# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=138 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 139 --- ## [ESPN. Really? The Arthur Ashe award to Jenner?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn-really-the-arthur-ashe-award-to-jenner/721489)
**Author:** [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Replies:** 133\ **Last updated:** [June 22, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn-really-the-arthur-ashe-award-to-jenner/721489 "2015-06-22T13:11:00Z")
Today’s announcement that ESPN is giving this year’s Arthur Ashe award for courage to the 1970s athlete formerly known as Bruce Jenner is bringing out my inner Yosemite Sam, or as you folks around here like to say…it’s m… --- ## [I pit Disney's replacing American workers with foreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-disneys-replacing-american-workers-with-foreign/720645)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 118\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2015, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-disneys-replacing-american-workers-with-foreign/720645 "2015-06-21T02:00:29Z")
I’ve been reading about how Disney has been replacing many of its IT staff with cheap foreign labor. Not only that, the current Disney staff have been forced to train their replacements. One guy said he was told to eithe… --- ## [Parents raising their sons as daughters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-raising-their-sons-as-daughters/722652)
**Author:** [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-raising-their-sons-as-daughters/722652 "2015-06-20T15:57:23Z")
Parents forcing boy to be a girl for gender enlightment parents (provided it’s true) raising their son as a girl for several years as part of some project, need to be taken outside and hanged from the nearst lamppost. … --- ## [The Domincan Republic is preparing to engage in ethnic cleansing.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-domincan-republic-is-preparing-to-engage-in-ethnic-cleansing/722698)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 120\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2015, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-domincan-republic-is-preparing-to-engage-in-ethnic-cleansing/722698 "2015-06-20T13:16:51Z")
They’re about to dump 250,000 people into the poorest nation in the hemisphere, which has difficulty housing even it’s current population. Read the full article. This is racism; lighter skinned versus darker skinned. --- ## [Downtwodden](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downtwodden/722786)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downtwodden/722786 "2015-06-19T15:45:41Z")
I don’t use Twitter much — mostly I’m on it because I was urged by my online advisors to “establish my platform” on social media, so when I blog about my writing project I also tweet it. (More specifically, my blog is s… --- ## [Miss Spaulding](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-spaulding/718782)
**Author:** [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Replies:** 95\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-spaulding/718782 "2015-06-19T15:41:43Z")
Green Font Color? Miss Spaulding… Would you please PLEASE freaking Please!!! lose the green font color on your posts? I could teach you how. But then, we have more important things on our minds. Jeesh! --- ## [Stupid Political Idea of the Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-political-idea-of-the-day/718773)
**Author:** [@Miss\_Spaulding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Spaulding)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-political-idea-of-the-day/718773 "2015-06-19T03:08:22Z")
This is for you, random citizen, yes…you. You know who you are. No need to raise your hand or make a statement like those other Democrats and Republicans in the other two threads. You know who you are, where you stand, w… --- ## [grav3yardgirl -- WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grav3yardgirl-wtf/681014)
**Author:** [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grav3yardgirl-wtf/681014 "2015-06-19T01:45:03Z")
I’m starting this in The Pit, because… If no one else finds this YouTuber offensive, I will. Will someone explain what the concept is, here? Every time I search for a video, grav3yardgirl, aka Bunny Meyer, shows up as… --- ## [Religious fanatics protest science museum over human evolution exhibit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-fanatics-protest-science-museum-over-human-evolution-exhibit/722667)
**Author:** [@Haberdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haberdash)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-fanatics-protest-science-museum-over-human-evolution-exhibit/722667 "2015-06-19T00:45:42Z")
The Smithsonian opened their Hall of Human Origins exhibit five years ago. It’s an intricate explanation of human evolution that was specifically designed to counter the nonsense at the “Creation Museum.” About a hundred… --- ## [Cal. Assemblywoman says she knows why her state is in a drought.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-assemblywoman-says-she-knows-why-her-state-is-in-a-drought/722445)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-assemblywoman-says-she-knows-why-her-state-is-in-a-drought/722445 "2015-06-17T14:10:01Z")
Assemblywoman Shannon Grove, a conservative Republican, says that the blame for California’s historic drought can be laid at the feet of it’s allwing freedom to have an abortion. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/g… --- ## [I pit Mark Ronson, record producer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mark-ronson-record-producer/722520)
**Author:** [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2015, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mark-ronson-record-producer/722520 "2015-06-17T06:17:21Z")
He was on CBS Sunday Morning. He produced, among other artists, Amy Winehouse. He was talking to her once, and she mentioned that her family wanted her to go to rehab. His response, basically: “Hey! Great idea for a song… --- ## [I pit...the Television Academy (the Emmys people)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-television-academy-the-emmys-people/722587)
**Author:** [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-television-academy-the-emmys-people/722587 "2015-06-17T02:43:43Z")
June 15 is the day that voting for nominations for the upcoming Emmy Awards begins, and the Emmys website has a pointer to the voting area up. In the past, all of the ballots were put online, except in the few categorie… --- ## [Sarbanes-Oxley can be used to charge a private citizen with a federal crime?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarbanes-oxley-can-be-used-to-charge-a-private-citizen-with-a-federal-crime/722001)
**Author:** [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarbanes-oxley-can-be-used-to-charge-a-private-citizen-with-a-federal-crime/722001 "2015-06-15T16:49:09Z")
The friend of the Tsarnaev brothers is being charged with a federal crime for violating Sarbanes-Oxley because he cleared his browser history on his private computer, even though he was not under investigation at the tim… --- ## [Rand Paul Challenges Obama's NDAA Military Detention of US Citizens without Trial](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-challenges-obamas-ndaa-military-detention-of-us-citizens-without-trial/722214)
**Author:** [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2015, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-challenges-obamas-ndaa-military-detention-of-us-citizens-without-trial/722214 "2015-06-13T08:57:46Z")
Rand Paul defends a US citizens’ right to trial by jury when accused of any crime, the right that Obama personally insisted you should not have. Democratic Sen. Carl Levin revealing that indefinite military detention… --- ## [People pay you to do yard work. You should know the difference between tomato plants and weeds!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-pay-you-to-do-yard-work-you-should-know-the-difference-between-tomato-plants-and-weeds/722228)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-pay-you-to-do-yard-work-you-should-know-the-difference-between-tomato-plants-and-weeds/722228 "2015-06-11T23:50:03Z")
I planted a bunch of vegetables for my mother along the fence in her back yard. 4 or 5 tomatoes, 2 peppers, and a zucchini. They were against an outside fence and I put a small fence around the other sides of them to sep… --- ## [Share your funny/bizarre/infuriating stories about "Realtors"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-funny-bizarre-infuriating-stories-about-realtors/460427)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-funny-bizarre-infuriating-stories-about-realtors/460427 "2015-06-11T17:22:36Z")
I quoted and capitalized Realtor because apparently it’s a trademark, and I find it funny. In another thread complaining about care salesmen someone mentioned they never got irritating sales pitches from real estate age… --- ## [I pit robocall credit card scam artists](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-robocall-credit-card-scam-artists/651273)
**Author:** [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-robocall-credit-card-scam-artists/651273 "2015-06-11T00:28:38Z")
There is a poll on the IMHO board asking who has received calls from Rachael at Card Holder Services, or similar calls. It seems the FTC tried a crack down last November. Well, it hasn’t stopped the criminals. These … --- ## [Fuck you, Wayne Burgarello & fuck that jury too](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-wayne-burgarello-fuck-that-jury-too/721352)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 205\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-wayne-burgarello-fuck-that-jury-too/721352 "2015-06-09T21:09:49Z")
\[ \](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ce8d124ef387463eb0be72fdcc14e0e1/prosecutor-man-who-killed-trespasser-sought-confrontation)As usual here in Nevada, as long as you say the magic words, you get to walk away after kill… --- ## [Conservatives in UK about to sell the "Royal Mail"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-in-uk-about-to-sell-the-royal-mail/721633)
**Author:** [@Ze\_Pr0fes0re](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ze_Pr0fes0re)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-in-uk-about-to-sell-the-royal-mail/721633 "2015-06-09T01:16:20Z")
An institution that has been in the publics hands since the before the creation of the kingdom in 1516 is now to be sold. I wonder if they will be able to keep the “Royal” part. Anyway, funny seeing how conservative the… --- ## [What do you do when some bully tries to force their way into your lane?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-when-some-bully-tries-to-force-their-way-into-your-lane/720574)
**Author:** [@Kimbosquee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimbosquee)\ **Replies:** 107\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2015, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-when-some-bully-tries-to-force-their-way-into-your-lane/720574 "2015-06-08T05:21:06Z")
So I was picking my sister and her friend up from high school while there was a road closure due to construction. People who need to go through that street have to take a detour around that section of the road using a ne… --- ## [I Pit people who can't bring themselves to swear in SDMB threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570 "2015-06-08T02:24:13Z")
It’s not Fk, it’s Fuck. you fuckwit! It’s not St, it’s Shit, you shithead. Do you think the words are unspeakable? Unwriteable? What the fuck? Why can’t you use the words you mean and that everyone knows you mean? I… --- ## [Unisys is the most disorganized company in the world!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unisys-is-the-most-disorganized-company-in-the-world/721732)
**Author:** [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unisys-is-the-most-disorganized-company-in-the-world/721732 "2015-06-05T21:34:55Z")
Like clockwork, I get a call from Unisys, usually by someone who can’t speak English very well, every three months asking if I want a job there. They then proceed to ask me if I am okay with their job description, and a… --- ## [I pit FedEx](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fedex/721723)
**Author:** [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fedex/721723 "2015-06-05T20:47:16Z")
I pit FedEx for having a system that E-mails you when your package will be delivered and offers options such as “We can schedule the delivery to a time of your preference” (for a fee), but doesn’t bother telling you if t… --- ## [Left-Leaning Dopers: who is a better investigative journalist, you or Bob Woodward?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-leaning-dopers-who-is-a-better-investigative-journalist-you-or-bob-woodward/721124)
**Author:** [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Replies:** 213\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-leaning-dopers-who-is-a-better-investigative-journalist-you-or-bob-woodward/721124 "2015-06-04T21:51:17Z")
Here a link. As it turns out, Bob Woodward, certainly no right-wing neocon, looked into the Iraq debacle for 18 months and concluded that there was no lying that got us into Iraq. Certainly not by Bush. While no fan of… --- ## [i pit people who let their dogs bark at people on the sidewalk/street](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-let-their-dogs-bark-at-people-on-the-sidewalk-street/721258)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-let-their-dogs-bark-at-people-on-the-sidewalk-street/721258 "2015-06-03T20:03:08Z")
We happen to live on a street that is the direct route between a good access point to a bike path and the nearest free parking area. There is a sidewalk down our street, on our side of the street, which is relevant beca… --- ## [Are Europeans really unfriendlier than Americans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-europeans-really-unfriendlier-than-americans/721105)
**Author:** [@protoboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/protoboard)\ **Replies:** 93\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-europeans-really-unfriendlier-than-americans/721105 "2015-06-03T15:54:11Z")
I often hear how friendly and open-minded Americans are compared to Europeans, and honestly it kind of scares me. Because I find Americans are overall (not of all them) pretty narrow minded and damn judgmental, at least … --- ## [Thank You, Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082)
**Author:** [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-smapti/721082 "2015-06-01T16:12:04Z")
Smapti, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you. I started a thread, (no I won’t link to it.) and you haven’t gone in there and fucked the whole thing up. That was very thoughtful of you. --- ## [It MAY be time to rant a bit... (Minirants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983)
**Author:** [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Replies:** 450\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983 "2015-06-01T13:22:44Z")
My rant is more of a whine : Dearest husband, will you please try not to spend every dime we have coming in before we actually get it??? --- ## [I pit whoever wrote the rules for flexible spending accounts, causing me to lose $200.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-whoever-wrote-the-rules-for-flexible-spending-accounts-causing-me-to-lose-200/720523)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-whoever-wrote-the-rules-for-flexible-spending-accounts-causing-me-to-lose-200/720523 "2015-05-28T18:58:58Z")
I was laid off from my position the last day of April. I had an FSA (Flexible Spending Account) into which I had contributed about $250. This is money that I earned that I elected to have automatically deposited pretax. … --- ## [Where did this "Moon god" nonsense come from?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-this-moon-god-nonsense-come-from/720111)
**Author:** [@Dave\_Enn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Enn)\ **Replies:** 182\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2015, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-this-moon-god-nonsense-come-from/720111 "2015-05-27T05:20:02Z")
Every forum I’m reading these days, wherever Islam comes up, some fundy-tard throws out this crap that Allah is not the God of Abraham. Every Muslim that I’ve ever spoken to affirms that, yes, Allah is the Judeo-Christia… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=137) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=139)