# Let's get real about SDMB, you cybernerds! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 7, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832 "2006-09-07T21:02:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/61 "2006-09-07T23:38:27Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] You have to start a religion to get sex slaves? I must be doing something wrong, then… [/QUOTE] I don’t claim to know all the rules, was just staking out my position in the religion,cult,business…whatever it is. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/62 "2006-09-07T23:58:31Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Y’know, this place (the SDMB) could better be nicknamed “The World’s Largest Pub”. > It’s just a place where people can kick back and bitch about things (The Pit), talk politics (Great Debates), ask peoples opinions about what lawnmower to buy (IMHO), or shoot the shit about what was on TV last night (Cafe Society). Well I’m here for the snacky treats. Maybe play some darts or some pool, hit on the bartender and smoke out back. I suspect _ **some people** _ are here to watch the game, have a few pints and then go jerk off in the bathroom? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/63 "2006-09-08T00:07:47Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus] Is Valteron the Transformers bad guy? [/QUOTE] Nah, I think he’s the giant robot formed together by lions: one red, one black, one yellow, one blue and one stupid. I think I know which one’s the primary lion. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/64 "2006-09-08T00:09:57Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] _Everybody_ pays for sex. One way or another. [/QUOTE] Oh, and money is not anywhere near the worst way to pay for it. I’ve paid _not_ to have sex with **John Corrado.** It cost a lot more than $14, too. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/65 "2006-09-08T00:36:18Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] In a Big-Bang-like burst of irony, you could start your own religion… 😃 [/QUOTE] The only problem would be what to call it. The Cult of the Beaten Dead Horse…nah, doesn’t ring. Brethren of the Broken Record? Better, I think. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/66 "2006-09-08T01:15:09Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I don’t come here to talk and opine. I come here to listen and learn. [/QUOTE] Hmmm..after 24,000+ posts, it appears you must have done a hell of a lot of “talking and opining.” IMO, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![quilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/839c29/32.png) [@quilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quilter)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/67 "2006-09-08T01:18:55Z")
[QUOTE=Valteron] I mean, think about it, folks!!! PAYING $14 A YEAR FOR THE RIGHT TO GIVE YOUR OPINION??? [/QUOTE] In my case, no. I support the SDMB because I value the effort to (gasp) fight ignorance. Moreover, I value proper spelling, correct grammar, and proper punctuation, as well. [QUOTE=Valteron] Now take a typical member whom I will not name (he knows who he is). He has been a member just over a year and has posted over 3,500 times, an average of 9.31 times a day. [/QUOTE] \ [QUOTE=Valteron] Now, I myself have been a member since April and I have posted an average of 1.49 times a day. [/QUOTE] Some of us post even less… but, perhaps, that’s because we wait until we might have a contribution to make. YMMV, of course. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/68 "2006-09-08T01:39:52Z")
[QUOTE=RedFury] Hmmm..after 24,000+ posts, it appears you must have done a hell of a lot of “talking and opining.” IMO, anyway. [/QUOTE] Hey, some of us are just the internet equivalent of chatter-boxes. Opinionated and very talkative. Crap, I am just as bad ‘In Real Life’. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/69 "2006-09-08T01:43:10Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] In a Big-Bang-like burst of irony, you could start your own religion… 😃 [/QUOTE] “There is no God, and **Der Trihs** is not his Prophet” ? "And the people came unto **Der Trihs** , and said unto him, ‘Give us your wisdom, Ascended One !’ And **Der Trihs** did speak unto the multitudes, and said unto them ‘Goest thou away, a new Honor Harrington book is out and I am busy’. The assembled multitudes did heed these words of wisdom, and went unto the nearest bookseller. There they did find that the Ascended One had spoken truly, and there was much rejoicing." ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/70 "2006-09-08T01:51:39Z")
I had sex with **John Corrado** ’s money. Yes, I am ashamed. What? Oh, the OP: Dear shit-for-brains, kindly buy your beer elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/71 "2006-09-08T01:54:19Z")
[QUOTE=Hamlet] My hands start shaking every time I think about it. All you would get would be an illegible scrawl and possibly some drool on the form. [/QUOTE] As long as it fits in the Scantron, that’s all we need. And I’ve had sex with **John Corrado** ’s left hand. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/72 "2006-09-08T01:57:58Z")
That’s nothing. _ **John Corrado** paid me not to have sex with **Der Trihs**._ ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/73 "2006-09-08T02:16:18Z")
> [@](#): > > **Valteron** : If we were all posting objective facts and analyzing them objectively and without emotion, would we not all come to the same conclusions? Would the conclusions have much value when not tempered with emotional intelligence? Not everything at SDMB is about objective analysis. Thirty years ago I used to save money specifically an organization that supported Israel even though I am a pacifist. Today I take a more evenly balanced, pro-Israeli, pro-Arab stand. \* Something\* happened along the way to change my mind. Maybe it was a few words here and a comment there. We have to wait until we have a little persective for the patterns of our thinking to begin to make sense. Just because your name is fictitious doesn’t mean that you aren’t real. Same here. I’ve been married for twenty years to one of the real people with a fictitious name that I met on my computer in BBS days. (Let this be a warning to you! :)) BTW, I was suicidal for a long, long time. Years. And hostile. I had rages. (Interesting contradiction for a pacifist.) I thought I would never get it out of my system. No one took me seriously. My doctor did. He saw to it that I saw someone who gave me the meds to correct my body chemistry. It was the difference in night and day and has been for 17 years now. “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” – R. W. Emerson Pax ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/74 "2006-09-08T02:22:24Z")
[QUOTE=Paranoid Randroid] That’s nothing. John Corrado paid me not to have sex with Der Trihs. [/QUOTE] Might want to consider getting a shot or something… -XT ---
**Author:** ![Coin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Coin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/75 "2006-09-08T02:30:33Z")
[QUOTE=SkipMagic] Nah, I think he’s the giant robot formed together by lions: one red, one black, one yellow, one blue and one stupid. I think I know which one’s the primary lion. [/QUOTE] Second time in as many days I`ve had to clean Coke off my keyboard because of the SDMB. This is why _I_ pay. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/76 "2006-09-08T02:50:05Z")
Valteron, you start thread about suicide which I as one who has lost a loved one to suicide find utterly ignorable. And now you’ve started an anti-bullshit campaign. However Valteron, if you read this post, obscure though it be in a thread that has attracted many others, you will see that I acknowledge the merits of the existential issue you’ve limned: If we can’t find something redeeming in bullshit, and by bullshit thereby redeem ourselves, then yes, we may as well kill ourselves. We might wish there were something worth living for besides bullshit, but that wish itself is bullshit. So there is but bullshit or death. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/77 "2006-09-08T02:52:56Z")
Well one good thing about Valteron, he makes **Der Trihs** look reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/78 "2006-09-08T03:00:49Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Something in my room smells distinctly of roasted peanuts, still in their shell. I think it may be my socks. [/QUOTE] [Hmm.. Find the smell.](http://home.comcast.net/~cpeek001/smell.mp3) (3 megs) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/79 "2006-09-08T03:23:39Z")
[QUOTE=John Corrado] And I’ve had sex with **John Corrado** ’s left hand. [/QUOTE] Are you left handed, or were you just playing hard-to-get? ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832/80 "2006-09-08T03:25:40Z")
[QUOTE=SkipMagic] Nah, I think he’s the giant robot formed together by lions: one red, one black, one yellow, one blue and one stupid. I think I know which one’s the primary lion. [/QUOTE] … And now I feel glad in the knowledge that my $15 this year hasn’t gone to waste. And now I just need to clean the coke off of my work keyboard as well… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-get-real-about-sdmb-you-cybernerds/371832.md?page=5)