# Why is \[b\]Dinsdale\[/b\] still posting on this forum? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 22, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-b-dinsdale-b-still-posting-on-this-forum/235747 "2004-03-22T19:32:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 12
**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:** [March 25, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-b-dinsdale-b-still-posting-on-this-forum/235747/221 "2004-03-25T22:09:34Z")
Well, **Dinsdale** DID say that he worded it in a way that he thought would get attention, and he certainly succeeded at that far beyond what he probably expected. It’s silly to suggest people were LOOKING to be offended; rather, they found exactly the offense that **Dinsdale** put in the post. If you’re gonna play with fire, my dad told me, you gotta expect to get burned. You don’t get to post something in an inflammatory fashion and then get upset when people are inflamed by it. Hopefully next time this issue is raised, it’ll be done in a calm, non-inflammatory fashion. I think **Eva Luna** is setting forth a much more reasoned case for the argument here. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-b-dinsdale-b-still-posting-on-this-forum/235747/222 "2004-03-25T22:13:03Z")
I still can’t justify flagellation. Random guffawing will suffice. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-b-dinsdale-b-still-posting-on-this-forum/235747/223 "2004-03-25T22:17:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Gee, Lib. I’ve been trying to express myself accurately and consistently here (tho not up to the standards of some) in the face of considerable hostility. Folks are choosing to flyspeck my posts, and obsess over individual wordchoice, rather than consider whether there might be a germ of debate-worthy substance anywhere therein. Within this context, I realized that I made a statement of fact that upon reconsideration I considered inaccurate, and I apologized for that. Strange that you find that concept so foreign… Well, then. Keep your wits about you in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-b-dinsdale-b-still-posting-on-this-forum/235747/224 "2004-03-25T22:26:01Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I still can’t justify flagellation. Oh I don’t know about that. Anyway, I’ve got a pair of thumbscrews I use on my children when they’re naughty; you think those would be fitting punishment - Rune ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-b-dinsdale-b-still-posting-on-this-forum/235747/225 "2004-03-25T22:34:03Z")
\>\> Hopefully next time this issue is raised, it’ll be done in a calm, non-inflammatory fashion. Hopefully. \>\> I think **Eva Luna** is setting forth a much more reasoned case for the argument here. Yeah, she’s spoiling all the fun ain’t she? Let’s pick on _her_ for a while! That’ll teach her to bring serious discussions to the pit! :: sailor throws one of those little containers of half&half in Eva Luna’s direction and then looks away prettending he didn’t do it:: ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-b-dinsdale-b-still-posting-on-this-forum/235747/226 "2004-03-25T22:45:16Z")
[QUOTE=sailor :: sailor throws one of those little containers of half&half in Eva Luna’s direction and then looks away prettending he didn’t do it::[/QUOTE] What’s with the half & half? If you’re going to use dairy products on me, I insist on nothing but the finest…heavy cream, ultrapasteurized, 36% butterfat. But it’s even more fattening, which means it’s more capable of creating mass, and you can make it into whipped cream (which you can’t do with half & half). So then if you threw it at me, you’d be destroying mass, which means you yourself would be…drum roll, please…a Weapon of Mass Destruction! Eva Luna, Third-Generation Whipped Cream Professional (don’t ask) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-b-dinsdale-b-still-posting-on-this-forum/235747/227 "2004-03-25T22:54:14Z")
> [@Eva Luna](#): > > Eva Luna, Third-Generation Whipped Cream Professional (don’t ask) 😉 Enough with the flagellation already! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-b-dinsdale-b-still-posting-on-this-forum/235747/228 "2004-03-26T03:10:19Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > It is clear that you are pretty bright, and you have some understanding of legal concepts, I am curious why you chose to ignore the legal princeples with which you are obviously familiar in order to support the inane arguments of a poster in another thread? (the one about international law)? Link? Do you mean the one about the ICC? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-b-dinsdale-b-still-posting-on-this-forum/235747.md?page=11)