Topics you refuse to discuss

[Nathan Crumpler]

Abortion. I might talk about other political or religious topics if I have a strong enough opinion and knowledge on the subject, but it's usually easier not to bother. I won't say I'll never talk about abortion, but I would seriously have to be compelled (possible at gun point) to talk about abortion.

 

[Cavan]

I feel like I shouldn't be allowed to say 'ponies' here. I got an informal warning for asking too many threads that 'I deemed as pointless' to take it to their group chat/wherever they go on the internet.

Lesson mostly learned >_>. You probably havn't seen me making a fool of myself in many of those threads recently, so hah.

 

[antoku]

Female Genital Mutilation (particularly type III). Partly because someone will always jump in with the cultural relativism argument, mostly because I don't want to ruin my day by remembering FGM exists and is quite common in some places.

 

[CleverCover]

With anyone: Politics and Religion
You will never ever EVER convince someone that you are right and they are wrong and will possibly damage a number of good relationships in the process.

Sexism and Racism
I hate these not because they don't exist, but it's become the go to issue whenever it's one thing versus another....and it bothers the fuck out of me. Any time I hear someone say it, I want to punch them in the face soooo hard.

People I don't know:
Consoles vs Consoles
Consoles vs Computers
New Graphics vs Old Graphics
Relationships
Sex Positions

 

[Giftfromme]

inb4 Friendzone.

Actually, that's my answer; friendzone.

Unfortunately, I don't think that topic will be leaving these forums any time soon.

ohh yeeeeeeees

AND "this girl left me and I'm so depressed" <- to be unsympathetic but it happens to everyone

But I'm so perfect for her! I saved all her facebook pictures! I know her blood type! I'm so much better then that stupid jock. When has he ever watched my little pony? when has he ever wrote a 10k essay about why Micheal Bay's transformers is the worse thing in the world.

All he does is exercise, socialize, study a bit for exams and stuff. He's never spent ten hours on the internet masturbating to pokemon hentai!

Women!

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

Wanted to post this for so long.


Anything to do with politics ever. Partly because I'm well quite right wing, this site is usually quite left wing so meh. Also you get the crazies there.

The classic rape thread goes something like this

"If I'm strong enough to pin a women down and she can't resist then that's consent"
"If you ever look at a women and think she is hot then you are a closet rapist"
"Women aren't intelligent enough to give consent, just want money"
"Patriarchy"
"Feminazi"
"Sexist"
"No u"

What a fucking hilarious post. And that video was classic, thank God I was never like that lol. I don't really have anything to add in terms of OP, some of the threads here start out or devolve into lolers

 

[devilofthemist]

well on the internet, anything about atheism or region because on the off chance people listen to your opinion (be you religious or atheists) they will just reply with "hurr durr you believe in god LOL RETARD trololol" or something like that (yes i know i'm generalizing, sorry)

 

[Berithil]

I believe this ones popular, but anything that has to do with politics and religion. Even if it starts out reasonable, those topics are more flame-baity than MLP threads. They never end well, especially here.

 

[Zipa]

Bioware/EA hate threads. Usually they are not worth the time because someone has beef when bioware kicked their dog or something.

 

[Guffe]

I can discuss pretty much anything but I keep myself away from stuff I don't know too much about, as in debating. If someone is talking about something I don't know I about I usually try to talk with the person so I learn something new but to debate about something I have little or no knowledge about is something I don't do.

Captcha: They ate it.
No they didn't!!!

 

[Matthew Kjonaas]

Anything that I know nothing about or that makes me want to punch people in the face so hard they turn into a door. (this explains everything http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.374573-Poll-An-idea )

 

[Right Hook]

a girl has never left me...there was a guy but I think I may have left him

And he probably joined The Escapist and started posting about it and thus the cycle continues.

 

[Shuguard]

I probably wouldn't want to be in a discussion I knew nothing about.

 

[TheFunPolice]

British food.

I steer well away from that clusterfuck of silliness.

But...Yorkshire puddings, man...

OT: I think I'll discuss most things, but I REALLY dislike talking about politics..It just such a tiresome subject.. No matter where I go, I always hear people saying EXACTLY the same thing *OMG THE TORIES ARE RUINING COUNTRY, SHUDDA VOTED GREEN PARTY* so I try to avoid it as much as I can..And it's also just a rather depressing subject in my opinion

 

[Amethyst Wind]

9/11. I just don't care. I stopped caring on the day when there was nothing on the news except the same images over and over again.

I'm not interested in 9/11. Don't talk to me about it.

 

[malestrithe]

So many topics I should avoid like the plague include: Watchmen ending, what an adaptation really is, Whedonites, Lucas raped my childhood, Remakes suck, JRPGs are dying, On Disc DLC, boycotting and so on, the ones that I run kicking and screaming towards the door include:

I avoid 9/11 conspiracy topics like the plague. The arguments are circular and the only proof needed for a conspiracy is that their list of people who believe in it is now 100 million usernames strong. So 100 million people believe makes the conspiracy true? No, 100 million names on a list is only proof that you have 100 million names on your list. Grand conspiracy like Bush 41 caused it requires equally as grand evidence.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

Here? Anything to do with pedophilia. I've come across enough pedo-defense knights and probably more actual paedophiles than I care to count.

 

[darthzew]

The Mass Effect 3 ending is a new one. I just got sick of talking about it.

I don't mind discussing religion or politics in person, but I won't do it on internet forums anymore. I've found that people on the internet can believe some damn stupid stuff and defend it using the damn stupidest logic. And I have never seen anyone change a hard-felt opinion based on the word of a stranger on the internet. It just isn't worth it.

 

[Supertegwyn]

Japanese torture during the Second World War.


Never again.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Here: any kind of "Is * good or bad?" or any similar ridiculously subjective discussion.