What's the rudest thing anyone ever said to you on DU?

[senseandsensibility]

You don't have to name the poster (unless you want to);-)

For me, it was a snarky suggestion that there IS a spell check feature on DU. Hey, I guess I've been lucky!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. Nothing but people might ignore my posts and it hurts my feelings

:crazy:

[Floogeldy]

3. What kind of stupid fucking lame idiotic response is that?

Did you read the original post before attempting an answer?

Thank you. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you. :)

B-)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

20. It's a brilliant answer!

:popcorn:

[Floogeldy]

32. Yes, it is brilliant.

But nonetheless, I say!

B-)

[RevCheesehead]

2. Well, this isn't the rudest, but it really really bugs me.

Whenever someone (who doesn't know me) says, "that's pretty hypocritical of you, Rev."

My inner demons say "Fuck you." The outer angel says "how dare you."

:dilemma:

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Called me a racist

I referred to the Iraqis as "those people"

[Rowdyboy]

5. I was called a "cocksucker" and in ATA I thanked the person for

recognizing my talents. Then Blue Jay saw my post in ATA and posted a thread in the Lounge. It was a fun day...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x1463929

[RevCheesehead]

28. Too. damned. funny.

Congrats on seeing the compliment in the (intended) insult. :thumbsup:

[Rowdyboy]

38. I actually did laugh out loud when I saw the comment...

For Christ's sake, my avatar was the rainbow flag and he wants to insult me by calling me a cock-sucker? Duh..I'm sorry, don't think he thought that one through completely.

Anyway, several of us got quite a few laughs over it and thats what really matters. Its just a message board.

[RevCheesehead]

40. I miss ATA.

It was on my "favorites" list. :cry:

[Rowdyboy]

47. Oh, I always checked ATA first thing, everytime I logged on....

They had all the best threads: the drama, the comedy, the tragedy...everything was there. Skinner and the admins had wicked senses of humor and often left me almost in tears.

Plus, I formed my opinion of quite a few posters based on their posts there. I learned who tries to whine their way to victory, who tries brown-nosing, who feels that they're a poor little victim, and (my favorites) who understood that the posturing was all a really hilarious joke. I mean "She called me a..." or "Why can't I say...."

I REALLY loved the people who got all puffy and indignant. "HOW DARE YOU CENSOR MY WORDS". "She called me a....", "why can't I say....", "You have no right to..." "I just want to tell you how ...." "You're not being FAIR!"

My God, some people have a VASTLY overinflated sense of their own personal importance.

Sometimes, I could almost feel Skinners blood pressure rising and see that little vein in his forehead start to throb!

Alas, ATA, we hardly knew ye....

[RevCheesehead]

50. It really had to go away....

The throbbing vein, the rising BP - Skinner was slowly being Zelled to death. It died, so Skinner would live.

(OK, I confess, I'm watching X-files right now)

[Rowdyboy]

52. LOL...It stands to reason

Kind of "Portrait of Dorian Gray" thing...

And on that note, think I'll TRY to call it a night!

Rest in peace, ATA...

[bluestateguy]

6. I can't narrow it down to a single post

But being called "soft" on Bush or the Republicans always bothers me. Sometimes I feel like its a contest here as to who can prove that they hate Bush and the Republicans the most.

Or maybe in a post from last year where I dared to criticize Al Qaeda and bin Laden without the obligatory anti-Bush message (as if that should be necessary every single time you post here).

Believe it or not, Bush and the Republicans are not the only evil people in the world.

[elperromagico]

7. I'll just say this: Don't tell people on DU that you hate cell phones.

:scared:

[senseandsensibility]

9. Is it against DU rules to hate cell phones?

How strange. You know, one of my favorite places is a bookstore that actually has signs telling customers to refrain from using cell phones. I hope I'm not going to be flamed.

[RevCheesehead]

10. Cell phones, children, Howard Dean....

There may be others on the list, but those must be the top 3.

(Cell phones? really? :spray:)

[Patiod]

64. A love/hatred for SUVs and/or outdoor cats will also get you

flamed

[evlbstrd]

24. I haven't tried that.

I hate 'em, too.

[Gemini Cat]

42. Really??

Okay I will never say I hate mobiles/cell phones/annoying things that go ring-ring at most unfortunate times.


Actually I lied. I do hate mobiles/cell phones/annoying things that go ring-ring at most unfortunate times.

:popcorn:

[aeolian]

77. But I do hate cell phones!

and people who answer them in restaurants. :nuke:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

8. Told me that I was too young ...

and that maybe if I would shut up , I would learn something . This happened in the DU . I don't know what happened to poster but he/she was a complete idiot throughout their entire thread .

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

45. Hmm.

Why do I think I know who you're talking about?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

49. It was when the troops in the National Guard unit in Iraq ...

abandoned their mission because the gas they were transporting was old and they were reprimanded . And I posted about writing to the Congressmen/Congresswomen and Senators that represented the area which the unit was based from in the states - the poster thought this was a stupid idea . And this particular poster said something about not trusting or there is no good Congressmen and Senators anymore . I gave my opinion that I believe that there are some who are still on ourside ( Conyers for example ) and this person went apes!&*! on me saying that I am too young to have an opinion and that if I stuck around a bit longer that I would learn something . I was heated but not heated enough to leave the DU . I did not put this person on ignore either - I just let it go . And the lesson learned : even assholes can say a lot of words , but they still don't say anything .

[Tsiyu]

11. I've inspired quite a few now "deleted" posts

so I can't even remember the rudest.

My favorite ones are the Fristian diagnosis-from-a-distance insults, where I am told I have some mental disorder or another. By now I think I have them all.

And the "you have pent-up rage" posts always make me rofl, because my rage is front and center LOL. I don't hide when I'm pissed. I always picture someone with pent-up rage as that nerd who keeps quietly to himself while he plots malevolance and picks his boogers.

Now Bite me, senseandsensibility! ;)

[senseandsensibility]

12. LOL

Finally, a truly rude post that I can brag about!

[Tsiyu]

21. Oh yeah? Well, how bout this one?

Suck an egg! ( How on earth does a person suck an egg, anyway?)x(

[RevCheesehead]

13. You're just saying that

because you have unresolved Buddy Holly issues in your life. Really, you should stop projecting your mental instability on the innocent lives here in the Lounge. And whatever you do, don't mention Jesus. It's not a Democratic value.

:hi:

[senseandsensibility]

14. Okay that's just rude!

You've gone too far, Rev. :mad: I'm serious. DO NOT take Buddy Holly's name in vain.

[RevCheesehead]

15. OK, that' s good...

but to really get to me, you need to add "that's awfully hypocritical of you, REV."

(it's cool - BHG & I have faced common "foes" in the past.)

[Tsiyu]

18. Name Deleted

[hfojvt]

55. no, it was hypocritical

but whadja expect?

[Tsiyu]

16. That's pretty hypocritical of you, Rev

Okay, I really couldn't resist :hi:

[Nite Owl]

17. Someone told me that I didn't

read the article that was posted. They obviously didn't like my agreeing with it.

[RevCheesehead]

19. One of my all-time favorites

happened to a friend in GD. He was "playing dumb" and someone took the bait, asking, "What are you, fucking obtuse?" I sent him a PM and asked "who's obtuse? and does your wife know you're fucking her?"

[Crazy Guggenheim]

23. lmao.

:rofl:

[enigmatic]

41. THAT'S funny!

I gotta use that sometime..

[fleabert]

22. a couple of months ago, it was implied that I was a freeper, and that

this person had been 'watching my posts' and knew they were right. wtf? Would a freeper have a pic of themselves like this?

[RevCheesehead]

26. Everyone on DU has at one time been called a Freeper.

It's in the super-secret hazing initiation rites. (But don't tell anyone, because it's a super-secret.)

[fleabert]

29. oh, okay, I won't tell anyone then...

I won't do it to someone else though, it hurt. I really did sit there and think, what the fuck? what could I possibly have said that would make anyone think I like bush? It made me sick to my stomach that someone might actually think I like that motherfucker.

[evlbstrd]

27. Aha!

Posting cute pics to derail the thread! Busted!

[fleabert]

30. and I'll do it again...try and stop me!

say something mean to this cat, and she'll scratch your eyeballs out!

[evlbstrd]

37. Yikes!

Threatened with physical violence.
Why, I never.
Yeah, I have.

[NMMNG]

57. What freeper would be a kitten fanatic?

Everybody knows rethugs love dogs - they think cats are too "gay".:crazy:

[Heidi]

25. No one's ever been rude to me.

That's probably because I read GD, but rarely post there. :rofl:

[lies and propaganda]

31. Being called a "troll"

after my first post that was questioning of Keith Olbermann. I was immediately slaughtered by people who were calling me a freeper and a troll. I think that you dont truly get respect on DU until you have 1000+ posts.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

33. Yeah freeper.

:popcorn:

[RevCheesehead]

35. Oh-oh.

Which one of my KOEB buddies should I throttle for you? :)
(* We can be rather fierce in our defense of the lovely Keith - to a fault at times. On behalf of the group, I offer an apology.)

[lies and propaganda]

36. Well thank you much.

I wasnt even too critical, I blame it mostly on sensitive times.

[RevCheesehead]

39. There are some days I just stay away from DU.

The week after the election was just plain ugly. So was the Terri Schiavo thing, and the death of the Pope, the Coronation of the chimp day, ....

When emotions run high, the ignore feature can be your best friend. :)

Also, sometimes the most critical, mean posts actually come from freepers who love to show up and disrupt, just for the hell of it.
They've been awfully quiet lately. I wonder why? :)

[gardenista]

54. Nah, it still happens after you have 1000+ posts.

Some people have to resort to that when they know their wrong and can't admit it.

[hfojvt]

56. no, that does not help either

the key is to join in the echo chamber and say "aint it the truth?" to things which you really think are simplistic, mean-spirited, or factually inaccurate.

Of course, probably my worst response came when I had a very low post count, SOMEBODY posted: "Why use english when you can use German like a good little Nazi?"
Then a month later, somebody else said: "Shut the fuck up. You have no clue about living in poverty. I'm done."
Still, it was only two months ago that I got this response: "That's breathtakingly stupid. That has got to be one of the most sexist things I've ever seen on here."

Granted, I was arguing an untenable position, but I still thought everything I was saying was being misinterpreted in the worst possible way.

Still, I am starting to get some better responses, such as:

"That's good, i like it
I can't help but feel that the corporatocracy has the upper hand and
i'm wondering what benefit there is in supporting it at all... but
i accept your good hearted way of framing it."

"Thank you for an intelligent discussion, whether we end up agreeing or not."

Some people apparently forget to use the sarcasm tag on this board, but it is fun when you can vigorously argue and still walk away with mutual respect.

[aeolian]

84. I'd have to agree.

Before that magical "1000+" appears, any disagreement is seen as evidence of trolldom. :eyes:

My god, did I learn that the hard way...

[Kerrytravelers]

34. I'll tell you what I HATE HATE HATE

The posts that start with "Uh... no" or "You are wrong" or some such off-putting beginning that I don't even want to read any further- but I do because I have no strength in my will power.

[Wapsie B]

43. There really hasn't been anything rude that come to mind.

It's more like a few snarky comments made here and there revolving around the subject of sex.

Then too some days the lounge does seem like high school revisited.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

44. Heh. Everyone knows who this is.

"Isn't it past your bedtime?"

Yep.

[JohnKleeb]

78. hahahhahahhah

I didnt know who you were talking about but then a light bulb went off in my head. Hmmmmmmm for me, thats tough really.

[LibDemAlways]

46. I made the mistake of posting a rant

in the lounge about a horrible experience I had in a restaurant in which I was tormented for close to a half hour by an out-of-control screaming 3-year-old whose mother ignored him. I pointed out that I'm a mom, myself, and certainly not anti-child, but that situation was beyond the pale.

Well, I quickly learned that there is a vocal minority on DU who firmly believe that the 3-year old had the right to scream unabated, his mom had the right to ignore him, and if I didn't like it, too damn bad becauseI had no right to enjoy the lunch I was paying for.

Sorry, but I think people who believe that are rude.

[Rowdyboy]

48. I don't know if I saw yours, but I've seen plenty....Thats one of my faves

I LOVE people to explain why their kids can run wild while I'm trying to....

Well, lets not hijack the thread. I'll just say I've seen some brutal posts on both sides of that issue.

[enigmatic]

51. I remember that one..

I might have even posted on it, I can't remember. I agree w/ you, by the way.

My all-time favorite thread on that subject was the one posted a few months ago about the kid throwing up in the restaurant and the father continuing to eat; that was a flamerwar to end all falamewars..

[LibDemAlways]

53. I missed the one about the kid throwing up.

My daughter had an incident like that in a restaurant when she was two, and wouldn't you know we were having lunch with some childless friends we hadn't seen in years. Boy did we get her away from that table and clean her and the mess up in a hurry. I've never apologized so much in a 10 minute period in my life - to anyone and everyone in the place.

How could anyone just ignore that and continue to eat? Unbelievable, but having witnessed the tantrum I wrote about, I guess you can never underestimate just how rude people can be.

[CTLawGuy]

58. well I've been accused of

being ignorant,
not knowing history,
not wanting to be informed about a particular issue, but rather to bash something,
of fabricating a quote in my sig (that was accused of me in a PM).

Im sure Ill think of others.

[Deja Q]

59. I've been called a freeper a few times...

:eyes:

I'd rather be called a cocksucker so I can respond "Will you keep my personal life out of this?"

[Redstone]

81. Then you'll like this: A friend of mine has a stock reply when

someone calls him a "cocksucker."

He says: "I don't get it. I've been selling cars for a living for over twenty years, and nobody ever called me "you dirty salesman, you."

But suck just one cock..."

Redstone

[Deja Q]

86. ROFL, thanks for the chuckle!

:D :rofl:

[Awsi Dooger]

60. I was called a troll frequently in GD 2004

It was very safe to be a blinders-on cheerleader in that forum, and claim we would win Georgia via 20 points worth of hidden cell phone users. I posted a thread that our so-called registration advantage was hideously overrated, not worth anything close to the net 2-4% that so many DUers were estimating. The bashing went on for a couple hundred posts.

Also after the election when I had the audacity to point out the guy doing all the election fraud threads didn't understand the basics of margin for error, making the most simpleton gaffe imaginable in one elongated "proof" thread. That guy was so embarrassed to be caught in a basic math flub he replied with whining and capitalization and a threat to post a poll asking DUers if I was a troll, until many others came to my defense and correctly pointed out he sounded like a child.

We're in a down period in terms of federal races, due to the residue of 9/11 and its impact on party identification, specifically among Hispanics and white women. I've studied political numbers carefully since '96 and they simply aren't encouraging in many areas right now. I point that out occasionally but many DUers don't want to hear it.

[displacedtexan]

61. I was accused of showing off (my sig line marquee)...

by the only person on my current IGNORE list.

S/he PMed me a zillion times about the scrolling text in my sig line.

I was accused of showing off my HTML skills (which I learned in the DU lounge, btw) and not being courteous enough to DUers with ADD, for whom scrolling text is too distracting.

Hilarious... because both my husband and my daughter are diagnosed ADDers.

I have to admit that I was proud when I mastered the marquee code (thanks to SoCalDem), but damn! PMing me numerous times to complain?
Why not hit the IGNORE button? Too easy?

I wonder if that particular poster is still going after the sigline marquee folks.

[El Fuego]

62. I was called a freeper

Just because I (indirectly) said I wanted the bush administration to fail. My point was why would we necessarily want * cabinet appointees to be sterling, flawless, wise choices. (No worries there.) So he called me a freeper.

My accuser is still here in the Lounge.... someday I will challenge him to a duel.

[MissMillie]

63. That I was going to die

because I had weight loss surgery.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

67. I remember that

:wtf:

Thank god the offending parties are no longer with us.

[Shell Beau]

65. I was called a hypocrite

b/c I had a cross as my avatar, but said I liked celebrity gossip sometimes. So sue me. They did apologize though!

[Beware the Beast Man]

66. Someone said I looked like Flounder from "Animal House."

Troll. Still, it really hurt my feelings. :cry:

[Magrittes Pipe]

68. You do not.

You could totally kick his ass.

[DS1]

69. I'm a Bush supporter and I'm the Darth Sidious of Trolls

Trolls come and go, I train them, prop them up, and if they should die that's okay because I'll always have another one in waiting.

Luckily only a few diligent DUers can see this.

All sarcasm aside, said diligent DUers can all line up and kiss my ass

[Blue-Jay]

70. Some dickhead sent me a PM

saying "If I want your opinion, I'll ask for it" and gloating about a post of mine that he alerted on. He's still around here somewhere.

[Patiod]

71. That I was a serious mess

Right after the election, everyone here was emailing some not-too-bright knee-jerk-conservative woman who wrote an editorial to a local paper which said something along the lines of "the Dems are just sore losers".

The woman replied to one of the DU emailers saying she was stunned and devastated by the huge volume of vitriolic emails she was receiving, and couldn't believe she was the recipient of so much hatred and bile. She basically said she was just a housewife, wrote a LTTE of her small paper, and now hundreds of people were emailing and calling her with vicious personal attacks, and she was feeling overwhelmed.

I posted to say I felt kind of sorry for her, and that maybe we were piling on a little.

I had a low post count at the time, and someone wrote and said that mine was the stupidest, most badly-thought out post they had ever read. I hadn't grown a tough skin yet, but I did know enough to put them on "ignore". They're my only "ignore" so far!

[JimmyJazz]

72. When in a serious discussion, someone suggested it was time for me

to start another flirting thread. That hurt.

[jackelope72]

73. Somebody called me...

a "shit-for-brains Big-L Libertarian" :cry:

It really hurt; I didn't come back to DU for several months.

[senseandsensibility]

91. You shouldn't let such

a stupid insult keep you from DU. To me, it makes the other poster look bad, not you.

[Skittles]

74. if you don't think pole dancing and lap dancing in clubs is "empowering"

to women you get a lot a accusations that you are not a real progressive, or have issues with your body, or are a dowright prude.

[rene moon]

85. I have gotten the same thing!

Idiots!

[Heidi]

75. Stop the Morans called me a communist . . .

and a "filthy weed-smoking burrito-eating poncho-wearing armpit-smelling hippie" all within a one-hour span this afternoon. :rofl:

[JimmyJazz]

76. That means he like you.

:P

[Heidi]

82. Well, that certainly makes me feel . . .

tingly. :rofl: Thanks for the heads-up, JimmyJazz!

[aeolian]

79. "Learn Your History" is an all-time classic,

as is anything with "ignorant" in it. Nothing like a generic, non-thinking response. :eyes:

A few people are now ignored for PMs along these lines. :toast:

[Blue Diadem]

80. Someone responded with: do you people look for "pedo news"

when I posted a news story about a man who was beaten because he was caught raping a 5 yr old.

[WMliberal]

83. some freeper asshat tried the ol "bootstraps" garbage

a few months ago when things were REALLY dicey around here. Saying we couldn't make ends meet with our $6 an hour jobs because we're wasteful, irresponsible, etc.
Midlo :yourock: nuked that fucker

[ksilvas]

87. Accused of being White Power, cause I said Truth to Power,funny

[senseandsensibility]

89. ?

Is that even supposed to make sense?

[Name removed]

88. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[nini]

90. Anyone who actually believed that or continues to..

needs to re-examine reality. Gossip and viscious lies like that are one of my pet peeves.


I know the truth and can vouch for your character and the thought of you being a stalker would be funny if it wasn't so insulting.