# What types of threads on the Dope make your jaw drop? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 11, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626 "2008-06-11T22:06:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/41 "2008-06-12T18:54:38Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] There were several threads before the 2004 elections suggesting, AFAICT in entire seriousness, that Bush was going to cancel the elections and rule as a dictator. And from otherwise serious Dopers. [/QUOTE] Seriously! I am not a fan of Bush (err, the President, I enjoy the band and most other kinds of bush), but the idea that he was going to plant his flag in the sand on Election Day and turn the world into Bush Country was just idiotic. I was told in all seriousness that Bush was going to singlehandedly strike down Roe v Wade. I mean, how paranoid can you be? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Thalia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba8739/32.png) [@Northern\_Thalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Thalia)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/42 "2008-06-12T19:22:29Z")
I also find some advice to be extreme. “Your boyfriend won’t leave the toilet seat down for you?? Run. Run now. Consider yourself lucky that you aren’t stuck dealing with his horrendous behaviour for the rest of your life. Consider yourself lucky that you found out so soon what an unthoughtful loser he is. Run, don’t walk.” Granted, there are certain circumstances when that is sound advice, but sometimes people are too quick to dole it out, especially considering they’ve read about only one aspect of the situation. ETA: Learning to write sentences still. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/43 "2008-06-12T19:36:28Z")
I’m going to have to agree with two previous Canadian posters; it’s the gun threads. I just don’t get it. Oh…and the Pit threads on Fox News; I can’t believe that it actually exists and not just a front for a comedy troupe. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/44 "2008-06-12T19:41:10Z")
There are threads where people display mindsets that are so different than mine as to be almost inconceivable to me. Many of the religious-discussion threads fall into this category, as does the thread now running where people described the point at which they knew that their SO is The One. I simply cannot emotionally grasp what it is to have that kind of faith. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/45 "2008-06-12T22:21:18Z")
Personal hygiene threads. About Dopers, or friends, or coworkers, or whoever. I cannot BELIEVE some people can be so disgusting and uncouth. Or threads where people justify their right to be assholes, and then act as if the rest of us should be offended. ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Dubinsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/46 "2008-06-12T23:12:15Z")
[QUOTE=ErinPuff] Threads about transsexuality. I’m always amazed by how many people are completely insensitive about the issue. [/QUOTE] Threads about transsexuality. I’m always amazed by how many people will kill you to defend it as an inaliable right. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/47 "2008-06-12T23:25:51Z")
Threads where people post how they’re shocked, SHOCKED to learn that other people have the _nerve_ to think or act differently than they do. Oh, look, here’s one now. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/48 "2008-06-12T23:50:10Z")
I skip threads about booger, zits and poo. Don’t care to read on those topics. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/49 "2008-06-12T23:51:13Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Bloody American politics. Does it have to be such a frigging circus? [/QUOTE] Sadly, it was [designed](http://youtube.com/watch?v=X5I2KFENjS8&feature=related) that way. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/50 "2008-06-12T23:55:57Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] Like people who condemn putting catsup on a hot dog, as if it were a crime against humanity. [/QUOTE] It’s Ketchup you fucking heretic! People like you need to be slowly boiled in olive oil and then roasted over an open fire, your bodies should them be cremated, your ashes buried, and salt spread on the ground so that nothing ever grows there again! (😛😛😛😃 for the humor impaired) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/51 "2008-06-13T00:14:54Z")
[QUOTE=Northern Thalia] Inspired by this thread: > **[Girl, 4, shoots herself with grandmother's gun in Sam's Club](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=471275)** > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080610/ap\_on\_re\_us/sam\_s\_club\_child\_shot I’m in favor of legal CCW, but this woman violated several safety rules here. And she is a magistrate?!? I hope the little girl is okay… I’m just curious if there are other Dopers who are baffled by opinions, or find the opinions of others on certain issues to be excessive, or extreme? [/QUOTE] It astounds me that, on a board supposedly dedicated to fighting ignorance, people think that Obama should be President. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/52 "2008-06-13T00:23:25Z")
The Undying love for Obama threads. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/53 "2008-06-13T01:07:12Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] It astounds me that, on a board supposedly dedicated to fighting ignorance, people think that Obama should be President. [/QUOTE] This. I mean, I understand that people may disagree with each other on politics. I understand that political threads can get, shall we say, less than couth. But to move beyond “okay, we differ politically, so let’s talk about how” to “you disagree with me because you are ignorant, not because you have a legitimate difference of opinion” just astounds me. When did people stop wanting to understand each other and stop listening to each other, and start just dismissing each other with unhelpful and condescending labels? Yes, I know, it was when the first two people started interacting with each other at all, but really. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/54 "2008-06-13T01:54:35Z")
The thread where people talked about using bath towels multiple times to rub themselves down, and would only wash them after multiple uses. Kind of gross. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/55 "2008-06-13T01:59:58Z")
[QUOTE=astro] The thread where people talked about using bath towels multiple times to rub themselves down, and would only wash them after multiple uses. Kind of gross. [/QUOTE] Why, were they using them _before_ showering? ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/56 "2008-06-13T02:10:58Z")
I find it jaw dropping how many people on the board are quick to recommend law suits and pressing charges over what would, to me, be very minor events or incidents. Then I remind myself that it’s an anonymous messageboard and most people are a little more keyed up when no one knows who they are than they would be in real life. I hope. ---
**Author:** ![Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Throatwarbler_Mangrove)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/57 "2008-06-13T02:16:12Z")
Threads in which Americans complain about fuel prices. Well, my jaw dropped for a bit but now mostly I just laugh. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/58 "2008-06-13T02:32:01Z")
Ok \*\* astro\*\* you lost me there. You wash your towels after every shower/bath? Is that you mom? ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/59 "2008-06-13T02:45:40Z")
[QUOTE=gravitycrash] Ok \*\* astro\*\* You lost me there. You wash your towels after every shower/bath? Is that you mom? [/QUOTE] Boy I need to go to bed. Preemptive Strike before **Frank** gives me a beat down. I was sure that I was in the pit. I’m sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626/60 "2008-06-13T02:46:49Z")
[QUOTE=gravitycrash] Ok \*\* astro\*\* you lost me there. You wash your towels after every shower/bath? Is that you mom? [/QUOTE] My now super-successful mother did three washer loads a day largely caused by all types of towels that our family used. They were considered single use. Now that I am grown with a family of my own, there is no way that we are doing that. Bathroom towels are used when the person is the most clean that they will be all day. There isn’t much downside to that considering everything else we will be exposed to all day. Our immune systems are in fully functional status and I have never been told that I smell at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-threads-on-the-dope-make-your-jaw-drop/452626.md?page=4)