# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 104
**Author:** ![ColdBrew50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@ColdBrew50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdBrew50)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2061 "2024-04-05T04:29:57Z")
Wow. You entities are really something else entirely. Nobody asked for or desired a response to a harmless opinion about some nerd comic piece of trash. Least of all this so-called “troll.” To those who cry “troll,” I recommend each entity apply to its face some of the Lauren Boebert facial cream, to emulate the flesh golem appearance of that thing or its allies, MTG or TFG, which all have hideously damaged skin tissue likely caused by reckless exposure to solar radiation. _Family Circus_ also sucks, and Bil Keane likely molested a collie or two. And Batman is a real jerk. Get a fucking grip. Who needs “ **thinking** ” about? That botheside-ism piece of shit PhillyGuy or whatever the fuck its handle is. Yeah, there are fine reasons to explore the “reasoning” of a despicable gang of deplorables. You fuckers think _I’m_ some goddamned troll? That motherfucker is one in spades. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2062 "2024-04-05T05:22:01Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Which, frankly, often makes him a jerk. Not a _troll_, but a jerk. I’ll own to that. Now, note which forum we’re in. This is the one where I can be a jerk _to the deserving_. And I say people who continually enable trolls deserve to be called on that shit. > [@BigT](#): > > But getting posters so mad that they start attacking each other is exactly what trolls want in the first place. Trolls would also love to never get called on their shit so they can go on trolling other non-Pit threads. This is one of the reasons the Pit exists, so we can call a troll a troll. And call out troll enablers for their crap as well. > [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Nitpick: Wasn’t it a [barrel](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/73890/retrobituaries-diogenes-sinope-ancient-philosopher-who-lived-wine-barrel)? The Greeks aren’t recorded as actually using barrels at the time, they only seem to come in under the Romans. But they definitely used large _amphorae_ and also [pithoi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pithos), which are even larger. This is what Diogenes is actually written to have lived in. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2063 "2024-04-05T09:11:58Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Trolls would also love to never get called on their shit so they can go on trolling other non-Pit threads. This is one of the reasons the Pit exists, so we can call a troll a troll. And call out troll enablers for their crap as well. Of course you can call out a troll in the Pit. I was replying to you getting 10 times angrier at your fellow poster for disagreeing with you than at the troll. Because that’s all it is. Not everyone agrees that calmly responding to a troll is enabling them. Attacking them harder and harder isn’t going to make them agree. Besides, trolls don’t care all that much about being called out as long as they get their show. You seem to be the one poster most successfully trolled in all of this. Hell, I’m about to reply to the guy right now, and I do not believe what I’m about to say is in any way enabling the guy. I’m just having a bit of fun. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2064 "2024-04-05T09:13:03Z")
Bold strategy, Cotton. Saying you’re not a troll, while trolling. Let me know how well that works out for you. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2065 "2024-04-05T09:17:26Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I was replying to you getting 10 times angrier at your fellow poster for disagreeing with you than at the troll. Getting angry with a troll is giving them what they want. Getting angry with an ordinary poster is not the same thing. That’s expressing frustration with something you think can possibly change. Also, I think people have a way over-estimation of how angry I am. IRL I use words like motherfucker and asshole all the goddamn time in completely casual conversation. Of course I’ll use them when I’m even the least bit peeved. > [@BigT](#): > > You seem to be the one poster most successfully trolled in all of this. I’m not the snowflake putting non-troll posters on ignore because they criticized my troll-coddling strategy, so I highly doubt it. > [@BigT](#): > > Hell, I’m about to reply to the guy right now, Be a fucking idiot, it’s a free board. Doesn’t make you _not_ a fucking idiot if you enable him, though. ETA if you mean that mocking post, that’s definitely not what I consider enablement. That’s just mockery, and I’m A-OK with it. What I consider enablement are posts like “You’re a troll, but here’s my long-winded, polite list of things you need to do to not be a troll”, shit like that. Which you’ve got to admit, you’ve done a lot of in the past. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2066 "2024-04-05T11:03:06Z")
> [@ColdBrew50](#): > > You fuckers think _I’m_ some goddamned troll? That motherfucker is one in spades. There’s no reason why you both can’t be, each in your own special way. ---
**Author:** ![ColdBrew50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@ColdBrew50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdBrew50)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2067 "2024-04-05T12:27:15Z")
Give it a rest, cheesedick. You’re acting like some girl who got felt up at the drive-in. You come out with arguments like yours in a shoe store and you come out with one shoe. News at virgin-thirty: there was absolutely no need for anybody to respond to my opinion about that wad-eating sack of shit cartoonist, which I admitted was misplaced in an irrelevant thread. I did not expect a brigade of nerd warriors to come charging at me with their empty sacks and I did not wish it. Finished. Cancel this motherfucking bullshit, with the trolling “accusations.” Do it now. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2068 "2024-04-05T12:40:16Z")
Just curious, do you own tacticle pants? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2069 "2024-04-05T12:56:04Z")
> [@ColdBrew50](#): > > I did not wish it Oh, you weren’t just here for the bear-fucking, then? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2070 "2024-04-05T13:27:21Z")
> [@ColdBrew50](#): > > You’re acting like some girl who got felt up at the drive-in. Methinks you might not be the best judge of whether other people are or are not misogynists. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2071 "2024-04-05T13:50:11Z")
> [@ColdBrew50](#): > > News at virgin-thirty Please don’t promote your personal blog on this messageboard without prior mod approval. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2072 "2024-04-05T13:55:24Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Also, I think people have a way over-estimation of how angry I am. IRL I use words like motherfucker and asshole all the goddamn time in completely casual conversation. That doesn’t exactly make me think you’re not angry. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2073 "2024-04-05T14:02:45Z")
Bruce, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2074 "2024-04-05T14:07:29Z")
Of all the trolls we’ve had on this board, you might be one of the most pompous self-aggrandizing assholes ever. Which I guess is fortunate for you, because it insulates you from the emotional impact most people would feel when they realized that no one likes them. But since you now know that everyone here quite properly regards you as a worthless preening sack of shit, maybe you should consider haunting some other message board. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2075 "2024-04-05T14:19:21Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > IRL I use words like motherfucker and asshole all the goddamn time in completely casual conversation. I assume Al Swearengen is your boss? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2076 "2024-04-05T14:33:47Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > That doesn’t exactly make me think you’re not angry. [Stephen Fry](https://youtu.be/s_osQvkeNRM) must be really _fuming_, then. > [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I assume Al Swearengen is your boss? Never met the cocksucker. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2077 "2024-04-05T14:58:14Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > cocksucker I object to the use of that word as homophobic and misogynistic. Yes, I am serious. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2078 "2024-04-05T15:05:45Z")
I won’t call you it, then. Also, I don’t use it on anyone here or IRL, either. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2079 "2024-04-05T15:09:43Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > [Stephen Fry](https://youtu.be/s_osQvkeNRM) must be really _fuming_, then. I suspect he is. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2080 "2024-04-05T15:29:56Z")
Imma change the subject with some whining about fellow posters. I’m not going to name names because I generally like all the offenders. And I might just be overly cranky about completely inoffensive behavior, in which case I’ll accept my reverse pitting with grace. There are a few people who are still instinctively responding to certain news items with a default quip. Trump slowing things down in court? “The goal is to delay.” “Delay, delay, delay.” No fucking shit. You want to comment how a particular appeal is really intended to delay with no hope of winning the appeal? Sure, that’s a useful comment. But a content-free post just mentioning that hey, in general, Trump likes to delay? Maybe rethink if you’re adding something useful to the conversation. Other examples: “Every accusation is a confession.” “Everything Trump touches turns to shit.” Great comments eight years ago when this was all new, repetitive filler now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=103) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=105)