# Most controversial possible SDMB thread?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981>\
**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\
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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/101 "2010-07-01T14:42:39Z")

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> [@astro](#):
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> I’m sure I’m forgetting parts but:
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> Re “most controversial” IIRC there was a thread from several years ago where a self admitted (claimed to be non-practicing) pedophile/ephebophile started a thread along the lines of (forget the actual name) “ask the non-practicing pedophile”. As I recall he wasn’t particularly aggressive or defensive about his “preference”, he simply presented it as an urge he had to control.
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> The thread trundled along about like you would expect when one of the main administrators, with access to all board registration data, played detective took confidential data from his SDMB board registration info, and using this found and posted his IRL name and address. The admin might also have reported him to the authorities, but I forget. The defense she had for doing this was that she was informed he had, at some point in the past, exchanged private message with one of the younger board teenaged board members at some point, and better safe than sorry.
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> All hell broke loose. Massive angry threads ensued between people upset at the violation of privacy vs people upset at the people being upset about the violation of privacy when there was a pervert on the lose. Cecil finally had to wade in, crack heads, and all the threads were deleted.

Cite?

😃

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/102 "2010-07-01T15:02:21Z")

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> [@Superhal](#):
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> Hey, this is a _family_ board.

Okay, so are my kids too ugly to rent out to a family of pedophiles?

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/103 "2010-07-01T16:02:37Z")

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Thanks for sharing, **astro**. All true, and all clearly not in the spirit of this thread. Let’s call this a hijack and drop the subject. If anyone wishes to revisit it, start a new thread (in MPSIMS, ATMB, or the Pit, depending on what you wish to accomplish with such a thread).

**twickster** , MPSIMS moderator

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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/104 "2010-07-01T17:18:26Z")

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> [@twickster](#):
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> Thanks for sharing, **astro**. All true, and all clearly not in the spirit of this thread. Let’s call this a hijack and drop the subject. If anyone wishes to revisit it, start a new thread (in MPSIMS, ATMB, or the Pit, depending on what you wish to accomplish with such a thread).
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> **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator

The OP simply asked for the most controversial possible thread. I gave a real example of such a thread that existed in the past. My response was hardly a “hijack” and was completely on point.

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**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/105 "2010-07-01T17:46:26Z")

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Going to have to throw in something about circumcision and the Armenian Genocide to get true pan-internet participation.

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**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/106 "2010-07-01T19:04:50Z")

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You can pry my serial comma from my cold, dead, and buried fingers!

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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/107 "2010-07-01T19:23:37Z")

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Okay, based on the submissions so far, we need egregious grammatical errors, as well as fine points of nitpicking detail, coupled with bold socio-political assertions that are both contentious and half-debatable. Questionable, but again, arguable historical accuracy may be useful as well, and a value judgement thrown in would help.

_ **King Arthur - assuming he was real, royal, 11th century, and of course, Welsh, was his relationship with Lancelot secretly or not so secretly gay? Also, was Arthur a racist in relation to the Saxons? and if Morgana Le Fay had had an abortion, how would things have worked out?** _

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/108 "2010-07-01T19:43:39Z")

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> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#):
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> Okay, based on the submissions so far, we need egregious grammatical errors, as well as fine points of nitpicking detail, coupled with bold socio-political assertions that are both contentious and half-debatable. Questionable, but again, arguable historical accuracy may be useful as well, and a value judgement thrown in would help.
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> _ **King Arthur - assuming he was real, royal, 11th century, and of course, Welsh, was his relationship with Lancelot secretly or not so secretly gay? Also, was Arthur a racist in relation to the Saxons? and if Morgana Le Fay had had an abortion, how would things have worked out?** _

There’s only one “e” in “judgment.” 😛

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**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/109 "2010-07-01T20:07:11Z")

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> [@Superhal](#):
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> I know there’s already 697 threads on the subject already, and 16 on the front page right now, but I just had one more question about time travel: Is it possible?

It must be, that’s how those 713 people somehow managed to post before you.

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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/110 "2010-07-01T20:19:36Z")

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> [@twickster](#):
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> There’s only one “e” in “judgment.” 😛

Thank you. You’ve really entered into the spirit of the thing! 😃

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**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/111 "2010-07-01T21:09:15Z")

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Best way to euthanize a retard? Need answer fast.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/112 "2010-07-01T21:31:25Z")

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> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#):
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> Thank you. You’ve really entered into the spirit of the thing! 😃

There’s only one i in sprit.

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**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/113 "2010-07-01T22:59:00Z")

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We’ve got to add something like, “I let my baby run wild/scream/do whatever it wants and I don’t give a shit what you think” to annoy all the self-righteous people on this message board who think they’re better parents than/have the right to tell off some stranger they saw once who didn’t shut his kid up fast enough.

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/114 "2010-07-01T23:06:35Z")

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Carrying an open bottle of tabasco sauce! While drinking a White Russian!

UNVACCINATEDDDDDDDDD!!!

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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/115 "2010-07-02T01:26:55Z")

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The medical system is scamming us all. If people really had all those organs sloshing around inside their bodies, you could not stand on your head. All the organs would just ooze down your neck. They have all agreed to keep this scam going by having TV shows and doctor manuals showing these things.  
People are all homogeneous inside like a potato or a tree. We have to quit allowing them to fool us.  
My son has been complaining about a pain on his side. He is coming over later. I will be out in the garage sterilizing my power tools. When he come over I will take care of it.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/116 "2010-07-02T01:44:26Z")

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Help me balance my kids’ opium and raw sugar intake. I give them opium to keep them reasonably quiet and compliant, but they need the sugar so they have the energy to do what I tell them.

What is the best age to sell my children for organ replacement?

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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/117 "2010-07-02T02:53:41Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> Help me balance my kids’ opium and raw sugar intake. I give them opium to keep them reasonably quiet and compliant, but they need the sugar so they have the energy to do what I tell them.
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> What is the best age to sell my children for organ replacement?

There aren’t any organs, didn’t you read the thread?

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/118 "2010-07-02T03:15:42Z")

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I mean electric organs. My kids had their voice boxes surgically altered and have had special training in humming.

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**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/119 "2010-07-02T07:49:18Z")

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lets talk about Israel

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**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-possible-sdmb-thread/544981/120 "2010-07-02T12:21:36Z")

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