# xash, are you kidding me? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 9, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579 "2010-04-09T20:25:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/1 "2010-04-09T20:25:18Z")
So saying [“Your mama wears combat boots”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12319308&postcount=128) is being a jerk, but, for example, when **Der Trihs** wished death on every American serviceman that wasn’t being a jerk? Holy fucking shit. You guys have officially “twankled the crescendo moon,” if you know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/2 "2010-04-09T20:55:28Z")
It wasn’t what you said, per se. It was a function of the conversation between you and **Irishman**. Responding in the manner you did to **Irishman** was unnecessary, and made it personal, which is not permitted in ATMB. - **xash** Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/3 "2010-04-09T21:01:29Z")
> [@xash](#): > > It wasn’t what you said, per se. It was a function of the conversation between you and **Irishman**. Responding in the manner you did to **Irishman** was unnecessary, and made it personal, which is not permitted in ATMB. > > - **xash** > Administrator So unnecessary personal remarks are not permitted? Is that written down somewhere? if I can find, say, ten examples of unnecessary personal remarks in ATMB going unwarned will you admit that you just pulled that explanation out of your ass? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/4 "2010-04-09T21:07:59Z")
Don’t you know by now that the emperors really don’t like their lack of clothing pointed out? Or are you trying to be the next mswas? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/5 "2010-04-09T21:11:33Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Don’t you know by now that the emperors really don’t like their lack of clothing pointed out? Or are you trying to be the next mswas? What I did is not what he did by several orders of magnitude. As to the emperor thingy, you seem to be right. Oh, and **Lute** , your marigolds are kinda stinky. If you know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/6 "2010-04-09T21:14:07Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > What I did is not what he did by several orders of magnitude. No doubt, but continuing to point out their lack of clothing could yield the same result. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/7 "2010-04-09T21:16:35Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > No doubt, but continuing to point out their lack of clothing could yield the same result. If it does it does. I’m not going to make big deal out of not caring like he did, but if this crazily inconsistent moderation keeps a goin’ on I’ll probably not mind leaving too much. And your shoelaces look like they were tied by an Armenian. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/8 "2010-04-09T21:21:18Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > So unnecessary personal remarks are not permitted? Is that written down somewhere? if I can find, say, ten examples of unnecessary personal remarks in ATMB going unwarned will you admit that you just pulled that explanation out of your ass? “But Mom, Billy got away with it” stops working when you’re, like, 5. Grow up. ---
**Author:** ![ajb867](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@ajb867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajb867)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/9 "2010-04-09T21:22:25Z")
🆒 Stay frosty Contraptual, is that… **Combat boots** I see in your **mother’s** closet? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/10 "2010-04-09T21:23:58Z")
Why does this bring back memories of carpooling the kids to the YMCA, with the one neighbor kid constantly going, “I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you…”? ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/11 "2010-04-09T21:28:01Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Why does this bring back memories of carpooling the kids to the YMCA, with the one neighbor kid constantly going, “I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you…”? Because you desperately wished you could smack that kid across the mouth and now you figuratively have the power to? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/12 "2010-04-09T21:29:11Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > “But Mom, Billy got away with it” stops working when you’re, like, 5. Grow up. Well for starters, your unnecessary and personal remarks are noted. Secondly, when the topic at hand is what kind of behavior is allowed by rule, whether Billy got away with it is most certainly pertinent. If we are going to employ the “what a five year old would be insulted by” rule, then none of this would have happened. Or did the combat boots comment twist your shorts as well? If so, I want to go on record as saying that none of your mamas actually wear combat boots. Accept for the ones who are astronauts. Which your mama isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/13 "2010-04-09T21:30:18Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Why does this bring back memories of carpooling the kids to the YMCA, with the one neighbor kid constantly going, “I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you…”? Reported as being unnecessary and personal. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/14 "2010-04-09T23:38:08Z")
Did you really need to fucking swear in the fucking topic title of a fucking ATMB topic? Just fucking asking. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/15 "2010-04-10T00:45:53Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Why does this bring back memories of carpooling the kids to the YMCA, with the one neighbor kid constantly going, “I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you…”? Because, like the carpool driver, the moderators refuse to actually lay down and enforce reasonable rules and instead act in an unpredictable and uneven manner? ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/16 "2010-04-10T01:04:44Z")
> [@akennett](#): > > Because, like the carpool driver, the moderators refuse to actually lay down and enforce reasonable rules and instead act in an unpredictable and uneven manner? That’s it! I’m turning this van around! ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/17 "2010-04-10T01:24:40Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Did you really need to fucking swear in the fucking topic title of a fucking ATMB topic? Just fucking asking. [moderating] We have, indeed, asked that thread titles be safe for work outside of the Pit. Accordingly, I’ve edited this one, changing it from “xash, are you fucking kidding me?” to “xash, are you kidding me?” [/moderating] ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/18 "2010-04-10T01:48:11Z")
You previously identified that you thought that comment was just as insulting as the one being discussed in that thread, which also got a warning. You then deliberately used it. This means the sole purpose of your response was to be insulting. I.e. you were acting like a jerk. And, for once, someone had the balls to actually call someone on it. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/19 "2010-04-10T04:24:39Z")
Or, he was actually just teasing? Jesus Christ, – the Virgin Mary wears combat boots!!! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579/20 "2010-04-10T04:36:08Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Or, he was actually just teasing? Jesus Christ, – the Virgin Mary wears combat boots!!! Those two options are not exclusive. And when has “it was just a joke” been a valid defense here? Anyways, I expect that if it was a joke, the OP would have said so by now. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xash-are-you-kidding-me/535579.md?page=2)