# There should be a place to "chat" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2003, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266 "2003-09-28T07:50:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/1 "2003-09-28T07:50:48Z")
You know, when I come home at 2:00 in the morn, and I don’t feel like going to bed, and I don’t have anyone to keep my company, SDMB is a good place. But frankly, SD chat would be far more satisfying. I mean, I can’t be the only person up at 2:00 MDT wishing there was more going on. Then again, I might be. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/2 "2003-09-28T07:55:07Z")
S’up? ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/3 "2003-09-28T07:55:43Z")
Yeah, I agree. It’s not like you are going to find a group like this on AOL. Me thinks the SDMB hampsters are giving us a dirty look right about now. ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/4 "2003-09-28T07:56:02Z")
n’much. you? ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/5 "2003-09-28T08:02:39Z")
See, if I had a place to “chat” I could talk about how I met lovely young Maria tonight. While she’s formerly from Calgary, she’s now from Palm Springs. While she was wearing red jeans (ick), she was awfully cute, plus she has her own business (wasn’t talking to her long enough to find out what kinda business), plus she is from Palm Springs. That’s almost enough to get past the red jeans. These are things I could babble about if I had a place to “chat”. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/6 "2003-09-28T08:03:06Z")
What? Did everybody go to bed? Or just someplace else? 😕 ; ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/7 "2003-09-28T08:03:10Z")
Watchin’ a zombie _X-Files_ ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/8 "2003-09-28T09:21:44Z")
Well, there is a channel in irc (undernet). Not official or anything, so be careful. But eventually every topic turns to sex. And it gets pretty slow in the late nights, but usually there’s somebody paying half attention. “Fairly warned ye be,” says I. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/9 "2003-09-28T12:09:26Z")
There is a channel called #straightdope on Internet Relay Chat. To find us, just download mIRC (or Ircle, if you’re a Mac fan) or go to [this site](http://www.undernet.org/webchat.php) and when you get on, type /join #straightdope and you’ll find us. Like BraheSilver said, it does get a bit slow and the topic frequently wanders into sex. Robin [sub]Disclaimer: #straightdope is not affiliated with the SDMB or the _Chicago Reader_, nor is it endorsed by these entities. All we are is a bunch of people who hang out and chat.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/10 "2003-09-28T13:33:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MsRobyn \* > **Like BraheSilver said, it does get a bit slow and the topic frequently wanders into sex.** In other words, it’s just like the boards. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/11 "2003-09-28T16:19:53Z")
I pop into chat once in a great while, and it is frighteningly shocking just how many conversations turn to something teen-sex oriented. I am either undersex or something. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/12 "2003-09-28T17:09:05Z")
Well damn, I hang out at the chat occasionally and I have yet to see the conversation turn to sex! I feel ripped off ☹ Kidding, it’s a fun channel 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/13 "2003-09-28T22:06:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BraheSilver \* > \*\* But eventually every topic turns to sex. \*\* It’s all about the peener and pooner in #straightdope. Yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Kieras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a87d85/32.png) [@Kieras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kieras)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/14 "2003-09-28T22:09:59Z")
All chats turn into sex no matter where you go:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/15 "2003-09-28T22:19:49Z")
You say that like it’s a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/16 "2003-09-28T22:23:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kieras \* > \*\*All chats turn into sex no matter where you go:rolleyes: \*\* that always happens to you??? what are you - some kind of love god/goddess (delete as applicable)?! i must be doing the “dating” thing soooooo wrong. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Harli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@Harli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harli)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/17 "2003-09-28T22:34:39Z")
Sheesh, we discuss some more serious things too. Not just sex 😛 Like politics, and politicians having sex, and computer geek stuff, and cyber sex, and uhmm…yah, stuff like that. ---
**Author:** ![Jessity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jessity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jessity)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/18 "2003-09-29T01:04:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by imthjckaz \* > \*\*It’s all about the peener and pooner in #straightdope. > > Yeah. \*\* And weenies in the pooper. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/19 "2003-09-29T04:56:56Z")
Hey, I’m not passing judgement. I was just warning the poor fella. Throw some of that sex my way and I’ll retract my statement. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266/20 "2003-09-29T05:59:08Z")
It’s not ALL about sex. Right now we’re talking about how the world’s oldest man just died. Of course, we swiftly decided the cause of death was sex-related, but for a few seconds there, the talk was sex-free! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-should-be-a-place-to-chat/204266.md?page=2)