# I Can't Believe it. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 4, 2013, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-it/660102 "2013-06-04T07:58:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-it/660102/61 "2013-06-04T20:23:21Z")
Welcome!! I must admit, this is one of the more entertaining “I’m new to the boards, welcome me!” threads :D. For what it’s worth, there are quite a few threads on the boards dealing with much the same situation! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-it/660102/62 "2013-06-04T20:24:09Z")
Yes, welcome to the Boards. We’d put out the welcome mat, but… we’re afraid you’ll ruin it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-it/660102/63 "2013-06-04T20:41:29Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Smartest, hippest people on the Internet. This thread is simply more evidence of the high caliber of intellectual discourse here, due in no small part to the lack of avatars and other needless, distracting frills that bring in the riff-raff. Oh, poop on you. ---
**Author:** ![applebetty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@applebetty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/applebetty)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-it/660102/64 "2013-06-06T12:30:31Z")
Well, yah know, shit happens. Even to the best of us. Welcome to real life and the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-it/660102/65 "2013-06-06T12:49:54Z")
> [@applebetty](#): > > Welcome to real life and the SDMB. It’s “Howdy” doodie time. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-it/660102/66 "2013-06-06T17:19:18Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > One seriously good reason to have a small bathroom where you are able to sit on the john and hurl into the bath tub 😛 Or a Thai/Asian style bathroom with 1) tile, 2) a floor drain, and 3) a handheld sprayer attachment on the toilet. Saved my bacon when I had noro. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-it/660102/67 "2013-06-06T17:44:16Z")
> [@FlyingRat](#): > > Saved my bacon when I had noro. In that situation, I’m not sure I would want my bacon saved. Nor, indeed, any other food product. Down the drain it would go. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-it/660102/68 "2013-06-06T17:45:53Z")
The thread title - “I Can’t Believe it.” - is rather ambiguous. Usually the mods come along and change the title to something more descriptive, but they appear to be at a loss for words on this one. ---
**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-it/660102/69 "2013-06-06T22:41:59Z")
I did the same thing after hernia repair surgery – taught my husband the correct past tense of shit that time. Took two weeks of never knowing when I was going to erupt out of either end to get past that. ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-it/660102/70 "2013-06-07T08:50:08Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > A +1 Jet of Vile Foulness? Frightening. Worst Superpower EVER. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-it/660102.md?page=3)