# Why can't Siam Sam accept correction? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 15, 2012, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-siam-sam-accept-correction/634779 "2012-09-15T09:45:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 69
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-siam-sam-accept-correction/634779/69 "2012-09-24T21:01:22Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > But it’s the first of many examples where he demonstrates some obsession to answer me with snark whenever I demonstrate knowledge of Thai, etc. It’s too bad he’s put me on Ignore since I am curious what led to his attitude. It’s because you’re an asshole. Have you already forgotten? > [@Is there a Federal law that every sentence needs maximal snark and hyperbole? (Re: greenslime1951)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-federal-law-that-every-sentence-needs-maximal-snark-and-hyperbole-re-greenslime1951/631456/1): > > I often read my own posts a day after I wrote them and think “What a pretentious hyperbolic sanctimonious asshole that **septimus** is!” Or here > [@Ron Paul attacks the 1964 Civil Rights Act; Ron Paul doesn't get America](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-paul-attacks-the-1964-civil-rights-act-ron-paul-doesnt-get-america/608262/83): > > I’d be happy to be friends with any of you, in real life, or, more likely, you’d not want to be my friend since IRL I’m still an obnoxious asshole. ☹ And now you’re bitching about **mmmbeer**? Do you not see the common thread in all these altercations? Look at your behaviour in that thread, every post you made in that thread was nothing but snark. > [@Is there anything wrong with "class warfare"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-wrong-with-class-warfare/634349/249): > > And please, **mmmbeer** (and any of his would-be defenders)… > [@Is there anything wrong with "class warfare"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-wrong-with-class-warfare/634349/249): > > Is it rational, or even sober, to respond with… > [@Is there anything wrong with "class warfare"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-wrong-with-class-warfare/634349/251): > > If you focused more on understanding, and less on finding humor… > [@Is there anything wrong with "class warfare"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-wrong-with-class-warfare/634349/251): > > In future I hope you reread posts that seem to make no sense, rather than delighting in what seems “funny” or writing “Jesus, Joseph, and Mary.” I do accept part of the responsibility for failing to write “(including payroll tax)” in a large font from the get-go. 😃 Lay off with the fucking smileys and writing in really large font and you’d probably have to start a lot fewer pit threads. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-siam-sam-accept-correction/634779)._