# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/121 "2015-05-01T23:52:42Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Jesus’ bones! You ask for a clarification here, and “I don’t haveta.” > > Can someone else, please, help me understand what a meme is, if Dawkins’ definition has changed? > > (I’m still sad at the change in the word “hacking,” from just “doing computer stuff in a somewhat obsessive fashion” to “breaking and entering computer systems.” I used to be a hacker, but I’m not one anymore!) If it helps you feel better, I share your confusion on the multi-meaning (and thus, no meaning) of _hack_ and _meme_ – and others bandied about as if they meant something specific. I’ve probably mentioned it before, but there was a guy I used to work with whose vocabulary was such that when he was at a loss for a specific word he would just use _thing_ as the arbitrary noun and _take_ as the verb in question. It was all the more opaque when he would “take and thing” something – or someone. I feel that way about _hack_ and _meme_ and so many other nonce words and phrases. But it’s easy enough just to say _fuck it!_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/122 "2015-05-02T05:01:19Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Jesus’ bones! You ask for a clarification here, and “I don’t haveta.” > > Can someone else, please, help me understand what a meme is, if Dawkins’ definition has changed? Dude- you are hijacking this thread to debate the meaning of the word meme. \* I’d rather not participate in your little hijack.\* Start another thread if you must. Thanks. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2015, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/123 "2015-05-02T06:03:27Z")
> [@phreesh](#): > > However, free world and all that. Yup. The poster in question is free to keep his habit, and I’m free to never read a single one of his posts. Who comes off the worse for it? I’ll let him decide. Maybe he doesn’t give a damn whether I read his posts. Maybe it’s like Tarkovsky putting that boring part in at the beginning of _Solaris_, so that all the jerks who don’t have any patience will leave the theater before the good part starts. Maybe all those posts are _fantastic_. Who knows? I do notice one thing, though: A lot of the people who like \*Solaris \*will say that the boring bit at the beginning is their favorite part, while having no appreciation for the good stuff later. And a lot of the sort of people who would really dig the later bit have never seen the whole movie, because they bail during the boring first bit. So just maybe Tarkovsky shouldn’t have done that. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2015, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/124 "2015-05-02T06:19:06Z")
(BTW, I’m not trying to be an asshole to Mr. S. I don’t dislike him as a person. I don’t even know the guy, and with me never reading his posts, that is presumably how things will stay. Speaking for myself, if I’m doing something that really annoys a lot of you, I certainly want to hear about it. In fact, feel free to tell me in this thread or elsewhere. I’m sure there’s something. I have a few theories myself. Too many typos, generally sounding a lot grumpier than I’m aware of… things like that. I do try to write posts that are fun, informative and non-annoying. Sure, I fail spectacularly a lot of the time. But it’s not on purpose. So, have at it. No holds barred.) ---
**Author:** ![Astraea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Astraea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astraea)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/125 "2015-05-02T18:36:04Z")
All the friggin’ acronyms used here, and most aren’t immediately easy to figure out: WAG, AFAIK, etc. It was extremely off putting when I first joined and started lurking. Never ceases to amaze me that some of the same people who complain in a thread that kids these days use too much text speak are the same ones who have no problem tossing around the above nonsense acronyms like so much alphabet soup! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/126 "2015-05-02T18:58:44Z")
As Chaucer is, shall Dryden be. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/127 "2015-05-02T20:42:21Z")
> [@Astraea](#): > > All the friggin’ acronyms used here, and most aren’t immediately easy to figure out: WAG, AFAIK, etc. It was extremely off putting when I first joined and started lurking. Never ceases to amaze me that some of the same people who complain in a thread that kids these days use too much text speak are the same ones who have no problem tossing around the above nonsense acronyms like so much alphabet soup! Altho you make a excellent point, I need to point out that most of those are used across the internet as a whole, not just this board. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802/128 "2015-05-02T20:56:02Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Dude- you are hijacking this thread to debate the meaning of the word meme. \* I’d rather not participate in your little hijack.\* Start another thread if you must. Thanks. Ahem… The question of whether the poll choices were true memes arose in post #3. So you have already been participating in the clarification/hijack. just sayin’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-of-these-board-memes-annoys-you-the-most/718802.md?page=6)