Why do you read or post on DU?

[Deep13]

Poll question: Why do you read or post on DU?

A lot of people post here and many read without posting. Just what draws us here?

You may infer an "other" option by posting it.

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[Deep13]

1. One vote in an hour. ...

Either I'm not being as funny as I thought I was (which is always a distinct possibility) or else some of these hit too close to the mark. I actually meant for this post to give at least a mild chuckle.. Can't win 'em all, I guess.

P.S.
Might be nice if I spelled the words in the title bar correctly. But then this is just the result of randomly selected letters by a chimpanzee with a typewriter.

[TZ]

2. Well I thinks in funny

And yeah in some ways this place is like my dysfunctional family-- We argue politics all the time. I'm always right and they are always uninformed idiots........:rofl:

[Deep13]

3. Exactly. Why can't they accept that?

:evilgrin:

[uncommon]

4. Did you just Rickroll the Lounge?

Very nice.

[Deep13]

5. Had to be done. nt

[Kali]

6. It's a reasonable alternative to being productive at work.

:thumbsup:

[abq e streeter]

9. + 1

[HopeHoops]

7. Similar reason to this woman's problem...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAfpq6EPKck

Just watch it. The man and woman who made this video HAVE to be DU readers.

[sarge43]

8. I need the warm fuzzies that come with posting in DU. Like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_3RCofj5wc&feature=related

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. Will they NEVER stop finding long-lost Beatles' recordings? n/t

[sarge43]

11. Beatles?

I could have sworn that was early Beach Boys before they cleaned up their act.

[Monique1]

12. DU always has a place for me

and I am happy to come here. I know I've ticked people off at GD but, oh well. There are so many places to visit here that I'm happy to have a choice.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. Other

Posting on DU helps me maintain my writing chops. I make a commitment to write every day.

I usually spel real gud and dont make a lot of many grammerical mistakes either!

:rofl:

:toast:

[MiddleFingerMom]

14. That's "neither", Shakespeare. n/t

[JTG of the PRB]

15. It's amazing how random keystrokes can, at times, create coherent ideas.

I want a banana. I want TEN bananas.

On edit: Curses. Even blind, random luck occasionally misses a letter. I want SEVENTEEN bananas.

[OmahaBlueDog]

16. Other: They booted by butt out of Democrats.com

Those folks over there are just NUTS!:crazy:

[Odin2005]

17. LBN and a community that won't shit on me for being a left-wing wacko!

[txwhitedove]

18. Where's 'Other'? Because it's a mean cruel Republican world out there....

[Manifestor_of_Light]

19. Because I don't have a life.

And I live where I can't find any intelligent life.

My congresscretin is Joe Barton (CO2 is Harmless). Seriously.

The next district north has Goomer the Tumor, he of the "terror babies" rant, for a Congressman.

Really.

What I really hate about this part of the world:

1. Everyone assumes you're Christian, and a particular flavor of Protestant, at that.

2. if you are not a Christian, there must be something wrong with you.

3. And therefore you must be saved from your lack of belief. Preferably by telling you you're going to hell. This does not make them friends. They do not understand this.

4. Beyond that, they are incurious and uneducated. Ignorant and proud of it. Tell them the facts, correct them, and they DO NOT LISTEN. Their brains short out.

Even if they are somewhat educated, they think they are morally superior to non-Christians.

I can't handle it and can't find any friends. Even at the local book club I heard comments about how they had more compassion than secular humanists, at which point DH leaned over and said "Isn't it time for us to get up and leave?".

We didn't. We were desperate for non-fundy companionship. One guy there, who was from India, told my hubby how wonderful Islam was because the Koran sez you had to treat all your wives equally and it was OK for a slave to keep his own earnings. Hubby was not impressed.

Everyone seems to spend their time thinking about Jeebus and praying and going to church Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night, instead of pursuing independent thought.

I'm sick of hearing about Christianity and want nothing to do with it.

But these people have had it beaten into them and apparently are happy with it.

[U4ikLefty]

20. Because I'm a masochist. n/t