# Warning: Tv tropes link **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727 "2010-12-02T22:56:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/41 "2010-12-03T17:48:22Z")
Quick, somebody look up the trope for people engaging in retaliatory mocking when it’s been pointed out that they’re a lazy idiot! ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/42 "2010-12-03T17:53:50Z")
> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#): > > I’m light-years away from a geek (in fact, I have never ever seen any of the _Star Wars_ films) but I find TVT quite above the average. I’m rather digging the articles about the old video games. Actually, being a geek has nothing to do with watching Star Wars and everything to do with reading websites featuring articles about old video games. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/43 "2010-12-03T18:02:34Z")
Of all the obnoxious link behavior here, pointing out it’s a TVtropes link isn’t something I’ve ever noticed, though I guess I would have assumed most people mouseover rather than clicking blindly. Links that are impervious to clarification via mouseover are much more annoying to me. As for the site, I find it just a useless jumble. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/44 "2010-12-03T18:17:07Z")
Hey everybody, what do you think of this link: WARNING: DO NOT CLICK!!!? > [@Giles](#): > > I don’t always use Google: I also use Wikipedia a lot. That one was more helpful. You are not a douche anymore. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/45 "2010-12-03T18:35:33Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Something that’s been linked to a number of times in this thread. Click on them. Or do a little investigative work on your own and add “.com” to “tvtropes”. OK, the results of my investigation are that there’s some generic search page there. You’ll be billed for my services. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/46 "2010-12-03T18:37:32Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > OK, the results of my investigation are that there’s some generic search page there. You’ll be billed for my services. Don’t bother billing me: I found your [generic search page](http://search.aol.com/aol/webhome). ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/47 "2010-12-03T19:16:09Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > You say that like it’s a _bad_ thing. That’s because it _is_ a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/48 "2010-12-03T19:34:57Z")
> [@cuauhtemoc](#): > > Douche. It’s the only thing that will get the sand out of your vagina. The very first post in this thread makes it pretty fucking clear that TV Tropes is a website, and the warnings aren’t of a “Danger! Totally gross pictures that will get you fired are on this website!” nature. Unless you have some completely alternate interpretation of what “obligatory cutesy presumption that TV Tropes is soooo entertaining and addicting” might mean, you’re just a lazy sack of shit for not doing a simple fucking google search. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/49 "2010-12-03T19:42:22Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > It’s the only thing that will get the sand out of your vagina. Thank you. Consider this retort stolen. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/50 "2010-12-03T20:32:11Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > It’s the only thing that will get the sand out of your vagina. The very first post in this thread makes it pretty fucking clear that TV Tropes is a website, and the warnings aren’t of a “Danger! Totally gross pictures that will get you fired are on this website!” nature. Unless you have some completely alternate interpretation of what “obligatory cutesy presumption that TV Tropes is soooo entertaining and addicting” might mean, you’re just a lazy sack of shit for not doing a simple fucking google search. None of this is true, and you have many bad qualities. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/51 "2010-12-03T21:32:31Z")
Yeah, I’ve never gotten the TV Tropes thing. And I love TV and timewasters, so I don’t think it’s me. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/52 "2010-12-03T22:00:52Z")
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen somebody get crabby about bringing up TV Tropes. I can see that you don’t find it that interesting. But if Anti-TV-Tropes-Hag is now a thing, I think they need a TV Tropes page about it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/53 "2010-12-03T22:04:32Z")
It’s just the latest in a long string of needing to be reassured that one isn’t a geek and by extension sad and lonely. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/54 "2010-12-03T22:52:52Z")
> [@cuauhtemoc](#): > > None of this is true, and you have many bad qualities. no u ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727/55 "2010-12-04T01:29:26Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > no u u BTW, I just looked at that site, and I hate it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727.md?page=2)