# You are all acting like a bunch of panicky, cowardly fucks! I'm ashamed of the SDMB! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 13, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840 "2003-02-13T15:25:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/101 "2003-02-13T19:26:12Z")
Neurotik, I share with you your loathing of the “Hi Opal” fuckup, but let’s have it out about that goddamn “K” at the end of your name. It makes me IRRITABLE. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/102 "2003-02-13T19:26:31Z")
Just cos I perversely love sheet plastic & duct tape, it has nothing to do with panicking. Hell I was 300 yards from an IRA explosion in London, and didn’t panick. Just thought “what the fuck was that noise” and carried on to Waterloo station. I am fed up with going to the loacl store for my regular fix of duct tape and being considered a pannicky little coward, it was much better when they just thought I was a perve. ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/103 "2003-02-13T19:28:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*I fear we’re going to puzzle the shit out of future archaeologists. \*\* Heck, if we don’t understand ourselves today, why do you think archaeologists 10,000 years from now will understand us at all (even without all this terrorism business)? Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/104 "2003-02-13T19:32:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\*Neurotik, I share with you your loathing of the “Hi Opal” fuckup, but let’s have it out about that goddamn “K” at the end of your name. > > It makes me IRRITABLE. \*\* Judging by your username, shouldn’t everything make you irritable? ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/105 "2003-02-13T19:32:34Z")
You know, a [man was arrested carrying a live grenade at Gatwick airport today](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2757143.stm), there are tanks at Heathrow, and our government hasn’t so much as told us to put the kettle on, let alone stock up on duct tape. I think I’ll have a biscuit. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/106 "2003-02-13T19:46:50Z")
What SDMBers are panicking? Where? I didn’t see any panicking. Did we miss a (some…lots of?) thread(s)? ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/107 "2003-02-13T19:52:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\*Neurotik, I share with you your loathing of the “Hi Opal” fuckup, but let’s have it out about that goddamn “K” at the end of your name. > > It makes me IRRITABLE. \*\* You think it makes **you** irritable. I wanted Neurotic for my original AOL handle but some rat bastard, pig-fucker took it first! So then I tried to be hip and just end it with a k. But it still burns me up knowing some jerk is out there with a name I wanted. Probably doesn’t even use it and just did it to spite me. Gah! ---
**Author:** ![Scruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Scruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruff)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/108 "2003-02-13T19:59:14Z")
Hey **jarbabyj** , if you cover yourself in duct tape except for the much-cursed finger wart, maybe the Vx will cure it for you. So you can go coming wartless. (No, I will not diagram that sentence) ---
**Author:** ![xenothrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/7ab992/32.png) [@xenothrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenothrope)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/109 "2003-02-13T20:01:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > [ > STOP LIVING IN FEAR, YOU PANICKY WANKERS!!! ooh yeah sig materal ^\_^… never mind sig! thats a bumpersticker! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/110 "2003-02-13T20:03:59Z")
A Neurotic pig fucker? Now I’m scared. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/111 "2003-02-13T20:04:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CanvasShoes \* > \*\*What SDMBers are panicking? Where? I didn’t see any panicking. > > Did we miss a (some…lots of?) thread(s)? \*\* [Here’s one.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=157845&highlight=thread+panic) ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/112 "2003-02-13T20:11:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Legomancer \* > \*\*[Here’s one.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=157845&highlight=thread+panic) \*\* OOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooh!!! Sheesh. It were a joke, I were whooshed? \<------------More coffee ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/113 "2003-02-13T20:23:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zev\_steinhardt \* > \*\*Heck, if we don’t understand ourselves today, why do you think archaeologists 10,000 years from now will understand us at all (even without all this terrorism business)? > > Zev Steinhardt \*\* I remember a sci-fi short story from back in the 1950s (I think) titled _Digging the Weans_. A hint: US (as in United States) = We and the title is pronounced _WeeAnnes_. Very amusing little story. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/114 "2003-02-13T20:34:14Z")
As someone living in the sixth largest city in the United States, which is home to Naval, Air Force, Marine _and_ Army bases, and works at a university, I’d just like to say… :eek: Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/115 "2003-02-13T20:45:06Z")
Ferget Duct Tape, I’m stocking up on dental floss. Mint flavored dental floss. And ramen noodles. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/116 "2003-02-13T20:46:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*A Neurotic pig fucker? Now I’m scared. \*\* **lieu** —I never knew you were a neurotic pig! ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/117 "2003-02-13T21:01:17Z")
I just got back from [Senator Daschle’s office](http://www.lbl.gov/Publications/Currents/Archive/images/Mar-08-2002/hart_daschle_letter.jpg). No kidding. Nobody’s nervous up there, so I think you folks can probably take a powder on the terror thing for now. As I understand it, most chemical weapons don’t work very well in cold weather, and it’s only a few degrees above freezing here in DC. _See_, [www.snopes.com/rumors/realdeal.htm](http://www.snopes.com/rumors/realdeal.htm). Next week the Bush Administration will probably claim this was all an elaborate plan to get people to save on their home heating bills. But I do have to take issue with your swipe at duct tape, **Bosda**. You know why you don’t see real men at the hardware store buying duct tape, don’t you? _Because we already have enough of it at home_. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/118 "2003-02-13T21:04:23Z")
In Canada we only panic if it looks like there won’t be a Canadian team in the Stanley Cup finals. But mind you, we’re pretty darn polite about it. [sub][sup]And the only tape we use is for the hockey sticks.[/sup][/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/119 "2003-02-13T21:06:08Z")
Heh, heh. I just noticed that I said, “take a powder.” Talk about a Freudian slip, eh? So much for being a real man. Just some poor bastard stuck in the bull’s eye. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-all-acting-like-a-bunch-of-panicky-cowardly-fucks-im-ashamed-of-the-sdmb/154840/120 "2003-02-13T21:06:44Z")
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