# Why was everyone so bugged by Michael Masterson?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 6, 2000, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543 "2000-03-06T19:09:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/21 "2000-03-07T17:36:00Z")

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Y’all just had to say it’s name didn’t you ?

Geez it’s starting to look like real life is like Beatlejuice.

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" The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference."  
Elie Wiesel

Winner SDMB Biggest Flirt (Female) and Least Shy (No Mom, I have no idea why they think that)

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**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/22 "2000-03-07T17:59:00Z")

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What is Diff. Eq.? I’ve never heard of that class at any elementary schools…

Sweet Basil

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Didn’t get voted for a damn thing!  
(thanks guys…)

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/23 "2000-03-07T20:00:00Z")

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> Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor:  
> \*\*Miceal got attention for the same reason that poison ivy rashes get stratched. They ( & he) irritate.
> 
> But otherwise, he just didn’t post anything halfway interesting. This is a site for the thinkers, debaters & happy eccentrics; not the disco/pickup bar rejects.\*\*

Yeah, he should started really interesting MPSIMS topics like Satan’s “I just lost a couple games of Scrabble” or the million or so “I just made my 100th/500h/1000th post!” Those REALLY pique my interest.

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**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/24 "2000-03-07T20:55:00Z")

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Good one, Rev!

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**Author:** ![Moonshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Moonshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonshine)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/25 "2000-03-08T15:25:00Z")

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Sorry to drag this post back to the OP, but H8 has a point; when I see Masterson’s posts, and before it the Loverock and many others, I look at them, think “what a dickhead” and move on; why people feel the need to get on line and waste 10 seconds of their time replying to a post like that is a mystery to me. Everyone knows, “Don’t feed the Trolls” because that’s what they want, and then everybody gets on the thread and feeds the Troll. This cliquish I Am Telling You That You Are A Troll And That You Don’t Belong Here With Us is more than a little remeniscent of shoolyard insecurity. Once last thing before the flaming starts, I’d like to be lightly tenderised before y’all put me on the coals.

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It only hurts when I laugh.

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**Author:** ![Prose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Prose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prose)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/26 "2000-03-09T04:59:00Z")

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He’s an idiot I whole heartedly agree.  
but I’m pretty sure his diff. eq. was = differential equations = high school calculous. In which case he’s probably one of those very academically intelligent people but completely and utterly inadept at social interaction within a cohesive setting.  
and no, it won’t be me saying that horrid name.

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I am a fire whose flames lick and spit at the boundless sky forever desiring wonderous consummation  
-me

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Masterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@Michael\_Masterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Masterson)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/27 "2000-03-09T07:18:00Z")

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Hey man, I go to college (C.S. degree), can you spell that! You don’t seem to know how to spell Calculus, do you know what it is?  
Diff. Eq. = Differential Equations (damn!! your a smart one)[[[inbred candy ass!]]]

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**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/28 "2000-03-09T07:31:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Hey man, I go to college (C.S. degree), can you spell that! You don’t seem to know how to spell Calculus, do you know what it is?  
> Diff. Eq. = Differential Equations (damn!! your a smart one)[[[inbred candy ass!]]]

Before you talk shit about how stupid someone else is, you need to wake up in English class, lying prick.  
You forgot a ? at the end of **your** first sentence.  
You mean “you’re” as in "Damn, **you’re** (contraction of “you” and “are”)a smart one!  
not “your”.  
If you have any college education at all, I’m Puff Daddy.

Everyone here hates you. Why don’t you go away? You suck. Everything that you post sucks.

As I said in two other threads, I _hate_ this guy.  
I’m using the word “hate” here about a guy I don’t even know. I hope I get to batter him unmerciful someday.

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“Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots.”

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Masterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@Michael\_Masterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Masterson)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/29 "2000-03-09T08:17:00Z")

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So I have never been good in English (yes, it shows). That is my weakest subject. I could work on it some, I suppose.  
\*quote(“lying prick.”) I don’t lie.  
\*you would make a mistake too if you had been up 22 hours.  
\*quote(“Everyone here hates you.”) This is Bullshit, I am enjoyed by many. I even get a few e-mails a week from people on the board telling me, “Welcome to the family,” “I love your posts,” ect…  
I am loved (as opposed to hated).  
\*Quit shooting flames outta your ass  
Lexicon = Loser = English Major = poor.

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**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/30 "2000-03-09T09:34:00Z")

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Fellow Dopers, what am I doing wrong?! I keep putting Preperation H on **Michael Masterson’s** name, but that little hemorrhoid won’t go away! Have any folk remedies I could try? Voodoo? Witchcraft?

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“Penises don’t belong in the mouth, girls and boys. You’ve got the wrong hole there. Just like you wouldn’t shove pizza up your nose.”  
-From the **Brother Jed** flyer-

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/31 "2000-03-09T15:57:00Z")

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I can’t be too upset about Micheal because he reminds me of my son. My son has been tested and found to be “gifted” (IQ 142, not that I’m bragging), but he is a smart assed know-it-all, which is quite insufferable in a 12 year old. If I allowed my son to post he’d probably be just as, if not more, annoying.

So Michael is either a very bright 12 year old or a sub-moranic adult.

Let him post, ignore him, flame him but no one should take him too seriously.

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Teacher, my red crayon tastes funny – Ralph Wiggum

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/32 "2000-03-09T16:10:00Z")

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Biggirl, intelligence is great but coupled with emotional immaturity is one of the lowest possible forms of humanity there is.  
Im not refering to anyone…

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**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/33 "2000-03-09T16:56:00Z")

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> Originally posted by Lexicon:  
> [BEveryone here hates you. Why don’t you go away? You suck. Everything that you post sucks.\*\*

I have nothing to add. I just thought this needed repeating.

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**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/34 "2000-03-09T17:46:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by Revtim:
> 
> \*\*Yeah, he should started really interesting MPSIMS topics like Satan’s “I just lost a couple games of Scrabble” or the million or so “I just made my 100th/500h/1000th post!” Those REALLY pique my interest.  
> \*\*

Well, after much debate, I guess I should answer this one…

Revtim, there was a purpose to that thread. You see, a month or so earlier, I issued an open challenge to play Dopers in Scrabble. I started a half dozen or so games, and promptly destroyed all of their wills to live.

You see, I’m pretty good at this game.

Now, Drainey has been learning, and she beat me twice (and also played some very competitive losses recently as well), and I was hoping this but of information would give other people a reason to maybe play me again.

It worked, as I have two new games I’m playing now.

So, unless you would like for me to kick YOUR ass in Scrabble, I suggest you not comment on threads which you obviously don’t know the background of.

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Yer pal,  
Satan

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/35 "2000-03-10T06:40:00Z")

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Satan, the reason I mentioned your thread was because MM was being criticised for starting boring threads. My point was that lots of people start boring threads in MPSIMS (which is pretty much what it’s for, I thought), but for some reason MM was singled for flamage.

I have no problem with your Scrabble thread, it just seemed a perfect example of one that sounded uninteresting. And now that I know the background, guess what? I still don’t give half a fuck about your Scrabble skills. But everybody should be able to start whatever boring-ass thread they want in this board without being flamed, not just the popular posters.

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/36 "2000-03-10T06:41:00Z")

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And also, I’ll comment on whatever the hell I feel like commenting on.

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**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/37 "2000-03-09T20:13:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by Lexicon:  
> \*\*  
> Everyone here hates you. Why don’t you go away? You suck. Everything that you post sucks.
> 
> \*\*

Well \>I\< am here, and \>I\< don’t hate him!  
One one hand I feel sorry for him. He just doesn’t get it… It would be so easy just to re-register with a new name and be less hate-inspiring, but he just keeps digging himself deeper and deeper.  
On the other hand he amuses me. It may be wrong to make mirth at the expense of the socially retarded, but he BEGS for it endlessly!! He reminds me of those guys in Jr. High who were just a little too interested in D&D. Besides, as I’ve said elsewhere, look at all the activity he has created.

Sweet Basil

ps- No, I didn’t send him an e-mail supporting him; just like Cecil didn’t…

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Didn’t get voted for a damn thing!  
(thanks guys…)

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**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/38 "2000-03-09T20:14:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by Lexicon:  
> \*\*  
> Everyone here hates you. Why don’t you go away? You suck. Everything that you post sucks.
> 
> \*\*

Well \>I\< am here, and \>I\< don’t hate him!  
One one hand I feel sorry for him. He just doesn’t get it… It would be so easy just to re-register with a new name and be less hate-inspiring, but he just keeps digging himself deeper and deeper.  
On the other hand he amuses me. It may be wrong to make mirth at the expense of the socially retarded, but he BEGS for it endlessly!! He reminds me of those guys in Jr. High who were just a little too interested in D&D. Besides, as I’ve said elsewhere, look at all the activity he has created.

Sweet Basil

ps- No, I didn’t send him an e-mail supporting him; just like Cecil didn’t…

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Didn’t get voted for a damn thing!  
(thanks guys…)

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**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/39 "2000-03-09T20:15:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by Lexicon:  
> \*\*  
> Everyone here hates you. Why don’t you go away? You suck. Everything that you post sucks.
> 
> \*\*

Well \>I\< am here, and \>I\< don’t hate him!  
One one hand I feel sorry for him. He just doesn’t get it… It would be so easy just to re-register with a new name and be less hate-inspiring, but he just keeps digging himself deeper and deeper.  
On the other hand he amuses me. It may be wrong to make mirth at the expense of the socially retarded, but he BEGS for it endlessly!! He reminds me of those guys in Jr. High who were just a little too interested in D&D. Besides, as I’ve said elsewhere, look at all the activity he has created.

Sweet Basil

ps- No, I didn’t send him an e-mail supporting him; just like Cecil didn’t…

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Didn’t get voted for a damn thing!  
(thanks guys…)

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**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-everyone-so-bugged-by-michael-masterson/14543/40 "2000-03-09T23:33:00Z")

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Sweet basil fades back, she shoots,  
triple post! Nothin’ but net!  
The crowd goes wild!

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“Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots.”

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