In the first two pages of SDMBKL’s posting history, I observed these gems:
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[li]Do you sew and mend your clothes?[/li][li]Why are monotheistic religions so popular?[/li][li]What philosophical question did you ask as a child?[/li][li]How much data do you have stored on your computer?[/li][li]How stiff or tender was chicken meat during the Middle Ages?[/li][li]What is the difference between ‘nervous’ and ‘nervous’?[/li][li]How do atheists get married?[/li][li]What is YOUR definition of “cuteness”?[/li][li]Are you intelligent?[/li][li]Why is ‘bigotry’ bad?[/li][li]Is the notion of bestiality and speciation related?[/li][li]Is a person’s 1,000,000th cousin even a human being?[/li][li]How many biblical verses have become proverbs or idioms?[/li][li]Is There Anything Known To Be Real That Science Cannot Explain…At All?[/li][/ul]At first, I thought he(?) was just straight-up 'tarded. But upon further reflection, I realized there’s no way that a human being would possibly question all of these things in such quick succession, no matter how stupid. He’s the Ford Prefect of the two-thousand-'tweens.
Incidentally, I do *so *hope that futurefolk end up referring to this decade as the 'tweens.
I’ve probably opened less than 5 pit threads towards poster here in my 10 years of posting, but I came pretty close to starting this thread myself today.
He does say some rather weird, not to say dumb, things, but I am not seeing much of the evidence of it in that list of questions. Most of them seem to be pretty typical SDMB fare to me. Or are you just saying he has started a lot of threads lately?
I said it in the bigotry thread, and I’ll say it again:
Of course, since we’re in the pit feel free to ignore the second part of the sentence.
On a more serious note, I was trying to decide what it was that irks me so much about all these threads, and I think I’ve figured it out. The OPs aren’t discussion openers, and the threads almost never generate discussions. They’re survey questions, and they tend to get a couple of posters “filling out the survey”, and that’s it. It’s the same reason I generally avoid “What’s your favorite…?” threads, but at leat those are relatively rare and generally contained to a single topic.
It reads like a bot that people plug homework questions into, and then harvest the responses that come in.
There’s a lot of posts being started, and very little actual discussion being engaged. It rarely seems to enter other threads and mostly seems to want people to do its homework for it.
For God’s sake don’t let him know we’re on to him! Our scientists still need to perfect our F-404 orbital interceptors, and outfit them with neutronium armor and hyperlight cannons. If we humor SMDBKL we’ll by our lab boys another six months, minimum.
Yeah, homework that gets put in a Trapper Keeper… that mutates into a horrible monster that will destroy the world unless they send a robot back in time to stop it… a robot who can’t fathom “hyoo-mon” society :eek:
Man, I gotta quit watching South Park late at night.