And I think it’s funnier than ever.
What shall we do? Pistols at dawn?
You should probably run with that impulse; my husband tells me that welders are all savages.
I think we should just both post our opinions and be done with it. I have successfully executed my end already. You do whatever you feel you need to.
It seems like everyone has just gone to the qwerty and just typed stuff in here.
Yepper.
This poll of SDMB annoyances was recently referenced in another thread. The only annoyances to score over 33% --out of roughly 45 candidates-- were:
-Quoting entire long post.
-Links with no description
-Responding without reading the thread.
-Semantic nitpicking rather than relevant response.
There were 5 more around the 25% --1 in 4-- annoyance level, but really that level is pretty insignificant. You can find 25% of the population to support any cause. There’s the 27% insanity baseline that preferred Alan Keyes to Barack Obama.
Should someone adjust their behavior to avoid annoying 25% of their peers? Only if they feel like it. I wish the people who repeatedly moan about the horrible burden of reading sign-offs (“regards”) would just shut up so as not to annoy me. Why would you want to annoy me by not keeping quiet about it?
Welcome to the SDMB.
SB, you are not exactly one of my favorite Dopers, but those with the attitude of “how dare you not care what I think” are, if possible, even less favored.
Maybe we can add a note on “how do you work the scroll wheel on your mouse” to one of the stickies and resolve this tempest in a teapot that way.
Regards,
Shodan
“I usually hate your guts, but you’re pissing off a lot of people on this board and I respect that.”
Thank you.
Done and done. Want to help with the body?
I don’t really find the quarry thing funny; it just doesn’t work. I had to say ‘the quarry thing’ because I couldn’t even remember the whole phrase - it’s such an odd phrase - even though I had noticed it before this thread. But it’s barely pit-worthy, let alone ATMB. Which I appreciate is a different thread.
That was very funny. 
Define “we”.
By my definition, I am part of “we” and Snowboarder is part of “we”. “We” are more than the squeaky wheels. “We” are the tolerant, the peaceful (well, not all of us), the open minded, the easily entertained, and the ones who really don’t approve of forcing our opinions and conventions on others, even over minor issues.
Point - read this board. How much of the typical internet sub-literacy do you find? Very little. This is not enforced by rants and pits and aggressive attacks. This cultural standard is maintained solely by gentle instruction, followed by brief period of ruthless mocking, and eventual shunning. Unless the poster adopts standard syntax; that works, too.
But “we” are not the small percentage that have noticed the silly phrase and been seriously annoyed by it.
I know! We should all hang out at the quarry and throw things down there.
Stop trying to make fetch happen.
That comment is, like, so ten days ago.
Dude, I thought it was hilarious and used it a couple of times when it was novel and therefore still (IMO) funny. I stopped when it was no longer a novelty in the context of the SDMB (per most overused board ‘jokes’). I have even this week introduced the phrase and anecdote to certain off-board friends via email, who also found it funny - but then I didn’t use it again.
You have to know when what was once humorous becomes irritating, then stop before it does - otherwise you become as annoying as the seven-year-old in that Onion article.
So what’s the relationship between Chessic Sense’s original story and this thread on Reddit from a couple of months ago, from an Australian (look at the Vodaphone logo at the top), where the exact same story is told, but the phone in question is an iPhone?
In Chessic’s post, he mentioned that he “knows of a guy” who did that. Apparently through reddit.
If you think you need to bitch about something I’ve done at the quarry, this thread is still open. When come back, bring pie as an apology for the first lie you told about me. I’ll help your addled brain remember what that lie was, even tho I already called you out once on it:
BigT wants to be a mod, oh, ever so much. And he just knows he’ll be a good one because he’s always fair and always kind, even when he must be very stern with the teddy bears in his sandbox.