# Siam sam, I want to stomp your pigeon eggs!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2009, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561 "2009-06-22T06:15:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/21 "2009-06-22T14:03:03Z")
> [@MoodIndigo1](#): > > SHAKES, why don’t you just ignore threads you don’t like? 'Cause that’s not how things are done here on the SHAKES Dope Message Board. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/22 "2009-06-22T14:09:00Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > Well, for one thing, there are lots of contributers to an average pet thread. All of whom, more or less, contribute on an equal level. Also, those threads don’t usually last for a month and a half. (Correct me if I’m wrong.) Check the dates - it’s been going on for over a year, not a month and a half. And I’m one of the ones who’s been enjoying hearing about pigeon lifecycles. Don’t like it? don’t read it. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/23 "2009-06-22T15:20:26Z")
This is the second thread (to my knowledge) pitting **Siam Sam** for various reasons. I think the last one was pitting him for daring to update us with news from Thailand (and pretty interesting news, usually, at that). Which is what I don’t understand. **Siam Sam** is very, VERY low on any list of “posters who annoy” that I would draw up. There are far more annoying posters who post almost as prolifically on here, and I don’t see them being pitted even once, sometimes. Not that I care about them being pitted. If I did, I’d be the one pitting them. But the point, to me, is that I’m baffled at **Siam Sam** being singled out for a pitting at all, let alone two. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/24 "2009-06-22T15:45:12Z")
The more things change, the more they stay the same, I see. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/25 "2009-06-22T15:45:28Z")
Another “Don’t you dare touch the Pigeon thread” poster. The thread is a classic multigenerational classic soap opera, with sibling rivalries and death and sex (with pictures, yet!) and infidelity and hints of incest and a noble father and a flighty (heh) mother and… If this pitting makes Siam Sam discontinue the thread I’ll…I’ll…well, I don’t know what. But something slow and pain and evil to you. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/26 "2009-06-22T16:17:22Z")
I love the pigeon thread! It’s like those nature shows I used to watch growing up. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/27 "2009-06-22T16:22:56Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Another “Don’t you dare touch the Pigeon thread” poster. > > The thread is a classic multigenerational classic soap opera, with sibling rivalries and death and sex (with pictures, yet!) and infidelity and hints of incest and a noble father and a flighty (heh) mother and… > > If this pitting makes Siam Sam discontinue the thread I’ll…I’ll…well, I don’t know what. But something slow and pain and evil to you. Well, I’d been ignoring the pigeon eggs thread, but if it’s got all that, I’ll have to go check it ou! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/28 "2009-06-22T16:32:02Z")
Yet another vote for the pigeon thread! I love it. If you don’t, ignore it! ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/29 "2009-06-22T16:33:07Z")
> [@The\_Weird\_One](#): > > Well, I’d been ignoring the pigeon eggs thread, but if it’s got all that, I’ll have to go check it ou! Seriously, Big Pidgee and Little Pidgee have a designated sex area. I kid you not! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/30 "2009-06-22T16:37:04Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > This is the second thread (to my knowledge) pitting **Siam Sam** for various reasons. I think the last one was pitting him for daring to update us with news from Thailand (and pretty interesting news, usually, at that). Not coincidentally, the OP of that thread _also_ wound up looking like a dick. I’ve never read the pigeon thread, but both Pittings came off as picking on the guy for “being different,” not because the OPs had anything resembling a real grievance. ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/31 "2009-06-22T16:48:06Z")
See, I never even noticed the pigeon thread. Or maybe I did and I thought, “Ew, pigeons!” But now I’m interested. Somehow, I don’t think that was the goal of this pitting. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/32 "2009-06-22T16:49:41Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Not coincidentally, the OP of that thread _also_ wound up looking like a dick. I’ve never read the pigeon thread, but both Pittings came off as picking on the guy for “being different,” not because the OPs had anything resembling a real grievance. Which is one aspect of the thing that I don’t understand, since **Siam Sam** , while full of entertaining stories about his expat life, doesn’t seem very weird to me, really. Maybe I’m just that much weirder that he seems pretty normal, other than venue. I mean, I think of **Siam Sam** and I think: “Nice guy, married, lives in Thailand, tells funny/interesting/macabre stories about Thailand…oh, yeah, and the balcony pigeons”. Not really a bit of personal weirdness in there…if the stories had been about cardinals or sparrows or robins nobody would even have done a double-take. I guess there’s no accounting for what’s going to crank up a random Doper’s irritation. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/33 "2009-06-22T16:54:07Z")
I think the pigeon eggs thread is good and should stay as long as there’s interest. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/34 "2009-06-22T17:03:36Z")
I have for various undefined reasons never opened that thread. No explanation for my pigheadedness. It just is. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/35 "2009-06-22T17:28:59Z")
I am an animal lover but I’m not a pigeon fan and never had any interest in the thread, despite being curious why a thread about pigeons could be so long-lived. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/36 "2009-06-22T17:36:16Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > I think the pigeon eggs thread is good and should stay as long as there’s interest. I think this is right, and that it can be said of any and every thread. It’s why i have, in the past, got annoyed with moderators who close threads because “It’s run it’s course,” or “It’s outlived its usefulness” or" “I’m putting this out of its misery” or whatever. If people are still responding to a thread, then by definition it is a thread worth keeping open. That is, after all, a thread’s only purpose—to be opened, read, and responded to. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/37 "2009-06-22T18:07:25Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > I have for various undefined reasons never opened that thread. No explanation for my pigheadedness. It just is. Same here. Any time I see a multipage thread that doesn’t have the “yes, you’ve clicked on this before” color, my eyes skip right over it, because I can’t be bothered to read that much to catch up. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/38 "2009-06-22T19:38:07Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > I think the pigeon eggs thread is good and should stay as long as there’s interest. The problem the OP is having is that the only interest in the thread seems to be from **Sam** himself, with about half the total posts in the thread going to Sam. It would be like me continually bumping my music threads every few weeks with a new song to be depressed with or to jam to. I would try to rival the pigeon thread’s longetivity with my music threads, but my taste in music is admittedly narrow and I just don’t know if I could come up with new songs to jam to. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/39 "2009-06-22T19:47:41Z")
> [@The\_Weird\_One](#): > > Well, I’d been ignoring the pigeon eggs thread, but if it’s got all that, I’ll have to go check it ou! I hadn’t opened it before, but thanks to this thread, I did! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561/40 "2009-06-22T19:49:43Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > The problem the OP is having is that the only interest in the thread seems to be from **Sam** himself, with about half the total posts in the thread going to Sam. You can’t gauge interest in a thread simply by counting how many unique posters are active in it. The pigeon thread has 585 posts. But it has 11, 731 views. I find it hard to believe that **Siam Sam** is responsible for a majority of those page views. The thread isn’t really one that lends itself to commentary. But it’s obvious that there are a decent number of people following along with the avian saga. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siam-sam-i-want-to-stomp-your-pigeon-eggs/500561.md?page=3)