# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=114 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 115 --- ## [If Trump wins the White House, will the Mainstream Media admit it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239)
**Author:** [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Replies:** 150\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2016, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-wins-the-white-house-will-the-mainstream-media-admit-it/766239 "2016-09-21T05:39:37Z")
Just got online tonight and began perusing some of the country’s major news sites to see what was up. Apparently Donald Trump has virtually erased Hillary Clinton’s lead in some of the major polls. Here’s how this fact … --- ## [The faces of evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-faces-of-evil/764021)
**Author:** [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-faces-of-evil/764021 "2016-09-20T21:52:47Z")
I know. What point in pitting these monsters in human form? But I need to vent. What monsters? These ones. One of these animals is the girl’s mother. Study their faces on that page. You’re looking into the abyss. The b… --- ## [Adblock Plus, screw you!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adblock-plus-screw-you/765920)
**Author:** [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adblock-plus-screw-you/765920 "2016-09-20T17:22:57Z")
Adblock Plus just sold out. In other words the primary adblccker on the net just became a supplier of ads. Oh sure, the tucked-away opt out button will still be there for those who want no ads at all but any bets how l… --- ## [Fuck You Calista Flockhart. Your NOT Pretty.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-calista-flockhart-your-not-pretty/93486)
**Author:** [@Phlip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlip)\ **Replies:** 146\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-calista-flockhart-your-not-pretty/93486 "2016-09-20T17:02:22Z")
Your so goddamn ugly and annoying on your shitty show/hour-long-gap-commercial. Do people actually find this bitch attractive? She looks like a lizard. Just had to say that. Thanks for your time. --- ## [10 year old in New Mexico raped and killed, mother participated.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-year-old-in-new-mexico-raped-and-killed-mother-participated/766373)
**Author:** [@inedible\_knapsack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inedible_knapsack)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2016, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-year-old-in-new-mexico-raped-and-killed-mother-participated/766373 "2016-09-20T12:01:34Z")
On the girl’s BIRTHDAY. Warning: horrific story. Dear God, I haven’t felt this angry and sick about a news story in quite a while. The poor precious girl was handed over to adults and strangers by her own mother, drugge… --- ## [To the bed-wetting Hillary Clinton "supporters" in the Elections Forum... a moment of your time, pls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-bed-wetting-hillary-clinton-supporters-in-the-elections-forum-a-moment-of-your-time-pls/765681)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2016, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-bed-wetting-hillary-clinton-supporters-in-the-elections-forum-a-moment-of-your-time-pls/765681 "2016-09-20T05:09:17Z")
(I originally wrote this in response to the Hillary has lost this election thread, but decided it was too “pitty” (to coin a Buffy-ism), so here it is. I didn’t bother with editing it, so it will sound like a reply. Y’al… --- ## [Don't buy anything unless you can get an instruction manual first!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-buy-anything-unless-you-can-get-an-instruction-manual-first/766282)
**Author:** [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-buy-anything-unless-you-can-get-an-instruction-manual-first/766282 "2016-09-19T15:05:54Z")
It seems companies no longer feel it is important to have instruction manuals for their products! Just sell you the product and leave you hanging! Some cell phones HAVE NO INSTRUCTION MANUAL anywhere! Those which do can… --- ## [Phyllis Schlafly dead at 92 - Does anybody care?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phyllis-schlafly-dead-at-92-does-anybody-care/765155)
**Author:** [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Replies:** 324\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2016, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phyllis-schlafly-dead-at-92-does-anybody-care/765155 "2016-09-19T11:23:42Z")
Link I try not to take joy at someones passing, but I’m not going to miss this bitch one bit. --- ## [Vandals topple "Duckbill" rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vandals-topple-duckbill-rock/765206)
**Author:** [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Replies:** 192\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vandals-topple-duckbill-rock/765206 "2016-09-19T00:34:04Z")
Read this story if you were starting to feel more optimistic about the human race. If there was such thing as karma, the sandstone pedestal would’ve fallen over and crushed at least one of those morons. Unfortunately, … --- ## [Boy, TLC sure can pick 'em!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-tlc-sure-can-pick-em/765897)
**Author:** [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-tlc-sure-can-pick-em/765897 "2016-09-17T16:13:48Z")
Toby Willis, patriarch of The Willis Clan and star of TLC’s “The Willis Family”, in custody; charged with kiddie diddling. Hey, TLC, how about knocking off the television sideshow and going back to being educational? --- ## [A species will be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable constituents](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-species-will-be-judged-by-how-it-treats-its-most-vulnerable-constituents/766077)
**Author:** [@iLemming](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iLemming)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-species-will-be-judged-by-how-it-treats-its-most-vulnerable-constituents/766077 "2016-09-17T00:53:49Z")
To get off on the right footing, I present, Dave Allen. O how we preach of the sanctity of a child’s life: Form the contentions of the environment our progeny should best be reared in for optimum development – to formin… --- ## [Environmental Bad News of the Day:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258)
**Author:** [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258 "2016-09-16T21:01:19Z")
What it says on the tin. Mountain Lion Killed By Rodent Poison Near Los Angeles Bio-accumulation of anti-coagulants, of all things. --- ## [Welll Looky here. Ex-Fox News host Gretchen Carlson sues network head Roger Ailes for sexual...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253)
**Author:** [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Replies:** 323\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253 "2016-09-15T15:00:53Z")
And co-host, Steve “pencil neck” Doocy is named too. Swing away Dopers, swing away. --- ## [I pit UTIs.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-utis/765711)
**Author:** [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-utis/765711 "2016-09-14T00:34:37Z")
And no, not that idiotic United Technical Institute school stupid enough to give their late-night infomercial-advertised school a name represented by the initials of a demon condition thought too cruel to use in Abu Ghra… --- ## [Facebook is run by fucking idiots](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-run-by-fucking-idiots/765421)
**Author:** [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-run-by-fucking-idiots/765421 "2016-09-13T16:38:55Z")
Of course we’ve all been aware of this for some time but for those who were inclined to think it an exaggeration read and weep. The whole world knows the heartreaking photo but all Facebook can see is child porn. Zuck… --- ## [Cook County Assessor's Office Should Be Fired, Banished to Wilderness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cook-county-assessors-office-should-be-fired-banished-to-wilderness/746999)
**Author:** [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cook-county-assessors-office-should-be-fired-banished-to-wilderness/746999 "2016-09-12T19:39:16Z")
October 2013: I filed some ‘Certificates of Error’ because the description of my property was wrong. The square footage was off, and put my house in a higher tax category than it should have been. You can go back 3 year… --- ## [North Korea bans sarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-bans-sarcasm/765343)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-bans-sarcasm/765343 "2016-09-12T00:39:36Z")
This is great news. Only someone as brilliant as Kim Jong Un could conceive of such an effective way to deal with all the problems in best Korea. Kim Jong Un is a brilliant man with many well thought out, practical id… --- ## [New movie "Vaxxed" reopens discussion about the link between autism and vaccines](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-movie-vaxxed-reopens-discussion-about-the-link-between-autism-and-vaccines/757420)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 372\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2016, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-movie-vaxxed-reopens-discussion-about-the-link-between-autism-and-vaccines/757420 "2016-09-11T12:21:03Z")
I was sort of sitting on the fence on the debate about the link between autism and the MMR vaccine ubntil last night when I saw the film “Vaxxed”. It truly puts a new spotlight on the issue. I have a son with autism and … --- ## [Melania Trump sues over sex worker claims](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-sues-over-sex-worker-claims/764737)
**Author:** [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2016, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-sues-over-sex-worker-claims/764737 "2016-09-11T07:48:10Z")
People call me up and say, it’s a tremendous issue, was she really a prostitute. And I say we have to find out, i’m for it, yep really for it, we have to understand. Look at, you know, people coming in and you see peop… --- ## [The Supreme Court may be considering the legalization of bribery](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-supreme-court-may-be-considering-the-legalization-of-bribery/753877)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 206\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-supreme-court-may-be-considering-the-legalization-of-bribery/753877 "2016-09-09T20:52:13Z")
Extending the philosophy of the 2010 Citizens United v Actual Citizens decision, the Supreme Court may be ready to legalize political bribery — it’s just another form of protected free speech. The Scumbags don’t have Sc… --- ## [Flag/pledge/anthem whiners](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flag-pledge-anthem-whiners/764475)
**Author:** [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Replies:** 360\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flag-pledge-anthem-whiners/764475 "2016-09-09T20:43:13Z")
It’s amazing to me the level of butthurt that happens whenever someone doesn’t stand during the national anthem, doesn’t feel the need to put their hand over their heart during the pledge, or uses the flag as a form of p… --- ## [Dharun Ravi gets.... 30 DAYS? Oh. Really?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dharun-ravi-gets-30-days-oh-really/622639)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 140\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dharun-ravi-gets-30-days-oh-really/622639 "2016-09-09T20:20:35Z")
Everyone has their idea of justice. Mine might not have been 10 years. But ferfuxsake. 30 days in jail for what he did that night to his late roommate, Tyler Clementi ?? This falls so far to the side of " oh, boys will … --- ## [Prohibition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prohibition/765266)
**Author:** [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prohibition/765266 "2016-09-09T16:04:54Z")
As I’ve recently learned in another post, people should be forced to do things if there is a large benefit to society and to yours and other peoples health. So we should bring back prohibition. According to the CDC (LA… --- ## [That pig, Roger Ailes and the Cess Pit He created at Faux News](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pig-roger-ailes-and-the-cess-pit-he-created-at-faux-news/765277)
**Author:** [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pig-roger-ailes-and-the-cess-pit-he-created-at-faux-news/765277 "2016-09-08T18:43:39Z")
Aside from the sexual harassment stuff (horrible as that was), (Covered in this thread), Ailes ran a black budget operation against his personal enemies that including spying and smear campaigns and was used to pay off s… --- ## [adaher, you cowardly shit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adaher-you-cowardly-shit/737798)
**Author:** [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Replies:** 393\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adaher-you-cowardly-shit/737798 "2016-09-08T14:35:33Z")
From the SRIOTD thread: You’re perfectly willing to trade American lives when it’s sending soldiers off to yet another war in the Middle East, so let’s not pretend this is about that. This is about you being a snivell… --- ## [Amateur Barbarian, I'd offer you a hug but I'm afraid you'd call me a corporate shill for Big Hug](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amateur-barbarian-id-offer-you-a-hug-but-im-afraid-youd-call-me-a-corporate-shill-for-big-hug/763834)
**Author:** [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [September 7, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amateur-barbarian-id-offer-you-a-hug-but-im-afraid-youd-call-me-a-corporate-shill-for-big-hug/763834 "2016-09-07T15:37:35Z")
This pit thread is a result of the Cafe Society thread, Bottled water- Is it really worth it? (Scam or not) where, thanks to Mr. Barbarian, Alleged Economist, things are getting a little too heated for the forum. There… --- ## [AHAHAHAHAHH! "Baby simulators" backfire and result in more teen motherhood!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahahahahahh-baby-simulators-backfire-and-result-in-more-teen-motherhood/764765)
**Author:** [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Replies:** 108\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahahahahahh-baby-simulators-backfire-and-result-in-more-teen-motherhood/764765 "2016-09-06T22:16:03Z")
Oh, this is rich irony: \ This program, and the whole patronizing, contemptuous anti-child attitude that went along with it, always rubbed me the wrong way. So now I am just absolutely basking in the schade… --- ## [The Most Useless Thread EVAR!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-useless-thread-evar/764703)
**Author:** [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-useless-thread-evar/764703 "2016-09-06T13:34:58Z")
Not all threads are required to have a purpose or a point. We even have a whole forum called Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS, pronounced EM puh sims. Yes we have had a thread on that). A thread should have… --- ## [Trump Pit Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pit-thread/748959)
**Author:** [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Replies:** 687\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2016, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pit-thread/748959 "2016-09-06T12:28:21Z")
I went back 2 weeks and could only find a Trump versus Shittary thread. How the hell did we end up with Trump as the likely Republican candidate? He is orange. I’m sure that naturally orange people are very nice, bu… --- ## [Gov. Lepage goes even farther off the rails](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gov-lepage-goes-even-farther-off-the-rails/764012)
**Author:** [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gov-lepage-goes-even-farther-off-the-rails/764012 "2016-09-05T22:43:33Z")
All of the related headlines linked from that page happened in the past couple days. This is a new low, even for him. This racist fool is an embarrasment to our state. He has joined Trump in attacking the Khan family… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=113) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=115)