# Why look it up if we can bother other folks? (mild, lame) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 10, 2007, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448 "2007-06-10T10:07:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/1 "2007-06-10T10:07:40Z")
I don’t want to derail the [original thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=424290), and I want to call people names, so to the pit it goes. [QUOTE=Captain\_C] If we all used Google whenever we had a question, this message board would be a lonely place. [/quote] NO, you felched piece of bumfluff, this board would actually be a _better_ place if you quit asking inane questions and put in some effort yourself. > [@](#): > > What the heck IS nougat, anyway? What’s it made out of? Does ANYONE on this board NOT have an idea how to find this answer? Anyone? Open a separate browser window, Google two words, and read. We’ve got the web’s most awesome brains plugged into this site (I wouldn’t dream claiming I’m one of them) and their time is better spent answering [more worthwhile topics](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=423972). Thank you, carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/2 "2007-06-10T10:41:20Z")
I have never understood why people get their panties all wadded up over this. I can’t tell you how many interesting questions have been answered here that I wouldn’t have thought to ask. Sure, the person could have googled the answer. But this is partly a social board. Asking here allows people to comment beyond just an answer. It also means that others who - as I mentioned - wouldn’t have thought to ask the question, get to see the question and the answers. If it is a bother, \*why \*bother? Seriously, life is too short to be angry all the time, especially about little things. If you don’t want to answer, no one will even notice you didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/3 "2007-06-10T10:47:08Z")
What’s a “google” ? ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/4 "2007-06-10T10:55:41Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] I have never understood why people get their panties all wadded up over this. I can’t tell you how many interesting questions have been answered here that I wouldn’t have thought to ask. Sure, the person could have googled the answer. But this is partly a social board. Asking here allows people to comment beyond just an answer. It also means that others who - as I mentioned - wouldn’t have thought to ask the question, get to see the question and the answers. If it is a bother, \*why \*bother? Seriously, life is too short to be angry all the time, especially about little things. If you don’t want to answer, no one will even notice you didn’t. [/QUOTE] What he said. Sure i could look up the answer quickly enough myself, but I enjoy seeing questions I would have never thought to ask. Hey, what _is_ nougat anyways? I never would have thought about that. Not particularly interesting, but it’s definately not destroying the board. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Mood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@Blue\_Mood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Mood)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/5 "2007-06-10T11:09:31Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] What’s a “google” ? [/QUOTE] It’s a really big number. I’m not sure how it helps answer questions though. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/6 "2007-06-10T12:14:21Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000] What he said. Sure i could look up the answer quickly enough myself, but I enjoy seeing questions I would have never thought to ask. Hey, what _is_ nougat anyways? I never would have thought about that. Not particularly interesting, but it’s definately not destroying the board. [/QUOTE] Fuckin’ A. I learned something new today. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/7 "2007-06-10T13:44:09Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] What’s a “google” ? [/QUOTE] 10 to the 100th power. A googleplex is 10 to the google’th power. (Yes, I know you were almost certainly being facetious 😃 ). And yes, you can look that up too, but I do grant that disentangling the math google from the corporate google is a little messy 😉 ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/8 "2007-06-10T14:01:43Z")
By the way what the heck IS nougat, anyway? What’s it made out of? ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/9 "2007-06-10T14:21:30Z")
It’s “googol”, people. Google is a website. Googol is a number. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/10 "2007-06-10T14:29:12Z")
Sometimes your brain just doesn’t want to function right and you can’t figure out how to Google the question you want answered. If I had remembered the term ‘holographic will,’ I wouldn’t have asked my question in General Questions. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/11 "2007-06-10T14:42:29Z")
[QUOTE=fachverwirrt] It’s “googol”, people. Google is a website. Googol is a number. [/QUOTE] I thought it was a Russian author. And **MostlyClueless** , you were being a dick in that thread. It may have been an easily researched question–although since there’s more than one kind of confection called nougat, it’s not as simple as all that–but it wasn’t a “stupid” question. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/12 "2007-06-10T15:27:31Z")
This sort of thing happens all the time on email lists I’m on. It’s not that I mind answering questions. I mind seeing the same freakin’ question 50 zillion times, and frequently the answer has been given about 2 emails earlier in a thread. Stupid people don’t even READ their email lists, just expect info to be handed to them on a platter. It really does piss me off. I suspect I’ve probably just been on too many email lists for too long. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/13 "2007-06-10T15:39:33Z")
[QUOTE=Archergal] This sort of thing happens all the time on email lists I’m on. It’s not that I mind answering questions. I mind seeing the same freakin’ question 50 zillion times, and frequently the answer has been given about 2 emails earlier in a thread. Stupid people don’t even READ their email lists, just expect info to be handed to them on a platter. It really does piss me off. I suspect I’ve probably just been on too many email lists for too long. [/QUOTE] I think this is a different situation altogether. I don’t recall this being the 50th time someone asked what nougat was. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/14 "2007-06-10T15:41:34Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] I thought it was a Russian author. [/QUOTE] I got this joke. I am so urbane. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/15 "2007-06-10T15:58:01Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] What’s a “google” ? [/QUOTE] The correct question is, “Who’s a google?”. Barney Google. BTW, he has googley eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/16 "2007-06-10T16:37:38Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] The correct question is, “Who’s a google?”. Barney Google. BTW, he has googley eyes. [/QUOTE] I got this joke. I am so unhip. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/17 "2007-06-10T16:41:38Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] I got this joke. I am so unhip. [/QUOTE] You think that’s bad? I got this joke and can sing the song. Shoot me. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/18 "2007-06-10T16:56:12Z")
I thought this thread was going to be about people who pester you constantly to help them do stuff at school or at work instead of thinking for a second about it themselves, or maybe trying a few things before screeching your name to come spoon feed them. I think I have the word “TEACHER” tattooed on my forehead in ink that only whiny lazy-asses can see. And no, I don’t just help them endlessly; I’ll help once or twice, because we all need a hand once or twice in school or at work, and after that, I tell them to piss off (politely). I guess people like the OP of the pitted thread are like that. I personally prefer to find things myself because I learn more that way, but some people think learning about things always means asking somebody else. I don’t like those people much. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/19 "2007-06-10T16:59:44Z")
[QUOTE=jsgoddess] You think that’s bad? I got this joke and can sing the song. Shoot me. [/QUOTE] Are you off your nut, canary? You’re the cat’s pajamas! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448/20 "2007-06-10T17:01:46Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] I thought it was a Russian author. [/QUOTE] No, that’s [Gogol](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogol). Finding him was like a game show: _Googling for Gogol!_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-look-it-up-if-we-can-bother-other-folks-mild-lame/407448.md?page=2)