# In every thread about xxxx, someone always posts yyyy

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**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")\
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> [@echoreply](#):
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> 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.)

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