# The SDMB is inane and contemptible. Its members are intellectual parvenus. It's shit. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 16, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-inane-and-contemptible-its-members-are-intellectual-parvenus-its-shit/87645 "2001-10-16T03:41:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chickenhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Chickenhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickenhead)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-inane-and-contemptible-its-members-are-intellectual-parvenus-its-shit/87645/1 "2001-10-16T03:41:34Z")
The Society for Documenting the Masturbating Beatified, which is based in leafy Burbank and whose members travel the country on purple Vespas distributing brochures about said topic of interest, has really degenerated. I’m returning my holographic membership card to them, and I am planning to call their headquarters every morning at 2 a.m. and hanging up the phone upon hearing a groggy voice say, “Hello.” If you were thinking of joining, don’t: I have no idea why they advertise in the otherwise reputable and thoroughly enjoyable “Left Behind” series of books. That’s about it; I just wanted to warn the general population. You were expecting maybe something else? 😃 [sub]Ho-lee shit I can waste time at the speed of light. I wonder if this’ll have a high thread view count.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-inane-and-contemptible-its-members-are-intellectual-parvenus-its-shit/87645/2 "2001-10-16T03:44:40Z")
The moment I saw who the OP was I knew it was bullshit. Liked the hanging up the phone bit though. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-inane-and-contemptible-its-members-are-intellectual-parvenus-its-shit/87645/3 "2001-10-16T03:45:39Z")
Uh, you are familiar with the definition of “trolling,” aren’t you? I would suggest a quick email to the mods asking for a locked thread and some forgiveness. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-inane-and-contemptible-its-members-are-intellectual-parvenus-its-shit/87645/4 "2001-10-16T03:50:51Z")
I think this better fits the definition of “joke”. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-inane-and-contemptible-its-members-are-intellectual-parvenus-its-shit/87645/5 "2001-10-16T03:57:23Z")
I’d agree with **WeirdDave**. The title’s misleading (which is a bad idea, of course), but his first sentence clarifies things. For whatever it’s worth, I don’t think it’s trolling and I thought it was acutally pretty funny, in light of some of the other threads going on at the moment. Fenris ---
**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:** [October 16, 2001, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-inane-and-contemptible-its-members-are-intellectual-parvenus-its-shit/87645/6 "2001-10-16T04:06:09Z")
Yeah, but Lynn like jokes even less than trolls. ---
**Author:** ![Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/0ea827/32.png) [@Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zaphod_Beeblebrox)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-inane-and-contemptible-its-members-are-intellectual-parvenus-its-shit/87645/7 "2001-10-16T04:10:11Z")
Somehow, I doubt that there’s a rule against jokes in The Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-inane-and-contemptible-its-members-are-intellectual-parvenus-its-shit/87645/8 "2001-10-16T04:25:21Z")
Actually, there IS an unofficial rule against joke posts in the Pit. Sure, be funny…but if you’re posting in the Pit just because you want to tell dirty jokes, I close the thread. I don’t know what I’ll do with this thread yet. Might close it, might move it. Don’t know. Lynn ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-inane-and-contemptible-its-members-are-intellectual-parvenus-its-shit/87645/9 "2001-10-16T04:37:07Z")
Well, he made me look up “parvenus.” Neat word. ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-inane-and-contemptible-its-members-are-intellectual-parvenus-its-shit/87645/10 "2001-10-16T05:03:46Z")
Does it rhyme with penis? ---
**Author:** ![Karellen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/779978/32.png) [@Karellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karellen)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-inane-and-contemptible-its-members-are-intellectual-parvenus-its-shit/87645/11 "2001-10-16T05:18:46Z")
Yep, no jokes. If you’re going to fly off the handle and post an all-caps, unspellchecked, profanity-laden tirade against, say, a race or religion of people about whom you knwo nothing except the ignorant utterings of your fellow barstool barnacle troglodytes, but towards whom you’ve decided to launch a hazy campaign of random hatred as a method of displacing aggression accrued internally from your own sexual frustration, failed ambitions, and general insecurity, well damnit you better really mean it. We have rules in The Pit, ya know. ---
**Author:** ![Karellen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/779978/32.png) [@Karellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karellen)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-inane-and-contemptible-its-members-are-intellectual-parvenus-its-shit/87645/12 "2001-10-16T05:20:35Z")
…I hope irony is still allowed. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-inane-and-contemptible-its-members-are-intellectual-parvenus-its-shit/87645/13 "2001-10-16T06:45:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JonScribe \* > \*\*Does it rhyme with penis? \*\* No, it’s the plural of parvenu.