# This board is a bunch of hypocritical douchebags **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 29, 2012, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450 "2012-11-29T07:49:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Freakenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b782af/32.png) [@Freakenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freakenstein)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/61 "2012-11-29T15:55:39Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > How many of you bitches whine about wasted resources but tell me I should throw away a perfectly serviceable shirt when I said it doesn’t matter? Or bitch about near-slave factories that kill 140 people in fires, so you can not be seen in a stained article. I have clothes that have ink stains, I wear them in My apartment. I don’t go in public wearing them. Stupid maybe, but a hundred years from now Bill Clinton will still be just The Stain Guy. It matters, like it or not. Also, You bought hundreds of dollars worth of near-slave factory clothes and managed to fit them all in a dryer at the same time? There’s something very not-smart to Me. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/62 "2012-11-29T16:02:02Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I’m still not sure what he means by “his kind”. Lycanthrope? Delusional wanker? People who eschew ballpoint pens, presumably. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/63 "2012-11-29T16:02:53Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I’m still not sure what he means by “his kind”. Lycanthrope? Delusional wanker? Rorschachian? ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/64 "2012-11-29T16:03:24Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > So I asked permission to cross post my own thread, but then I decided, that I don’t feel like waiting , fuck you all I don’t care. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=673785(snip)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=673785(snip)) > > Barely worth a rag, a shirt with an ink spot is, says the masses, flying their elitism flag high, but they will all be the first to say they don’t judge. …_deftly whacks Wolfman over the head with heavy elitism flagpole_… We didn’t say we don’t judge. We DO judge and have pronounced your sentence to be: throw the dang spotted rags away! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/65 "2012-11-29T16:03:42Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > " . . . At the moment I’m touching up the paint on a replica of a ground sloth skull so it doesn’t look shabby. 😃 If only someone would do that for **wolfman**. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/66 "2012-11-29T16:05:10Z")
> [@Freakenstein](#): > > I have clothes that have ink stains, I wear them in My apartment. I don’t go in public wearing them. Hey, I’m not the neatest freak in the world, but I don’t want to wear clothes in that bad shape even around the house – what if someone comes to the door? I limit those kind of clothes to the times I have painting, gardening or cleaning out the garage chores, exclusively. ---
**Author:** ![taskmgr.exe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@taskmgr.exe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taskmgr.exe)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/67 "2012-11-29T16:05:32Z")
This board is not full of douche-bags or hypocrites. This is just internet. Even the nicest person becomes an monster on the internet forums. I don’t know why. Perhaps, because of anonymity? Experts will definitely better explain, than I can do, the reason why we post messages in a tough and offending nature on the internet. But, let me express my UN-educated thought on the matter: From my definition, an asshole is the person who has strong sadistic traits. And we’re all a little sadist. Some of us has learnt how to confine our sadist traits or aspects, some of us hasn’t. For some of us, internet is a perfect place to act like an asshole. It’s like masturbation. People who have strong urge to act like an asshole come to internet forums to masturbate! They masturbate via being an asshole. Let’s admit it. Most of us did this. But, should we do this? My answer is “no”. Not “completely no”, but no. Because if we were posting with our real identity or in the flesh, we wouldn’t be able to unhesitatingly make strong and thorough critics. That’s the only good reason. After you’ve received some comments that you don’t like, you should list them and think about them **thoroughly!** It’ll help you improve your traits that might cause you problems. If you think all posts are arseholic and not based on logic and reason, then you should stop posting in this forum. As simple as that, I guess. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/68 "2012-11-29T16:05:49Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > My boss has given me leave to find and hire the best, and me and my team back it up with extraordinary results. if you are a damn good programmer look me up. My guess is that you aren’t paid very well if spending $200 to replace stained clothes is a burden for you. If you are so extraordinary at your job, why don’t you have a few bills laying around to go pick up a couple of fresh shirts at Target or the Gap? Seriously, how much are you and your League of Extraordinary Nerds pulling down each year? The most likely answer, of course, is that it isn’t about the money. Being an “unapologetic slob” is more likely to be a kind of aggressive behavior directed at others due to whatever personal issues you have, rather than simply being an aesthetic preference. Your hostile response to people not validating your subtle contempt for others is probably further evidence of that. ---
**Author:** ![wheresmymind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@wheresmymind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheresmymind)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/69 "2012-11-29T16:11:42Z")
This first part is aimed at some IT guys in general. I’ve never met the OP, but it seems like he may fall into this category: I find that IT guys often have an over-inflated sense of what they’re worth to their company. They assume that since they’re the only one in the company that can write code or back up a server, they’re the only one in the _world_ who can do it as well as they can. They brag about how “exceptional” they are at their job, show contempt for the people they’re serving, and think things like “Huh, they’ll never fire me. Two days without me, this place would come crashing down.” They seem to think that they’re brain surgeons, when in actuality they’re more like car mechanics. Don’t get me wrong, a good mechanic is worth his weight in gold, but there are plenty of others in town if I’m unsatisfied with my service. There are about a billion other IT guys out there, some of whom dress quite smartly, who are just as good as you are. If they put an ad out today, they’d have a hundred applicants by Friday. Second part aimed squarely at the OP: Oh please. You don’t dress like a slob because you’re interested in the social justice issues of where dress shirts come from and the working conditions where they are made. The reason you dress like a slob is probably something like: A) You feel different from the other people you work with, believe they are beneath you, and refuse to dress like them as a subtle, perhaps unconscious sign of contempt for them. B) You really don’t know how to dress like an adult C) You’re afraid to dress seriously because it would mean that people would take you seriously, and open you to criticism. D) Three items is enough for a list, so I’m not thinking of any more reasons. You’re whole “It’s too wasteful, I’m not spending $200 on work clothes, there are a million things I’d rather spend the money on” excuse is a joke. Dressing professionally isn’t really any more expensive than dressing like a slob. Clean pants, ironed (or wrinkle-free) shirt tucked in, belt, tie. Wearing that uniform neatly or slovenly doesn’t make it more or less expensive. Go out, buy a pair of khakis and a cheap dress shirt a JC Penny’s or Sears. With Christmas sales going on it should cost you maybe $50. Do the same thing next week, and the next. Assuming you learned your lesson and will check your pockets for pens, this new wardrobe could last for years with proper care. Surely a brilliant IT guy who assembles and leads a team that produces “extraordinary results” can afford $200 for work clothes. If you can’t, I dare say you’re not as important to the company as you seem to think you are. Companies tend to pay people who are absolutely necessary for their existence quite well. ---
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/70 "2012-11-29T16:14:59Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > Your outrage is misdirected, let me try to explain. > > There is just this cultural taboo on stains. I don’‘t know why, it would be better if it wasn’‘t so, but there it is. Cultural taboos have little rationality to them. But seeing as that is a given, walking around in stains is a sign of disrespect. Breakign a taboo and deliberately shoking poeple is a sign of disresepct, a sign that you don’'t keep to the social contract and that you might do other unexpected of dangerous things. Again, irrational, but there it is. Culture changes over time, and we are a part of it, not just observers with no hope of influencing it and no choice but to blindly follow it regardless of our own beliefs. Look at how people dressed for various jobs even 25 years ago; a lot has changed. My mother was a programmer and was required to wear pantyhose, a suit, and 2" minimum heels. How she got anything done, I cannot imagine. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/71 "2012-11-29T16:17:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Maastricht View Post > Your outrage is misdirected, let me try to explain. > > There is just this cultural taboo on stains. I don’‘t know why, it would be better if it wasn’‘t so, but there it is. Cultural taboos have little rationality to them. But seeing as that is a given, walking around in stains is a sign of disrespect. Breaking a taboo and deliberately shoking people is a sign of disrespect, a sign that you don’'t keep to the social contract and that you might do other unexpected of dangerous things. Again, irrational, but there it is. I really never thought of it this way. If that’s how people view me when I wear a stained shirt to the office, than I guess my wife has been right all along. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/72 "2012-11-29T16:18:33Z")
Dick gets Spot. See Jane run. Run Jane, run. ---
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/73 "2012-11-29T16:21:03Z")
And Wolfman, I was in your corner as far as the ink-stains go, but these declarations of your intrinsic superiority unfortunately are only reinforcing the idea that wearing stained clothes is a symptom of bigger problems. Just remember, people, he is one isolated stain-wearer, not representative of all stain-wearers… Please judge each as the individuals they are. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/74 "2012-11-29T16:22:41Z")
> [@](#): > > I am better then you… Heh. I just finished re-watching _Burn After Reading_, and this line brings to mind the scene where John Malkovich is exercising to a cheesy videotape in his boat. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/75 "2012-11-29T16:29:13Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > But I don’t really think the core of the OP’s issue is about stained clothes. I think it’s about feeling judged. And, almost always, in my experience, when someone is feeling judged, it’s just a reflection/projection of how judgmental they are being of others. They feel it, though it’s not really there, because they are nothing but judgmental of others, and cannot imagine they are not being just as harshly judged. > > What an awesome world it would be if, just once, in such cases, people could realize, people think about them, not at all. And it’s hard to judge someone you don’t even consider, clean clothes or dirty, good hair/bad. Very good point, which also applies to pretty much any insecurity. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/76 "2012-11-29T16:29:31Z")
SOmehow a red top that still sheds color in the wash even after a decade got into the whitey tightey load. Pink fruit of the looms came out, hell no I ain’t replacing them. Men would you wear pinkstained underwear to work? Would you get urinal stage fright? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/77 "2012-11-29T16:33:08Z")
What kind of sicko stares at another man’s underwear at the urinals? Gents, eyes forward and slightly up, if you please! If you know the color of your neighbors undergarments, you’re doing it wrong. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/78 "2012-11-29T16:33:23Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > But he’s right. Things must change. From now on, I’m going to be a **hyper-critical** douchebag! I’m going to be a hypothetical douchebag! I haven’t figured out how, yet. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/79 "2012-11-29T16:37:26Z")
> [@taskmgr.exe](#): > > This board is not full of douche-bags or hypocrites. Oh yes the fuck it is. There’s you for one. > [@](#): > > This is just internet. No the fuck it isn’t. This is THE SMARTEST place on the entire internats filled with THE SMARTEST people in the world. Stupid ass. > [@](#): > > Even the nicest person becomes an monster on the internet forums. No the fuck they don’t. Take me for example. > [@](#): > > I don’t know why. Of course you don’t because you’re a fucking retard. Here’s a fucking reason. > **[Green Blackboards (And Other Anomalies) - Penny Arcade](https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboards-and-other-anomalies)** > > Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary. And now I’m done reading your shitcockery. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/80 "2012-11-29T16:44:14Z")
aaaaand… **Drunky Smurf** notices that someone else on the Internet is getting attention, and needs to horn in on it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450.md?page=5)