All right, I took my last straw when I saw this thread about teachers who were really inspiring. It’s a great subject. Click on the thing, and after about the usual five minutes of loading time, I found that it was in actuality:
“Do hamsters eat threads?” or some such moronic fuckin’ nonsense.
Wasting my time, wasting my bandwidth, and making the board that much slower for everybody else, too.
People who ask stupid questions should expose them in the subject line. Or be exposed themselves to a hive of angry hornets. While tied to a tree. While fucked up the ass by a popsicle.
With no specific link to work with, this is just a WAG, but in the thread that sparked this, did you notice if the name of the thread starter and the name of the first poster were the same? Sometimes the board software hiccups and a new thread gets posted sans the first post: you get a thread title with no text. One of the board in-jokes is that those missing OPs are eaten by the ravenous hamsters that run the SDMB.
If that’s not the case, then I agree wholeheartedly. Descriptive thread titles make the Baby Jesus, I don’t know, do something happy baby divinities do.
I don’t know about the particular thread you are mentioning, but for some reason the board has lately been eating a lot of OP. The “thread” will show on the board, but when you open it, voila! Nothing.
My guess would be in that case someone made that response to a thread with no post in it.
My guess.
[sub]Aside - What if they like getting fucked up the ass by a popsicle?[/sub]
The thread in question, undoubtedly, is this one. And, obviously, this was a case of OP-eating hamsters. Ocatvia, etc. came back in after the second post and re-posted the OP, signifying that the thread was, as the title suggested, about great teachers and what made them great.
Well, it’s either that or a particular in-joke that ResIpsaLoquitor and I share: that it must be his goat who’s eating at least some of them. Actually, now I think of it, we haven’t really figured out if the goat is mine or his. He sort of stole it from me, but I have no idea whose it is now.
