# It's not funny. ItShut up. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824 "2003-01-05T21:54:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/21 "2003-01-05T22:35:34Z")
Appletreats Sometimes, when old-timers are gathered around the pot bellied stove, one of them might toss out a joke or comment that brings a smile to the faces of his friends, but leaves the newcomer wondering what the fuck. In a year or three, you might smile at Tracer’s comment just like I did. Here, have a pickle. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/22 "2003-01-05T22:35:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \*\*appletreats \*\*\* > Well damn **White Lightning** , it appears you didn’t read some of the responses to that post. I’m sorry, which one? > [@](#): > > And you said in your post that **red death** ’s posts are not-necessarily-OT. Uh, ok. So we should be allowing off-topic posts? Well… yeah. Particularly since, as has been pointed out, it’s explicitly allowed by the Moderators of this board. A lengthy hijack is one thing. One witty post? Another thing. We understand that you think you have a legitimate complaint. What we’re trying to say is, that’s just sort of the way things are around here. Like it or lump it? Love it or leave it? Life goes on… ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/23 "2003-01-05T22:36:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by appletreats \* > \*\*I think I have a legitimate complaint about the SDMB here, btw. \*\* Perhaps you should file a grievance. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/24 "2003-01-05T23:10:24Z")
I was going to come up with a witty, off-topic response just to tweak the OP’s nose and make myself look clever, but you knwo what? 'Tain’t worth it. Instead, I’ll settle for, “Shut the fuck up you whiney, humorless little shmuck.” I think it’ll get the point across, and probably be more cathartic, too. Here goes… \ Shut the fuck up you whiney, humorless little shmuck! Man, that felt good. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/25 "2003-01-05T23:15:52Z")
Sometimes humor can be used to effectively make a point. Let’s take an example you railed against in the OP > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by appletreats \* > \*\ ***the grim spectre of red death** , in [OMG, XXX was SO f’n bad I wanted to gouge my eyes out during the movie!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=154508) > > I never get tired of seeing people take things literally that even a child would understand to be hyperbole! > \*\* Yeah, it’s hyperbole. The children know it’s hyperbole. If **the grim spectre of red death** doesn’t know it’s hyperbole I shall take a long walk off a short pier. The POINT he was trying to make, that you clearly missed in in your frothing bat out of hell mad dash to the pit, is that it is clearly much easier to turn something off rather than get upset by it. Lest retarded children in Zimbabwe not fully grasp this subtle concept, I shall repeat it again for the second time: it is clearly much easier to turn something off rather than get upset by it. So my suggestion to you is to make like Ann and Nancy Wilson and take it to Heart. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/26 "2003-01-05T23:18:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by appletreats \* > I’m sick of people who come in to threads that are going fine and on-topic and suddenly feel the need to dazzle us all with their amazing wit. I’m not talking about new users doing this - maybe the don’t know better. I’m talking about the users with hundreds or thousands of posts. Get over yourself! IT’S NOT FUCKING FUNNY. **Keep your stale wit to yourself and let the rest of us have a discussion.** Bolding mine. **Appletreats** : I note that you have not posted in any of the threads you cited in your OP, so what’s with the “let the rest of us have a discussion”? _You_ were not taking part in any any of the discussions. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/27 "2003-01-05T23:25:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by appletreats \* > \*\* > I think I have a legitimate complaint about the SDMB here, btw. \*\* If I were you, I’d write my congressperson a strongly worded letter of complaint about your shoddy treatment here. _Then_ I’d go to the Better Business Bureau and _DEMAND_ that they make the SDMB refund _every single penny_ you paid in your subscription fees to the SDMB. _THEN_, I’d take a smallish thermonuclear device and blow up the SDMB servers for the cruel treatment you’ve suffered at the hands of it’s members. _ **THEN** _, if I were you, I’d wonder who performed a humorectomy on me and see if they could be sued. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/28 "2003-01-05T23:39:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Check out that fucked up title. I can’t wait for these guys to run in here and say some dumb shit about it. Well, I have something serious to say about it, at least: hey sparky, cram it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/29 "2003-01-05T23:41:33Z")
If every thread contained only relevant posts, then this board would become the most sterile, boring place on the web. Oh, and because I can: > [@](#): > > I wasn’t trying to be funny here, tomndebb. …and you’re doing a damned fine job of it. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/30 "2003-01-06T00:05:52Z")
You know the world is getting lazier and lazier when we’re complaining about having to ‘scroll past’ something. I mean, come on. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/31 "2003-01-06T00:15:26Z")
Easy for you to say, **jarbaby**. We don’t ALL have mousewheels, you know! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/32 "2003-01-06T00:53:18Z")
Interestingly enough, this is fairly typical of my normal conversation - toss in the occasional smartass comment or observation. I don’t know if I could have a conversation otherwise. It’s all part of my charm, you know. No, really - people find it charming, dammit! ---
**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:** [January 6, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/33 "2003-01-06T01:38:56Z")
Here’s humor for ya, **Apple** - SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU WHINY PISSANT JERKOFF! Wow, I’m a card. Haw haw! :rolleyes: Esprix ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/34 "2003-01-06T01:40:49Z")
Nice folks around here. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/35 "2003-01-06T01:51:24Z")
Have to agree with most everyone here, and DISAGREE with the OP. Plus, I looked in the link posted in the OP’s op, and I could have SWORN that it said that being funny was okay. I think the most relevant post here was the one stating that if no one “tried to be funny” that this would be the most sterile and least interesting place on the net (sorry for the mangled paraphrasing). hear hear And btw, if I wanna “try to be funny” by golly I WILL. You’re not the boss of meeeee!!! ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/36 "2003-01-06T01:52:22Z")
:: Hands **apple** a trophy :: Good job kid: you’ve wheeled out whiney loser newbie reason #2\* right on schedule. (You’re all mean. I’ve just come here to piss and moan about how things aren’t done to MY liking. So you’re all jerks for not liking me. You should be _grateful_ for my comments.") Tell ya what: until you put in some sweat-equity: do some posting, share some not-whiney thoughts, your bitching is (at least to me) unwelcome as a skunk at a picnic. Until you’ve done some time and seen what the place has to offer before insulting it and us, may I offer you a steaming hot cup of “shut the fuck up”? I eagerly await your next performance. Fenris \*(Reason #1 is similar but involves the troll type of newbie whining that we don’t like him after he came here to trash the place) ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/37 "2003-01-06T01:56:45Z")
Did you expect anything different, Appletreats? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/38 "2003-01-06T01:58:11Z")
Everytime I saw the subject line for this one it made me think of that Real World episode with the infamous line 'It wasn’t not funny!" ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/39 "2003-01-06T01:59:31Z")
BTW, the reason why I eventually joined this board was because so many of the posts, especially in the BBQ Pit tend to be hilarious! \daowajan\ would show me the most hilarious and interesting posts and I liked what I saw If the SDMB were any different, I doubt I would have bothered. ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-funny-itshut-up/146824/40 "2003-01-06T02:01:27Z")
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