# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/21 "2017-02-17T16:51:03Z")
I would agree that it’s fair to say that there’s been some dumb posts about Trump (that he’s illiterate, that he’s got some amazing 4D chess strategy going, etc.). Trump is just an idiot who gets bored easy. It’s really that simple. He got into the job because most people are idiots who get bored easy and the country has been steadily been moving towards true Democracy for 200 years now. He has mass appeal. But I wouldn’t particularly fear for the future of the board based on this. The fact that you immediately get hit with popups would, I imagine, be the real thing keeping any potential newbie from even considering joining the site or even lingering long enough to read a couple of posts. There have always been stupid posts on the SDMB and there will always be stupid posts on the SDMB. That’s not unique to the last few months. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/22 "2017-02-17T16:54:29Z")
I have no dog in this fight, but it is a little depressing when 75% of the OPs in the Pit are either directly or tangentially related to Trump. It makes you guys seem a bit like the politics obsessed, crazy uncle who relates everything to the President. ---
**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, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/23 "2017-02-17T16:56:21Z")
No dog in this fight, eh? Try to pull that one past us, you think? Just another tool … ---
**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:** [February 17, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/24 "2017-02-17T16:57:01Z")
Wake up sheeple! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/25 "2017-02-17T16:58:47Z")
> [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#): > > I have no dog in this fight, but it is a little depressing when 75% of the OPs in the Pit are either directly or tangentially related to Trump. It makes you guys seem a bit like the politics obsessed, crazy uncle who relates everything to the President. What’s this “you guys” business? What’s depressing to me is the % of American voters who thought Donald Freeking Trump would make a good President. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/26 "2017-02-17T17:00:58Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > No dog in this fight, eh? Try to pull that one past us, you think? > > Just another tool … Now you’re just spraying your spittle on everyone. Go back to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/27 "2017-02-17T17:08:04Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > Hemorrhoids acting up again? Yes, they seem to be starting threads in ATMB this time. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/28 "2017-02-17T17:26:12Z")
Trump supporters can’t defend what Trump is saying and doing. So they’re hoping they can convince people to avoid the topic. It’s going to be a long four years for them. Sure, everybody’s going to suffer but at least we can say it wasn’t our fault. Trump supporters don’t have that. ---
**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, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/29 "2017-02-17T17:26:42Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Wake up sheeple! Wake me when the backlash against the backlash against the backlash against Trump starts. ---
**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, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/30 "2017-02-17T17:41:53Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Don’t worry. We will never call you a tool. > Tools do have some use. > [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > I was very worried until you posted that, so that comes as a relief. Thanks. > [@Colibri](#): > > Says another fucking tool. > [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > **You need to take this up with running coach …** As everyone can see, I didn’t say that. You changed the quote. ---
**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, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/31 "2017-02-17T17:46:18Z")
A better assumption is that you just didn’t understand what was being said. ---
**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, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/32 "2017-02-17T17:55:37Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > A better assumption is that you just didn’t understand what was being said. You changed my quote and then responded to the changed meaning. I understand it perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/33 "2017-02-17T17:57:06Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > 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** BWAHAHAHA. The bolded part is the funnies thing I have read in a while. Slee ---
**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, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/34 "2017-02-17T17:59:52Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You changed my quote and then responded to the changed meaning. I understand it perfectly. Not sure what your confusion is, but if you think I changed your quote that sounds like a rules violation. I would suggest that you report it. ---
**Author:** ![Blinkyandpinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@Blinkyandpinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blinkyandpinky)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/35 "2017-02-17T18:00:33Z")
The observation made by the poster named Quartz, who is the subject of this thread, is a most correct observation, and that poster is now being chastised by the liberal, group thinking community for daring to point out the obvious. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/36 "2017-02-17T18:02:59Z")
> [@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/780018/1): > > (no, Trump is not functionally illiterate). Cite? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/37 "2017-02-17T18:19:14Z")
Can’t we all just get along? Except for BigT who wants to beat Quartz up and rape his family because, you know, violence works. ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/38 "2017-02-17T18:44:09Z")
I fucking hate that guy- I’m just happy to have an opportunity to say so! Even before he was sucking Trump’s dick, he always had such creepy opinions about women- he likes to point out all the sexism against men there is in this world. And one time he got super-duper angry and told us all about that time he saw a women in the park caught in the rain, and he was baffled as to why this women wouldn’t share his umbrella with him. Gross. Obvious answer- because he probably comes across as a total fucking creep. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/39 "2017-02-17T18:50:17Z")
> [@Blinkyandpinky](#): > > The observation made by the poster named Quartz, who is the subject of this thread, is a most correct observation, and that poster is now being chastised by the liberal, group thinking community for daring to point out the obvious. Oh great, a troll sticking up for a tool. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/40 "2017-02-17T18:55:09Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Oh great, a troll sticking up for a tool. He’s on a troll…roll. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052.md?page=3)