# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=131 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 132 --- ## [My mother's use of the word "spicy" (mild)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mothers-use-of-the-word-spicy-mild/735915)
**Author:** [@Scholar\_Beardpig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scholar_Beardpig)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2015, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mothers-use-of-the-word-spicy-mild/735915 "2015-11-03T07:39:24Z")
This fills me with rage. I should probably preface this with the fact that I live with my elderly mother to take care of her, and that she and I inherited from my father a profoundly toxic, abusive culture of communicat… --- ## [Dumb trashy section 8 family down the block with the Republican Party Sign](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862)
**Author:** [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-trashy-section-8-family-down-the-block-with-the-republican-party-sign/735862 "2015-11-02T19:54:13Z")
The legislators whose sign is proudly displayed in your trash-filled, weedy yard, next to the cans of PBR, and ghetto pit bull dog poop you don’t bother to pick up, are itching to severely limit the number of section 8 … --- ## [Are employees of stores with Allpoint ATMs sworn to secrecy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-employees-of-stores-with-allpoint-atms-sworn-to-secrecy/736304)
**Author:** [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-employees-of-stores-with-allpoint-atms-sworn-to-secrecy/736304 "2015-11-02T14:53:26Z")
I just opened an account with a bank that is part of the Allpoint network. I wanted to use one of their ATMs to deposit a check. I went to four different stores with Allpoint ATMS, and when I saw that they didn’t take … --- ## [People "boycotting" New Star Wars Film on Racial Grounds](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-boycotting-new-star-wars-film-on-racial-grounds/735295)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 195\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-boycotting-new-star-wars-film-on-racial-grounds/735295 "2015-11-02T12:35:24Z")
You stupid, small-minded shitsuckers. I genuinely feel sorry for you if your world is so small that woe-wanking over a nonexistent “issue” in a film is something that you feel the need to use as a rallying cry for your h… --- ## [Rant or Treat (October Mini Rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-or-treat-october-mini-rants/733109)
**Author:** [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Replies:** 289\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-or-treat-october-mini-rants/733109 "2015-11-02T00:07:20Z")
So, I’m not sure this is actually mini, but I’m gonna kick the month off with a doozy. Today, the nephew of an old, dear friend was murdered. In his home. He died in his mother’s arms. This is one of the now 100+ murder… --- ## [The Fallen Blogger and the Spectre of Secularism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fallen-blogger-and-the-spectre-of-secularism/713827)
**Author:** [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Replies:** 1239\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2015, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fallen-blogger-and-the-spectre-of-secularism/713827 "2015-11-01T06:43:25Z")
Secularist blogger Avijit Roy was killed in Bangladesh by hardline Islamists. Yet another example of how the Islamic world is struggling to accept the inevitability of secularism. To their credit, many Bangladeshis imm… --- ## [In re: Atheists v. Christians debate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-re-atheists-v-christians-debate/735153)
**Author:** [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Replies:** 296\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-re-atheists-v-christians-debate/735153 "2015-10-31T18:35:02Z")
I saw an announcement in the local newspaper about a scheduled atheists-versus-Christians debate scheduled for later this week in a Presbyterian Church in Torrance, CA. If the response to this statement warrants I will a… --- ## ["Gender Roles"," or "How to Deal With the woman-servant When She Won't Put Out for You"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-roles-or-how-to-deal-with-the-woman-servant-when-she-wont-put-out-for-you/736130)
**Author:** [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-roles-or-how-to-deal-with-the-woman-servant-when-she-wont-put-out-for-you/736130 "2015-10-31T18:18:50Z")
Xian couples, if the manly man wants some and she won’t give it up, coax her anyway and avoid looking her in the eye. After all, it’s not rape if you’re married. Ah, but there’s more: (seventh para in link): Woman,… --- ## [Ben Carson: Abolish medicare and medicaid, replace them with $2000 vouchers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-carson-abolish-medicare-and-medicaid-replace-them-with-2000-vouchers/735617)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2015, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ben-carson-abolish-medicare-and-medicaid-replace-them-with-2000-vouchers/735617 "2015-10-31T05:03:17Z")
I’m sure an elderly person can buy a private health insurance plan with 2k a year in subsidies :smack:, it would probably only cost 30k a year for an elderly couple in their 70s to buy a high deductible plan with 10k i… --- ## [Fuck Wikipedia and its deletion fiends](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-wikipedia-and-its-deletion-fiends/443071)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-wikipedia-and-its-deletion-fiends/443071 "2015-10-30T20:12:25Z")
A while ago I came across a Wikipedia page that had compiled the genealogy of the entire Taft family. I just went to look something up on it, trying to see how Taft Broadcasting fit into there, and I see that at the begi… --- ## [Yourmechanic is fucking useless!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yourmechanic-is-fucking-useless/735913)
**Author:** [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yourmechanic-is-fucking-useless/735913 "2015-10-30T13:24:41Z")
I have heard some good things about Yourmechanic, so I tried to fill out the form on their website for the service on my car that I needed. It said “We can’t service your car at this time, please call us” after I finish… --- ## [Dear Facebook - please shove Sonny Iacconne up your ass!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-facebook-please-shove-sonny-iacconne-up-your-ass/645592)
**Author:** [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-facebook-please-shove-sonny-iacconne-up-your-ass/645592 "2015-10-30T06:09:36Z")
I don’t do facebook and have no interest in it. For those of you that do, wonderful. I must get 6 or 8 emails a day from those stupid fucks at FB with computer generated text asking me “Do you know Sonny Iacconne”? No… --- ## [When will "reformers" learn that you can't blame "failing schools" for low test scores?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-reformers-learn-that-you-cant-blame-failing-schools-for-low-test-scores/732266)
**Author:** [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Replies:** 109\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2015, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-reformers-learn-that-you-cant-blame-failing-schools-for-low-test-scores/732266 "2015-10-28T22:37:40Z")
(This is not prefaced “RO” because my wife is a special education teacher, who is hardworking and does a great job, but who is constantly being implicitly blamed by all this “failing schools” talk, as her students do not… --- ## [Get McFucked](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-mcfucked/294006)
**Author:** [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Replies:** 115\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-mcfucked/294006 "2015-10-28T18:14:45Z")
Dear McDonalds, It has come to my attention that you are suffering under the delusion that you somehow own the prefix/abbreviation “Mc”. While I’m sure your bogan lawyers have wonderfully eloquent and persuasive argume… --- ## [The Bishop is a drunkard.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bishop-is-a-drunkard/708457)
**Author:** [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Replies:** 135\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2015, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bishop-is-a-drunkard/708457 "2015-10-28T10:17:20Z")
There’s really not much I can add to this but it seems Maryland’s first female bishop is a bit of a drunkard. And now she has killed someone with her car. This isn’t the first time she’ been DUI. --- ## [Here's the Pit thread for career criminal civilans killing cops.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-the-pit-thread-for-career-criminal-civilans-killing-cops/735458)
**Author:** [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-the-pit-thread-for-career-criminal-civilans-killing-cops/735458 "2015-10-27T21:57:54Z")
Yeah, right, we can start Pit threads when cops kill civilians, but where’s the outrage over this incident? BTW, both the (dead) cop and the (criminal) shooter were African-Americans. --- ## [I've fucking had it with NASCAR and NBCSN](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-fucking-had-it-with-nascar-and-nbcsn/735679)
**Author:** [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2015, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-fucking-had-it-with-nascar-and-nbcsn/735679 "2015-10-27T05:59:27Z")
NASCAR and NBC have made sure that the most interesting races are not on channels that most people get. The night race at Bristol was on NBCSN. OK, shit happens. An elimination Race for the Chase, at Talladega, the most… --- ## [Metafilter on cultural appropriation: when the lunatics run the asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metafilter-on-cultural-appropriation-when-the-lunatics-run-the-asylum/735840)
**Author:** [@theorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theorange)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2015, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metafilter-on-cultural-appropriation-when-the-lunatics-run-the-asylum/735840 "2015-10-27T04:33:33Z")
This Metafilter thread is a discussion about site discussions of cultural appropriation. It runs for hundreds of comments, bans users, is hysterically intolerant of any deviation from PC orthodoxy, and is absolutely typ… --- ## [Kindle PaperWhite v7](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-paperwhite-v7/735514)
**Author:** [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2015, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-paperwhite-v7/735514 "2015-10-26T13:37:38Z")
Watch out. This new device does not have any back light. You cannot read it in the dark. Bought it for my 86yo Mom as a need as she is coming home from the hospital tomorrow. Love the Kindle, but this one needs light… --- ## [Jewish influence over the president candidates (Trump and Clinton)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-influence-over-the-president-candidates-trump-and-clinton/734770)
**Author:** [@Scandic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scandic)\ **Replies:** 199\ **Last updated:** [October 25, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-influence-over-the-president-candidates-trump-and-clinton/734770 "2015-10-25T21:04:58Z")
How much Jewish influence is present over the two top-candidates (Trump and Clinton). How will this affect the presidency ? (if elected):confused: Trumps daughter have converted to judaism (her husband is Jewish):smack: … --- ## [Kickstarter Rant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kickstarter-rant/735377)
**Author:** [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [October 25, 2015, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kickstarter-rant/735377 "2015-10-25T12:04:38Z")
30 days ago, I launched a Kickstarter trying to generate some cash flow for a fledgling children’s science company\*. Ultimately the KS was not a success. Perhaps we didn’t promote it well enough, get it out to the right … --- ## [African-Americans immigrated here as agricultural workers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-americans-immigrated-here-as-agricultural-workers/733646)
**Author:** [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2015, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-americans-immigrated-here-as-agricultural-workers/733646 "2015-10-24T10:16:27Z")
At least, that is what a current Texas high school history book calls slavery. In a chapter on immigration patterns in the US, African-Americans were included as an immigrant group: McGraw-Hill, the book’s publisher, … --- ## [Pitting my freeloading parents-in-law.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-my-freeloading-parents-in-law/735113)
**Author:** [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-my-freeloading-parents-in-law/735113 "2015-10-23T22:39:48Z")
Pitting my in-laws for constantly borrowing money from their daughter, i.e. my girlfriend, while seeming completely uninterested in even thinking of trying to find a way to ever pay her back. Pitting them for laughing a… --- ## [Ungrateful Muslims](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ungrateful-muslims/735082)
**Author:** [@Sealybobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealybobo)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ungrateful-muslims/735082 "2015-10-22T18:44:26Z")
I know this pakastani ahole. Real bad attitude. Arrogant, angry. Long story short I see him park in the wounded vets spot. God I wish as americans we could have a say if someone stays or leaves. I would ship that sleepe… --- ## [Fuck Jake Arrieta](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-jake-arrieta/733899)
**Author:** [@Grsz11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grsz11)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-jake-arrieta/733899 "2015-10-22T13:01:38Z")
You hipster-looking, Mack Truck strikezone throwing bitch. --- ## [Stand Even More Ground](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-even-more-ground/733844)
**Author:** [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-even-more-ground/733844 "2015-10-21T13:11:01Z")
A new bill in the Florida legislature will expand the “Stand Your Ground” law - specifically, the provision that allows a defendant to request a hearing where the court determines if he is immune from prosecution. “Well… --- ## [I'm sick of this Global Warming!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440)
**Author:** [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Replies:** 5070\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440 "2015-10-21T04:42:05Z")
Atlanta breaks a century-old temperature record ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) - Atlanta’s high temperature on Thursday was only 73 degrees which is the coolest high temperature on record for August 15. The previous record was… --- ## [Workplace griping, anyone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401)
**Author:** [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Replies:** 9317\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401 "2015-10-19T15:43:50Z")
Anyone want to bitch? Big, small, in-between irritations? I’ll go first; there is an issue at my temp placement with breaks (as in, no one takes any). Let me re-phrase that; no one but the smokers take any. :mad: (I don… --- ## [Pitting the family who lives behind me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-family-who-lives-behind-me/734920)
**Author:** [@Fat2FitMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fat2FitMama)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-family-who-lives-behind-me/734920 "2015-10-19T14:58:05Z")
Dear “neighbors” (and I use that word loosely), I don’t know how long you’ve lived there but I do know over the last couple of years I’ve had to call the cops on you at least a dozen times. Usually because you decide t… --- ## [Taliban Attack Kunduz: Why Should I Care?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taliban-attack-kunduz-why-should-i-care/734900)
**Author:** [@solosam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solosam)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2015, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taliban-attack-kunduz-why-should-i-care/734900 "2015-10-19T13:26:56Z")
So let me get this straight… We’ve spent the last 14 years or so listening to the world tell us that America is evil, we are occupiers in a country we have no right or business being in, we’re wrong to inflict our soc… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=130) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=132)