# Seemingly innocous "Hot Button" topics on the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 5, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577 "2005-05-05T19:11:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/41 "2005-05-06T01:03:28Z")
Whether or not the Simpsons is still a good show. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/42 "2005-05-06T01:39:48Z")
Widescreen v. Fullscreen. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/43 "2005-05-06T03:29:47Z")
Anything related to Star Trek. Especially if you suggest that any part of Gene Roddenberry’s vision might be unrealistic. This will draw the immediate, impassioned hatred of seemingly every Trekkie on this board. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/44 "2005-05-06T03:43:52Z")
My cats live outdoors. BWAHAHAHAHA!!! ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/45 "2005-05-06T04:00:15Z")
Fat people. Thin people. Cat people. Dog people. Dieting people. Fast food. American hair. British teeth. Member people. Charter Member people. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/46 "2005-05-06T04:44:39Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Widescreen v. Fullscreen. More specifically, Pan and scan DVDs vs widescreen DVDs. Yikes! ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/47 "2005-05-06T05:02:35Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > More specifically, Pan and scan DVDs vs widescreen DVDs. Yikes! WHAT?! You mean there are actually people who prefer– Ahem. Link? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/48 "2005-05-06T05:44:38Z")
Large dogs. Pet threads in which a poster reveals that their pet is considered a member of the family. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/49 "2005-05-06T05:47:55Z")
> [@elfbabe](#): > > WHAT?! You mean there are actually people who prefer– Apparently there is. No-one else understands it either. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/50 "2005-05-06T06:00:43Z")
I’m sorry- I can understand EVERYTHING about Jesus being a Hot Topic EXCEPT whether or not he actually existed. Heck, Cec even pontificated on it & still the Q keeps coming up. Also- referring to … extremists as “… Nazis” ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/51 "2005-05-06T06:05:44Z")
Is **Cecil** a real person? It’s either heresy or blindingly obvious. Toss a coin to decide. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/52 "2005-05-06T06:32:02Z")
Sports teams ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/53 "2005-05-06T07:26:12Z")
> [@elfbabe](#): > > Link? Too lazy. :o (Looks like a yawn to me) Search the Pit for “widescreen”. I would have said “DVD,” but that’s only three letters… ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/54 "2005-05-06T12:49:18Z")
On-time, not on-time people. Hoo boy. You don’t really ‘need’ that SUV :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/55 "2005-05-06T12:52:18Z")
> [@Laughing Lagomorph](#): > > EWWWWWW! You eat that stuff! Gross! You _don’t_ eat that stuff?! Then you must be screamingly unsophisticated, extremely rude at dinner parties, and your parents didn’t raise you properly. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/56 "2005-05-06T13:35:26Z")
Wal-Mart. I can’t think of a thread about any aspect of the store that hasn’t ended up with a clear divide between market capitalists and social welfare types screeching about how ignorant the other is. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/57 "2005-05-06T16:11:09Z")
The first rule of _Showgirls_ is “Don’t talk about _Showgirls_.” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/58 "2005-05-06T16:22:05Z")
As of today we same to have a new hot button concerning definitions of the terms “experiments” and “late 1960s.” > **[Experiments that succeeded in the late 60s](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=315188)** > > I think it’s inevitable that we start a mirror thread to the experiments that failed. Tie-dye Civil Rights (at least better than it was) Piercing ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/59 "2005-05-06T16:52:46Z")
There are people that actually think the quality of basketball is better now than in the 1980’s. There are actually people that support the designated hitter rule in baseball. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577/60 "2005-05-06T17:19:25Z")
> [@Mullinator](#): > > There are people that actually think the quality of basketball is better now than in the 1980’s. > > There are actually people that support the designated hitter rule in baseball. Now, see, that’s just crazy talk. Comicbook movies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seemingly-innocous-hot-button-topics-on-the-sdmb/302577.md?page=4)