# YIKES!  When To Renew?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-when-to-renew/444868>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 11, 2008, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-when-to-renew/444868 "2008-04-11T10:54:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-when-to-renew/444868/61 "2008-05-01T20:32:52Z")

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Your personal criticisms don’t belong in this forum, **CarnalK**. If your goal is to simply whine about how other people post, either keep it confined to the Pit or, better yet, learn to apply a little self-control and don’t bother saying anything at all.

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**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-when-to-renew/444868/62 "2008-05-01T20:42:27Z")

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[QUOTE=Billdo]  
I’d send you mine, but if I went into the back of my closet, I’m afraid the jumble of tote bags would attack and hold me hostage.  
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Actually I wasn’t being serious. In any case, i bet that my cellarful of tote bags could beat your closetful in a fight.

[QUOTE=CarnalK]  
Is a little self control on the “submit reply” button too much to ask?  
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Since the original question has long ago been answered, I thought I would exercise the lack of self-control that my $7.48 entitles me to exercise. Just my 748 cents worth, as it were.

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**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-when-to-renew/444868/63 "2008-05-02T00:32:05Z")

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[QUOTE=SkipMagic]  
Your personal criticisms don’t belong in this forum, **CarnalK**. If your goal is to simply whine about how other people post, either keep it confined to the Pit or, better yet, learn to apply a little self-control and don’t bother saying anything at all.  
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It wasn’t really “personal”, I’m just saying this is ATMB not MPSIMS and I don’t think everything should be turned into a joke thread. Besides, what difference does it make? Any criticism like I just made usually brings another string of jokes, so EVERYONE is happy.

And misusing the word “whine” to make your “note” into a personal insult doesn’t exactly keep you on that high horse neither.

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**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-when-to-renew/444868/64 "2008-05-02T01:41:09Z")

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It’s not a misuse when it’s applied correctly, as it was in this case.

Your opinion on whether the other posts are stupid, and your admonition for others to excercise some self-control were inappropriate for this forum. This is the [post=9730059]second time[/post] lately you’ve been instructed to keep your crap out of ATMB and confined to the Pit. I wouldn’t recommend a third time.

Further comment on this matter can be made in the Pit.

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