Things you first learned about at Trekbbs

[Miss Chicken]

I don't want any "People are stupid" or "Star Trek fans are geeks" sort of answers in this thread. I want posts about facts, trends, ideas, words, shows etc that you first encountered on these boards.

Two really stick out in my mind

1) Young Earth Creationism - had no idea about that this belief existed before reading about it here.

2) Slash fanfiction - I first leant about it in a Lord of the Rings thread. Someone said LOTR was so slashy and I asked what they meant. I ended up going over the Library of Moria and looking at some LOTR slash.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

LOST. It was actually one of the very first things I learned about on my first day here.

 

[Major Chord]

Since I browse Misc. most often, I learned that some people have an unhealthy obsession with the frequency that members masturbate (there seems to be one of those threads every 6 months). But other than that, that you can indeed make friends over the internet that you've never met in person.

 

[captcalhoun]

how American TV works when there's 4 time zones

(Tuesdays, 9/8 Central!)

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Since I browse Misc. most often, I learned that some people have an unhealthy obsession with the frequency that members masturbate (there seems to be one of those threads every 6 months).

They should be sticky threads....


... to, um, you know... stop them.... sliding off... the, er, front page...

 

[Miss Chicken]

I also was surprised to learn here that Good Friday isn't a public holiday in the USA and that Americans don't celebrate Boxing Day.

 

[captcalhoun]

i also learned that the US and UK have mother's day on different days.

 

[Deckerd]

That US politics are the most impenetrable on Earth.

 

[captcalhoun]

that the US health service is even more suck-ass than i previously realised.

 

[Kestra]

That porn rule, #3_ something? 34? 37? Okay, maybe I wasn't paying that much attention, but I had never heard of that till TBBS.

 

[auntiehill]

Since I browse Misc. most often, I learned that some people have an unhealthy obsession with the frequency that members masturbate (there seems to be one of those threads every 6 months).

They should be sticky threads....


... to, um, you know... stop them.... sliding off... the, er, front page...

 

[Miss Chicken]

I didn't know there was such a thing as Libertarianism before I came across it on Trekbbs.

 

[Gepard]

That porn rule, #3_ something? 34? 37? Okay, maybe I wasn't paying that much attention, but I had never heard of that till TBBS.

Ah, Rule 34. Good times.

I've been hanging around this place so long, first as a lurker then as a poster, that I don't even remember what I learned when. It's all a big blur.

 

[Omnius]

I had never head of threadbombs until I saw them here. Also motivational posters were new to me.
I went to my first ever meetup through TrekBBS. Havent done that since, but I can only blame myself and my busy agenda.

 

[ancientone51]

1. About the World Trade Center planes...was browsing and saw a thread about it.

2. Honor Harrington books

3. about the people who are handy

4. and most important, about the compassion of a community of strangers who have become friends

 

[Deckerd]

Since I browse Misc. most often, I learned that some people have an unhealthy obsession with the frequency that members masturbate (there seems to be one of those threads every 6 months).

They should be sticky threads....


... to, um, you know... stop them.... sliding off... the, er, front page...

That is priceless.

 

[Miss Chicken]

LOLcats - I first saw them here.

 

[trekkiedane]

Being a total n00b to internet forums when I joined here your 2) was also news to me.

I learned that I'm not the only geek with a geekish sense of humour in the world.

I learned that simple debates about mundane things like politics or religion can make people say ugly and hurtful things to each other.

I learned a lot about how people in the US think.
As it were, this was both better and worse than I had previously thought: some of my suspicions were confirmed and some of my misconceptions were corrected but, alas, some of my worst fears were confirmed as well.

Pretty much everything I know about the internet, I have learned while being registered here, so a lot of it, in one way or another, comes from something I read here.

 

[T'Bonz]

English slang/words.

Various porn images that I'd have rather not seen. Also, some sexual practices of which I had never heard.

 

[trekkiedane]

/.../ some sexual practices of which I had never heard.

Right, and how they look as emoticons!