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why do people always make the opposite topic of popular topics. why do we gotta discuss evrything in every possible way
for my next topic “rare sdmb topics”
One of the most common Cafe Society thread types is some variation on:
This much-beloved movie/novel/artwork/composition/song/game is utter shite; why am I the only person here who can see that? Followed by lengthy, self-important “exposure” of said cultural treasure. Alternatively, a brief, snobbish dismissal.
Commonly this is followed by indignant defenses, with claims similar to “if you understood it better you’d learn to appreciate it,” which could be specious or not.
Neither side is ever persuaded.
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[li]The Movies/Songs that Have X & Y but Don’t Have Z & then Have the Opposite of Q with a Surprise M thread [/li][/ul]The OP wants to mention his latest favorite song or movie, so he concocts some reason to make a thread about it. Posters follow up by mentioning their latest favorite song, which is only vaguely similar, but nobody’s really interested in what the others are posting anyway, least of all the OP.
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[li]The Which Direction Do You Stir Your Coffee–To the Right or to the Left? poll [/li][/ul]OP creates a poll which is conceivably interesting only in the aggregate, and yet hundreds of posters feel compelled to announce individually how they voted, as though someone were actually paying any attention.
Is [insert latest new age fad / health advice craze here] legit?
or almost equivalently,
My [BF/GF/SO] says [insert latest new age fad / health advice craze here] is really great. How do I persuade [him/her] otherwise?
The concensus answers of course being “No, it’s pure shite.” and “It’s hopeless, dump the idiot already.”
And the obligatory no-one-seemed-to-care-not-even-the-chair responses.
mmm
The ultimate denouement (if there is one, the majority of these slowly trailing off into months of “Update?” requests) being an all-important detail added after about 113 posts which completely illegitimizes 90% of the previous postings and makes the OP into a hero rather than the shite-stain he/she initially appeared to be.
The Backward Luddite And Proud Of It thread
Beginning with a misdirected rant about some bit of technological, scientific or social progress that the OP is proud to be resisting. Everybody trips over each other either to try to correct/educate the OP, or chimes in with (often misinformed or otherwise incorrect) supporting complaints.
You missed a trick here. Also characterised (although not so much just recently) by at least one person in the thread adamantly claiming “I don’t speak with ANY accent - everybody else does!”
Oh, another one:
The Identify This Bug thread.
Can anyone identify this bug, based on one of the following (with no additional geographic or environmental context):
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[li]A description sufficiently vague that it could easily be describing any bug, or indeed a small dog[/li][li]A photo of such poor quality, it isn’t even possible to be sure that the object is a bug of any kind[/li][li]A broken hyperlink to what might be a photo[/li][/ul]
Tell me a joke - and within the first 10 reponses, you’ll find “What’s brown and sticky?” :rolleyes:
And the ever popular Where did you get your username?
Google/Facebook/Yahoo/Etc changed [something] and I hate it!
Another one (although this is more about the way discussions progress on the SDMB):
**What’s the difference betweeen [item/phenomenon/category A] and [item/phenomenon/category B]? Is A more common than B? **
Simple enough question, but in many cases, the thread will dissolve into nitpickery over the slight greyness of the boundary between categories A and B, at which point, someone declares that the question itself is therefore meaningless, ridiculous, naive, racist, etc. Many others follow suit, restating the same dismissal in their own inimitably clever, witty style.
The clueless Angry Car Repair thread:
I took my car in for an oil change two weeks ago and now my air conditioning stopped working. I’m going to take that car right back to that lying, cheating, son of a bitch at the garage, and tell him he broke my air conditioning!
Followed in subsequent posts by:
The car is a 2001 Lada, why do you ask?
It has 300,000 miles on it.
In Cafe Society:
What is the name of this movie/story/TV show I saw/read? It usually goes?
Poster A: What is the name of this story I read. [Brief description]
Poster B: (if description is detailed). It’ called Title (with link)
Poster A: That’s it! And in only x minutes. You guys are great!
If the description is not detailed, Poster B asks for more details.
There’s also the “I don’t get today’s XKCD” threads.
Along with that is What’s the deal with Facebook/Youtube/Twitter where at least one person will make a myttwitface joke, someone will laud it as witty and 3/4ths of the posters will explain voluminously why they eventually got rid of their account and suggest the OP get’s rid of theirs.
In Cafe Society: Wow, I thought the song lyric went this way and it actually says something else and I was wrong all this time/misheard lyric/mondegreen thread.
As the length of the thread increases, so does the likelihood that someone will stop in to say how things are in Spain.
I recently did an HDTV thread, and I recently answered a non-XKCD ‘I don’t get this comic’ thread. I must point out that while these threads recur, it is because the TVs and the comics keep changing, which is why new advice is solicited.
English versus American accents, not so much.
The worst common threads IMHO are the incredibly creepy “polls” or “hypothetical questions” having to do with the details of women’s bodies. Just the titles make me bolt for the Log Out button (and I’m a guy)