# Things that inspire you to start a thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 12, 2002, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-inspire-you-to-start-a-thread/136351 "2002-11-12T01:49:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-inspire-you-to-start-a-thread/136351/1 "2002-11-12T01:49:12Z")
I was having a 12 week featol ultrasound today and as I lay there holding leechboys hand with the ultrasound thing stuck up my girly bits all I could think of was “what am I going to post about this?” So what has inspired you to start a thread and where were you when the inspiration hit? ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-inspire-you-to-start-a-thread/136351/2 "2002-11-12T14:57:18Z")
Often its the voices in my head. Sometimes they tell me to post. Sometimes to burn things. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-inspire-you-to-start-a-thread/136351/3 "2002-11-12T15:12:13Z")
Usually random thoughts inspired by other threads, the happenings in my life, or the voices in my head. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-inspire-you-to-start-a-thread/136351/4 "2002-11-12T17:35:34Z")
Yep, voices in my head. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-inspire-you-to-start-a-thread/136351/5 "2002-11-12T21:18:41Z")
Overall, most of my threads are inspired by random thoughts, but are sometimes also inspired by an observation or an experience I have on a particular day. Sometimes my threads are spinoffs from other threads. If I want to take a discussion in a different direction than the OP I’d rather start a new thread than hijack an existing thread. As for threads by group, here is when I usually start them: GQ- Usually only after exhausting Google and other commonly used resources ([howstuffworks.com](http://howstuffworks.com), [snopes.com](http://snopes.com), Cecil’s columns, other GQ threads, etc.) or if the question would be too difficult to search for a concrete answer, do I start a thread here. GD- I never go here, therefore I never start any threads here. CS- The threads I start here are usually based on random thoughts about music, movies or sometimes video games in general. My threads here are never specific to one song, artist, movie, actor/actress, etc. IMHO- This is my most common area for starting threads. Again, random thoughts inspire me to post here, especially if it is something in which I am interested to know if other people’s experiences with a particular situation they have encountered, or if their opinions about something, are similar to or perhaps different from mine. MPSIMS- Pretty much the same explanation as the above. BBQ Pit- I don’t start too many Pit threads. There are lots of little things I could complain about but I usually refrain from posting about them since they’re usually petty issues anyway. Only when an issue becomes so annoying or frustrating that I can no longer keep it to myself do I vent here. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-inspire-you-to-start-a-thread/136351/6 "2002-11-12T22:23:28Z")
Must admit that i’m more of a reply poster than a thread-starter. I rely on you clever people to actually have the original ideas. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2002, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-inspire-you-to-start-a-thread/136351/7 "2002-11-13T04:49:31Z")
I agree, garius. In fact, I relied on YOU to have the idea for that reply. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2002, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-inspire-you-to-start-a-thread/136351/8 "2002-11-13T13:22:31Z")
did you **Blackeyes**? i feel dirty and used… _shivers_ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2002, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-inspire-you-to-start-a-thread/136351/9 "2002-11-13T13:42:28Z")
I am my own inspiration. I realized early on that so many of you are living vicariously thru me. Therefore, I have an obligation to keep the Teeming Millions abreast of every profound or mundane thought that occurs to me. It’s a weighty responsibility, but I take it on gladly, because you deserve no less. OK, you’re right. I’m a pathetic, bored old woman looking for any glimmer of attention. So I eavesdrop on everyone around me, stealing the least dull bits and fashioning them into threads. Or not. You really don’t know, do you? I’m mysterious that way. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2002, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-inspire-you-to-start-a-thread/136351/10 "2002-11-13T13:47:40Z")
Sure are a lotta votes for “voices in my head” . . . GD is a scary place. Don’t like to post there, usually. Don’t never like to start thread there, nosir. But yeah, something will happen in real life, and I’ll think, “Hm, should I post about this? Will people be interested? Can I craft my thread in such a way as to elicit muchos responses? Will I become popular? Will all the hot SDMB women fawn over me?” ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2002, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-inspire-you-to-start-a-thread/136351/11 "2002-11-13T17:31:54Z")
I sleep on it. If something is still bugging me by morning, i post it.