# Threads that are sure to end in meltdowns
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-that-are-sure-to-end-in-meltdowns/363515
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 7, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-that-are-sure-to-end-in-meltdowns/363515 "2006-07-07T16:40:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-that-are-sure-to-end-in-meltdowns/363515/61 "2006-07-09T02:47:13Z")
> [@DxZero](#):
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> Thats for the link, BTW.
Or even thanks too.
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### Author:  [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2006, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-that-are-sure-to-end-in-meltdowns/363515/62 "2006-07-09T08:44:57Z")
_“I’m going to country/state/resort on holiday/vacation, what advice can you give?”_
Somebody is _bound_ to answer “yeah, don’t go - it’s crap and the people are all bastards” and off we go.
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2006, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-that-are-sure-to-end-in-meltdowns/363515/63 "2006-07-09T10:04:24Z")
Sublight’s three rules of child-rearing discussions:
1. Any activity, no matter how mundane or innocuous, will have someone who is rabidly against it and will accuse any parent who performs/allows/supports it of being a child-abusing psychopath.
2. Any activity, no matter how bizarre, extreme or illegal, will have someone who is rabidly in favor of it and will accuse any parent who rejects/opposes/disagrees with it of being a neanderthal fascist child-abusing psychopath.
3. Once #1 or #2 make their appearance, someone will post an more vitriolic counter-flame. At this point, the meltdown has already begun.
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### Author:  [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-that-are-sure-to-end-in-meltdowns/363515/64 "2006-07-09T12:47:12Z")
> [@DxZero](#):
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> Aww…that wasn’t as funny as it could have been. Shucks.
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> Thats for the link, BTW.
I just thought it was amazing the way such an offhand anecdote spawned so much passion. Very much in the spirit of the OP of THIS thread, I think.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-that-are-sure-to-end-in-meltdowns/363515/65 "2006-07-10T19:28:45Z")
[Thank you notes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=379057). _Now_ I remember I’m in the old-fogie minority on this issue. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-that-are-sure-to-end-in-meltdowns/363515/66 "2006-07-11T07:06:41Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#):
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> And the [thread that spawned it.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=302338&page=1&pp=50)
:eek: Note to self: do not pit your stupid digestive system. Because apparently gagging is all in your mind.
Objection to self: But flame wars are amusing!
Note to objection: Shut up.
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2006, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-that-are-sure-to-end-in-meltdowns/363515/67 "2006-07-11T09:06:50Z")
Is “white trash” a racist term?
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2006, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-that-are-sure-to-end-in-meltdowns/363515/68 "2006-07-11T10:09:34Z")
A short discussion on the merits and demerits of feminism has been known to get a little lively before now, ISTR.
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2006, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-that-are-sure-to-end-in-meltdowns/363515/69 "2006-07-11T11:11:10Z")
> [@Zoe](#):
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> Is “white trash” a racist term?
Why can’t I have a white pride rally? How come everyone else gets to be proud and not me?
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### Author:  [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-that-are-sure-to-end-in-meltdowns/363515/70 "2006-07-11T11:21:15Z")
> [@Lumpy](#):
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> 1. Gun control
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> I’m convinced that people on opposite sides of this issue are proceeding from axiomatically different world views, and that there’s simply no way to resolve the debate.
Oh yes there is.
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