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The ambivalence of posting a question on Yahoo

Have you ever wanted to ask an unbiased person(s) about something just so you'd feel as if the feedback you received was 100% genuine, so you posted a question on Yahoo? I did that once about two years ago and I was tentative about it then. Since that time, however, I've read a number of such questions posted on Yahoo, several comments, and the more I read these threads, the more I have to shake my head and ponder, "What in the world was I thinking?"

Many of the questions posed put my face into the WTF position. Just as many answers to these questions provide my face with an expression never seen before, not even by me, since I don't have a mirror handy during these moments.

What types of questions and answers am I talking about? Feast your eyes on the following links and see for yourselves! Enjoy, but be ready to shake your head a lot, sigh multiple times, facepalm yourselves at least once, and utter the words, "What the f**k?" quite frequently.

http://www.oddee.com/item_96964.aspx

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/05/the-worst-and-saddest-of-yahoo.php

http://www.funnyordie.com/slideshows/ceecabf1aa/the-yahoo-answers-guide-to-sex-idiotic-questions-and-answers-about-sexuality

http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/photos/20-seriously-dumb-yahoo-answers-questions

http://yahooanswerswtf.tumblr.com/

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