# ThelmaLou crybaby snowflake way to take things out of context. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 11, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725 "2018-07-11T16:39:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/21 "2018-07-11T17:41:19Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > But that just links back to THIS thread! It’s turtles all the way down. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/22 "2018-07-11T18:11:46Z")
You are an unusually aggressive person. Every time I’ve noticed you, you’ve been on the attack, if not in your first post, then shortly after. And, save for the Harlan Ellison thread, it’s been over some remarkably petty shit. Now, granted, this is a bit of a ‘people in glass houses’ situation, as I can get disproportionately worked up over some silly things, too. But that, I think, gives me some insight to give you some advice. I know myself, and I recognize this tendency, so I’ve learned to walk away when I get like that - I don’t need to post my opinion on everything, and when I do post, I don’t need to let out every intemperate passenger that’s riding that train of thought at every stop. So…My advice? Slow your roll. Calm down, or at least take the time to compose the post in a calm manner. Don’t post at all if that clarity never comes. It’s not always easy to do, but it’s the best way to avoid saying something one will regret - whether that’s due to having empathy for the person they would have blasted, or because it’s just generally a bad look. (For the record? This thread - bad look.) ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/23 "2018-07-11T18:14:48Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > You are an unusually aggressive person. Every time I’ve noticed you, you’ve been on the attack, if not in your first post, then shortly after. No kidding. Calm the fuck down, OP. There’s no prizes to be won here. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/24 "2018-07-11T18:21:53Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > He might have gone after the person that made the original comment, instead of the widow with the deeply personal connection to the issue. > > Even that would have been dumb and a vast over-reaction, but it would have been like, on the normal scale of vast over-reaction and dumbass things to say. Picking on the widow only is a whole 'nother level. Well, the OP is an overreacting nutter, istm, but come on. It’s still a pretty big reach for ThelmaLou to get offended by someone insulting a documentary. She strikes me as a bit of a drama llama. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/25 "2018-07-11T18:28:44Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > No kidding. Calm the fuck down, OP. There’s no prizes to be won here. Hey, there’s the “Oh No, You Pitn’t” prize, with nominees to be compiled, voted on, and awarded this December! This thread has a good start, but the OP needs to start flaming back for it to be a serious contender. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/26 "2018-07-11T18:35:23Z")
Oh the poor butthurt crybaby snowflake. I mean the OP, not the pittee. Come on, man. This is about the most unworthy pitting I’ve seen here. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/27 "2018-07-11T18:39:27Z")
OP xx ヽ(\*´∀｀）x ---
**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 11, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/28 "2018-07-11T18:40:15Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I suspect this will not end well for you. It will probably end as well as that war the original thread was about. From the US’s perspective, that is. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/29 "2018-07-11T18:46:27Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Well, the OP is an overreacting nutter, istm, but come on. It’s still a pretty big reach for ThelmaLou to get offended by someone insulting a documentary. She strikes me as a bit of a drama llama. I guess you missed the “deeply personal connection” part of Manda JO’s post. **Thelma Lou** didn’t over-react at all and it’s a pretty jerky move to to call her a drama llama in this context. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/30 "2018-07-11T18:49:42Z")
Yeah, I read ThelmaLou’s reply as addressing an apparent general attitude towards the war, not towards the documentary. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/31 "2018-07-11T18:52:32Z")
wow this jackass needs to slow the hell down look what he just posted in this thread …… Quote: Originally Posted by Barkis is Willin’ I liked Simmons way back when was The Sports Guy at ESPN. But Le Batard, much as I hate to say it, is right that ESPN makes those guys famous. Almost all of them crater after they move on. Craig Kiborn, Keith Olberman, Colin Cowherd, Skip Bayless…the list goes on. Dan Patrick is probably the exception, but he’s not as popular as he was at the mothership. I don’t get HBO, I didn’t see Simmons’ show. But honestly I probably would not have watched anyway. So making more than $40,000,000 from Current Tv as Olbermann did is considered ‘cratering?’ Yeah yeah, sure thing. Bayless and Cowheard both got multi million multi year deals from FS1. tell us how does it feel to be absolutely wrong about everything you post? Is it enjoyable? Do you pour yourself a big glass of box wine and settle in every evening and review your posts? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/32 "2018-07-11T18:57:54Z")
I came into this thread for the laughs and was not disappointed. **TA** basically just did a message board’s version of: “Hold my beer” in the most epic way possible. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/33 "2018-07-11T19:10:23Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Yeah, I read ThelmaLou’s reply as addressing an apparent general attitude towards the war, not towards the documentary. I fail to see how you could interpret that way. The OP has clearly had a long standing interest in the war and made no flippant remarks about it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/34 "2018-07-11T19:12:36Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > wow this jackass needs to slow the hell down look what he just posted in this thread …… > Quote: > Originally Posted by Barkis is Willin’ > I liked Simmons way back when was The Sports Guy at ESPN. But Le Batard, much as I hate to say it, is right that ESPN makes those guys famous. Almost all of them crater after they move on. Craig Kiborn, Keith Olberman, Colin Cowherd, Skip Bayless…the list goes on. Dan Patrick is probably the exception, but he’s not as popular as he was at the mothership. > > I don’t get HBO, I didn’t see Simmons’ show. But honestly I probably would not have watched anyway. > So making more than $40,000,000 from Current Tv as Olbermann did is considered ‘cratering?’ Yeah yeah, sure thing. > > Bayless and Cowheard both got multi million multi year deals from FS1. > tell us how does it feel to be absolutely wrong about everything you post? Is it enjoyable? Do you pour yourself a big glass of box wine and settle in every evening and review your posts? [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=810387](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=810387) Link, for our edification… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/35 "2018-07-11T19:16:48Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=810387](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=810387) > > Link, for our edification… Also, multi-quoted the correct way: > [@Bill Simmons' HBO show cancelled after 17 episodes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-simmons-hbo-show-cancelled-after-17-episodes/771489/4): > > I liked Simmons way back when was The Sports Guy at ESPN. But Le Batard, much as I hate to say it, is right that ESPN makes those guys famous. Almost all of them crater after they move on. Craig Kiborn, Keith Olberman, Colin Cowherd, Skip Bayless…the list goes on. Dan Patrick is probably the exception, but he’s not as popular as he was at the mothership. > > I don’t get HBO, I didn’t see Simmons’ show. But honestly I probably would not have watched anyway. > [@Bill Simmons' HBO show cancelled after 17 episodes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-simmons-hbo-show-cancelled-after-17-episodes/771489/7): > > So making more than $40,000,000 from Current Tv as Olbermann did is considered ‘cratering?’:rolleyes: Yeah yeah, sure thing.:rolleyes: > > Bayless and Cowheard both got multi million multi year deals from FS1. > > tell us how does it feel to be absolutely wrong about everything you post? Is it enjoyable? Do you pour yourself a big glass of box wine and settle in every evening and review your posts? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/36 "2018-07-11T20:09:10Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > I fail to see how you could interpret that way. The OP has clearly had a long standing interest in the war and made no flippant remarks about it. I’m with you on this one. Sometimes I think I entered bizarro-world. As jerkish or not as the OP may be, in this specific thing I agree - disliking the documentary isn’t saying anything about the actual war. And someone comparing another’s criticism of a TV show to their own real life loss is a bit of a stretch. Every so often the SD collective gangs up on someone, and nothing can stop it. It’s very annoying to watch. Like a piranha feeding frenzy. I hope you and I don’t get eaten as well. ---
**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 11, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/37 "2018-07-11T20:16:34Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > I fail to see how you could interpret that way. The OP has clearly had a long standing interest in the war and made no flippant remarks about it. It pains me to agree even the slightest with the OP, but you are correct. **Thelma** seems to have taken offense where none was given or intended. Having said that, the OP is a jackass and a snap-case. And his response to **Thelma** was completely uncalled for. I stand by my earlier comment that this thread will not end will. Nor should it. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/38 "2018-07-11T20:21:08Z")
> [@Textual\_Assault](#): > > I started a thread about Ken Burns Vietnam war minseries and that it didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know execpt for one VERY important thing and yeah my OP was maybe a bit snarky but it was about the tv show, **NOT the actual war**. > > But ThelmaLou is apparently to stupid to be able to make that distinction. Interesting little composition. All I’m going to say here is that **ThelmaLou** is a thoughtful and respected poster who’s been a valuable contributor here, in my estimation. You, on the other hand, can’t write, can’t spell, and can’t think, just judging from your OP alone. You’re a waste of space. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/39 "2018-07-11T20:26:21Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Interesting little composition. > > All I’m going to say here is that **ThelmaLou** is a thoughtful and respected poster who’s been a valuable contributor here, in my estimation. You, on the other hand, can’t write, can’t spell, and can’t think, just judging from your OP alone. You’re a waste of space. Is she really? Mostly I know her from her anti-Trumpomania where she is far from thoughtful. Closer to running around with her hair on fire. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/40 "2018-07-11T20:29:25Z")
It should be noted that **TA** made [this response](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21069719&postcount=19) to **Thelma Lou** in the Cafe Society thread and got a warning from **Chronos**. So, yeah, he is being a jackass and a snap case. Also, I notice that he has been active in other forums, but hasn’t returned to this thread since starting it. Probably staying away out of embarrassment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725.md?page=3)