I think what really grabbed people’s attention is that he kept refusing to explain why he wanted to do that.
Whatever his reason was, it was such a stupid thing to be memeing about that I felt at home here right away. Edit: this was a while back now, during the first big migration from reddit after the API change protests.
Didn’t it turn out he was making a pilgrimage to Mecca and didn’t want to use public bathrooms or some such?