# This Place Is So Close To Being Great, But Instead Is Filled With Hate **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 1, 2001, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814 "2001-11-01T00:05:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/101 "2001-11-01T05:15:32Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Crunchy Frog** _ > > [Crocodile Hunter mode on] > And here we see the American homosexual in his natural habitat - San Francisco. Homosexuals vary in weight and plumage and blend into their surroundings very well. This lot here is very aggressive. You’ve got to be careful not to turn your back on them or bend over too near them else you’ll be walking funny on your way home. Most homosexuals aren’t nearly this feisty, but these little beauties are really in the mood today. > [Crocodile Hunter mode off] Crikey! (Actually, something similar happened to me once. I was in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and **andygirl** can tell you how fabulously gay the place is. Thing is, it’s also still a beach town, so during the day it’s very tourist-y, but, of course, they all know its reputation. So one time me and a few friends were at the beach and decided to go walking up the boardwalk, well north of the “gay end” of the beach. As we were passing an open-air patio restaurant, I distinctly saw a middle-aged woman look at us, then lean over to her husband and whisper something behind our menus when she saw us four, muscular, beautiful men in speedos walk by. All I could imagine was the above-referenced nature show. “And here we see the homosexuals in their native environment. They’re skittish, but can be lured by a simple call. _{waves bottled water towards timid, tittering homosexuals}_ ‘Perrier! Perrier!’ _{homosexuals titter, ‘Oooo, Perrier!’ and come snatch the bottles out of the tourist’s hands}_” Cracks me up every time I think of it. 😃 ) Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/102 "2001-11-01T05:24:32Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Yue Han** _ > > Punch and pie? “I was told there would be punch and pie…” Buh-bye, **SBJ** , or whatever sock you are. “No need to ban me” - shaa, right! Trolls get banned, ya little fuck, so suck my cock, like your mother does in Hell\*! Esprix [sub](\*With thanks to “The Exorcist”)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/103 "2001-11-01T05:41:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SavedByJesus \* > \*\*OK everyone, leveling time. > > I was trolling. Straight-up trolling, just trying to see what kind of rise I would get. Part of me wants to let this thread go on, but it’s losing it’s fun. > > I’m not even a Christian, much less one with psycho-heavy views. Naturally all of you think I’m an asshole, fair enough, I _was_ trolling. > > On the other hand, this thread has produced some intensely funny stuff. You guys are witty and funny as hell. > > Sorry 'bout pissing everyone off, and sorry to the REAL Christians who got offended. > > Also let me say that the Dopers are a badass community, considering that it’s no fun to troll here because of all the people who simply respond with rational, intelligent arguments filled with tolerance. **Andros** especially, you have a great attitude. Also, **Searching For Truth** , you were wrong about me not being a troll, but I bet you’re a really nice person. > > No need to ban me, I won’t be back. If there’s some way the thread can go on, I think the mods should let it, just cause it’s been so funny. Anyways, I’m off to troll some other board… > > Buh Bye Dopers. > > ::Opens Umbrella, floats away Mary Poppins style:: \*\* Tsk tsk tsk my little Episcopalian prep troll. Does your webmaster know that you’re trolling from here [St. Andrew’s Episcopal School](http://www.standrews.austin.tx.us/) using your school account? It’d be shame if anyone emailed him with this information. A real shame. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/104 "2001-11-01T05:45:55Z")
Unbeliever! It’s **Bill** , I tell you! He has returned! ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/105 "2001-11-01T05:53:48Z")
Uhh, guys, I think we were the victim of a Hallowe’en prank. Have you noticed that **Euty** , **Manny** , **Veb** and **Uke** all posted to this thread, yet none of them even issued a warning ? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/106 "2001-11-01T05:55:55Z")
Hey, come over here guys! **Kamandi** is giving out the good stuff! Ummm, Hershey’s Special Dark, I’d sell my soul for… ---
**Author:** ![bagkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@bagkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bagkitty)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/107 "2001-11-01T06:03:50Z")
Fuck, he acknowledged he was trolling before I got my chance to join the pile-on _POUT, POUT, POUT_ …And I wanted him to write a note to my doctor who is convinced I am filled with cholesterol when obviously it is hate. Oh well, guess I will have to satisfy myself with congratulting Andygirl for her stirring cheer on behalf of the homo team… of course I was thinking along the lines of really aggressive… bats and chains and stuff… ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/108 "2001-11-01T06:12:56Z")
did you save cake for Dao? You didn’t, did you? You pigs. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/109 "2001-11-01T06:15:58Z")
Okay, so perhaps we’re out of agressively homosexual cake. Can I perhaps interest you in the brownies with blatant lesbian subtext? ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/110 "2001-11-01T06:26:59Z")
yaayyyyyy!! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/111 "2001-11-01T06:30:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > It’d be shame if anyone emailed him with this information. A real shame. [Goofy] Well, Gorsh, **astro** \*, there’s that little “email the webmaster” link right there on the page . . . [/Goofy] \*No, I didn’t realize at the time the Goofy/astro combination. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/112 "2001-11-01T07:32:56Z")
Well, poop! Nobody brought up this: _The so-called ‘All Hallows Eve’ is at heart a Christian folk custom, an evening to remember the departed damned. It is a preparation for the next day’s Feast of All Saints, itself decreed by Pope Gregory IV in the 840s, and the commemoration two days later of All Souls Day, added by French Abbott St. Odilo in 998._ That quote if from Andrew Silow-Carroll addressing “How To Skip Halloween so Your Kids Won’t Hate You” in the October 26th edition of **The Forward**. The suggestion was to wait for Purim; a celebration of hidden identities, mischief-making and sugar ---
**Author:** ![bagkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@bagkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bagkitty)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/113 "2001-11-01T07:50:43Z")
I love blatantly lesbian subtext. Except, of course, when it is filled with cholesterol. ---
**Author:** ![puk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea5d25/32.png) [@puk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puk)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/114 "2001-11-01T08:11:06Z")
[Homer] Hmmm… Cholesterol[/Homer] ---
**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 1, 2001, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/115 "2001-11-01T13:39:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baker \* > \*\*Hey, come over here guys! **Kamandi** is giving out the good stuff! Ummm, Hershey’s Special Dark, I’d sell my soul for… \*\* Ummm…we’re still talking about _chocolate_, right? Right? [sub]\[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/116 "2001-11-01T14:04:10Z")
Passive Heterosexual checking in. Looks like I’ve missed all the fun. Is there any candy left? What? Rasins? Fuck you! ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/117 "2001-11-01T14:32:31Z")
Actually, i’d thought it was ARG’s younger sibling… ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/118 "2001-11-01T14:33:29Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Lucki Chaarms \* > SBJ: Will you at least loosen the manacles? > LC: ::consults with puhna:: No. > SBJ: ::cries::_\* [sub]I find this scenario strangely erotic…[sub]can I get you and punha to do it to me instead?[/sub][/sub] ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/119 "2001-11-01T15:17:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Trion \* > \*\*Passive Heterosexual checking in. Looks like I’ve missed all the fun. Is there any candy left? > > What? Rasins? > > Fuck you! \*\* Will the spring-loaded dildo make you happy? [sub]Damn breeders.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814/120 "2001-11-01T15:57:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andygirl \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Trion \* > > \*\*Passive Heterosexual checking in. Looks like I’ve missed all the fun. Is there any candy left? > > > > What? Rasins? > > > > Fuck you! \*\* > > Will the spring-loaded dildo make you happy? > \*\* First of all: No. Second: If you think raisins make an acceptable substitute for real candy, then it’s a good thing you didn’t live near me and my cousins when we went trick-or-treating. That’s an egging offence. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-place-is-so-close-to-being-great-but-instead-is-filled-with-hate/90814.md?page=7)