# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/121 "2012-11-29T20:06:10Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > I hope I’m not typing too fast for you. I’m always screaming _Type slower, assholes_!at my monitor, but nobody seems to listen. \>:[ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/122 "2012-11-29T20:09:01Z")
Reported as spam. He is recruiting–he should go buy ad space in the Reader. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/123 "2012-11-29T20:24:53Z")
> [@Normal people reaction to ink on clothes.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-people-reaction-to-ink-on-clothes/642399/1): > > I only wear the damn things because the corporate rules make me Seems to me you answered your own question then huh? You may be a damned good programmer, but your boss still wants you to dress nicely. If he didn’t, you’d get to wear t-shirts. But you don’t. So why don’t you go ask him how many kids he wants to die in a fire so that you can wear a stain free shirt? ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/124 "2012-11-29T20:38:06Z")
What’s really funny is that he hasn’t been back. Dunno what he expected. ---
**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, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/125 "2012-11-29T20:39:42Z")
Apparently, the shirt off our back. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/126 "2012-11-29T20:49:15Z")
**Wolfman** …It’s not the stains on your clothes you should worry about, but the stains on your reputation…those don’t come out easy, nor is your reputation easily replaceable. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/127 "2012-11-29T20:53:21Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > That post you quoted reads like a William Shatner parody. Do it in a Christopher Walken voice and it’s hysterical. ---
**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, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/128 "2012-11-29T20:54:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Join Date: Feb 2003 > 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. Did not realize a style choice was in the same category as never using the shift key or paragraphs. I stand enlightened! (Commas removed for your reading pleasure!) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/129 "2012-11-30T00:50:34Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > My kind and I are vastly superior to the OP. Not only do we judge people by the content of their characters rather than by the stains on their shirt, we also write with precision, flair, and proper punctuation. > > We lead by example, demonstrating levels of tolerance and humor that the OP has yet to master. Pfft. You know why I’m better than you (and by extension the OP)? Humility. That’s right: because I’m so fucking humble. Hell, I’m the most humble person I’ve even heard about. And people love that about me. Of course, it also helps that I’m _so_ damn good-looking. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/130 "2012-11-30T01:23:35Z")
There are so many things stupid and completely wrong with the OP, I don’t even know where to start. So I guess I won’t. It stands by itself as a fabulous example of how do define a douchebag - and a stained, raggedy, misfit, sad, alone one, who clearly can’t think things through, at that. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/131 "2012-11-30T01:56:55Z")
I seek enlightenment on the exact relationship between grammar and the use of commas. Isn’t a “comma splice” considered a grammatical error? Or is it simply considered poor style? ---
**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 30, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/132 "2012-11-30T02:54:55Z")
It just boggles the mind that there are people who are actually _proud_ to dress like homeless people. Even the grunge look didn’t include stained, smelly clothes. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/133 "2012-11-30T02:57:46Z")
Is anyone else amused at the idea that **wolfman** is pitting people for offering opinions that he solicited (“How many people are in the don’t give a shit camp with me, and how many would abandon hundreds of dollars of work clothes?”)? Not to mention that he framed the issue as either be a slob in ink-stained clothes or throw them all out? No consideration of the idea of trying to remove the ink stains? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/134 "2012-11-30T03:11:31Z")
First off, it’s the way this board works that you are wrong do X, except when someone else does X first. That’s why the Pit exists. Someone does something insulting elsewhere, you pull them up in the pit to insult them back. The OP felt insulted, so he is insulting people. If that’s a moral failing, then it’s one all of us share. The OP just isn’t upset about what’s on the unwritten approval list. Second, there is something you guys have still failed to learn. When someone asks your opinion about something, they aren’t asking for your opinion about themselves. The thread in question contained a bunch of posts that were insulting the OP’s character, and not just saying that wearing inkstained clothes would cause problems or that they wouldn’t wear them. When you insult someone, they tend to get mad at you. And when you have a forum specifically designed for people to express their anger–surprise–it gets expressed. Then there were the few people in the thread who took it a step further and advocated that the OP be fucking fired because of it. And then acted like they couldn’t understand why someone else might see that as ethically wrong. When you have people that are that ignorant of what morality is, it’s kinda hard not to get upset. These are the people who make life shitty for those of us who try to do what is right. The prohibition against stains is one of those things where society is at odds with itself. We say that it’s okay to do whatever we want as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else. Yet a stain doesn’t hurt you, yet people are actually offended by it. Enough that a couple people want to hurt the OP because of it, and even more have no problem saying the OP must be a shitty programmer or similar. You show your ignorance when you don’t at least comprehend that there’s a contradiction going on, and instead buy into the rules 100% without question. I’ve learned to deal with this mental block that many Dopers have, but it doesn’t mean some people aren’t going to call you out on it. Show some of that backbone you claim the OP lacks and take the criticism, instead of lashing out at the guy for voicing it in a way that offends you. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/135 "2012-11-30T03:35:03Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Then there were the few people in the thread who took it a step further and advocated that the OP be fucking fired because of it. And then acted like they couldn’t understand why someone else might see that as ethically wrong. When you have people that are that ignorant of what morality is, it’s kinda hard not to get upset. These are the people who make life shitty for those of us who try to do what is right. See, I totally understand why he’d think it was ethically wrong. I just also think he’s a complete fucking moron and his attitude towards grooming isn’t something I’d tolerate in an employee, because of what it says about his personal standards and ethics. You, by contrast, would never get an interview, because if your resume is even half as stupid as your posting history, I’d be afraid you’d try to eat my plastic plants or forget to wear pants, or come in and lecture people on moral issues you don’t understand. ---
**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 30, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/136 "2012-11-30T03:35:37Z")
I don’t think anyone made any slurs about his character, until maybe he said something snarky back. I know I personally emphasized that it doesn’t make him a bad person, but his attitude makes him a bad employee. I advocated him being fired because he doesn’t want to adhere to the rules, as set down by his employer(if that’s what his employer stipulates). It doesn’t matter which particular rule he’s violating; if the company rules say a condition of employment is that no nose rings are allowed and he decides to defy that because, fuck, he’s just \*that \* damned good and hey, a nose ring doesn’t have anything to do with anything, then he’s outta there. That’s how it works, like it or not. Instead of lecturing us all on your vision of morality, try spending time in the world you actually live in. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/137 "2012-11-30T03:46:20Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Isn’t a “comma splice” considered a grammatical error? Or is it simply considered poor style? It is a punctuation error. The actual formation of the offending sentences is correct as far as english syntax is concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/138 "2012-11-30T05:12:35Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Second, there is something you guys have still failed to learn. When someone asks your opinion about something, they aren’t asking for your opinion about themselves. Nm ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/139 "2012-11-30T10:34:52Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Pfft. > > You know why I’m better than you (and by extension the OP)? > > Humility. > > That’s right: because I’m so fucking humble. > > Hell, I’m the most humble person I’ve even heard about. > > And people love that about me. > > Of course, it also helps that I’m _so_ damn good-looking. > > 😃 Are you [Mac Davis](http://www.pucksgrove.com/oh_lord.html)? ---
**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 30, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450/140 "2012-11-30T13:07:28Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > This thread is simply too sad to be funny. Why is it sad, Miss? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450.md?page=8)