# Christ, people, it's a fucking message board! (lame, mild) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 23, 2007, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147 "2007-03-23T08:05:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/21 "2007-03-23T15:24:05Z")
So what you’re saying is you’d rather be on another board entirely? ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/22 "2007-03-23T15:41:57Z")
[QUOTE=faithfool] 2) the current trend (or has this always been so and I just missed it?) of purposely going into a thread you hate to only say that you hate and take issues with everyone else posting that _wanted_ to be there. [/QUOTE] I don’t know about this one. If there’s a thread titled, “Who else likes to put their cellphone up their butt?” it is perfectly reasonable to post “Not me!” or “Do not put your cellphone up your butt!” Especially if you know the poster IRL and have borrowed his cellphone. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/23 "2007-03-23T15:44:37Z")
[QUOTE=CynicalGabe] 8. Why do old people have to drive so fucking slow? [/QUOTE] Can I file this one in the LAME-O rants file along with “My mother-in-law is crazy”, “Why do people drive slow in the fast lane?”, and “My neighbor is loud.” It’s like listening to some stand-up comedian’s material from 1972 on amateur night. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/24 "2007-03-23T15:45:28Z")
I’m not sure I can take this thread seriously. You forgot to make #3 Hi Opal!. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingCowOfDoom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyingcowofdoom/32/21776_2.png) [@FlyingCowOfDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingCowOfDoom)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/25 "2007-03-23T15:47:58Z")
I hate it when people nitpick the smallest mistakes. [QUOTE=CynicalGabe] Oh noes! Someone killed a pet mongoose and then sodomized it in front of kindergarten students while singing “It’s A Small World After All”. [/QUOTE] BTW, it’s “it’s a small world”. You bastard. –FCOD ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/26 "2007-03-23T18:19:31Z")
I couldn’t sleep last night, so I went on a rant-page. The thread title stopped matching the content after the first couple of sub-rants. [QUOTE=Hampshire] It’s like listening to some stand-up comedian’s material from 1972 on amateur night. [/QUOTE] Sorry, I wouldn’t know anything about amateur night in 1972. I’m not old. 🙂 > [@LifeOnWry](#): > > Well, having read the OP, I feel the need to ask: What SHOULD we talk about then? The GEICO cavemen. > [@LifeOnWry](#): > > It IS a message board. If you’re spending a fair amount of time being concerned about what goes on here, that’s a pretty good sign that it’s YOU who’s taking it too seriously. If there’s a thread or topic that doesn’t interest you, don’t read it, and don’t respond to it, and everyone will know you’re not interested. If you do (horrors!) accidentally read it and discover that it doesn’t interest you, well, sorry you wasted three minutes of your life finding that out. That’s normally what I do, rather than read the thread anyway and post some turd of discontent like some poster whose name starts with “l” and ends with “issener” > [@](#): > > Wasting three minutes more of your (and everyone else’s) time posting that you’re not interested seems kinda stupid. You eat stupid food for breakfast. > [@Don't fight the hypothetical](#): > > What silenas said. I’m confused about how the things you think are worth pitting or discussing are OK and others are not. Because obviously my opinions should dictate reality. > [@esser](#): > > ``` > 1-2: Well, gosh, CG, you don't want huge splashy threads about who has been banned, you don't want pages of discussion about who should be banned, and you think it's pointless to talk about who might be banned. If you get your way, where am I going to sell all my semi-official SDMB "I'm with the banned" T-shirts? > > ``` Instead, why don’t you try to organize a reunion of all the banned Dopers. Then you could say “We’re getting the banned back together.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/27 "2007-03-23T18:29:07Z")
[QUOTE=CynicalGabe] You eat stupid food for breakfast. [/QUOTE] Some memes never lose their zing. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/28 "2007-03-23T18:39:42Z")
[QUOTE=CynicalGabe] Instead, why don’t you try to organize a reunion of all the banned Dopers. Then you could say “We’re getting the banned back together.” [/QUOTE] Maybe you could hold a concert to raise money for this noble purpose. What do we call it, though? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/29 "2007-03-23T18:47:04Z")
I lurked for no more than two weeks. I win Ed Zotti’s voice on my answering machine, right? ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/30 "2007-03-23T19:15:00Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Maybe you could hold a concert to raise money for this noble purpose. What do we call it, though? [/QUOTE] Obviously the “Battle of the Banned”. But that might infringe on the copyright of a certain DeadJournal… > [@fetus](#): > > I lurked for no more than two weeks. I win Ed Zotti’s voice on my answering machine, right? Ed Zotti is really Carl Kassel! I should have known… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/31 "2007-03-23T19:16:17Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] I hate how every single new member has to make it clear, in each of their first thousand posts, exactly how many years and how often they lurked. [/QUOTE] This is less irritating than the people who call radio talk shows and say “I’m a first-time caller”. I realize they’re mostly trying to indicate that they are clueless mumbling ninnies and hoping that the host won’t be too tough on them. But sometimes you get the feeling they are trolling for an award. “O.K.! A new caller! Leave your name with the operator and get a coupon for 50% off a Dick Cheney bobblehead doll from our promotional department!” > [@CynicalGabe\[/quote](#): > > Someone killed a pet mongoose and then sodomized it in front of kindergarten students while singing “It’s A Small World After All”. Is this video on YouTube? I can’t find the link. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/32 "2007-03-23T19:36:29Z")
[QUOTE=CynicalGabe] Obviously the “Battle of the Banned”. [/QUOTE] Talking about obvious, how in the world did you miss the clear reference to “Banned Aid”? ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/33 "2007-03-23T19:43:29Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] Talking about obvious, how in the world did you miss the clear reference to “Banned Aid”? [/QUOTE] A shameful oversight. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/34 "2007-03-23T19:56:37Z")
I think someone who has “Cynical” right in his username should be given free reign to frown on things as he sees fit. It’s not like we weren’t warned. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/35 "2007-03-23T20:07:57Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] I think someone who has “Cynical” right in his username should be given free reign to frown on things as he sees fit. It’s not like we weren’t warned. [/QUOTE] Free rein, too. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/36 "2007-03-23T20:11:18Z")
No, no… **featherlou** is right. [QUOTE=CyniclaGabe] Because obviously my opinions should dictate reality. [/QUOTE] So **reign** would be the correct spelling. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/37 "2007-03-23T20:11:58Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] No, no… **featherlou** is right. So **reign** would be the correct spelling. [/QUOTE] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/38 "2007-03-23T20:19:23Z")
Oops. Maybe that was Freudian, eh? All hail King Gabe! ---
**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/39 "2007-03-23T20:27:20Z")
To the Op: looks like you should stick to general questions and cafe society. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/40 "2007-03-23T20:45:02Z")
None of the specific points made in the OP really have to do with taking a message board too seriously. I’m just saying is all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147.md?page=3)