# This Blinky and Pinky numnuts is still around? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 12, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685 "2017-02-12T20:51:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/41 "2017-02-13T02:03:14Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Careful, or you’ll get him in here, too. :eek: Don’t know him - never ever came across him. Thought it was the movie.:o ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/42 "2017-02-13T02:09:56Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > Back in the old usenet days on alt.folklore.urban people would sometimes respond to blatent trollery with recipes. It actually increased the signal to noise ratio more than argument, plus, who isn’t interested in a chocolate chip cookie variant? 1 package Swiss Miss Dark Chocolate Sensation Milk to about 1.5" shy of the rim. DO NOT STIR Microwave for 1 minute. Now stir it. It’ll blend easier when slightly hot. Microwave for another minute. Fill to brim with Baileys. stir, drink 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/43 "2017-02-13T02:23:30Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Did you roll a 5 for your reading score attribute? Did you roll a drunk sailor for your personality? > [@bobot](#): > > It’s a stupid, ugly, stupid, dumb place. Let the subject of the OP serve as a dumb reminder. Never Forget! Its the Post-Trebek “New Celebrity Jeopardy”… with todays returning GOP Champion. Blinky and Pinky! Lets look at Todays Categories, shall we? And just as a reminder to our Audience, all of our “New Jeopardy” questions have been reviewed and limited by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos: “Tastes Like Lead Paint” “Science of The Bible” “Two Letter Birth Control” “Straight or Burned At The Stake” “High Treason With Russia” “Smaller Than A NJ Governor” “Presidential QVC” and “Melania Callya Baby!” David Duke, start us off please… ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/44 "2017-02-13T02:29:56Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Did you roll a drunk sailor for your personality? Drunk sailors everywhere just now… “Hey, what the fuck, man. What did we ever do to deserve that?” ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/45 "2017-02-13T02:41:03Z")
**BlinkyandPinky**? Are you guys kidding? _These_ twerps are causing a serious problem here? The dumbest duo? A couple of repressed, internet-educated dimwits who think “cuck” is a meaningful word? Who sneer at unconventional but correct grammar but don’t know the difference between “them” and “they?” I swear there used to be _serious_ racist assholes on this board, who could at least read the classics, and be taken somewhat seriously, but these clowns never got beyond what they learned from their big brother’s badly-spelled prison tattoos. Why is anyone taking any notice of these idiots? At least make them summerize _Protocols of the Elders of Zion_ before they’re allowed to spout the rest of their nonsensical crap. There should be standards, even for the stupid bigoted posters here. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/46 "2017-02-13T03:15:46Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Lets look at Today’s Categories, shall we? A couple right-at-the-last-minute’ers: Sessions Tokes With KKK’ers Pornographic Pizza F Is For Alternative Fake And to start off - Sarah Palin, for, like, oh, $4,000,000… ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/47 "2017-02-13T03:31:01Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Pornographic Pizza Isn’t that a line from “I Am the Walrus”? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/48 "2017-02-13T03:56:41Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Isn’t that a line from “I Am the Walrus”? Oh expert texpert now, are we? ok sorry final Jeopardy topics: The Fourth Churning Boil Photoshopping ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/49 "2017-02-13T03:56:42Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > He reminds me of Pinky from _Pinky and the Brain_, naturally. > > “NARF! ZORT! POIT!” > > “I think so, Brain, but next time YOU put the trousers on the chimp.” Oh come on, Pinky was way smarter! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/50 "2017-02-13T05:53:53Z")
I’ve copied this from a FB comment, directed towards a Total Numbnuts, maybe Blinky, but maybe another one…they seem to be breeding! > [@](#): > > "A great read from Scott Mednick, when a Facebook friend told him, "We suffered for 8 years. Now it’s your turn.” The most salient moment, for me, begins with “Why have you suffered so?” > This was Scott’s reply: > "I am surprised you would wish suffering upon me. That of course is your right, I suppose. I don’t wish harm on anyone. Your statement seems to continue an US vs. THEM mentality. The election is over. It is important to get past campaigning and campaign rhetoric and get down to what is uniting, not dividing us, and what is best for ALL Americans. > > There will never be a President who does everything to everyone’s liking. There are things President Obama (and President Clinton) did that I do not like, and conversely there are things I can point to that the Presidents Bush did that I agree with. So I am not 100% in lock step with the outgoing President but have supported him and the overall job he did. > > And, if you recall, during the Presidential Campaign back in 2008 the campaign was halted because of the “historic crisis in our financial system.” Wall Street bailout negotiations intervened in the election process. The very sobering reality was that there likely could be a Depression and the world financial markets could collapse. The United States was losing 800,000 jobs a month and was poised to lose at least 10 million jobs the first year once the new President took office. We were in an economic freefall. So let us recall that ALL of America was suffering terribly at the beginning of Obama’s Presidency. > > But I wanted to look back over the last 8 years and ask you a few questions. Since much of the rhetoric before Obama was elected was that he would impose Sharia Law, Take Away Your Guns, Create Death Panels, Destroy the Economy, Impose Socialism and, since you will agree that NONE of this came to pass, I was wondering: > Why have you suffered so? > > So let me ask: > Gays and Lesbians can now marry and enjoy the benefits they had been deprived of. Has this caused your suffering? > > When Obama took office, the Dow was 6,626. Now it is 19,875. Has this caused your suffering? > > We had 82 straight months of private sector job growth - the longest streak in the history of the United States. Has this caused your suffering? > > Especially considering where the economy was when he took over, an amazing 11.3 million new jobs were created under President Obama (far more than President Bush). Has this caused your suffering? > > Obama has taken Unemployment from 10% down to 4.7%. Has this caused your suffering? > > Homelessness among US Veterans has dropped by half. Has this caused your suffering? > > Obama shut down the US secret overseas prisons. Has this caused your suffering? > > President Obama has created a policy for the families of fallen soldiers to have their travel paid to be there when remains are flown home. Has this caused your suffering? > > We landed a rover on Mars. Has this caused your suffering? > > He passed the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Has this caused your suffering? > > Uninsured adults has decreased to below 10% - 90% of adults are insured - an increase of 20 million adults. Has this caused your suffering? > > People are now covered for pre-existing conditions. Has this caused your suffering? > > Insurance Premiums increased an average of $4,677 from 2002-2008, an increase of 58% under Bush. The growth of these insurance premiums has gone up $4,145 – a slower rate of increase. Has this caused your suffering? > > Obama added Billions of dollars to mental health care for our Veterans. Has this caused your suffering? > > Consumer confidence has gone from 37.7 to 98.1 during Obama’s tenure. Has this caused your suffering? > > He passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Has this caused your suffering? > > His bi-annual Nuclear Summit convinced 16 countries to give up and destroy all their loose nuclear material so it could not be stolen. Has this caused your suffering? > > He saved the US Auto industry. American cars sold at the beginning of his term were 10.4M and upon his exit 17.5M. Has this caused your suffering? > > The deficit as a percentage of the GDP has gone from 9.8% to 3.2%. Has this caused your suffering? > > The deficit itself was cut by $800 Billion Dollars. Has this caused your suffering? > > Obama preserved the middle class tax cuts. Has this caused your suffering? > > Obama banned solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons. Has this caused your suffering? > > He signed Credit Card reform so that rates could not be raised without you being notified. Has this caused your suffering? > > He outlawed Government contractors from discriminating against LGBT persons. Has this caused your suffering? > > He doubled Pell Grants. Has this caused your suffering? > > Abortion is down. Has this caused your suffering? > > Violent crime is down. Has this caused your suffering? > > He overturned the scientific ban on stem cell research. Has this caused your suffering? > > He protected Net Neutrality. Has this caused your suffering? > > Obamacare has extended the life of the Medicare insurance trust fund (will be solvent until 2030). Has this caused your suffering? > > President Obama repealed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Has this caused your suffering? > > He banned torture. Has this caused your suffering? > > He negotiated with Syria to give up its chemical weapons and they were destroyed. Has this caused your suffering? > > Solar and Wind Power are at an all time high. Has this caused your suffering? > > High School Graduation rates hit 83% - an all time high. Has this caused your suffering? > > Corporate profits are up by 144%. Has this caused your suffering? > > He normalized relations with Cuba. Has this caused your suffering? > > Reliance on foreign oil is at a 40 year low. Has this caused your suffering? > > US Exports are up 28%. Has this caused your suffering? > > He appointed the most diverse cabinet ever. Has this caused your suffering? > > He reduced the number of troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Has this caused your suffering? > > Yes, he killed Osama Bin Laden and retrieved all the documents in his possession for analysis. Perhaps THIS caused your suffering? > > From an objective standpoint it would appear that the last 8 years have seen some great progress and we were saved from a financial collapse. Things are not perfect. Things can always be better. We are on much better footing now than we were in 2008. > I look forward to understanding what caused you to suffer so much under Obama these last 8 years." ---
**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:** [February 13, 2017, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/51 "2017-02-13T10:01:37Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I expect it’s because he’s right wing; rightwingers are always treated with kid gloves, both on this forum and in wider society. :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Pot Kettle Black ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/52 "2017-02-13T14:46:15Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I have about 9 people on my ignore list right now, although I believe 2-3 of them have already been banned. What I do not do is put the people who quote them on ignore. That would be foolish. Only 9? I admire your restraint. I think I have dozens at this point, though as you say, a lot of them were subsequently banned. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/53 "2017-02-13T15:05:03Z")
I confess that although I’m on the right this guy is a total embarrassment and I most certainly do not subscribe to extremist shit such as equating BLM with the KKK or labeling all liberals as evil. It’s as hateful as it is nonsensical and it serves the right ill. Should he be banned though? Much as it pains me to say it, I don’t think he should, at least not until he descends into total hate-speech mode. The SDMB should reflect all spectrums of opinion other than the absolute extremes where speech becomes nothing other than pure and undiluted hate. He hasn’t got there. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/54 "2017-02-13T15:10:40Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I confess that although I’m on the right this guy is a total embarrassment and I most certainly do not subscribe to extremist shit such as equating BLM with the KKK or labeling all liberals as evil. It’s as hateful as it is nonsensical and it serves the right ill. Should he be banned though? Much as it pains me to say it, I don’t think he should, at least not until he descends into total hate-speech mode. The SDMB should reflect all spectrums of opinion other than the absolute extremes where speech becomes nothing other than pure and undiluted hate. He hasn’t got there. Yet. I agree. Banning should be reserved for truly extreme, objectionable, constant hate speech. Just because someone annoys the hell out of you (or everyone) is no grounds for kicking them off the board. Do. Not. Feed. Them. And use the _ignore_ option. Problem solved. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/55 "2017-02-13T16:20:50Z")
There is a spectrum of idiocy and this one is pure troll, looking for attention and nothing more. I wish folks would just ignore these types and let the mods deal with it in the fullness of time. Responding to them just encourages them. I admit that I may respond to some of them myself as long as it amuses me (not this one, though) but it’s usually not for very long. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/56 "2017-02-13T21:51:13Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Should he be banned though? Much as it pains me to say it, I don’t think he should, at least not until he descends into total hate-speech mode. The SDMB should reflect all spectrums of opinion other than the absolute extremes where speech becomes nothing other than pure and undiluted hate. He hasn’t got there. Yet. I agree that just having views on the Trump side of the spectrum isn’t enough to recommend a banning, after all in reading your posts I find that I generally disagree with just about everything you say, and often times your posts raise my ire, but see no reason to ban you. But unlike B&P your posts actually contain content. You actually engage your critics and provide cites that support your views. Of the 133 posts made by B&P only two were outside of the Pit. This is because his primary purpose for being here is to insult. Also looking over his posts, he has provided exactly one link, which was in support of his desire to run over protesters with his car. While Clothahump also has a tendency to produce unsubstantiated “Libruls is teh stupid” posts, that is not all he does. The [Pit rules](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=507985) DO prohibit trolling > [@](#): > > **No trolling** > > By trolling, we mean posting of inflammatory comments solely to get a rise out of people. If we feel your primary goal as a poster is to make people mad, you’ll quickly find yourself on the road to banning. On the flip side, the fact that a poster consistently makes you mad doesn’t automatically make them a troll. If the designation of troll do not apply in the case of a poster like B&P then I could not imagine when they would apply. If B&P believes that he is not a troll, I would ask him to state what his goals are for posting here. However, I suspect that all we will get from him is more insults. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/57 "2017-02-13T23:18:27Z")
Og bless the Ignore button. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/58 "2017-02-13T23:50:32Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Of the 133 posts made by B&P only two were outside of the Pit. This is because his primary purpose for being here is to insult. Also looking over his posts, he has provided exactly one link, which was in support of his desire to run over protesters with his car. Case made? > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > If the designation of troll do not apply in the case of a poster like B&P then I could not imagine when they would apply. Double made? ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/59 "2017-02-14T16:26:45Z")
I agree. He is an obvious troll. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685/60 "2017-02-14T19:43:08Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > pretty good at keeping the _utter_ retards out. Cows are not retarded. They are simple. Don’t be a cow-ist. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blinky-and-pinky-numnuts-is-still-around/779685.md?page=4)