# My Annual SDMB Pet Peeve Thread.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 21, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272 "2005-06-21T23:33:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/21 "2005-06-22T13:25:46Z")

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> [@Ellis Dee](#):
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> I hate refering to people as letters instead of names. Especially if there are more than two characters to keep track of. My head hurts from trying to parse the Mobius point.

Sorry about that, ED.

Will it help my case any if I mention I’m a Giants fan, also?

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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/22 "2005-06-22T13:42:08Z")

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> [@Biggirl](#):
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> 1. Spelling Nazis. Because I can’t spell and they make me look and feel bad. Poo on you.

You misspelled “pooh”.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/23 "2005-06-22T14:09:12Z")

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> [@newcrasher](#):
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> You invoke Godwin’s Law in a pet peeve thread? Are you aware that the Nazi’s killed millions of jews and were responsible for the deaths of millions of others?

There is no apostrophe in “Nazis.” “Jews” should be capitalized.

Auf Wiedersehen.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/24 "2005-06-22T14:10:59Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> tow or toe?

Tow. You can’t haul up much line with just one appendage of the foot.

Auf Wiedersehen.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/25 "2005-06-22T14:15:34Z")

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> [@BMalion](#):
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> You misspelled “pooh”.

No poo is correct as an equal to shit. Pooh is a name as in Winnie The Pooh or Pooh Richardson.

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**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/26 "2005-06-22T14:25:57Z")

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> [@Dooku](#):
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> I didn’t read the entire thread…

Hmm. This might not be my pet peeve, but it’s certainly a stray that I’ve taken to.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/27 "2005-06-22T14:35:55Z")

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> [@Biggirl](#):
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> 1. People bitching about how this place has gone downhill. “It never used to be like this!” Bullshit.

There is something new that I’ve noticed, or at least it seems to be the latest manifestation of a recurring trend.

You can’t post the slightest bit of hyperbole, or a joke, or slightly inaccurately worded facts without some numbnuts jumping down your throat and taking your words absolutely literally, then making a huge deal out of it. If you say “I haven’t had a cheeseburger in a million years”, numbnuts will reply “A million? I seriously doubt it was a million. Burgers haven’t even been around that long. I call you on your lies.” If you then say “I was exaggerating, it has really been 3 years, 4 months, 2 days, and 6 hours”, numbnuts will ignore that (or accuse you of backpeddling) and demand a cite for the million years.

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**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/28 "2005-06-22T14:50:06Z")

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A pantyliner thread would not be in Cafe Society. That’s totally ridiculous and I can’t believe you actually posted that. Your entire OP is invalidated now. You have no point. You have no brain. Your mother dresses you funny. And since it’s the pit…fuck, fuck, fuckity, fuck…

There is that certain breed of poster that can’t seem to comprehend hyperbole and humor and insist on taking every word literally just to be able to disagree with something, regardless of its relevance to the actual discussion. Or there are the posters that demand every detail of the backstory and if the OP said “The car that hit me was burgundy” and three posts later says, “the red car…” , they demand a full disclosure from the OP, including paint chip samples and web-cam verification to prove that they are not lying about a) the color of the car, b)that there ever was a car, c) everything they’ve ever posted on the SDMB, and d)the entire existence of a spectrum of colors. And if you cannot provide the above within five seconds, then you have no right to be posting about any alleged incidents that may be bothering you. Matter of fact, you have no right to be posting at all. Or breathing for that matter.

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**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/29 "2005-06-22T14:50:19Z")

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This one is specifically pit related:

People replying to pit threads (or complaints of any kind), saying, “well if that’s your worst problem…!”

Well, no, it’s actually not my worst problem. I don’t post my worst problems in the internet, thank you. We are allowed to pit things that aren’t the very worst things in our lives. In fact, I’d wager that MOST pit threads aren’t about peoples’ worst problems.

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**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/30 "2005-06-22T14:51:17Z")

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Or, what **tdn** just said while I was typing… :smack:

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/31 "2005-06-22T14:56:24Z")

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> [@Salem](#):
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> Or there are the posters that demand every detail of the backstory and if the OP said “The car that hit me was burgundy” and three posts later says, “the red car…” , they demand a full disclosure from the OP, including paint chip samples and web-cam verification

Bullshit. Show me one link where anyone demanded paint chip samples OR web-cam verification.

You have no point. You have no brain. You have no right to be posting at all. Or breathing for that matter.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/32 "2005-06-22T14:57:42Z")

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> [@Salem](#):
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> Or, what **tdn** just said while I was typing… :smack:

I was sort of wondering why you repeated what I just said. But I think you said it much better. 🙂

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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/33 "2005-06-22T15:13:07Z")

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> [@adam yax](#):
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> No poo is correct as an equal to shit. Pooh is a name as in Winnie The Pooh or Pooh Richardson.

Ah, correcting my correction, I hate that.  
😃

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**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/34 "2005-06-22T15:34:22Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> :d \<---- my new smiley idea. Seen it a bunch lately on the board. Looks like a goofy, maybe crazy person.

That’s me touching me nose with me tongue.

I hate that when I highlight the last sentance of quoted material to delete it, the [/ from the /quote is deleted. Why do you do that? If I’d wanted to highlight it, I would have!

Or when people assume since you are supplying data or an arguement about something one side said, you must be on that side of the arguement.

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**Author:** ![merrily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@merrily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merrily)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/35 "2005-06-22T15:38:26Z")

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**Biggirl** , I pay attention to you. You never need to feel lonely again. Not that I’m such good company…

You got me to go to the Lord of the Rings movie because of your lust for Legolas (for which I am very grateful). And you got me playing that rocket game (for which I am less grateful, but you were right, it was addictive). Just to show I’m paying attention.

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/36 "2005-06-22T15:50:58Z")

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> [@merrily](#):
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> **Biggirl** , I pay attention to you. You never need to feel lonely again. Not that I’m such good company…
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> You got me to go to the Lord of the Rings movie because of your lust for Legolas (for which I am very grateful). And you got me playing that rocket game (for which I am less grateful, but you were right, it was addictive). Just to show I’m paying attention.

Wow! You really have been paying attention! Um, now I’m a little frightened.

Just kidding.

P.S. I also hate having to say “just kidding” all the time. That’s not an SDMB exclusive thing. I found out a lot of people don’t know when I’m kidding. You knew I was kidding, right **merrily**?

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**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/37 "2005-06-22T16:03:36Z")

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> [@](#):
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> 1. Going into somebody’s “I LOVE this band/TV show/book/ pantyliner” thread in Cafe Society just to say how much that thing sucks…There is no need to shit in somebody else’s thread just to show how cool and/or unconventional you are…

4a. Using [someone else’s words](http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/chuckd-91.php) to slam the OP’s individual tastes

> [@Chuck D](#):
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> I hate Quiet Storm. My wife loves that shit. I don’t understand it…All you fucking do is go to sleep to that shit…I think it was better r&b in the '60s. It ain’t because I’m trying to sound like an old motherfucker, but I just think that more heart and soul went into the concern over the lyrics and the lyrics led somewhere. The brothers back then and sisters back then sang a tune and the lyrics was kicking, and the music was felt…

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**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/38 "2005-06-22T16:52:53Z")

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> [@Biggirl](#):
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> 3.All those goddamned NYC threads in IMHO.

You’re just mad there aren’t more Brooklyn threads

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/39 "2005-06-22T17:01:01Z")

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> [@Dooku](#):
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> I didn’t read the entire thread, so this might have already been said, but here’s my 2 cents anyway, since everyone is so desperate for my opinion that I simply must share it immediately regardless of whether it has already been discussed for three pages and the thread has long since moved on, but…  
> .

I’m just here to drop an amusing anecdote about _**[size=5]myself[/size**_.

What?

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-annual-sdmb-pet-peeve-thread/309272/40 "2005-06-22T17:02:03Z")

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:smack:

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