# Most controversial possible SDMB thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981 "2010-06-29T20:49:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/21 "2010-06-29T22:19:42Z")
Sad but an actual one: taking the lint out of the drying machine. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/22 "2010-06-29T22:23:02Z")
Was Kirk merely a great starship captain, or was he _the greatest_ starship captain? Need info about Fair Use for copyright, particularly comic porn featuring Superman and Picard Whose dick do I gotta suck around here to become a mod? My eyeball burst (not looking for medical advice) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/23 "2010-06-29T22:29:49Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > Sad but an actual one: taking the lint out of the drying machine. Really? Link? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/24 "2010-06-29T22:36:32Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > _How many declawed but non-neutered homosexual kittens can I shoot with my assault weapon as I enter the house and neglect to take my shoes off, and how many fat liberals won’t tip me for praying over the mangled corpses with my molested by a Catholic priest, retarded, but circumsized multiracial children, who are locked in a hot car while I’m inside a fancy restaurant ordering milk on the way to my church mandated third trimester abortion as I post this? (Need answer fast)._ …and why are all black people so loud? ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/25 "2010-06-29T22:37:46Z")
[Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=269863) the dryer lint one. It took a bit to find because it’s from '04. Here’s also an older one that’s [“Seemingly innocous “Hot Button” topics on the SDMB”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=315247&highlight=dryer+lint&page=3) from '05. Damn, now I’m going to be late for class 'cuz I had to find those. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/26 "2010-06-29T22:39:01Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > …and why are all black people so loud? That was an [actual thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=418250&highlight=black+people+loud). ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/27 "2010-06-29T22:40:09Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > That was an [actual thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=418250&highlight=black+people+loud). I know. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/28 "2010-06-29T22:42:06Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Here’s also an older one that’s [“Seemingly innocous “Hot Button” topics on the SDMB”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=315247&highlight=dryer+lint&page=3) from '05. Obviously, we’re much funnier today than those old fogey’s from 2005. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/29 "2010-06-29T22:48:53Z")
Huh. Clubbing baby fur seals must be out of fashion, now. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/30 "2010-06-29T22:54:55Z")
Obese church-going smokers fighting in the American Civil War for States Rights and a pro-gun agenda; are they really being supported under the table by Obama and George W? ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/31 "2010-06-29T23:35:25Z")
Poll: Flag Burning: Pee on it _before_ or _after?_ ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/32 "2010-06-29T23:56:03Z")
I don’t think the real achievement is trying to make a controversial thread; the real achievement is making a thread in good faith and having it go super-controversial. It’s like fine wine. Or a Cuban cigar. Or really good cheese. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/33 "2010-06-30T00:07:00Z")
Man, If you guys can’t work in a dirty baby diaper and illegal aliens in there somehow you just aint trying. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/34 "2010-06-30T00:07:41Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > That was an [actual thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=418250&highlight=black+people+loud). To be fair, that guy was a big time troll. I’m not going to bother reading this whole thread but you are all wrong about the way you raise your obese gifted toddler with Aspergers as an (insert-religious/non-religious beliefs here). I am going to a well-known chain restaurant for lunch and ordering nothing but a well-done blackened steak. Oh, and then I’m having a big hunk of cheese cake for dessert. See, I can’t help being fat – it’s in my genes and I pricked my thumb when I was little and now I have this disease that makes me incapable of losing weight. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/35 "2010-06-30T00:15:54Z")
Doesn’t there have to be some mention of God, aliens, the supernatural, or, at the very least, the word holistic? ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/36 "2010-06-30T00:17:39Z")
Combination Dopefest and NAMBLA meeting! Who’s coming? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/37 "2010-06-30T00:18:51Z")
Need to work in Apple vs. Microsoft somehow… ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/38 "2010-06-30T00:23:21Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I don’t think the real achievement is trying to make a controversial thread; the real achievement is making a thread in good faith and having it go super-controversial. It’s like fine wine. Or a Cuban cigar. Or really good cheese. Nah, that’s easy. I made two the past month: [What’s your favorite lateral thinking puzzles?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=565917)(Warning! NSFW) [Is it possible to be unable to do critical thinking?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=566431) Apparently, the trick is to throw two Ph.D’s into the Thunderdome and then they spend all day saying “nanny nanny nanny” to each other. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/39 "2010-06-30T00:42:31Z")
How does a plane fly after taking off from a threadmill. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/40 "2010-06-30T00:47:23Z")
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