# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/41 "2007-03-23T21:03:52Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] As to the rest of the OP–yeah! (especially the old people–what I wouldn’t give for a tranquilizer dart gun sometimes). [/QUOTE] Wouldn’t that just slow them down more? ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/42 "2007-03-23T22:14:56Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] 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. [/QUOTE] Well **saoirse** , I’d say in those circumstances you could cry your/their ringtone to high heaven and it would be justified. Until then, I don’t think I’ll be borrowing yours whenever I need to make any calls. Not unless there’s much antibiotics involved. ---
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/43 "2007-03-23T22:26:52Z")
Hey I only REALLY lurked for a month. I threadspotting lurked for a while though. as to 6-7… every situation is different. Now if we had a plethora of GENERIC “woe is me” threads, that’d be one thing. But to have a veritable smorgasboard of different woes to choose from! and besides, #3 gives us such great opportunities for us non-believers to make jokes that might very well send us to hell, but then again, probably not. > [@ceejaytea](#): > > Wouldn’t that just slow them down more? sure but when they totally stop moving you just treat it like a slalom run, or in the case of pedestrians, an accuracy test. Bonus points for combos and not damaging the car. ---
**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, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/44 "2007-03-23T22:29:23Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] Oops. Maybe that was Freudian, eh? All hail King Gabe! [/QUOTE] I promise to be a benevolent dictator. > [@Mikemike2](#): > > To the Op: looks like you should stick to general questions and cafe society. I usually stay out of CS, just to cut back on the number of threads to keep up on. I don’t post in GD that much (except to ask a question), because GD questions are usually answered in the first couple of posts, with everyone after that piling on to add their “$0.02”. It’s fun for awhile, but soon the threads get too cumbersome to get involved with. To wit: any thread that involves an airplane and a treadmill. Or the true definition of the number 1. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/45 "2007-03-23T23:03:21Z")
[QUOTE=CynicalGabe] I don’t post in **GD** that much (except to ask a question), because **GD** questions are usually answered in the first couple of posts [/QUOTE] Would that it were so. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/46 "2007-03-23T23:35:59Z")
[QUOTE=Ceejaytee] Wouldn’t that just slow them down more? [/QUOTE] Nah…knock 'em out, so I can step over them or drive around their cars. (I can’t bring myself to just kill them outright) ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/47 "2007-03-23T23:41:32Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Free rein, too. [/QUOTE] are you sure it wasn’t “free range”??? ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/48 "2007-03-23T23:42:53Z")
[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. As if we’re some exclusive club and we’re only going to let you in if you convince us that you’re really an old chum on a technicality. Just admit you just found the place, because the other likely alternative is that you’re a sock. Nobody lurks for 5 years and then signs up to post about the new flavor of Mountain Dew. [/QUOTE] Well, crap, I violated this and #6 on my very first post here 😛 But I really did lurk for about 2-3 years before joining. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/49 "2007-03-24T01:05:55Z")
Hey **Gabe** , if those things bother you so much, maybe you should stop taking it so seriously 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/50 "2007-03-24T01:16:57Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] Hey **Gabe** , if those things bother you so much, maybe you should stop taking it so seriously 😉 [/QUOTE] The life of a cynic is a hard one. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/51 "2007-03-24T01:43:42Z")
[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. As if we’re some exclusive club and we’re only going to let you in if you convince us that you’re really an old chum on a technicality. Just admit you just found the place, because the other likely alternative is that you’re a sock. Nobody lurks for 5 years and then signs up to post about the new flavor of Mountain Dew. [/QUOTE] I think most of them are using the term “lurk” to mean “I’ve been trying to post for the last 5 years but the #@\*!& system keeps timing out” ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/52 "2007-03-24T03:15:22Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] 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. [/QUOTE] “What’s the deal with bicycles on the road? I mean a road is for cars already. You ever been to a store where they check your receipt when you leave? What am I, a criminal? And what about the guy that had a cellphone ring in a movie theater? What’s the deal with that? Are you some kind of super-doctor? Who here likes airline food? [man in the audience shouts ‘Hey I like airline food!’] You sir, obviously merge too early on the highway. Use the entire merge lane dumbo. And what about co-workers? They’re the worst, right? I call them cow-orkers. COW-orkers! Thanks! You’ve been great tonight!” ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/53 "2007-03-24T03:17:59Z")
[QUOTE=CaveMike] “What’s the deal with bicycles on the road?..” [/QUOTE] The entire time I was reading that post, I was hearing it in the voice of Gilbert Gottfried doing Jerry Seinfeld. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/54 "2007-03-24T04:21:47Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] Talking about obvious, how in the world did you miss the clear reference to “Banned Aid”? [/QUOTE] Or if there’s a banned poster named Alex, and he plays Scott Joplin music, would that be _Alexander’s Ragtime Banned_? OK, I’m reaching. I know. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/55 "2007-03-24T04:36:08Z")
Another person who signed up and then forgot about it for two years, way back when. Not gonna say anything else about the OP. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/56 "2007-03-24T13:20:42Z")
[QUOTE=CynicalGabe] I think we can do without the following: [/QUOTE] No, we can’t. It’s what the SDMB is all about, and always has been about. I think perhaps you need to take a break, or even permanently go elsewhere, if the fundamentals of the SDMB are no longer what you find pleasure in consuming. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/57 "2007-03-24T19:44:03Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] No, we can’t. It’s what the SDMB is all about, and always has been about. I think perhaps you need to take a break, or even permanently go elsewhere, if the fundamentals of the SDMB are no longer what you find pleasure in consuming. [/QUOTE] What, I’m not allowed to use ranting as a method of finding catharsis? Isn’t that also a big part of the Dope? ---
**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 25, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/58 "2007-03-25T01:38:54Z")
[QUOTE=CynicalGabe] What, I’m not allowed to use ranting as a method of finding catharsis? Isn’t that also a big part of the Dope? [/QUOTE] You’re supposed to use ranting as a method of not going out and shooting your fellow man to death. Did you not read the user agreement, dude? Sorry, I mean King Dude? ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/59 "2007-03-25T03:15:07Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] You’re supposed to use ranting as a method of not going out and shooting your fellow man to death. Did you not read the user agreement, dude? Sorry, I mean King Dude? [/QUOTE] The dude abides by the user agreement, man. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147/60 "2007-03-25T12:30:03Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] 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. [/QUOTE] Come _on._ That’s what “vibrate” is _for._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christ-people-its-a-fucking-message-board-lame-mild/397147.md?page=4)