I liked it a lot but I don’t think I’d recommend it unless the person said they like horror movies. Even then I’d want to how they feel about foreign films.
As for bad advice on the dope, it wasn’t advice exactly but I just saw somebody today claim that hand sanitizer is a scam. Apparently people who work in hospitals are particularly gullible.
you can just say “opalcat”
I see some really passive aggressive advice out the sometimes. Stuff that really makes me think “that cannot possibly make things better” where its all about giving the other guy a sneaking taste of his own medicine sorta thing.
Its not like the revenged pereson will ever go “well that guy got me back for my barely noticed unpleasant habit or thoughtless remark, I’ll apologise and become his friend”
Regarding the vegemite: Antipodeans are clearly raised on the stuff out of a sense of bottom of the world contrariness. As a kid, it was fed to me regularly to emphasise that life is not all fun and games. Hence I now love the stuff.
Correction: Marmite & vegemite are not food. :eek:
This is a question for general Questions!
Product recommendations require both a good description of what attributes are desired and that should be compared against descriptions of what people recommend. I like Scott’s single ply toilet paper because I have a bad habit of doubling the paper so a 2-ply is overkill. For me, the Scott’s represents a good value but you should know why I recommend it. And since it can be purchased in small quantities it makes sense to purchase smaller amounts prior to buying 36 rolls at a warehouse store.
Well, there’s really only one person who does this.
ETA: But somebody got to it before me. Someone who has apparently only been around since this month and knows very well about OC’s posting history.
Dopers suggested I eat old eggs and now I’m dying.
I noticed that threads about dating often attract the most snarling and bitter people of both genders (who then end up arguing with each other and chasing everyone else out of the discussion).
Lot of people do the “give me advice, no that’s not good enough” thing. It probably happens in a good quarter of advice threads.
My favorite version is when people ask for advice and people suggest that the OP is not acting in a fair or honorable fashion, so then they add a bunch of clearly artificial details that make them the unequivocable hero/victim of the piece. (“I forgot to mention he hit me. And stole my car. And I have a restraining order”) Since there’s no point in calling someone on that sort of bullshit, that’s when I always bow out.
People who don’t understand a thing about how networks work advising that ignoring security holes when presented with same is a good idea and of no risk at all, because one of the words involved in the thread is the almighty “iPhone”, which can participate in nothing nefarious at all, blessed be Steve.
yeah, i just recently made an account but i have been reading the boards for close to a decade now(wow…)
And it’s close cousin, I posted saying I want advice but I have no intention of taking it. We don’t care if you just want to vent or brag or whatever, but if you ask for advice, we are going to give it to you, and if you don’t want it, don’t friggin’ ask for it. Stick your dick in all the crazy you want. Get hit by all those red flags on the way out.
Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS.
Sure, that’s the time someone takes our advice.
You’re right. One Doper has a reputation for such threads, but it’s not something that’s unique to them.
Emphasis mine. Quote of the week.
Too often, people think with their dicks or clits. They have their mind made up on what they want to do before they post. They know in their heart it’s going to lead to trouble, but they’re looking for some scrap of advice to validate the choice they’re ultimately going to make.
Giving bad advice is what humans do. Ug’s wife no doubt said “No make wheel round. Me no like that shape.” Thug left the caveman council dejected after being told his precious discovery, fire, was “Too hot. Too orange. Can cook a little”. And who knows how many people have, in some form or another, heard the words “You should taste that. It looks edible to me” just before horribly dying in agony.
Anyways, I loved elmwood’s post because it said what I was thinking… If you take relationship advice from housebound, mentally-ill Dopers who relate to other humans as though they are an alien species being observed through a telephoto lens then don’t be surprised if the outcome is sub-optimal. Somehow those with the least first-hand insight seem to participate the most.
Yes, I’ve noticed a lot of crabby and hostile single people on here too. Sometimes it is fairly obvious why some people are single!
And the corollary, every “recommend a good history book” thread ends at James Loewen. (Sadly.)
Giving advice to someone who is focussing on the trivial, completely ignoring the looming bulk of the elephant in the room right behind her. “Oh, there’s a pesky fly that’s buzzing around my head, it’s sooo irritating!” When alarmed posters point out that that enormous elephant is going to stomp on her, she pooh-poohs it and circles back to the trivial. “Oh, the elephant, yeah, we’re going to sit down and have a nice talk sometime, but meantime there’s this fly…”.
This is probably the opposite of the OPs question. Good advice from the dopers is falling on deaf ears.