# What is wrong with frivolous/silly/stupid threads? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 9, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511 "2012-12-09T16:04:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/21 "2012-12-10T01:14:49Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > We are subject to the whims of the mods in these cases. Personally I don’t see it as any different than the subject of “What does the Queen Elizabeth keep in her purse?”. How about if it asked, “What kind of vibrator does the Queen use in her vagina?” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/22 "2012-12-10T01:17:43Z")
> [@colonial](#): > > This pertains especially to thread having to do with sex and urinary/lower GI funtion. > I think it would do this site a lot of good to institute a moratorium on such threads. > **Surely nothing of any geniune interest or novelty has been left unsaid and unexamined.** That sounds like a challenge! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/23 "2012-12-10T01:20:57Z")
Another top quality decision by the mods. Kudos. I might also note that the referenced thread title is provocatively NSFW IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/24 "2012-12-10T01:24:02Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > How about if it asked, “What kind of vibrator does the Queen use in her vagina?” I’d have a joke to post in that thread. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/25 "2012-12-10T01:55:33Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > How about if it asked, “What kind of vibrator does the Queen use in her vagina?” Not the same thing. Over the years there have been hundreds of thread that ask: “How often do you masturbate?” I don’t recall a single one of those being close. Replace you with President Obama and all the sudden people get their panties in a twist. Which, I might add, that this only reinforces the stereotype the us Dems view Obama as the Messiah. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/26 "2012-12-10T01:55:37Z")
It was a stupid thread, but not our stupidest. It got locked because it irritated twickster. ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/27 "2012-12-10T02:14:19Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Because I’m a Grinch and I love to ruin other people’s fun. > > Either that, or I saw a thread that I’m pretty sure the mods would have a problem with and I called it to their attention. Surely you aren’t implying that, except for me clicking a button and typing six words, the mods wouldn’t have closed it anyways, or that I put a lot of effort into reporting something. It has taken me probably twelve to twenty times more effort to reply to your question than it does to report any post. Could it instead have to do with your location? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/28 "2012-12-10T02:15:47Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > It was a stupid thread, but not our stupidest. It got locked because it irritated twickster. I don’t see how a thread can get any stupider, so why don’t we say there are many threads tied for first. Too many. Way too many. I hope twickster stays irritated and gets even more irritated, and the more lock bombs he drops the better. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/29 "2012-12-10T02:22:01Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > This is not a junior high locker room. > [@colonial](#): > > I agree with you that the OP thread in question is as JHS it gets. It has no redeeming > comic or intellectual content. I think the OP insulted junior-high locker rooms everywhere. And I say that as a fan of stupid and pointless threads. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/30 "2012-12-10T03:29:18Z")
> [@RyJae](#): > > Could it instead have to do with your location? :dubious: Onanism has no place in our nation’s capital, and it makes me angry when people insinuate otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/31 "2012-12-10T03:54:13Z")
> [@colonial](#): > > I hope twickster stays irritated and gets even more > irritated, and the more lock bombs he drops the better. **twicks** is a gal. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/32 "2012-12-10T04:00:28Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > (snip) > I also didn’t think it was particularly funny. The OP asked me in a PM if humor was allowed – I discerned no humor in the way the OP was written. > (snip) Now, this I agree with. If humor was the intent, then Houston, we have a problem. But I think the general question is exactly the type of question that people may not want to ask anywhere else–because it IS so tasteless…but should be able to ask on the SDMB. > [@Musicat](#): > > How about if it asked, “What kind of vibrator does the Queen use in her vagina?” It’s possible I’m totally losing it, but I also find this to be an interesting question! Now I, as an American gal with a credit card, can mail order all the vibrators I want and no one gives a shit and it won’t end up on the cover of The National Enquirer, cause as I said no one gives a shit. But how & where the fuck does the Queen of England get her gadgets? Enquiring minds want to know… ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/33 "2012-12-10T04:33:14Z")
I am not an Obama fan but that thread sucked, offensive content for the sake of nothing but stupid. Good call, Twickster. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/34 "2012-12-10T05:13:33Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#): > > I am not an Obama fan but that thread sucked, offensive content for the sake of nothing but stupid. Good call, Twickster. Yeah, it was mindless and pointless. If only we had a forum for such threads. But how so offensive? That is, how so offensive relative to dozens of other threads about mindless and pointless sexual subjects. The only distinction I can see is that it referenced Obama. BFD. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/35 "2012-12-10T05:17:59Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Yeah, it was mindless and pointless. If only we had a forum for such threads. [And if only they had bothered to make a rule about posts getting _too_ mindless and/or pointless.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9505194&postcount=4) ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/36 "2012-12-10T05:25:37Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [And if only they had bothered to make a rule about posts getting _too_ mindless and/or pointless.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9505194&postcount=4) [How much more than a single link can pointless possibly be?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=674889) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/37 "2012-12-10T13:57:31Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [And if only they had bothered to make a rule about posts getting _too_ mindless and/or pointless.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9505194&postcount=4) If only there was a part of that rule that shouldn’t be ignored: > [@](#): > > We will, however, be as consistent as possible… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/38 "2012-12-10T18:17:36Z")
I didn’t find it offensive – just stupid. Like being offensive just for the sake of being offensive. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/39 "2012-12-10T18:40:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [And if only they had bothered to make a rule about posts getting _too_ mindless and/or pointless.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9505194&postcount=4) It’s a stupid rule and it should have been up to the community to decide if task’s thread was worthwhile, not ravenman and twickster. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511/40 "2012-12-10T19:19:10Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > It’s a stupid rule and it should have been up to the community to decide if task’s thread was worthwhile, not ravenman and twickster. Stupid idea of yours. I have seen plenty of thread titles so disgusting I would not want to look at them at all, much less for the length of time it would take to take some kind of poll. Not only that, but this place is so full of JHS+moonbeamer/libertarian types that it might be no thread was ever locked if it were up to a poll. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-frivolous-silly-stupid-threads/643511.md?page=3)