# Why so many bullies/jerks on here? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 27, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812 "2015-02-27T23:57:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/101 "2015-02-28T22:33:23Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Could you elaborate on what it takes to be a _fully qualified_ Canadian, though? Well, there’s the official membership card and the secret handshake. I think a complete collection of Anne Murray LPs may be involved too, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/102 "2015-02-28T22:45:43Z")
I am not sure about this. Would I be breaking any board rules if I suggested that the OP go and introduce herself to the folks over at 4chan? I love to know what she thinks of those shining examples of humanity. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/103 "2015-03-01T00:15:24Z")
they would thank us. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/104 "2015-03-01T00:16:29Z")
> [@ellie303](#): > > Also, he’s a fucking astronaut. > [@Hamlet](#): > > But this whole “I’m fucking an astronaut” and “go play in traffic” (and the lack of solid punctuation and spelling, makes me second guess my sympathy. No, no, no. I think you people have misunderstood. In her excitement, she misspoke (miswrote?). She meant to say, “He’s fucking an astronaut.” ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/105 "2015-03-01T00:21:39Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > Im with ya, **ellie**. For a website that advertises itself as place for intellectual discourse, its full of obnoxious jerks. As for newbies, try and fight back----some of the well-connected regulars here will whine like bitches and report you to the Mods like snitches and try to get you banned. It can be a despicable place. Well, as for me, I still have all my parts and appendages, so I guess I was pretty well connected. Oh, and I’m regular too. I like your username, an obvious parapraxis on your part. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/106 "2015-03-01T02:14:07Z")
> [@ellie303](#): > > I recently started a thread about deleting a posting on here because of a privacy concern. There were so many tools who wrote back about how I’m stupid for not knowing that my posts would be public. I knew that they would be public, but they were way easier for me to find than I had previously imagined. I can’t believe people are such tools that they feel the need to get in packs and bully people on here. Losers. Is this how most people are on here? If so, how do I delete my account? GROSS. It’s my bday today and I don’t need this shit. I find it sad that bullies have no problem hiding behind their computers like cowards. I asked a simple question. Get over yourselves. Future leader of our country Declan ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/107 "2015-03-01T03:03:08Z")
The 302 others named Ellie did not stay long, either. What makes you so special that we haven’t seen this before? ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/108 "2015-03-01T05:23:54Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’d advise you to remember The First Rule of Holes. I had to look this up. What came to mind first was a rule of thumb involving rings. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/109 "2015-03-01T05:36:32Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > (Bolding mine.) > > Then why did you forget Valentine’s Day? Um…Um… I forgot? Uh…duh… ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/110 "2015-03-01T05:39:09Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Well, there’s the official membership card and the secret handshake. I think a complete collection of Anne Murray LPs may be involved too, eh? That is going too extreme, sorry/ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/111 "2015-03-01T12:56:06Z")
“HEY!! HEY EVERYONE!! HELLO? HEY, HEY, HEY!!!” _Pause_ “WHY ARE YOU ALL LOOKING AT ME, YOU JERKS??!” _Run away sobbing_ ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/112 "2015-03-01T13:47:39Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [This one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=750378), wherein we mercilessly pummel the OP into tears with our bullying ways. Well, that was brutal… ---
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/113 "2015-03-01T14:44:26Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > “HEY!! HEY EVERYONE!! HELLO? HEY, HEY, HEY!!!” > > _Pause_ > > “WHY ARE YOU ALL LOOKING AT ME, YOU JERKS??!” > > _Run away sobbing_ Clearly, you were looking at her the WRONG WAY. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/114 "2015-03-01T15:51:32Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Blast off the pad, Tad > > Go orbit Mars, Lars > > Release the pod, Rod > > And set yourself free this post wins the thread! even though I now have Rocketman for an earworm :mad: ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/115 "2015-03-01T15:59:21Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > “HEY!! HEY EVERYONE!! HELLO? HEY, HEY, HEY!!!” > > _Pause_ > > “WHY ARE YOU ALL LOOKING AT ME, YOU JERKS??!” > > _Run away sobbing_ You know it’s usually a flounce, not sobbing! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/116 "2015-03-01T16:15:04Z")
Just because he’s been to Uranus doesn’t make him an astronaut. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/117 "2015-03-01T16:58:29Z")
> [@ellie303](#): > > He looks pretty tasty on my bed right now. Also, he’s a fucking astronaut. I’m not sure I remember you posting here before, but something about your story [seemed familiar](http://www.komonews.com/news/national/101160494.html)… As for us being miserable or sexless, etc, etc, etc… what would you have us tell you? Depends…? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/118 "2015-03-01T20:26:07Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Just because he’s been to Uranus doesn’t make him an astronaut. He’s definitely an astronaut, because he ain’t got no money and he ain’t got no hair. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/119 "2015-03-01T20:28:59Z")
If you go to Uranus, watch out for the cling-ons. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812/120 "2015-03-01T20:49:12Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > He’s definitely an astronaut, because he ain’t got no money and he ain’t got no hair. Yo’ mama ain’t no astronaut. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-bullies-jerks-on-here/713812.md?page=7)