# Some of you can be really fucking irritating (thread shitters) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 20, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615 "2011-05-20T20:18:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/121 "2011-05-24T23:00:45Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > You learned that from [evil hat wearing dude](http://xkcd.com/262/), right? I _am_ from the internet, but am currently sans snazzy chapeau ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/122 "2011-05-24T23:01:46Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > [That’s why you use glue.](http://xkcd.com/262/) > > ETA: Sniped by **Ludovic**! Glue leads too much to the possibility of cat being adhered to one’s own self. I didn’t say it was impossible, simply that it was more difficult than the layperson would perceive. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/123 "2011-05-24T23:19:26Z")
> [@Grapefruit](#): > > I’ve actually seen people ask who Lady Gaga was before. No joke. Yeah, because someone with Lady Gaga’s exposure (Giggity) is the equivalent of a show that ranked [#108](http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/06/16/final-2009-10-broadcast-primetime-show-average-viewership/54336/) for 2010, being beat out by such stellar shows like SuperNanny and Cops for viewership, and being beat out by almost every other show in its time slot. Yeah, it is so fucking unusual that so many people don’t have a fucking clue what this show is about when so many can’t be bothered to watch it. Could it be that our ‘old’ sense of humour isn’t the one that is the problem here? You could be watching shit. ---
**Author:** ![Grapefruit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@Grapefruit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grapefruit)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/124 "2011-05-25T00:14:44Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > Yeah, because someone with Lady Gaga’s exposure (Giggity) is the equivalent of a show that ranked [#108](http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/06/16/final-2009-10-broadcast-primetime-show-average-viewership/54336/) for 2010, being beat out by such stellar shows like SuperNanny and Cops for viewership, and being beat out by almost every other show in its time slot. Yeah, it is so fucking unusual that so many people don’t have a fucking clue what this show is about when so many can’t be bothered to watch it. Could it be that our ‘old’ sense of humour isn’t the one that is the problem here? You could be watching shit. You completely missed the part where I said if you don’t know what it is, GOOGLE IT. And not just the term “Parks and Recreation”, but “Li’l Sebastian”, which leads you right to your answer. No, not everyone will know every TV show put out by every cable channel, but how hard is it to figure it out? For a message board and website with the motto “Fighting Ignorance is 1973”, you seem to revel in being completely ignorant. And not only that, but poster after poster trying to justify being ignorant. (Taking longer than we thought), indeed. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/125 "2011-05-25T00:18:38Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > You can totally [tape bacon to a cat](http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/13/clearly-you-people-thought-i-was-kidding/), though. If you stick a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and drop it, it will remain suspended in mid-air. It will spin as long as the cat attempts to land. ---
**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 25, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/126 "2011-05-25T00:18:52Z")
> [@Grapefruit](#): > > You completely missed the part where I said if you don’t know what it is, GOOGLE IT. And not just the term “Parks and Recreation”, but “Li’l Sebastian”, which leads you right to your answer. No, not everyone will know every TV show put out by every cable channel, but how hard is it to figure it out? For a message board and website with the motto “Fighting Ignorance is 1973”, you seem to revel in being completely ignorant. And not only that, but poster after poster trying to justify being ignorant. (Taking longer than we thought), indeed. For a message board with the motto “Fighting Ignorance since 1973,” you seem to really resent the idea of telling people about things they don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/127 "2011-05-25T00:21:23Z")
> [@Grapefruit](#): > > You completely missed the part where I said if you don’t know what it is, GOOGLE IT. And not just the term “Parks and Recreation”, but “Li’l Sebastian”, which leads you right to your answer. No, not everyone will know every TV show put out by every cable channel, but how hard is it to figure it out? For a message board and website with the motto “Fighting Ignorance is 1973”, you seem to revel in being completely ignorant. And not only that, but poster after poster trying to justify being ignorant. (Taking longer than we thought), indeed. Come on **Grapefruit** , chill a little. These are just jokes, and the dead rapper joke was funny, and maybe this thread and mine will prompt a few people to watch P&R. If they don’t, then we get to be a bigger percentage of the viewing audience. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/128 "2011-05-25T00:46:58Z")
**Grapefruit** would rather be pissy. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/129 "2011-05-25T00:51:57Z")
What are all you sour bitches doing in our thread about sticking things to cats? ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/130 "2011-05-25T00:55:43Z")
> [@Grapefruit](#): > > For a message board and website with the motto “Fighting Ignorance is 1973”, you seem to revel in being completely ignorant. And not only that, but poster after poster trying to justify being ignorant. (Taking longer than we thought), indeed. As Miller so adroitly put it, which I’ll expand upon, some of us have a limited time frame to investigate crap shows that few people give a shit about when all it would take on the OP’s part is a simple sentence or two explanation of that obscure show (and possibly why we should give a damn). But, on the other hand, we’ll spend an inordinate amount to time to being ‘wits’. Go figure.😛 ---
**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:** [May 25, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/131 "2011-05-25T01:12:47Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > But, on the other hand, we’ll spend an inordinate amount to time to being\*\* ‘wits’\*\*. Go figure.😛 And we’re usually half-right. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/132 "2011-05-25T01:20:49Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > And we’re usually half-right. 😃 Half is better than a lack ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/133 "2011-05-25T01:48:10Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > As Miller so adroitly put it, which I’ll expand upon, some of us have a limited time frame to investigate crap shows that few people give a shit about when all it would take on the OP’s part is a simple sentence or two explanation of that obscure show (and possibly why we should give a damn). > But, on the other hand, we’ll spend an inordinate amount to time to being ‘wits’. Go figure.😛 Which I didn’t do because then no one would pay attention. Instead I’ve spawned two funny threads on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/134 "2011-05-25T01:49:12Z")
> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#): > > Half is better than a lack 1/2 is better than 10,000? ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/135 "2011-05-25T01:53:51Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > 1/2 is better than 10,000? When it comes to wits, apparently so. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615/136 "2011-05-25T17:22:22Z")
> [@Grapefruit](#): > > “Fighting Ignorance is 1973” Fighting ignorance IS so 1973. Only the dirty hippies do it anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-you-can-be-really-fucking-irritating-thread-shitters/582615.md?page=6)