# Yahoo news forums on the new species discovery **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 9, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649 "2006-02-09T03:34:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649/1 "2006-02-09T03:34:22Z")
There are, we know, many stupid people on the earth. Some are so stupid that they are quaintly hilarious. A large number of them congregate on internet messageboards. My friends over at Portal of Evil have provided me, however, with a motherload of amazing idiocy. I won’t link to it directly, but if you ever feel like the Straight Dope is too uncivil or too lowbrow, you can always check out the Yahoo news forums. Here are some of the best highlights first picked out and commented on by POE: The skeptics: > [@](#): > > If they had cameras capturing these creatures, why did they provide an artist’s rendition as an illustration? Why not show us the photographs? Are the pictures all fuzzy like those of bigfoot? **Would showing a photo like that threaten the credibility of their report?** The right wing journalism critics: > [@](#): > > Re: New Species? > It’s a new discovery of the existence of an old species. > > **The idiot couldn’t write. No wonder he’s with journalism.** The above statement: pure poetry? Or just too good to be true? The topical, restrained critics of Islam > [@](#): > > +++STRANGE THAT THE RAGHEADS ALLOWED THEM TO EXPLORE THE REGION… The standard creationist reasonings: > [@](#): > > anti GOD more darwin lies/trash > > **yea man we just happened to trip over these multi million old animals.** > bs earth is only 6000+yrs old The pro-science crowd: > [@](#): > > THANK GOD THESE SCIENTISTS DO THIS INSTEAD OF FINDING A CURE FOR CANCER OR SOMETHING LAME LIKE THAT The budding conservationists: > [@](#): > > But they said “species are becoming extinct at an alarming rate!”. So why aren’t all these new finds dead? The slightly preoccupied with Bush: > [@](#): > > BUSH: DRILL FOR OIL IN “LOST WORLD”! > > then wiretap all the phone calls coming to and from lost world. invade lost world. search for wmd’s in lost world. get into unwinnable war with lost world insurgents. ask congress for 147 billion dollars to fight lost world war. support democratic elections that install an islamic-fascist government in lost world. fail to find osama bin laden in lost world. cut social security benefits in lost world. And finally, the sadly realistic: > [@](#): > > TED NUGENT WILL HUNT THERE THIS SUMMER And so on. Warms the heart. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649/2 "2006-02-09T03:46:10Z")
**Apos** , why do you do that to yourself?, it´s masochism to hang around places like that looking for anything remotely resembling the Standards of the Dope. Those snippets felt like being stoned (biblical variety) by idiocy to death. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649/3 "2006-02-09T04:09:07Z")
> [@Webster's](#): > > Yahoo \Ya"hoo, n. > > 1. One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift’s ``Gulliver’s > Travels.’’ See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in > Fiction. > > 2. Hence, any brutish or vicious character. > > 3. A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn. [U. S.] That sounds about right. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649/4 "2006-02-09T04:12:03Z")
Hey, the earth is only 6000+ years old. Just how much plus… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649/5 "2006-02-09T05:23:27Z")
We used to play a little something we called _The Yahoo News Ignoramous-Free Discussion Hunt_. It’s go a little something like this: 1. Click on any Yahoo news story. 2. Click on the “Discuss” link at the end. 3. Verify that there are a minimum of 20 comments posted. 4. See if there are _no_ posts in the thread that would get a poster warned/banned if they were to spew their shit on the SDMB. The game is next to impossible to play, however. It winds up being too damn depressing. If you ever find yourself feeling good about humanity, just spend a few minutes there. It’s an eye-opening reminder of what kind of pathetic scumbags are out there happily tossing out their hate-filled ideas. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649/6 "2006-02-09T06:02:34Z")
You know, don’t you, that if the Dope were a physical place and the Yahoos ever decided to take over, we’d be so outnumbered (and, no doubt, outgunned) that they’d be drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon out of our skulls inside of three hours. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649/7 "2006-02-09T06:58:54Z")
Sure. But there’s dumb, and then there’s just fantasically ARTFUL dumb. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649/8 "2006-02-09T10:17:24Z")
> [@Apos](#): > > The skeptics: _“If they had cameras capturing these creatures, why did they provide an artist’s rendition as an illustration? Why not show us the photographs? Are the pictures all fuzzy like those of bigfoot? Would showing a photo like that threaten the credibility of their report?”_ A former GQ [guest](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4466474&postcount=3) > [@](#): > > The right wing journalism critics: _“The idiot couldn’t write. No wonder he’s with journalism.”_ They discuss journalism, we discuss [embacies](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=357684) > [@](#): > > The topical, restrained critics of Islam: _“STRANGE THAT THE RAGHEADS ALLOWED THEM TO EXPLORE THE REGION”_ Raghead, [towelhead](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=286423) - it’s pretty much the same. > [@](#): > > The standard creationist reasonings: _“bs earth is only 6000+yrs old”_ Thank goodness creationism is never even mentioned in [Great Debates](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6575404&postcount=130) > [@](#): > > The pro-science crowd: _“THANK GOD THESE SCIENTISTS DO THIS INSTEAD OF FINDING A CURE FOR CANCER OR SOMETHING LAME LIKE THAT”_ Well, an old troll might presume cancer still exists because [there’s too much money at stake.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=1192120&postcount=1) > [@](#): > > The budding conservationists: _“they said “species are becoming extinct at an alarming rate!”. So why aren’t all these new finds dead?”_ It wouldn’t matter if we got the ball rolling on the [Blue Galaxy Project](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3714814&postcount=20) > [@](#): > > The slightly preoccupied with Bush: _"BUSH: DRILL FOR OIL IN “LOST WORLD! then wiretap all the phone calls coming to and from lost world. invade lost world. search for wmd’s in lost world. get into unwinnable war with lost world insurgents. ask congress for 147 billion dollars to fight lost world war. support democratic elections that install an islamic-fascist government in lost world. fail to find osama bin laden in lost world. cut social security benefits in lost world”_ As opposed to the wittier satire we often read about the current administration here. > [@](#): > > And finally, the sadly realistic: _“TED NUGENT WILL HUNT THERE THIS SUMMER”_ Let’s hope the Motor City Madman hasn’t acquired a taste for [dog meat](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5904125) > [@](#): > > if you ever feel like the Straight Dope is too uncivil or too lowbrow, you can always check out the Yahoo news forums. I didn’t know Yahoo even had a news forum and won’t dispute the PALATRbility of its members. Finding the lowest common denominator on the internet would probably take an entire staff of researchers a number of decades to uncover. Drawing comparisons with the SDMB to lesser quantities is counter-productive. After reading (and posting some of) the hundreds of turds dropped here on a weekly basis, the last thing in the world anyone should want to do is give dopers a ‘superiority complex’. Is the SDMB one of the quality internet forums out there? _I guess so_. Could it be better? _I assume so_. Will it improve if we use those POE highlights as a barometer? _I don’t think so_. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649/9 "2006-02-09T11:57:55Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > I didn’t know Yahoo even had a news forum and won’t dispute the PALATRbility of its members. Finding the lowest common denominator on the internet would probably take an entire staff of researchers a number of decades to uncover. Drawing comparisons with the SDMB to lesser quantities is counter-productive. After reading (and posting some of) the hundreds of turds dropped here on a weekly basis, the last thing in the world anyone should want to do is give dopers a ‘superiority complex’. Is the SDMB one of the quality internet forums out there? _I guess so_. Could it be better? _I assume so_. Will it improve if we use those POE highlights as a barometer? _I don’t think so_. Well, yes, but the exibition in the OP came from a single thread, that´s a large ratio of stupidity per thread that I don´t think could be easily found on the SDMB. In my experience the SDMB is much better for resoned discurse that any other forum I´ve seen, where usually ignorance runs rampant (“I don´t know anything about the subject but I have an unshakable opinion on the matter”). ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649/10 "2006-02-09T15:04:07Z")
> [@](#): > > TED NUGENT WILL HUNT THERE THIS SUMMER Oh, come on. That one’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649/11 "2006-02-09T15:17:59Z")
The anti-environmentalist side: You know, if “species are becoming extinct at an alarming rate”, and we now add these new species to the total, that should get the tree-huggers off our backs for a few years. Just doin’ my part. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pope\_Bob\_The\_Pious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@Pope\_Bob\_The\_Pious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pope_Bob_The_Pious)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649/12 "2006-02-09T17:04:11Z")
All this talk of new species, and not one mention of how they taste? That is rather poor journalism. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649/13 "2006-02-10T01:25:43Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > Finding the lowest common denominator on the internet would probably take an entire staff of researchers a number of decades to uncover. [These guys](http://www.somethingawful.com/) do a pretty good job. Check out the [Weekend Web](http://www.somethingawful.com/weekendweb/) if you’re feeling hopeful about humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-news-forums-on-the-new-species-discovery/343649/14 "2006-02-10T01:55:07Z")
So, what was the new species they found?