What's the most pointless row you've been drawn into on the Internet?

lazygal

Like Taytos vs King crisps, for example?

galwayrush

Ones about pointless threads.

minidazzler

When I just started using the internet regularily, I was easy to bait into debates about such things as Abortion and the British. I was against both immensely at the time (I was 16/17 and stupid).

Now I support both things alot really, so it's kinda a good thing I got into those debates!

Mickeroo

Any religious debate. Both sides get worked up both sides will never agree or convince the other, it's the very definition of pointless.

Been drawn into a few on here but I more or less stopped posting in A&A an Christianity because it causes me extremely unnecessary and pointless stress

Bipolar Joe

I've been trolling a certain forum for about five years now, and several of my sock puppet accounts are fairly well respected members. I've had several arguments with them and my obvious troll account to bait other members.

Solnskaya

pretty much anything involving plumbing, or joey the lips...

Pace2008

Mickeroo wrote: »

Any religious debate. Both sides get worked up both sides will never agree or convince the other, it's the very definition of pointless.

Not really. There are plenty of neutral observers there to be swayed one way or another. Were it not for reading discourse on the topic via the internet, I'd probably still call myself a Catholic and despise "arrogant atheists."

mconigol

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

I've been trolling a certain forum for about five years now, and several of my sock puppet accounts are fairly well respected members. I've had several arguments with them and my obvious troll account to bait other members.

So you've multiple personalities as opposed to being Bipolar then?

Or is Bipolar Joe one of your multiple personalities??

mikemac

I don't know the most pointless one

But the last one was me posting in a forum and a newly wed was refusing to take her husbands name.

I posted about the nonsense [imo] of double barrel names
Got quoted three times and strong replies

The ladies put me in my place

lazygal

I posted in that thread too about changing names. I didn't change mine.

Bipolar Joe

mconigol wrote: »

So you've multiple personalities as opposed to being Bipolar then?

Or is Bipolar Joe one of your multiple personalities??

There's Regular Joe, Perv' Joe, Sexually Frustrated Joe, Bipolar Joe, Joe Joe (He's a clown monkey) and Carl.


My name ain't even Joe. Or Carl, for that matter.

Sooopie

mikemac wrote: »

I don't know the most pointless one

But the last one was me posting in a forum and a newly wed was refusing to take her husbands name.

I posted about the nonsense [imo] of double barrel names
Got quoted three times and strong replies

The ladies put me in my place

its scary

i said something gave me the heebie jeebies earlier and i got proper smacked down

Solnskaya

lazygal wrote: »

I posted in that thread too about changing names. I didn't change mine.

well that's just stuck up of you. cue pointless arguement

Paparazzo

Tiger V Lion
Cats V Dogs (as pets)

Everyone knows Tiger beats lion and dogs are way better than cats.

steve9859

Whether or not Paddy Wallace is any good at rugby....

finisklin

Ardent FFer trying to convince me in the run up to the election in Feb that the party lost it's way under Bertie and that things weren't that bad, yada yada yada.

JimiWonderDoor 92

galwayrush wrote: »

Ones about pointless threads.

Oh Fcuk you

Sooopie

mikemac wrote: »

I don't know the most pointless one

But the last one was me posting in a forum and a newly wed was refusing to take her husbands name.

I posted about the nonsense [imo] of double barrel names
Got quoted three times and strong replies

The ladies put me in my place

you should go in and comment in the thread where they are talking about mooncups

*runs*

Mickeroo

Pace2008 wrote: »

Not really. There are plenty of neutral observers there to be swayed one way or another. Were it not for reading discourse on the topic via the internet, I'd probably still call myself a Catholic and despise "arrogant atheists."

Thanks man!!


*heads to the Christianity forum with new found purpose and determination*

mikemac

Cycling forum

Motorist arrives in and gives out about bikes on their road and cyclists don't pay "road tax"

Even though there is no such thing as road tax :rolleyes:
I shouldn't be baited but I sometimes get stuck in. Not so much anymore

Mickeroo

mikemac wrote: »

Cycling forum

Motorist arrives in and gives out about bikes on their road and "cyclists" don't pay "road tax"

Even though there is no such thing as road tax :rolleyes:
I shouldn't be baited but I sometimes get stuck in. Not so much anymore

I think I actually remember that thread. Kept me entertained for a while, although I didn't actually post

mikemac

Mickeroo wrote: »

I think I actually remember that thread. Kept me entertained for a while, although I didn't actually post

Just that thread?
There's almost a new one every week

x_Ellie_x

I posted a negative review of Catcher in the Rye on Goodreads and logged in the next day to find that a "fan" of the book had send me a bunch of hate mail, it was funny at first but got old quick when I realised there was no way to block anyone on that site. You could mark the posts has spam but I couldn't find a way to stop the person from posting comments in my review and sending me p/m's. I had to wait til he got bored and stopped and then delete all his comments.

Mickeroo

x_Ellie_x wrote: »

I posted a negative review of Catcher in the Rye on Goodreads and logged in the next day to find that a "fan" of the book had send me a bunch of hate mail, it was funny at first but got old quick when I realised there was no way to block anyone on that site. You could mark the posts has spam but I couldn't find a way to stop the person from posting comments in my review and sending me p/m's. I had to wait til he got bored and stopped and then delete all his comments.

I don't know why, but that made me laugh out loud. I think it's just the image of Holden Caufield sending you hate mail.

lazygal

It was probably JD Salinger, he's a weirdo.

Temptamperu

x_Ellie_x wrote: »

I posted a negative review of Catcher in the Rye on Goodreads and logged in the next day to find that a "fan" of the book had send me a bunch of hate mail, it was funny at first but got old quick when I realised there was no way to block anyone on that site. You could mark the posts has spam but I couldn't find a way to stop the person from posting comments in my review and sending me p/m's. I had to wait til he got bored and stopped and then delete all his comments.

It is a shít book

mconigol

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

There's Regular Joe, Perv' Joe, Sexually Frustrated Joe, Bipolar Joe, Joe Joe (He's a clown monkey) and Carl.


My name ain't even Joe. Or Carl, for that matter.

You do realise you're talking to yourself right?

I'm the account that the rest of you don't know about....;)

Mickeroo

mconigol wrote: »

You do realise you're talking to yourself right?

I'm the account that the rest of you don't know about....;)

Goddammit Mconigal! Why can't you play by the rules?!?












sorry I just really wanted to say that

Bipolar Joe

Is Mickeroo me, also? Come on, Carl, cut it out.

Mickeroo

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Is Mickeroo me, also? Come on, Carl, cut it out.

Maybe I am:eek:
Now I'm having an existential crisis. This is great it's just like that film with Brad Pitt, The First Wives Club.

Bipolar Joe

I like the bit where he keeps on saying "My niggah" to Ethan Hawke.

Sanity_Saviour

steve9859 wrote: »

Whether or not Paddy Wallace is any good at rugby....

We're trying to be serious here

Sanity_Saviour

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Is Mickeroo me, also? Come on, Carl, cut it out.

How do we know you're not an account within an account and your "Bipolarness" just hides the fact you're many people...got you sussed sailor.
*squinty eyes*

Bipolar Joe

Boards.ieption?

Sergeant

The Insult Thread V2.

NIMAN

All of them.

Sanity_Saviour

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Boards.ieption?

And Mickeroo thanks this...

Strangerer and strangerer

Bipolar Joe

I thought it was clever, and evidently so did I.

Irish Guitarist

I said hello to a girl on a chat room once and told her her profile picture was nice. Someone else started going into a rage, calling me a pervert and saying I was too old for this girl (I was 27 or 28 at the time, she was 19). What the hell? I was only saying hello to her and paying her a compliment.

I don't remember much of what was said but after arguing with the moron for a few minutes I put him on ignore. I had also encountered this idiot a few weeks prior to this. I had said "hello" to him and he had responded with "I'm not gay".

I was fairly new to the internet at the time but I started to suspect this person was one of those 'trolls' I had been hearing about.

TheDriver

people giving out about teachers even though they don't have a clue about the job except for the "craic we used to have in school tormenting mr murphy"

Mahatma coat

I post in the CT Forum
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later12

Pretty pointless argument with da_shins_kelly last night about how hard it is to handle a stallion and whether or not that was the reason Shergar may have been shot.

Who the fuck cares! I don't.

Sorry da_shins, lets hug it out.

Also, pretty much every debate I've ever been involved in when I used to post in politics. Ultimately these were just hacks debates about other people's decisions over which we had no jurisdiction or input, and wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference to anything in the long run.

LighterGuy

You can get into an argument on the internet about anything.
Lets take boards.ie - you could post anything. Someone will always dispute what you say. Like your view, your opinion is absolutely wrong and that person has to fight to their bitter end to prove you wrong :rolleyes:

I wipe my ass with many opinions on here. Its not that I have my head stuck up my own ass. Its just your average person. Lets look at it, many post opinions or views that is just PC bull*hit or just totally bull*hit. Stuff that is the exact opposite of what said person actually thinks or would actually do. ... but feel an undying need to prove you wrong. :rolleyes: Need a great example? head over to the relationship forums on here. Some of the so called "advice" is just 100%, grade a horse-s*it.

Its sad to think, but f**k other peoples opinions. Only opinions that should matter are yours and those closest around you.