Your Location --a Perennial Gripe of Mine

[Ben]

Yesterday I shopped at ///round.hotels.tribune

[cordex]

You kidding me?  ("State" is just an example; don't take that literally.)

"It's snowing like mad here and gas is down to $1.39.9."

What good does that do you?  The "information" is useless.

From a practical standpoint almost all the geographically specific information posted here is useless.  Gas prices, for example, can vary greatly across a state, and certainly vary across time.  In your example, the usefulness of any anecdotal snapshot gas pricing posted here is essentially strictly to satisfy curiosity and interest.  If you're interested in useful gas price data you're going to need another source.

Maybe we should just replace the gas price thread with a link to GasBuddy.com, since that information is more useful?

[K Frame]

"What good does that do you?  The "information" is useless."

You're confused. It's not "information" of an actionable type that would be of any use to anyone not located near that poster.

What it is, however, is conversational interest.

Because... this is, at its heart, a *expletive deleted*ing chat board.

[charby]

Because... this is, at its heart, a *expletive deleted*ing chat board.

and paranoid people are funny.

[fifth_column]

and paranoid people are funny.

It's a question of being paranoid enough . . .

[charby]

It's a question of being paranoid enough . . .

Part of my job is finding people and collecting affidavits, it's not that hard, no matter how hard you try to hide.