# Entire cohort of refugees joins SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 9, 2014, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745 "2014-12-09T08:17:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/81 "2014-12-11T00:34:29Z")
So that board is like Game of Thrones thread? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/82 "2014-12-11T00:37:39Z")
They are free to start a separate Shopping Catalog Snark thread if they want to discuss the books. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/83 "2014-12-11T00:41:15Z")
All rules come down to one simple thing. What is not allowed to be said. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/84 "2014-12-11T04:58:29Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > I think it would be a nice idea to give the newcomers some sample thread starting topics for testing the waters. Perhaps: > > - Cats: indoors or outdoors? To declaw or not to declaw? > - Why do black people \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_? > - How much do you tip at a restaurant? (Answers from non-tipping cultures welcome!) Balrogs: Do they have wings? Can they fly? If so, how well? ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/85 "2014-12-11T06:43:25Z")
I for one welcome our new shopping channel overlords ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/86 "2014-12-11T19:53:25Z")
Hey, I may be a shopping channel snarker refugee immigrant doper board wannabe, but I’m also an Indiana girl from an Indiana town. I grew up tall and I grew up right with those Indiana boys on those Indiana nights. So that means I can stay, right? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/87 "2014-12-11T20:06:33Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > Hey, I may be a shopping channel snarker refugee immigrant doper board wannabe, but I’m also an Indiana girl from an Indiana town. I grew up tall and I grew up right with those Indiana boys on those Indiana nights. > > So that means I can stay, right? Did you have a good lookin’ mama who never was around? ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/88 "2014-12-11T20:12:50Z")
Of course. I never slowed down and I never grew old. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/89 "2014-12-12T23:07:31Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Not that I am boardist but I think they should stick to their own thread. Who knows what kind of posts those types could make? Just saying. You’re saying that some boardists are more equal than other boardists, is that it? ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/90 "2014-12-13T00:37:32Z")
Some of my best friends post at other message boards, so I know I’m not boardist. But we all know they don’t share our values and culture. Some of them don’t even know who Cecil Adams is! I’m sure everyone else is thinking the same thing; I’m just the only one who is willing to say it. People like that are fine to friend on Facebook, but would you want your daughter to private message one? Even typing that as satire makes my skin crawl a little. ---
**Author:** ![Qwakkeddup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Qwakkeddup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwakkeddup)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/91 "2014-12-13T06:28:12Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Maybe those people should have gold stars by their names. Just so we know them because sometimes they look like normal posters. Harummph!! Gold Stars are for Sneeches only!! No Gold Stars for Snarks!!! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/92 "2014-12-13T12:01:36Z")
What the hell would they even know about the Marianas Trench- even in 20 minutes. If they are snarky enough we need to train them to be Mods in the Pit. (j/k Miller- honestly). ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/93 "2014-12-13T15:53:31Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > Some of my best friends post at other message boards, so I know I’m not boardist. But we all know they don’t share our values and culture. Some of them don’t even know who Cecil Adams is! I’m sure everyone else is thinking the same thing; I’m just the only one who is willing to say it. People like that are fine to friend on Facebook, but would you want your daughter to private message one? > > Even typing that as satire makes my skin crawl a little. OK, that made me snort. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/94 "2014-12-13T23:40:41Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > This is what happens when you don’t address immigration reform. I blame Obama. Just wait until you have to pay for server insurance. ---
**Author:** ![orangeapples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@orangeapples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orangeapples)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/95 "2014-12-14T00:07:27Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Just wait until you have to pay for server insurance. I knew there was more to this net neutrality thing than they were letting on. Next thing y’know we’ll have Blue Screen of Death Panels. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/96 "2014-12-14T02:16:43Z")
Just read the first 2 pages of that thread and I’m somehow so tickled by it. And I’m dying to meet **Puddy**!! I’m guessing that girl can _snark_! ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/97 "2014-12-14T03:18:11Z")
I don’t mind if one or two of them come here, but if the whole group comes then the board will go to hell, what with their silly ideas and loose morals… ---
**Author:** ![callander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@callander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callander)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/98 "2014-12-14T04:51:34Z")
I say let them loose, some of them will stick others will go the way of Teflon, it’s been a infusion of fun. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/99 "2014-12-14T10:49:20Z")
Just reading page 4 when someone announced the old forum had been re-opened. My first thought was “No! don’t go!”. This thread is really making me giggle. ---
**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 15, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745/100 "2014-12-15T21:13:14Z")
For some reason this reminds me of the time a bunch of high school girls took over the men’s bathroom I was in because they said they needed extra space to change outfits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entire-cohort-of-refugees-joins-sdmb/706745.md?page=6)