Inhabitants of the SDMB's - 1

[spingears]

Today I ran across a discussion with a lot of heat (passionate expressions) and smoke (erroneous statements) but very little enlightment (factual information).

There are those posting replies who have a great diversity of knowledge but with little if any depth, and on the other hand those with a great depth of knowledge about one or fewer subjects.

A 'little' knowledge is a dangerous thing! Causes those who posses it to run off at the mouth (keyboard) with all sorts of nonsence.

[Q.E.D.]

Link?

[Finagle]

Today I ran across a discussion with a lot of heat (passionate expressions) and smoke (erroneous statements) but very little enlightment (factual information).



Just one? You weren't looking very hard. We've got dozens of those.

[Really Not All That Bright]

Today I ran across a post which made absolutely no sense but appeared to be some sort of complaint about people who didn't know what they were talking about.

A little keyboard is a dangerous thing! Because those who possess one will run off half-formed thoughts and confuse the hell out of everyone.

[Liberal]

It might have something to do with this thread (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5080051#post5080051). Then again, it might not.

[Ethilrist]

I like string.

[Small Clanger]

I like string.Cite?

[SamIAm336]

I like string.
I am amused

[Homebrew]

I like string.Cite?Here you go. (http://superstringtheory.com/)

[luluBahrain]

I love lamp. :D

[Ghanima]

...And spingears said "Let there be lamp" and there still wasn't...

The irony that the last sentence of the OP was not only incomplete but also contained 2 spelling errors has not escaped me.

[Batsinma Belfry]

My butt itches.





And I have " a great depth of knowledge" as to why my butt itches.

[Uvula Donor]

I had bugs for lunch.



And I have " a great depth of knowledge" as to why my butt itches.

Cite? :D

[ioioio]

My butt itches.

And I have " a great depth of knowledge" as to why my butt itches.
God, I hope it's not PINWORMS!

[SolGrundy]

I love lamp. :D
I ate a big red candle.

[DMark]

OK folks.

You can all go home now.

Open call for One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest is now over.

We have our cast.

[Hal Briston]

Cool.

I got the role of Chief by not posting anything.

[tomndebb]

A 'little' knowledge is a dangerous thing! Causes those who posses it to run off at the mouth (keyboard) with all sorts of nonsence.I suspect that the OP is correct. Just a while ago I encountered this example of that very thing (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=267239).

[tomndebb]

psssst! spingears, you might want to ask a Moderator to move these threads to the BBQ Pit where content-free rants are more typically posted, particularly when they tend to be complaints about the board that do not seem to have much purpose beyond complaining.

[Jake]

I suspect that the OP is correct. Just a while ago I encountered this example of that very thing (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=267239).

The T&D Meister strikes again! (Like Stan on South Park: "I Don't think we better piss off Catrtman anymore!!!) :p

[Mockingbird]

I ate a big red candle.

When come back, bring lube.

[Hostile Dialect]

I love lamp. :D

I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT!

[ZebraShaSha]

Yea, I was going through GD one time and there were these two people arguing back and forth about what halibut is best used for processing green beans but then some jerk who I would rather see lurk stopped by to say that if it was not for the GOP that the bactriophage that is found inside of the halibut's stomach would be syntheticly created and then turned into a processing lubricant but - OH, HEY, LOOK! A QUARTER!

[Czarcasm]

Moving this very vague rant to The BBQ Pit.

[Denis]

I farted.

[Rufus Xavier]

I burning your tungsten filament.

[Greathouse]

Sometimes, when I get really nervous, I stick my fingers under my arms......

AND THEN I SMELL THEM!!!!


SUPERSTAR!!!!

[Kallessa]

I'd like a little more passion please.

[Lord Ashtar]

It might have something to do with this thread (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5080051#post5080051). Then again, it might not.
Really? I thought it was this one (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=267104).

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

What's a spingears? Is it, like, a rodent with powerful hindquarters and really big ears?

[elucidator]

Really? I thought it was this one (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=267104).

Good God, man, you can't link a thread to itself! You'll set up a self-referential vortex that can tear the very fabric of the space time continuum emit ecaps eht fo cirbaf yrev eht raet nac taht....

!HHHGGGRRRRAAAAAAAAA

[Small Clanger]

I like stringCite?Here you go. (http://superstringtheory.com/)Aw, I was hoping for pudding (http://www.clangers.co.uk/w5.htm)
Now this is in the pit I'm out of here.

[Lord Ashtar]

Good God, man, you can't link a thread to itself! You'll set up a self-referential vortex that can tear the very fabric of the space time continuum emit ecaps eht fo cirbaf yrev eht raet nac taht....

!HHHGGGRRRRAAAAAAAAA

Oh, Good Lord. What have I done?

I didn't know! I DIDN'T KNOW!!!!!!

[Liberal]

Nurse RAAAAAAATCHED!! I want MY cigarettes, please. I want MYYYYYYYYYYYYYY cigarettes!!

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done subjunctively.

[NoClueBoy]

Over Macho Grande?

[Thaumaturge]

I burning your tungsten filament.

AHAHAHAHA! :D

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

When come back, bring compact fluorescent.

[WILLASS]

Well, as my old granny always used to say 'When life gives you lemons it's time to start baking some of my patented lemon merangue'

[Tangent]

This is all Michael Moore's fault.

[Denis]

Nah, I blame Clinton.

[Liberal]

Non sequitur.

[Northern Piper]

Non est factum.

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

Nunc pro tunc

Non obstanter verdictum

Non compos mentis

[Andros_X]

Si in animis habeatis scidam latrinariam in domo mea ponere, vosmet rogate si possitis velocius currere quam saxum quod vadit cum celeritate nonaginta milia passuum per horam.

[Ethilrist]

There are those posting replies who have a great diversity of knowledge but with little if any depth, and on the other hand those with a great depth of knowledge about one or fewer subjects.
So, is this good or bad? It would really suck if everybody had one or two things they were experts on, because we'd constantly be getting questions nobody had a clue about. On the other hand, having a bunch of vaguely-informed polyglots would also suck, because we could never get to the bottom of anything, just scratch the surface.

Like those drawings we did in grade school where you do one crayon drawing with lots of colors, then cover it in black crayon, then scratch the black crayon off.

Speaking of non sequiturs.

[Rufus Xavier]

Si in animis habeatis scidam latrinariam in domo mea ponere, vosmet rogate si possitis velocius currere quam saxum quod vadit cum celeritate nonaginta milia passuum per horam.


heh heh. You said cum. heh heh.

[Achilles]

Now I'm really not sure...

[BJMoose]

Si in animis habeatis scidam latrinariam in domo mea ponere, vosmet rogate si possitis velocius currere quam saxum quod vadit cum celeritate nonaginta milia passuum per horam.

Translation: When come back, bring tin-foil 1920s-style Death Ray and shoot Opal.



(but don't kill her, for God's sake, or I'll be guilty of wishing death on a fellow Doper and summarily stuffed in Coldfire's sporrin)

[The_Llama]

Over Macho Grande?

I don't think I'll ever be over that.