Getting some strong “where-are-moose-and-squirrel?” vibes from this post in the Man/Bear thread:
Just like how you have Asian/Chinese nationalists in the West who say that they support CCP because they love their country, even though communist regime in China not only killed millions people …
Ees normal way of speak comrade.
Moose and squirrel best watch their backs.
Flag please or PM me.
Thank you, Mislav’s posting is already being reviewed in the Modloop. Currently on 1 day suspension.
@Magiver has got to be the dumbest motherfucker on the Dope:
Proven many times over.
By the way, notice the latest posts are all in the MPSIMS thread. I’m used to all the activity being in the Pit thread and almost screwed up.
And now he’s trying to cover up his obvious incredible ignorance about the difference between the West Bank and Gaza by pretending to be worried about a hijack:
If you’re going to insult someone, do it in the Pit. Don’t be a wimp and hide in the other forum.
And try using the correct insult. It’s “piece of work,” not “work of art.”
@iiandyiiii, maybe “a real work of art” should be your new title when you get tired of being dangerous.
Maybe he’s hitting on you?
Ha! I love it!
Hence why he’s on my ignore list.
I’m not sure if he’s that much of an idiot or a troll, or just a particularly stupid troll. But he’s a loathsome smear of shit on the bottom of the board’s shoe.
The last straw for me was when he kept intentionally misstating my position in a thread, over and over. I realized he was a waste of screen space and muted his dumb ass.
He’s at it again in the P&E “Is Trump confused?” thread.
IMHO it was out right blatant trolling.
As I recall, he admitted as much. “I’m the true classical liberal, not you nambie-pambies.”
I was at a travelogue, hosted by an award-winning travel writer, where one attendee kept asking questions that were easily googlable… and often random. Like “Are there perch in England?”
(No, fish had never come up once in the author’s talk, nor had England…)
He shrugged and said “I have no idea. Anyone have another question?” Later, the same woman asked how many people of Russian extraction live in Austria. Same response from the author.
I was really hoping he’d follow that with “Oh, I’m sorry. Did you want me to Google that for you?”
Did she ask the travel writer about the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? That would seem like a natural third question. 
Maybe he can make like a tree and get the hell out of here.
I get people calling my store asking questions that A)they can look up and B)work on the assumption that I know everything there is to know about every item in the store.
Something I’ve learned is that a lot of times it’s easier to just look the answer up and tell them what I find. A common one is “I bought some [fish] at your store yesterday, how do I cook it?”. I’ve found that if they call and ask me that, there’s nothing I can say that will convince them to look it up online, so I’ll google ‘how to cook [fish]’ and give them the most basic recipe I can find ie put some olive oil on it and cook it at 400 for 15 minutes.
In the end, it’s just faster to look it up myself than trying to explain that that’s what they should do. To be fair, it’s usually older people asking those types of questions.
I promised myself I’d sleep on this, and here we are, so it’s time to have a talk with you @Velocity.
I’m going to start with the recent, and specific, and then talk about trends:
Now, come on. There had been plenty of people who had posted well-hedged considerations of controversial choices, including the bible. And yes, there are people who study it, because they oppose it, but your last assertation, that “You can consider a book a favorite even if you oppose it” is edgelord level cringe. No, you don’t. You consider it valuable, important even, but no rational, honest person is going to report it as their favorite. And IF (in an infinite universe of monkeys with typewriter creating Shakespeare sort of way) they did, then you’re right back to the whole point of the thread cited:
Someone is likely experiencing some mental issue on par with Stockholm syndrome at that point, and you should walk away. And thank the FSM that @What_Exit rightly smacked you down for the probably hijack!
Now to the general. Look, most of us like attention, being seen as smart, or rational, or having the ability to look beyond surface level or popular arguments. But this has been a trend with you, helicopter into a thread, post something edge and provocative (and DON’T get me started on some of your Polls in the polls only thread) and watch everyone scurry about to call out your shit. It can be fun to stir up a conversation.
But overall (and fully IMHO of course), you’ve been moving past “provocative” into “provocateur”. One is useful, especially with foresight, good information, and moderation. The second, well, we have another word for it on the SDMB when it becomes a pattern.
I don’t think you’re there yet, which is why we’re in this thread. And others are free to agree or defend you. But I want you consider how the specific post I cited and linked ties into the trends that I at least am seeing.
Lecture over.
That won’t be coming from me. I have given up on that poster already. Call them what you will, they aren’t bringing value, at least most of the time.