I haven’t even turned on my computer yet but since my opinion is so much more important than everyone else’s I gotta say that I am strongly in favor of rudeness and ignorance.
This thread is like a cross between Dances With Wolves and Ferngully.
Er, “thread”. But if there was a threat, I haven’t read it, either.
Re-reading this, I see I wasn’t clear - I meant people who don’t say that they haven’t read the thread yet, but obviously haven’t because they’re saying something that has been addressed already.
“Here’s my two cents. Make of it what you will.”
Isn’t this just paraphrasing for, “This is what I have to say. I don’t care what anyone else has to say/has said, even if it’s exactly what I said.”
You win the thread.
This is perhaps embarrassing, but I don’t get it…
WAG: I’d bet that every other page of the Avatar discussion thread had a similar comment.
I didn’t get it either, but I wanted to read this thread a few dozen times before I admitted it. Make sure I didn’t miss something.
My son likes to burst in with his opinion and/or comments without listening to what others have to say.
He’s seven, what’s your excuse?
I think the issue here is actually quite similar to when people open a thread, say, in GQ, without first having done a search to see if another thread answers their question.
With that in mind, before posting to a long thread where I haven’t read most (or even many) of the posts, I try to at least always do a control-F for the key words of my 2 cent contribution.
Not to be pithy (since I haven’t read the whole thread yet), but sometimes when I’m reading and posting from my phone and just want to answer the OP without reading through every 'dopers response I do this. Especially when I’m on the road or when I’m in an airport, sometimes I see an interesting thread and want to give my 2 cents worth (and a bargain at triple the price, I tell you!), so I’ll simply post my response to the OP directly, without seeing what others have written. Sorry if it offends…
-XT
He’s 97.
I haven’t read any of this thread, but you’re ALL wrong. All of you.
Knock knock
Who’s there?
Interrupting Cow
Interrupting Cow wh[MY OPINION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYONE’S!]o?
Oh shut up.
I think it’s Rio by Duran Duran.
Are the class of threads containing unread OP’s that are not members of themselves, indeed, members of themselves?
Not sure what you wrote there is well-formed, Dostoyevsky… what does it mean for a thread (or an OP?) to be a member of itself?
Substitute “discusses itself” for being member of itself. Then you get (at least, I think you get, it’s getting late):
All threads either discuss discuss themselves or they don’t (e.g. this thread discusses itself).
Okay, how about threads that don’t discuss themselves. Put all of them, and only them, into one big thread (cut and paste if you wish) and call that the ‘thread of all threads that don’t discuss themselves’. Does the thread of all threads that don’t discuss themselves, discuss itself? Discuss.
Or, better yet, consider a thread a barber. He may, or may not, shave himself . . .