On a related note, “The only acceptable lawn care tools you can use are an antique push mower and a rake. If you use any gasoline- or electric-powered device when maintaining your yard, no matter how large your property may be, you should be hung by your testicles, coated in napalm, and set aflame. Hi Opal!”
This is SO heading into “get a thread!” terrirtory… but: a fat person (almost universally reviled for their fatness, especially if female) telling a thin person (almost universally admired for their thinness, especially if female) to “eat a sandwich” is a sad attempt to strike back at a sometimes seemingly endless series of judgments, slights, rejections, jokes and miscellaneous attacks endured because of being fat. So yes, trying to insult a thin person in return is technically hypocritical,bu it’s a rather sad and puny example of hypocrisy, and much more understandable than most of the other forms you will run into a dozen times a day around here, so it doesn’t really deserve anyone’s ire.
Get a thread.
Maybe in the real world, but certainly not on the Straight Dope, where FA threads, threads filled with comments like “I like women with some meat on their bones” and “I prefer REAL women”, and so on are commonplace. There is a pattern here; use the term “fat” in a negative context, and you’ll be flamed, but “they should eat a sandwich” is just fine. Why? A WAG: looking through the SDMB member gallery, the SDMB community seems to have a much higher percentage of “people of size” compared to what you’ll see in meatspace.
So when you get insulted it’s a horrifying display of hatred, but when I get insulted it’s well deserved payback.
I see.
Another thing I dislike about the SDMB is bullshit like this.
I’ll second the vote for “listbots”.
I’ll also second the vote for “GET A THREAD.”
A: I don’t get insulted. I can’t be bothered.
B: If you get insulted, that’s your choice.
C: I never said anyone deserved anything at all.
If you want to keep this up I think we’ll need to get a thread.
Well, I’m not exactly silent about the things that bug me, but I’ll cover one that’s been bugging me recently: People who act like they can’t figure out why someone is upset at them, or why someone got hostile in response to something they said. How hard is it to go back to your post and look at what may have set them off? Look, you have the right to say it, but don’t act all surprised when someone is offended and snaps back at you. As I learned the hard way, it’s not against the rules.
And I’ll cover one more thing that hasn’t happened in a while, but I couldn’t find a place to share it before now: Pretending not to understand someone. It isn’t funny. Hence why I treat you like you are serious and explain it for you.
Thirded. Does that mean it passes?
No, that means it goes to the committee floor.
I have 2 “others” for you.
Anywhoo and M’kay. There’s nothing clever or cute about them. They’re fuckin’ annoying.
I’m sure there are plenty of legit Listbot cases but I don’t agree with automatic no-exception “Listbot” reaction to all lists. Concept/relationship of somethings can be blatantly obvious once listed. Mandatory explanation/expounding of all items/lists is as pointless authoritarianism as mandatory ‘answering in the form of question’.
Along with the Europe-worship that some people have mentioned, the utter hatred of the US by some dopers is very annoying. Bringing up the difference between the US and other countries is valid in many threads, but often there are just random insults. This includes the bizarre idea that all Americans are giant, lazy, gelatinous blobs who have no concept of art or culture. I don’t know where people get the idea that there are no fat people in other parts of the world - I live outside the US and we sure as shit have fat people here.
People who are horribly rude about some subject and then act like they have scored some kind of point when other people are slightly insulted. “Everyone who likes X must be a drunken crackwhore!” “Hey, I like X and I’ve never whored in my life!” “Oh, hit a nerve? Sounds like someone is protesting a little too much, hmmm?”. Basically people who want to say whatever the hell they want and nobody is allowed to disagree.
The annoying belief that the SDMB is smarter than average. Particularly posters who repeatedly mention that they’re extremely intelligent, particularly if they also say that other people find it intimidating or refer to the general public as morons, mouth-breathers, little minds, etc. There are a handful of posters who are really bad for this - and none of them ever say anything that seems to buck up this claim of massive intellect.
I’m sorry but that’s our fault too; we ran out of room and had to start exporting them overseas.
Not really. 
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Yes, but if I wanted to read a list with no context, I’d go elsewhere - part of the joys of this particular medium is that it allows for personal reflection. There are also a number of people who want to be original in their posts, so if their favorite movie has already been mentioned by Listbot™, they won’t bother to respond.
On the Television Without Pity boards, they actually have a discrete rule against posting simple lists without any commentary. I wish we had such a rule here. Simple lists contribute nothing to discussion, and they stymie further discussion because…there’s nothing to discuss!
Thread: What are some movies that you’ve hated?
What am I supposed to say to that? Oh, wait, am I supposed to prompt you for information? Are you one of those terrible people who like to say cryptic things in order for someone to respond, “Oooh, tell me more!”? Because that’s what you seem to be. If you don’t have the time to describe your reasons, don’t post.
Yeah, I can’t really think of a legit reason to go into “listbot” mode. If you can’t think of anything more to say on a topic than just throwing out a list with no commentary, then it’s probably not worth posting. List with commentary = interesting to read. List with no commentary = I don’t even bother to read the post.
“Google is your friend” and “Didn’t we just do this?” – which includes the related “Here’s a link to a 6-year-old thread on this topic, therefore it’s not worth discussing here and now.”
I also chose “Other”: Say the thread is Let’s talk about your favorite Sci-fi movies! There are interesting discussions going on about special effects and themes and actors and directors and so forth, and then somebody pops in to say:
Oh-kayyy! Thanks for playing! You’ve really contributed to this thread!
The closest one to my biggest pet peeve is the “all lowercase” option. I don’t like posts where the poster can’t be bothered to use proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and/or capitalization.