# WTF? I don't believe the PSA I just saw! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 12, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868 "2009-01-12T03:15:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/21 "2009-01-12T03:50:13Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Dude, Texan is a _religion._ Get with the program. Dude, Friday night football is the _religion_, part of the Texan _way of life_. Also, speaking as a Texan, **Rand Rover** is a whining pussy. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/22 "2009-01-12T03:51:51Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > But anyway, this is all a hijack. I won’t pull a QED and shit up the thread. Too late. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/23 "2009-01-12T03:53:53Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > But anyway, this is all a hijack. I won’t pull a QED and shit up the thread. Too late. If you really wanted to not dump a steaming load, you’d have just quietly reported my post and left it at that, instead of announcing it to the world as if you’d just foiled an international conspiracy to take over the government. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/24 "2009-01-12T03:59:21Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Dude, Friday night football is the _religion_, part of the Texan _way of life_. > > Also, speaking as a Texan, **Rand Rover** is a whining pussy. Seconded ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/25 "2009-01-12T03:59:43Z")
**Q.E.D.** and **Rand Rover** where’s the “get a room” lady when you need her? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/26 "2009-01-12T04:06:11Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > **Q.E.D.** and **Rand Rover** where’s the “get a room” lady when you need her? In Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/27 "2009-01-12T04:10:22Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > If French is an ethnicity, then Texan sure as hell is. By what justification do you make that comparison? France is a country with a centuries-old cultural identity, though admittedly areas like Alsace and Lorraine are somewhat German as well. Texas has its own unique history, but that doesn’t qualify it as an ethnicity. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/28 "2009-01-12T04:35:38Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Also, speaking as a Texan, **Rand Rover** is a whining pussy. But we KNEW THAT! (signed) **drop** , who has never been a part of the Texas lifestyle, but who understands it. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/29 "2009-01-12T04:51:19Z")
I’ve abandoned all my plans to retire to Texas; leaving there was the best thing I ever did so why should I go back? Even so, I was born and raised there and I am willing to state with no reservations whatsoever that Texas ain’t no damn Ethnicity. Texas doesn’t come any where near the French. Texas is unique, not that that is necessarily a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/30 "2009-01-12T05:11:13Z")
To leave off with the Texas-, **RR** -, and **QED** -bashing, may I suggest that there are no doubt areas where such a plan might be valuable as a just-in-case. Two of “my boys” and the bio-mother of one of them live in homes within a couple of miles of the HQ of a major army base – to have the kids know what to do in the admittedly unlikely event the base is a target for a terrorist attack, is a reasonable precaution for the parents and grandparent to take. In the case of places like Houston, Miami, Wilmington (NC), New Orleans, San Francisco, San Jose, etc., a short “what to do in emergency” in the form of a sequence of steps the kids can remember to take in case of disaster, man-made or natural, makes sense. And a PSA reminding parents and other caregivers that it’s a good idea, seems a sensible use of mandated PSA time. It’s not something I’d ever want to see mandated, but it makes sense as a volunteer use of resources. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/31 "2009-01-12T05:28:40Z")
Fuck that, Poly. If they can’t figure it out on their own then they are too stupid to live. (Joking, but have you SEEN the ads?) ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/32 "2009-01-12T05:37:49Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > If French is an ethnicity, then Texan sure as hell is. Also, Ed said the post in question was “skating close to the edge,” so it doesn’t matter apparently whether the classification in question is an ethnicity, if it’s close enough then it’s apparently wrong. > > Also, “retarded” is not the preferred nomenclature. I’m surprised no one’s ripped you a new one on that yet. > > But anyway, this is all a hijack. I won’t pull a QED and shit up the thread. Are you such a mindboggling dumbass that you can’t see the difference between your totally uncalled for random bashing and his fucking joke ?! Nor that Ed quite obviously meant nationality ? Are you really THAT fucking dense, or just even more pedantically petty and obnoxious than the already high median of the Pit ? ---
**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:** [January 12, 2009, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/33 "2009-01-12T05:43:05Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > (abbreviated to “all of the above?” Yes. You haven’t met \*\*Rand \*\*before, I see. ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/34 "2009-01-12T07:18:19Z")
But if they’re a Texan, then they’re probably American which is an ethnicity, so Q.E.D. was indeed calling someone out based on where they live and their nationality. PS. I’m joking. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/35 "2009-01-12T07:19:18Z")
I swear, this entire thread is a repeat. I keep checking the dates of the posts. Is this some kind of joke? From the OP to Rand’s odd hijack to LouisB saying that leaving Texas was the best thing he ever did…it all happened before. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/36 "2009-01-12T07:43:26Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > I swear, this entire thread is a repeat. I keep checking the dates of the posts. Is this some kind of joke? > > From the OP to Rand’s odd hijack to LouisB saying that leaving Texas was the best thing he ever did…it all happened before. WTF? Dude, we heard you the first time. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/37 "2009-01-12T08:31:16Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Reported. Thanks so much for letting us know, fella. I can’t imagine how crazy it would have driven the mods to have to deal with the absolute deluge of reports that might have poured in had you not made us aware that you had handled the problem. I mean truly, their email servers would look like they had been linked on slashdot. :rolleyes: Seriously, dude, report it if you want to, but announcing it like that makes you look like a junior mod at best, and a third-grade tattletale at worst. Or is it the other way around? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/38 "2009-01-12T08:39:52Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Also, “retarded” is not the preferred nomenclature. I’m surprised no one’s ripped you a new one on that yet. The only people who have a problem with “retarded” as a medical term are “retarded” in a grade school insult kind of way. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/39 "2009-01-12T08:42:49Z")
Rand Rover is right. That was a lame hand-slap by Ed to start with. And if French is an ethnicity, then so is Texan. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868/40 "2009-01-12T09:13:55Z")
Perhaps so, but the “lame hand-slap” by Ed was just that: a hand slap. Not even an official Warning. It wan’t until **Rand Rover** ’s explanation for his twee little “Reported” grandstanding, that I, for one, had any inkling that he was so thin-skinned about it. Honestly, it looks like he’s going to be as tedious to have around as our young lady from the planned community in Illinois (I’m not naming her more specifically here, because I suspect she might be the type to do vanity searches). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-i-dont-believe-the-psa-i-just-saw/480868.md?page=3)