Reoccurring THEMES of letsrun threads: cynicism and narcissism abound

You forgot 'can someone PLEASE sell me random item X!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

the astute observer wrote:

What are the most prevalent themes of letsrun threads?

Here are my top 5 picks:

1) I am right, you are wrong...and also you are a/an (insert pejorative term of choice).

2) I have mystery injury XYZ, the doctors/therapists/trainers misdiagnosed it; have you had it too?

3) Poster 1: Something controversial; Poster 2: any semi-serious polar response; Poster 3: "Poster 2 is a troll"; Poster 4: Poster 1 is a troll and Poster 3 is an "f-tard".

4) I noticed this trend in my personal world; here, I extrapolate it to the entire universe and all known realities.

5) How fast can I run a 5k? Predict my time.

6) Answer any simple question with a long explanation of your PR's and why they could have/ should have been faster.

6) Dumbasses complaining about thread content

Chris cringle wrote:

You forgot 'can someone PLEASE sell me random item X!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

I'm still looking for one of those.

"6) Dumbasses complaining about thread content"

Ah, another classic of letsrun: the name-calling retort post.

I don't think most letsrun folks even know what "narcissism" means.

the astute observer wrote:

What are the most prevalent themes of letsrun threads?

Here are my top 5 picks:

1) I am right, you are wrong...and also you are a/an (insert pejorative term of choice).

2) I have mystery injury XYZ, the doctors/therapists/trainers misdiagnosed it; have you had it too?

3) Poster 1: Something controversial; Poster 2: any semi-serious polar response; Poster 3: "Poster 2 is a troll"; Poster 4: Poster 1 is a troll and Poster 3 is an "f-tard".

4) I noticed this trend in my personal world; here, I extrapolate it to the entire universe and all known realities.

5) How fast can I run a 5k? Predict my time.

pics, please?

1) Reoccurring is not a real word. Try recurring.

2) See above.

3) See above.

4) See above.

5) See above.

"Recurring" there's no such word as "reoccurring."

"Yes, there is, it's in the dictionary!"

re·oc·curing (re-a-kûr-ing)

intr.v. 1. Non-Standard Illiterate Hillbilly Dumbf*** English 1. To happen, come up, or show up again or repeatedly.

And we should care what you think for WHAT reason?

Poster one is a troll, and poster 3 is an f-tard!

It's the same person posting under different names!

Lactate threshhold

Bush sucks

My girlfriend thinks I suck

Her boyfriend thinks she sucks

Error on front page

Drug cheats

Pats got lucky

What shoe should I wear

What's my injury

Where's my brain

Mommy he offended me

Whites are racists

etal

dumkopf wrote:

"Recurring" there's no such word as "reoccurring."

"Yes, there is, it's in the dictionary!"

re·oc·curing (re-a-kûr-ing)

intr.v. 1. Non-Standard Illiterate Hillbilly Dumbf*** English 1. To happen, come up, or show up again or repeatedly.

HAHA. Harsh, but funny.

7). OP writes a very long, thoughtful, serious post about something personal, political, socially relevant, etc. The very next post will be a one-line sarcastic response. For example:

OP: "Ok, I have this problem that I'd really like advice about. I've been feeling very depressed lately and.........thinking about seeing a therapist......wife left me......can't get motivated to run or exercise at all, which is making it worse.....so anyways, I know that was really long but does anyone have any advice?

Next Poster: What's your ex-wife's number?

POD

dumkopf wrote:

"Recurring" there's no such word as "reoccurring."

"Yes, there is, it's in the dictionary!"

re·oc·curing (re-a-kûr-ing)

intr.v. 1. Non-Standard Illiterate Hillbilly Dumbf*** English 1. To happen, come up, or show up again or repeatedly.

Who's the best_________ in the world, or GOAT.

X+1) 'insert name here' is a PED user/supplier

X+Y) You didn't really do what you said you did when you used a personal anecdote to answer a serious question about training.

That's the basic pattern of pretty much all internet discussion, whether on message boards or blogs or chats or messengers or anything else along those lines. This one could be the epitome of an internet meeting of basically pedestrian narcissistic and voyeuristic runners who talk a lot (mostly about themselves, of course) yet impart little real substance:

http://www.runningtimes.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=7

With all the vast potential the internet holds for fostering the sharing of useful information and achieving greater understanding for humanity, the vast majority of people waste the resource on 'look at me/I crave attention and affirmation' crap like this.

Call me a cynic, but no matter how cynical I get I find that I can never keep up.