Forum: The Thunderdome

Not so much taking anyone to the Thunderdome as a minor story about humorous revenge that didn't end in fire and blood. This week the guy sitting next to me at work has been playing a song on continuous loop. Now, I hate repetitious songs,...

Listen you little syphilitic cunt. Ours is a nice neighborhood. In the 16 years I've lived here, this is the second time anyone in the neighbor hood has been tagged. This kind of shit really infuriates me. What does it accomplish? Does it give...

plastered his "cum face" all over Cecil's front page. mated with a manatee on live tv. juggled flaming hedgehogs on America's Got Talent. Come on gang, what have you got for me?

In the issue of the Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official daily, on the International Women's Day they printed an article saying that the washing machine has done more to liberate women than the pill. I couldn't find the actual article on their...

As I understand the rules, we are free to talk about torrents here in the Thunderdome, as long as direct links are confined to PMs. So here I go: I just discovered torrents, and they are an enormous boon* as I live out in the sticks with no...

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/sho ... p?t=509932 Tuba has announced that some new features are being turned on, starting with RSS feeds. I think that's probably a good idea, but I question the timing. Why now? Is this a bandaid to...

While I love the name Thunderdome because of its imagery, one of the best things about the name "The Pit" is that it lends itself to so many handy conjugations. "I Pit your face!" "I Pitted your mother last night." "Young man, if you don't behave...

My company had a bank account at a local bank. It was an investment account, not used for daily activity. We had that account for many years. And for many years there was no activity other than monthly statements sent and an annual flourry of...

I'll be the first to take one for the team. I hope that Carol Stream doesn't bother coming over here. I don't think I've ever seen her post when she wasn't being a total twat. Go on, who's next.

Please, please PLEASE can we make it something of a "don't do that" here? And actually stick by it? At the old boards I'd see it here and there.. And the mods would change it.. Sometimes. But already here I see a thread called "Goddamn you" and ...

I've been thinking about this off and on for a few days now. Ed's poorly-communicated and oft-misunderstood direction seems to have pushed moderators to their limits, especially those of ATMB and The BBQ Pit. Due to this, I've noticed extremes in...

I was wondering over here in our alter-world how many displaced people feel like having a cathartic moment on the Dope, and by that I mean basically going out in a blaze of vitriol, giving hearty "fuck you's" to everyone necessary, knowing you'll be...

I decided to leave a formal goodbye. And a plug. http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/sho ... p?t=509484

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/sho ... stcount=37 Rule 38, section II, paragraph 4, subsection 12, item d, states: Anything said about Lynn Bodoni is a personal insult, and is forbidden here, there, and everwhere. This includes, but is...

I have this huge network upgrade to do tonight at 10PM. Before we do upgrades, we like to do performance testing before (baseline) and after and compare performance statistics. If the testing following the work isn't at least as good or better...

I was just visiting the Dope and I came across this thread - The White House Gets a Swingset. I had a moment of cognitive dissonance - I thought I was in Giraffe Boards, and was disappointed in how schoolmarmy they were being, and it wasn't until...

It was a heat-of-the-moment thing. I really didn't go there intending to quit the Dope. But I've said my piece and it would be hypocritical for me to keep participating there. See here. And here. I haven't really been going there anyway....

This video is disturbing: RCMP taser man to death. This case has become infamous here in BC and in Poland. The long and the short of it is that a Polish man was left to wander around Vancouver airport for 10 hours upon his arrival. His...

Seriously. On one level, fuck Ed with a rusty entrenching tool, right in his gaping cunt. But on another more serious level (though is it possible to be more serious than that last image?) I would like to access the storeholds of sheer knowledge...

Guys, I'm not going to pretend to be able to tell you what to do on the SDMB (or, for the most part, on this site, for that matter :P). However, I do not think it is a good idea that we cause an "us vs. them" mentality, or cause problems over on...

Since the new Pit rules were announced, I've been going over this in my head (with a few indications over there of my feelings on them). I think I've got it straight now what is bugging me. I have not been a "Chicken Little" poster there - we've...

For some unknown reason, the host site here has blocked my home ISP (Verizon fios!) and domebo won't even load. CRSP has been kind enough to make inquiries, and since I know he's got a lot on his plate, I certainly understand that he can't sit on...

There's a thread in "About DoMeBo Forums" called "Not keeping me logged in." (The current link is viewtopic.php?f=3&t=489, but I don't know if that will change.) In this thread, the OP politely lets our new overlords know that since the switch...

I'm a little reluctant to post this, because I'm actually NOT one of the people who are super-fed-up with Ed Zotti or the SDMB. But the thing, like, practically just wrote itself. So, FWIW, here it is... pretend someone else posted it! And...

I've been lurking and reading some of the threads here and back there, and I've noticed that quite a few people are saying that the management at Creative Loafing ("CL") wants to turn the board into a revenue stream. I've heard similar before, but...

So I'm trying to create a new character (this would be Sims 1), and for some reason, one of the female head meshes keeps crashing my game! And because it stops right before you get to the problem one, I obviously can't figure out WHICH one it is,...

I don't have a big rant planned out, and i was a member here before i was a member of any other splinter board. But actually asking for money already? Seriously..

I note from the news that Muslim hate preacher Omar Bakri has once again been calling for the creation of an islamic state in the UK. ...

What. The. Fuck! http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/sho ... stcount=15 I. I just. I honestly don't even know what to say about this. I. It's just. Wrong. Delete the damn thing. Erase it. Send it to Siberia. But in the name of everything...

I propose a new tactic to protest Ed's changes. Passive Resistance. As of now, I am officially on strike from both GQ and GD over there. Not that I really contributed enough to matter in GD, but I did participate in GQ threads, mostly on...

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=422 Ha ha ha. HA HA HA HA HA HA! Heh heh. HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Not sure where to post this so I put it in here. I recently started a Pit thread on the SDMB about how I thought that the Shark Jump Message Board was a cute way to refer to the SDMB. You can find it here...

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/sho ... p?t=508932 Try not to take it so hard, bro. Skip has been on a dickhead roll lately, and Marley's a fucknugget.

Last week, Volvo (trucks, not cars) announced that they'll be raising the limit on executive bonuses from 50% to 60% of the yearly pay. This will affect about 250 execs. Nice. Those guys on the board really have their finger on the pulse of things....

Three things I will be very happy not to see referred to on a non-SD board, thank you very much. If this is the only benefit to migrating to a new board, it's great that we can leave some of that old shit behind us. And develop some new shit!!

I wanted to give them a bloody good pitting, ffs! Yeah, you BBC! You fucking wannabe jackbooted tyrants can go piss out your nostrils, if you think you will ever get a penny out of me. I rarely watch tv at the most desperate of times, so why...

Forgive my poor memory, but a female Doper recently announced she was playing in a University Challenge final. The lady was playing for Corpus Christi, who soundly trashed my home town team, Manchester University. Anyhoo, I hear on the radio this...

I don't know if this should go in GQ, but figured I'd start it off here, since it's something that probably will garner more opinions than facts among our users. What's the...uh, Straight Dope on this?

In response to this: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=37#p291 Fuck you, you inconsiderate cunt! I wait all fucking week for Battlestar Galactica to download, which it does sans preview, and I don't want my experience of gleeful anticipation ruined because some...

Alexa's traffic tracking. No real comment, as everything's already been said, basically. Just thought it was interesting. perhaps most telling is when the Six Month and Rank tabs are both selected.

No, it doesn't. And isn't that nice?

I get it. It's a new board, and you want to break it in. However, before making a Pit thread just for the hell of it, you might want to check what's already there. By my count, there are four non-serious pittings. Out of fourteen threads in this...

I pit this fucking snow that's actually sticking to the ground. This is Georgia and this should not be. I'm supposed to get lost looking for Peachtree Street, I'm supposed to respond to "ma'am", I'm supposed to eat grits, and I'm supposed to say,...

Read it and weep. I feel like I woke up in kindergarten this morning! :roll:

This was a surprise. Late last night I posted a thread suggesting Ed just go all the way and ban vulgarities and obscenities altogether. I mentioned a couple of other boards I read (blue collar; landscaping related) where disagreements over work and...

Forgive me for the two threads at once, but I bit my tongue on the Dope and I need to get it out. Fuck you, buddy. Fuck a whole bunch of you. You're the classic example of the wrecked fighter who thinks he's still got it because nobody's...