# Us Dopers have been acting crummy lately

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-have-been-acting-crummy-lately/513094>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 8, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-have-been-acting-crummy-lately/513094 "2009-10-08T19:56:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-have-been-acting-crummy-lately/513094/41 "2009-10-09T15:43:02Z")

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Like my DC homeboy **Larry Borgia** told me once (paraphrased), the Dope is kind of like an old married couple carping over the same old shit sometimes.

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**Author:** ![silvermist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@silvermist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silvermist)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-have-been-acting-crummy-lately/513094/42 "2009-10-09T15:45:17Z")

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I’ve only recently gotten into message boards. So far, this is the best I’ve found for content but the nit-picking and nastiness bothers me too. I wasn’t aware of the ignore button. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-have-been-acting-crummy-lately/513094/43 "2009-10-09T16:15:10Z")

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> [@Colophon](#):
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> Yeah? Perhaps you should make more liberal use of _this_  
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> 😛

That’s awesome!

Anyway,

There has been a lot of polarization in the states lately. It would only make sense that it would bleed over onto the boards.

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