# Walken and Thing Fish fight **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 24, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046 "2023-10-24T21:36:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/1 "2023-10-24T21:36:08Z")
> [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/10894): > > How is it possible Dinsdale doesn’t have a dedicated Pit thread yet? Where is yours? I could do with a chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/2 "2023-10-24T21:44:36Z")
If you feel the need to continue the bickering with Thing.Fish, maybe fuck off to a different thread? No need to spread it to this one. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/3 "2023-10-24T21:46:49Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > …maybe fuck off to a different thread? Now, that wasn’t very polite. I guess this is the Pit, so I’ll respond in kind and tell you to shut your fucking mouth. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/4 "2023-10-24T22:15:15Z")
Wow. Well, now I know which side I’ll be rooting for if W\_A\_M keeps muddying the thread. Anyway, came to mention that Persimmon just started ANOTHER charged thread, this time about mandatory insurance, but they have now replied in two of their other threads. Still, one year here, 4 threads created, 22 minutes total read time? Beyond suspicious still. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/5 "2023-10-24T22:23:31Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Now, that wasn’t very polite. This is a sealion. > [@](#): > > I guess this is the Pit, so I’ll respond in kind and tell you to shut your fucking mouth. And this is the sealion saying the quiet part out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/6 "2023-10-24T22:37:22Z")
> [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/10907): > > Wow. Well, now I know which side I’ll be rooting for if W\_A\_M keeps muddying the thread. Great, I hope I can count on you. > [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/10908): > > > [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > > > Now, that wasn’t very polite. > > This is a sealion. > > > [@](#): > > > > I guess this is the Pit, so I’ll respond in kind and tell you to shut your fucking mouth. > > And this is the sealion saying the quiet part out loud. No, it isn’t. You’re wrong. You need to [look up the definition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning). “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate” I have no interest in debating or engaging in further discussion with TroutMan. I gave him a reciprocal smackdown for being rude. If he wishes to escalate things further, it’s up to him. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/7 "2023-10-24T22:41:58Z")
I would say it was a comment that was reminiscent of sealioning, but not an actual example of it. Just the faux call to politeness itself. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/8 "2023-10-24T23:05:07Z")
I think you, Thing.Fish, and Babale are all getting too wound up in the various Israel threads. I probably find myself more on your side than the others, but you aren’t coming out looking great. Whatever, it’s a horrible situation and an emotional topic. But those threads are almost unreadable for everyone else. If “fuck off” bothered you, then I’ll ask politely. Can you please not bring those grievances to this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/9 "2023-10-24T23:11:07Z")
Ok, fair enough. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/10 "2023-10-24T23:31:58Z")
Don’t worry, I have no intention of engaging further with this delusional dipshit. I actually checked the signup dates based on a hunch, but the timing makes it seem unlikely that he’s a **SlackerInc** sock. Kindred spirits, though. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/11 "2023-10-24T23:33:01Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Where is yours? I could do with a chuckle. OK, I lied. 22 years without one so far. Feel free to start one and see how that goes for you. NOW I shall stop engaging. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/12 "2023-10-24T23:35:08Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > Don’t worry, I have no intention of engaging further with this delusional dipshit. I actually checked the signup dates based on a hunch, but the timing makes it seem unlikely that he’s a **SlackerInc** sock. Kindred spirits, though. You’re a fucking Grade A pillock, but due to my commitments to other people in the thread, I shall leave things there. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/13 "2023-10-25T00:02:14Z")
Your consideration for others is admirable. You have been nothing but unfailingly polite. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/14 "2023-10-25T00:03:31Z")
If you wish to continue, I can spin this off to its own thread. Say the word. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/15 "2023-10-25T00:08:27Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > I actually checked the signup dates based on a hunch, but the timing makes it seem unlikely that he’s a **SlackerInc** sock. So the idea of a SlackerInc sock is absolutely living in the spirit of this thread (I asked the OP and he agreed with me on that) so I think it’s worth addressing, outside of this other bickering. I interacted with SlackerInc a lot. Far too much. (Well, at all was probably far too much really.) Nothing from Walken puts me in mind of SlackerInc at all. SlackerInc was pretty distinctive. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/16 "2023-10-25T00:11:51Z")
I’m thinking of the combination of goalpost moving, intellectual dishonesty, and a hilarious tendency to brag about how well he’s doing in arguments where he’s actually making a complete flaming fool of himself. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/17 "2023-10-25T00:12:37Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Say the word. Bird? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/18 "2023-10-25T00:21:21Z")
Good enough. I pulled this mess out. Now they can have fun or whatever this is. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/19 "2023-10-25T00:23:14Z")
Suddenly I feel like I’m back in the playground in sixth grade… ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walken-and-thing-fish-fight/992046/20 "2023-10-25T00:25:21Z")
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