# Hostile Dialect; A Word, Please. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 27, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375 "2008-08-27T01:53:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 167
**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:** [August 27, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/167 "2008-08-27T19:31:53Z")
> [@ivan astikov](#): > > People don’t have their “own rooms” in a public mall, as far as I’m aware. If they don’t want people coming in their shop and laughing like a fucking drain, I suggest they should have coded signs on the doors. You are by far the single densest poster I have met here in a long time, and that’s saying a lot. He was making an analogy to an MPSIMS thread, because, gee, _the entire shopping mall thing was brought up as an analogy to an MPSIMS thread_. > [@ivan astikov](#): > > I think you know what “threadshitting” is, and it isn’t “shaking your head with bemusement” in front of a bunch of adults obsessed with fantasy animals. You didn’t shake your head with bemusement, you announced to the entire thread that you were shaking your head with bemusement. If you want to shake your head at your own computer screen, nobody really cares. It’s when you jump into the equivalent of a room reserved for a club that’s into something you’re not, and shout “HEY EVERYBODY, I’M SHAKING MY HEAD WITH BEMUSEMENT! WATCH ME SHAKE MY HEAD!” that there’s a problem. Then again, the mods don’t think it’s noteworthy, so what do I know? > [@Zeriel](#): > > Just because someone is inviting laughter doesn’t mean you have to laugh. It’s called being an emotionally mature individual–maybe you could try it sometime. I don’t think he’d like it much. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375)._