# When did Quartz become such a tool? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 17, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052 "2017-02-17T14:40:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/1 "2017-02-17T14:40:31Z")
[ATMB thread he started.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20006271) Note **Colibri** , a mod, called him on his “concerns”… > [@Are all the Trump threads diminishing the Straight Dope Brand?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-the-trump-threads-diminishing-the-straight-dope-brand/780018/12): > > Sorry, but I think this is perhaps the most ill-founded concern about the future of the Dope that I have ever seen here. So, just to give the board a better “aura”, or something, we are to refrain from calling a spade a spade? Sing kumbayas while the country melts down? Then on top of that, he has the unmitigated blind hypocritical gall to say this: > [@Are all the Trump threads diminishing the Straight Dope Brand?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-the-trump-threads-diminishing-the-straight-dope-brand/780018/23): > > But it’s the ignorance and hatred those threads are spreading that concerns me, not the quantity of threads per se. Fucking tool. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/2 "2017-02-17T14:50:50Z")
Uh-oh, another heretic sighting. Yes, we’ve discovered someone who we have reason to believe is insufficiently opposed to Trump. Notify the Inquisition immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/3 "2017-02-17T14:54:39Z")
Quartz became a tool during the early Neolithic, iirc. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/4 "2017-02-17T14:57:56Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > Uh-oh, another heretic sighting. Yes, we’ve discovered someone who we have reason to believe is insufficiently opposed to Trump. Notify the Inquisition immediately. I think **Drunky Smurf** already has this shtick covered. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/5 "2017-02-17T14:59:38Z")
There’s quite a lot of cross-over between Drunky Smurf and you, but that hasn’t stopped either of you. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/6 "2017-02-17T14:59:42Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > Uh-oh, another heretic sighting. Yes, we’ve discovered someone who we have reason to believe is insufficiently opposed to Trump. Notify the Inquisition immediately. Don’t worry. We will never call you a tool. Tools do have some use. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/7 "2017-02-17T15:04:40Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > [ATMB thread he started.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20006271) > > Note **Colibri** , a mod, called him on his “concerns”… Note that he was posting as a poster, not a Mod. > [@](#): > > Then on top of that, he has the unmitigated blind hypocritical gall to say this I notice that you provide no evidence to contradict me. Yeah, shame on me for daring to point out the obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/8 "2017-02-17T15:05:41Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Don’t worry. We will never call you a tool. I was very worried until you posted that, so that comes as a relief. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/9 "2017-02-17T15:11:02Z")
All of the rabid Trumpy-Wumpies have turned into tools, because It’s Their Turn, Nyah. Which I find surprising, since debate here tends to be fact-v-fact slugfests, and all theTWs can manage is tired deflection and dissimulation. I propose a ban on replying to TW posts unless they contain an addressable fact. Quit responding to posts free of content beyond [ol] [li]Democrat types LOST.[/li][li]HRC’s a cunt.[/li][li]TW is going to do great things.[/li][li]Oh, yeah? Prove it![/li][/ol] …which, AFAICT, is 99% of what’s posted by anyone not professing absolute shock at the bozo box the White House has become. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/10 "2017-02-17T15:27:50Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > Uh-oh, another heretic sighting. Yes, we’ve discovered someone who we have reason to believe is insufficiently opposed to Trump. Notify the Inquisition immediately. Yeah, it’s not like he’s posting utterly stupid shit, like “Trump has only signed one executive order,” it’s because he doesn’t sufficiently hate Trump. You got us. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/11 "2017-02-17T15:30:04Z")
Trumpa Wumpa doompety doo I’ve got a perfect puzzle for you Oompa loompa doompety dee If you are wise you’ll listen to me What do you get when you guzzle down left wing lies Watching as much as a donkey spies What are you at, getting terribly ignorant What do you think will come of that I don’t like the look of it Trumpa Wumpa doompety da If you’re greedy, you will go far You will live in happiness too Like the Trumpa Wumpa Doompety do Doompety do ---
**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:** [February 17, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/12 "2017-02-17T15:37:17Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > Uh-oh, another heretic sighting. Yes, we’ve discovered someone who we have reason to believe is insufficiently opposed to Trump. Notify the Inquisition immediately. Or you could actually read the OP and respond to what was actually said. Quartz should be happy that the OP only thinks he’s dumb. I personally think it was concern trolling. Yes, he’s really concerned that a liberal-leaning message board might be harmed by being too hateful towards Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/13 "2017-02-17T15:43:28Z")
The irony of you writing any sentence beginning with “No one is really dumb enough to think …” is rich. ETA: I see now you’ve edited to erase those sentences. Maybe you appreciated the irony. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/14 "2017-02-17T16:00:07Z")
**Quartz** (who is British) went very slightly off the rails with the Brexit vote and has remained there ever since. Compared to some of the board’s Trumpistas he’s positively polite, but he’s still happily carrying teacups full of water for The Donald. But I agree that the concern trolling was concern trolling. I don’t recall him being bothered by an overabundance of Obama threads, although he is certainly welcome to prove me wrong on this. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/15 "2017-02-17T16:37:21Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > Uh-oh, another heretic sighting. Yes, we’ve discovered someone who we have reason to believe is insufficiently opposed to Trump. Notify the Inquisition immediately. Says another fucking tool. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/16 "2017-02-17T16:38:39Z")
You need to take this up with running coach … ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/17 "2017-02-17T16:41:24Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Note that he was posting as a poster, not a Mod. I’m posting this as a poster too, and I’ll say what I couldn’t say in ATMB. You’re a fucking tool. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/18 "2017-02-17T16:43:07Z")
Hemorrhoids acting up again? ---
**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:** [February 17, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/19 "2017-02-17T16:46:23Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > Hemorrhoids acting up again? The folks acting up are a real pain in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/20 "2017-02-17T16:48:12Z")
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