# Gosh, I wish Street lurkers would leave me be. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746 "2016-08-04T16:06:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Poo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Poo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Poo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/1 "2016-08-04T16:06:34Z")
I had earphones in, god forbid you make eye contact. The worst ones in my experience have been those who push paintball, they’ll happily talk nonstop for 10 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/2 "2016-08-04T16:09:18Z")
Wat? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/3 "2016-08-04T20:30:10Z")
Reported for forum change ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/4 "2016-08-04T20:33:15Z")
Let’s try this in MPSIMS. Thread relocated from IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/5 "2016-08-04T20:43:00Z")
First let’s start out with where do you live that has actual streets? Probably some city or town. God I hate those places! Pushing their paintball and shit. Chatty Cathy is the worst. Then we can narrow down why you have lurkers. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/6 "2016-08-04T20:50:20Z")
I don’t like liver. I like onions though. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/7 "2016-08-04T21:00:25Z")
And then in more upscale areas you have Avenue Lurkers, Boulevard Lurkers, Lane Lurkers, and the feared Circle and Court Lurkers. There is a specific pest control methodology for each. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/8 "2016-08-04T22:37:59Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > I don’t like liver. I like onions though. They’re great on your belt. Very fashionable. The white kind, not the yellow ones. The yellows are OK if they’re all you can get. Onions, I mean. Not livers. Nor paintball pushers. (Although decapitated paintball pusher heads… maybe…) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/9 "2016-08-04T22:47:27Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > They’re great on your belt. Very fashionable. The white kind, not the yellow ones. The yellows are OK if they’re all you can get. Can you gimme five bees for a quarter? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/10 "2016-08-04T23:23:18Z")
Hazmat fashions, now in cargo pants; electronics are never on sale, but jeans are business casual? How many fingers am I holding up and did you know you have polyps? Greasy cliff hair may cause zits; soap can’t hurt and we all recommend it. Playlist App battery power low? Pokemon Go? ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/11 "2016-08-04T23:44:15Z")
The lurkers I get always want money. Where do I find ones I can play games with? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/12 "2016-08-05T15:09:49Z")
God damn the paintball pusher man ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/13 "2016-08-05T15:39:24Z")
“I don’t wish to create joinder with you.” ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/14 "2016-08-06T10:29:51Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > God damn the paintball pusher man 🙂 Oh but the paintball pusher is a monster ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/15 "2016-08-06T13:55:36Z")
I tried to avoid this problem by moving out to where the Streets Have No Name, but now I’m constantly getting lost. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/16 "2016-08-06T15:44:37Z")
Well, I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name, and while it felt good to be out of the rain, in the desert you can remember your name cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gosh-i-wish-street-lurkers-would-leave-me-be/761746/17 "2016-08-06T16:02:41Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > God damn the paintball pusher man The paintball pusher is a myth. Paintball sells itself. If there was no demand, we wouldn’t have to worry about the supply. What we need to get rid of is those Germans. A man can’t walk down the street without someone offering him a job.