Uh huh. Mm hmm. Uh huh.
Whoa, dude. Fucking harsh.
Or a bushel of turnips.
unbrok3npp, I’d like to expound on something which has been mentioned by several people, but not quite explained. As you will recall, the main reason given by samclem for closing the girlfriend thread was that it was seeking medical advice and that’s not permitted here. Why? Because medical advice almost never can be given off-the-shelf. Free advice on a (cheap) message board is no substitute for real medical advice. Nor is it harmless, if the person being advised (in this case, indirectly) neglects to get real medical advice in the misplaced belief that the free advice is adequate. The same principle applies to legal advice, btw, and is similarly restricted by the mods.
FWIW, samclem is a very good moderator. Pissing on his shadow will only cause folks to draw adverse inferences about you. You would be better served, I submit, to learn the rules (unwritten as well as written) and post accordingly. Really, this is a great board. Well worth fifteen bucks a year.
(channeling Ed McMahon)
Hi-yo!
[nitpick]Wet behind the ears. Green around the gills means nauseous. Or nauseated, whatever the word is.[/nitpick]
But nobody else is!
My mistake. I got it confused with the slang “green” meaning inexperienced.
[pit] To be fair, the name unbrok3npp does make **me **a touch nauseous. [/pit]
I can’t believe you posted such utter tripe!
There are no–I repeat no–“funny squiggly things” between the L and the apostrophe. There are dots there! (Well, dots and a comma.)
The key between the L and the apostrophe has the colon (or, as people I work with call it, “semi-colon” or “that thing with the two dots”) and the semi-colon (or, as people I work with call it, “that thing with the dot and the comma”).
And I can’t believe the rest of you people let such a travesty continue for so long. I am so ashamed of all of you.
Meh. He’s not the stupidest poster ever here. His main crime (besides starting duplicate threads on rather mundane, obvious topics-what teen doesn’t know how to use an iPod?) has been his lack of grammar skills–which is a mortal blow, true, but I think we can find some compassion for the young 'un. Afterall, he is a self-admitted kid–and kids are supposed to not know how to go about things.
Give him a break and ignore his outburst re the SDMB-he’ll either sink or swim sooner or later on his own.
Zoggie–thanks for the laugh out loud post. I have some sympathy for the OP’s sexual ignorance, but that was a classic topper to danceswithcats’ post of beauty.
Note the use of apostrophes throughout. Learn from my example, Grasshopper!
I have nothing against you, I haven’t really paid attention to your threads, I usually have a great amount of patience for people who ask really basic questions (folks have got to learn somehow) and I’ve only read this one because I’m curious when folks criticize the character of this message board. So long story short, I have no investment in this brouhaha at all.
But if you’ve seriously only had one orgasm through nearly all of your teen years, telling others to go out and see the world is probably the most bizarre thing I’ve every heard. On multiple counts.
That notwithstanding, if you show a little openness to doing things not exactly the way you are accustomed to, and you stick around the boards for a little while and are able to adapt to your surroundings a little, I think you’d find that there are a lot of very smart, open minded, intelligent people here who may be able to give you $15 worth of entertainment (and perhaps enlightment). You’ll also find that there is a tendency to pile on someone during certain types of disagreements. I do not excuse that behavior. However, if you do not wish to show any flexibility with your expectations of what a particular internet message board is supposed to be, then the problem rests with you, not the rest of the community.
I hope you’ll take these words as not a lecture, but hopefully a bit of advice from a pretty much disinterested party.
Hey, Squirt. Yeah, there are some active threads far more mundane than those that you started. Here is a medical advice thread, still alive and kicking in IMHO. There are two (2!) LOLCatz threads in MPSIMS. Plenty of tech advice threads in GQ.
But the BBQ pit is like gang territory, except the gang isn’t physically intimidating, violent, or affiliated with either coast. This gang is like a gaggle of hardcore ex-English teachers, who expect you to represent your intelligence by demonstrating your mad grammar, spelling and punctuation skills. You hear me, Dog? They’re all like, “You best be packing your thesaurus if you hit this turf, yo, and use your spell checker before you even step up.” And they don’t grade on a curve, oh no, this gang is hard and will fail you on punctuation errors so fast you will forget your original post.
The whole board is a brain trust, but the sharks down here are the grammar patrol and the punctuation police. Now they can’t actually cut you, or physically beat you down, but they do possess lightening Googlefu skillz and can make you feel all remedial with a quickness. (Can you sense it? They are circling me now, ready to translate all my BS into the King’s english, and you better believe they are checking to make sure that I know how to use it’s and its correctly.)
See Squirt, you just got jumped into a gang. When the Pit Sharks smell fresh blood, you either retreat, crack open your reference books, or whip out your best trash talk.
“Yo, yo, yo, Kid, you need to be spelling correctly, proofreading, Googling like a motherfuck, and you best watch your punctuation, punk.”
Its like that.
(Alright, Squirt, I’ve got them. Now get out of the pool, and don’t look back, 'cause I screwed up a possessive to distract them, and it’s gonna get ugly.)
King’s English.
d&r
Ohh- I’ve been hit! Medic!!!
‘Googlefu skillz’ is a redundancy.
You don’t capitalize ‘English’, homeboy?
Wow! My StraightDope-fu is getting slow!
What if you have darkening Googlefu skillz?
Why does every single person my age on the Dope try to make us all look bad? Why?
I think it’s time for an under-twenty roll-calling thread. Surely there’s at least one productive poster in the set.
Y’all don’t know who you’re dealing with. My dad is a high school English teacher and librarian from New York. And an intimidating MF to boot: cross country and golf coach, former tri-athlete, and half-crazed extreme sports nut, who raised his youngest in the South, where butchering the language is mandatory if you wish to be understood. I’m not allowed in a bar around here unless I can get three syllables out of a cuss word, and I declarah I will drop r’s, drawl, and use slang like a shameless mountain hillbilly. I ain’t scared.
I have 30+ years of pent up resentment from being coached and corrected. You sharks can dissect every letter- bring it. I’m Southern-fried Teflon up in this bitch.
Ah, swift one fishbicycle.
kowtows
Are we throwing feasts for Trolls now?
Tris