# Come out of the closet: What SDMB rules of a"cool" do you break? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 17, 2007, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289 "2007-12-17T02:41:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**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:** [December 18, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/141 "2007-12-18T18:26:06Z")
I also can’t stand Harry Potter and am afraid of its fans. Especially after working in a bookstore on the night of an HP release. > [@bouv](#): > > And I might get banned for this, but here goes: > Not every one who posts a picture on the boards is hot, or even remotely attractive. Some of you are fat and/or are ugly, and I get annoyed when it seems everyone (wait, let me take that back…every woman) has to get complimented on their photo less they feel bad. > > There, I said it. Flame me at your leisure. Awwwww, I can’t flame you. You’re a hottie. 😉 > [@SpazCat](#): > > Whatever happened to the Invisible Pink Unicorn? I liked her. She’s just waiting for you to talk to her. > [@Lucky 13](#): > > I love their mocha, particularly the peppermint mocha they sell this time of year. You can get a peppermint mocha any time of year, BTW. > [@Lucky 13](#): > > I’m indifferent to Joss Whedon and his works. I did like the “Once More with Feeling” episode of Buffy, though. Did you know there’s a movie of that out? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/142 "2007-12-18T18:27:43Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] I made a reference to toilet flushing. People who are trying to be “green” urge only to flush when there is solid waste in the bowl, and to leave things wait if there is urine only. I cannot do this. [/QUOTE] My daughters are green without even trying. They never flush. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/143 "2007-12-18T18:36:42Z")
I don’t like “Friends” I’ve never seen “Aliens” I am a Republican (oooooo, evil!) I don’t dislike Nickelback (except for that horrible “Photograph” song) ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/144 "2007-12-18T18:36:47Z")
Since when was disliking reality TV outside the SDMB mainstream? ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/145 "2007-12-18T18:40:34Z")
Thank you **Hostile Dialect** and **Opal** for the help. Once again I’ll try these suggestions and hopefully, finally get it right. Or at least closer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/146 "2007-12-18T18:53:23Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] I made a reference to toilet flushing. People who are trying to be “green” urge only to flush when there is solid waste in the bowl, and to leave things wait if there is urine only. I cannot do this. [/QUOTE] Actually, I don’t even conserve water. It’s kind of hard to get motivated to do so when half the contents of Lake Ontario is piled up on your front stairs. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/147 "2007-12-18T20:28:49Z")
I don’t get the appeal of _Buffy_ or _Angel_ at all. I don’t think all conservatives are evil or closeted gays. I think grammar police are losers. I don’t really care how you organize your photos, key rings, or your bathroom trips. NICKELBACK ROCKS!!! \m/ 😃 \m/ ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/148 "2007-12-18T21:17:55Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Awwwww, I can’t flame you. You’re a hottie. 😉 [/QUOTE] Damn you! But I do see **Nzinga, Seated’s** point about different tastes and standards and all that. But one has to admit, it’s par for the course that every picture posted has to get an obligatory “how YOU doin’?”, or a “_fans self_”, “_swoons_”, or what have you. It’s like people go out of their way/overboard with the sexual innuendo and what not.. I think a more dignified compliment might be better than coming off as a horny 14 year old. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/149 "2007-12-18T21:20:39Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] I think a more dignified compliment might be better than coming off as a horny 14 year old. [/QUOTE] It is pleasant to read your posts. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/150 "2007-12-19T00:22:51Z")
I know the difference between “its” and “it’s”. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/151 "2007-12-19T01:18:49Z")
[QUOTE=Knowed Out] I don’t get the appeal of _Buffy_ or _Angel_ at all. [/QUOTE] After watching a few episodes of Bones, I can sort of see the appeal of Angel. I could gnaw on David Boreanz all night. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/152 "2007-12-19T02:45:22Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] I know the difference between “its” and “it’s”. [/QUOTE] And their and they’re. And fare and fair. And I know how to spell per se. I could go on. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/153 "2007-12-19T03:14:33Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] But I do see **Nzinga, Seated’s** point about different tastes and standards and all that. But one has to admit, it’s par for the course that every picture posted has to get an obligatory “how YOU doin’?”, or a “_fans self_”, “_swoons_”, or what have you. It’s like people go out of their way/overboard with the sexual innuendo and what not.. I think a more dignified compliment might be better than coming off as a horny 14 year old. [/QUOTE] **Nzinga** has a point but yours is far and away more valid so far as the picture threads are concerned. There really are some really nice looking people posting here but the vast majority of us are pretty plain or average and some are actually almost frightening but that doesn’t stop people from falling all over themselves to try to flatter them and I sometimes almost get embarassed reading some of the more obviously deceitful posts. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/154 "2007-12-19T03:17:19Z")
Yeah, me too. It must be tough for the female Dopers to figure out who’s being honest and who’s being “polite” by acting like a 12-year-old looking at a Playboy centerfold. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/155 "2007-12-19T03:18:48Z")
Well, I’m here to tell ya that, although I’ve never posted in a picture thread, if I do, please feel free to lie your ass off and tell me I’m absolutely freakin’ gorgeous. I mean, I’ve already got my hands full stalking a celebrity so you guys are safe. Therefore the rule of the day is to flirt with me (if you so choose to post in response to my hypothetical photo) like there ain’t no tomorrow. Which might be the only reason, but still… ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/156 "2007-12-19T03:33:05Z")
I think the Sequential Threads are more enlightening than the Great Debates. (props to **Meacham** ) ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/157 "2007-12-19T04:17:26Z")
[QUOTE=Silver Fire] Yes, prescription medications. Being a nutbar and needing pills for it is as common here [/QUOTE] Maybe. I haven’t noticed. But I’d hardly say it’s “cool” even if it is true. [QUOTE=Silver Fire] as people claiming they could read when they were two. I’m just saying, I don’t take prescription medications. I also could not, to my knowledge, read even before I stopped crapping my pants. [/QUOTE] Heh. I think it’s even “cooler” to tell us how young your kid was when he or she started reading. [QUOTE=vetbridge] I made a reference to toilet flushing. People who are trying to be “green” urge only to flush when there is solid waste in the bowl, and to leave things wait if there is urine only. I cannot do this. [/QUOTE] Sure, but how often does this come up? I don’t ever remember seeing it mentioned here. Maybe I’m in the wrong forums. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/158 "2007-12-19T04:41:58Z")
I drive an American-made full-size sedan. Don’t know how you can be more SDMB-uncool than that. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/159 "2007-12-19T04:44:05Z")
I support the war in Iraq. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289/160 "2007-12-19T04:51:51Z")
[QUOTE=Taber] Since when was disliking reality TV outside the SDMB mainstream? [/QUOTE] Yeah, I’m wondering the same thing, hence why my actual liking of it is listed in this thread. Hell, as of this posting, there are three separate mentions of it in the [Things you wish the world would tire of](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448292) thread. That’s almost 10% of the posts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-out-of-the-closet-what-sdmb-rules-of-a-cool-do-you-break/430289.md?page=9)