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December 24
Where do Wikipedians go to ask dumb, or at least silly, questions?
Okay, I get it.
This page is for serious questions.
I appreciate and respect that
—or at least try too.
But where can I ask my silly questions, the entertaining or joke questions—or attempts thereof:
like the one’s I’d ask in Yahoo! Answers (I know, such were generally TOS violations there, but I’m trying to change)
—before I went to Answerbag?
Where a question like:
"YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAaaa… Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss?"
can a great answer from a great Belgian Trotskyite I meet there.
or I can go to a Persian site and ask questions like:
"Why aren’t there topless anarchists parading in Tehran yet?"
or the versions in YA
here,
here, and
here.
What I’m looking for is a site where:
(1) like Wikipedia, all I need to register is an email address (not even that for Wikipedia), username, and password;
(2) like Wikipedia, multiple accounts are permitted;
(3) I can ask risque questions and the like;
(4) there’s a decent amount of traffic;
and the hardest,
(5) like Wikipedia, the members are generally
cool.
Here's more or less the same question asked on Fluther.
Thanks for any and all help.
:-D
Civic Cat (talk) 21:05, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
- Conservapedia is known for their sense of humor. Give them a try and report back on how it worked out. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:10, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
- I like to be welcome, or at least not unwelcome--like the RationalWiki Saloon Bar.Civic Cat (talk) 21:22, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
- As a square I resent the implication that I might be 'cool', I don't deliberately ask stupid questions, and I didn't know the two were related. Dmcq (talk) 23:11, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
- A couple of decades ago, there was a book (in a gray cover, naturally) called Dare to Be Dull, describing many ways to be purposely un-hip, such as driving a station wagon instead of a sports car. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 17:01, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
- Traditionally, the Internet Oracle. Comet Tuttle (talk) 05:21, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
- How about /b/? anonymous6494 23:10, 25 December 2009 (UTC)