# You're not fighting ignorance **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 25, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805 "2012-09-25T18:14:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/21 "2012-09-26T00:09:11Z")
[Ignorance has been fought here.](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22ignorance+fought%22+site%3Aboards.straightdope.com) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/22 "2012-09-26T00:13:46Z")
If you’ve been on this board over a year and your own ignorance hasn’t been fought at least once, you’re not paying attention. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/23 "2012-09-26T00:17:34Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Where is an apple a day when you really need it? I just want you to know that I appreciated that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/24 "2012-09-26T00:19:59Z")
The problem is ignorance fights back, so sometimes a holding action is the best that can be achieved, having said that **Moist Panty Zombies** ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/25 "2012-09-26T00:27:09Z")
I’ll have you know that “Ignorance” is the name of my boxing kangaroo. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/26 "2012-09-26T00:35:52Z")
Well, not at this moment, true, but I have an hour of ignorance-fighting penciled in for next Thursday at 10 AM. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/27 "2012-09-26T00:47:25Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Well, not at this moment, true, but I have an hour of ignorance-fighting penciled in for next Thursday at 10 AM. Does that count? No. That is way too soon. Reschedule and let older people/women/children/trolls go first. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/28 "2012-09-26T01:22:16Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Where is an apple a day when you really need it? Since he’s a Docta, shouldn’t you be looking for an appla? ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/29 "2012-09-26T02:11:52Z")
I was only trying to distract ignorance until it got tired and fell asleep, then whisper “pleasant dreams,” give ignorance a kiss on the forehead and turn off the light on my way out. > [@Trion](#): > > I’ll have you know that “Ignorance” is the name of my boxing kangaroo. Bully for you! Careful though, a kangaroo pouch is no place to carry the wax for your handlebar mustache. 8{0 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/30 "2012-09-26T02:22:24Z")
You misunderstood - we’re actually The Fighting Ignorants, a daredevil and acrobatics team. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/31 "2012-09-26T02:33:40Z")
I used to fight ignorance. Hell, I was first in line to volunteer at the recruitment office. Camped out overnight. My friends all thought I was crazy. “Professor Turnip,” they used to call me. I knew they were just giving me a hard time, but deep down it made me feel good. We were gonna win, we thought. We were the ones who were gonna kick ignorance’s ass back to where it lived, once and for all. Then the Internet came. Overnight, right up all around us before we even knew what happened. All that training, everything we thought we knew… it didn’t mean shit. Logic, grammar—even the goddamn ABCs. Gone. Total chaos. Pandemonium. Armageddon. But we didn’t give up. We fought tooth and nail against legions of Usenet cranks. Gently led our glurge-email-chaining loved ones into the harsh, cleansing light of Snopes. Steadfastly ignored the relentless daily offers to supersize our penises, annihilate our pain with South Asian nostra, and retire in luxury on the spoils of grateful Nigerian aristocrats. But Yahoo! Answers, man… God _damn_ it, how could we have seen that coming? Caught with our dicks in our hands, sticks and stones against a motherfucking H-bomb. It was over before it began. All we are is paunchy Ignorance War reenactors trying to squeeze into our uniforms one more time without ripping the seams. Ah, hell. Who needs another drink? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/32 "2012-09-26T02:41:37Z")
> [@Docta\_G](#): > > You’re just wasting time on a message board. > > Here, I’ll prove it: Speak for yourself, timewaster. You certainly are what you said-----you read this Board for almost three years of your life now. Go over to General QUestions. You might find a poster or two who tries to fight ignorance. You’ve never started a thread here until now. You’ve posted 396 times to the Board. That’s about a post every 2 1/2 days. Except for one thread, EVERY ONE OF YOUR POSTS is a one liner. You have nothing substantive to say. Waste your own time, but quit wasting the time of people on this board. [posted as a poster, not as a moderator.] ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/33 "2012-09-26T02:52:15Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I used to fight ignorance. Hell, I was first in line to volunteer at the recruitment office. Camped out overnight. My friends all thought I was crazy. “Professor Turnip,” they used to call me. I knew they were just giving me a hard time, but deep down it made me feel good. We were gonna win, we thought. We were the ones who were gonna kick ignorance’s ass back to where it lived, once and for all. > > Then the Internet came. Overnight, right up all around us before we even knew what happened. All that training, everything we thought we knew… it didn’t mean shit. Logic, grammar—even the goddamn ABCs. Gone. Total chaos. Pandemonium. Armageddon. > > But we didn’t give up. We fought tooth and nail against legions of Usenet cranks. Gently led our glurge-email-chaining loved ones into the harsh, cleansing light of Snopes. Steadfastly ignored the relentless daily offers to supersize our penises, annihilate our pain with South Asian nostra, and retire in luxury on the spoils of grateful Nigerian aristocrats. > > But Yahoo! Answers, man… God _damn_ it, how could we have seen that coming? Caught with our dicks in our hands, sticks and stones against a motherfucking H-bomb. It was over before it began. All we are is paunchy Ignorance War reenactors trying to squeeze into our uniforms one more time without ripping the seams. > > Ah, hell. Who needs another drink? THIS. Was a thing of beauty. As for the OP, well, get in the ring, fucko! No sense letting you get away when I have so much fight to give. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/34 "2012-09-26T03:02:36Z")
I gave someone directions home from a Dopefest one time. That totally justifies my 30,000+ completely uninformative posts. ETA: Oooh! I’m almost at 45,000! ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/35 "2012-09-26T03:30:09Z")
I think all my GQ thread questions contributed to fighting ignorance (mine mostly.) ---
**Author:** ![kp\_72110](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kp\_72110](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kp_72110)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/36 "2012-09-26T03:40:12Z")
> [@Docta\_G](#): > > You’re just wasting time on a message board. > > Here, I’ll prove it: I’m convinced. We’re time wasting, ignorant, non-ignorance fighting time wasters. Well, at least I am anyway. What are you? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/37 "2012-09-26T03:47:06Z")
> [@kp\_72110](#): > > I’m convinced. We’re time wasting, ignorant, non-ignorance fighting time wasters. Well, at least I am anyway. What are you? He is an idiot troll. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/38 "2012-09-26T04:50:39Z")
> [@Docta\_G](#): > > You’re just wasting time on a message board… Whadda ya mean “just”? It’s a challenge, a noble task, a bona fide calling! Just because some of us make it look easy doesn’t mean we don’t have to work at it. ---
**Author:** ![Luk3112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9adbd/32.png) [@Luk3112](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Luk3112)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/39 "2012-09-26T08:42:06Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Speak for yourself, timewaster. You certainly are what you said-----you read this Board for almost three years of your life now. > > Go over to General QUestions. You might find a poster or two who tries to fight ignorance. > > You’ve never started a thread here until now. > > You’ve posted 396 times to the Board. That’s about a post every 2 1/2 days. > > Except for one thread, EVERY ONE OF YOUR POSTS is a one liner. You have nothing substantive to say. > > Waste your own time, but quit wasting the time of people on this board. > > [posted as a poster, not as a moderator.] That was mean ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805/40 "2012-09-26T10:12:19Z")
> [@Luk3112](#): > > That was mean The TRVTH cannot be “mean.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805.md?page=3)