# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=134 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 135 --- ## [Why, davidmich? Why?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-davidmich-why/696856)
**Author:** [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-davidmich-why/696856 "2015-09-12T01:16:07Z")
davidmich’s threads have annoyed me for a while, but I haven’t been able to put my finger on why. I came close to pitting myself for not being able to just let it go, but today I had a breakthrough. Over 100 threads sta… --- ## [Rupert Murdoch buys National Geographic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-murdoch-buys-national-geographic/730509)
**Author:** [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-murdoch-buys-national-geographic/730509 "2015-09-11T21:56:20Z")
As a child in the pre-internet, pre-cable days, my windows to the world of science beyond my science classes in school were Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, books and of course National Geographic. We had a subscription for the mag… --- ## [I Pit Jobbik-loving "Journalist" Petra Laszlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jobbik-loving-journalist-petra-laszlo/730459)
**Author:** [@quimper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quimper)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jobbik-loving-journalist-petra-laszlo/730459 "2015-09-11T14:25:07Z")
I know, hardly original. Everything about the Syria situation these days just leads to heavy sighs. The antics of this child-kicking, father-tripping, immigrant-hating turd somehow managed to make things worse. At lea… --- ## [Why Are Republicans Allowed To Vote?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570)
**Author:** [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Replies:** 259\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570 "2015-09-09T23:50:26Z")
The latest PPP poll (so new that there’s no link yet, but their rep announced the results on this evening’s Rachel Maddow show) shows that among Republicans, Ted Cruz is leading Barack Obama by double digits. Not in fav… --- ## [Walker Eyes Canadian Border Wall](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walker-eyes-canadian-border-wall/729424)
**Author:** [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walker-eyes-canadian-border-wall/729424 "2015-09-09T21:21:22Z")
Everyone knows Scott Walker is mentally ill. So why don’t his handlers commit him? He must have paid off all the psyche nurses in Wisconsin. --- ## [Walgreens has pissed me off - requiring a loyalty card to use any store coupons or sales](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walgreens-has-pissed-me-off-requiring-a-loyalty-card-to-use-any-store-coupons-or-sales/636621)
**Author:** [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walgreens-has-pissed-me-off-requiring-a-loyalty-card-to-use-any-store-coupons-or-sales/636621 "2015-09-09T12:47:05Z")
Walgreens is a largish drug store chain in the US. In addition to the pharmacy, they sell greeting cards / makeup / candy / cigarettes / batteries etc. Today I went into my local store to pick up a tube of toothpaste. … --- ## [doorhinge, answer the question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817)
**Author:** [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Replies:** 112\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817 "2015-09-08T15:49:47Z")
doorhinge, you said: So you were asked the questions: Do you feel that Fox News does “report the news”? Do you feel that they include all the facts? Do you feel that your description of “a political activist” does not … --- ## [April R, we need to talk. Well no, I need to talk. To you. Because I'm fed up.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-r-we-need-to-talk-well-no-i-need-to-talk-to-you-because-im-fed-up/729472)
**Author:** [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Replies:** 182\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-r-we-need-to-talk-well-no-i-need-to-talk-to-you-because-im-fed-up/729472 "2015-09-06T19:30:21Z")
April, ypu dizzy bitch, you have gotten on my very last nerve with this happy horseshit. You make narcissism look like a positive character trait after witnessing your over the top, pathetic attention whoring. You walk… --- ## [Construct: Are you for real?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/construct-are-you-for-real/727501)
**Author:** [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Replies:** 300\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/construct-are-you-for-real/727501 "2015-09-06T01:07:50Z")
Poe’s Law is in force. This is played so straight: Um, dude, that’s textbook racism. --- ## [The Toyota woman gets less attractive in each successive commercial.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-toyota-woman-gets-less-attractive-in-each-successive-commercial/729555)
**Author:** [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Replies:** 111\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-toyota-woman-gets-less-attractive-in-each-successive-commercial/729555 "2015-09-05T23:53:19Z")
It bothers me. --- ## [I pit images of drowned little boy.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-images-of-drowned-little-boy/729826)
**Author:** [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-images-of-drowned-little-boy/729826 "2015-09-05T17:26:20Z")
There is absolutely no reason this should be plastered all over the internet. Is there no shame left? No sense of decorum or decency? It’s appalling. All for clicks. --- ## [TX Deputy shot and killed while pumping gas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tx-deputy-shot-and-killed-while-pumping-gas/729292)
**Author:** [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Replies:** 107\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tx-deputy-shot-and-killed-while-pumping-gas/729292 "2015-09-04T13:55:25Z")
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/sheriffs-deputy-fatally-shot-houston-pumping-gas-33397329 --- ## [RO: If you like dog fighting you'll love baby boxing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-if-you-like-dog-fighting-youll-love-baby-boxing/632253)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-if-you-like-dog-fighting-youll-love-baby-boxing/632253 "2015-09-04T03:22:47Z")
Three women in New Jersey arrested for arranging fights among the toddlers at their day care center. Impossible to say yet whether this was an isolated incident, or just another round on the way to the championships. O… --- ## [Dear Ex-Fat Guy on Subways Commercials](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494)
**Author:** [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Replies:** 114\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494 "2015-09-03T02:28:28Z")
Dear Ex-Fat Guy on Subways Commercials, Shut up and go away. Thank you, Fenris What? You want more? Fine. Dear Ex-Fat Guy on Subways Commercials, It’s spiffy that you lost seven thousand (or however many) pounds. … --- ## [Josh Duggar (Duggar kid 1/19) to be executive director of Family Research Council](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369)
**Author:** [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Replies:** 531\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2015, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369 "2015-09-03T02:04:53Z")
Josh Duggar is taking a job as Executive Director of the Family Research Council’s lobbying arm. They were much mentioned during the Chick Fil A fusterclucking and are notorious for producing and distributing “gays=pedop… --- ## [An Aneurysm Of Imbeciles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-aneurysm-of-imbeciles/729313)
**Author:** [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-aneurysm-of-imbeciles/729313 "2015-09-01T22:52:22Z")
Very long rant TLDR; Stupid fucking monkeys in human guise suck. I am usually fairly even tempered when it comes to tolerating the day to day stupidities of my fellow man. I’ve even been known to commit a few myself. I… --- ## [Goddammit, I have to Pit my brother](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddammit-i-have-to-pit-my-brother/729380)
**Author:** [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddammit-i-have-to-pit-my-brother/729380 "2015-09-01T20:23:21Z")
Little background before we get to the meat of the situation: -I have 2 brothers. One, John, is 3 years older, at 45. Erick is younger, at 35. -my father died in early 2001. He was a retired firefighter who suffered 3 … --- ## [Glenn Beck turns up the nuttery re: ISIS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-turns-up-the-nuttery-re-isis/729374)
**Author:** [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-turns-up-the-nuttery-re-isis/729374 "2015-09-01T15:17:40Z")
Not that he hasn’t taken a few strolls down the crazy path before, but now he’s got whole new level of nuttery in his “plan” to take down ISIS: fuel-air bombs to suck the oxygen out of the air, because our current “flo… --- ## [Armed Police Drones in ND](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-police-drones-in-nd/729117)
**Author:** [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-police-drones-in-nd/729117 "2015-09-01T13:42:17Z")
North Dakota Legalizes Armed Police Drones Police cite Fargo as evidence of need for armed drones. I would love to hear the law enforcement lobby’s justification for the need in fucking North Dakota. Is the Canadian in… --- ## [Comcast, again.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comcast-again/729250)
**Author:** [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comcast-again/729250 "2015-09-01T01:25:05Z")
It’s such an easy target, yet it’s both necessary and cathartic. One day a few months ago we received a notice that we had a new piece of equipment waiting for us at our local Comcast service location. It was the new al… --- ## [Pitting MLB - Put up some fucking nets to protect the fans, already.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-mlb-put-up-some-fucking-nets-to-protect-the-fans-already/728629)
**Author:** [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Replies:** 105\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-mlb-put-up-some-fucking-nets-to-protect-the-fans-already/728629 "2015-08-31T18:16:32Z")
I’m watching the Braves-Cubs game from Wrigley Field in Chicago, bottom of the first inning a Cubs player hits a screaming line drive foul ball into the stands near the first base dugout. It strikes a female fan in the … --- ## [Poll: Most criminal major U.S. politicans (Was: Let's Pit Ralph)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-most-criminal-major-u-s-politicans-was-lets-pit-ralph/729076)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-most-criminal-major-u-s-politicans-was-lets-pit-ralph/729076 "2015-08-30T19:56:31Z")
It was an impulse to Pit Ralph124c that caused me to open this thread. I do want to ask Ralph if he’s joking. I think that’s acceptable diction even in IMHO and ask the Mods to move the thread there, if no one has anyt… --- ## [Josh Duggar - Ashley Madison Account](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-ashley-madison-account/728289)
**Author:** [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Replies:** 229\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-ashley-madison-account/728289 "2015-08-30T13:15:26Z")
BAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Let’s all hold our breaths awaiting the GOP response to this one. Will Huckabee continue to stand with him? Or will this drive them away? Cause you know… being a sexual predator wasn’t enough before. --- ## [Not so dear right hip](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-dear-right-hip/729359)
**Author:** [@Fat2FitMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fat2FitMama)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-dear-right-hip/729359 "2015-08-30T13:06:40Z")
Dear right hip, You suck ass. Please stop hurting when I run. I’m trying to lose weight so that I’m carrying around less weight thus making it easier for you to do your job. No love, Me --- ## [Shayna and ElvisL1ves--Christ, here we go again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shayna-and-elvisl1ves-christ-here-we-go-again/728387)
**Author:** [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Replies:** 118\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shayna-and-elvisl1ves-christ-here-we-go-again/728387 "2015-08-30T05:50:54Z")
It’s fucking August of 2015. 20-fucking-15. It’s already becoming impossible to read threads in the Election forum on the Democratic candidates due to the fucking bullshit coming from ElvisL1ves (Hillary Clinton) and Sh… --- ## [Josf, the Amusing Technicolor Turncoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josf-the-amusing-technicolor-turncoat/728984)
**Author:** [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josf-the-amusing-technicolor-turncoat/728984 "2015-08-30T02:33:37Z")
Since thread winner’s privilege is apparently not a thing, this gargantufuck of a thread is now closed and its OP, despite his concerns from the first post (and frequently repeated afterward) that he’d be the subject of … --- ## [Is Jeb! really the smarter brother?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jeb-really-the-smarter-brother/729034)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-jeb-really-the-smarter-brother/729034 "2015-08-29T16:01:34Z")
I used to joke that Jeb’s bumper-sticker motto would be I’m not as dumb as my older brother! but it’s lookin like Dubya was the smarter one after all. Latest joke is that to appeal both to his Hispanic supporters and t… --- ## [Oh, for fuck's sake, it's not "satire." You're just plain LYING.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-for-fucks-sake-its-not-satire-youre-just-plain-lying/729237)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-for-fucks-sake-its-not-satire-youre-just-plain-lying/729237 "2015-08-29T15:08:52Z")
Yes, it’s time once again to Pit those “satire” news sites that make up realistic looking crap for clickbait, then hide the disclaimer somewhere. That is NOT satire. The Onion is satire. You are just LYING for ad hits… --- ## [Really? I have to pay in order to volunteer?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-i-have-to-pay-in-order-to-volunteer/728065)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-i-have-to-pay-in-order-to-volunteer/728065 "2015-08-28T19:13:49Z")
I’m retired and occasionally bored. My search for temp or part time work has hit a wall - I’m pretty sure it’s because of my age. So I thought I’d volunteer at the local marine museum. Except you can’t be a volunteer … --- ## [I pit people using rat poison unnecessarily. (Mercy killing of mouse)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-using-rat-poison-unnecessarily-mercy-killing-of-mouse/627615)
**Author:** [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Replies:** 201\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-using-rat-poison-unnecessarily-mercy-killing-of-mouse/627615 "2015-08-28T01:07:53Z")
This is a sad pitting, rather then an real angry one. But still. Yesterday, I passed a neighbours house and saw a mouse on the sidewalk. My initial thought of “Aww look how cute” quickly changed into “Oh god, not again”… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=133) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=135)