# Crap all over this thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 31, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379 "2004-12-31T04:57:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/41 "2004-12-31T06:27:51Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > I can’t believe how much I have to translate. That reminds me, Lost in Translation is the worst movie ever made. Sophia Coppola should be locked in a room with crazed badgers for unleashing that dreck on the world. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/42 "2004-12-31T06:35:37Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Ah! I see that my friend, the spider, has been to you’re wetlands recently. Exellent news! The delivery should be recieved in the morning. Great. It’s not ‘domager’, btw. It’s _dowager_. [sorry to be such a nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/43 "2004-12-31T06:35:48Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I can believe how much I DON’T have to translate. Being monolingual and associating only with people, places, and things in your own language is a remarkably effective solution for that one. If everyone did this then we could just throw out all those “dictionaries”, “electronic translators”, and “Babelfish” to make room for something actually useful. If God wanted people using something other than English, he would have written the Bible in another language. Did I mention that if are not already monolingual then there is still hope. I know that a lot of Canadians are forced to learn multiple languages for some reason and this often causes the problems that you describe. You can become “functionally monolingual” using a technique I invented. It takes time but it is worth it. The technique is similar to that used to erase computer hard drives. The data is overwritten with gibberish. 1. Pick out words that you know from the foreign language and create false meanings for them. Study those false meanings until the false meaning is much more prominent in your conscious than the original meaning of the word. This will render the word useless for communication with others. Repeat for all foreign words. 2. Create really screwy rules of grammar and apply them to the new language until those are the ones that you automatically try to apply. Practice and repeat. 3. Once your grammar and vocabulary are overwritten by gibberish, the language will hopefully become useless to you as a means of communication and requests for translation will cause you to give the proud look of a blank stare. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/44 "2004-12-31T06:47:28Z")
> [@iggy popov](#): > > Did you see that cat do a back flip? No, but I did just watch one of my cats climb into a plastic shopping bag, get his head stuck in the carry handle, flip royally the fuck out, charge around the living room in circles, get the bag stuck on the large, wheeled laundry sorter we got for Christmas, make a mad dash for the starcase, drag the laundry sorter down the stairs with him, thereby bashing the laundry sorter into it’s base components making a hellacious racket and plowing a not-too-inconspicuous hole in the wall. Fricking cats. ---
**Author:** ![Survivor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Survivor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survivor)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/45 "2004-12-31T07:02:21Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Fricking cats. There were two cats fighting or something outside our window last night in the middle of a rainstorm… And speaking of rain… How come we almost never get thunderstorms in Northern California? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/46 "2004-12-31T07:09:34Z")
> [@Abbie Carmichael](#): > > for unleashing that dreck on the world. Exactly my point. Bush & Co have totally destroyed America. No wonder 9/11 happened, what with how we respond to tsunamis. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/47 "2004-12-31T07:24:42Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Exactly my point. Bush & Co have totally destroyed America. No wonder 9/11 happened, what with how we respond to tsunamis. And don’t forget your attitude towards hutspot. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/48 "2004-12-31T07:44:35Z")
Holmes, come and look at this thread! What is it about, Watson? It’s an amusing concept - you have to be irrelevant with each successive reply. it’s known as ‘hijacking the thread’. But surely, Watson, since the very purpose of the thread is to hijack, then to be irrelevant with each successive reply would, in fact, be relevant. Therefore each poster should continue as usual in these cases, and comment on the previous post. 😕 Come now Watson, even the meanest intelligence can appreciate the logical steps I have taken. 😕😕 ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/49 "2004-12-31T08:06:51Z")
I want to run naked through a thread with **iampunha**. Just once. In the 60’s. For 20 minutes. _stomps the cheesy reference into the ground, grinding down on it with her boot, yelling “Stop it! STOP IT! ENOUGH!”_ ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/50 "2004-12-31T08:27:01Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Holmes, come and look at this thread! > > What is it about, Watson? > > It’s an amusing concept - you have to be irrelevant with each successive reply. it’s known as ‘hijacking the thread’. > > But surely, Watson, since the very purpose of the thread is to hijack, then to be irrelevant with each successive reply would, in fact, be relevant. Therefore each poster should continue as usual in these cases, and comment on the previous post. > > 😕 > > Come now Watson, even the meanest intelligence can appreciate the logical steps I have taken. > > 😕😕 Speaking of Holmes, did anyone ever see that show “Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century”?. It had some early CGI scenes that looked really bad. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/51 "2004-12-31T10:42:15Z")
I woke up a few minutes ago needing to pee so bad that I felt that I looked like a Sim dashing to the bathroom. That amused me, but I was afraid to laugh until I peed. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/52 "2004-12-31T10:58:20Z")
So the judge ruled against Anna Nicole. She’s not gonna get the 88 mil. Hope all her stuff is paid for. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/53 "2004-12-31T11:18:47Z")
> [@Lsura](#): > > I woke up a few minutes ago needing to pee so bad that I felt that I looked like a Sim dashing to the bathroom. That amused me, but I was afraid to laugh until I peed. That’s so typical of this board, concentrating on urination while there are still billions of people in the world without reliable broadband access to the internets. When are you people going to wake up and acknowledge this problem? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/54 "2004-12-31T11:35:23Z")
Is there _anything_ as nasty as morning breath? Well, yeah, I suppose there are lots of things as nasty or nastier, but still, to wake with a mouth tasting as ick as mine does at the moment. Yes, I will brush them now, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/55 "2004-12-31T11:47:46Z")
> [@gum](#): > > And don’t forget your attitude towards hutspot. Hutspot? See, that is exactly why I don’t recycle plastic! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/56 "2004-12-31T13:46:24Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Hutspot? See, that is exactly why I don’t recycle plastic! And yet the Moon has lower gravity. GET SOME PERSPECTIVE! ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/57 "2004-12-31T14:23:59Z")
Fact of the Day: Fat kids are harder to kidnap. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/58 "2004-12-31T14:32:12Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Hutspot? See, that is exactly why I don’t recycle plastic! What a coincidence! There’s a [Hotspot Cafe](http://www.geocities.com/p_stutzman/images/Interior2/Hotspot.jpg) on the Dalton Highway in Alaska! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/59 "2004-12-31T14:37:12Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > And yet the Moon has lower gravity. > > GET SOME PERSPECTIVE! It’s just about 14 hours and 20 minutes to midnight, New Year’s Eve here, and I have no plans to party. I’ll probably be asleep by then. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crap-all-over-this-thread/282379/60 "2004-12-31T14:44:46Z")
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