# The very overdue pitting of Susanann **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 22, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032 "2011-07-22T21:22:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/41 "2011-07-23T00:25:29Z")
Maybe it’s just because I’m a Watergate buff (now that was a real conspiracy!) but this quote from the [Kennedy assassination](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14049207&postcount=104) thread is a personal favorite: > [@Susanann](#): > > Woodward and Bernstien were simply a couple of hack reporters who allowed themselves become patsies (a couple of “dupes” if you will) in a plot masterminded by Mark Felt to overthrow the Presidency of the United States. When I read that, I was tempted to ask for a further explanation, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/42 "2011-07-23T00:26:10Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > So what the fuck are you doing here? If you have a life, go have it. I usually have a life; tonight I don’t (I have a job and worked really fucking hard all week so I’m happily flat on my ass tonight) and I thought it might be amusing to see how people like you spend your days. Carry on! Your defensiveness is amusing and cute to observe, temporarily on my part. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/43 "2011-07-23T00:27:28Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > Maybe it’s just because I’m a Watergate buff (now that was a real conspiracy!) but this quote from the [Kennedy assassination](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14049207&postcount=104) thread is a personal favorite:When I read that, I was tempted to ask for a further explanation, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. Man, she is just the wacko gift that keeps on giving. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/44 "2011-07-23T00:31:27Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > I usually have a life; tonight I don’t (I have a job and worked really fucking hard all week so I’m happily flat on my ass tonight) and I thought it might be amusing to see how people like you spend your days. Carry on! Your defensiveness is amusing and cute to observe, temporarily on my part. Ha. You’re funny. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/45 "2011-07-23T00:33:41Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > For one thing, it’s the year 2011–everyone, including your Grandma, now spends more-or-less “vast” amounts of time “communicating with strangers online”. (Or not _necessarily_ strangers, could be people they knew in high school.) OK, not literally everyone. I’m sure there are still people out there–even Americans–who have no truck with this new-fangled Interweb thing-y. But at this point, snarking about “people who spend all their time online” is becoming as silly as snarking about “people who spend all their time talking over them telephone wires to people on the other side of town–or even in the next county!” It is, isn’t it? I mean, you still hear about fat lonely neckbeards living in their parents’ basement, but you usually don’t hear that just because someone’s posting shit online any more. It’s kind of quaint, really. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/46 "2011-07-23T00:35:19Z")
**chiroptera** needs to start her own pit thread, me thinks. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/47 "2011-07-23T00:40:32Z")
Isn’t she the person who, for a while there, was bringing up illegal immigration in every single thread she posted in? We could be talking about someone’s cat’s litter-box issues, and she’d blame it on those fucking Mexicans. And soon (next week, probably), because of the billions of illegals swarming into the country, that cat wouldn’t even have a litter box to not piss in, because the Mexicans will have moved into your basement and taken it over. That’s her, right? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/48 "2011-07-23T00:43:57Z")
Anybody else misread this as “ **The very overdue pitting of Saruman** ”? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/49 "2011-07-23T00:46:51Z")
> [@Renee](#): > > Isn’t she the person who, for a while there, was bringing up illegal immigration in every single thread she posted in? We could be talking about someone’s cat’s litter-box issues, and she’d blame it on those fucking Mexicans. And soon (next week, probably), because of the billions of illegals swarming into the country, that cat wouldn’t even have a litter box to not piss in, because the Mexicans will have moved into your basement and taken it over. That’s her, right? Yep. That’s our gal! ---
**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 23, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/50 "2011-07-23T00:50:10Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > Is it surprising or unusual for people who immerse themselves in an online pseudo-life to be a tad unbalanced and even - essaentially, given the medium - delusional? > > I assume _anyone_ who spends vast amounts of time “communicating” with strangers online is not 100 percent mentally healthy or socially adept. Is it just me, or isn’t that obvious and a given? It’s just you. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/51 "2011-07-23T00:50:12Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Anybody else misread this as “ **The very overdue pitting of Saruman** ”? Well, I am NOW. I see **Susanann** and her ilk as living embodiments of the [Dunning-Kruger Effect.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect) ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/52 "2011-07-23T00:51:33Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Bullshit. “Reduce spending” isn’t a plan, it’s a slogan. See, now you’re doing the same thing the OP did. 😃 I didn’t say it was a “plan”; I said it was a way to deal with the country’s financial woes. And the reason it’s a “slogan” (to the degree it is; after all, Harry Reid seems awfully happy to have killed the latest [“slogan”](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/22/senate-votes-to-set-aside-cut-cap-and-balance-plan-proposed-by-house-gop/) to pass the House :D) is because politicians of the type you favor are in strenuous opposition to it. Increasing spending is how they buy your votes. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/53 "2011-07-23T00:51:41Z")
I’m too lazy to look up the rules about calling other posters socks. Can we do that or not? If we could, I would say “Hi **chiroptera** , **Susann** ’s sock!” But if that’s against the rules, I won’t. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/54 "2011-07-23T00:53:44Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I’m too lazy to look up the rules about calling other posters socks. Can we do that or not? > > If we could, I would say “Hi **chiroptera** , **Susann** ’s sock!” > > But if that’s against the rules, I won’t. **Susanann** - join date Dec. 2002. **chiroptera** - join date Dec. 2005. That’s a mighty long time to maintain a sock, isn’t it? (I truly wouldn’t know, since the concept of sock accounts baffles me). ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/55 "2011-07-23T01:00:25Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Anybody else misread this as “ **The very overdue pitting of Saruman** ”? Is it surprising or unusual for people who immerse themselves in a magical pseudo-life to be a tad unbalanced and even–essentially, given the medium–delusional? I assume anyone who spends vast amounts of time “communicating” via palantir with disembodied beings is not 100 percent mentally healthy or socially adept. Is it just me, or isn’t that obvious and a given? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/56 "2011-07-23T01:05:10Z")
I’m pretty sure **Susanann** collects Precious Moments figurines and sent me a check for five dollars for my birthday. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/57 "2011-07-23T01:19:11Z")
I’m not sure these pittings are nearly as much fun if the subject doesn’t show up. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/58 "2011-07-23T01:19:18Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I’m pretty sure **Susanann** collects Precious Moments figurines and sent me a check for five dollars for my birthday. She’s your Grandma? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/59 "2011-07-23T01:26:48Z")
She’s MY Grandma? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/60 "2011-07-23T01:37:30Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I’m too lazy to look up the rules about calling other posters socks. Can we do that or not? > > If we could, I would say “Hi **chiroptera** , **Susann** ’s sock!” > > But if that’s against the rules, I won’t. If you have reason to believe someone has a sock account, please report it to a moderator. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032.md?page=4)