I figure people are smart enough to understand the different categories of questions here. If they don’t want little jokes, they can put it in General. If they put it in Social, it’s ok to make a joke response.
I don’t believe the question belongs to the asker. It belongs to all of us. So when people derail my questions, I don’t complain. I may ask them to redirect towards why I wanted to know, but I realize people have their own agendas, and that some of them really don’t give a shit about the reason I ask a question. They just want to talk about what they want to talk about.
I’m cool with that. I figure most people are smart enough to see what’s going on. In any case, it’s just a question. It’s not that important in the larger scheme of things and usually these types of things come from people who have already spent a lot of time trying to earn my disrespect. Sue me for obliging them.
Even though there are kids here, I still think this is a playground for big boys and girls. If we want to play here, that means we think we can handle the high hard ones (baseball metaphor). If you can’t dance to the chin music (another baseball metaphor), then maybe you should head off to the baby pool (swimming metaphor), or cricket pitch (archery metaphor).