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

lazygal · 23-08-2011 10:46PM #1

Like Taytos vs King crisps, for example?

galwayrush · 23-08-2011 10:47PM

Ones about pointless threads.

minidazzler · 23-08-2011 10:49PM

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 · 23-08-2011 10:55PM

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 · 23-08-2011 10:55PM

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 · 23-08-2011 10:56PM

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

Pace2008 · 23-08-2011 11:00PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:03PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:03PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:04PM

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

Bipolar Joe · 23-08-2011 11:06PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:06PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:07PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:08PM

Tiger V Lion
Cats V Dogs (as pets)

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

steve9859 · 23-08-2011 11:09PM

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

finisklin · 23-08-2011 11:09PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:10PM

galwayrush wrote: »

Ones about pointless threads.

Oh Fcuk you

Sooopie · 23-08-2011 11:10PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:10PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:13PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:15PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:21PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:23PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:26PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:29PM

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

Temptamperu · 23-08-2011 11:31PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:40PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:43PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:45PM

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

Mickeroo · 23-08-2011 11:48PM

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 · 23-08-2011 11:50PM

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

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

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