# When someone you vehemently disagree with on every issue.. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 19, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-you-vehemently-disagree-with-on-every-issue/661387 "2013-06-19T19:16:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-you-vehemently-disagree-with-on-every-issue/661387/1 "2013-06-19T19:16:35Z")
posts something really funny and witty, what do you do? How does it make you feel? Do you roll your eyes? Do you laugh and think “I can’t believe I just laughed at \_\_\_\_\_.” How about someone who insulted you in the past? What if the insult was undeserved? Deserved? Enquiring minds want to know! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-you-vehemently-disagree-with-on-every-issue/661387/2 "2013-06-19T19:25:42Z")
I laugh, and, where appropriate, riff off it. And I try to look on insults around here, in the Pit at least, as “playing the dozens” for fun, rather than attempts to be nasty. Fortunately, most of the Dopers I dislike aren’t particularly funny, or I got tired of their schtick a while ago and don’t read them. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-you-vehemently-disagree-with-on-every-issue/661387/3 "2013-06-19T19:35:45Z")
Do you mean, like, on this message board? I usually laugh. I keep a lot of people on ignore, so if I really don’t like someone I probably won’t even see the joke. But if I do, I laugh. In fact, I think some of the funnier people on the board are people I think are assholes. As for insults, I know it’s happened, but I never remember anyone’s name so I wouldn’t even know it was them. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-you-vehemently-disagree-with-on-every-issue/661387/4 "2013-06-19T19:46:47Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I laugh, and, where appropriate, riff off it. And I try to look on insults around here, in the Pit at least, as “playing the dozens” for fun, rather than attempts to be nasty. > > Fortunately, most of the Dopers I dislike aren’t particularly funny, or I got tired of their schtick a while ago and don’t read them. > > Regards, > Shodan Listen to him! This is probably the poster who runs into this problem more than any other. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-you-vehemently-disagree-with-on-every-issue/661387/5 "2013-06-19T19:57:31Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > Do you mean, like, on this message board? Yes, although feel free to post any other stories you like. I only mention because someone who did insult me (Called me a liar) and also whom I really can’t stand just posted something really funny. I snickered, and thought about posting something, but decided against it. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-you-vehemently-disagree-with-on-every-issue/661387/6 "2013-06-19T20:19:59Z")
Some of my favorite posters have been guys who have insulted the shit out of me. I look at every thread as a new start. I do see some trend in certain posters to add meanings and motives to posts where the meaninings and motives have allready been expressed. Some of these posters I also enjoy very much but find myself being a little more cautious before I post. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-you-vehemently-disagree-with-on-every-issue/661387/7 "2013-06-19T20:22:56Z")
I think, “Will wonders never cease”. There are a couple of posters who I invariably disagree with but who also manage to get a good oneliner in every once in a while. If I do anything, I mentally give them a grace for it. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-you-vehemently-disagree-with-on-every-issue/661387/8 "2013-06-20T00:34:02Z")
Some of the real dipshits can be fairly amusing. If they are vexing me on a thread of mine, or attacking one of my posts, I ignore them. If they are amusing in another context, I will usually make a complimentary post. The joke’s the thing! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-you-vehemently-disagree-with-on-every-issue/661387/9 "2013-06-20T01:22:47Z")
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I’d never in a million years compliment a person I think is a dickhead on this message board, but I’d let myself chuckle every so often when they actually do say something funny. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-you-vehemently-disagree-with-on-every-issue/661387/10 "2013-06-20T03:43:08Z")
I laugh, and I post that I’m laughing. I always let a poster know, hoping it will encourage them to keep coming with the funnies. I hate the idea that someone will argue with me in a thread, and then decide they don’t want to interact with me anymore. I wish we could fight and then laugh it all off. Sometimes, I’m laughing it up and talking at a poster and then realize they aren’t really playing back with me…I wonder if we are ‘internet enemies’ and I just forgot, or didn’t notice or something. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-you-vehemently-disagree-with-on-every-issue/661387/11 "2013-06-20T04:26:59Z")
If it’s funny, it’s funny and I don’t care who said it. But there are a very small number of posters who I can’t read anything of theirs without thinking “that’s that nut who \_\_\_\_”, no matter what they’re talking about. I don’t think any of them say funny things, but they do occasionally say things that aren’t crazy, and still all I can think is “crazy”. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-you-vehemently-disagree-with-on-every-issue/661387/12 "2013-06-20T13:21:31Z")
Why yes, I’ll even post in people’s threads who I know don’t think very highly of me.