What a surprise, genes are more complex than what you were taught in high school biology. :rolleyes:
In most of your OPs you have no cites to base your question on, although it is not so much the quality of the threads you start (although that is questionable), but more the quantity. Please, just think before you post, maybe even, god forbid, search google.
An OP that goes, “I wondered about this so I did a search on google and I found this and this…” tends to encourage more people to answer you than “I heard one day…” since they know that you actually want to know the answer. Also, you might actually find your answer while searching instead of posting in GQ and pushing perhaps more wanting OPs off the front page.
And to be honest, some of your questions are just plain whacked up.
Aww… cmon, I always look forward to Surreal OPs in GQ because they’re always so fricken wierd yet they usually dont have any obvious answer and lead to me learning something new. I especially liked the one he did on Asian women and sideways vaginas.
If nothing else, the comebacks are worth it alone.
In my humble opinion, the greatest asset of the SDMB is that it’s the perfect place to ask a question like “Do Bakers’ Wives Get More Yeast Infections?”. Who are you going to ask, your local baker? That’s a tad more personal that I like to get with the angry-looking lady in the bakery at Winn-Dixie.
Actually, I’m probably of the same mind as Shalmanese on this. At first they generated a lot of wtfs, but you do often learn something in them and even now the baker’s wife one elicited a chuckle. Just the other day I was able to relate to a rightfully startled friend how the Romans used a combination of pumice and urine, preferably of Portugese origin, on their pearlies. From where else could we have garnered such knowledge?
Wow, I thought that thread was three years old. Surreal did us all a service by bringing up a subject that, for whatever reason, the Perfect Master has never addressed. Ignorance has been reduced.
It would have made a tad more sense if he’d asked about female bakers, though.
I have to say that I’ve noticed Surreal’s latest question spree. You have to read the actual OPs to get an idea of the bizarre empty-headed thought process underlying them. In the antibiotic thread, he asked, “I suspect that it might, but I’ve heard it reported that many parents with short children give them Human Growth Hormone, not antibiotics. Why is HGH preferred over antibiotics?” It’s the bizarre way he framed this question that puzzles me. It’s interesting to ask why antibiotics promote livestock growth, but there’s something so bizarrely stupid about speculating on why human growth hormone is preferred. The implication that we have a choice between growth hormone and penicillin to make short kids grow taller is just inexpressibly, mind-bogglingly stupid.
When people ask lots of off the wall questions like this (and it’s not like Surreal is the only one), part of the irritation for me is that many of them don’t even demand specific knowledge to answer. A few minutes’ thought about these questions could satisfy to answer many of them.
Ever since he started coming here, I’ve always thought of Surreal as the board’s resident three-year-old; he’s at an age where he asks questions constantly.
Well, I disagree. A question like “Does Human Growth Hormone make people grow faster” would be truely stupid. However, it’s not at all obvious whether antibiotics will actually promote growth and, as it turns out from the thead, there is some sort of relationship between antibiotics and growth which I wouldn’t have known of otherwise.
After some ambivalence, I’ve grown to enjoy Surreal’s GQs. I imagine him as a researcher visiting this planet, compiling reports for transmission to the mother ship. Sort of our own Ford Prefect.
Surreal’s GQ threads may be gross, but they’re never dull. C’mon, we’re here at a board honoring the guy who once told us how many calories are in the average ejaculation.
Like I said, it’s not so much the quality, but the quantity.
The fact his grammar, punctuation and spelling look flawless (to me) lends me to believe that he is not, in fact, entirely stupid. Although, Revtim I would find his threads much more entertaining if he did some research. Like asking the baker for instance.
But we already had one
That is a very apt description.
