I don’t even understand why people make an issue of this! I usually read through a thread with my joke in head hoping no else posted it, because if they didn’t post it then I can!
Being the first person to post something means you’re being original.
Once upon a time people tried to be original because it implied they were creative. When you get pissed off about being original you’re basically saying “I want to be tired, and repetitive”.
Where are all these threads about legumes?
They’re driving me nuts!
Bean there, read that. They’re soy overrated.
Yawn. This topic has come up many times before, so much so that the outraged expressed has become passe.
I can’t believe that I’m the first one to mention… er… Fred MacMurray!
I thought this thread was going to be about the complaints by partisans about their opposition not starting a thread about that opposition’s outrageous behavior when once (in 1962) that opposition complained about something the partisans’ ilk did.
Yes, where have they bean?
In the Navy!
(Someone’s gonna give me a blackeye for that one.)
Or perhaps a punch to the kidney.
Parkay!
I can. That shit tastes like plastic.
You’re not. I mention him in post #214. Poo-tee-weet? Oh, I forgot, you live in linear time. So it goes.
Stranger
It’s worse when someone creates a thread to ask why someone hasn’t created a thread about their topic of interest, but somebody actually did create such a thread and the whiner didn’t notice.
And if your dog gets sprayed by a skunk while you’re composing your complaint, that’s not irony, but it really stinks.
It is pretty condescending really. And has been going on for years.
I don’t even understand why people make an issue of this! I usually read through a thread with my joke in head hoping no else posted it, because if they didn’t post it then I can!
Being the first person to post something means you’re being original.
Once upon a time people tried to be original because it implied they were creative. When you get pissed off about being original you’re basically saying “I want to be tired, and repetitive”.
I didn’t read the rest of the thread, but the weekly TV show threads seem to be the worst:
“What, no 30 Rock thread this week”?
“What, no Office thread this week?”
“What, no South Park thread this week?”
For God’s sake, maybe the person who normally starts 30 Rock threads is taking an extra-long dump. Start it yourself!
I’m sad that I got that reference. I’ve wasted my life.
But I did this thread just last week! I HATE it when somebody does that!
Nobody replied to it. No one said a damned word! Y’all just did what you always do and let it scroll off of the screen and just as soon as it did, here comes
Munch saying almost word for word what I said about how no one has mentioned blankety blank blank yet.
Get a life and an original post, Bubba!
While I have never done this myself, I have thought it while posting, but not for any of the reasons mentioned above. It’s not happiness at being able to post something original, but rather thinking of something that’s so obvious that it would normally have been one of the first responses. And if my post is late in the game, perhaps it actually *has *been posted before.
For example, suppose the original post were: What’s a simpler way to express “4+4+4+4”? People could post replies like “8 + 8” or “20 - 4” and so forth for lots of posts. Then finally somebody responds"I can’t believe nobody has said ‘16’ yet." Not because they’re so proud of their originality, but rather because they really are surprised that this obvious answer had not yet been mentioned.
Dang, I came in here to post this exact thing! Beaten. 
What’s funny is when the person is wrong, and it happens ALL THE TIME. Just today I was reading a graphic novel thread and someone posted “what, no love for Bone?” Bone had already been mentioned.