# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/61 "2017-02-17T22:54:11Z")
> [@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. How does that happen? Are you posting from some planet that isn’t being jeopardized by the America-hating shitstain? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/62 "2017-02-17T23:03:06Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Don’t worry. We will never call you a tool. > Tools do have some use. Oh snap ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/63 "2017-02-17T23:05:23Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > **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. I’m not gonna hold my breath. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/64 "2017-02-17T23:06:44Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Well, apart from that big old stone aircraft carrier sitting in the South Atlantic with a fully-functional RAF base on it. … and those VTOL aircraft… Harriers etc. which work just fine off a carrier or almost anything. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/65 "2017-02-17T23:12:27Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > … and those VTOL aircraft… Harriers etc. which work just fine off a carrier or almost anything. Ah, well, about those. We sold our last Harriers to the USMC for spare parts a couple of years ago. Our new carriers are going to be flying the F35 VTOL version. At some point. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/66 "2017-02-17T23:35:46Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Ah, well, about those. We sold our last Harriers to the USMC for spare parts a couple of years ago. Our new carriers are going to be flying the F35 VTOL version. At some point. Upgrades! Cool new things! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/67 "2017-02-18T00:14:38Z")
_Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya; Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya; Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya, O Lord, kum bay ya._ ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/68 "2017-02-18T00:27:57Z")
> [@Blinkyandpinky](#): > > It is fairly evident for all to see as to who has class here, and it’s obviously not you or any of your eloquent comrades that communicate on the same level as gutter trash. It’s no wonder that so many people look down upon liberals. Reading Blinky&Pinky’s posts out loud using the voice of the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons works so well and sounds so appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/69 "2017-02-18T01:41:48Z")
> [@Blinkyandpinky](#): > > I seem to remember a rather arrogant and ignorant former US President (thank god) who rudely poked his nose into the affairs of the UK, where he sided with the despicable and evil globalists in the EU. > > The citizens of the UK did not appreciate such rudeness and arrogance coming from a clueless outsider and they basically told him to bugger off, which was made clear when they voted to leave the hell hole known as the EU. As a voluntary EU citizen, who’s not totally ignorant of the millennia of European bloodshed, please allow me to invite you to go fuck yourself. And I’m not at all a fan of the current EU set-up and the assholes in Brussels, so I’d ask you to repeat your previous self-sodomization for pushing me to defend them. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/70 "2017-02-18T02:26:37Z")
> [@Blinkyandpinky](#): > > It is fairly evident for all to see as to who has class here, and it’s obviously not you or any of your eloquent comrades that communicate on the same level as gutter trash. It’s no wonder that so many people look down upon liberals. Maybe you should fuck off to your fainting couch before you get the vapors. ---
**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 18, 2017, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/71 "2017-02-18T11:23:07Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Reading Blinky&Pinky’s posts out loud using the voice of the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons works so well and sounds so appropriate. Worst troll, ever! ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/72 "2017-02-18T11:36:44Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Actually, given Fotheringay-Phipps rather pretentious name and the style of writing he prefers, I would nominate “fop” or “dilettante” as his proper title. He’s named after a P G Wodehouse character, “Barmy” Fotheringay-Phipps. Nicknamed Barmy because even by the standards of the Drones Club he was regarded as one of diminished intellect. ---
**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 18, 2017, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/73 "2017-02-18T11:39:41Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > **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. Sorry, but I don’t like Trump. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/74 "2017-02-18T13:44:18Z")
Then, sir, you are dead to me. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/75 "2017-02-18T13:45:47Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Sorry, but I don’t like Trump. That’s a shame, because he spoke highly of you. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/76 "2017-02-19T16:13:56Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Actually, given Fotheringay-Phipps rather pretentious name and the style of writing he prefers, I would nominate “fop” or “dilettante” as his proper title. Fotheringay-Phipps-Snuff-Huffing-Dandy? ETA: damn I meant Fotherigay-Phipps-Snuff-Huffing-Dandy-Wearing-One-Of-Those-White-Shirts-With-Billowing-Pleated-Sleeves ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/77 "2017-02-19T19:23:34Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Nice segue, dickhead, but when I want the opinion of some sister-fucking, white trash anal blister, I’ll be sure to ask. Incestophobe! Potty mouth too. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/78 "2017-02-19T20:06:22Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Don’t worry. We will never call you a tool. > Tools do have some use. > [@SteveG1](#): > > Oh snap Almost. Let me fix it for you. > [@running coach](#): > > Don’t worry. We will never call you a tool. > Tools do have some use. Oh, snap-on. You’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/79 "2017-02-19T21:07:39Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Don’t worry. We will never call you a tool. > Tools do have some use. Oh, I wa all set to respond because I thought this said “fool”. Well, maybe someone that is overly convinced of their own correctness and lacking in critical thinking skills. Cause whenever I think FP, I think of this thread. Link is to the last page cause that’s when it got good [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=749752&page=3](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=749752&page=3) It wasn’t a particularly active thread and it happened a long time ago. But the gist was FP witnessed a well performed magic trick that stumped him. A couple of people that know magic tricks jump in to explain how it works. But, no they’re wrong. Explanations continue and FP doubles down and triples down. It doesn’t matter that the trick involved a book and a word, and there is a popular magic trick that uses a trick book as a prop, and the trick involves getting someone to pick the exact same WORD that FP picked. And the thread just kind of trailed off into mutual frustration. I think FP still thinks this party entertainer really read his mind. All I can say is this astounded me and I thought , you know in a year or three this guy is going to show his mental rigidity and faulted though processes in another thread and if he gets all superior about it I’m going to remember this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052/80 "2017-02-19T22:01:05Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > He’s named after a P G Wodehouse character, “Barmy” Fotheringay-Phipps. Nicknamed Barmy because even by the standards of the Drones Club he was regarded as one of diminished intellect. I thought he was considered something of a “dangerous intellectual”. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-quartz-become-such-a-tool/780052.md?page=5)