# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=145 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 146 --- ## [Steed, Lisa, Liar, Loon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steed-lisa-liar-loon/644403)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steed-lisa-liar-loon/644403 "2015-02-10T14:49:13Z")
Wow. this (AOL site video news report) takes…heck, I don’t know what it takes, but it’s certainly neither decency nor dedication to the people she was supposed to be protecting. Nah, that wouldn’t be as much fun as arres… --- ## [Voice menus are the work of SATAN](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voice-menus-are-the-work-of-satan/711900)
**Author:** [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voice-menus-are-the-work-of-satan/711900 "2015-02-10T01:22:21Z")
My debit card is damaged, so I called up Wells Fargo to get a replacement. I got a cheery robot voice telling me what my options were. None of them were about debit cards. The cheery robot voice said I could say what I w… --- ## [You'd think Amazon would understand the concept of what a book is](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-amazon-would-understand-the-concept-of-what-a-book-is/711818)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youd-think-amazon-would-understand-the-concept-of-what-a-book-is/711818 "2015-02-10T01:14:52Z")
But apparently not. My niece wants to learn French. Specifically reading and writing French. So she specifically wants a book on learning French. So I went to Amazon and typed in “learning French” as a search term and … --- ## [RO: Family teaches 6 year old about stranger danger in a very bad way!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-family-teaches-6-year-old-about-stranger-danger-in-a-very-bad-way/712012)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-family-teaches-6-year-old-about-stranger-danger-in-a-very-bad-way/712012 "2015-02-07T12:11:18Z")
Holy crap. They taught the poor kid by having him kidnapped, bound, stripped naked, threatened with sexual abuse and a gun, told that he would never see mommy again and would end up nailed to the side of a shed. I don’… --- ## [Ignorance, hatred, stupidity ruin cultural awareness day at my son's school.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignorance-hatred-stupidity-ruin-cultural-awareness-day-at-my-sons-school/711289)
**Author:** [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Replies:** 265\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignorance-hatred-stupidity-ruin-cultural-awareness-day-at-my-sons-school/711289 "2015-02-07T01:47:42Z")
This is not really a good pitting because I’m tired and sad. It’s really more of a vent. I’m feeling very angry and frustrated that what was meant to be a cultural awareness day event at my son’s high school has turned … --- ## [Thousands of Cats Buried Alive in Vietnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-of-cats-buried-alive-in-vietnam/711861)
**Author:** [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-of-cats-buried-alive-in-vietnam/711861 "2015-02-07T01:23:18Z")
Story here. :(:mad: Excerpt: \*\*"A truck containing three tons of live cats crammed into bamboo crates was impounded last Tuesday in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, with police initially undecided how to deal with the an… --- ## [Why is Everything so over-sweetened](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everything-so-over-sweetened/711642)
**Author:** [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everything-so-over-sweetened/711642 "2015-02-06T21:32:50Z")
I am more of a savory fan, and would choose a pizza over a cheesecake, any day, but every once in a while it’s nice to have a dessert. It seems to me that every type of processed food (which I don’t normally buy) has bec… --- ## [Even the stupid is bigger in Texas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285 "2015-02-06T19:59:42Z")
Lest anyone think that your lawmaker actually understands civil rights or even the Constitution, peruse this news. More from the bigot in question at the link. --- ## [WYSIWYG sucks and so does Woltlab Burning Boards](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wysiwyg-sucks-and-so-does-woltlab-burning-boards/711965)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wysiwyg-sucks-and-so-does-woltlab-burning-boards/711965 "2015-02-06T19:40:22Z")
Dear Woltlab Burning Boards and whatever the fuck Smashboards uses, as well as countless other websites that have this stupid, nasty tendency to use What You See Is What You Get editors only: Why is there no decent alte… --- ## [Bizarre brand of SDMB trollery](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-brand-of-sdmb-trollery/711839)
**Author:** [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-brand-of-sdmb-trollery/711839 "2015-02-05T21:12:14Z")
I am puzzled. I have a question. I put it in the Pit so that I can accuse people of being trolls. There’s a strange phenomenon that happens here on the SDMB, of one-and-done new members (one thread, often even just a si… --- ## [Abbreviations / diminutives that make you grind your teeth.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abbreviations-diminutives-that-make-you-grind-your-teeth/710521)
**Author:** [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Replies:** 160\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abbreviations-diminutives-that-make-you-grind-your-teeth/710521 "2015-02-05T15:27:19Z")
I’ve noticed something over the years- the one thing that for some reason irrationally irritates the piss out of me is pointless or flat-out stupid abbreviations and diminutives. To wit: Calling pizza “za”. For some r… --- ## [To the Troll who keeps starting new "woe is me" threads: get a new hobby](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-troll-who-keeps-starting-new-woe-is-me-threads-get-a-new-hobby/710629)
**Author:** [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2015, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-troll-who-keeps-starting-new-woe-is-me-threads-get-a-new-hobby/710629 "2015-02-05T12:16:50Z")
Can we please do a bit more about this extremely persistent troll? There are several active threads in IMHO and MPSIMS started or bumped by the same troll under different identities, all about their relationship woes an… --- ## [Now public health and safety is being debated about, just as if its a political belief?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-public-health-and-safety-is-being-debated-about-just-as-if-its-a-political-belief/711830)
**Author:** [@WPA-Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WPA-Guy)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2015, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-public-health-and-safety-is-being-debated-about-just-as-if-its-a-political-belief/711830 "2015-02-05T06:58:13Z")
Maybe because I read too many blogs that highlight people spouting stupid assertions, but has there been an upturn of people making downright stupid statements and presenting as fact? Sen. Thom Tillis described his own … --- ## [To the idiots over in ATMB who have reading comprehension difficulties](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-idiots-over-in-atmb-who-have-reading-comprehension-difficulties/711652)
**Author:** [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2015, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-idiots-over-in-atmb-who-have-reading-comprehension-difficulties/711652 "2015-02-05T00:59:45Z")
Maybe you were dropped on your head as a child, maybe you were destined to be dumb and rude as fuck since the day you were born, or maybe, like many, you just willingly choose to be idiotic assholes. But whatever the cas… --- ## [There and RO'd Again: Kermit, TX and the One Ring of Power](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-and-rod-again-kermit-tx-and-the-one-ring-of-power/711664)
**Author:** [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-and-rod-again-kermit-tx-and-the-one-ring-of-power/711664 "2015-02-04T15:18:50Z")
If you like clicking on links, have a look-see, if you don’t, the quotes below are from the linked article. OK, wow. This is right up there with banning Harry Potter because of witchcraft. I may not have done exactly t… --- ## [Microsoft can shove that Surface Pro thing commercial up its fucking ass!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-can-shove-that-surface-pro-thing-commercial-up-its-fucking-ass/711402)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2015, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-can-shove-that-surface-pro-thing-commercial-up-its-fucking-ass/711402 "2015-02-04T12:31:33Z")
Just sitting here trying to enjoy a little TV and that fucking commercial with THAT FUCKING NOISE comes one every 5 minutes! I can’t get to the Mute or Pause button fast enough. To make it worse, it has fucking snowboard… --- ## [Mini-pitting: Marco Rubio](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-pitting-marco-rubio/709934)
**Author:** [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-pitting-marco-rubio/709934 "2015-02-03T21:01:12Z")
I got five minutes before work, so I’ll just be brief: He talks about how raising the minimum wage will eliminate jobs, jobs he notes will be eliminated anyway by technology. So he’s already undermined his own argumen… --- ## [Better Privacy Means Less Privacy? WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-privacy-means-less-privacy-wtf/710860)
**Author:** [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-privacy-means-less-privacy-wtf/710860 "2015-02-03T16:52:55Z")
In this dispatch from Bizarro World, a former spy chief claims that improved privacy will lead to loss of privacy: My conclusion: Sir David needs to inquire as to whether National Health Service coverage and/or any ext… --- ## [I pit the car stereo industry for not being able to produce a decent MP3 player](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-car-stereo-industry-for-not-being-able-to-produce-a-decent-mp3-player/711291)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-car-stereo-industry-for-not-being-able-to-produce-a-decent-mp3-player/711291 "2015-02-02T22:21:48Z")
I am posting this half in the hope, that someone more knowledgeable than me will set me straight, and if so it should be ignorant car stereo salesmen I’m pitting. Nevertheless … I described my stereo’s problem in a GQ … --- ## [Greece is a mess, yes, but that's not the whole story, you racists](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greece-is-a-mess-yes-but-thats-not-the-whole-story-you-racists/711374)
**Author:** [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greece-is-a-mess-yes-but-thats-not-the-whole-story-you-racists/711374 "2015-02-01T18:33:50Z")
In PastTense’s thread Anti-Austerity Party Wins in Greece: Will Greece Leave the Euro?, the first page was pretty well packed with ridiculous, implicitly racist, ignorant stereotypes about Greece. I read in several posts… --- ## [silly, silly terrorists in Paris](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494)
**Author:** [@Iamnotivan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iamnotivan)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2015, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494 "2015-02-01T12:10:23Z")
How could they destroy so many lives with guns and then only impede one newspaper? Don’t they know that political correctness has successfully neutered virtually every media type at every level, abolished freedom of tho… --- ## [First Rants Thread of 2015 - January Minirants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-rants-thread-of-2015-january-minirants/708681)
**Author:** [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Replies:** 328\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-rants-thread-of-2015-january-minirants/708681 "2015-02-01T05:19:11Z")
I pit myself for not being able to come up with a better title. If you’re not enjoying certain aspects of the year so far, bitch away in this thread! --- ## [Okay France, what the hell are you thinking? (Free Speech)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-france-what-the-hell-are-you-thinking-free-speech/711293)
**Author:** [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-france-what-the-hell-are-you-thinking-free-speech/711293 "2015-01-31T21:09:27Z")
Sources are reporting that French authorities questioned an 8-year-old boy for refusing to observe a minute of silence at school and for expressing solidarity with the gunmen of the Charlie Hebdo attack. I don’t get it.… --- ## [I Pit drivers that stop on Interstates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drivers-that-stop-on-interstates/711147)
**Author:** [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drivers-that-stop-on-interstates/711147 "2015-01-31T04:46:49Z")
Twice in the last 6 months I’ve nearly had wrecks because people stopped in front of me on the interstate for no good reason. The first idiot stopped in the right lane to talk to someone in the breakdown lane. Dead stop… --- ## [Disneyland Measles Outbreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-measles-outbreak/710529)
**Author:** [@buddy431](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddy431)\ **Replies:** 311\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-measles-outbreak/710529 "2015-01-31T02:35:53Z")
At this point there have been 54 confirmed cases of measles, with the outbreak originating at Disneyland (although at this point some of the patients received their infection from others, not at Disneyland). Disneyland … --- ## [I pit college bookselling games...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-college-bookselling-games/709997)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-college-bookselling-games/709997 "2015-01-31T00:51:56Z")
That college textbooks are overpriced is hardly news. As an author, editor and publisher with academics in the family, one the author of the foundational textbook in his field, I know all the dynamics and cost issues and… --- ## [Is It Time To Oil The Tumbrel-Cart Axles Yet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-oil-the-tumbrel-cart-axles-yet/710760)
**Author:** [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-oil-the-tumbrel-cart-axles-yet/710760 "2015-01-30T19:39:22Z")
Meet Jeff Greene, poster boy for the 1% of the 1%: --- ## [Michelle Obama was my hero today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michelle-obama-was-my-hero-today/711186)
**Author:** [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Replies:** 91\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michelle-obama-was-my-hero-today/711186 "2015-01-30T14:54:37Z")
https://celebrity.yahoo.com/news/michelle-obama-not-amused-while-meeting-king-saudi-143636653-us-weekly.html Plus head uncovered? Good on her. Women are treated like dirt there and there’s no reason for a proud Western … --- ## [I Pit the Job Application Process](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-job-application-process/706688)
**Author:** [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-job-application-process/706688 "2015-01-29T21:20:21Z")
I hope this is the right place for this, as I am not normally a Pit Person… As it happens, I just found a new job and my wife is actively looking. We were and are both employed, so this was not an urgent need, just each… --- ## [Regarding the suspension of Der Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-the-suspension-of-der-trihs/711216)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-the-suspension-of-der-trihs/711216 "2015-01-29T16:39:56Z")
First: I wasn’t sure which forum in which to post this, but I figure this probably goes best. Next: Regarding this incredibly long overdue announcement: Sing it, Martha! As I said above, this is a long, long, loooooooo… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=144) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=146)