# Socks and immaturity **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 1, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409 "2005-06-01T17:51:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/1 "2005-06-01T17:51:04Z")
Can we have a test for mental age before someone can join? [Socks](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6215465&postcount=157), trolls, and bizarre neo-nazis indicate some very immature minds that think it is somehow “cool” to jerk people around have made it past the sensors, if only for a few minutes. Once we (the mods and admins) set up the process so the little jerks (not the mods and admins) can never enter we (I) will never again worry that we (I) will be labeled trolls because of our (my) statements that go a bit past what we (I) actually believe but which we (I) made in the heat of the moment, or just because it’s fun to see how other people (you) react. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/2 "2005-06-01T17:55:22Z")
I haven’t a fucking clue what you’re trying to say in the second part of your post, but I (we)agree with the first part. 😕 Sam ---
**Author:** ![Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ass_For_A_Hat)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/3 "2005-06-01T18:00:05Z")
Are the bizarre neo-nazis better or worse than the regular ones? ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/4 "2005-06-01T18:04:37Z")
I (we) (them) am (are) lost. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/5 "2005-06-01T18:06:54Z")
Hm, I looked down at my Happy Bunny socks and wondered if you were talking about me. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/6 "2005-06-01T18:08:39Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > [Socks](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6215465&postcount=157), trolls, and bizarre neo-nazis I like those ankle white socks with tennis shoes, but not sandals. Socks and sandals look silly. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/7 "2005-06-01T18:09:52Z")
> [@Ass For A Hat](#): > > Are the bizarre neo-nazis better or worse than the regular ones? Better, probably. On the one hand you have boring white supremacists and on the other you have people who believe the Earth is hollow and are searching for the Ultimate Thule. With my poor debating skills I’d rather go up against an entertaining loon than a broken record. As for the second part of the OP, I will admit to sometimes fighting the desire to exagerate my position in order to, uh, _gauge peoples reactions._ Yeah, that’s it. Not trolling. Completely in the name of scientific inquiry. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/8 "2005-06-01T18:09:52Z")
Maybe it’s immaturity, or a serious lack of perspective. It’s just a message board already; a fun, interesting place to hang out but not something worth obssessing over. Gotta wonder how these folks cope with people who disagree with them in real life. Maybe they just vent frustrations on us they can’t vent otherwise. It’s sad, and more than a little stupid because all that bile and brouhaha is just a waste. ::shrugs:: Takes all kinds to make the world go 'round, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/9 "2005-06-01T18:12:56Z")
I thought you were going to say something about how my wearing only white socks and not matching them until I go to put them on, or occasionally wearing said white socks with sandals, means I’m immature. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/10 "2005-06-01T18:39:48Z")
> [@Anne Neville](#): > > wearing only white socks and not matching them until I go to put them on If they’re all white, why do you have to match them? ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/11 "2005-06-01T18:50:05Z")
Bizzare neo-nazis wear long white socks and shorts with their jackboots and listen to Bette Midler albums, just so you know. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/12 "2005-06-01T18:51:22Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > Takes all kinds to make the world go 'round, I guess. In the words of my aunt: “It doesn’t **take** all kinds; we just **have** all kinds.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/13 "2005-06-01T18:52:25Z")
(drumming my fingers on my desktop while saying my mantra so I don’t blow up at the next stupid sock joke) ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/14 "2005-06-01T18:53:11Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > If they’re all white, why do you have to match them? I don’t, really. That’s the beauty of the whole arrangement 😃 Some of them are different lengths or textures than others, but you’d have to get pretty close to see that. So I usually just pick two, ideally two without too many holes in them. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/15 "2005-06-01T18:54:23Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > If they’re all white, why do you have to match them? Well surely you don’t want her out and about with one white ankle sock and one white knee sock now do you? As far as socks go, we need to ban those who wear dark socks with sandals. I(we) think they(them) should be issued fashion citations. Are you(us) with me(we)? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/16 "2005-06-01T18:58:49Z")
Sock it to the socks! They sock! To sock or not to sock, that is the question… Sock is the way of man, my friend. got a million of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/17 "2005-06-01T18:59:31Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Well surely you don’t want her out and about with one white ankle sock and one white knee sock now do you? If she’s wearing them with jack boots, who will know? It’s nobody’s business but her own. How did Bette Midler get into this thing, was it the hat? ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/18 "2005-06-01T19:11:03Z")
And don’t even get me _started_ on those fascist toe socks… ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/19 "2005-06-01T19:14:32Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Can we have a test for mental age before someone can join? It is an interesting idea, but it strikes me that there are plenty of freaky people with sky-high IQs. Mental-age does not necessarily equate to how sensible or pleasant someone is going to be: you could be a bit of a dumb juvenile, but still an amiable and pleasant person. Ditto an Evil Genius Overlord. There are boards like Una where you have to have a personal reference for membership, or provide something like a work email. I guess that could work here, but it might be way too much volume of applications for the admins to process. Plus it might deter potential new posters from bothering to sign up - some people aren’t so patient, and it can take a while to get “hooked” in any new community. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409/20 "2005-06-01T19:19:33Z")
You people are REALLY lucky I can’t stay mad long enough to report the posts where you don’t take my OP seriously AND indulge in frivolity in the Pit. :mad: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-and-immaturity/306409.md?page=2)