Yahoo! Answers idiocy

[Darwin Watterson]

If you're a regular in the Deagle Nation subforum, you're no doubt aware that one of Yahoo! Answers' many users is Tyce Andrews. However, there is plenty of...ahem..."quality content" on that site even without known lolcows there. Here's a person who wondered if sending nudes was illegal. "Best of Yahoo Answers" brings up tons of results on Google, though obviously some of those may be trolling. What are some of the funniest questions and answers that you've stumbled upon on Yahoo! Answers?

 

[OtterParty]

Yahoo! Answers should be renamed YHBT! Answers at this point. It's almost entirely trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls in an ocean of trolls. Which can be really funny, as demonstrated by Tyce, but I'm not sure how much actual lolcow dumbassery we'll find in it now.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

It's more or less just one giant mound of trolls at this point, it's hard to separate the genuine morons from the weens.

 

[Abethedemon]

Don't forget How is baby formed?

 

[Jace E. Denton]

Don't forget How is baby formed?

A classic.

 

[Utuk_25]

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Paging Doctor Freud.

 

[Bernard]

This one will always be my favorite:

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Yahoo's customer service is a joke. Last time I checked, there's a series of non-interactive help pages, and the only online interactive help you can get is by "posting an answer to the community" (read: it directs you to Y!A).*

Anyway, I also recall there was a craze a few years ago with usernames involving "Oral Roberts" (One name in particular was "Does Oral Roberts like oral?" IIRC). There was one guy who seemed to have claimed that everyone was against OEL manga because it "smacked of cultural plunder" and compared it to Elton John "repackaging" the blues. I also recall someone who claimed they were a "practicing shaman" in their signature.

Y!A can be informative though. I found out that Cassini greyscale closeup photos of Enceladus are taken in the green channel, for example.

How is baby formed?

I don't think we can forget that.

Spoiler

*(the phone service is far worse though - on hold for half an hour to an hour before you're dropped. I've never been able to contact them that way)

 

[Darwin Watterson]

Spoiler: How do you get YouTube to film you?

Spoiler: Probably a troll, but still funny

Spoiler: Mr. Krabs has a Yahoo! Answers account, apparently

Spoiler: Why would anyone ask this?

 

[Glaive]

Gotta bring this one to a close.

Yahoo Answers is more of a potential vehicle for a lolcow to use or sperg out on, not a lolcow community in itself. It would be like if we a thread for "humorous Amazon reviews" rather than a specific user who chimps out on that particular site. This seems way too broad.

Hope that makes sense.