# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=130 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 131 --- ## [MrQwertyasd you're an annoying dingbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrqwertyasd-youre-an-annoying-dingbat/737188)
**Author:** [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrqwertyasd-youre-an-annoying-dingbat/737188 "2015-11-13T21:38:48Z")
Where annoying dingbat stands for whatever unique flavour of snowflaky pseudophilosopher you perceive yourself as. Now wasn’t that a delightful improvement to the world of communication? http://boards.straightdope.com/s… --- ## [Posters who love to bring up the same things time and again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-who-love-to-bring-up-the-same-things-time-and-again/736277)
**Author:** [@Longshanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Longshanks)\ **Replies:** 251\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-who-love-to-bring-up-the-same-things-time-and-again/736277 "2015-11-13T14:14:20Z")
In the last couple of years that i’ve been reading this board, i’ve noticed that some posters love to bring up the same bit of info almost every time they post. Annie x-mas is the old lady who works as a cashier, whilst … --- ## [Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ambivalid/737174)
**Author:** [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Replies:** 184\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ambivalid/737174 "2015-11-13T02:49:22Z")
For those who aren’t aware, Ambivalid recently created a “relationship breakup thread”. Yes, Yes, hardly original but whatever. Seems he arrived home after popping out for a few hours to find his lady had bailed on … --- ## [Cwqwtoooa](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cwqwtoooa/736755)
**Author:** [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cwqwtoooa/736755 "2015-11-12T20:37:59Z")
\*Can we quit with the overuse of obscure acronyms? May I offer this little suggestion? If your acronym is not something that at least 70% of the general population would get, just type the damn words out. Today, there w… --- ## [Injust red light camera fine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/injust-red-light-camera-fine/737173)
**Author:** [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/injust-red-light-camera-fine/737173 "2015-11-12T17:16:44Z")
My wife got a red light camera fine of $353 (Australian dollars). What happened is that she was in a lane that is meant to turn right and the right turning traffic light was red but the main light was green. She turned l… --- ## [The IRS is apparently just a criminal organization](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-irs-is-apparently-just-a-criminal-organization/736994)
**Author:** [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-irs-is-apparently-just-a-criminal-organization/736994 "2015-11-12T14:37:13Z")
http://www.wthr.com/story/30389540/secret-irs-policy-hides-identity-theft-from-victims-illegal-immigration The story then goes on to interview people who were harassed by the IRS for underreporting income who were actu… --- ## [" Positive Gun News Of The Day ". Really?? Ya'll are fuckin' crazy.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/positive-gun-news-of-the-day-really-yall-are-fuckin-crazy/737247)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/positive-gun-news-of-the-day-really-yall-are-fuckin-crazy/737247 "2015-11-12T00:32:05Z")
Link to MPSIMS thread. So. If guns were not used accidentally by one toddler to blow another toddler’s brains out, it’s considered a Positive Gun News story? Holy mother of God. Just squirming with glee, aren’t yas? Sh… --- ## [Stupid Bernie Idea of the Indeterminate Time Period](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bernie-idea-of-the-indeterminate-time-period/736854)
**Author:** [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bernie-idea-of-the-indeterminate-time-period/736854 "2015-11-11T22:23:07Z")
I feel like Bernie Sanders is getting left out of the Stupid \[blank\] of the Day action. I know, he’s only one man! He can’t keep up with the millions of Stupid Republicans and Stupid Liberals! But in case he does someth… --- ## [Never go into business with a lover](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-go-into-business-with-a-lover/737091)
**Author:** [@contradancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/contradancer)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-go-into-business-with-a-lover/737091 "2015-11-11T19:25:04Z")
Ever since the debacle of no-doc loans, the congress having stomped on them, banks have been afraid to approve any loan that might have the slightest risk. My son is desperate, his ex and former partner in an assisted l… --- ## [David Brooks pits the GOP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-brooks-pits-the-gop/734545)
**Author:** [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2015, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-brooks-pits-the-gop/734545 "2015-11-11T06:56:15Z")
The Republicans’ Incompetence Caucus Brooks - OpEd That man is ticked off. Can’t blame him. American was built on compromises. The “Freedom” caucus, and their ilk, have lost sight of that historical fact. --- ## [Got a cold or flu? - stay the fuck home!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-cold-or-flu-stay-the-fuck-home/709243)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 149\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-cold-or-flu-stay-the-fuck-home/709243 "2015-11-11T03:34:35Z")
Inspired by this thread http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=745047&page=2 and Anaamika’s post #84 “Goddamnit, everyone is coming to work sick. WTF is wrong with people. We have an enormous amount of s… --- ## [What would Smapti say? A Q&A thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-smapti-say-a-q-a-thread/737012)
**Author:** [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-smapti-say-a-q-a-thread/737012 "2015-11-10T16:22:38Z")
What would Smapti say? A Q&A thread. Or, yes, we can read your mind. Can you look at a thread and immediately know which side Smapti will be on? Can you look at a thread and know what Smapti’s response will be bef… --- ## [It's too goddamn early for Christmas commercials](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175)
**Author:** [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Replies:** 90\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-too-goddamn-early-for-christmas-commercials/559175 "2015-11-09T19:52:01Z")
I know they typically start the day after Halloween, but I submit that it’s still too early. I don’t want to see commercials where people are eating at Wendy’s with Christmas decorations in the background. I don’t want… --- ## [Footnotes in Fiction](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footnotes-in-fiction/736902)
**Author:** [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/footnotes-in-fiction/736902 "2015-11-09T04:50:14Z")
I read the Edith Grossman translation of Don Quixote a while ago. An excellent translation, I hear, and I enjoyed it immensely. Immensely, that is until I would come across a numbered footnote, reminding me that I was no… --- ## [Web headlines beginning with "Why" and "No, ..."](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-headlines-beginning-with-why-and-no/736875)
**Author:** [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-headlines-beginning-with-why-and-no/736875 "2015-11-09T00:14:51Z")
I’m looking at you, Slate, but you’re not the only offender. Seems like 90% of the time, that “Why” can be removed, yielding a better headline that just as accurately sums up the article’s content. Most of these pieces … --- ## [Anti-nuclear power idiots](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-nuclear-power-idiots/490159)
**Author:** [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Replies:** 163\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-nuclear-power-idiots/490159 "2015-11-08T18:29:18Z")
If aliens landed tomorrow and told us: “We bring you a new way to generate power. It will not release pollution into your atmosphere, it will not generate greenhouse gasses, you have enough fuel for it to last hundreds o… --- ## [You've gone too fucking far, Yahoo Games!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-gone-too-fucking-far-yahoo-games/362837)
**Author:** [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-gone-too-fucking-far-yahoo-games/362837 "2015-11-08T15:26:01Z")
New slogan for Yahoo games: Interface Devolution Since 1998! Yahoo games has essentially remained unchanged since that date, the only innovations being increases in SUCK FACTOR. In 1999 or 2000, Yahoo introduced a pay-… --- ## [Governor Jerry Brown signs assisted suicide bill.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-jerry-brown-signs-assisted-suicide-bill/733669)
**Author:** [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Replies:** 327\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2015, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-jerry-brown-signs-assisted-suicide-bill/733669 "2015-11-08T09:17:04Z")
I can not tell you how happy I am about this. When they pulled the bill a few months ago because of opposition from the catholic church, I heard they didn’t think they’d be able to take it up again until next year. No… --- ## [The mods Tomndebb and Jonathan Chance are intellectual cowards](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mods-tomndebb-and-jonathan-chance-are-intellectual-cowards/736965)
**Author:** [@Hank\_Beecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hank_Beecher)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mods-tomndebb-and-jonathan-chance-are-intellectual-cowards/736965 "2015-11-07T22:18:39Z")
You mental guppies are hiding the impotence of your arguments behind your powers as moderators. Nice work you regressive fucks. Great to see the narcissistic manner in which you operate. It is clear that there is nothin… --- ## [Straight Dope](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope/736661)
**Author:** [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope/736661 "2015-11-06T23:50:36Z")
Holy fuck I miss the paperbacks and articles. This online thing sucks ass. I miss the good times back in the 80s. --- ## [Confederate patriot bombs Wal-Mart because it stopped selling Confederate flags](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482)
**Author:** [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-patriot-bombs-wal-mart-because-it-stopped-selling-confederate-flags/736482 "2015-11-06T19:49:27Z")
Marshall W. Leonard, of Tupelo, Mississippi, bombed a Tupelo Wal-Mart because they stopped selling Confederate flags. He was kicked out of a pro-Confederacy organization because he showed up at a Tupelo City Council m… --- ## [Halloween special pitting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-special-pitting/736297)
**Author:** [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-special-pitting/736297 "2015-11-06T17:24:42Z")
Listen, you fucks! I don’t mind giving free candy to you. That’s the tradition and part of the social contract. However… If you are told to take 3 pieces of candy, that means THREE. I shouldn’t have to explain mys… --- ## [tomndebb: enabler of racist trolls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-enabler-of-racist-trolls/736821)
**Author:** [@Inbred\_Mm\_domesticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inbred_Mm_domesticus)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-enabler-of-racist-trolls/736821 "2015-11-06T16:43:24Z")
tomndebb, you idiot. The trolling racist comes back to the board to insult African-Americans while sounding like Chief Nye the Pseudoscience Guy. His thread is supposedly about affirmative action in sports but it’s real… --- ## [Fuck you, phantom shitter](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-phantom-shitter/119053)
**Author:** [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Replies:** 91\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-phantom-shitter/119053 "2015-11-06T15:01:13Z")
14.28, July 15, 2002 I left the office and went down for a smoke round the side of the building. As I was damaging my health with tobacco, I noticed that someone had dropped some paper on the ground by the trash. Being … --- ## [Patrick Kane Rape Allegation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patrick-kane-rape-allegation/727195)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 318\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patrick-kane-rape-allegation/727195 "2015-11-05T23:33:08Z")
Patrick Kane’s 84 million dollar contract goes into effect this year. Now, he’s being investigated for supposedly raping a woman he met at the bar While Kane’s has had a couple of off-ice alcohol related incidents, this… --- ## [Man Left Granddaughter, 5, in Desert With Loaded Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-left-granddaughter-5-in-desert-with-loaded-gun/736545)
**Author:** [@katpohl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katpohl)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2015, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-left-granddaughter-5-in-desert-with-loaded-gun/736545 "2015-11-05T22:11:09Z")
\[URL=“Arizona Man Ditched Granddaughter, 5, in Desert With Loaded Gun”\] The question begs to be asked ‘Would grandpa have left her if he didn’t have a gun to leave with her? I’m convinced he would have , with instruct… --- ## [Go to hell, Volvo!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-hell-volvo/736718)
**Author:** [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-hell-volvo/736718 "2015-11-05T18:46:24Z")
I had to replace the rear window wiper on my wife’s Volvo wagon. No big job, except that the wiper arm is non US standard: neither Trico or Bosch or Rainex arms will fit the damn thing!. Thinking that someone had insta… --- ## [What Do I Do When I Agree with a Fuckhead?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-i-do-when-i-agree-with-a-fuckhead/736318)
**Author:** [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-i-do-when-i-agree-with-a-fuckhead/736318 "2015-11-04T19:42:14Z")
In the “So Will The Sky Fall If The UN Declare Palestine a State?” thread, in Great Debates, I find myself actually in agreement with much of what Brazil84 says. Here’s just one example. Yet I very strongly disagree wi… --- ## [Hush up, Lance Strongarm.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hush-up-lance-strongarm/633651)
**Author:** [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Replies:** 129\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hush-up-lance-strongarm/633651 "2015-11-04T18:05:11Z")
In this thread on SSM, lance has participated avidly. Start around post 338 to see the quality of his participation, ranging from a wacky theory about how marriage is really about whom you exclude, to the idea that if I… --- ## [Fuck Windows](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-windows/733206)
**Author:** [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-windows/733206 "2015-11-04T02:47:35Z")
I can’t tell you why. Must have lost me senses for a bit. I installed Windows 10, mainly I guess because there was a prompt to do every goddamed time I logged in. So I did, even though I was working with Windows 7 nearly… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=129) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=131)