# This Fucking Board Is Consuming Itself **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 7, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-consuming-itself/351667 "2006-04-07T02:19:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-consuming-itself/351667/41 "2006-04-07T03:21:59Z")
> [@the only bunny](#): > > . I believe theres some sort of initiation we have to go through. Yeah and it involves $15. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-consuming-itself/351667/42 "2006-04-07T03:22:44Z")
And wedgies. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-consuming-itself/351667/43 "2006-04-07T03:23:52Z")
And the dreaded rear admiral. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-consuming-itself/351667/44 "2006-04-07T03:25:22Z")
> [@Mister Falcon](#): > > But no substance. Thanks for proving my point. Dumbing down is a bitch. That’s nice, dear. Let me make sure I have this straight. You’ve lurked for years, but it’s gotten so intolerable here you just HAD to create a profile and a username and tell us all that you’re leaving. No, you really mean it, the Dope is going down in flames, and you’re not going to stay to watch it. Yeah, I buy that. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-consuming-itself/351667/45 "2006-04-07T03:25:55Z")
And _this_ little gadget we like to call “Mr. Thingy”.\* \*shamelessly stolen from the Far Side. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-consuming-itself/351667/46 "2006-04-07T03:28:02Z")
> [@Mister Falcon](#): > > So, basically, just the regular half-ass lame attempts at humor. And I do mean half-ass, jeezus is there a laugh to be had yet with these “pithy” replies? > > But no substance. Thanks for proving my point. Dumbing down is a bitch. What, you think we’re trying to amuse you? Who gives a shit about you? We’re trying to amuse ourselves, here, and seem to be doing a fair job about it. You don’t even enter the equation, except as a common referent. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-consuming-itself/351667/47 "2006-04-07T03:30:01Z")
Maybe the board has gone downhill. Initiation used to have goats, tentacle monsters, and the thagomizer. Now all we have is a bunch of dopers groping at undergarments and “Mr. Thingy.” Not that much different from a SDMB picture thread really. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-consuming-itself/351667/48 "2006-04-07T03:32:28Z")
This thread is too lame to live. **Mister Falcon** , if the only reason you want to post is to complain about a board/community that you’re not contributing to, save your effort. Lynn For the Straight Dope [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-fucking-board-is-consuming-itself/351667.md?page=2)