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[Someone]

Dratted millenials, ruining the lexicon...

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

He really unpacked that as the millennials say (at least the ones who went to college).

As in "Rectally Derived"? I agree.

[Someone]

I have bookmarked Big Tard's screed in case I have trouble falling asleep sometime.

[Someone]

ThelmaLou thinks you should subscribe to everything you read, you thief.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

ThelmaLou thinks you should subscribe to everything you read, you thief.

Typical. She also thinks you should subscribe to the Durp if you don't like ads.

[Someone]

When did you first add the word "dotard" to your vocabulary?

Several Dopers have never heard the word previously. Others express surprise that so many people have never heard it before.

I admit this is the first time I've ever heard it. Although I consider myself well-read, it's just not a word that crops up in everyday conversation. It's understandable to me that so many people find it obscure.

[Someone]

I'm rewiring my house but I don't know how much 20 amps is!

RIP

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I'm rewiring my house but I don't know how much 20 amps is!

RIP

He even wrote his own epitaph:

Why is that? Is just electric, right? What makes hot tubs so much more complicated?

[Someone]

In a thread about flushable wipes, how many posts does it take for someone to say, "Get a bidet instead."?

1.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=837233

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

In a thread about flushable wipes, how many posts does it take for someone to say, "Get a bidet instead."?



http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=837233

Ah, bidets are here again!

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

He even wrote his own epitaph:

That's the beauty part about electricity. If there's a gap in the insulation, the electricity itself will help you find it.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

In a thread about flushable wipes, how many posts does it take for someone to say, "Get a bidet instead."?



http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=837233

The Derp has every other kind of snob imaginable--food snobs, shaving snobs, car snobs, coffee snobs, etc. I guess it's not a surprise that they have poop snobs, too.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

When did you first add the word "dotard" to your vocabulary?

Several Dopers have never heard the word previously. Others express surprise that so many people have never heard it before.

I admit this is the first time I've ever heard it. Although I consider myself well-read, it's just not a word that crops up in everyday conversation. It's understandable to me that so many people find it obscure.

Never read The Lord of the Rings? Saruman calls Theoden "Dotard!" in "The Voice of Saruman", when he's thoroughly losing it and Theoden has just said "We will have peace when you are hanged on a gibbet for the sport of your own crows".

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Gibbets and crows? Dotard! What is the House of Eorl but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek, and their brats roll on the floor among their dogs! Too long have they escaped the noose themselves!

Aragorn also uses the word "niggard" later on. That's Tolkien's background in Anglo-Saxon showing through.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Typical. She also thinks you should subscribe to the Durp if you don't like ads.

You should be willing to pay for the fine malware you're receiving.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I'm rewiring my house but I don't know how much 20 amps is!

RIP

When aceplace is the voice of cautious reason, you should know you're in too deep.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Never read The Lord of the Rings? Saruman calls Theoden "Dotard!" in "The Voice of Saruman", when he's thoroughly losing it and Theoden has just said "We will have peace when you are hanged on a gibbet for the sport of your own crows".

Aragorn also uses the word "niggard" later on. That's Tolkien's background in Anglo-Saxon showing through.

Never read Lord of the Rings. Just never got into it. The closest I've come is Ramble On by Led Zeppelin. I get the Tolkien references in that one.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I have bookmarked Big Tard's screed in case I have trouble falling asleep sometime.

I'd rather do drugs.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Ah, bidets are here again!

The thighs above are clean again?

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

The thighs above are clean again?

I am so stealing that.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Never read Lord of the Rings. Just never got into it. The closest I've come is Ramble On by Led Zeppelin. I get the Tolkien references in that one.

Fair enough. I stumbled across the word "dotard" some years before, though - it was in a slightly preachy poem I read in primary school about a rich guy in a car and a poor goatherd. The richie used the word in order to rhyme with "goatherd".

Somewhere along the line I learned "niggard", too, so neither word tripped me when I read LotR. But I couldn't tell you dick about Led Zeppelin.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Fair enough. I stumbled across the word "dotard" some years before, though - it was in a slightly preachy poem I read in primary school about a rich guy in a car and a poor goatherd. The richie used the word in order to rhyme with "goatherd".

Yodel-ay-ee yodel-ay-ee yodel-ay-EE-OO!

I'd obviously encountered the word "dotard" somewhere in the past, because I knew what it meant, but I couldn't tell you where. The part that puzzles me is that if Kim used a word meaning something like "senile old lunatic" that the translators didn't just go with "senile old lunatic" instead of a vocabulary quiz word.

[Someone]

Zombie thread: Best way to wash sex toys?

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I'd obviously encountered the word "dotard" somewhere in the past, because I knew what it meant, but I couldn't tell you where. The part that puzzles me is that if Kim used a word meaning something like "senile old lunatic" that the translators didn't just go with "senile old lunatic" instead of a vocabulary quiz word.

If I recall the article I read about this correctly, one of the Korean-English dictionaries that the official translating team for NK uses is rather old and dotard is that dictionary's choice for the english translation of the word that Kimmie used.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Fair enough. I stumbled across the word "dotard" some years before, though - it was in a slightly preachy poem I read in primary school about a rich guy in a car and a poor goatherd. The richie used the word in order to rhyme with "goatherd".

Somewhere along the line I learned "niggard", too, so neither word tripped me when I read LotR. But I couldn't tell you dick about Led Zeppelin.

Robert Plant is a huge Tolkien fan. Ramble On is a direct reference to Lord of the Rings.

Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear
How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air
T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair
But Gollum, and the evil one
Crept up and slipped away with her, her, her, yeah
Ah, there's nothing I can do now
I guess I'll keep on

[Someone]

One does not simply ramble into Mordor.

[Someone]

Also, if your lady takes off with Gollum? Yeah, best to just let it go. She's ... looking for something else.

[Someone]

A threesome, for one thing.

[Someone]

There's a "put a ring on it" joke there somewhere, but I can't think of one.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

There's a "put a ring on it" joke there somewhere, but I can't think of one.

Well (scribbles furiously) normally if you liked it you'd put a ring on it, but if it's Gollum that she's run off with, you've got to figure that the ring only made things worse, so...

Okay, that's a first draft, and someone with actual talent can finish it off.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Well (scribbles furiously) normally if you liked it you'd put a ring on it, but if it's Gollum that she's run off with, you've got to figure that the ring only made things worse, so...

Ouch.

Okay, that's a first draft, and someone with actual talent can finish it off.

BANG 🔫

[Someone]

It just bought a stairway to heaven.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Ouch.

BANG 🔫

[Someone]

"I guess things were just moving too fast for her. As soon as I "put a ring on it" ... she disappeared."

[Someone]

Fenris very carefully doesn't name posters he criticizes here, yet remarkably, it's blatantly obvious who he's talking about. Good job!

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Fenris very carefully doesn't name posters he criticizes here, yet remarkably, it's blatantly obvious who he's talking about. Good job!

The first one was obviously elucidator, but the second one? (Skald?)

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

The first one was obviously elucidator, but the second one? (Skald?)

Czarcasm. Skald's hypotheticals are in his own threads.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Czarcasm. Skald's hypotheticals are in his own threads.

Heh. And he comes into the thread and does exactly what Fenris describes! I'm quite sure he didn't recognize himself in that description.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Fenris very carefully doesn't name posters he criticizes here, yet remarkably, it's blatantly obvious who he's talking about. Good job!

Yeah, well. Shodan was doing what he always does, i.e. trolling. He comes this >< close to the line and when called upon it*, he throws his hands up in the air, shrugs and says something like "Well, I'm only saying what I'm hearing"

I generally like ITD's modding, but a note would have been sufficient.


**by posters or mods

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Originally Posted by Someone

Yeah, well. Shodan was doing what he always does, i.e. trolling. He comes this >< close to the line and when called upon it*, he throws his hands up in the air, shrugs and says something like "Well, I'm only saying what I'm hearing"

I generally like ITD's modding, but a note would have been sufficient.


**by posters or mods

I really like ITD overall as well, but this was a bad call unless it's a new standard and it starts being applied regularly. (Which I'd actually appreciate.)

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

The first one was obviously elucidator, but the second one? (Skald?)

Originally Posted by Someone

Czarcasm. Skald's hypotheticals are in his own threads.

While Czar fits, I was thinking it was Bricker.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

While Czar fits, I was thinking it was Bricker.

Fenris specifically said "idiotic rhetorical questions". While Bricker's methods are often idiotic, the questions themselves, if answered correctly, would in fact reveal the weakness of his debate opponents. Tardgasm's 'socratic' questions, on the other hand, only serve to paint himself into a corner. He tried it once with me, and thought he was about to pull a 'gotcha' on me, until I pointed out the corner he was in (by answering his stupid question in a way he didn't expect), whereupon he slunk away.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Fenris specifically said "idiotic rhetorical questions". While Bricker's methods are often idiotic, the questions themselves, if answered correctly, would in fact reveal the weakness of his debate opponents. Tardgasm's 'socratic' questions, on the other hand, only serve to paint himself into a corner. He tried it once with me, and thought he was about to pull a 'gotcha' on me, until I pointed out the corner he was in (by answering his stupid question in a way he didn't expect), whereupon he slunk away.

Did you tell him "You're done." ?

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Did you tell him "You're done." ?

Too bad I didn't think of that.

Actually, all I did was point out that his question didn't admit of anything resembling a rational answer. HE thought the answer was "God is just as unlikely and irrational as Santa Claus", with the 'god' under discussion being the generic 'Deist' version. He might have had a point if it was the 'Fundie Christian' version, but the Deist version is so bland, there's nothing to get a handle on to call it 'logically absurd', as he was attempting to do. He ain't too good at that 'logic' thing.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Too bad I didn't think of that.

Actually, now that I think of it, that was early in my time at the Durp, before I learned that he was a tard not worth bothering with, so it was before Ducati's "You're done" story.

ETA: It was, in fact, where I learned that, proud as he is of his 'logical abilities', he ain't got any such thing. I was rather surprised at what an easy rag he was to wipe up the floor with. I was expecting him to try to trap me into a corner. I wasn't expecting him to walk into his own corner, pull out a very large paintbrush and a large can of paint, and proceed to paint brushstrokes wider and closer to his own position while shouting "HA! Refute THAT!" after every refutation I made. To this day, I cannot understand why he thinks he's actually any good at 'logic', or 'socratic questioning'. He's a total tard.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

The first one was obviously elucidator

I was sure it was me. God damn it, I never win anything.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I was sure it was me. God damn it, I never win anything.

I thought he meant Drunky Smurf.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

There's a "put a ring on it" joke there somewhere, but I can't think of one.

I am not familiar with this "put a ring on it" reference. I must assume it is an allusion to a "popular music" song. Please do not assume that we are debased enough to have any awareness of such tripe. I even wear earplugs to the supermarket so my consciousness is not sullied by lowbrow caterwaulings.

Wearing earplugs to the supermarket sometimes leads to some strange encounters, however. Just the other day, I was perusing the lemonade when some rude boor bumped into me and shouted "to the left!" I spun around and glared at him. He yelled "move your body," and swore into the telephone he held in his grubby paw. I realized then he was an employee of the store! I told him I would have him fired. He responded by pointing to his name tag and growling, "Go ahead and say my name, bitch. I'm irreplaceable."

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Originally Posted by Someone

I was sure it was me. God damn it, I never win anything.

You're #1 in my book of best one liners.

In his early years, elucidator was quite good.

But you're the best that's ever been.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Wearing earplugs to the supermarket sometimes leads to some strange encounters, however. Just the other day, I was perusing the lemonade when some rude boor bumped into me and shouted "to the left!" I spun around and glared at him. He yelled "move your body," and swore into the telephone he held in his grubby paw. I realized then he was an employee of the store! I told him I would have him fired. He responded by pointing to his name tag and growling, "Go ahead and say my name, bitch. I'm irreplaceable."

Niiiiice!

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Originally Posted by Someone

Heh. And he comes into the thread and does exactly what Fenris describes! I'm quite sure he didn't recognize himself in that description.

The Czarcasm/D'bwian tard fight going on is epically stupid even by dope standards.