# Threads You're Ashamed to Admit You Enjoy . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830 "2003-06-27T19:52:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/21 "2003-06-28T01:42:14Z")
Mmm hmm, I’m ashamed to say I’ve begun to enjoy the train wrecks. A little voice in my head chants “fight! fight!” and sometimes I am known to chortle at particularily good swipes. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/22 "2003-06-28T03:52:05Z")
So, I make your eyes bleed, huh? Cool! 🆒 I like to watch those God/NoGod threads. All the time I’m wanting to post the links to all 237,959 older threads on this same topic. Both sides usually end up looking like extremely opinionated asses. Loads of fun. I like to pick out who is the fucking One Post Wonder and see how quickly he/sh/it gets deleted (banning’s too good). I also like watching and even participating in someone’s meltdown. I’m never mean about it, I just like to be involved, you know? 😉 Ooh, I also like threads in GQ that are answered with horribly incorrect info. Sometimes I help out, but only if I’m positive of my info and can back it up. And they call _me_ the no clue boy? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/23 "2003-06-28T04:01:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JuanitaTech \* > \*\* > Pile on threads, especially those featuring the infamous bitch brigade, as they’ve been labeled by another poster, are fun to lurk in, too. \*\* Cool! We have our own bitch brigade! Who’s in it? I LOVE threads about sex, although lately they’ve grown a little mundane. I also loved the original TMI Thread. I never thought I’d get to tell about the time I cut my scrutum with a pair of scissors. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/24 "2003-06-28T04:08:41Z")
Oh yes, another fan of the pile ons here. They’re so freaking stupid, I can’t help but to cackle whenever I see one. ---
**Author:** ![Thunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@Thunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thunder)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/25 "2003-06-28T04:20:50Z")
I belong to numerous message boards, and almost every one has been invaded by **kathaksung**. (He lasted one post here, IIRC) It’s bizarre, yet strangely intriguing to read his manifestos, with him totally oblivious to the mocking that accompanies every posting he places everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/26 "2003-06-28T06:18:21Z")
As soon as I see **TMI** in the thread title, I have to read it, regardless of the subject matter. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/27 "2003-06-28T07:12:09Z")
Any thread with “ashamed” in the title. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/28 "2003-06-28T09:21:10Z")
> [@](#): > > I can always predict, to the letter, who will post what Think of a common(ish) thread title, and then predict what I, **Lobsang** , would post. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/29 "2003-06-28T09:43:00Z")
I’m still looking for **WV\_Woman** ’s meltdown thread… I completely missed it! Bummer; I recall her being mildly abrasive, but I think the only reason I remember her at all was that I have a lot of family in West Virginia. Oh, and re. the OP: I \*lurrrrve \* a good meltdown thread. But I don’t post to them. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/30 "2003-06-28T10:48:16Z")
When one poster pits another, you bet I’ll be there in my court-side seat… 😃 Also whenever **Lobsang** has the need to start a thread, you’ll usually find me giggling my way into it… (see: ‘!’) ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/31 "2003-06-28T21:30:40Z")
I enjoy threads in which people try vainly to argue in favor of materialism, atheism, and other absurd philosophies. Nothing is more mystical than the musings of Hume and his worshippers. ---
**Author:** ![Stage\_Manager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stage_manager/32/7267_2.png) [@Stage\_Manager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stage_Manager)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/32 "2003-06-28T21:57:56Z")
[hijack] What is a pile-on thread? Is it (as it sounds) where everyone and their cousin attacks an OP for some ridiculous breach? Examples, please? [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/33 "2003-06-28T22:23:59Z")
Of course, any poop thread started by **lieu**. Then there’s the various fart/pimple/bodily fluid threads. Anything **Scylla** starts. Threads which are likely to have good song parodys, **Fenris** used to do a lot of those I think. Anything about Fred Phelps, I’ve started some of those. Story threads, and anything that has Babylon 5 in the title. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/34 "2003-06-28T23:24:10Z")
Anyone wanna start a pile-on Pit thread on **Lib**? I’ll bring the popcorn! ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/35 "2003-06-29T00:55:09Z")
I love the really bizarre cutting-edge physics (quantum theory is best) threads. I have a minimal physical science background, so it’s fascinating to read the debates. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Gretchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Miss\_Gretchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Gretchen)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/36 "2003-06-29T01:19:15Z")
All I know is that I’d pay good money to see a TMI thread which descends into a pile-on, culminating in a complete meltdown by someone. Has it happened but somehow escaped my watchful, lurker eye? ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/37 "2003-06-29T01:29:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miss Gretchen \* > \*\*All I know is that I’d pay good money to see a TMI thread which descends into a pile-on, culminating in a complete meltdown by someone. > Has it happened but somehow escaped my watchful, lurker eye? \*\* Good question. It seems that most of the TMI threads die a relatively quick death. I lurk by day and post by night, and tend to avoid threads with overly obscene titles. With that said, I’m ashamed to admit I’ve been following the men’s “do you like it…” thread. I love being a fly on the wall of the “all guy” forums. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/38 "2003-06-29T02:43:11Z")
The threads about the latest Chick tract. Love 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/39 "2003-06-29T02:49:37Z")
I hate to admit it, but I love mocking people who show up here and are unaware that they’re in way over their heads. You know the type. They start lots of threads right off, they have exactly one point to make, they usually put things in the wrong forum, they get offended when mods try to help them, they can’t argue their way out of a paper bag, and they’re usually banned pretty quickly when it becomes apparent that they only wanted a soapbox. There’s one in GD right now. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830/40 "2003-06-29T02:50:41Z")
Oh, and I forgot to mention that I got entirely too much fun out of that “a” thread a few months back. That was such a stupid thread, but so much fun. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-youre-ashamed-to-admit-you-enjoy/184830.md?page=3)