# Pre-poll collection of annoying SDMB expressions **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 15, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564 "2012-01-15T03:10:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/41 "2012-01-16T20:34:31Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Yo, **Bob Ducca** , you want to share with the folks some of the thrills we had trying to build that monster poll on _The Wire_ and how much love and appreciation we got for that effort? 😃 > > Big polls like this one can pose serious problems in their construction. What’s the opposite of appreciation? Because that’s what I recall. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/42 "2012-01-16T20:41:54Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > What’s the opposite of appreciation? Because that’s what I recall. 😃 Same here. Abuse, hatred, contumely, stone-throwing, and general displeasure. I still look at that exercise as lots of fun, and can dismiss the negative feedback with ease. FWIW, it appears that I may have brought another thread to its knees (it was about charisma or something along those lines) by linking to a YouTube clip that had Omar’s arrival on the scene and how from that moment I knew he was going to be the key to the show. I still rank _The Wire_ in my Top Ten, but some other shows are competing with it for quality nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/43 "2012-01-16T21:15:17Z")
“you misspelled X” (i.e. Poster A: Bugs Bunny is the best Looney Toons character/ Poster B: You spelled “Yosemite Sam” wrong) any variation of “have you heard of this thing called the Ignore function?” ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/44 "2012-01-16T22:55:27Z")
1. “…Makes me stabby”. All-time number one in my book. 2. “My cat’s breath smells like cat food.” Boredom incarnate. 3. “Hi, Opal”. Worn out like a fifty-year old rug. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/45 "2012-01-18T15:22:41Z")
Here’s the batch so far, in the order they’ve appeared, including my post from **Mean Mr. Mustard** ’s [July Poll on the same basic topic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=617729): ===================================== Fap-fap- fap Google is your friend / Here, let me Google that for you. Band name Hi Opal Let’s go to the quarry In Soviet Russia… …but thanks for playing. Regards, Shodan Welcoming overlords. Ay! Throw them in the quarry now; Long have they made us smile: For Opal insists on a three-point list Or a Death Ray of Twenties style. Though overuse has sunk them down Low as the Challenger Deep, We were amused; penis ensued And the snark gave us something to keep. We celebrated simulposts Where Diuran’s Rio gleams; In truth we built this community On a bunch of silly memes. Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! burning your dog “JPEG!” The Dio Show… oh wait nobody’s said that in ages The phrase, “… makes me stabby.” Gobsmacked Words fail I’ve a \… when written by an American. Vibrant community While we’re on annoying regionalisms, I still can’t get my head round the use of “any more” in the positive sense. “I eat a lot of tacos any more.” WTF. ==================================================== Thread: What are your biggest specific SDMB annoyances? #192 07-31-2011, 02:04 PM Zeldar Guest Join Date: Jun 2003 At the risk of adding another annoyance to the list: ```auto what are your biggest specific SDMB annoyances? Links with no description provided 158 46.88% Quoting entire long post 139 41.25% Semantics nitpicking & avoiding the real topic 115 34.12% Responding without reading thread 111 32.94% Single-issue dopers 87 25.82% All lowercase posts 81 24.04% Unnecessary sign-offs (i.e. 'mmm', 'regards') 81 24.04% Hi, Opal 80 23.74% Zombie jokes in zombie threads 80 23.74% Being ignored 66 19.58% Cryptic/obscure abbreviations or acronyms 66 19.58% Resurrecting zombie threads 66 19.58% Google is your friend 56 16.62% (x) posts and nobody’s mentioned"? 55 16.32% +1, this, QFT (with no additional content) 54 16.02% Didn’t we just do this topic? 54 16.02% Other 53 15.73% Welcoming with squids/goats/pie 48 14.24% Doper appreciation threads 43 12.76% Posts not specifying to whom replying 42 12.46% Cecil worship 41 12.17% OP: I hate (x) Reply: (x) 41 12.17% Cliques 40 11.87% Grammar Nazis 39 11.57% Single. Word. Sentences. 29 8.61% Bad puns 28 8.31% Og 28 8.31% Cat posts 27 8.01% Referring to spouse as "Mr./Mrs.(username) 26 7.72% Um... 26 7.72% MMPs 23 6.82% Eye roll smilie 20 5.93% Improper use of spoilers 20 5.93% Teh 20 5.93% Pwned 19 5.64% Marianas Trench 17 5.04% Woo 17 5.04% Get off of my lawn 15 4.45% FTW 14 4.15% Just sayin’ 14 4.15% Poll: Poll: 13 3.86% DTMFA 12 3.56% Smilies (all) 11 3.26% Thread titles that start off with "So" 7 2.08% Stick and slipper jokes 6 1.78% Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 337 ``` ==================================================== “I see what you did there.” Og Hi Opal Zombies/Brains Bringing pie ^This. Wow, just … wow. What do I win? Methinks … Three. Consecutive. Periods. Or it’s cousin, “Thread over.” / That. I have confidence in whatever anyone posts after me. “you misspelled X” (i.e. Poster A: Bugs Bunny is the best Looney Toons character/ Poster B: You spelled “Yosemite Sam” wrong) any variation of “have you heard of this thing called the Ignore function?” 1. “…Makes me stabby”. All-time number one in my book. 2. “My cat’s breath smells like cat food.” Boredom incarnate. 3. “Hi, Opal”. Worn out like a fifty-year old rug. ============================================= I leave it to you to select out the annoyances from **Polycarp** ’s verse. Hopefully the summary will help you think of others. I feel confident that there must be more! ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/46 "2012-01-18T17:11:06Z")
I’ve got no dog in this fight. :rolleyes: It conjures up an image of Jed Clampett on the porch of a ramshackle cabin in the Appalachians, scratching his ass while trying to get ol’ Blue to wake up and chase away the revenooer. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/47 "2012-01-18T18:00:58Z")
In addition to Hi Opal: You owe me a new keyboard Just blew milk/coffee/whatever through my nose ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/48 "2012-01-19T20:53:00Z")
I’m not really annoyed by this one, but I can’t bring myself to use the term “Dopers”. It reeks of “we’re so cool, we can call ourselves ‘dopers’, ha ha ha ha ha!” If I have to refer to other posers here, I use the phrase “Posters here”, or just “Posters”. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were no other Posters here who feel that way. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/49 "2012-01-19T22:35:25Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > If I have to refer to other posers here, I use the phrase “Posters here”, or just “Posters”. Does this imply you are including yourself among the posers?🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/50 "2012-01-20T05:33:08Z")
“I can’t believe this is post 47 and nobody has said X yet” (especially when somebody _did_ say X 25 posts ago) Euphemisms for “troll” (e.g., “Don’t feed that dude. He lives under a bridge.”) Random obscenities just because it’s the Pit (e.g., “Oh, this is the pit! Fuckety-fuck!”) > [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > “you misspelled X” (i.e. Poster A: Bugs Bunny is the best Looney Toons character/ Poster B: You spelled “Yosemite Sam” wrong) Confusing i.e. and e.g. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/51 "2012-01-20T12:27:36Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Some of them were funny, the first three or four times they were used: > > Band name > Hi Opal > Let’s go to the quarry > > …but have been destroyed by trite and unoriginal overuse. > > Others never were funny, [even in their original context](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff#Russian_reversal): > > In Soviet Russia… > > I’m all for humour, buy try to make it original and therefore witty. That’s not to say that a well-timed, overworked ‘catchphrase’ can indeed work in that context, but it has to be expertly deployed. I was never under the impression that memes were supposed to be funny, at least, after their initial uses. They’re more of a way of identifying a community. And quite a few exist simply because they are an easy way to express a certain thought. In fact, the latter is usually my intention when using a meme. Anyways, I’m glad that my use of the word “anyways” is not on the list. I think I use it in every other post, and always in the exact same way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564.md?page=2)