It doesn’t matter if it’s a thread you started or not.
A few months back, I started a thread entitled For $1,000,000, would you forgo all human contact for one year. I expected most of the responses to be like this one:
That’s certainly how I feel, and I thought I’d be typical. Anyone even willing to consider it, I thought, would surely be looking for loopholes and/or ways to cheat.
I was quite wrong. The first two responses were
and
and much of the thread was people claiming that they would find a year without the company of other Homo sapiens a thing of beauty and joy, and that they’d rather try to extend their time rather than game the system. Not at all what I was expecting.
But that’s just me. What threads have most surprised you, during your time on the Dope?