# Which one of these board memes annoys you the most? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 29, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802 "2015-04-29T12:54:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/41 "2015-04-29T21:07:35Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Could someone please tell me what “Shakes” means? It’s what one does to a Polaroid picture. Or, it’s wood shingles. Also the OP of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/42 "2015-04-29T21:09:27Z")
I can’t vote for the above, the meme that annoys me most is the stupid jokes about zombie threads. They aren’t funny and are quite asinine actually making the poster look like an dope instead of a doper. ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/43 "2015-04-29T21:17:40Z")
Need Answer Fast. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/44 "2015-04-29T21:39:07Z")
I voted for “Regards, …”. I read posts as verbal conversation, not as written essays, or personal letters. If anyone were to use “Regards, …” at the end of every spoken utterance, they would soon be shunned by society and live out their life on a remote outcropping wearing only animal furs and hay. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/45 "2015-04-29T22:27:36Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > . . . Also the OP of this thread. Irony, then, that I am too dense to perceive? “Which of these is most threatening: Pollution War Cancer My Aunt Hildegard’s cocoanut biscuits.” Something like that? ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/46 "2015-04-29T22:28:13Z")
Hey, I like “cow-orkers”! Used it myself this week. You don’t see it as much any more. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/47 "2015-04-30T00:51:37Z")
Cow-orkers makes me stabby. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/48 "2015-04-30T03:17:11Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I guess the word “stabby” isn’t quite a meme. I was thinking of the word “sammich” myself. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/49 "2015-04-30T06:09:20Z")
Expressing annoyance at innocent idiosyncrasies annoys me the most. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/50 "2015-04-30T06:29:23Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I can’t vote for the above, the meme that annoys me most is the stupid jokes about zombie threads. They aren’t funny and are quite asinine actually making the poster look like an dope instead of a doper. Eh, its often useful to point out that a thread is old before a bunch more people post on the mistaken assumption that its recent. But just saying that is kind of boring, so people make a zombie joke to indicate the same thing. It’s not exactly great comedy, but unlike most memes, it at least actually communicates something useful. Its hardly unique to this Board, but I always get kind of annoyed by the “[hated installment of a popular movie franchise] doesn’t exist” meme. I’m not really sure why, actually. I guess maybe because doing it is so knee-jerk for some people when they’re particular hated movie (or book or whatever) comes up. And I still think the Quarry thing is funny. (and yea, the other things on the poll aren’t memes, which is itself kind of annoying) ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/51 "2015-04-30T06:35:31Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > “Let’s go down to the quarry” is closest to a meme, but really it’s the meme equivalent of a failed bioterrorist attack, as if a dude in the subway keeps spritzing people in the face with an inert virus. Everytime I see the quarry line, all I can think of is [Mean Girls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pubd-spHN-0). Which, I mean, is pretty great because I get to think of Mean Girls, Certified Great Movie™. ---
**Author:** ![Apollon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@Apollon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollon)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/52 "2015-04-30T11:46:59Z")
That “Regards …” schtick doesn’t as much annoy me, as it makes me think less of whoever puts it at the end of his message. It may be confirmation bias, but after 18 years of surfing the internet, I have found that undersigned forum posts are not worth reading. Their authors fall into the same category of those who refer to themselves in the third person, and those who preface their opinions with “I personally believe”. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/53 "2015-04-30T13:15:28Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Maybe that’s why she didn’t go on a date with you… > > 😛 You win the Golden Sombrero! Did not even notice that typo 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/54 "2015-04-30T13:17:08Z")
> [@Apollon](#): > > That “Regards …” schtick doesn’t as much annoy me, as it makes me think less of whoever puts it at the end of his message. It may be confirmation bias, but after 18 years of surfing the internet, I have found that undersigned forum posts are not worth reading. Their authors fall into the same category of those who refer to themselves in the third person, and those who preface their opinions with “I personally believe”. Your entitled to your opinion, of course, especially in the IMHO forum, but the word “regards” is used as a general closing in all kinds of personal letters, and business letters, to express good wishes, even if the body of the letter isn’t complimentary or is a complaint. Except for the politically-correct, word-police, who are annoyed at the, dare-I-say-it, free speech of others, there really isn’t a good reason to ban it’s use, or demand it not be used. IMHO, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/55 "2015-04-30T13:32:49Z")
> [@Apollon](#): > > That “Regards …” schtick doesn’t as much annoy me, as it makes me think less of whoever puts it at the end of his message. It may be confirmation bias, but after 18 years of surfing the internet, I have found that undersigned forum posts are not worth reading. Their authors fall into the same category of those who refer to themselves in the third person, and those who preface their opinions with “I personally believe”. It wouldn’t be annoying if I didn’t trip over the damned thing at the bottom of every f… post by that particular poster. It doesn’t make me think less of the poster as such, but it is like having a conversation with someone who pokes me in the eye at end of every sentence. After a while I stop paying attention to whatever it is that they’re saying, because I’m too busy bracing myself. And then I overcome my desire to slap them, and leave the room. They may be the most brilliant, funny and wonderful people in the world, but I will never know. I don’t mind the first two in the poll at all, since they’re not there in _every f…_ oh, I think I’ve made my point. I mean, at least put it in the signature field, would ya? I suppose that we all have some annoying habits, though. Just today, I had someone sarcastically point out to me (or, well, it was in a YouTube video, but whatever) that if you put “arguably” in front of a sentence, it becomes true. And I realized that yeah, I do that. So now I’ll stop doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/56 "2015-04-30T14:46:41Z")
Ok, let’s clarify something about memes. The word was coined by one Richard Dawkins, and the [definition of a meme](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme), from the horse’s mouth, is that it is a packet of cultural information that behaves in an analogous way to genes in DNA, experiencing analogous pressures of “variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance” as genes do, each of which has an effect on the “reproductive success” of the meme. A meme is not just a popular idea, catch-phrase, or some stupid picture of a demented cat with a semi-witty caption (those are indeed all memes.) An unpopular idea is also a meme, just as you would not say that an unsuccessful gene is somehow not a gene due to its lack of success. One then realizes that memes, just like genes, can be shitty, like junk DNA. They can be poorly adapted to spread successfully. They can be impoverished little bundles of uselessness, not long for this world. Their lack of success does not alter their status as memes. Also something that does _not_ determine what a meme is or isn’t: whether it irritates certain people. What _does_ determine the success of meme: whether people do things like talk about it. Complaining, in other words, helps to propagate the meme. Please proceed with your regularly scheduled complaining. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/57 "2015-04-30T14:54:57Z")
So does that mean that the common misunderstanding of what a meme is, is a meme? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/58 "2015-04-30T14:57:24Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Your entitled to your opinion, of course, especially in the IMHO forum, but the word “regards” is used as a general closing in all kinds of personal letters, and business letters, to express good wishes […] This isn’t about the specific word. Why would you think that? The poster in question could put “Screw you all, you toad-faced bunch of snotsuckers” at the bottom of every post, and it would still be annoying. Well, less annoying. But still annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/59 "2015-04-30T15:08:01Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Honestly mine is the annoying substitute of Og for God. > > I understand the premise of it, you don’t believe in God so you don’t want to invoke his name, but to me it’s just a way of saying “Look at me! I don’t believe in conventional beliefs! I’m so much better than you!” That is so totally not the premise of it. We’re not always that advanced in our thinking around here. From the official [SDMB Glossary of Terms](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320298): > [@](#): > > **Og** > > Variants include Og smash! and similar – One of the SDMB board deities. Og first surfaced as the result of a typo, from a former board contributor who misspelled the word “of” and typed “Jesus is the Son og God.” Hilarity ensued. Someone made a typo, someone else thought it was funny (rightly or wrongly, probably wrongly). That’s all there is to it. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/60 "2015-04-30T15:45:03Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > This isn’t about the specific word. Why would you think that? The poster in question could put “Screw you all, you toad-faced bunch of snotsuckers” at the bottom of every post, and it would still be annoying. > > Well, less annoying. But still annoying. Why would I think that? Seriously? The first reason would be because the word “regards” was specifically mentioned in the poll. The second would be numerous thread responses specifically referring to the word “regards”, and it’s use. _The Moderator Speaks: 9.18% Let’s go down to the quarry and throw stuff in there! 38.78% **Regards** , S----- (Finish the name yourself) 34.69% Shakes annoys me the most. 17.35%_ I think it’s interesting that the 64 members (65.31%) who bothered to vote on this poll voted for something other than _Regards, S----- (Finish the name yourself)_ as the most annoying meme. Apparently, the use of the word “regards”, and it use, doesn’t seem to be much of a priority to the majority of posters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802.md?page=4)