# Thinking About Leaving **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 27, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169 "2004-07-27T22:21:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Elessar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elessar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elessar)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/81 "2004-07-28T03:20:54Z")
That’s it. Now, I’m leaving. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/82 "2004-07-28T03:23:03Z")
I was one of the first to agree with **Demo** and since that time this has turned into the most amusing Pit threads that I have seen in months. This is some Old School Pit Thread shit. I don’t know **Demo** or **Lobsang** and I doubt that they’ve even heard of me. I’m not part of any Clique or Crew or Gang so far as I am aware. I’m not sucking anyone’s dick for love or money. I still think that the fake “I’m leaving” threads are idiotic. It’s hard to keep track but I think that that makes me Not A Pussy. I have this nagging feeling that this whole thing is part of a bigger whoosh. Either that or the SF Dopefest is going to look like a geek version of _Westside Story_. Clearly **Demo** ’s gang will be the Sharks. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/83 "2004-07-28T03:32:15Z")
> [@deb2world](#): > > I am going to answer this question cause maybe you really don’t see it. No, I don’t see it. I still don’t see it. > [@](#): > > 1. Ms. Carter was someone who struggled with her weight. so this quote pushed what was said over the edge to “disgustingly morbid”. My mother was someone who struggled with Crohn’s disease, does that mean I can come in to a thread if I happen to see someone make a colostomy joke and call it “disgustingly morbid” and claim that I’m ashamed of being a member of the Dope because of said joke? [/quote] Fat jokes are not funny, this has been debated over and over. [/QUOTE] Actually, I think the reason it has been debated over and over is because not everyone agrees with that statement. If _everyone_ thought fat jokes weren’t funny then there would be nothing to debate, would there? But then I’m one who is very very sick of the PC police telling me what’s acceptable to joke about (nothing) and what’s not (everything). What I joke about and find amusing doesn’t define my actual values and beliefs. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/84 "2004-07-28T04:16:59Z")
> [@AvhHines](#): > > (BTW 2, as i am also a woman, I think we might have a problem here…) Not if you have “woman sperm”. I’ve heard it said that it’s the very best kind. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/85 "2004-07-28T04:19:32Z")
> [@Demo](#): > > I’m not getting enough attention. I’m a big fuckup and not as funny or as smart as the rest of you! My threads sink like a stone and nobody loves me. Please come in and tell me how much you want to have my babies and how I never make typos and my thread titles are all so fucking hilarious. Please! If you don’t come in here and fix my ego I may cut myself. > > Oh, you _like_ me!? OK, I guess I’ll stay _for a little while_, until my fragile ego needs stroking again. Then I may _think_ about leaving again. Scylla and Techchick had a love child? :eek: _Who knew?_ ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/86 "2004-07-28T04:54:13Z")
> [@Elessar](#): > > That’s it. Now, I’m leaving. OH MY GOD, NO! You have been my beacon of light on this message board, your wit and wisdom give me the only reason I have to get up and out of bed! PLEASE, PLEASE, don’t leave! ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/87 "2004-07-28T05:00:22Z")
> [@Baglady](#): > > Don’t you think he’s already had his share of babies? You leave Michael Jackson out of this. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/88 "2004-07-28T05:44:23Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > I have this nagging feeling that this whole thing is part of a bigger whoosh. Either that or the SF Dopefest is going to look like a geek version of _Westside Story_. Clearly **Demo** ’s gang will be the Sharks. Now _that_ has me interested in going again! _When you’re a jerk, you’re a jerk till you’re dead, from your first doublepost to your “I’m Leaving” thread!_ I’m willing to assume I got whooshed. But I still gotta take issue with this: > [@woodysomethingorother](#): > > But hey, I’ll buy yo a drink at the SF Dopefest. And by buy you a drink, of course, I mean drag my balls across your nose, bitch! Uh, no, girlfriend. You don’t get to drag your balls across my nose until _after_ you’ve bought me at least one drink. A guy’s gotta have some standards. ---
**Author:** ![presidebt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@presidebt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/presidebt)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/89 "2004-07-28T05:47:09Z")
> [@AlbertRose](#): > > You leave Michael Jackson out of this. At least until he gets fat… :eek: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/90 "2004-07-28T06:03:57Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > I’m willing to assume I got whooshed. But I still gotta take issue with this: > > Uh, no, girlfriend. You don’t get to drag your balls across my nose until _after_ you’ve bought me at least one drink. A guy’s gotta have some standards. Hey, I was just trying to be sociable. Man, even when I offer an olive branch, people take offense. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/91 "2004-07-28T06:19:32Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > I was one of the first to agree with **Demo** and since that time this has turned into the most amusing Pit threads that I have seen in months. This is some Old School Pit Thread shit. I’ve been here a year and I don’t recognize anybody’s name except SolGrundy and Miller, but now I’m bummed out. This is the funniest fucking thread I’ve ever read on the SDMB. Is this what the Pit used to be like? I seriously missed out. Today’s Pit sucks balls by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Daisy\_Mae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@Daisy\_Mae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daisy_Mae)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/92 "2004-07-28T06:30:10Z")
> [@Demo](#): > > I’m not getting enough attention. I’m a big fuckup and not as funny or as smart as the rest of you! My threads sink like a stone and nobody loves me. Please come in and tell me how much you want to have my babies and how I never make typos and my thread titles are all so fucking hilarious. Please! If you don’t come in here and fix my ego I may cut myself. > > Oh, you _like_ me!? OK, I guess I’ll stay _for a little while_, until my fragile ego needs stroking again. Then I may _think_ about leaving again. Demo, is it too late to stroke your ego and suck your dick? \>fluffs hair and fixes lipstick\< ---
**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 28, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/93 "2004-07-28T06:42:41Z")
> [@](#): > > why would somebody just come in and start a thread calling somebody else a fuckup? What did Lobsang do that was all bad? And why are people so eager to come out of the woodwork and call each other pussies? What’s the fucking point in being so needlessly nasty to people? I’ve always had the impression that people like this probably get pushed around alot IRL. So they come here on the internet and try to lash out or “get back” at people for pushing them around. Its amazing how tuff people can act when they are sitting safely behind a computer screen. :rolleyes: Makes me wonder if half the people who talk like this would have the moxie to say that to someone IRL… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/94 "2004-07-28T07:26:28Z")
I don’t believe this. I don’t believe people are standing up for this. **Demo** sees a thread that he thinks is lame, and pits the guy for it. That’s it. **Lobsang** wasn’t running down the boards, or blaming anyone for driving him away. So, maybe he wanted some attention. _So fucking what?_ How the hell does this hurt, or insult, or offend **Demo** except that it’s something he isn’t interested in? He pitted **Lobsang** for not being cool enough! How does that make **Demo** anything other than a bully and an asshole? How the fuck is that okay? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/95 "2004-07-28T09:36:37Z")
I’m not understanding your incomprehension, **Miller**. **Lobsang** posted a disingenuous OP and was called on it by **Demo**. The same thing has happened hundreds of times in the year and a half I’ve been here and you’ve been here for two years longer. Why does this OP in particular outrage you? It’s no different from thousands of other posts in this forum. For good or bad, this is what the Pit is _for_. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/96 "2004-07-28T10:30:05Z")
Miller is right. You people are just blind. This can’t be good for America. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/97 "2004-07-28T11:28:05Z")
> [@Ellis Dee](#): > > I’ve been here a year and I don’t recognize anybody’s name except SolGrundy and Miller, but now I’m bummed out. This is the funniest fucking thread I’ve ever read on the SDMB. Is this what the Pit used to be like? I seriously missed out. Today’s Pit sucks balls by comparison. Boo hoo! No one recognizes my name anymore! I used to be a superstar on these boards! See what happens when you make people pay to post!? Fuck you all, I’m leaving! Oh, but before I leave, I have one more thing to say: **Miller** is a pussy too. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/98 "2004-07-28T11:29:26Z")
Hey! I’m back! Did anyone miss me? ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/99 "2004-07-28T11:33:39Z")
We’ve actually been up all night holding a candlelight vigil in hopes you’d be back. Saints be praised! ---
**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169/100 "2004-07-28T11:58:53Z")
Hey :mad: How come nobody wondered where I was? What do you mean, ‘who the hell are you’? Damn. _creeps back into his corner like the wet pussy he is…_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-leaving/257169.md?page=6)