# BANNED Friends **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2012, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364 "2012-01-04T09:05:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/1 "2012-01-04T09:05:48Z")
I’m considering breaking friendships with everyone who doesn’t have the BANNED tag under their name. So if any of you experience a sudden, crushing depression it’s either the weight of the guilt of all the horrible things you’ve done, an understanding of the inevitability of death or you’ve just been defriended on the Dope. So far I have two banned friends. If you anticipate being banned in the future you may apply for SDMB friendship. I will build the largest collection of BANNED members this board has ever seen! And you could be a part of it! Edit: Maybe this should have gone in MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/2 "2012-01-04T09:31:09Z")
Ironically, it’s a post like this that would make me want to friend you as appreciation for being considerate. Yeah, getting offended at getting unadded is stupid, but people think stupid things sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/3 "2012-01-04T10:10:05Z")
Whatever **Melon** is drinking, I would like some. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/4 "2012-01-04T10:49:07Z")
May you have a safe journey to where no Doper has gone before… ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/5 "2012-01-04T10:54:01Z")
“Some Places Remain Unknown Because No One Has Ventured Forth. Others Remain So Because No One Has Ever Come Back.” [Despair.com](http://Despair.com) demotivator ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/6 "2012-01-04T11:12:45Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > Whatever **Melon** is drinking, I would like some. _Drinking_? Nothing! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/7 "2012-01-04T15:18:01Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Edit: Maybe this should have gone in MPSIMS. Yup. Moved. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/8 "2012-01-04T15:21:44Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > I’m considering breaking friendships with everyone who doesn’t have the BANNED tag under their name. So if any of you experience a sudden, crushing depression it’s either the weight of the guilt of all the horrible things you’ve done, an understanding of the inevitability of death or you’ve just been defriended on the Dope. > > So far I have two banned friends. If you anticipate being banned in the future you may apply for SDMB friendship. I will build the largest collection of BANNED members this board has ever seen! And you could be a part of it! > > Edit: Maybe this should have gone in MPSIMS. I love goals and this is one of the cooler ones I’ve seen here. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/9 "2012-01-04T16:17:28Z")
So your gettin’ the BANNED back together? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/10 "2012-01-04T16:20:38Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I love goals and this is one of the cooler ones I’ve seen here. I’ve always lacked goals. One of my new-years resolutions is to not let this bother me. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/11 "2012-01-04T16:24:10Z")
So is the burden of keeping up with more than two friends a hassle or something? 🙂 Does _anybody_ do _anything_ with their _Friends_? I surely don’t. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/12 "2012-01-04T16:34:42Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > So is the burden of keeping up with more than two friends a hassle or something? 🙂 > > Does _anybody_ do _anything_ with their _Friends_? **I surely don’t.** Oh great, I feel better now. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/13 "2012-01-04T16:45:37Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > Oh great, I feel better now. So, wanna be my friend? That way we can both do nothing together… ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/14 "2012-01-04T16:49:58Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > So, wanna be my friend? That way we can both do nothing together… Sorry, I’m already doing that with two but if you really wanna… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/15 "2012-01-04T16:55:37Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > Sorry, I’m already doing that with two but if you really wanna… Naah. That’s okay. I was mostly funnin’. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/16 "2012-01-04T21:03:02Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I love goals and this is one of the cooler ones I’ve seen here. May your banning be a masculine banning. > [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > So your gettin’ the BANNED back together? Hey buddy this is serious there isn’t any room for fucking around. So far I have **Champion, The Drinker** and **Diogenes the Cynic**. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/17 "2012-01-04T22:10:39Z")
We were friends before this, weren’t we? (Shows how seriously I take “friending” at the SDMB.) If so, I feel an emptiness in my heart and a darkness in my soul that I hadn’t felt before. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/18 "2012-01-04T22:16:25Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > We were friends before this, weren’t we? No. > [@Slit](#): > > I feel an emptiness in my heart and a darkness in my soul that I hadn’t felt before. Because you thought we were friends and now you realize that we aren’t! That being said, if you intend on flaming out in a blaze of message board glory… ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/19 "2012-01-04T22:17:38Z")
That will be a comfort if it ever comes my being banned. ---
**Author:** ![Alonzo\_John\_Blitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@Alonzo\_John\_Blitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alonzo_John_Blitz)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364/20 "2012-01-04T22:32:35Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > So your gettin’ the BANNED back together? Once, long ago, when I was just a wee sprat and my father still thought I might amount to something, he said to me “Some people think there’s something funny out there; I haven’t found it, but you keep an eye open.” Gee, dad, wish you’d lived to see the day, ‘cause here it is. Thanks, Toad. Made me laugh and cry. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-friends/608364.md?page=2)