# I've been gone from the SDMB for 20 years. What's happened? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 25, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625 "2024-01-25T14:31:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/41 "2024-01-26T01:27:19Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > We may have standing for a class action suit… (Mods: just kidding, please don’t ban me) Frodo - where bald meets banned … may the hammer descend on you …😉 > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > That’s not an entrance, son… en la guerra cualquier hoyo es una trinchera (in wartimes, any hole becomes a trench) ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/42 "2024-01-26T02:09:49Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > en la guerra cualquier hoyo es una trinchera We have the exact same “proverb” here, except that we use “agujero” instead of “hoyo” (both words mean “hole” but “hoyo” is understood but rarely used in Rioplatense Spanish) ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/43 "2024-01-26T02:32:20Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@snowthx](#): > > > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > > > Oh, that’s another thing, @Poldana - we talk about colonscopies, now. A _lot._ > > > > > > ETA: See what I mean? Ninja’d by @snowthx. > > > > Yeah, we spend too much time ‘cleaning-out’ our thoughts on that [entrance for puns and dad jokes…] > > That’s not an entrance, son… Well, that depends, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/44 "2024-01-26T02:45:12Z")
> [@Poldana](#): > > Any important things I should know? Let me explain! No, there is too much. Let me sum up. We still quote from old movies and TV shows. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/45 "2024-01-26T02:46:59Z")
They still gripe if your spelling is in error or your punctuation ain’t perfect. Not me tho’. I read typo fluently. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/46 "2024-01-26T02:59:34Z")
I showed up. Opinions about this are likely to vary. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/47 "2024-01-26T07:39:37Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > Well, that depends, doesn’t it? Go to your room. Go directly to your room. Do not pass Go, do not collect 200 quatloos. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/48 "2024-01-26T08:16:56Z")
Oh yeah. We don’t bet here any more. Oh, we do, but not real dollars. We bet quatloos, but it’s all in fun. The worth of the quatloo to the US$, the CAD$, the AUD$, the GBP, the CHF, the EUR, has yet to be determined, so until then, quatloos are a perfectly fine fictional currency to bet in. Just don’t bet in real world currencies. Stick with quatloos, and we’ll all have fun. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/49 "2024-01-26T12:51:59Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Well, some guy from the 1980s Manhattan yuppie-culture somehow rug-hooked into the 1990s small town-hate Washington culture, and 2/3 of the threads are about it all. Good summary of that continuing, energy-sucking saga. But…he’s from Queens, so the seeds of that “rube resenting those elitist Manhattanites” were always there. /hijack ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/50 "2024-01-26T12:54:39Z")
> [@Poldana](#): > > Any important things I should know? Well, let’s see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di’s clothes. I couldn’t believe it. He took her best summer dress, put it on and went to town. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/51 "2024-01-26T13:23:53Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I showed up. > > Opinions about this are likely to vary. I think there’s a pretty good consensus that you showed up. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/52 "2024-01-26T14:24:17Z")
Seems pretty much the same to me except more so. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/53 "2024-01-26T14:26:17Z")
I disagree! ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/54 "2024-01-26T14:28:03Z")
No, you don’t. [To the OP: the **[Argument Clinic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_Clinic)** is alive and well] ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/55 "2024-01-26T14:29:17Z")
But this is not an argument, it’s a discussion. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/56 "2024-01-26T14:30:14Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > I disagree! But are you disagreeing that they showed up, or disagreeing that there’s a pretty good consensus that they showed up? We didn’t see this kind of sloppy imprecision in the old days before these new people showed up. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/57 "2024-01-26T14:30:39Z")
Now we see the violence inherent in the system! ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/58 "2024-01-26T14:33:51Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > But are you disagreeing that they showed up, or disagreeing that there’s a pretty good consensus that they showed up? yes! extra characters for discource (another change, the new board software doesn’t let you post replies with less than 5 characters) ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/59 "2024-01-26T14:37:55Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > the new board software doesn’t let you post replies with less than 5 characters Unless you have platinum membership, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625/60 "2024-01-26T14:39:20Z")
I think we all like George W. Bush more than we used to, because Trump makes him look like Einstein in comparison. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-gone-from-the-sdmb-for-20-years-whats-happened/996625.md?page=4)