# The Great Outage **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 22, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846 "2016-04-22T23:30:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/121 "2016-04-25T11:53:50Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > OK, I’ll play. How does student apply? Eh, why bother? It’s past the deadline and you’re not really “college material” anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/122 "2016-04-25T11:56:18Z")
How does student apply? How girl get diploma? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/123 "2016-04-25T12:49:33Z")
\< NO Mod Hat For Me \> > [@Colibri](#): > > No, it doesn’t. It’s the fact that you chose to nitpick a casual statement by another poster that makes you a fucktard. > > But it’s clear you’re not capable of understanding that. Dear Colibri, This was awesome. Please do it again more often. And take that “please” to mean “or else”. 😃 \< /Not a Mod \> ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/124 "2016-04-25T14:56:42Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > An internet message board being down is well beyond any rational definition of relevant. So is every post you’ve ever made on this board. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/125 "2016-04-25T15:03:22Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > So is every post you’ve ever made on this board. Oh noes! A dork on the internet doesn’t like me. Whatever shall I do? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/126 "2016-04-25T15:09:57Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Oh noes! A dork on the internet doesn’t like me. Pretty much everyone detests you. > [@](#): > > Whatever shall I do? Go the fuck away. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/127 "2016-04-25T15:26:23Z")
I’m devastated. Where’s my blankie? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/128 "2016-04-25T16:51:17Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > BTW, in order to maintain in good standing my credentials as grammar Nazi and spelling fascist, I am required to inform you that there is only one “t” in “outage”. In defence of our friend **Ramira** , I suspect what happened was that his spelling was influenced by a similar word he was more familiar with - frottage. That’s probably it. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/129 "2016-04-25T18:09:06Z")
Could someone tell me why **D’Anconia** even bothers to read this board, much less participate? It’s clear he has no liking for the community we’ve built here. Oh, well, Another one who gets tossed into the kill file. PLUNK! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/130 "2016-04-25T18:14:58Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Could someone tell me why **D’Anconia** even bothers to read this board, much less participate? It’s clear he has no liking for the community we’ve built here. I guess it’s like the really unpopular kid who hangs around and says and does stupid shit because negative attention is better than no attention at all. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/131 "2016-04-25T19:00:34Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I guess it’s like the really unpopular kid who hangs around and says and does stupid shit because negative attention is better than no attention at all. As you can no doubt guess, I’ve just voted for “no attention”, and now I won’t be bothered by his idiocy. I like that. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/132 "2016-04-25T19:48:47Z")
Stop! Can’t you see this board outage is tearing us apart! ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/133 "2016-04-25T19:53:56Z")
“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices – to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill – and suspicion can destroy – and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own – for the children – and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is – that these things cannot be confined – to the Twilight Zone.” ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/134 "2016-04-26T00:41:00Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Oh noes! A dork on the internet doesn’t like me. Whatever shall I do? I’m always bemused by people with your attitude. Let’s assume for the sake of the argument that this board is a gigantic pointless gabfest with no real purpose or importance. And that anyone who cares about this place is - consequently - a gormless waster. Accepting those premises for the sake of the argument, any way I turn it around in my mind I can’t come to any conclusion but that someone who spends their time poking fun at the gormless wasters and their unimportant gabfest is _even more of a gormless waster engaged in an even more pointless activity with even less purpose or importance._ In other words, if we are first order losers, it’s hard to see how you aren’t a second order loser. Which has to be even worse. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/135 "2016-04-26T00:43:07Z")
Does Ramira frequently look outside and yell at the kids to get off his sand? ---
**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:** [April 26, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/136 "2016-04-26T00:48:28Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Does Ramira frequently look outside and yell at the kids to get off his sand? Her. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/137 "2016-04-26T06:21:51Z")
wow all this over a 24 hour outage ? some of the charter members should remember when the board was out for almost 2 months I think it was in 03 or 04 and they thought it was the same back then … they thought it was some pissed off poster… But what was even funnier was tubadiva found us a temp home that was free hosting that we crashed in 3 hours from overload and she paid for an upgrade herself … ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/138 "2016-04-26T07:58:37Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Could someone tell me why **D’Anconia** even bothers to read this board, much less participate? It’s clear he has no liking for the community we’ve built here. A theory: Fox News disabled and then severely restricted their comments feature, casting hordes of bloviating wingnuts into the outer darkness, and he’s probably been banned most other places. Maybe someone sent him here as a practical joke. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/139 "2016-04-26T08:33:24Z")
> [@nightshade2016](#): > > . . . tubadiva found us a temp home . . . (emphasis added) For someone who joined less than 24 hours ago, not only do you have a great sense of Board history, but your embracing that us/them thing, has come about remarkably quickly. Indeed, in your description of those long ago events, it’s almost as if you were there yourself! Your empathy is extraordinary. ETA: Wait a minute. I may have misjudged things. Perhaps your ostensibly new membership is nothing more than a _Outtage_ work-around. ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846/140 "2016-04-26T12:15:21Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > (emphasis added) > > For someone who joined less than 24 hours ago, not only do you have a great sense of Board history, but your embracing that us/them thing, has come about remarkably quickly. Indeed, in your description of those long ago events, it’s almost as if you were there yourself! Your empathy is extraordinary. > > ETA: Wait a minute. I may have misjudged things. Perhaps your ostensibly new membership is nothing more than a _Outtage_ work-around. Old member who needs a mod to connect the new name up with the old (no access to the old email account, according to a post in MPSIMS). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-outage/752846.md?page=8)