Or *cheers*? Often used in the Religion and Spirituality section... It seems to be used as sarcasm, but I'm not sure what it implies.
If you are one of the people that use this, explain why.
If you dislike the use of *drink* or *cheers* as an answer, also, please explain why.
2007-12-29 07:52:03 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
lol INTERESTING!
*cheers*
2007-12-29 07:57:04 · update #1
Vot Anarж- c'mon now! No similar questions popped up when I asked this one- hopefully this will be kind of like a "sticky" question for people to check out.
2007-12-29 08:03:52 · update #2
Jeff S Phoenix AM- it's all making sense now. I DID discover this *drink* phenomena throughout all the "what-if-your-wrong"-type questions in R&S ('you're' almost always spelled 'your')
2007-12-29 08:08:29 · update #3
Tetsuno1- No similar questions popped up in the "Ask" field. However, I did use the "Search" function and found a couple, thanks. I'm gonna use that next time.
2007-12-29 08:38:57 · update #4
some questions are asked so frequently that regulars take a drink every time they see one
... along the lines of "I wish I had a drink for every time I've seen that question asked"
What "drink" really means is that the asker should have searched previously asked questions because they would have found literally hundreds of identical questions that have already been asked and answered.
My favourite is "if man evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" because it displays such incredible depths of ignorance
2007-12-29 07:55:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It means some of the people here in R&S have devised yet another way to be rude to others.
Guinness, I wouldn't feel the slightest bit bad about reasking a question here. Especially in the R&S section, where answers are usually more in the form of opinions than fact.
When you are typing in the form where you ask your question, other similarly worded questions should pop up under it, so you can see if others have asked the same thing before.
But many times I'll find a similar question, but I'll ask mine anyway. Chances are you'll get a whole new group of people to answer, which means you may get information that the other posting didn't. And even if you don't ... who cares? It's your 5 points to spend as you please. And if no one ever asked something that hadn't been asked before, Yahoo Answers would be such a boring place.
As for the rest of your responders who have nothing better to do than insult people - if you're here enough to see many questions more than once, then you're spending too much time here.
--edit--
In reference to what one of your other responders said, you can't have a Q taken down because just it's been asked before. So ask away.
2007-12-29 23:58:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a response to questions that get asked hundreds of times over and over often in the same day even. It means you should check the answer history because there are many answers to it there already. People started it when the questions got ridiculously redundant, well first they advised checking the answer history, then someone said lets make it a virtual drinking game. There are also a lists of "drinking questions" if you check the answer history. Generally its a good idea to check if a question has been asked before posting. Some of them really have been asked a ridiculous number of times over and over and people have given many of the same great (and not so great) answers and responses over and over.
2007-12-29 07:58:30 · answer #3 · answered by Zen Pirate 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Drink is used by atheists on this site to essentially say, sit back and have a drink all the religious fundummies are coming out of the woodworks to regurgitate tired old arguments that have already failed countless times.
2007-12-29 07:56:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When someone says drink, it means the question is one that has been answered a million times before. It is usually for questions that Christians ask atheists. Stupid questions as "if we evolved from monkeys why are there still monkeys".
2007-12-29 07:56:17 · answer #5 · answered by punch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a game people play on here. Whenever someone asks a question that has already been asked a million times, they take a drink.
2007-12-29 07:56:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"why are there monkeys" asked 22,539 times.
"why are there atheists in R&S" asked 1569 times...
It gets a bit boring to answer the same questions over and over. And *drink* is a lot more polite than "Search before asking you (censored)"
Btw, yours 4 times, with the exact same wording.
2007-12-29 08:24:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm often a happy below the impression of alcohol, i'm in no way that propose yet I do tend to tell people what i think of of them whilst i'm below the impression of alcohol (no longer in a terrible way). I swear besides so I do swear whilst below the impression of alcohol and that i snort a lot at something! Cake
2016-11-26 01:37:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means the question has been asked many times before and has gotten old.
2007-12-29 07:55:25 · answer #9 · answered by Emily 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dont get what everyone is talking about, why dont they just answer the question. If it bothers them so much then why do they click on it?
2007-12-29 09:42:48 · answer #10 · answered by MOOCHY 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋