Has anyone heard from SidDithers?

[CTyankee]

[MineralMan]

1. Not on DU. He'll be back, though, I'm sure.

[Katashi_itto]

87. Hospital. Was attacked by Crazed Canadian Weasels. He Was in the Migration Path.

It was Horrible. The screaming of the Weasels would put ice in your Blood.

[Jamastiene]

127. .

[Snotcicles]

140. Let me shoehorn a "Nader" in here. That usually draws him out. nt

[2banon]

145. !

[Jackpine Radical]

152. I didn't know the Harper people migrated. (nt)

[Katashi_itto]

167. Hospital. Uvula was removed and there were complications.

Last edited Mon Jun 8, 2015, 07:40 PM - Edit history (1)

For the Humor challenged Note.: Humor.

[MineralMan]

172. Are you being serious or trying to make a bad joke?

Please don't say things about others you don't know.

[Katashi_itto]

173. Lol...! Uvula is tonsils

[MineralMan]

174. Actually it's not.

So, you're spreading misinformation about a DUer who can't respond. Very bad form. Please do not do that.

The uvula and tonsils are two different body parts, by the way. Try Google.

[Katashi_itto]

175. Man, your humor impaired.

Conservatives tend to be.

[MineralMan]

176. No, I'm not. Your post was just wrong. Since the

DUer you said that about is not able to respond, I'm stepping in. What you wrote was not funny. It was incorrect and mean-spirited.

[Katashi_itto]

177. So you say. Again humor impaired.

But your type of political persuasion usually is.

[zappaman]

2. Yes.

He'll be back in a couple of days.

[riqster]

3. Whew.

[In_The_Wind]

7. Probably around June 12.

His two oldest hidden post were on March 11.

[Brother Buzz]

13. 90 days, not three months

My Magic 8 Ball says he reappears on the ninth.

[riqster]

22. Even better:

http://noveltyjesus.blogspot.com/2007/04/answer-me-jesus.html?m=1

[In_The_Wind]

31. I always round things off.

[Brother Buzz]

39. Sid is punctual

He'll be back Tues, June 09, 2015, 07:08 AM, just in time for the morning cacophony

[Cha]

109. lol

[misterhighwasted]

25. Good..he'll be back in time for Hillary's NY Appearance!

[SunSeeker]

4. Good.

He's one of my favorite DUers and often the sole voice of sanity in an off the rails thread.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

41. One of my faves, too! Sane and forthright.

[2banon]

148. LOL!

[SunSeeker]

162. And he has a great sense of humor.

[2banon]

165. Does He Now? I love people with a good sense of humor. Can't say I've seen it with him..but YMMV..

[SunSeeker]

170. Your loss. nt

[2banon]

171. ah, well, depends on which prism one sees things through I suppose..

[greytdemocrat]

5. That's good.

One of my favorite DUers.

[m-lekktor]

6. he is in a time out for having 5 posts hidden.

whenever a DUer who generally posts daily isn't posting, their profile is the first place i check to see if they are in a timeout.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=111821&sub=trans

[petronius]

14. I also sometimes look to see if a missing poster has rec'd any threads (as Sid did this morning)

It shows they're still around, even if not posting...

[m-lekktor]

24. I haven't done that yet!nt

[KamaAina]

16. How on Earth can Skinner get posts hidden?

[m-lekktor]

20. lol

ssshhhh. it's to throw people off!

[Zorra]

33. But think about it...it's great cover for a sockpuppet.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

53. Just what I was wondering, so it is or is not him?

I must not be in on the joke

[KamaAina]

54. Some troll was telling us he'd tracked down Sid's IP address

and it matched Skinner's.

[freshwest]

68. I'd put that notion the same place the troll went. Although it was funny. n/t

[pintobean]

121. It's coming from inside the house

[freshwest]

124. I remember that one! Poster was *panting in fear*. Hilarious thread. n/t

[hfojvt]

155. way back when

I suggested to Skinner that he make some sockpuppets and wander around DU incognito.

I am not sure if he ever did, but shortly after I was noticing some quality OPs and thinking "Skinner, is that you?"

[whatchamacallit]

157. !

[MohRokTah]

8. Lots of bogus 4-3 Jury decisions.

4 of 5, and the 5th is sketchy, too at a 5-2 decision, IMO.

[KMOD]

51. yup.

[MohRokTah]

56. I would have voted to Leave It on all five

I never take into account who the person alerted on is, only the specifics of the alert. I would not have voted to hide even one of those five.

[cherokeeprogressive]

78. I certainly would not have voted to hide the one that got him the chair in the corner. n/t

[KMOD]

100. me either.

I've seen quite a few silly alerts go through lately.

[treestar]

101. Yeah none of those were really that bad

too bad so many jurors abuse the system to get to someone they don't agree with.

[joshcryer]

108. One was even a PPR'd troll.

Not at the time but later on.

[Major Nikon]

151. Tomorrow is the 90th day for 2 of his hides

So not much of a time out.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Sid Dithers, LOL.

[Comrade Grumpy]

10. LOL indeed.

[snooper2]

36. According to RT

He'll be back soon enough don't worry Comrade!

LOL

[Comrade Grumpy]

60. LOL

[treestar]

102. In honor of Sid

[Blue_In_AK]

63. I can hardly wait.

[Jesus Malverde]

104. .

He's still here recing threads.



JM

[hfojvt]

156. don't you mean

unrec?

Or is that an excrement statement?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

158. LOL.

[jberryhill]

11. He kicked my dog

[Richardo]

15. Dog: "He shot my paw."

[hrmjustin]

17. I got accused of being sid once.

[misterhighwasted]

26. Lol

[jeff47]

48. We are all Sid.

The entire site is Sid's sockpuppets talking to each other.

[kwassa]

98. Sid must be Sybil.

All these different personalities

[jeff47]

99. It'd get boring otherwise. (nt)

[okasha]

84. So did I.

By the same poster, in the same thread.

[hrmjustin]

86. lol yes that was a hoot.

[SwissTony]

18. He turned me into a newt!!!

I got better.

Definitely one of my favourite posters.

[riqster]

27. Then he must weigh the same as a duck!

[SwissTony]

42. Are you talking about an African Duck or a European duck?

Or are you suggesting that coconuts can migrate?

[riqster]

107. *Catapults an enormous Trojan Duck over the battlements*

"Run away! Run away!"

[Codeine]

19. I'm not ashamed to say

Sid's my favorite DUer, roflsmilie and all.

[Tarheel_Dem]

21. Hope he's back soon. n/t

[freshwest]

47. EDIT: Can't post until almost June 11th. n/t

Last edited Thu Jun 4, 2015, 05:39 PM - Edit history (1)

[Tarheel_Dem]

52. Why September?

[freshwest]

64. I misread. He'll be able to post again June 11th. n/t

[Tarheel_Dem]

69. I'll admit, I don't know the rules re: flagged accounts. Not sure what constitutes a "flagging"....

as opposed to a "banning". I've been flagged before, but for only a couple of days.

[freshwest]

72. No, he's not flagged... Just suspended. Hides were questionable, IMO. You shouldn't've been flagged.

[Tarheel_Dem]

75. I never question my hides, but the last one was so innocuous, it surprised even me. The jury pool..

is just luck of the draw, on any given day. Bring back the mods.

[MohRokTah]

57. June 9 he'll be back.

It takes 90 days for a hide to fall off and Sid's oldest will be early morning June 9.

[freshwest]

66. I must have misread it... Thought he'd be out all of June and July... Thanks for the correction.

Now, if we could only get as many posts going as to why he should be forgiven as the other poster...

[MohRokTah]

67. I certainly consider him a better person than the other poster. eom

[freshwest]

70. +1.

[Tarheel_Dem]

71. Thanks for that useful information.

[Orrex]

23. SidDithers is a bastard with no manners

And not a dook of an idea how to comport himself public-wise, O my brothers.

[Codeine]

34. But in fairness, he's a real kick

and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolence.

[Kali]

45. !

On Thu Jun 4, 2015, 03:00 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

SidDithers is a bastard with no manners
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6779592

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Um, just because a du'er is on a timeout doesn't mean one can go around calling him a bastard- talk about needing manners

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Thu Jun 4, 2015, 03:06 PM, and the Jury voted 3-4 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I believe Orrex is jesting.
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Orrex is often misunderstood. It is a quote from A Clockwork Orange.
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Needless to this is over the top, name calling needs to stop
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I will give the benefit of the doubt to someone with 45,000
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I think this post is in harmony with many of the other responses to the OP.
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Entirely inappropriate post. Hide.

[11 Bravo]

55. Are call-outs not a TOS violation if a poster is in time-out?

I would have voted to hide that little bit of nastiness.

[Orrex]

80. I don't like you should do what you done...

And I'm not your brother no more and wouldn't want to be.

[NutmegYankee]

93. Watch that. Do watch that, O Dim, if to continue to be on live thou dost wish.

[11 Bravo]

96. I ain't shore if I should be partic'lary out of kilter, or jest ...

sorta puzzled like as to what yore meaning be.

[Trajan]

128. FYI ... Dialog from A Clockwork Orange ...

Nearly verbatim at times ...

[MohRokTah]

58. The extreme left dominates the jury system.

This is it for me. My stance of never taking into account any history of a poster when on a jury has just been thrown by the wayside. I consider this to be a perfect example of jury war being declared by those who simply hate the pragmatists on this site.

[Comrade Grumpy]

61. "The extreme left." LOL

[Tarheel_Dem]

74. And don't forget the serial alert stalking that's going on. Couple that, with a hostile jury system,

depending on the makeup of the jury, it's a recipe for flagging and banning any deviating thought. I wish we could have bigger Jury Blacklists.

[hobbit709]

85. Now THAT is funnier than hell.

[Number23]

79. How on God's green earth was that NOT hidden?????

[Brother Buzz]

82. Sid Dithers would have heartily recommended Orrex's post....

with a "thumbsup", Sid loves good, obscure movie quotes.

[Number23]

90. Ahhh, it was a movie quote. I guess that makes a difference. I guess.

[Brother Buzz]

94. Clockwork Orange - Orrex continues the dialogue on post #80

Dim: What did you do that for?

Alex: For being a bastard with no manners, and not a dook of an idea how to comport yourself public-wise, O my brother.

Dim: I don't like you should do what you done, and I'm not your brother no more and wouldn't want to be.

Alex: Watch that. Do watch that, O Dim, if to continue to be on live thou dost wish.

Dim: Yarbles! Great bolshy yarblockos to you. I'll meet you with chain or nozh or britva anytime, not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless. Well, it stands to reason I won't have it.

Alex: A nozh scrap any time you say.

Dim: Doobidoob. A bit tired, maybe. Best not to say more. Bedways is rightways now, so best we go homeways and get a bit of spatchka. Right, right?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/quotes

[Orrex]

111. Wait--there's a movie about this?

[Brother Buzz]

113. You'll figure it out shortly....

when you discover your entire life is actually a TV show.

[KingCharlemagne]

134. LOL. On a related, albeit way OT, note, the SciFi writer Philip K. Dick (author of

"Do Anroids Dream of Electric Sheep," subsequently adopted into the film Blade Runner) thought that time had stopped in 44 A.D. and that all of us were simply living out a post-ascension hologram. It's an interesting theory, although methinks Karl Popper might have had a thing or three to say about its bona fides

[REP]

163. Well, a book.

I'm a Kubrick fan generally but I wonder what book he was reading.

[KingCharlemagne]

133. Props for the Burgess allusion(s). Wonder whether he'll issue a

Alex-style mea culpa upon his return: "I was cured all right."

[NCTraveler]

28. In honor of one of my favorite posters.

[JaneyVee]

29. BUT I THOUGHT SID WAS SKINNER!

[FSogol]

35. In Skinner's basement....

[NuclearDem]

62. He is! Sort of.

Will Pitt created trumad, who is Skinner's sock. Therefore, Will Pitt created Skinner. Sid is Skinner (same IP address), and Skinner is Hillary.

So, basically, Skinner, Sid, and trumad are all forms of Hillary, created by Pitt.

[libodem]

123. Thank you

I've been so confused. This clears up everything.

[JI7]

97. he is.this is all meant to trick us

[randome]

30. He died saving his family from a destroyed battleship.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

[Katashi_itto]

88. He's Having His Uvula Removed.

[closeupready]

32. Who's that?

?

[CTyankee]

38. You don't know Sid? He's been here a long time...

[seveneyes]

37. Located

[Scootaloo]

40. I was noticing a distinct lack of rofl smilies n/t

[seveneyes]

44. rofl rescue

[sufrommich]

43. He's in San Franciscy. Not sure if he drove or if he flew. nt

[Rex]

46. He is fighting the Sasquatch invasion in northern Canada.

[Autumn]

49. To honor sid

[CTyankee]

50. I used to say to him "I'll stump you yet, Sid Dithers!" when he got an answer to one

of my art challenges, LOL! but he never cheated and I wish I could say that about everyone on the Challenges...it's why I stopped doing them...

[MADem]

138. I loved your challenges...I didn't get most of them

(even though I worked in an art museum in my wayward youth and should have done better) I found them educational and fun.

[CTyankee]

153. thanks. If you are around I'm doing another art essay in a couple of weeks...

Just did one last Friday.

Usually at 5 pm EDT in GD...

sorry the Challenge is gone but somebody at DU cheated...

[MADem]

169. I saw the last one...better than a BBC special!!! nt

[CTyankee]

178. wow, I'm so happy! Thank you...I really appreciate it...

I want folks to see more art and love it the way I do...

[MADem]

180. Thank YOU!! You're one of our "DU treasures!"

Posts like yours make this place better...and fun!!

[Art_from_Ark]

59. I heard from him the other day

He said to relay this message to y'all

[olddots]

65. notice how Eugine Levi has vanished too ?

[PowerToThePeople]

73. Here, let my show you what you have missed while not seeing him here.

[pkdu]

77. I'm Sid-icus!

Aren't we all?

[Scurrilous]

81. Sid!

[aikoaiko]

83. He's definitely ready GD. Hello, Sid.

[PeaceNikki]

89. I believe he's on a homeopathic retreat of sorts hosted by Dr. Oz.

[Wilms]

91. I heard that, as well.

Something about enemas...of all things.

[Cha]

110. Ha!

[Kali]

179. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[Dr Hobbitstein]

95. Did I ever tell you about the time SidDithers sold me into slavery?

He puts me on a ship to Thailand, right? And I'm chained to a pipe. Meanwhile, old Dithers... He's back in the states siring THREE beautiful children with MY wife!

For the uninitiated (and possible jury):

https://screen.yahoo.com/tales-bill-brasky-airport-bar-000000422.html

[dhill926]

106. now that was some funny shit....

thanks for the guffaw....

[freshwest]

125. Yahoo? Why'd it haveta be Yahoo? It always freezes my browser up. n/t

[Dr Hobbitstein]

135. Because SNL doesn't allow

any of their videos on YouTube. So, it's either Hulu or Yahoo. In this case, I didn't find the clip on Hulu. Sorry.

[WilliamPitt]

103. SidDithers despises me

...as is to be expected given the different parts of the jungle we emerge from...but I wish him a speedy return from what he is dealing with so we can get back to yelling at each other, or at least get back to seething at each other's posts.

Godspeed, Sid. You're a dick, and no mistake...but so am I, which is why I love you, sir. Get it done, get back here, and we can resume spitting fire at each other.

Safe travels, friend. All of my best to you.

[Ghost in the Machine]

112. He voted on a poll I posted on 6-2-16

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026770795

click on "show user names" and look toward the bottom of the option "Are you nuts??"

Peace,

Ghost

[olddots]

114. with Sid we lost Stan Shmengie

[Capt. Obvious]

115. I haven't heard from him in years

[Bonobo]

116. Unrec. nt

[MohRokTah]

117. Be honest...

Did Sid debunk something you posted believing it to complete truth?

Did you get the dreaded Sid Dithers Woo declaration?

[Bonobo]

118. Actually that was an ironic tip of the hat to Sid, as you would know if you knew him.

It is one of his characteristic posts.

[MohRokTah]

119. Ah, irony is difficult to discern on an internet board when done with subtlety. eom

[MADem]

120. I think Sid is a superb individual. It is a shame he was

targeted like that.

[morningfog]

132. He wasn't targeted. He is divisive, dismissive and devoid

Of substance. Posters get what they ask for.

[MADem]

137. I think his contributions to conversations are intelligent and thought- provoking.

People would do well to not take differences so personally.

The world will not end if some people on DU don't like the same things, or candidates, that I like. I mean, really ... viva la difference, and all ... Getting personally exorcised is a waste of time and energy, IMO.

[kentuck]

139. You have an example of that ?

[MADem]

141. Pretty much every conversation I've had w/him....

[morningfog]

143. Smilies and insults are not intelligent or thought-provoking.

That is by and large what he posts. The only posts of substance are when he is posting to debunk anti-vax nonsense.

[MADem]

149. I've never had anything but civil interactions with him.

I think he treats people with the same care and concern he receives from them.

[morningfog]

150. That is hilarious.

Thanks for the chuckle.

[MADem]

164. That is my experience. Try it, sometime. nt

[morningfog]

166. Try what? Try ignoring an infantile long time disruptor?

Okay.

[MADem]

168. That might be your best option, since you don't seem to care for him.

It's probably a better move than calling him names in a thread where he can't defend himself.

He does a great job on MIRT. I think your characterization is both false and unkind.

[morningfog]

181. I'll lose no sleep being called unkind.

I don't doubt he does a fine job on MIRT. I'm sure he is excellent at spottig those who are here solely to disrupt.

As for not wing able to defend himself? He earned his little time out. And the hosts were worth a damn, this would have been locked as nonsense meta from the outset. If this kind of inane thread is permitted, particularly win respect to a disruptive poster who is on a forced vacation, then discussions of their posing behavior are endorsed.

[MADem]

183. There is nothing disruptive or negative about the post that started this thread.

And that is where a host's charge begins and ends, so I don't think your complaint against the job that the hosts are doing is at all valid, either.

Everything below the first post belongs to juries.

Sleep is good. It knits up the travelled sleeve of care. It improves the mood, as well.

I look forward to Sid' s return.

[randome]

122. Is this the elusive SidDithers? There are rumors...

[hr][font color="blue"][center]No squirrels were harmed in the making of this post. Yet.[/center][/font][hr]

[Liberal_in_LA]

126. anyone hear from "the straight story"?

[uppityperson]

146. He was busy posting last week during the nyc_skp thing.

[Liberal_in_LA]

161. thx

[Skittles]

129. someone actually wants to hear from him?

[ScreamingMeemie]

136. .

[closeupready]

147. ...

[kath]

130. Ahhh, so that's why it's felt a bit nicer around here lately!

[kentuck]

131. Abe Lincoln:

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

[Jamastiene]

142. Nope, but I could have sworn I heard laughter when I opened this thread.

[FBaggins]

154. I'm afraid that Sid didn't make it. The radiation got him.

It won't be on enenews until next year, but the world's worst nuclear disaster actually occurred in 2016 when four atoms of plutonium formed a hot particle which was inhaled by a nuclear worker at the new/old Watts Bar reactor. His instantaneous death caused him to collapse onto the self destruct button - exploding the core with the force of 27 Hiroshima-sized bombs. Half of the radiation traveled back in time and melted the poor starfish that Sid's father gave to Sid's mother on their first date. The resulting mess caused her to take a strong disliking to him and they never went out again.

The ripples in the timeline just overtook Sid a few days ago. Our memory of him has only days left before they too are gone.

At this point, Sid can only be saved if we keep Watts Bar from powering up in a few months.

[whatchamacallit]

159. Sid and Skinner merged and became Skid

[L0oniX]

160. He has duct tape poisoning. Recooperating while studying The Trailer Park Boys tv series.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

182. He's taking time off to spend more time with his ROFL smilies.