# What's wrong with you Boo Boo Foo? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 16, 2005, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299 "2005-11-16T12:40:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/1 "2005-11-16T12:40:24Z")
**Boo Boo Foo** what’s up with your repeated crapping in threads? Here are some of the more recent examples: [Example #1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6797028&postcount=24) [Example #2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6801049&postcount=2) [Example #3](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6797758&postcount=3) [Example #4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6797603&postcount=36) [Example #5](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6656455&postcount=34) [Example #6](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6652810&postcount=132) [Example #7](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6552497&postcount=70) You know, I could go on like this for a loooooong time. What pisses me off more than anything is your condescending holier-than-thou tone. Was it really necessary to put those pieces of excrement in those threads? Do you get your jollies putting other Dopers in their places? You sound amazingly like the guy in this thread: [Ask the 50s Dad](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=335904), and that was satire. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/2 "2005-11-16T14:20:06Z")
Acting like a pissy little harpy is just part of the veritible shitload of things that keeps him busy. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/3 "2005-11-16T14:55:04Z")
Eh, color me competely unimpressed with this rant. Of your seven examples, six were in Pit threads, a place where you need to expect that people might disagree with you in a rather, er, disagreeable manner. Not only that, but in at least a few of those examples, **Boo Boo Foo** was responding to posts that were at least as snarky or silly as the ones he made. Big fucking deal. If you don’t like this sort of stuff, stick to GD. Speaking of GD, that’s where your seventh example comes from, and i just have to say: WTF? In that post **Boo Boo Foo** was, as far as i could tell, paying a completely unironic compliment to another poster about the quality of his post. It is true that—fairly or unfairly—some Dopers do accuse **Sam Stone** of being one-eyed and intransigent. **Boo Boo Foo** was merely noting that he disagreed with that assessment, at least on this one particular occasion. A few posts later, **furt** and **Ponder Stibbons** also praised **Sam** for his post. I guess you should pit them too. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/4 "2005-11-16T15:04:23Z")
Of these examples, only #1 really brings to mind for me the words “condescending” and “holier than thou”. And, like **mhendo** colour me extra confused by #7. Lame. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/5 "2005-11-16T16:51:34Z")
I like the fact that \*\*Boo \*\*doesn’t play nicey nice. S/he says the sort of things that, in hindsight, you wish someone had said to you years ago. Not always nice to hear, but true and bullshit-free and from that broader perspective we don’t have on our own life. Except the chalkboard cleaning one. That really, IMHO, missed the point and sounded holier-than-thou. The OP in that thread was more bothered by the lying and the petty retaliation than the blackboard, it seemed. To focus on the blackboard made it seem as if \*\*Boo \*\*was invalidating the OP’s very understandable outrage at being lied to and lied about in front of her students and her boss. I suspect the reason \*\*Boo \*\*might grate on some people is that s/he presents her truth as the way things are, rather than one possibility. Prefacing with, “Have you considered…” or “Perhaps one way of looking at it would be…” might go over easier with posters who are already emotionally vulnerable. Possibilities are easier to take in than Truths, in my experience. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/6 "2005-11-16T19:03:36Z")
Yep, put me in the underwhelmed camp. A bit of arrogance I’ll grant you, but actual thread-shitting? Example 5 may have had a whiff of high-horseness, but it was a reasonable opinion. Example 3 is the only one that I thought was not just jerkish, but _mal apropos_. Example 2 I might have said myself. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/7 "2005-11-16T19:09:54Z")
You know what? I retract what I said about example 2. I hadn’t read the thread until just now, and was just going by what was quoted. In fact, example 2, like example 3, is pretty jerkish after all, when seen in context. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/8 "2005-11-16T19:50:43Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I suspect the reason \*\*Boo \*\*might grate on some people is that s/he presents her truth as the way things are, rather than one possibility. Prefacing with, “Have you considered…” or “Perhaps one way of looking at it would be…” might go over easier with posters who are already emotionally vulnerable. Possibilities are easier to take in than Truths, in my experience. Boo Boo grates on my nerves not because he presents his truth as the way things are - hell, I have been accused on more than one occassion as lacking a bit of tact when stating my own strong opinion. Boo Boo grates on my nerves because every time I read one of his posts I hear them in my head as a screeching, harpy, naggy, my shit don’t stink, holier than thou, nails on a blackboard, know-it-all voice. But then again, that’s just me. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/9 "2005-11-16T20:24:11Z")
I dunno. **Boo** ’s comments don’t really bother me that much. Mostly because I consider he/she just a really insecure person who feels the overwhelming need to look down on others in order to feel better about his/herself. Sad, really. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/10 "2005-11-16T21:11:36Z")
Valuable advice given by the OP: > [@](#): > > . > . > . Valuable advice given by BBF (and cited by the OP): > [@Example 1](#): > > “…Using the internet to feel sorry for yourself is manipulative behaviour - it’s a form of attention seeking in a very unhealthy way…” > [@Example 2](#): > > “…Kids come first, not (teacher/custodian) job descriptions…” > [@Example 3](#): > > “…The less you say, the more people listen…” ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/11 "2005-11-16T22:15:43Z")
Crapping in threads? Give it a rest, **Mycroft**. None of those examples come close. I pit **Boo Boo Foo** for being forthright, with occasional flashes of stridency, in the courteous expression of his opinions. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/12 "2005-11-16T22:43:03Z")
The first link is the only time that I’ve noticed Boo. Now, I didn’t notice him (he’s a he, right?) because I thought he was being an ass; I noticed Boo because I thought he was the only one making any sense. That thread was (yes, _was_) about what a flaming douchebag Danny is. It was suggested that he might be such a douche because of mental illness. Fine. But then the thread turned into a “Well myyyyyyyy illness is like THIS” bitch fest. Now, the personal examples were fine at first, but it just went on and on. Then, when Boo pointed out that the thread was getting derailed, he was reamed both there and here. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/13 "2005-11-16T22:57:14Z")
His post in Otto’s thread can be described as nothing but shitting in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/14 "2005-11-17T00:43:50Z")
> [@lezlers](#): > > Mostly because I consider he/she just a really insecure person who feels the \*\*overwhelming need to look down on others in order to feel better about his/herself. \*\* Sad, really. Agreed. Not worth the energy to say anything else about BBF. ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/15 "2005-11-17T00:44:29Z")
Well, without going through the examples above, I will say that in the past week or so I independently noticed an excess of assholic behavior in a number of threads, all of them perpetrated by **Boo Boo**. Since I had never noticed him/her before, I’m pretty sure that I’m not bringing prior grudges to the table. mischievous ---
**Author:** ![VegemiteMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/df788c/32.png) [@VegemiteMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegemiteMoose)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/16 "2005-11-17T00:52:14Z")
Example # 2 is hilarious. A real life instance of “Won’t somebody think of the children?!”. Cracked me up. Cause the poor little tykes couldn’t learn as their chalkboard was toooo dusty. ---
**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/17 "2005-11-17T04:32:36Z")
I can see some validity to number three as his suggested post would have been the worst type of drive-by posting: thread starting drive-by posting. For everything else, he’s been pretty reasonable. In fact I thought that four of your cited posts were quite good. All in all, this strikes me as the craptacular pitting of the week. ---
**Author:** ![pantom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@pantom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantom)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/18 "2005-11-17T04:32:51Z")
First **elucidator** , and now Mr. **Boo**. Welp, now I’ve seen everything. Hello, **Boo Boo Foo** , btw. Haven’t seen you in these parts for a long time. Were you away or something? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/19 "2005-11-17T04:55:01Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I suspect the reason **Boo** might grate on some people is that s/he presents her truth as the way things are, rather than one possibility. Prefacing with, “Have you considered…” or “Perhaps one way of looking at it would be…” might go over easier with posters who are already emotionally vulnerable. Possibilities are easier to take in than Truths, in my experience. Not to mention the fact that the wording of hir posts (not so much the content) puts the poster s/he’s engaging in a position where they most likely feel they have to either respond to **Boo** or lose face with other posters. If someone **doesn’t** reply to injunctions like, “Now, I want you to think about that,” and “Put that in your mental note list for future reference,” it gives the impression that **Boo** has shaken up their entire worldview with one post. Ignoring hir would not be an option, if one wants to avoid looking as if they’ve been humbled and are thinking very, very seriously about the brand-new idea that this wise adult has given them. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299/20 "2005-11-17T15:40:38Z")
> [@lezlers](#): > > I dunno. **Boo** ’s comments don’t really bother me that much. Mostly because I consider he/she just a really insecure person who feels the overwhelming need to look down on others in order to feel better about his/herself. > > Sad, really. From what I’ve read by **Boo Boo Foo** , I don’t suspect what he posts on a fucking message board have any bearing whatsoever on how he feels about himself. :rolleyes: It’s those who let a message board have this effect on them who need to look at their own insecurities. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-you-boo-boo-foo/331299.md?page=2)