0.44 Magnum Durp: Do ya feel snarky? Well, do ya, punk?

[Someone]

Except this time they decided to help.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Except this time they decided to help.

Haha didn't catch that part ...

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Honesty is quitting the derp... AGAIN!!!

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=728226

Holy Wall of Words, Batman!

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Honesty is quitting the derp... AGAIN!!!

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=728226

Yasser, he sure did.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Holy Wall of Words, Batman!

No shit. Why post a Unabomber manifesto when leaving? Just quit posting.

[Someone]

Yup. "China called, it wants its Great Wall back."

[Someone]

Broomstick discusses her bristles.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Broomstick discusses her bristles.

I knew what you meant, and yet I clicked on that link anyhow. Why? Why would I do that?!

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I'd love so much to see a picture of her. Quick---someone take a field trip to Indiana and look for a heavy-browed ninja with a disabled spouse.

Too many to count.

[Someone]

Noob asks seemingly reasonable question about dietary potassium, but is suspiciously cagey about why he wants to know. The reveal comes in post 27

Since you are going to keep pestering me, i'll tell you the local District Attorney's office has decided if the neighbor's dogs bark, i must be guilty of animal abuse (mental cruelty), and that is a 10 year jail term, and they have arrested me for having a window fan 300ft from the property line, arrested me for mowing my yard, for having a garden, for driving my car, for having trash pickup, for spraying the poison ivy, and for having the car headlights on at night. Why?, because the dogs bark at everything. I have tried relocating myself to another county, to another state. I now don't have the money to move. One DA attorney told me to gravel the lawn and garden area. They also told me to arrange, with the nighbors, special times to go to the road to get my mail, or drive to town.

The insanity of the situation, the threat of going to jail for 10 years, leads me to not have any evidence of a dog-offensive garden. Plus veggies tend to spoil, making frequent replenishment drives to town necessary. Which irritates the dog, which will get me arrested again. It also puts me in harm's way, because it was declared in court, in a loud yelling tone of voice, that the dog has a right to bite me, and i have no right to tell it to let go of me. I am talking pit bulls and rottwilers. There is a county animal control law. People have been killed by dogs all around here, every year. You cannot help with this, give it a rest, get off of me about it.

Now that's some serious crazy.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Now that's some serious crazy.

Daaaayum you ain't wrong. It's obvious he's either describing things that have never happened or is leaving out some very important details (e.g., he likes to shoot dogs with a BB gun for fun).

[Someone]

Unless he's planning on getting potassium suppliments to poison the dog?

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Broomstick discusses her bristles.

She had her spouse burn off his pubic hair. And Charlie Wayne is stark raving bonkers in that thread (and everywhere else).

[Someone]

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Well Marley just hit Ol' Twatty's level of stupidity and hatred towards the posters..

The inability to put him on my ignore list made posting here seem much more attractive.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

She had her spouse burn off his pubic hair. And Charlie Wayne is stark raving bonkers in that thread (and everywhere else).

I like Senegoid's theory that fashion is dictated by whores. Um, yeah.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Unless he's planning on getting potassium suppliments to poison the dog?

I suspect that entire thread is just to gaslight Ambivalid

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I suspect that entire thread is just to gaslight Ambivalid

I was thinking of a subtle way to say "so, what you're saying is, he has an imaginary complex of persecution by authorities, even moving to a different place and still getting persecuted, with probably more to it than they are letting on in the thread?"

[Someone]

Dang… he goes from flight of ideas to word salad pretty quickly, too. He's either out of his mind due to being severely malnourished or out of his mind or both.

wordsalad

ETA: there's some bad nursing knowledge in that thread. IV Potassium is never given "IV push" because it can cause deadly arrhythmias; it is given IV slowly over time (called IV piggyback), usually 4-6 hours depending on the dose. I have never heard of administering IV Potassium as "pushing a Kevorkian" mostly because IV K+ is never "pushed". Whatever…

[Someone]

I wonder if Dougie_Monty is pre-preparing a comeback sock for his flameout

[Someone]

FTR, needtoknow was starting to ping my 'craydar' in other threads, too, but the durp modes keep killing my socks, so I can't search s/he/it's posts to find good ones. That one was 'in-your-face crazy'. Someone with a still-active account should keep an eye on this up-and-coming snark star. I predict many more hilarious 'WTF?' moments to come in it's (no doubt short) Durp career.

[/Siskel and Ebert]

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Originally Posted by Someone

IV Potassium is never given "IV push" because it can cause deadly arrhythmias;

Except for Ducati. He mainlines it just because he enjoys the rush.

[Someone]

When this thread came on, I just knew we wouldn't have to wait too long.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

FTR, needtoknow was starting to ping my 'craydar' in other threads, too, but the durp modes keep killing my socks, so I can't search s/he/it's posts to find good ones. That one was 'in-your-face crazy'. Someone with a still-active account should keep an eye on this up-and-coming snark star. I predict many more hilarious 'WTF?' moments to come in it's (no doubt short) Durp career.

[/Siskel and Ebert]

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...2&postcount=22

I was told point blank to my face that no wreck happened the night i said i drove past one. So after the wreckage was cleared and the cops left (the state police kept watch over the site for a couple of days), i took photos of the barrier wall: http://designerthinking.com/i-20_wreck.html . A month later i deleted that entire domain and two others. I no longer respond well to being called a liar or to humans egging me on for proof.

What?

Edit: The home page for that domain is crazy too.

I am pretty fed up with humans not allowing me to play with them, and if they get an upper hand on me they tell me all the other things i cannot do. It's been since ~1997 since i have had a shower in my own home because of a local district attorney, i was stopped from leaving here by a landowner who would not allow me to do anything outside the decrepit mobile home i was willing to move to and live in, and no matter what i can and do accomplish, humans shun me. So i am taking my webpages down. You will not share with me, so i won't share with you.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

She had her spouse burn off his pubic hair. And Charlie Wayne is stark raving bonkers in that thread (and everywhere else).

Yeah, Charlie Wayne wrote an odd comment about me in a thread. I wasn't sure how to take it. At least now I know that he's just bonkers (even more so than I am, perhaps.)

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Edit: The home page for that domain is crazy too.

Aren't you sad that he is not sharing with you?

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Except for Ducati. He mainlines it just because he enjoys the rush.

Only if it's 'pushed' with this.

[Someone]

Keep your eye on this one.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...2&postcount=22



What?

Edit: The home page for that domain is crazy too.

Yeah, I noticed that one. I did a 'whois' lookup on it. I got 'this person is seriously insane', but there was nothing I could point to. I would have mentioned it, but in that case, one man's 'crazy' is another man's 'not wanting to get involved', and there wasn't any ping on the 'craydar' I could point to, so I didn't. But, yes, the moron is seriously insane. Which is why I said he should be watched for future snark.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Dang… he goes from flight of ideas to word salad pretty quickly, too. He's either out of his mind due to being severely malnourished or out of his mind or both.

wordsalad

ETA: there's some bad nursing knowledge in that thread. IV Potassium is never given "IV push" because it can cause deadly arrhythmias; it is given IV slowly over time (called IV piggyback), usually 4-6 hours depending on the dose. I have never heard of administering IV Potassium as "pushing a Kevorkian" mostly because IV K+ is never "pushed". Whatever…

Not to quabble that giving potassium IV push is bad medical practice, but the post does specify that one would use that method in assisted suicides, hence the reference to "pushing a Kervorkian".

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Not to quabble that giving potassium IV push is bad medical practice, but the post does specify that one would use that method in assisted suicides, hence the reference to "pushing a Kervorkian".

I disagree.

Originally Posted by Someone

You might know Potassium from one of its more famous uses: assisted suicide.Pushing too much potassium into an IV too quickly is known as "pushing a Kevorkian" in nursing circles.

The first sentence refers to K+'s use in suicide, but I took issue with the bolded sentence. No RN in his or her right mind would ever push IV K+ ("pushing" means to inject quickly via syringe into an IV hub close to the IV insertion site. It would burn like hell and cause cardiac issues).
The way it's written does not imply that the RN is using it in assisted suicide, but simply administering it like any other medicine via IV. Also, no RN would legally participate in an assisted suicide because doing so opens him or her up to huge liability, but that's another thread...

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I disagree.

The first sentence refers to K+'s use in suicide, but I took issue with the bolded sentence. No RN in his or her right mind would ever push IV K+ ("pushing" means to inject quickly via syringe into an IV hub close to the IV insertion site. It would burn like hell and cause cardiac issues).
The way it's written does not imply that the RN is using it in assisted suicide, but simply administering it like any other medicine via IV. Also, no RN would legally participate in an assisted suicide because doing so opens him or her up to huge liability, but that's another thread...

I'm aware of what an IV push is. I know from previous discussions that you hold PA's in dismally low regard, but I do have a fairly comprehensive grasp of medical terminology and medical law. I am, however, confused that you aren't seeing the link between the first statement (potassium is used in assisted suicide) and the second statement (pushing too much too fast is lethal = "pushing a Kervorkian" = assisted suicide). I don't see these statements implying anything. They are pretty clear to me. YMMV.

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This is below snark level and I'm embarrassed to bring it up (I've already done so once before), but I can't help it. It's just about the most petty annoyance one can have on a large community where there are so many bigger reasons to tear your hair out. And yet...

There's this thing that makes me clench my jaw whenever I see it, even though I totally know it is super-super-petty: the way CalMeacham refers to his fucking wife and kid with the nicknames Pepper Mill and MilliCal, almost always without making any reference to who the hell they are. Presumably he does this because he's such a superstar and famous SDMB celebrity that I guess the rest of us are supposed to identify the dramatis personae of his life.

Look, as I said, I know this is petty, perhaps doubly so because obviously I do know who they are. So why can't I get over this pet peeve? Why is it that time and time again it happens, and time and time again I get this little wave of irritation all fresh and new as if it's the first time I've seen it?

BTW, I did a quick search of this guy's posts for "Pepper Mill" and the search results capped out at 500 references since 2007 before reaching the limit. Admittedly the guy has 30K+ posts, so 500 mentions in seven years isn't that big a percentage of the total--whatever that is, since I'm not sure how many posts he has since 2007. Nevertheless! That strikes me as OpalCat (RIP) levels of hubris.

Latest sighting in a thread about the Orange is the New Black book:

Originally Posted by Someone

Pepper Mill and MilliCal have, and they watch the TV series. I've skimmed parts of the book.

My first thought was "THAT'S what I have to do to get my stuff published -- spend time in stir!"

("in stir..." Christ, buddy, you're not Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption!)

At long last this latest post prompted me to see if this Pepper Mill chick is a well-known poster, presumably in one of the areas I don't often visit like MPSIMS. But no: her entire history consists of 56 posts, all in a single year... 2001. So Cal is referring to his wife by a name that a vast percentage of his audience has no clue about, because she's not had a board presence aside from her husband's incessant references in 13 years. That is presumption!

So, yeah. Totally petty. Yet it sets my teeth on edge like "Regards, Shodan" does. Geeze, there's even less of a rationale for my hatred of this silly "Pepper Mill / MilliCal" gimmick than there is for "Regards," because unlike Shodan's willful typing that phrase over and over again, it's not done purposely to annoy the fuck out of people. (See also: Snowboard Bo's 'quarry' stupidity.)

And yet, the "Pepper Mill / MilliCal" thing does. Annoy the fuck out of me, that is. There's no way I can or would pit the guy for it because it's so ridiculous and small and I know the MPSIMS brigade would be on me like white on magellan03 if I ever actually said anything.

Sorry. I had to vent. The rage this induces in me is completely disproportionate. And yet, it's there.

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Originally Posted by Someone

the MPSIMS brigade would be on me like white on magellan03

That phrase is full of awesomesauce (ghostsauce?)

[Someone]

Cloie, that was awesome.

I don't mind shodan's regards honestly but snowboarder's quarry shit drives me up a wall.

[Someone]

I don't think the Bo has done the quarry think in quite a while, it's everyone else doing it....which is exactly what he wanted to happen, he stated that when he started it.

As for Shodan, that just pissed me off. He's even been asked to stop (not by mods, by 'us') a handful of times so he knows how much it annoys everyone else and continues to do it. To be, that means he's doing it to be obnoxious.

Look at Zeldar, I called him out (if you want to call it that) a few years ago on one of his posting habits, he took some minor offense to it, but for the most part changed what he was doing.

Speaking of Zeldar, what's with the data mining? At least he backed off from asking for things like parts of your phone number or address.

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I have met CalMeacham and PepperMill AND MilliCal. I bet you all want to kiss my hand, don't you?

I know at least one person has brought it up on the board before (the whole "why you talk about these people as though we should have any idea who they are?") If I can be arsed to search later, I will.

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Originally Posted by Someone

I "why you talk about these people as though we should have any idea who they are?")

It's one thing if they make an associated name for their family (like my dude would be MinnitMan) but something totally unrelated? Yes, so annoying.

[Someone]

Yeah, how dare he talk about someone using the name they chose to use. How fucking selfish.

Facepalm.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Yeah, how dare he talk about someone using the name they chose to use. How fucking selfish.

Facepalm.

She said, multiple times, that she was well aware that it was petty and a minor annoyance but that it happened to get under her skin.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

And yet, the "Pepper Mill / MilliCal" thing does. Annoy the fuck out of me, that is.

It's weird. He's the *only* poster who does cutsie names for his family where the cutsie names don't annoy me. I don't know if it's because I generally like his posts (his Cafe Society posts are almost uniformly informative and intelligent) or because the names aren't all that cutsie. (Most posters use stuff like the "Snuggy-wuggie-hubbie" and similar crap.) But YMMVs,

Sorry. I had to vent. The rage this induces in me is completely disproportionate. And yet, it's there.

Feel not ashamed, my daughter. Bitching about the little shit is good for the soul. Now go and snark some more.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

It's weird. He's the *only* poster who does cutsie names for his family where the cutsie names don't annoy me. I don't know if it's because I generally like his posts (his Cafe Society posts are almost uniformly informative and intelligent) or because the names aren't all that cutsie. (Most posters use stuff like the "Snuggy-wuggie-hubbie" and similar crap.) But YMMVs,

They never bothered me, I don't think I really gave them a second thought. The only nicknames that bothers me is DH/DS/DD etc.
I don't think I'd even notice it, but at some point someone on the dope linked to a mommy board and another poster asked what all those abbreviations meant and it was explained that it was Dear Husband (Dear Son, Dear Daughter). Who says that? If you were at work, talking to a co-worker, would you really say "Dear Husband said he was going to mow the lawn today", no, because it sounds stupid, you'd say "my husband said he's going to mow the lawn today"

Maybe people over there were doing it before and I didn't notice it, but over the hears I've noticed it more and more. Admittedly, not much, you might even call it rarely, but I see it and it's annoying.

For full disclosure, when I was married, I'd sometimes refer to my wife (in a post) as Mrs P, but it wasn't as a cutsie nickname, it was just because it, IMO, made it very clear who I was talking about.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

There's this thing that makes me clench my jaw whenever I see it, even though I totally know it is super-super-petty: the way CalMeacham refers to his fucking wife and kid with the nicknames Pepper Mill and MilliCal, almost always without making any reference to who the hell they are. Presumably he does this because he's such a superstar and famous SDMB celebrity that I guess the rest of us are supposed to identify the dramatis personae of his life.

I can't help but notice that you do, indeed, understand to whom he is referring.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I can't help but notice that you do, indeed, understand to whom he is referring.

Uh, yes. Did you also notice, perhaps, that choiesaid that too?

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I don't think the Bo has done the quarry think in quite a while, it's everyone else doing it....which is exactly what he wanted to happen, he stated that when he started it.

I thought he had backed off a bit too... until I saw him use it a week or so ago.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I don't think the Bo has done the quarry think in quite a while

Since he started doing it, he has used the term 179 times in 30 months, for an average of about 6 times per month. He's used it 36 times in 2014, and 5 times since June 13 (the most recent being two days ago), so he's basically right on his typical pace.

If you haven't noticed him doing it (and i hadn't either), you just might not be in the right threads.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I have met CalMeacham and PepperMill AND MilliCal. I bet you all want to kiss my hand, don't you?

I can top that. I met TomnDebb.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

[. (Most posters use stuff like the "Snuggy-wuggie-hubbie" and similar crap.)

but... I call him Snookie irl

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Since he started doing it, he has used the term 179 times in 30 months, for an average of about 6 times per month. He's used it 36 times in 2014, and 5 times since June 13 (the most recent being two days ago), so he's basically right on his typical pace.

If you haven't noticed him doing it (and i hadn't either), you just might not be in the right threads.

You should compare that to how often other people say it in those same time frames. Of course, you can still blame that on him because, like I said, that was exactly what he set out to do.

And, I dunno, 5 times in the last four weeks....go count how many times Shodan has said "Regards Shodan" in the last 4 weeks.

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I tried to search for how many times Shodan has signed off, but the SDMB's search engine said "The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search: regards" and just handed me a list of the last 230 posts that Shodan made, which, based on my search should still be how many times he used the word "regards" in the last month. And, like I said, he's been asked (by us, not the mods) to knock it off because it's annoying.

Keep in mind that it's a not a signature, he's actually typing that every single time. Though you'd think by now he'd have programmed a hotkey or something for it.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I thought he had backed off a bit too... until I saw him use it a week or so ago.

By his own criteria for using it, which I ain't going to bother to search and link, he only uses it as a replacement for 'LOL'. I've never seen him use it where a reply of just 'LOL' would be inappropriate. The 'dipshit' factor comes in because 'LOL', and nothing else, is never an appropriate reply to anything, so which is more stupid?:

[post dipshit is replying to]
[post to say LOL, and nothing else]

or:

[post dipshit is replying to]
[post to say <the idiotic 'quarry' shit>, and nothing else]

He's an idiot. And nothing else.