# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=129 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 130 --- ## [No, dumb bitch, we don't take anyone's American Express card](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-dumb-bitch-we-dont-take-anyones-american-express-card/737697)
**Author:** [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Replies:** 250\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-dumb-bitch-we-dont-take-anyones-american-express-card/737697 "2015-11-30T21:36:29Z")
I work in a store owned by Chassidic Jews. We can stay open and sell anything on Sundays, being exempt from the county’s blue laws. It’s been an easy day. Then a big beautiful black woman tries to pay with her American E… --- ## ["Allahu Akbar"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allahu-akbar/737589)
**Author:** [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Replies:** 407\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2015, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allahu-akbar/737589 "2015-11-28T06:12:18Z")
Always remember, folks, that “Allahu Akbar” is Arabic for “I’m a lone wolf and I’m killing these people for no particular reason, so don’t you dare connect this to my faith, you hateful Islamophobes.” --- ## [Armed protesters stalk peaceful Muslims at Texas mosque: We want to show force](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-protesters-stalk-peaceful-muslims-at-texas-mosque-we-want-to-show-force/738303)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 135\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-protesters-stalk-peaceful-muslims-at-texas-mosque-we-want-to-show-force/738303 "2015-11-27T23:24:28Z")
I thought about posting this in the stupid Republican idea thread, but I can’t say for a fact that these people are Republicans. They want to show force. They want people to be afraid of them. Who are the terrorists … --- ## [RO: This is totally going to kill Bring Your Clock to School Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454)
**Author:** [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Replies:** 1435\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454 "2015-11-27T20:24:41Z")
High school kid who fixes go-karts and builds radios brings his homemade clock to school to impress his teachers. Engineering teacher is impressed but recommends he not show it to anyone else in school. But it beeps in… --- ## [If you whine about political correctness, you're a bigot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-whine-about-political-correctness-youre-a-bigot/725671)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 490\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-whine-about-political-correctness-youre-a-bigot/725671 "2015-11-27T15:37:04Z")
Seriously. Maybe I’ve just missed it, but I don’t think so. Every freaking time I hear someone bitching about “political correctness” it’s to make a bigoted comment or to bitch about the person they’re accusing of being … --- ## [Of course Camille Cosby stayed... Is there any surprise there?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-course-camille-cosby-stayed-is-there-any-surprise-there/737616)
**Author:** [@JRUSA1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRUSA1)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-course-camille-cosby-stayed-is-there-any-surprise-there/737616 "2015-11-26T19:12:57Z")
Of course Bill Cosby Wife behavior and his constant Cheater through out their 51 years Marriage. Why else? Same reason Hillary Clinton, Jacqueline Brown (Jackson), Kathie Lee Gifford, Victoria Beckham, Regina Lasko (Le… --- ## [If all the GOP candidates are indicted on child porn charges, who might run?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-gop-candidates-are-indicted-on-child-porn-charges-who-might-run/738602)
**Author:** [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-the-gop-candidates-are-indicted-on-child-porn-charges-who-might-run/738602 "2015-11-26T14:38:11Z")
Seriously. Some names include Jesse Jackson, Osama Bin Laden, and Vladimir Putin. --- ## [Rachel Maddow](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachel-maddow/738227)
**Author:** [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Replies:** 90\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachel-maddow/738227 "2015-11-25T20:42:06Z")
In a recent report, Rachel Maddow went full Godwin on the donald, comparing his plan to register people of a specific religion/ethnicity to you know who else did that? Pretty extreme, and not necessarily entirely reasona… --- ## [Broomstick - Does His Ass Say rebeW or Not?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343)
**Author:** [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Replies:** 431\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343 "2015-11-25T16:08:30Z")
The story starts at post #26 of this thread. No, it’s a real story, he really does have the reverse “weber” on his ass, but since I can’t exactly reproduce the font from the grill I improvised. I thought most people … --- ## [Figthing Ignorance With Ignorance?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/figthing-ignorance-with-ignorance/738437)
**Author:** [@ebuc76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ebuc76)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/figthing-ignorance-with-ignorance/738437 "2015-11-24T22:02:56Z")
Fighting common sense with ignorance is the norm here at The Crooked Tube-of-Glue forum and in well documented in the threads, Cosmic Thinker, Free Ridicule Forum The above is a resultant of a sad lack of intellectual i… --- ## [Free Ridicule Forum--Top Priority](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-ridicule-forum-top-priority/738372)
**Author:** [@ebuc76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ebuc76)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-ridicule-forum-top-priority/738372 "2015-11-24T21:57:18Z")
Straight Dope is a jokers forum for clowns who’s sole fantasy is to support/encourage unecessary physic slapping of others in any ridiculistic manner that tickles their cruel intentions. Ex…" For frank exchanges of … --- ## [Stop running redlights, dammit!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-running-redlights-dammit/737896)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-running-redlights-dammit/737896 "2015-11-24T03:45:40Z")
(Redlights spelled as one word to make this thread easier to find in later searches). Hardly a day goes by that I don’t see some idjit running a redlight. And not just “Oh, it was yellow juuuust turning to red and I th… --- ## [Ted Cruz and Rand Paul - you fucking cowards!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-and-rand-paul-you-fucking-cowards/738100)
**Author:** [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-and-rand-paul-you-fucking-cowards/738100 "2015-11-23T22:53:23Z")
Trump and Carson don’t need pitting - their statements are self-pitting. So, I will ignore them here. But when Ted Cruz and Rand Paul go on record as saying they are against the ‘registration of Muslims’ in the US, and d… --- ## [Worst responses to Paris Terrorist Attacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-responses-to-paris-terrorist-attacks/737597)
**Author:** [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-responses-to-paris-terrorist-attacks/737597 "2015-11-23T15:03:25Z")
Worst response by liberal in a leading role: Salon Magazine. We have seen this all before; it should be oddly familiar. The reaction to the horrific January 2015 Paris attacks was equally predictable; the knee-jerk Isla… --- ## [DAESH rot in hell, you are the criminal infidel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daesh-rot-in-hell-you-are-the-criminal-infidel/737682)
**Author:** [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daesh-rot-in-hell-you-are-the-criminal-infidel/737682 "2015-11-22T14:44:24Z")
We learn today in the group email this morning that one of our close collaborators and friends who was working with us on projet before returning to Paris recently is killed in the theater Bataclan and there are two more… --- ## [And the prize for the most unnecessarily long-winded,repetitve thread goes to:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-unnecessarily-long-winded-repetitve-thread-goes-to/737913)
**Author:** [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-prize-for-the-most-unnecessarily-long-winded-repetitve-thread-goes-to/737913 "2015-11-22T02:31:09Z")
Will the Tesla Model 3 revolutionize Amercan driving? Please, fellow Dopers, tell me what’s going on here: Twelve frickin’ pages of repetition. Now,…it does start off normally, as a legitimite thread: Somebody asks if… --- ## [How selfish can you be, Charlie Sheen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-selfish-can-you-be-charlie-sheen/737852)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2015, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-selfish-can-you-be-charlie-sheen/737852 "2015-11-21T04:26:08Z")
So Charlie Sheen revealed today that he’s HIV positive. He says he found out four years ago, in 2011. Uh, okay. So you haven’t told anyone about it in that length of time? Kept it a secret? I don’t know, maybe he did le… --- ## [America is the leader of the free world](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-is-the-leader-of-the-free-world/737921)
**Author:** [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-is-the-leader-of-the-free-world/737921 "2015-11-20T00:20:17Z")
What a fucking joke. America is too fucking scared to take any Syrian/Muslim refugees. Well the rest of the free world that share our values are showing a lot more courage. And let me tell you, cowardice does not hel… --- ## [I hate my fucking job!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-fucking-job/737996)
**Author:** [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-fucking-job/737996 "2015-11-19T23:06:57Z")
I hate my fucking job! I can’t quit because I’m paid too well and my family depends on me. I’m good at it and nothing else I can do will pay as well. I’ve hated it for twenty years but kept getting more and more pay now … --- ## [Body Signals and the Fall of Radical Islam](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-signals-and-the-fall-of-radical-islam/734015)
**Author:** [@Snark\_Hunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snark_Hunter)\ **Replies:** 382\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-signals-and-the-fall-of-radical-islam/734015 "2015-11-19T20:32:13Z")
First of all, let me explain what I mean when I refer to the Theory of Body Signals. It isn’t a scientific theory, but rather a spiritual one. I’ve been observing and analyzing the body signals for decades now, and I l… --- ## [Go Ahead, Mr. Truck Driver, take all the road you want!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-ahead-mr-truck-driver-take-all-the-road-you-want/737487)
**Author:** [@Hooleehootoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hooleehootoo)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-ahead-mr-truck-driver-take-all-the-road-you-want/737487 "2015-11-17T18:35:57Z")
I’m sure when you were in truck driver school they told you, “You can drive wherever you want, because your truck is big. Don’t worry if you have to deliver nuclear reactor parts to a light industrial park. Use all of t… --- ## [I Pit HOBBY LOBBY](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335)
**Author:** [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Replies:** 1670\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335 "2015-11-17T16:11:27Z")
This is my first Pit, so I hope I am doing this right. A FB friend of mine posted this today and it sent me on an uncharacteristic tirade I was incensed at the stupidity spewing from this letter. I am offended he woul… --- ## [I pit the President of the New York Police Benevolent Association](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-president-of-the-new-york-police-benevolent-association/736971)
**Author:** [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2015, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-president-of-the-new-york-police-benevolent-association/736971 "2015-11-17T11:42:13Z")
Jim Pasco, the head of the Fraternal Order of Police of New York City, has long been known for his … less than politick comments. But now he may have gone too far. He is promising a “surprise” for Quentin Tarantino bet… --- ## [Utah Judge Takes Child From Lesbian Foster Parents](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utah-judge-takes-child-from-lesbian-foster-parents/737381)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utah-judge-takes-child-from-lesbian-foster-parents/737381 "2015-11-16T23:45:53Z")
And the only reason is because they are not heterosexual.. He claims that there is valid research that children are better off in heterosexual homes, so let’s ignore whatever environment those two loving parents may hav… --- ## [Christmas, Jesus and God are doomed...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-jesus-and-god-are-doomed/737273)
**Author:** [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-jesus-and-god-are-doomed/737273 "2015-11-16T15:05:30Z")
…without Starbucks marketing. Please Starbucks, save Jesus by bringing back your Christmas cup designs. And Jesus, once Starbucks saves you, please save us. I will be at Starbucks, enjoying the quiet sanctuary created b… --- ## [Christmas in November](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371)
**Author:** [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-in-november/736371 "2015-11-16T14:20:59Z")
Fuck all a yall that have already been running Christmas shows (looking at you fucking Hallmark Channel, not that your stupid romantic comedies set at Christmas are worth watching at any time) or playing Christmas music,… --- ## [Welcome to hell Jihadi John, please take a seat on the nearest burner.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-hell-jihadi-john-please-take-a-seat-on-the-nearest-burner/737520)
**Author:** [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-hell-jihadi-john-please-take-a-seat-on-the-nearest-burner/737520 "2015-11-16T14:03:08Z")
Jihadi John may no longer be the coward he was as he hid behind those black robes and murdered innocent people. It appears that there’s a good chance he’s resting in pieces on some street now. Good work drone drive… --- ## [Your GF/Wife passes out during mid coitus: D you finish?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gf-wife-passes-out-during-mid-coitus-d-you-finish/720601)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 155\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-gf-wife-passes-out-during-mid-coitus-d-you-finish/720601 "2015-11-16T00:29:51Z")
Keep in mind, this is your GF or Wife. The two of you have had consensual sex hundreds of times. For whatever non-life-threatening reasons, your wife/gf passes out mid coitus\* You’re confident you only have about two or… --- ## [Two days off for the death of an immediate family member? WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-off-for-the-death-of-an-immediate-family-member-wtf/190547)
**Author:** [@summerbreeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/summerbreeze)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-off-for-the-death-of-an-immediate-family-member-wtf/190547 "2015-11-15T22:16:37Z")
My next door neighbor’s 28-year-old daughter was killed yesterday when a truck ran a red light and slammed into her car. Because the funeral is tomorrow (Thursday), he won’t be expected back at work until Monday. So he … --- ## ["We Don't Do Homework"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-do-homework/737098)
**Author:** [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2015, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-do-homework/737098 "2015-11-14T06:32:14Z")
So I was on the General Questions forum and I asked what I thought was a perfectly reasonable question, and the immediate response was “We don’t do homework.” :mad::mad::mad: For the record, it is not a homework questi… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=128) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=130)