# Misinterpreted thread titles

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 17, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360 "2023-01-17T17:58:45Z")\
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When I first saw this thread

> [@Sleeping through society's collapse](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-through-societys-collapse/1022669):
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> One of my streamers has just added 28 Days Later, which is always worth a repeat watching. This time watching Jim (Cillian Murphy) regaining consciousness in a hospital ward and gradually coming to the realisation that not only was there no one else there but that something very, Very, VERY bad had happened, I realised that the same had happened in the beginning of Day of the Triffids (book and adaptations) and Walking Dead (comic and tv). I’m sure there are many others. I can see the attracti…

I was pretty sure it was going to be a complaint about how many Americans are going about their business as usual while all around them the country is falling apart and they’re taking no action to prevent it.

Nope. Not that at all.

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