If you post a Pit thread - make sure it’s Pit worthy! I’ve had a post kicked out of the Pit before. It’s no fun. A few curse words do not make a thread Pit worthy. And expect Pit threads to turn on you, it’s the nature of the beast. It’s often quite amusing to read though. Some of our members are extremely creative with their insults!
Someone mentioned this before, but always search before posting a thread. If it’s been done recently, read the thread and see if your question has been answered. Don’t bring back “zombie” (old) threads though, they’ll most likely get closed.
Be prepared to have this board suck all your free time away! But I’ve learned a lot and had a lot of laughs so far, so it’s worth it!
No problem in avoiding this topic altogether. I’m a dog lover kind of person.
So this baffles me a little. How would one know that someone else is fat? You can’t see them through the internet, so the only way that someone else would know that another person is fat is if the person said that they were 5 feet and 1000 pounds or something, and then wouldn’t they already know?
As for the tip, gotcha. . . ::note to self:: no calling people here fat.
And what place might that be? I’m having a hard time imagining an appropriate place for some of those.
Oh wait! I just realized I’m not supposed to double post. Does that include posts to reply to different people also?
And one more inane and stupid question while I’m here. I’m not noticing an edit button on my posts. Is that because I’m a guest? Is there an edit button I’m not seeing?
There’s no edit button. And calling people fat is only unwise as an insult; you can use the term for yourself (if you are) any time, and of course it can apply with impunity to animals, etc. Just not to the big f** idiot who backed into your car in the parking lot.
And the one-smiley-per-post limit doesn’t apply to the MMP, which is a weekly thread you’ll see here in MPSIMS where the level of mudanity and pointlessness is, if anything, taken to even lower depths than the Marianas Trench, and where hijacking the thread is not only allowed but required.
And if all this confuses you? Not to worry. Just dip your toe into the water, read a whole bunch, and have fun! You’ll figure it all out eventually. Even why any time sheep are mentioned, poster Hal Briston is snickered at.
Well, we are in agreement there. Sauerkraut belongs on a Rueben. I also dont’ like Ruebens. Mainly because I don’t like sauerkraut.
You see what ketchup does to you? It prevents you from properly spelling "mustard.’
I don’t mind slathering on a few extra condiments at hot dog stands, provided they have acceptable condiments. A couple slices of dill pickles, diced onions, and sometimes, if I’m feeling racy, some tabasco. Shredded cheese is also good but too few stands have that, and it must be added first so it melts a bit. Portion control is critical, however – your dog shouldn’t leave a condiment mustache behind.
Extra pizza toppings really only come down to a few things: Garlic sauce, tabasco and/or chili peppers, parmesan cheese, and/or a bit of oregano. Not necessarily all at once and again in proper proportions. With pizza however such things are used sparingly – ideally your pizza ought still to look like pizza when all is said and done. If it looks soup on a shingle, you’ve gone too far.
Don’t listen to her! Don’t get sucked into the false faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorn! Revere the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and embrace his noodly appendage!
This is all very interesting, but I’m a vegan. I don’t eat hot dogs. I do, however, eat tofu dogs with ketchup.
Do fake weiners count?
Thanks for the welcome. No worries about me starting a Pit thread at this point. I’ll leave the Olympic style swearing to others. That’s not my forte. They do look interesting, so maybe I can one day participate in one, but I doubt I’ll be starting one any time soon.
Whoa. That gives me serious pause for thought. I’ve used the edit button liberally in the past.
Another tip I’m picking up here by observation. It is apparently acceptable to hijack threads here. Good to know.
Frankly (heh) you can put whatever you want on those things. I don’t think it would violate the Rules of Conduct governing sticks of meat as there’s no meat involved. Just a meat simulation. A fauxfurter, if you will. Or tofurter. Whatever. So feel free to drown it in the condiment of your choice. It just leaves more ground bovine slurry and less ketchup for us! Kind of a win-win if you ask me.
As for Heffalump and Roo, welcome to the Boards. You have already received plenty of good advice. All you need now is to remember to observe the Straight Dope Message Board charter
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[ul][li]Make sure you always completely discount someone’s reasoned and documented argument entirely if you can find one obscure exception to it.[/li][li]If you feel like a discussion you’re in isn’t going your way, go personal: dismiss all arguments, no matter how well reasoned and documented, if the person presenting them has ever pissed anyone off, for any reason.[/li][li]Or, change the subject only enough to focus on the other participants in the discussion, and their style of presentation, instead of actually discussing the subject at hand. [/li][li]Bring lots of straw.[/ul][/li][/QUOTE]
Sounds like a lot of trouble to go to, when simply introducing a treadmill has largely the same effect.
It depends on the combined vibes of the hijacker and the thread in question.
Some folks are golden children and anything they say in any thread, regardless of topicality, is embraced. On the other end of the consequenceless hijacker spectrum you find folks who have managed not to piss enough people off with their hijacking to call negative attention to themselves, but who have rather desensitized the board into subconsciously ignoring anything that they say.
I like to think of myself as somewhere in the middle. I attempt to hijack only in moderation, and admitting to it at the beginning of the post somehow makes it more soft and fluffy…or something.
Hijacking happens in all of the forums. Probably most often here and The Pit, if I had to guess.
Often (not that I’m saying this is the case in this thread, at all) hijacks can be more interesting than the original thread, though folks are generally encouraged to start a new one.
Beacuse, as everyone knows, the proper condiment to put on one’s hot dog is peanut butter. And nothing else.
Back to the OP: there are a number of topics that tend to get closed by the mods, which are listed in the Rules for Posting FAQ. One that I did not see mentioned there was direct requests for homework help. These are not allowed.
There are limits, especially in the two more serious fora. In General Questions, hijacks are tolerated once the original question has been answered in a satisfactory way. In Great Debates, if a hijack has turned into a debate on a different issue, you can be asked to start a debate on that in a separate thread. But it’s more like all-in wrestling in IMHO, MPSIMS and the Pit.
Look, pal, I think you’ve stumbled onto the wrong message board. Your freakish kind is not welcome around here. You may leave the way you came in. We don’t want no trouble.
Ketchup on tofu dogs indeed. I may need to eat a peanut butter and pickled egg sandwich just to return my tastebuds to some sence of normalcy.
