# I'm addicted to Crack(ed) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567 "2011-11-30T16:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/1 "2011-11-30T16:02:33Z")
Can’t… stop… reading… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Niply\_Elder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@The\_Niply\_Elder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Niply_Elder)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/2 "2011-11-30T16:07:54Z")
I respect their format, but sometimes I feel like they should write an article titled “6 Different Reasons Why Cracked Articles Are Too Long And Seem To Ramble On Forever And Ever Causing You To Lose Interest In Reading Them And Making You Just Skim The Whole Thing”… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/3 "2011-11-30T16:08:25Z")
They have some really good articles on there, but they have so many ads that it takes each page a while to load, and all the flashing and blinking and singing and dancing is really annoying. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/4 "2011-11-30T16:26:06Z")
Their iphone app is great for reading articles in meetings, but looking like you are reading emails. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/5 "2011-11-30T16:32:48Z")
> [@The\_Niply\_Elder](#): > > I respect their format, but sometimes I feel like they should write an article titled “6 Different Reasons Why Cracked Articles Are Too Long And Seem To Ramble On Forever And Ever Causing You To Lose Interest In Reading Them And Making You Just Skim The Whole Thing”… 😃 I find it depends on the article, and perhaps the author. The ones that are a couple paragraphs per point are pretty good. The ones that are five paragraphs per subpoint are not. Not because the latter can’t be good, but because they just don’t have enough material to keep it up. But the thing that bugs me is that they don’t name their photoplasty images. Of course you want a chance to figure them out on your own, but it’s also nice to be able to look at the answers if you’re stumped. Even most word games have answers at the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/6 "2011-11-30T18:40:02Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > They have some really good articles on there, but they have so many ads that it takes each page a while to load, and all the flashing and blinking and singing and dancing is really annoying. Ads exist? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/7 "2011-11-30T19:25:08Z")
Cracked is great, and I wholly endorse their book _You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News,_ too. ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/8 "2011-12-01T00:59:00Z")
Cracked is interesting, but the frequent spelling errors ruin it for me. For some reason, I can’t get into a professional article if there are any errors. Granted, I mak tons of errors, but I’m not paid two write for a living. And I agree that they run long too often. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/9 "2011-12-01T01:00:31Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/10 "2011-12-01T01:03:45Z")
> [@The\_Niply\_Elder](#): > > I respect their format, but sometimes I feel like they should write an article titled “6 Different Reasons Why Cracked Articles Are Too Long And Seem To Ramble On Forever And Ever Causing You To Lose Interest In Reading Them And Making You Just Skim The Whole Thing”… 😃 Or “One good reason why Cracked articles are too long plus 5 rather poor reasons that we tacked on because we needed a list of 6 reasons.” ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/11 "2011-12-01T01:27:28Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Can’t… stop… reading… Lightweight! if you are man enough for the heavy stuff, [click this link](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cracked) If there is a hell for timewasters, I’m damned to go there. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/12 "2011-12-01T01:34:32Z")
I think it all depends on the author. There are some long ones that I like by the guy who was an alcoholic. There are also articles by this one author that always seem to degenerate into one long bad gay joke. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/13 "2011-12-01T02:19:40Z")
They’re fun, but I step carefully into a science article, as I often see blatant falsehoods, sometimes several in one article. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/14 "2011-12-01T02:26:16Z")
> [@sparky\_1](#): > > Cracked is interesting, but the frequent spelling errors ruin it for me. For some reason, I can’t get into a professional article if there are any errors. Granted, I mak tons of errors, but I’m not paid two write for a living. > > And I agree that they run long too often. I see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![cardinal\_fang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal_fang/32/15316_2.png) [@cardinal\_fang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cardinal_fang)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/15 "2011-12-01T03:15:05Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Can’t… stop… reading… IMHO, [Seanbaby](http://www.cracked.com/members/seanbaby/) is the funniest man on teh Internetz. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/16 "2011-12-01T10:46:39Z")
I like reading the comments on the articles too, but I can’t stand every time there’s a Christina H. article someone HAS to point out how shitty it is because it’s a Christina H. article. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/17 "2011-12-01T14:38:13Z")
> [@Namkcalb](#): > > Lightweight! if you are man enough for the heavy stuff, [click this link](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cracked) > > If there is a hell for timewasters, I’m damned to go there. I’m not man enough for anything, technically. > [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > They’re fun, but I step carefully into a science article, as I often see blatant falsehoods, sometimes several in one article. What I do is read the comments after reading the article. If they got something wrong, there will be approximately eight million posts saying so. Like the Dope, really. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/18 "2011-12-01T16:39:52Z")
I read Cracked articles, but all too often the selections are like this: “7 Ways to Ruin Your Childhood” “8 Things You Thought Were Cool but Aren’t” “5 Ways to Twist Facts and Jump to Conclusions” “6 Things Science Has WRONG (maybe)” “7 Good Movies You Like That are Actually Crappy” “Ooooh, Look: 8 Creepy History Stories (6 of Which You’ve Heard Before; the Other 2 are Probably Not True)” Michael Swaim’s videos are always good, and I’ve thought Seanbaby is the funniest writer on the internet since before he joined Cracked. It’s nice to see him get a quality home. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/19 "2011-12-01T16:43:17Z")
I rarely watch the videos, but I love the articles. I don’t rely on them for providing truthful info (sort of like Bill Bryson’s science writing) but they’re usually pretty entertaining. I kept MrWhatsit awake on our last long road trip by reading Cracked articles out loud from my phone. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567/20 "2011-12-01T16:56:53Z")
I love Cracked… the website is way funnier than the magazine ever was back when they were competing with MAD Magazine. One question, though: Why do they always split the articles into two pages or more (even the short ones)? For those of us reading with mobile RSS readers, it gets damned annoying. In regards to misspellings in the articles: some of the contributors are everyday folks like you and me, not Journalism majors. For me, if an article is funny and interesting, I can overlook English errors. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-crack-ed/604567.md?page=2)