# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/101 "2012-11-29T18:57:12Z")
Yes, yes. This brings me to that other unfortunate and wholey unconsitutional mandate. The one overlooked in the whole Obamacare debate. The idea that the goverment can force you to buy clothing! Don’t think they can? Just try going without. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/102 "2012-11-29T18:57:22Z")
This thread is simply too sad to be funny. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/103 "2012-11-29T18:58:35Z")
\*\*This board is a bunch of hypocritical douchebags \*\* This revelation took you 12 years? You are a slow learner. I hope I’m not typing too fast for you. You also forgot that we are the _smartest_ hypocritical douchebags on the net. The problem with your clothes is not a little ink, but **too little ink**. Buy yourself a bottle of ink and put it and all your clothes back in the washer. You will no longer have ink spots on your work clothes. You will probably start a fashion trend of ink-dyed garments. Bic Chic. No thanks needed, that’s what we are here for. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/104 "2012-11-29T18:59:46Z")
> [@Gary\_Kumquat](#): > > The most widely accepted standard for determining if one species is “better” than another is [survival of the fittest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_of_the_fittest). That is usually demonstrated by the reproductive success of the species. Is there an operationalised scientifically accepted measure of “reproductive success”? Haldane was famed for discussing the Creator’s “inordinate fondness for beetles” - or in sourced form, “The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other”. On yet another, bacteria. Generally speaking though, I’d claim there is no falsifiable information contained in a statement like “this species is more evolved than that species”. > [@Maastricht](#): > > 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. Then the onus is on the stained to perform excellently and demonstrate that the taboo is unwarranted. They’ll be discriminated against at first, as is always the case of those violating a taboo - which’ll mar people’s perceptions of their behaviour. Then eventually they’ll come to be accepted. Of course, taboos about behaviour integral to personality are more important to overcome. It’s possible that the OP has dyspraxia, which causes difficulties with carrying out sequential tasks such as doing the laundry. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/105 "2012-11-29T19:02:40Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > It’s possible that the OP has dyspraxia, which causes difficulties with carrying out sequential tasks such as doing the laundry. It’s more likely he suffers from _cerebrum rectumitis_. Suffers hell, He revels in it! ---
**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, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/106 "2012-11-29T19:07:42Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > This thread is simply too sad to be funny. Oh yeah? > [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I’m still not sure what he means by “his kind”. > [@RobDog](#): > > Rorschachian? Bwhaaaa! ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/107 "2012-11-29T19:08:48Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > You may want to unstick your comma key before you spend multiple paragraphs criticizing someone else’s grammar. > > Jesus Christ. That post you quoted reads like a William Shatner parody. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/108 "2012-11-29T19:09:15Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I am better then you. simple matter of fact I don’t care the color of your skin or the stain on your shirt.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. If you want to cling to the sad notion that clothes make the man, go sit with the other dinosaurs in the natural history museum. as waste way as humanity passes you by. Hell even CNN had an article about how we are becoming more enlightened, and that “what you own” matters less then “what you know, and what you can do” Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout “Save us!”… and I’ll look down and whisper “No.” ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/109 "2012-11-29T19:20:18Z")
Mmm…_sex and murder foam!_ ---
**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, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/110 "2012-11-29T19:21:00Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout “Save us!”… and I’ll look down and whisper “No.” …_still brandishing the SDMB Elitist Flagpole, pushes spotted-shirt-clad Wolfman into the foaming, shouting gutterish mayhem of the whores and politicians …_ ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/111 "2012-11-29T19:25:36Z")
I’ll have you know I am a very sincere douche-bag. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/112 "2012-11-29T19:29:05Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I’m still not sure what he means by “his kind”. Lycanthrope? Delusional wanker? [Askhole](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/askhole.jpg) ---
**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, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/113 "2012-11-29T19:29:22Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout “Save us!”… and I’ll look down and whisper “No.” That makes me want to howl. Ginsberg, is that you, reincarnated? ---
**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, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/114 "2012-11-29T19:34:13Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > That makes me want to howl. Ginsberg, is that you, reincarnated? Nah, but it might be [another](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_%28comics%29) expert on ink stains. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/115 "2012-11-29T19:34:16Z")
_“I have seen the greatest hypocritical douchebag minds of my generation…”_ graffiti in restroom, city lights bookstore ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/116 "2012-11-29T19:47:26Z")
As I’m not really composing, so much as typing as I would speak, I use more commas. It helps to accurately reflect the cadence of my speech, more than anything else. A thousand pardons should they offend your eyes. But any objection is an editorial choice at best, to my mind. And I often read posts that could benefit from a well placed comma. As you apparently understood what I was saying, I’ll go ahead and count it a success anyway! But thanks for the editorial commentary, I’ll take it under advisement!🙂 ---
**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, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/117 "2012-11-29T19:52:22Z")
Seems like it’s always the negative, never the positive that’s accentuated. I mean Christ, talk about a clean fucking pen. ---
**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, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/118 "2012-11-29T19:54:13Z")
Um, ok, but I think you missed the point, which is you took a dig at somebody’s grammar while completely screwing up your own. That is, unless you were going for some kind of 19th century style comma revival. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/119 "2012-11-29T19:54:41Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > As I’m not really composing, so much as typing as I would speak, I use more commas. It helps to accurately reflect the cadence of my speech, more than anything else. > > A thousand pardons should they offend your eyes. > > But any objection is an editorial choice at best, to my mind. And I often read posts that could benefit from a well placed comma. > > As you apparently understood what I was saying, I’ll go ahead and count it a success anyway! But thanks for the editorial commentary, I’ll take it under advisement!🙂 So, Dallas Jones was right. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/120 "2012-11-29T19:54:42Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > That makes me want to howl. Ginsberg, is that you, reincarnated? Think ink blots. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450.md?page=7)