2 minutes late!

Wow, it's weird that I keep leaving these posts to the very last minute every Thursday, especially since I don't do much else during the average week.

Well, I'd like to talk about online message boards (also known as bulletin boards or forums) this week. If personal websites are the mentally deficient offspring of the Internet, then message boards are the criminally insane ones.

For the uninitiated out there, online message boards are meant to foster discussion about issues that are important to their members. The key term here is "meant." In reality, most discussions start out with comments like this one taken from the Newgrounds boards:

Author: Withheld
Topic: Is this healthy?
Posting date: 5/17/07

"I am really hungry so i went to Wendy's and bought a double Quarter pounder with bacon on it
fries, and two Homestyle chicken burgers all for myself plus coke for a drink. I'm trying to gain weight because i am going to start working out soon. LOL i spent 17.00 on this XD
have you guys done stuff like this?"

Or this one from The Legendary Lilypad (a flash animation board):

Author: withheld
Topic: Should George W. Bush Be Re-elected (poll)?
Posting date: 5/7/07

"You know what this is !! The Presidential Elections are coming out soon ... and I'm not too sure , but I've heard that some woman is trying to run against Bush for the election . Now the forums can debate on how good a job Bush does , and for 1 month you can vote on your opinion ( The " don't care " option is gone for this poll . If you don't care , leave D: ) ! So do you think George W. Bush is a good president , and should be re-elected or not ?

I don't think he should be re-elected because George W. Bush is the retard baby of 2 special education chimps that Ashton Kutcher dressed in a President suit as a joke . A sick , sick joke !!!"

Now, I don't claim to be the smartest man in the world...but people like these two guys make me wonder if some people should need a license to breed.