SDMB memes you wouldn't mind dying a quick and quiet death.

[Sir_T-Cups]

@winterhawk11

I forget where I saw it, but it made me chuckle awhile back when an atheist character exclaimed, “Oh, my lack of God!”

Or you can go the full Bender

“Oh…your…God”

[Knorf]

@Sir_T-Cups

Please end this NOW

Og, no!

[bobkitty]

Not a meme exactly, but this “Recommend me…” crap that’s been popping up in IMHO and Cafe Society. Is it so difficult to type out “Please recommend…”

I can avoid most of the other annoying cliches/memes/whatever because they’re contained in threads, but when half of the front page of CS is covered in “Recommend me…” titles, it drives me a bit batty.

[ExTank]

Sorry for my earlier snark, but this is just something that bugs me.

When you’re the new guy (gal) at the office, there’s tons of in-jokes that the people who’ve been there for a while have built up, and sorry, you can’t share in them. No one is excluding you; you just weren’t there for it. They may not even be particularly funny (most of them aren’t) but they recall a time, and place, and people in our minds.

Then later, when you are no longer the new guy (gal), you eventually find yourself sharing in the little stupid in-jokes, where a single word said a certain way can get a guffaw from everyone in the office while the new new guy is sitting there looking bafled.

You have to go forward, not back, and build your own memories, and either get or make your own stupid in-jokes. You can open a thread, or read one, and look for your own. Or start one. Don’t try and kill ours. Don’t try to change our “office (board) dynamic” by shitting on our stupid little in-jokes, or “memes.” After all, they’re all of ours.

[The_Second_Stone]

@elmwood

1. Hi Opal! Just reinforces the fact that some posters are more equal than others. If Opal didn’t get so much attention, would her art exhibit spam remain while similar posts by others may be removed by the powers that be?

I’ve met Opal. She’s a decent, intelligent and interesting person, JUST LIKE SO MANY OF US ARE. However, she’s no more special than any other Doper I’ve met.

2. SDMB is the most intelligent message board around. No. Demographically, it probably has the oldest geek/nerd crowd, but there’s other message boards where the average IQ is likely just as high, if not higher.

I have a late dear departed friend who called herself “Opal”. Her real name was Nancy. Seriously. I think of her whenever I see “Hi Opal” because you can’t have a list of two would have been just her sort of thing.

As for your more intelligent message boards, please post their names here. I wish to go to them and lower the IQ average.

[Grrr]

I’d like to see Mini Rants go away from the pit. Either that or just make it a sticky FCOL.

[Knorf]

@ExTank

You have to go forward, not back, and build your own memories, and either get or make your own stupid in-jokes. You can open a thread, or read one, and look for your own. Or start one. Don’t try and kill ours. Don’t try to change our “office (board) dynamic” by shitting on our stupid little in-jokes, or “memes.” After all, they’re all of ours.

I heartily agree.

[Hypnagogic_Jerk]

@Shoeless

I would like to see the “Hi Opal” thing retired, not only because it ceased to be funny a long time ago, but because half the time it’s not even used correctly.

Now there’s an idea (or meme) I find interesting: the idea that “Hi Opal” isn’t being used correctly when, as I presume you’re suggesting, it’s used as the third element of a longer list instead of the third and last element of a list. Given that the whole “Hi Opal” business actually started as a reaction to OpalCat claiming that two-point lists were an incorrect usage, it seems ironic to me that we’re now claiming that some posters are incorrectly using the phrase itself.

Or in other words, language changes, get used to it.

[Cat_Fight]

I have only one request – more Ron, please.

[Sublight]

@Sir_T-Cups

Same thing with “og”…if you are going to thank something, thank something that is real.

Og real.

[Algorithm]

@Dewey_Finn

How about calling these things cliches instead of memes?

Because the two words don’t mean the same thing. There’s no word that means the same thing as “meme”, so you’re stuck with it. Unless you can propose a different word and get everyone to start using it instead of meme.

[Princhester]

@Agent_Foxtrot

1. “Og” instead of “God”

Sorry but you misunderstand. Og is not necessarily used instead of God. His name may be invoked instead of God’s name (as when used as an exclamation) but Og is his own deity. He is a joke deity, admittedly, but that’s kind of the point. Og not God. Og smash.

[Beware_of_Doug]

I would say Please post cat pictures, except I like the cat pictures too much.

The rule, if there’s going to be one, should also apply to dogs.

[Rigamarole]

@Algorithm

Because the two words don’t mean the same thing. There’s no word that means the same thing as “meme”, so you’re stuck with it. Unless you can propose a different word and get everyone to start using it instead of meme.

Except likely the only people who would be using it would be Dopers, so the new word would itself be a meme.

[Rich_Mann]

@Dripping

I dont’ even understand that that stupid word means and I’ve never heard it in my life until about a year ago (I’m 53). And I’ve even looked it up but got so annoyed I forgot the definition.

And another thing; what’s with this newfangled Telly-Phone thing I keep hearing about? What’s wrong with the Pony Express, is what I want to know?

(I’m 48, and I go out of my way to learn as many new words and terms as I can so that I don’t fall embarrassingly behind the times)

[tim314]

@Dripping

I dont’ even understand that that stupid word means and I’ve never heard it in my life until about a year ago (I’m 53). And I’ve even looked it up but got so annoyed I forgot the definition.

Just remember “contagious idea” and you’ll be pretty close.

[tim314]

To the people saying “quit talking about how smart the board is”, it’s not really about IQs. The thing about this board is you can post a question about high-energy physics and get an answer from a high-energy physicist, you can post a question about economics and get an answer from an economist, and you can post a question about hummingbirds and get an answer from a freaking hummingbirdologist. Usually, within minutes.

What other message board has that trait? Seriously, if you know one, name it. In my experience, people on the other boards I post on are great at giving you answers about the topic of the board (e.g., the folks on the comic book collector board can tell you what issue contained the sole appearance of some obscure supervillain from 30 years ago), but they don’t have the broad knowledge covered by the people on this board.

And despite people spinning it like an egotistical “we’re so great” thing, I think most people talking about how smart the board is are expressing their appreciation for how good everyone else has been at answering their questions. I know I feel that way.

[Loach]

I hate the word meme. I hate the theory behind it. I think Dawkins is a putz. Hi Opal is not the same as DNA. The cite from Cecil sums it up pretty well. I can’t read through it without saying 'bullshit" a few times. Even if I agreed with the theory I would say that most of what is being said here isn’t a meme. Inside jokes are not memes. If you start seeing Hi Opal spread into other places that have nothing to do with the Dope then you can say it is a meme. Until then it is just an inside joke.

[Martini_Enfield]

@elmwood

I joke about Doperland, but it seems so true. Nobody talks on cell phones in public (and those that do demand only basic telephones without any fancy features like cameras or SMS)

I have never got the cellphone hate on this board. Maybe things are different in the US, but here in Australia I have almost never heard SOMEONE HAVING A LOUD SHOUTED CONVERSATION INTO THEIR PHONE.

I’ve worked in retail for over half my life and I the number of customers ignoring me to have a conversation with someone on their mobile phone would number less than a dozen. Most people either let the phone ring, or apologise, answer it, say “I’ll call you back” and terminate the call to continue with the sale.

Yes, I see people talking on their phones and driving. You know what else I see? Women applying their makeup while they drive, people driving leaning around to wallop the kids in the back seat for acting up, people fiddling with their iPod while they’re driving, and people perving on attracting members of the opposite sex instead of paying attention to the road.

In this country, there is NO socially acceptable excuse for not having a mobile phone, unless you happen to live in the middle of nowhere. And even then you can get Satellite Phones.

If you live in a civilised part of the country and don’t have a mobile phone, the first thing people are going to think isn’t “Gosh, you’re one of those people making a stand against the encroachment of the information age and asserting your right not to be contacted when you’re out shopping; Bravo Sir/Madam!”; it’s “Weirdo.”

So yeah, I’d like to see an end to the “Cellphones are evil!” thing on the boards. It’s not true, and for a community made up of (supposedly) intelligent people it’s fucking embarrassing.

[Svejk_1]

@Roland_Orzabal

I’m indifferent to the inside jokes mentioned in the OP, and I suspect I’ll be equally indifferent to most of the replies to this thread. That said, I can’t let a thread like this pass without taking the opportunity to mention the one and only feature I abhor that is inherent (solely, in my experience) to this board. I don’t know that it qualifies as a “meme”, but:

The :rolleyes: smiley must DIE.

Message board posters in general are sufficiently skilled at conveying the message “I am being a smug, self-superior jackhole” without the added benefit of a visual aid. Since the first day I joined these boards, I have loathed that thing with every fiber of my being that I can bring myself to dedicate to loathing a vBulletin smiley, which is not that many fibers all told, but the point still stands.

Kill it. Kill it now.

:rolleyes: