Threads in which a poster uses the word “entitled.” I don’t know why, but that word makes the hairs on my neck stand up, just like the word “moist” does to other people.
…must…resist…temptation…to title…new thread…“Moist Entitlement!”…
Lol. D2 HATES the words “moist.” Just the other day, I was at Costco and saw a huge tub of “moist towlettes”. I sent her a photo of it up close. I got a very funny emoji from her in response with the words STOP IT.
Moist? Lol never thought about it as a word that causes a reaction like nails on blackboard. But agree with the dislike of annoying threads where the OP thinks it’s necessary to start a thread to shame other posters and be generally condescending. Telling posters that their comments are unhelpful is, well, unhelpful.
^^^Ah, the lovely finger wagging threads.
Current generation has replaced “moist” with “dank”…I think.
Dank used by anyone under the age of 28 has a different connotation than damp. 
This is why you probably hate the word ‘moist’, according to science
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/03/this-is-why-you-probably-hate-the-word-moist-according-to-scienc/
“I’m getting a D (or F) in ‘subject-fill in the blank’, will this grade hurt my chances at HYPSM?”
@odannyboySF, a PLOS One article on linguistics that actually comes to reasonable conclusions?? I think I’ve now seen everything!
(What? No, of course linguists as a whole aren’t annoyed by the physicists and geneticists who keep getting crackpot linguistics articles into that journal, of course we’re not.)
One kid who joined on one day and racked up 269 posts by that evening. Whoa! Hope he has a life.
Same for another who joined yesterday and between 8 pm and 4 am is up to 50 replies.
For me it’s the posts insisting that anyone with a pulse should be able to get a 4.0 and an ACT of 33+, and that becoming a NMS simply requires a little study. One poster used to frequently write that all it took to get straight A’s was to turn in the homework. Ugh.
I find this insulting to all the great, hardworking kids out there who will never be in the top 5% no matter how hard they try.
The most annoying are the threads that get hijacked by someone who turns the topic away from what the OP asked and derails it with irrelevant stuff that has little if anything to do with the OP’s question. The OP often doesn’t return.
I kind of wish there was an auto-lock feature for any campus rape or student protest thread that devolves into the same six people getting into the same two arguments. If some nerdy old guy catches you in your driveway and starts hitting you with a stick, it’s me, because you used the words snowflake and entitled once too often for my liking.
The threads started by an OP that never comes back, but that go on for pages and pages with posters arguing amongst themselves over whose advice is better, veering more and more off topic each day.
Edit: @jym626 I honestly did not read your post until after I posted this! Good to know I am not the only one that has noticed the trend. Maybe there should be some sort of time limit imposed and if an OP doesn’t come back the thread gets closed?
@Sue22, not just insulting to those who will never be in the top 5%, but also insulting to those who are in the top 5% by virtue of actually applying themselves rather than skating through.
@planner03 ,
Great minds…!
Sometimes the OP gets run off when the thread gets completely derailed
Some of them run off after one post and two responses. Does make me think the point is dart and run.
And wish we went back to requiring x posts before one can start a thread.
@lookingforward Reminds me of the one post bash and run where the OP warns everyone not to attend a certain school and lists dozens of reasons.
@dfbdfb, I find your post #3076 insulting to kids that “skated through.” Are you saying because things may have been easier for them that they didn’t actually apply themselves?