# Intolerance on this board **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 6, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049 "2007-04-06T23:48:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/21 "2007-04-07T00:36:02Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] So, I’m genuinely curious: what the hell is the point of starting this thread? [/QUOTE] To tell us all that this message board is filled with groupthink. You must have missed it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/22 "2007-04-07T00:36:43Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] I only go down when it is my turn. And I’m keeping a record. So don’t try to blow one past me. [/QUOTE] Hehehe. You said blow. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/23 "2007-04-07T00:38:53Z")
Eh, once you get to know the threadshitters, you can just stop posting once they come into the thread. That’s different from groupthink. It’s just a gang of idiots who puts up a wall of noise. Just ask, and you could probably get a list of names. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/24 "2007-04-07T00:41:59Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] Bye. Sorry we didn’t meet your standards for individuality, but I’ve never been very impressed by [people who love to proclaim their “extreme” independent-mindedness.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8413742&postcount=26) [/QUOTE] Wow - “extremely independent with some libertarian, liberal and conservative leanings”. Hot damn, that _is_ independent-minded! Still, points off for not having fascist/Communist/theocratic/meritocratic/royalist leanings, though. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/25 "2007-04-07T01:05:46Z")
Er… so why not stay and try and change it? I’d agree with you to some extent, but simply saying it as a lurker with no reputation isn’t going to help matters at all. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/26 "2007-04-07T01:47:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Everyone feeds off the hatred on this board. No, “everyone” does not. People who enjoy conflict tend to frequent certain types of threads; those who don’t participate in other ways. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/27 "2007-04-07T01:59:41Z")
Is this a whoosh? We are really losing this wonderful, insightful poster because of her opinions on short shorts and ideas about how to get good layaway at Macy’s were not well received? WHAT? ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/28 "2007-04-07T02:01:13Z")
[QUOTE=Apos] Is this a whoosh? We are really losing this wonderful, insightful poster because of her opinions on short shorts and ideas about how to get good layaway at Macy’s were not well received? WHAT? [/QUOTE] Heh heh heh…you said ‘good lay’ 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/29 "2007-04-07T02:05:02Z")
[QUOTE=Elen\_Luyddog] some of the threads are funny. [/QUOTE] This one, for example. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/30 "2007-04-07T02:05:21Z")
“Help! Help! I’m being repressed!” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/31 "2007-04-07T02:16:19Z")
“…offering you the musical hits of the Great Repression, like ‘Buddy, Can You Paradigm?’, and so many others! Not available in stores, operators standing by…” ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/32 "2007-04-07T02:27:00Z")
What’s a “GD”? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/33 "2007-04-07T02:30:00Z")
[QUOTE=Gorgon Heap] What’s a “GD”? [/QUOTE] Great Debates, where those who enjoy a good political argument without insults hang out. Those who enjoy a good political argument with insults hang out here. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/34 "2007-04-07T02:30:58Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] "…offering you the musical hits of the Great Repression, like ‘Buddy, Can You Paradigm?’, … [/QUOTE] Haven’t you been dragged out and shot yet? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/35 "2007-04-07T02:34:03Z")
How come people who are leaving so often make a generalization about how the rest of us think/are/write, but never give specific examples of what they’re complaining about? Or even name it? Is it bush-bashing you’re referring to? What? Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/36 "2007-04-07T02:35:23Z")
[QUOTE=Elen\_Luyddog] Oh well. Goodbye. But remember, hate and intolerance never gets anyone anywhere. You end of imploding in it. [/QUOTE] Hey, hate and intolerance got Genghis Khan most of Central Asia! So _there!_😛 > [@Miller](#): > > Serious question: what makes you think any of us give a shit? Vanity, probably. Many people suffer under the delusion that the rest of the world actually gives a shit about their opinion. [Too much unearned self esteem is a bad thing](http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0302/p01s01-ussc.html). Elen can consider our responses as part of his/her self actualization. See, Elen, we aren’t hateful and intolerant, we mock you because we _care!_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/37 "2007-04-07T02:39:56Z")
[QUOTE=Elen\_Luyddog] So I have been posting for the last couple of weeks. I am going to be honest, this board is like Groupthink. There are very very few differing opinions. And if someone does offer an differing/opposing view, they are slaughtered even though their opinion is valid and argument sound. While this is true in all parts of the board, this is especially true in the political discussions. Everyone feeds off the hatred on this board. My theory is that people who feel the need to be that narrow minded are looking for control in their own lives. People, its time to take care of that issue. I am an extremely independent (politically and otherwise), open minded thinker. I honestly don’t see a place for me here. I am disappointed as I thought it was going to be different. Oh, and I did lurk for a bit but I think I may have just tried to deny because some of the threads are funny. Oh well. Goodbye. But remember, hate and intolerance never gets anyone anywhere. You end of imploding in it. [/QUOTE] Listen up Sugartits, what you need is balls. This board is all about people with certain attitudes to be defended or promoted with gusto and sound reasoning. We do have respected posters who way more often than not promote ideas that don’t fit with popular opinion like Sam Stone, Bricker, Shodan and Valteron to name a few. They do get a lot of attention and if the general population of this board aren’t buying their ideas and facts at least these brave posters have an opportunity to be heard and make a difference. If you can’t stand the heat, you better get back to the kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/38 "2007-04-07T02:42:15Z")
[QUOTE=Apos] We are really losing this wonderful, insightful poster because of her opinions on short shorts and ideas about how to get good layaway at Macy’s were not well received? [/QUOTE] Did I miss something? Who wears short-shorts? Who would _dare_ wear short-shorts? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/39 "2007-04-07T02:48:09Z")
[QUOTE=Jackmannii] Well, you’re wrong. [/QUOTE] Personally, I think that the majority of wrong thinking people are sick and tired of being told that they’re right! ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049/40 "2007-04-07T02:48:10Z")
[QUOTE=I Love Me, Vol. I] Who would dare wear short-shorts? [/QUOTE] Little Fucking Lord Fauntleroy? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intolerance-on-this-board/399049.md?page=3)