# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/141 "2018-07-14T21:17:20Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > He was bitten by weredick. Like werewolf, but the moon doesn’t matter. Your posts always bring me a chuckle even before I read them. 🙂 Don’t think I’ve ever expressed my appreciation for your “sarconic” skills with a phrase, but they never went unnoticed! ---
**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 14, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/142 "2018-07-14T22:42:45Z")
> [@pohjonen](#): > > Your posts always bring me a chuckle even before I read them. 🙂 I am almost the exact same. I always chuckle at his posts until I read them. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/143 "2018-07-14T23:01:25Z")
> [@Textual\_Assault](#): > > Oh look at you using all those big words. You must have spent a semester at community college. > Thing is, what you and most other people are ignoring for what reason I can’t imagine, or are to tard to grasp is that it was quite clear in MY entire OP that was\*\* referring specifically to Burns tv show\*\*, NOT the actual war. > > That is clear as day. A first grader could grasp that. But you and **Thelma Lou** and everyone else can’t. > My guess is **Thelma Lou** needs to quit the Sip and Drank **and get ass to an AA** meeting and into counseling, or just self admit to an institution. So a newly-minted account, written by someone prone to forgetting to use articles, attacks one of the board’s more prominent anti-Trump, anti-Putin progressives. … Things that make you go “hmmmm …” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/144 "2018-07-14T23:08:07Z")
Hmmmmm. And on a subject which has no relevance to discussions of the America-hating fuckstick _or_ Putin. Might be a bit of a stretch. I’m thinking that what we have here is just an asshole with a short fuse. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/145 "2018-07-14T23:12:42Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Hmmmmm. And on a subject which has no relevance to discussions of the America-hating fuckstick _or_ Putin. > > Might be a bit of a stretch. I’m thinking that what we have here is just an asshole with a short fuse. Very possibly.\* But if we start to see a fair number of attempts to make other anti-Trump, anti-Putin posters look bad (as “crybabies” or what-have-you) via pitting about non-Trump, non-Putin-related thread posts, then we might want to give the matter a closer look. \*And let’s not forget that among the ranks of people who actually are paid to post in a trolling-the-left fashion, there are bound to be a number of genuine assholes, possessing fuses of indeterminate length. ---
**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 15, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/146 "2018-07-15T00:02:33Z")
You’re being beyond ridiculous. He forgot an apostrophe and a “the” and you smell Russian? And Thelmalou is our “most prominent anti-Trump progressive”? Wtf, man? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/147 "2018-07-15T04:06:31Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > … **one of** the board’s more prominent anti-Trump, anti-Putin progressives… My bolding, of course. ---
**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 15, 2018, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/148 "2018-07-15T04:24:26Z")
I would think the name “textual assault” would be beyond the language skill levels of a typical Russian bot, but what would I know? ---
**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 15, 2018, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/149 "2018-07-15T04:29:34Z")
Yeah I noticed that overstatement, andros. Sorry, I mean to correct myself. But even still, how is suspecting that this is a possible Russian hit job on “one of the more prominent anti-Trump progressives” anything other than total whack jobbery? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/150 "2018-07-15T05:16:02Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > You’re being beyond ridiculous. He forgot an apostrophe and a “the” and you smell Russian? And Thelmalou is our “most prominent anti-Trump progressive”? Wtf, man? You mean you don’t appreciate the boot-licking understatement on these boards? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![katgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@katgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/151 "2018-07-15T13:43:43Z")
nobody should get butthurt over comments on a message board people grow enormous cyberballs when they get online, they may as well be drunk that means everyone’s butthurt meters need to be recalibrated 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/152 "2018-07-15T23:07:12Z")
> [@andros](#): > > My bolding, of course. Thanks. And CarnalK’s head asploded for no particularly good reason; why _wouldn’t_ a paid poster want to see progressives squabbling over the oddness of someone making a whole Pit thread over something as anodyne as ThelmaLou’s remark in the Ken Burns-doco thread? Certainly there’s no proof that a paid poster made the thread, but can we assert that such is _impossible_? ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/153 "2018-07-15T23:25:14Z")
Um, what? **Sherrerd** , seriously. Thank you, because now I get to agree with **CarnalK** about something in the same thread where I’m making fun of her/his “warping reality” opinion. The ‘Russian troll’ theory is… unsupported by **TA** ’s posting history. Unless, **TA** is doing a really fucking shitty job. And if you’ve spotted _that_ you’d kind of have to be part of the troll team management. (You’re not, based on _your_ posting history. IMO YMMV IANAL) ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/154 "2018-07-15T23:28:22Z")
Or… I’m just a humorless bastard and I don’t get the joke. In which case, anyone have a comb? ---
**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 15, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/155 "2018-07-15T23:31:20Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Thanks. And CarnalK’s head asploded for no particularly good reason; why _wouldn’t_ a paid poster want to see progressives squabbling over the oddness of someone making a whole Pit thread over something as anodyne as ThelmaLou’s remark in the Ken Burns-doco thread? Certainly there’s no proof that a paid poster made the thread, but can we assert that such is _impossible_? My head asploded over your idiotic suspicion that there’s anything “behind” this thread other than someone’s anger issues. And despite some kind words, ThelmaLou is quite obviously in the shrieky stupid section of anti-Trump progressives here. Certainly, there’s no proof you are being paid to spout paranoid crap but I hope so because otherwise you are just being ridiculous on your own. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/156 "2018-07-15T23:38:18Z")
I’m all for happy feelings of fellowship between you and CarnalK, or any other pair of posters, for that matter. But why the upswelling of emotion about the possibility that the attack on ThelmaLou was motivated by something _other_ than sincere horror over her post in the Ken Burns thread? I haven’t spent time checking TA’s posts, I will admit … …Okay, I just looked. I’ll concede that this does appear to be a particularly stroppy and quarrelsome person–not that no paid poster has ever employed such a persona, of course. Combative personas often are used to gain attention quickly, particularly on the more youth-oriented boards (which this is not). Still, there’s no proof that this is an impersonation. But I don’t see your basis for ruling out the _possibility_—can you expand on that? ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/157 "2018-07-15T23:40:05Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > My head asploded over your idiotic suspicion that there’s anything “behind” this thread other than someone’s anger issues. And despite some kind words, ThelmaLou is quite obviously in the shrieky stupid section of anti-Trump progressives here. Certainly, there’s no proof you are being paid to spout paranoid crap but I hope so because otherwise you are just being ridiculous on your own. Goodness gracious! ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/158 "2018-07-15T23:41:05Z")
I didn’t rule anything out. You could definitely be a troll farm manager, **Sherrerd**. You have leadership potential, if nothing else! But it would not be my first theory. Or thirty first. ---
**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 15, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/159 "2018-07-15T23:47:35Z")
Expand on not jumping to a ridiculous conclusion? Oh, I guess you mean explain why it’s ridiculous. As you have now noticed, Textual Assault gets way worked up about a bunch of stupid piddly shit. The Thelmalou post he got worked up about is concerning a 50 year ago war that is hardly likely to stir up many feelings. ## The SDMB is a sad place for a paid troll to set up shop. It’s not easily shared/multiplied and is pretty low on the internet totem pole. Your whole idea is based on the fact that ThelmaLou doesn’t like Trump so a newb attacking her is automatically suspicious. Despite the fact that 90% of the people on here hate Trump. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelmalou-crybaby-snowflake-way-to-take-things-out-of-context/817725/160 "2018-07-16T00:09:14Z")
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