# Unusual topics that are extremely incendiary on other boards **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2016, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-topics-that-are-extremely-incendiary-on-other-boards/763884 "2016-08-25T05:19:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-topics-that-are-extremely-incendiary-on-other-boards/763884/101 "2016-08-26T16:23:58Z")
Whether a horse should be sold at 6 years or 12 years on the _Fiddler on the Roof_ forum. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-topics-that-are-extremely-incendiary-on-other-boards/763884/102 "2016-08-26T16:56:02Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > One reason why I stopped reading a few food-related forums was because arguments would go on for pages about whether one should use X or Y as a particular ingredient in a particular dish. > > I love discussing culinary stuff, but really. Holy shit, yes. And relatedly, you have the Cutlery Cult, those who fetishize their knives the way mall ninjas fetishize katanas. These knives must be maintained as if they are rare Italian supercars. They are never to be brought within 15 feet of a dishwasher. They are to be wrapped carefully and accompany the person wherever they go, just in case they need to whip out a chiffonade at a fucking high school basketball game or something. They religiously correct you on the difference between “sharpening” and “honing” your “steel”, despite the fact that they couldn’t personally put an edge on their knives if their life depended on it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-topics-that-are-extremely-incendiary-on-other-boards/763884/103 "2016-08-26T17:09:22Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > Whether the Earth is flat. That’s always a good one. It’s rather kind of wrinkled up. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-topics-that-are-extremely-incendiary-on-other-boards/763884/104 "2016-08-26T17:34:08Z")
iPhone (or Apple anything) vs Android ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-topics-that-are-extremely-incendiary-on-other-boards/763884/105 "2016-08-26T17:57:48Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > > [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > > > On a frequent flyer board: > > [ul] > > [li]Should children be allowed in Business/First Class?[/li]… > > [/ul] > > Which might very well spawn a heated side-discussion over whether and at what age it’s acceptable to dump kids in economy alone while their parents fly in first or business. Silly peons! The \*au paire \*is with the little kids in economy until they’re old enough to begin training for their future role as our betters. \*Then \*the kids move up to First where they were destined from birth to be. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-topics-that-are-extremely-incendiary-on-other-boards/763884/106 "2016-08-26T17:58:05Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > So, I just had to go check that out. Maybe learn something new about oil. Good lord, that place is boring. I tried 5 or so different threads and every single one of them is about, or turns into what some guy paid for an oil change. Granted, 5 or so threads out of…MANY…might not be the best cross section of reality over there. But I had my fill of oil. If you want the serious business, most totally pointless, yet amazingly heated discussions imaginable, you should see some of the old arguments on there about what exactly makes an oil “synthetic”, and why\* , and which oils are truly synthetic and which ones are merely conventional oil masquerading in synthetic marketing. It’s the most idiotic exercise that centers almost completely on the semantics of what is and isn’t actually “synthetic” in the specific context of motor oils and their marketing. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-topics-that-are-extremely-incendiary-on-other-boards/763884/107 "2016-08-26T18:13:47Z")
> [@edwards\_beard](#): > > iPhone (or Apple anything) vs Android Mac v. PC for the new millennium. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-topics-that-are-extremely-incendiary-on-other-boards/763884.md?page=5)