# In every thread about xxxx, someone always posts yyyy **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 27, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462 "2021-07-27T22:46:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/122 "2021-08-10T20:56:07Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > In every thread about religion, someone always starts an argument of what atheism is. > > And almost all of these threads go downhill from there. > > Strike out that last sentence’s “almost”. > [@74westy](#): > > Definitely! Atheists are terrible the way they complain when other people tell them what atheists do and don’t believe. > [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > Oh contraire: It gets really hot when several self-professed atheists get into an argument. Yep. I’ve studiously avoided those kinds of discussions here, because I’ve had experience with those kinds of discussions on other sites. I’ve been confidently informed by self-professed atheists that I’m an atheist and that agnosticism is a logical impossibility; by self-professed agnostics that I’m an agnostic and that atheism is a logical impossibility; and various shades and iterations of those arguments; _in the same thread_. Threads in which _no one_ was a believer. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/123 "2021-08-10T21:11:27Z")
Proof positive that schisming isn’t due to religions in particular. It’s just a thing that humans do: whether about religion, atheism, politics, lumpers-and-splitters about numbers of hominim species, or the Oxford comma. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/124 "2021-08-10T21:45:25Z")
There are many flavors of atheism. What one professes, another may disagree. > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Proof positive that schisming isn’t due to religions in particular. It’s just a thing that humans do: whether about religion, atheism, politics, lumpers-and-splitters about numbers of hominim species, or the Oxford comma. Yep. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/125 "2021-08-10T21:48:18Z")
So it’s your opinion that when a theist or agnostic tells me what I believe that they are likely to be right and I am wrong? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/126 "2021-08-10T21:52:05Z")
No, _you_ likely know what _you_ believe. But I doubt posters were actually telling you what you know. They were likely making generalizations about atheists, and you felt those generalizations did not fit you. However, this is getting into that > [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > And almost all of these threads go downhill from there. so let us not continue this here, there is another thread in GD you can join. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/127 "2021-08-10T23:05:11Z")
In threads where a fight is linked showing a woman physically attacking a man and the man fighting back, someone always posts “equal rights, equal lefts”. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/128 "2021-08-11T00:24:49Z")
> [@echoreply](#): > > In every thread where somebody is trying to solve some problem, and includes several things they have tried, somebody will suggest they do one of the things they have already tried. Related to this, in any type of IMHO thread where one is asked to name a favorite/best/worst/etc XXXX, someone will chime in with “I CAN’T BELIEVE NOBODY MENTIONED [YYYY]!!!”, where YYYY had, in fact, already been mentioned, possibility multiple times, and often in the OP itself. (Actually, that’s a bit of a forced formulation of the law to follow the OP’s structure in the subject line. It’s more that whenever a poster starts a sentence with “I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned” or “I can’t believe I’m the first to say…” they are, 95% of the time, not the first at all.) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/129 "2021-08-11T14:08:11Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > (Actually, that’s a bit of a forced formulation of the law to follow the OP’s structure in the subject line. It’s more that whenever a poster starts a sentence with “I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned” or “I can’t believe I’m the first to say…” they are, 95% of the time, not the first at all.) So pervasive that I hereby dub it Pulykamell’s Law. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/130 "2021-08-11T16:26:36Z")
Any thread talking about underrated guitarist or musicians will have a link posted of Prince’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame appearance. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/131 "2021-08-14T11:01:58Z")
Just now I thought of another one as I read a thread title about any crimes you may or may not have committed. Before opening the thread I knew someone would post that they shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. I was not disappointed. mmm ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/132 "2021-08-14T11:49:27Z")
Any thread about British food will include a post written by an American referring to “blood pudding”, despite British people saying in every previous such thread that black pudding is never, ever referred to as “blood pudding” in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/133 "2021-08-14T22:09:37Z")
In every thread about frivolous lawsuits, someone will mention that [woman who sued McDonald’s](https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts) because her coffee burned her. And then someone _else_ will mention that there’s more to the story, blah blah blah. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/134 "2021-08-18T20:18:28Z")
As soon as I saw the thread “[Do you have a cobbler?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-cobbler/949048)”, about people who repair shoes, I knew eventually someone would post something about cobbler, as in the dessert. I also was not disappointed. Actually this could be expressed more generally as “Any time a thread title uses a word that can have multiple meanings, someone will post something using the wrong meaning as a joke.” I got similar responses when I started a thread asking about smokers last year (as in smoking meat). And now someone’s probably going to reply to this post with something about smoking meat like a cigarette. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/135 "2021-08-18T20:58:54Z")
In any thread about anything, some arsehole will come in to make an unnecessary correction, such as saying “you meant au contraire”. ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/136 "2021-08-19T11:01:46Z")
Thank you, but I appreciate the correction. May as well fight my ignorance. But that reminds me: In every thread where someone states that a word is used incorrectly, someone always posts an argument that modern usage allows that use of the word. Bonus points for using “cromulent”. Example: “flaunt” and “flout” > [@Frustrations as a healthcare worker...Obama's Bash](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frustrations-as-a-healthcare-worker-obamas-bash/948733/9): > > I’m sure you meant to say “flouts” the rules. To “flaunt” (i.e. display proudly) gives your sentence a meaning almost opposite what you intended. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/137 "2021-08-19T21:49:03Z")
Did I miss this one earlier in the thread? As soon as I saw the title, I thought, “Oh, yeah…posting a question about MS Windows.” The replies almost always include one or more of the following: “You could have bought a Mac for just a little more and you wouldn’t have these problems.” “The best thing to do is to format the drive and install the XXX version of LINUX.” “Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?” ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/138 "2021-08-20T05:30:08Z")
Every thread about Saturday Night Live, or even the Simpsons, has someone chime in about how they haven’t watched either for years or even decades. OK, thanks for letting us know but it doesn’t add to the conversation. Yes, we know neither show is funny anymore blah blah blah. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/139 "2021-08-20T07:14:24Z")
If you try to use the word ‘savoury’, someone is bound to say “the word you are looking for is ‘umami’” ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/140 "2021-08-24T18:57:16Z")
In every thread where something has being argued to the nth degree, someone always responds “but no has said that” even though multiple posters have indeed “said that”. ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462/141 "2021-08-25T14:30:55Z")
Argh: Please read “but no has said that” as “but no ONE has said that” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-every-thread-about-xxxx-someone-always-posts-yyyy/947462.md?page=8)