can one possibly not see how completely obnoxious that sounds?
In the scheme of things, I think **BigT **brings more good to the world than bad. That doesn’t make his pontificating any less insufferable.
Yes. He brought in on himself. Said every bully everywhere.
And now we see the weak ineffectual victims of bullying spot the guy who is scorned by others, who won’t fight back, and then join in gleefully to take their opportunity for revenge, not against their own tormentors, because that would take courage, but by picking on someone even more vulnerable than themselves and joining the mockery from the safety of a crowd.
Meh.
Yep, Bully Magnet.
That said, Bit T, it’d probably be helpful if you edited your posts for brevity.
One way I judge whether a particular reaction to a poster is justified, is to see who is driving it. When it comes to the BigT hate, I see several posters I would classify as “Giant, throbbing, haemorrhoidal sphincters” joining the pile-on, so that immediately would make me want to take his side.
On the other hand, octopus is for him, so maybe the sphincters are onto something…