# Wesley Clark is your keyboard broken (persnickety) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 10, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464 "2005-08-10T16:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/61 "2005-10-02T00:14:53Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > To all you who don’t like my threads, stop reading them. Its not hard. Hell they even have an ignore function if you lack the mental discipline to accomplish that. > > I actually think I’m enjoying the pit now, it keeps me grounded. I think I have too high an opinion of other people and places like this help keep me in reality. **Wesley Clark** ’s only redeeming quality is his weepy, whiny responses whenever anyone criticizes him. Like a seven year old who starts crying when someone calls him names. You’d still be a complete loser, **Wesley** , even if you started using question marks. But it’d be a start. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/62 "2005-10-02T00:25:12Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > **Wesley Clark** ’s only redeeming quality is his weepy, whiny responses whenever anyone criticizes him. Like a seven year old who starts crying when someone calls him names. You’d still be a complete loser, **Wesley** , even if you started using question marks. But it’d be a start. Oh no, someone who acts tough when hiding behind a computer insulted me. Please don’t call me a loser. Its not like I [troll](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6610056&postcount=16) anonymous message boards looking for strangers to insult. Only a real loser would do that. Probably a loser who is too incompetent to survive in the real world and has to take it out anonymously on others. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/63 "2005-10-02T00:27:24Z")
> [@wring](#): > > today you decide to resurect a months old pit thread about you? > > why? yea, it’s working well. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/64 "2005-10-02T00:30:09Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > Oh no, someone who acts tough when hiding behind a computer insulted me. Please don’t call me a loser. Its not like I [troll](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6610056&postcount=16) anonymous message boards looking for strangers to insult. Only a real loser would do that. Probably a loser who is too incompetent to survive in the real world and has to take it out anonymously on others. **Wesley Clark** , it is against the rules to accuse another poster of trolling. Don’t do it again. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/65 "2005-10-02T00:33:30Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > **Wesley Clark** , it is against the rules to accuse another poster of trolling. Don’t do it again. Ah. My mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/66 "2005-10-02T00:35:10Z")
And, on a more personal note, I can’t believe you thought this was a good idea, **Wesley Clark**. The thread was dead and forgotten before you bumped it with your feeble attacks on the people who offended you. Embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/67 "2005-10-02T00:38:21Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > And, on a more personal note, I can’t believe you thought this was a good idea, **Wesley Clark**. The thread was dead and forgotten before you bumped it with your feeble attacks on the people who offended you. Embarrassing. Too bad. I like Shirley Ujest and watching Davenportavenger get [angry](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=336732) because seh wanted a thread filled with venom against her closed was bothersome. Shall I ignore it because someone called ‘giraffe’ thinks I’m an embarassment? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/68 "2005-10-02T00:39:19Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > I … decided that just ignoring people who attack me was a bad idea. So you’re not Wesley Clark, you’re a different Democratic candidate. Glad you’ve finally learned your lesson. :smack: Count me as another in the “why the fuck would you resurrect this?” camp. It doesn’t make any sense at all. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/69 "2005-10-02T00:43:32Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > So you’re not Wesley Clark, you’re a different Democratic candidate. Glad you’ve finally learned your lesson. :smack: > > Count me as another in the “why the fuck would you resurrect this?” camp. It doesn’t make any sense at all. It was mainly because of what davenportavenger said about Shirley and in the thread above, complaining that she wanted a thread attacking her closed. I normally ignore people who pit me (only the mentally deranged spend their free time looking for strangers to insult so I try to steer clear of them in general), but I figured after seeing davenportavengers thread on Shirley that this was a bad idea and not going to work. Some people need a swift kick in the ass to stop being rude, spoiled babies. Ignoring them doesn’t work, they’ll just keep being assholes until people fight back. God this is so stupid. Yet I do it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/70 "2005-10-02T00:50:13Z")
This is becoming painful. Since it was just discussed in that previously mentioned thread that anyone can request a thread closure… Please, mods, lock this one up. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/71 "2005-10-02T00:52:19Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > This is becoming painful. Since it was just discussed in that previously mentioned thread that anyone can request a thread closure… > > Please, mods, lock this one up. Ah, what for? ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/72 "2005-10-02T00:52:38Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > This is becoming painful. Since it was just discussed in that previously mentioned thread that anyone can request a thread closure… > > Please, mods, lock this one up. I request that it _not_ be closed. I enjoy watching people humiliate themselves without realizing it. These are the best kind of pit threads. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/73 "2005-10-02T00:55:20Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > I request that it _not_ be closed. I enjoy watching people humiliate themselves without realizing it. These are the best kind of pit threads. 🙂 Yep. I’m not trying to be defensive at all, but if you are such a screwup IRL that you spend much of your free time in the pit (which you probably are) attacking strangers then I would need some really screwed up priorities to care about what people like you think. Why not just turn myself over to the church of scientology. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/74 "2005-10-02T00:56:20Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > Too bad. I like Shirley Ujest and watching Davenportavenger get [angry](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=336732) because seh wanted a thread filled with venom against her closed was bothersome. Shall I ignore it because someone called ‘giraffe’ thinks I’m an embarassment? But you didn’t ignore it, you posted this stinging rebuttal: > [@](#): > > Blow me wimp. Just because you’ve screwed your life up so bad that you have to act like a tough guy on an anonymous internet message board is no reason to be such a bitch. I would think that calling somone called ‘davenportavenger’ a bitch on the Internet would be more than enough righteous vengeance for one man. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/75 "2005-10-02T00:56:41Z")
Aaaaaaaaaaaand for the record, that ‘spending free time in the pit’ thing does not apply to me. Nope, only to other people. Thus spake Zarathusa. I respond to abuse, I don’t dish it out. Tooootally different. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/76 "2005-10-02T00:58:07Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > But you didn’t ignore it, you posted this stinging rebuttal: > I would think that calling somone called ‘davenportavenger’ a bitch on the Internet would be more than enough righteous vengeance for one man. I’m pretty much tapped out at this point. But I’m going to reread the old testament to get the vengenance of the lord all built up. Then I’m going to watch Fried green tomatoes to get my anger up even more and I may come back if nothing is on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/77 "2005-10-02T01:00:22Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > Yep. I’m not trying to be defensive at all, but if you are such a screwup IRL that you spend much of your free time in the pit (which you probably are) attacking strangers then I would need some really screwed up priorities to care about what people like you think. Why not just turn myself over to the church of scientology. I just love the way you melt down whenever anyone says anything about you. Though I must say, the opinion of someone who stores old semen in tupperware containers isn’t necessarily one I particularly care about. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/78 "2005-10-02T01:42:31Z")
Anyone else amused by the ad for “A Positive Attitude?” ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/79 "2005-10-02T02:45:11Z")
Not that I care anywhere near making a pit thread about it, but **Wesley** , how about trying to use question marks in your thread titles when appropriate? Not a huge deal, but it looks kind of ignorant or uneducated to skip punctuation. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464/80 "2005-10-02T02:49:51Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > I just love the way you melt down whenever anyone says anything about you. Though I must say, the opinion of someone who stores old semen in tupperware containers isn’t necessarily one I particularly care about. Agreed. Watching him desperately try to appear aloof and above it all while hurling sophomoric insults has always been amusing. His ill-conceived pitting of a Mongolian Grill and resultant pile-on due, in part, to not knowing what it was when he went there is one of my favorite threads ever. > [@Guinistasia](#): > > Anyone else amused by the ad for “A Positive Attitude?” The “Personal Accountability” ad is funnier. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-is-your-keyboard-broken-persnickety/316464.md?page=5)