Ah, so you’re rupset that the thread didn’t go the way you wanted it to? Awww. You poor traumatized thing. :rolleyes:
What’s with people here lately that they can’t just simply not read threads they aren’t interested in? There’s the douches here in this thread, and there’s the douches who are shitting in RO threads (although that just might be only that prick lissener at this point).
Has there been a surge of criminals breaking into people’s homes and forcing them to read each and every thread of the board, even when they are clearly and descriptively titled to be about something they are not interested in? Or has there been an outbreak of acute douchebagitis I haven’t heard about?
Done.
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Thank you for your opinion. We have considered it and taken it into account, according it weight as we judge appropriate.
I had no clue about several of the “techniques” discussed in that thread. It was quite interesting reading, frankly.
“Why did you need to know?”, you say. Why do we need to know about the shape of snow flakes? Why do we need to know the origin of the phrase “whole nine yards?”
If it bothers you that neither of us really have good answers to those questions, is this really the message board for you?
This is beyond lame. Even if it had devolved into a joke thread, you must have known or at the very least known it was extremely likely that before it so devolved, it was going to be a series of posts on wiping your ass. So you went into a thread knowing it would oog you out, then complained. My heart bleeds.
I’m tempted to print this thread out and use it as toilet paper, but alas, printer paper is too harsh on my supple rectum. (running out of TP and kleenex makes one desperate!)
And I’m tempted to ask how you’d use it, but I’ll refrain. 
And PLEASE don’t tell us. The OP is already grossed out as it is and you’ve already exceeded your allotment of TMI points.
Oh come now, I’ve probably exceeded the TMI points of at least 3 Dopers combined 
I wouldn’t have started a Pit thread about it, but I can sorta see Zuma’s point, especially as over the years we have had several threads on the same theme. And no, I didn’t bother opening that thread.
It’s just that… oy. I dunno. I’d hate to see the SDMB become prudish, but people really need to think twice about whether all those threads are necessary.
There also seems to be an ongoing theme on these boards that if you complain about this sort of stuff, you are fair game to be piled on as not being cool and worldly enough for the Dope, just like if you dare to be nice or polite to somebody, you’ll get snarked at with jibes about kittens or jizz-fests.
There’s some quote along the lines of “You tried to shock me, but you have failed. You can’t shock me, but you can offend me”. That’s how I feel when teenagers pepper their language with “fuck” and “cunt” when I’m on a crowded bus, and that’s a little how I feel about arse-wiping threads.
“Not necessary” is in my experience a common criticism people apply to something they are uncomfortable with but can’t think of any real justification for complaining about. Yet the same people probably participate in a million and one discussions about the weather or kittens or whatever which are equally unnecessary.
I think it was very informative. There are a few people whose hands I would now hesitate to shake (refolding used tp? :eek: :x).
You make a fair point (although one kitten thread is more than enough for me). It’s just that threads like the bum-wiping one tend to give the OP, to my mind at least, an air of “I’ll show the SDMB how totally cool, laid-back, and free-thinking I am by posting this.” Now I may be wrong in this particular case (and yes, some people have stated they found it informative), but after having seen four or five threads on this exact topic over the years, I am left with that impression, fairly or otherwise. And that’s why I equate it to the teenager trying to shock.
I’m fully aware of the weakness you perceive in my argument. That’s one reason why I wouldn’t feel the need to start a Pit thread myself about this, alongside the fact that no, it hasn’t exactly ruined my day or anything. Yes, my response to seeing that thread wasn’t “Eww, that’s disgusting”, but “Oh for fuck’s sake. Not again.” Yes, that’s my problem, and I’ll deal with it, but as there was a Pit thread current, I couldn’t resist…
One of the problems (and delights) of this place is that there are new minds coming in and out all the time, leading to both repetition and fresh insights. It’s only a certain percentage of old crusties like you and I who hang around forever. The OP in that other thread only joined last month.
And I must say I’ve never seen the thread topic before: probably because it just hasn’t happened to come to my attention before, but there you go.
And yes, I appreciate that you are not a kitten tragic. Beer tragic, maybe. But let’s face it, beer is necessary.
That sounds very painful!
TheLoadedDog, I like your point about shocking and offending, but I think the germane point is still if you don’t want to read that kind of thing, don’t read the threads that are about that kind of thing. It’s different than a situation like a crowded bus where you are forced to listen to kids being all kinds of rude. It’s more like, the bus pulls up, the driver tells you there will be rude kids on it but there are hundreds of other buses to choose from, and people still get on the rude kid bus and complain that there are rude kids on it and that no buses should have rude kids on them.
There - have I stretched that analogy as far as it will go? 
Flushed your troubles down the drain ROTO ROOTER ROTO ROOTER
Since when is the SDMB about “necessary”? It’s a message board! I think those sequential titles threads are dumb as shit but I don’t get all huffy about it.
And seriously, several people have illustrated perfectly good reasons for mature adults to want to discuss something like wiping. Shouldn’t that be enough? What the hell do the rest of you need to hear? Every time I read an asswipe post, an angel gets its wings? Tell y’all what. Get a grip, read this Straight Dope column, and think long and hard about your presence on the board dedicated to that column.
Close - we just have to figure out who belongs on the short bus.
Eh…I just don’t read threads like that. Like you zuma I’ve been here a long time and realize that there will always…always be threads like that. Some I have found informative…as mentioned the one about standing to wipe. But after what…8 years on the SDMB, I would assume that you’re a bit more thick-skinned about some of the threads.
OK, but not me, right? I mean, I didn’t respond seriously, but I did post a true story about an Army drill sergeant making a poop joke in boot camp, but that’s not considered a “serious” answer, so I still haven’t ever, ever been pitted, right? 'Cuz I didn’t post that I have to take special care because of hemorrhoids, so I’m not one of the really gross people you’re pitting. Right? We’re good?