# It's not...funny...anymore **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 20, 2001, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189 "2001-07-20T14:43:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/21 "2001-07-20T18:54:09Z")
Thanks for the explanation, everyone! No offense taken. I have a lot to learn so I hope you will all be patient with me! (Not that you wouldn’t be, but I FULLY understand the aggravation caused by those who don’t know what the hell is going on – I’m a support tech after all…) Thanks for the tips! ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/22 "2001-07-20T19:58:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*“Hi, Opal!” is when you… > > …hey, are you disrespecting Sousaphones? > > (KRANGGGGGGGGG on the skull with the bell of a 1896 BBb Conn Half-Lady} \*\* Damn you. I was going to say that. Well, not the “Opal” part, and not the actual brand of sousaphone, and not, you know, crush his skull with it… But I was going to call 'im out on the whole “dissing the sousaphone” thing. And I can’t believe he used “corkboard” publicly. I’m offended. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/23 "2001-07-20T21:46:12Z")
Fuck you all, ya pansies. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/24 "2001-07-21T06:13:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*::sitting magdalene on a barstool, singing to her:: > > Have I told…you lately…that I love you… > > jarbaby \*\* Hmmm. I think I want pictures of this! It could get interesting! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/25 "2001-07-21T07:18:21Z")
While we’re airing our pet peeves, can we please quit with the graphic descriptions of how mildly amusing posts cause all sorts of liquid refreshment to spray out of multitudinous facial orifices onto a variety of computer equipment, thus rendering said equipment nonfunctional? It’s getting old. It reminds me of what James Lileks calls the “Violently Ordinary Rejoinder,” in which an aggresively nonfunny punchline causes its hearer to flip head over heels in stunned amazement. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/26 "2001-07-21T07:44:59Z")
I’ll add expressing love for a poster who has recently said something that you agree with/was going to say/thought, but didn’t say and OOOH! isn’t it cool that they were thinking the same thing?!? Worse than a “Me too!” post, IMO. Lemme see if I can find an example of this… Ah yes. Right in this very thread. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by jarbabyj_ > \*\*::sitting magdalene on a barstool, singing to her:: > > Have I told…you lately…that I love you… > > jarbaby\*\* Also, pointing out simulposts is kind of ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Mikahw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/27 "2001-07-21T10:56:30Z")
1)swearing is fun 2)I like cheese 3)hi opal ## Since this is the pit: Fuck you. Sorry, the child in me couldn’t resist 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/28 "2001-07-21T12:12:38Z")
Well, if jarbaby doesn’t mind my expanding this list of crap that irks us… I fucking CRINGE when a perfectly good thread degenerates to two or three people having a semi-intimate, flirt-filled conversation with each other. Take it to email and let the board be relieved from the eight or ten unnecessary posts, damnit. I don’t mind a little flirting here and there; fer chrissakes there are other forums for one-on-one conversations though. You know what I’m talking about: OP: Should I use overdrive on snow? Doper 1: Well, according to Click and Clack the car guys… (blah blah blah) Doper 2: I’d like to go in overdrive on YOU, Doper 1! Doper 1: You mean you’d make me go click and clack, leer, leer? Doper 2: More than that, Doper 1! When I get through with you your motor will be humming! Doper 1: I hope you won’t be using motor oil in that massage you’ll be giving me, yuk yuk yuk! Doper 2: Oh no, I’m interested in the viscosity of certain other fluid, nudge nudge, humanna humanna humanna… ::thud:: (sound of Cranky hitting her forehead in consternation so hard she knocks herself out) ---
**Author:** ![NutWrench](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nutwrench/32/20193_2.png) [@NutWrench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutWrench)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/29 "2001-07-21T14:41:38Z")
I hate it when people gratuitously end a sentence with the word fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Mikahw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/30 "2001-07-21T18:38:47Z")
> [@](#): > > I hate it when people gratuitously end a sentence with the word fuck. I feel as if I’m heading off into the children’s corner. Oh well. Is that fuckin’ so? In-fuckin’-credible! Anyone who says fuck more than 3 times in one post is seriously fucked up! err… ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/31 "2001-07-21T19:51:37Z")
aNd so i was like talking to tiffany on the phone and i like found, this bored. they had this posty thing that was ta\*\*lking aobut al the thins ppl hate on mbs! I LIKE CANNOT BELIEVE IT! they aer s_o unkewl. they have no clue hjow to talk like they are riting leters or somshit. AnD nOw ThEy ThInK i[b/] Am SoMe TeEnYbOpPeR! ugh, the nerve_ Fizzuck\* ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/32 "2001-07-21T20:18:13Z")
People who point out spelling errors deserve to have their fucknuts stripped. Doesn’t happen much on this board, but it seems epidemic on others. ---
**Author:** ![nikjohns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@nikjohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikjohns)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/33 "2001-07-22T00:39:57Z")
This is one that I have, unfortunately, done myself. ☹ Poster one: I hate fuckng chickens… Poster two: Would you hate them less if they weren’t engaged in intercourse? fucking as an adjective != fucking as a verb Fuckers 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/34 "2001-07-22T01:19:09Z")
Jeeze, Alphagene, Don’t get your panties in a bunch, dude. Who the fuck peed in your fucking Cheerios? ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/35 "2001-07-22T02:56:53Z")
I’m going to add another one. Let’s not apologize for double/triple posting, m’kay? You quite obviously did not mean to do that, you don’t have to point out that you did (as if we didn’t notice) and then apologize for it. So just stop. You’ve already made one, perhaps two (and probably more), completely pointless posts, there’s no need to add to that number. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/36 "2001-07-22T04:35:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\*::thud:: (sound of Cranky hitting her forehead in consternation so hard she knocks herself out) > \*\* Cranky, you’re just jealous because you’re not getting any. I hope you HATE it that the people who flirt are popular! I bet you’re eating your stupid oh-so-superior heart out over how much more popular the girls who flirt in every goddamned thread possible are than you. And I bet you’re stalking them and deliberately going out of your way to ruin their threads, too. And you’re doing it all out of malice, because the love lives of people you’ve never met (and probably never will) are actially important enough to you that you spend hours offline trying to think of ways to sabotage their INNOCENT GAMES! How could you? You’re just jealous. I hope your boobs rot off. [sub]note: this message has not been given standard tests for content as far as sarcasm and smarm. no crankys were actually harmed in the writing of this post. at least, not intentionally. if, as a poster, you think this means you…you probably need to check your ego.[/sub] Lessee…Oh yeah! I forgot!! –d&r– _cackle_ ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/37 "2001-07-22T04:53:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hamadryad \* > **I hope your boobs rot off.** Wow, that’s… graphic. ---
**Author:** ![OneChance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/74df32/32.png) [@OneChance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneChance)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/38 "2001-07-22T05:41:37Z")
What I really hate are comments like, “LOL, that was the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time! Now I have to clean the juice off my monitor! Bastard!” That’s annoying. Do you really think we give a fuck if you found a post funny? Laugh and move on for Christ sakes. No need to let everyone know what makes you laugh. Dipshits. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/39 "2001-07-22T05:59:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OneChance \* > \*\*What I really hate are comments like, “LOL, that was the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time! Now I have to clean the juice off my monitor! Bastard!” That’s annoying. Do you really think we give a fuck if you found a post funny? Laugh and move on for Christ sakes. No need to let everyone know what makes you laugh. Dipshits. \*\* OMG, That’s a riot, OneChance! You owe me for the new keyboard I have to buy because I just spit my beer all over this one and shorted it out! ---
**Author:** ![OneChance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/74df32/32.png) [@OneChance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneChance)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189/40 "2001-07-22T06:11:55Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Weirddave_ > **OMG, That’s a riot, OneChance! You owe me for the new keyboard I have to buy because I just spit my beer all over this one and shorted it out!** I - am - not - amused. 🙂 Okay, maybe a little. I also hate the cutesy little banter that sometimes goes on here, like the comment I just made above. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-anymore/73189.md?page=3)