What were you THINKING?

[Great_Antibob]

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[Atamasama]

@EddyTeddyFreddy

Given how choosy I am about friending on FB, the kind of folks who’d follow the trail of bread crumbs would make sensible, intelligent, agreeable posters with a wide range of interests, who’d do very well and be welcomed.

Honestly that’s a much higher bar than necessary; I’ve lasted for 15 years after all, the standards aren’t that strict.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@Telemark

Why would you think a post about threadshitting would be referring to you?

Starting to think she doesn’t come here for the hunting.

[Pork_Rind]

“I understood that reference!”

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

I guess it’s time I made a confession in the “What were you THINKING?” thread: I once intervened to protect a newbie who came in guns blazing and was thundering down the home stretch toward a banning. I explained where he was going wrong, encouraged him to moderate his tone, and yanked him back from the brink. He went on to become a well-known poster for quite some time, until at last certain, ah, inherent qualities brought the ban hammer down on him – by which time I deeply regretted my white-knighting.

That poster was…

[shamed shuddering]

Starving Artist.

[Babale]

@EddyTeddyFreddy

That poster was…

[shamed shuddering]

Starving Artist.

You are morally responsible for the paper towel tube defense.

[Pork_Rind]

@EddyTeddyFreddy

That poster was…

[shamed shuddering]

Starving Artist.

Let’s all say it together… What were you THINKING?

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

LOL – thanks, you guys, for a guffaw that has left me with multiple claw marks from the cat departing my lap at warp speed.

[Babale]

@EddyTeddyFreddy

for a guffaw that has left me with multiple claw marks from the cat departing my lap at warp speed.

Alright, you have been sufficiently punished for your role in the paper towel tube debacle. I forgive you.

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

My thanks, sirrah, but I’m not sure I can ever forgive myself.

Although the paper towel tube debacle did have a certain morbid fascination. A Doper classic of the abhorrent kind.

[What_Exit]

Can someone link to it please? I don’t recall that one.

[DavidNRockies]

I think it’s this guy, from before my time

[What_Exit]

Thank you. Also Yuck. What a weird thread and weird defense.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

To this day, when we run out of paper towels, I have to don two pairs of rubber gloves to dispose of the empty tube.

[SuntanLotion]

That piques my interest.

I, for one, am glad this thread exists.
Not long ago, I started going down the rabbit hole of X. “I must post and tell the Dopers, they don’t realize this!.”
Well, a few people flamed me for it and I’m glad they did.
When a bunch of people criticize you for something, they’re right.
Also mod warnings will get you to change your ways.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@SuntanLotion

When a bunch of people criticize you for something, they’re right.

Not always, viz. The Wise King: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58702/the-wise-king

Once there ruled in the distant city of Wirani a king who was both
mighty and wise. And he was feared for his might and loved for
his wisdom.

Now, in the heart of that city was a well, whose water was cool and
crystalline, from which all the inhabitants drank, even the king
and his courtiers; for there was no other well.

One night when all were asleep, a witch entered the city, and poured
seven drops of strange liquid into the well, and said, “From this
hour he who drinks this water shall become mad.”

Next morning all the inhabitants, save the king and his lord
chamberlain, drank from the well and became mad, even as the witch
had foretold.

And during that day the people in the narrow streets and in the
market places did naught but whisper to one another, “The king is
mad. Our king and his lord chamberlain have lost their reason.
Surely we cannot be ruled by a mad king. We must dethrone him.”

That evening the king ordered a golden goblet to be filled from the
well. And when it was brought to him he drank deeply, and gave it
to his lord chamberlain to drink.

And there was great rejoicing in that distant city of Wirani,
because its king and its lord chamberlain had regained their reason.

On the other hand, our late lamented @Bricker taught me an excellent Russian (?) proverb: “When ten people tell you you’re drunk, go lie down.”

[DocCathode]

I love that story. A version of it takes place in an issue of the comic book Cap’n Quick And A Foozle. I also saw a scifi version titled Angels In The Jets in an old anthology.

[liirogue]

@EddyTeddyFreddy

My thanks, sirrah, but I’m not sure I can ever forgive myself.

Well Eddy, if it helps you sleep better at night… I’m actually the one responsible for Starving Artist. He’s my uncle and I introduced him to the board.

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

OMG. I don’t… I’m not sure what to say, especially since I started out liking him, and we even developed a friendship, that collapsed as he… well, you know.

I hope he’s well, and happier than he became as his Doper life spun out of control? I regret the consequences of halting his initial flameout, but I didn’t and still don’t hate him. He just wasn’t right for this place.

[Beckdawrek]

Drinking from the same well does not make you smarter it’s just makes you crazy like everyone else.

“…I’m not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep, I’m afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion…”. Alexander the Great