What Kinds of Threads on A2K Do You Avoid?

No, it's the full story.

I used to use links, but I found them too frusterating. Due to the types of stories, the links aren't around very long and then they're dead.

Sometimes I'm braindead and I don't have anything useful or humorous to add, but I think the story has "legs" and others will have fun with it.

Not all of us are clever enough to come up with cute stories or ideas. It's a curse.

I avoid all political threads and anything to do with religion. Although I'm sure there are exceptions, people have an opinion coming in and the same opinion going out. People just argue.

There are some posters I avoid and some topics that don't interest me. There are some forums that I'm more likely to go to than others (general, English, pets, TV, and movies are where I'm likely to show up). I read other forums, but I rarely have anything to contribute.

When I have a question, I post it where it's appropriate. So far I haven't been disappointed in any of the answers I've gotten. That's, IMO, amazing! Thanks to all the answerers.

I lose patience with people who don't write in something a least approaching standard English. I'm not looking for perfect writing, just writing that's written in words. So I might enter a thread, find a lot of that stuff, and leave.

I rarely if ever open a link that will take me somewhere outside a2k. My computer is slow; don't have patience (or time) to wait for some of these things to open.

I read a lot of reyn threads. Where you find that stuff, reyn, I dunno. Artful pointing out, though. Funnier than anything I could come up with, that's for damn sure.

Avoiding, these days: politics, news, religion -- pretty much anything but frivolity and science.

No, i just looks normal.

I avoid any thread that I have started.

I'm with JLNobody on his dislike for nested discussion.

If I open a page and it's full of nests ... pffffffft

I know it's a Brave New World and all that, but it's just not normal to have a discussion like that.



or maybe it's normal and I just don't like it <shrug>

in any case, I'm not going to bother to read a pile o nests

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I'll admit to being a Heeven-stalker. If I can see that Heeven's posted on any topic, I'll follow her there. Most likely not post anything because she's said everything I could have thought of on a given topic.

I heart that emu.

I avoid any threads that Dys started.

I avoid threads that the gobshite Setanta starts . . .



. . . oh . . . wait a minute . . .

I stay away from threads that are too contentious. Now that Frank Apiso has gone none of the contentious threads are sufficiently interesting to warrant my time. I always read the funny threads, like those of Gus and Dys, the informative ones, like those of Setanta and Asherman, and the philosophical ones, like those of Fresco and Cyracuz.

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/woolf/section4.html

In the movie, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", Taylor and Burton are "entertaining" a young couple, played by Sandy Dennis and George Segal. As the night goes on, and the protagonists become more and more drunk, the entire point of what they are doing appears to be simply tearing each other down, emotionally. I think that the reason that I mentioned this quote, is because I think that the phrase has crept into my personal vernacular.

Thanks, Phoenix... that does have resonance here.

Funny you should say that, JLN. Frank Apisa just posted his most contentious thread ever:Ipod versus MP3

<can tolerate the green. dislike the bold. thank gawd for the greasemonkey>

I've played "Martha" in two readings of WAVW and agree with Phoenix.

"Hump" is clean-talk for the f-word.

I think we all knew that, Noddy!

good taste is timeless.

I avoid threads about A2K. like: "what kind of threads do you like?" or "what kind...

wait.

nevermind.

I absolutely never look into any thread started by a bewitching Slovak Seductress . . .

Dagmaraka, are you
a) bewitching
b) slovakian
c) a seductress
d) all of the above?

d), of course. except i like the adjective 'Slovak'. Slovakian sounds so...dunno....potato-like to me. Can't explain it really. Not that there's anything wrong with potatoes, either. Oh just ignore me, i'm severly hungover today.