We have the BEST members spanning the spectrum of best-ness. This means the smartest, funniest, most knowledgeable, and, naturally (as follows night the day), the jerkiest, rudest, and the worst spellers (actually, even the jerks are pretty good spellers-- we do have standards).
Are there too many commas in my post?
Welcome bikerdruid! You have an interesting spot on the Venn diagram, but I think you’ll find plenty of fellow fringe dwellers here.
Hi bikerdruid and everyone. I’ve been lurking for over four years. This is my first post. I recently registered just so I could find older posts by certain users that I like. And don’t like.
I recommend lurking and exploring old threads. I have thoroughly enjoyed going back to the dates of some world events and reading what the dope had to say about them.
I LOVE the creative insults flung around in the pit. But the best thing about these boards, I think, is the moderating. The posters who troll, use slurs or just say really dumb things don’t last very long here.
I’ve been reading these boards every day for years - it’s never boring.
That is very modest of you, waiting four years! Welcome!
I agree that the moderating is top-notch and very important. Boards like these crash and burn and everyone flees if there is no moderating. All of this brilliance, angst, and whininess needs to be corralled and channeled For Good and not left to Run Amuck (except for a few days/hours until everyone is thoroughly either entertained or disgusted or both).
Rule 46a. Revises SDMB code 2014 edition.
Mentioning paper towel tubes will get you BANNED in some forums. In those forums, you have to refer to them as a disposable towel delivery device.
If you don’t get that, that’s ok. I’ve been here a long time and was never a part of that thread, discussion or issue, so I have no clue what the whole paper towel roll thing is about either.
You’ll find a lot of history like that on this board, such as the infamous 3 item list.
Trust me, you’re better off. I’d like to forget that entire thread ever happened and I’m guessing I’m not the only one.
Begin the initiation ceremony! Fetch hither the Paddle!
Welcome to The Dope. It’s a wonderful community.
…we take VISA, MasterCard, Amex, Discovery, and Debit cards too…
…the bowl of spaghetti, the electric fan, and the three-legged stool. And the eel. But no pinata this time, please. My dog still has an anxiety attack whenever she hears mariachi music.
Better the paddle than the piddle…
[insert Russian hooker joke here]
Hi, Modesty! Glad you delurked!
The cool thing about this board is that if I get pissed off, there’s usually someone else who is and who can articulate themselves much better than me. **SpiceWeasel **has recently become my heroine with regard to mental health and feminism issues. I get pissed off and sometimes go off before I settle down while she doesn’t and can reason her arguments very well.
The only thing I have to say about reading old threads is to be careful about answering a 10 year old post.
If you do, you’ll get a torrent of zombie thread jokes.
And a dozen people trying to argue with posters who’ve been banned (or maybe dead) for a decade. And one guy* replying “Thanks, I haven’t thought of that Seinfeld episode in years!”
*ummm, that’d be me…
This absolutely appalls some of the folks who start posting without bothering to lurk. We also tend to say thank you when someone corrects something we posted, especially if it’s done nicely and with links.
Welcome bikerdruid and Modesty Blaise, even if we do seem to be short one goat and one pinata.
Welcome, welcome! Would you like some ice cream? It’s frisky, I mean ‘fresh’!
That is super sweet and funny because that’s how I think of jsgoddess, who brings down her shiny feminist hammer of doom. I have felt way less emotional about this overall since the EMDR. Maybe I’m leveling up.
Hi bikerdruid, and welcome! We hope you like it here.
Can you share what your user name means? I’m curious because I ride motorcycles and am wondering if it’s related.
I assume it is a strange variation of a D&D Druid using motorcycles in place of animal companions. 