# The\_Broken\_Column Pitting #2 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 25, 2004, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073 "2004-02-25T10:44:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/1 "2004-02-25T10:44:14Z")
**The\_Broken\_Record** (cap doffed to **jjimm** ), you are a paper tiger out of your depth. Result: a soggy mess whose only use is to decorate a classroom ceiling. [Example](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=240649&page=2). I will now stop writing single lines, double-spaced, because that style is for simpletons and melodramatic teenagers’ poems. In times past, there have been countless members who arrived here with a supercilious and arrogant mien, eager to blind us all with their supernoval brilliance. They alluded to circumstances which bestowed upon them superior learning and expertise on various subjects. Sometimes, once in a while, this dismissive attitude was just bearable because they plainly _did_ have much to offer (_eg._ **Coll** ). In almost every other case, however, they were merely irritating fleas claiming dominion over the dog. You would fall into this category, but I believe you would be more accurately represented by the _Yersinia pestis_ bacterium infesting the flea, claiming dominion over the dog. You are, by all accounts, an undergraduate studying political science. Admirable as this is (and I will not stoop to speculating that you weren’t clever enough to do _proper_ science), it hardly qualifies you as an “expert”. Your _lecturers_ may have a valid claim to authority, but you would find that even _they_ would be subject to withering criticism and demands for fact-supporting sources if they posted the ill-conceived, opinionated drivel you do. Which they wouldn’t. I believe it is possible that you might, just _might_, have enough critical thinking faculties and background knowledge to become a valuable member of these boards. But until you demonstrate such, you will be followed around and corrected wherever you spill your ignorant bilgewater until the hull of your credibility, already fatally holed I fear, lies at the bottom of the depths you foolishly ventured into, the mast a broken column, and that weeping virgin drowns in a sea of soggy paper. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/2 "2004-02-25T13:17:37Z")
> [@SentientMeat](#): > > **The\_Broken\_Record** (cap doffed to **jjimm** ), you are a paper tiger out of your depth. > > Result: a soggy mess whose only use is to decorate a classroom ceiling. > > [Example](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=240649&page=2). > > I will now stop writing single lines, double-spaced, because that style is for simpletons and melodramatic teenagers’ poems. > > In times past, there have been countless members who arrived here with a supercilious and arrogant mien, eager to blind us all with their supernoval brilliance. They alluded to circumstances which bestowed upon them superior learning and expertise on various subjects. Sometimes, once in a while, this dismissive attitude was just bearable because they plainly _did_ have much to offer (_eg._ **Coll** ). > > In almost every other case, however, they were merely irritating fleas claiming dominion over the dog. You would fall into this category, but I believe you would be more accurately represented by the _Yersinia pestis_ bacterium infesting the flea, claiming dominion over the dog. > > You are, by all accounts, an undergraduate studying political science. Admirable as this is (and I will not stoop to speculating that you weren’t clever enough to do _proper_ science), it hardly qualifies you as an “expert”. Your _lecturers_ may have a valid claim to authority, but you would find that even _they_ would be subject to withering criticism and demands for fact-supporting sources if they posted the ill-conceived, opinionated drivel you do. > > Which they wouldn’t. > > I believe it is possible that you might, just _might_, have enough critical thinking faculties and background knowledge to become a valuable member of these boards. But until you demonstrate such, you will be followed around and corrected wherever you spill your ignorant bilgewater until the hull of your credibility, already fatally holed I fear, lies at the bottom of the depths you foolishly ventured into, the mast a broken column, and that weeping virgin drowns in a sea of soggy paper. Fair rant, but still too many paragraphs. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/3 "2004-02-25T13:29:15Z")
> [@SentientMeat](#): > > **The\_Broken\_Record** (cap doffed to **jjimm** ) You’d better undoff it - I was merely reproducing someone else’s genius. ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/4 "2004-02-25T13:37:13Z")
Well, accept a gratuitous doffing any way, just for the Hull of it. _doffs to [**spectrum**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=240143&highlight=Broken_Record) instead_ ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/5 "2004-02-25T13:41:27Z")
> [@SentientMeat](#): > > Well, accept a gratuitous doffing any way, just for the Hull of it. > > _doffs to [**spectrum**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=240143&highlight=Broken_Record) instead_ Try [**BobLibDem**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4557219#post4557219), who beat **spectrum** to it by an hour and a half. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/6 "2004-02-25T13:46:18Z")
I just want to applaud the use of supernoval. Brilliant. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/7 "2004-02-25T13:50:33Z")
> [@SentientMeat](#): > > Well, accept a gratuitous doffing any way, just for the Hull of it. Thank you. I haven’t been gratuitiously doffed to for, ooh, days now. ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/8 "2004-02-25T14:13:53Z")
Thanks, **Des**. **BobLibDem** , though my cap appears a little threadbare after the reckless profligacy of my doffing heretofore, I doff it to you thus… _doff_ ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/9 "2004-02-25T14:18:46Z")
Okay you guys, get a room, will you? Yeah, I know . . . I haven’t been doffed in a while . . . ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/10 "2004-02-26T09:25:47Z")
Actually, it appears **TBC** is improving somewhat. While he(?) still bifurcates and posts opinion masquerading as fact, he is undeniably doing better than when he first arrived. There is hope. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/11 "2004-02-26T16:06:24Z")
I believe the only **\_Record** he has so far **\_Broken** is “fastest poster to get pitted twice”. Speaking of which, what the hell was wrong with _my_ thread that made you open a new one, eh? ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/12 "2004-02-26T16:56:45Z")
Apologies, **dutch** , I meant no disservice to your excellent testament to his nauseating and ill-founded hubris. Consider this a complementary cover version of your orginal. ---
**Author:** ![spectrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@spectrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spectrum)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/13 "2004-02-26T17:30:42Z")
> [@Desmostylus](#): > > Try [**BobLibDem**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4557219#post4557219), who beat **spectrum** to it by an hour and a half. 😉 Yeah, I picked that up from Bob. The credit is all his. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/14 "2004-02-27T11:47:39Z")
What I want to know is how his area of expertise can simultaneously be political science and the science of spaceflight. ---
**Author:** ![LogicinMotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@LogicinMotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LogicinMotion)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/15 "2004-02-27T12:06:23Z")
Ah, I venture forth into this topic with much trepidation. Ego’s abound and commentary that befits intellectual tomes, litters the topic floor like monuments to ages past. Methinks SentientMeat that you should come down from Mount Olympus to see how mere mortals fare, and then ask yourself if you wish to inhabit the same world the rest of us do. Everyone is a mere mortal on this board. Even you. (Inserted shocked gasp for dramatic effect here) Why the need to pit others, to demonstrate your pithy intellect? You toss words around, like hubris, and supernoval (You’re so adapt at the english language, and trying to be intellectual that you can make your onw words up now when you can’t find an existing word to show how smart you are? Oh dear, there are thousands. Pick one!) I read the thread that you posted a link to. I’ve also been a member of these boards for a little time, and for the most part people exist and get along fairly well, but there seems to be members such as yourself, who like to refer to others as: Knuckle dragging, slope headed, one long eyebrow neolithic man defective mutant throwbacks that you mentally tower over. Of course it goes without saying (But I’ll say it anyway) that you have to demonstrate how effortlessly you tower over them, by producing such ego centric topics like this one. How adroit of you. Not. Your point was not even well observed, as pointed out more than once. You are so fixated on appearing witty and urbane that you did not even research your little rant come monologue well enough to be effective or be urbane. You simply come off sounding boorish and full of yourself. Perhaps next time you’d like to rant, you will think twice before your future specious arguments detracts from your staggering intellect. Logic. ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/16 "2004-02-27T12:15:30Z")
What the _fuck_? ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/17 "2004-02-27T12:21:01Z")
That’s my new favorite response to a pitting by a third party, I must say. ---
**Author:** ![LogicinMotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@LogicinMotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LogicinMotion)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/18 "2004-02-27T12:21:20Z")
> [@Desmostylus](#): > > What the _fuck_? My sentiments exactly. To recap what spurred my sentiment: OP (In times past, there have been countless members who arrived here with a supercilious and arrogant mien, eager to blind us all with their supernoval brilliance. They alluded to circumstances which bestowed upon them superior learning and expertise on various subjects. Sometimes, once in a while, this dismissive attitude was just bearable because they plainly did have much to offer (eg. Coll). In almost every other case, however, they were merely irritating fleas claiming dominion over the dog. You would fall into this category, but I believe you would be more accurately represented by the Yersinia pestis bacterium infesting the flea, claiming dominion over the dog.) Which of course made me think, WTF also. Logic. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/19 "2004-02-27T12:34:36Z")
> [@SentientMeat](#): > > I believe it is possible that you might, just _might_, have enough critical thinking faculties and background knowledge to become a valuable member of these boards. I don’t. He’s hopeless. I’m sure he has the ability, he’ll just never use it because of his stubborn refusal to use his brain. **LogicinMotion**? You’re a moron too. ---
**Author:** ![LogicinMotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@LogicinMotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LogicinMotion)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073/20 "2004-02-27T12:44:53Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > I don’t. He’s hopeless. I’m sure he has the ability, he’ll just never use it because of his stubborn refusal to use his brain. > > **LogicinMotion**? You’re a moron too. Gee, I am? The price must be right then eh? So I’m a moron, because the opening post spoke out at everyone that he (Sentientmeat) decides is below him? Who died and elected him deity spokesperson of the month? For that matter, who did the same for you? If you wish to REPLY then question my comments, and don’t lower yourself (further) to insults. It’s ugly and does nothing to promote your own jaded outlook. For the record? Your post simply exemplifies what it is I am finding abhorrent of late. Posters who do nothing more than insult, denegrate and generally act smug as though they are better than any other poster with an opinion that may differ from their own. 🙂 Logic. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the_broken_column-pitting-2/231073.md?page=2)