# Threads you were too chicken to start **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 6, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358 "2005-07-06T22:59:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LionelHutz405](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lionelhutz405/32/536_2.png) [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/21 "2005-07-07T13:30:17Z")
I’ve thought about starting a thread about managing your money. Mostly as a reaction to the stupid ways I see people spending their hard-earned money. (And complaining about not having any.) But I can’t word it without coming across as a preachy arsehole. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/22 "2005-07-07T13:37:11Z")
Oh, I filter my filthy, filthy mind long before it contaminates the SDMB. Just thank your lucky stars. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/23 "2005-07-07T14:32:59Z")
I want to reply in about half of these nonexistent threads. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/24 "2005-07-07T14:39:05Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Oh, and I’ve been _this close_ to starting the “Dopers: you’ve ruinned my life and I hate you all with a passion and want to kill you, your wives, your relatives, and your children, and while I’m at it - nuke your country” thread many times. Lob, you know I didn’t mean to give you a jelly-bean of the month membership instead of the 80’ speakers. I WANTED TO! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/25 "2005-07-07T14:44:00Z")
Every now and then I think about starting a thread called “Ask the Cancer Survivor” but I never do. It’s not that I chicken out in the sense that I’m afraid of the response. I’m just worried that I won’t have the energy or time to keep up with it. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/26 "2005-07-07T14:51:00Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > Because of a really startling event in my past, I tried to get up enough nerve to start a thread asking the doper gals if they’d ever… well, you know… done THAT just to say thank you to someone (non-SO). > > The SDMB is certainly a lusty bunch, but I was still afraid of offending… Oh I am way too curious. ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/27 "2005-07-07T23:16:27Z")
I want to start a thread in Cafe Society about Asian actors and why you don’t see them very much in typical Hollywood movies except in perhaps martial-arts films. But, I’m not really sure what to say and I’m afraid I’ll come off as an idiot because of that. ---
**Author:** ![flyboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4da419/32.png) [@flyboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flyboy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/28 "2005-07-07T23:31:20Z")
I’ve only had one–during the EP-3/China incident several years ago, I was dying to start an “Ask the EP-3 guy” thread to answer questions and kill some of the painfully wrong theories and information being tossed around. But I knew it’d look silly because I’m so limited as to what I can say. It would have been like “Ask the EP-3 guy – I’ll answer anything” as long as it’s not remotely classified, which really leaves almost nothing for me to talk about. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/29 "2005-07-08T00:07:19Z")
**Atkins is Stupid and I Wish It Would Go Away** (See, I even feel like I’m gonna get flamed just for saying I thought about it . . .) ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/30 "2005-07-08T00:39:01Z")
Here’s one I really wish I could have started… my father is the project scientist for the [Spitzer Space Telescope](http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/), and I really wanted to start a “Ask the Project Scientist for the Spitzer Space Telescope” thread, if I could talk my dad into either joining as a guest, or answering questions I forwarded to him. I figured the SDMB is the kind of place that would find the workings of a multi-million-dollar decades-long NASA project fascinating, and I know that my dad feels that part of his job is to communicate to the tax-paying public the benefits of what those dollars have built. Sadly, he’s a busy guy, and I couldn’t talk him into it… ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/31 "2005-07-08T01:56:01Z")
What we need is a virtual OP exchange. Everybody who’s posted they were too chicken to start a thread, choose somebody else’s from here that you think you can handle and post on their behalf. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/32 "2005-07-08T02:37:50Z")
Ooooh! Ooooh! Can I start “ **What The Fuck Is Your Problem?** ” Pleeeeeezzzeee? 😃 Technically I should probably let Shirley start it, but tough! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/33 "2005-07-08T12:04:17Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > Because of a really startling event in my past, I tried to get up enough nerve to start a thread asking the doper gals if they’d ever… well, you know… done THAT just to say thank you to someone (non-SO). > > The SDMB is certainly a lusty bunch, but I was still afraid of offending… > [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > Oh I am way too curious. Simple story. Spent a whole weekend helping a casual acquaintance move her belongings to a new apartment (after all her friends “disappeared”). She was in a serious bind due to the timing. Her car broke down in the middle of everything, and (being a gentlemen) I loaned her mine while I fixed it. When it was all over, she said something like, “Since you’ve already put the bed together…” And of course, a gentleman should never refuse a request by a lady…🙂 I still don’t have the guts to start the thread, though. ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/34 "2005-07-08T16:33:25Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > Simple story. Spent a whole weekend helping a casual acquaintance move her belongings to a new apartment (after all her friends “disappeared”). She was in a serious bind due to the timing. Her car broke down in the middle of everything, and (being a gentlemen) I loaned her mine while I fixed it. When it was all over, she said something like, “Since you’ve already put the bed together…” Hey, I saw a movie like that once. But I had to keep putting in quarters. I’ve wanted to start a **Ask the OP who never comes back to the thread** , but I wouldn’t come back to read the responses. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/35 "2005-07-08T16:40:14Z")
I’ve been wanting to Pit a certain poster _so_ badly. For a little white, it looked like it was going to be a non-issue, but now, I’m not so sure. Either way, I probably won’t do it because it would _not_ go well. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/36 "2005-07-08T17:16:16Z")
Favorite enema recipes? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/37 "2005-07-08T18:28:40Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > **Atkins is Stupid and I Wish It Would Go Away** I’d be the first to respond with “Give me carbs, or give me death.” I agree with you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/38 "2005-07-08T19:47:49Z")
> [@UrbanChic](#): > > I’ve been wanting to Pit a certain poster _so_ badly. For a little white, it looked like it was going to be a non-issue, but now, I’m not so sure. Either way, I probably won’t do it because it would _not_ go well. Now look here, little missy! You’re blatent (yet oh so subtle) posts against me have been going on too long, and I just will not stand for it! Examples include: > [@UrbanChic](#): > > I love those Raisin Bran Crunch commercials with the guy getting fired but he’s unable to hear he’s getting fired over the crunch of his delicious Kellogg’s Raisin Bran Crunch. I happen to despise raisins, and feel I have made that quite clear. But apparantly, you take it upon yourself to shove your love of raisins and the misrepresentation of them in the media in my face! > [@UrbanChic](#): > > Other than that, I agree with your other points. I can understand thumbing through a book to see if it’s what you’re looking for; I do that with cookbooks quite often. I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but I don’t have any thumbs! Us “Four and Fours” really hate it when you people flaunt your opposable digits in our face! “Oh, look at me, I thumbed through a book!” Well good for you for mastering such a hard skill! You want a freakin’ medal, or something’? Ever try index fingering your way through a book? Or, God-forbid, pinkying your way through? Let me tell you something, girly…it ain’t easy! Lastly, there’s this gem: > [@UrbanChic](#): > > As to my question, my husband I speak very little (read: no) French. You know what? I happen to be Frnech. What’s your problem, you’re too good to learn my native people’s language? Is it beneth you in some way? Oh, English is all fine and good, everyone should speak it. Well Fuck you! My ancestors would like to have a word with you. A _French_ word. if you’ve got a problem with me you can say it to my face! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/39 "2005-07-08T19:49:28Z")
In case my previous post wasn’t clear, my idea for a thread would be one where everyone fake “pits” each other. However, there’s a good possibilty some real pitting would go on, so I stood clear. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358/40 "2005-07-08T20:08:20Z")
Yes, bouv, you are the Doper I so want to Pit. Since it’s all out in the open, it just won’t be any fun to pit your sorry ass now. Thanks a whole lot for ruining my fun, Pierre. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-you-were-too-chicken-to-start/311358.md?page=3)