# TVeblen-I'm not impressed **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 21, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942 "2005-01-21T17:47:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![35340](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8baadc/32.png) [@35340](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/35340)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/121 "2005-01-22T04:01:28Z")
Five bucks on two weeks. Original name or socks. ---
**Author:** ![Alonzo\_John\_Blitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@Alonzo\_John\_Blitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alonzo_John_Blitz)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/122 "2005-01-22T04:20:21Z")
Per **grien** (please, someone, make this your sig) **mitigate my infamy** And re **kicking puppies** - stay tuned for my thread **kitten on a stick** ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/123 "2005-01-22T04:32:55Z")
Aw, stick around **Grienie**. This has turned into one of the funniest threads I’ve seen in weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/124 "2005-01-22T05:23:43Z")
Wow! Someone called me a douchebag! That makes me feel so young! **Grien** , this is no big deal. Certainly it’s not worth throwing away all of the time you have invested here. You’re a very passionate person and feel things deeply. You reacted from your gut instincts in both threads. If your first instinct was correct and **USAMA** is someone trying to bait us with just his user name and he/she gets you to quit posting because of it, then he wins! You don’t want that to happen. Nobody does. If you were mistaken and no one was about to use the name to troll, then – hey, everybody makes mistakes and as one of my favorite characters in a movie said: > [@](#): > > Everyone has the right to make an ass of themselves sometimes. – Maude No one gets their shit together once and for all. You had a tantrum. Yes you did! And then a bunch of us threw sticks and stones. We certainly hurled a bunch. The truth is that **you don’t know the motives of the person who chose “USAMA” as a username.** You can suspect, but you can’t know for sure. Are you going to allow your presence here be manipulated by someone who hasn’t even posted? The childish response to not having your way would be to take your toys and go home. There are several responses that you can make that will not leave you humiliated and angry. I strongly urge you to discover those solutions. Most of us have been in your shoes at one time or another. I think my response once was to hide under a bush and cry in the dark for about thirty minutes. I was seventeen and really pissed and hurt. But then I felt dumb because I had to come out from under that bush _sometime_ and face my friends. I hope you handle this with a little more grace than I did. I think what I said was something like, “I fucked up.” Only I sounded kind of like a duck because my nose was stopped up. At least it make my friends laugh. Forty-four years later we’re still in touch. Let it go, **Grienie** ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/125 "2005-01-22T05:25:33Z")
Well said, **Zoe**. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/126 "2005-01-22T05:38:09Z")
This feels like one of those slow-clap moments at the end of a teen movie. Where’s Ducky when you need him? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/127 "2005-01-22T05:49:15Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > Where’s Ducky when you need him? In his underpants, bitterly gouging the eyes out of his collection of Charlie Sheen headshots. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/128 "2005-01-22T05:56:03Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > What the fuck is this “I kid! I kid!” crap doing in the Pit? You’re supposed to fling vitriol and venom with raw intent to maim, you fucking douchebag wannabe. Nah, nah, it’s **Liberal** who is really Prince Charles… Oh, wait, he was a _tampon_ wannabe… Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/129 "2005-01-22T06:06:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Five bucks on two weeks. Original name or socks. bzzzzzt! Whatever **Grienspace** chooses to do, he will not engage in sockpuppetry. That might make a fun cheap shot, but it demonstrates a serious misapprehension of **Grien** ’s personality. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/130 "2005-01-22T06:07:14Z")
Don’t go **grienspace**. No, I don’t think you’re a fundamentally evil person. On the contrary. This will blow over. Give it some days. ---
**Author:** ![Nietzsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8dc957/32.png) [@Nietzsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nietzsche)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/131 "2005-01-22T06:19:09Z")
He almost sounds like Richard Nixon. “You won’t have **grienspace** to kick around any more.” > [@Alonzo John Blitz](#): > > Per **grien** (please, someone, make this your sig) **mitigate my infamy** I’d suggest **Veb** make it his/hers as a trophy, but I just can’t see it. Some of the other mods on the other hand… This place certainly makes a good example of Darwin’s theory. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/132 "2005-01-22T11:28:21Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > Nah, nah, it’s **Liberal** who is really Prince Charles… Hmm… Since I’m Prince Charles, I can afford to buy the Chicago Reader. Be very afraid. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Legolamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@Legolamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legolamb)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/133 "2005-01-22T11:54:54Z")
> [@grienspace](#): > > I don’t have a chance in hell of winning your respect because knowing my **fair and impartial** humanistic heart, i’m not going to change. (emphasis mine) You learned those words from Fox News, didn’t you **Grien**? Might want to go and look them up in a dictionary - I don’t think they mean what you think they mean. The way you acted in both threads towards someone who never even posted was certainly far from “fair and impartial”. ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/134 "2005-01-22T12:21:07Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Hmm… Since I’m Prince Charles, I can afford to buy the Chicago Reader. Be very afraid. 😛 You might even be [king one day](http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/englishtoyspaniel.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/135 "2005-01-22T13:44:31Z")
> [@Desmostylus](#): > > You might even be [king one day](http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/englishtoyspaniel.htm). And when I’m king, my first trip will be to Australia. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/136 "2005-01-22T13:52:23Z")
Maybe the guy’s name was “Usama.” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/137 "2005-01-22T13:57:07Z")
Oh, but **Scylla** , it’s not advisable to use one’s real name. Thus spake **grien** in the original thread. And since I’m here: > [@](#): > > I challenged someone on their choice of username? Does not anyone think in this case that the user of this user name was working on creating a significant reaction? I gave him(her) what he wanted IMHO! You didn’t challenge him; you **took for granted** that his username was chosen to get a reaction. You don’t know what he wanted; you did what **you** wanted. And then you started ordering mods and other posters around. As someone else said, who died and made you Cecil? ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/138 "2005-01-22T14:06:35Z")
**grien** , if you want a clean slate, you gotta give it to other people. And **Miller** ’s puppy is stuffed. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/139 "2005-01-22T14:25:21Z")
> [@Barbarian](#): > > And **Miller** ’s puppy is stuffed. It must have eaten the kitten on a stick. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942/140 "2005-01-22T14:54:46Z")
> [@grienspace](#): > > Why am I so viled ? Why do you think I deserve such a shitting? Am I fundamentally an evil person? I did what I did in the spirit of anyone who believes in the golden rule. I challenged someone on their choice of username? You are reviled because you opened this thread. OK, so you assumed that the name **USAMA** was created to offend people. OK, not a big deal. I, and most other people thought you were being idiotic assuming that and told you so in said thread. You got spanked and rightfully so IMHO. Instead of learning from the experience and moving on, you open this piece of shit? What a tool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tveblen-im-not-impressed/285942.md?page=8)