# The only answer possible for a GQ question **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 28, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269 "2014-07-28T19:09:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [July 29, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/41 "2014-07-29T02:11:35Z")
> [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](#): > > So the OP was just an excuse looking for disagreement so the OPer could pick fights (I know, “internet insult-typing flurries” don’t deserve the dignity of being called “fights”) with other posters? That doesn’t even make for a stupid pitting. The “Pay Attention to Me (baseless)” forum is long overdue. The OP was my reaction to people that talk to plants, the next couple of posts could best be described as a Pavlovian reaction, and the rest is the rest. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/42 "2014-07-29T02:14:42Z")
[http://s28.postimg.org/9um8ptk4b/gif2.gif](http://s28.postimg.org/9um8ptk4b/gif2.gif) ---
**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:** [July 29, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/43 "2014-07-29T02:15:29Z")
> [@Krav\_Manga](#): > > Sounds like trolling to me. And that’s why [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com) doesn’t answer any of your emails volunteering to help them out, **Krav**. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2014, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/44 "2014-07-29T02:18:20Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > [http://s28.postimg.org/9um8ptk4b/gif2.gif](http://s28.postimg.org/9um8ptk4b/gif2.gif) You…you…oh, what the hell-your posts are cool. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/45 "2014-07-29T02:44:49Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Cite? That is not the only answer possible for a GQ question. I’ve gotten some mileage from “Yeah, maybe,” and, “First define \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.” ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/46 "2014-07-29T02:48:31Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > “Our”? Where the fuck were you in those first few posts that I was referencing? The only ones I criticized were the me-too jackasses that couldn’t think up anything brighter than “cite?”. Of course, the latter of the two did do a follow up…but it was a creepy, stalkerish kind of follow up that I hope he doesn’t pursue. If you don’t think the pitting was appropriate, go for it and we can go back and forth on the topic of people that talk to plants. If on the other hand you just came here to associate yourself with Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber… Yawn. You sad, pathetic little man. I’m sure you feel so smug with all of your nitpickery that ultimately goes nowhere really. Sorry, I’m not interested your pedantic jousting. Any chance you want to comment the jist of my post? The part about you needing to stroke your ego, your pacifistic ego, by bullying random strangers on the internet? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2014, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/47 "2014-07-29T03:14:22Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Yawn. You sad, pathetic little man. I’m sure you feel so smug with all of your nitpickery that ultimately goes nowhere really. Sorry, I’m not interested your pedantic jousting. Any chance you want to comment the jist of my post? The part about you needing to stroke your ego, your pacifistic ego, by bullying random strangers on the internet? We didn’t cover “Projection” in first year Psych, but please do go on. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/48 "2014-07-29T03:16:43Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Oh, come _on_. I’ve been begging you assholes for years for a proper pitting, and this is the best you’ve got? Do you think it’s appropriate to troll a message board in this fashion? ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/49 "2014-07-29T03:25:02Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The OP was my reaction to people that talk to plants, the next couple of posts could best be described as a Pavlovian reaction, and the rest is the rest. Yeah, but, that’s a lie. The talking-to-plants remark was a joke, established as such by the person who made it, and was treated as such by everyone in that thread, and everyone in any thread, except you. You made a serious insult about a line that the originator made clear wasn’t seriously intended to begin with (hence: bad pitting) and ignored the actual semiserious question (hence: no good at GQ either). You know, you’re not dumb, and you’ve got to realize the Pavlov analogy isn’t describing anybody you’ve picked out to pick on. So, take your lumps, go back to GQ, and present your arguments/evidence. Then, apologize, take your beating in silence, or (for all I know) triumph, proving your point and confounding or at least confusing your detractors. I don’t care which; but I know you’re wasting everybody’s time here. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/50 "2014-07-29T04:12:44Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > We didn’t cover “Projection” in first year Psych, but please do go on. Yeah, I didn’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/51 "2014-07-29T06:25:11Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > We didn’t cover “Projection” in first year Psych, but please do go on. no u ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/52 "2014-07-29T08:00:43Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > What they don’t have is intelligence in any way, shape or form, and and taking any and/or all of the complex involuntary chemical processes and calling it “intelligence” does not make it intelligence. Intelligence in humans is only based on complex, involuntary chemical processes. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/53 "2014-07-29T08:19:27Z")
I guess this is as good a place as any to voice my opinion on what I think is up with **Czarcasm** , and he can tell me if I’m right or wrong. I think that lately he’s been rather dense and not getting things. I wonder if something happened to him, like maybe what led him to step down from moderating. Granted, it would have had to have gotten worse since then. I mean, I’m far from sure, but I have wondered. Is he really not getting things that he used to understand when he was a moderator? Or did I just never notice him not getting things? And, dude, if you don’t want people who you know are mad at you to lash out at you, you don’t open a Pit thread. That’s why I avoid them, even to this day, even though I’ve done my best to not do the things people get upset at me for. ---
**Author:** ![Krav\_Manga](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krav_manga/32/3153_2.png) [@Krav\_Manga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krav_Manga)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/54 "2014-07-29T08:41:22Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I guess this is as good a place as any to voice my opinion on what I think is up with **Czarcasm** , and he can tell me if I’m right or wrong. I think that lately he’s been rather dense and not getting things. I wonder if something happened to him, like maybe what led him to step down from moderating. Granted, it would have had to have gotten worse since then. > > I mean, I’m far from sure, but I have wondered. Is he really not getting things that he used to understand when he was a moderator? Or did I just never notice him not getting things? > > And, dude, if you don’t want people who you know are mad at you to lash out at you, you don’t open a Pit thread. That’s why I avoid them, even to this day, even though I’ve done my best to not do the things people get upset at me for. Alternatively, he might have always been a cock, still is being a cock, and will remain a cock in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/55 "2014-07-29T10:49:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Your houseplants. No ur. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/56 "2014-07-29T11:31:39Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I wonder if something happened to him, Ahh, the Busey ploy. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/57 "2014-07-29T13:26:01Z")
Feeling terribly alone in this **Czarcasm**? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/58 "2014-07-29T14:34:59Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Feeling terribly alone in this **Czarcasm**? You mean with a shitton of people who don’t like him taking the opportunity to get in a cut? Gosh, imagine. I’ll go on record as saying that I like **Czar**. He’s certainly no more flawed than any of us. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/59 "2014-07-29T14:55:31Z")
> [@andros](#): > > You mean with a shitton of people who don’t like him taking the opportunity to get in a cut? Gosh, imagine. > > I’ll go on record as saying that I like **Czar**. He’s certainly no more flawed than any of us. I didn’t know there was a whole _shitton_ of people who didn’t like him. Any idea why that is? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269/60 "2014-07-29T15:10:45Z")
> [@andros](#): > > He’s certainly no more flawed than any of us. He’s a little more flawed than I am; or at least flawed in a different way. And I’m pretty damn flawed, although mine are generally V.V.S. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-answer-possible-for-a-gq-question/694269.md?page=4)