# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=159 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 160 --- ## [Stupid Democratic Idea of the Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-democratic-idea-of-the-day/584618)
**Author:** [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Replies:** 182\ **Last updated:** [May 21, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-democratic-idea-of-the-day/584618 "2014-05-21T18:12:18Z")
\[Quote=Annie Potts in Ghostbusters\] WE GOT ONE! \[/quote\] Congratulations to Congressman Anthony Weiner for finally giving us a solid launching point for this thread. Seriously, dude - all the previous recent sex scan… --- ## [A note to men in the newspaper business: if your boss is the feminist Jill Abramson, you may be..](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-men-in-the-newspaper-business-if-your-boss-is-the-feminist-jill-abramson-you-may-be/688511)
**Author:** [@kstarnes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kstarnes)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [May 20, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-men-in-the-newspaper-business-if-your-boss-is-the-feminist-jill-abramson-you-may-be/688511 "2014-05-20T00:35:30Z")
passed over for a promotion in favor of a woman who may or may not be the better candidate. Links: Jill Abramson: http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/05/15/business/TIMES2/TIMES2-superJumbo.jpg A tortoise: … --- ## [I pit the Administrations dilatory efforts to remove the Malware warning](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-administrations-dilatory-efforts-to-remove-the-malware-warning/688719)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 19, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-administrations-dilatory-efforts-to-remove-the-malware-warning/688719 "2014-05-19T15:00:14Z")
I mean come on. Its been nearly a week. I have seen porn sites with faster turn around times. Can’t the reader staff of Ed or I don’t know, the Green Goblin maybe, do something and contact Google? Get feedback. This is … --- ## [Mothers day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-day/688200)
**Author:** [@koufax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koufax)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [May 17, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mothers-day/688200 "2014-05-17T19:28:29Z")
Happy Mother’s day to all the mothers whose child died in a car wreck,was murdered, disappeared, raped, committed suicide, etc etc Oh what a happy day it must be. And let’s not forget the kids whose mothers are addicte… --- ## [Screw headhunters!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-headhunters/688255)
**Author:** [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [May 17, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-headhunters/688255 "2014-05-17T13:24:08Z")
Before I get started on this rant, I’d just like to say that I know my current situation is comparatively fortunate in this economy, and I don’t mean to diminish the problems other people are having. So, with that, here… --- ## [UPS delivers a drone to an unexpecting guy in Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768)
**Author:** [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [May 16, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768 "2014-05-16T22:56:50Z")
“They told me that it was one of the undelivered packages in their office, and asked if I’ve ever had an undelivered package. I said no, but he insisted that it was mine, and said that it was up to me if I want to keep… --- ## [Excelsior College is ridiclulous](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excelsior-college-is-ridiclulous/688594)
**Author:** [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 16, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excelsior-college-is-ridiclulous/688594 "2014-05-16T19:20:14Z")
I have been considering getting a degree in cybersecurity, but I also want to start working. So I applied to Excelsior College. They sent me an unencrypted email with my login name and password in plain text! How good … --- ## [It's official - you have to be more ignorant than Pat Robertson to be a young-earth creationist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-you-have-to-be-more-ignorant-than-pat-robertson-to-be-a-young-earth-creationist/688388)
**Author:** [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [May 16, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-you-have-to-be-more-ignorant-than-pat-robertson-to-be-a-young-earth-creationist/688388 "2014-05-16T14:43:35Z")
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-says-you-have-be-deaf-dumb-and-blind-believe-young-earth-creationism Progress, I guess. --- ## [Ed Schultz is an asshole](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-schultz-is-an-asshole/688345)
**Author:** [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-schultz-is-an-asshole/688345 "2014-05-15T03:28:19Z")
Not only is he an asshole, he’s a bigoted asshole. Not only is he a bigoted asshole, he’s an ignorant, offensive, loudmouth, cretinous bigoted asshole. Not only is he a … oh fuck it, you get the picture. Here’s what he … --- ## [13% of Americans do not believe in inter-racial marriage????](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-of-americans-do-not-believe-in-inter-racial-marriage/687807)
**Author:** [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2014, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-of-americans-do-not-believe-in-inter-racial-marriage/687807 "2014-05-15T01:08:06Z")
Cite. What freaking decade are we living in? Don’t approve of it “for the sake of the children”? Sounds a lot like the arguments against same sex marriage. --- ## [NFL Draft Overkill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-overkill/687988)
**Author:** [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-overkill/687988 "2014-05-14T01:12:59Z")
Jebus, this fucking draft cannot get over soon enough. For the past three weeks, Every. Single. Minute. of local and national sports talk radio has been idiots trying to divine who is going to go first, who is taking wh… --- ## [A mini-pitting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mini-pitting/688320)
**Author:** [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mini-pitting/688320 "2014-05-13T18:53:11Z")
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/texas-wyly-brothers-committed-fraud-165329941.html New rule: Stop giving your money to people named “Wyly” or “Madoff” Don’t do business with these guys either: Snidely Ripoff Darth … --- ## [Shitibank](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitibank/687986)
**Author:** [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shitibank/687986 "2014-05-13T01:33:47Z")
We’re buying a condo for the parents to live in. We don’t have that kind of cash lying around, so I contacted a few lenders and settled on Shitibank. Up-front from day 1 about the purpose (family member not us, 55+ com… --- ## [Der Trihs Pitting du jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 446\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714 "2014-05-12T23:30:18Z")
Yes, I know it’s a bit Yogi Berra-esque (“It’s like deja vu all over again!”) but Der Trihs’ latest swipe here was (yet again) over the top: When asked for a cite here and here, surprise, surprise, not even a peep. I … --- ## [Goddam CATS are fucking SHITTING in my vegetable seedlings!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-cats-are-fucking-shitting-in-my-vegetable-seedlings/347146)
**Author:** [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2014, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddam-cats-are-fucking-shitting-in-my-vegetable-seedlings/347146 "2014-05-11T17:30:51Z")
If I ever catch one of those fucking neighborhood cats digging up my carefully-nurtured vegetable seedlings, I’m going to pepper its ass with rock salt! I ordered up from Franchi seeds (a wonderful Italian vegetable see… --- ## [Pissed off at the druggists](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissed-off-at-the-druggists/687526)
**Author:** [@bookaholic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bookaholic)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissed-off-at-the-druggists/687526 "2014-05-09T00:02:28Z")
So, my friend who had a spinal fusion years ago has problems with the vertebrae flaring up now and then. She uses Vicodin to help the pain. She goes to the pharmacy and there is a note on her scrip which says that they a… --- ## [I pit some anonymous educator in the Rialto CA School District for promoting Holocaust denial](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-some-anonymous-educator-in-the-rialto-ca-school-district-for-promoting-holocaust-denial/687985)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-some-anonymous-educator-in-the-rialto-ca-school-district-for-promoting-holocaust-denial/687985 "2014-05-08T17:24:45Z")
Here’s the story. In short, the Rialto Unified School District assigned eighth-graders to “write an argumentative essay, utilizing cited textual evidence, in which you explain whether or not you believe the Holocaust wa… --- ## [Jacaranda Trees](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacaranda-trees/660517)
**Author:** [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2014, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacaranda-trees/660517 "2014-05-08T07:11:56Z")
Fuck these trees. Goddam things are everywhere in Orange County, dropping sticky purple flowers on sidewalks and cars. As in, my car. :mad: The guy who had the genius idea to plant these things in areas with lots of foo… --- ## [Ebay: don't really know who to pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-dont-really-know-who-to-pit/687880)
**Author:** [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 7, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-dont-really-know-who-to-pit/687880 "2014-05-07T23:28:01Z")
I did my first purchase from the bay after several months and I only noticed the new “importation cost” after I clicked “buy it now.” Well, it threw my normally impulsive nature as a buyer into full reset. I cancelled th… --- ## [F you, soon-to-be-ex](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-soon-to-be-ex/662772)
**Author:** [@Sehmket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sehmket)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [May 7, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-soon-to-be-ex/662772 "2014-05-07T16:05:42Z")
So, my first pit, and I’m in way too emotionally exhausted of a state to manage a full blown rant, but I’ve been working so hard for months - years, really - to be nice, and pleasant, and patient, and whatever else it is… --- ## [DPing Pjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dping-pjen/687605)
**Author:** [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dping-pjen/687605 "2014-05-06T15:34:50Z")
In this rather intractable death penalty thread, Pjen earns my scorn. \*\*Pjen \*\*even acknowledgesthat the “desire for revenge is a basic undesirable urge” but goes on to attack victims of crime and their families as bein… --- ## [Fuck you, Universe. (a pitting for my friend)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-universe-a-pitting-for-my-friend/687712)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2014, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-universe-a-pitting-for-my-friend/687712 "2014-05-06T05:29:37Z")
A friend of mine has lost both his parents in the past few months - and just found out he’ll be losing his job later this year. Any one of those would be a pretty big shit sandwich for anyone. All three in such a short… --- ## [Sprint PCS customer "service".](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sprint-pcs-customer-service/249831)
**Author:** [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sprint-pcs-customer-service/249831 "2014-05-05T19:03:59Z")
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t blame the people who work at sprint in their call factories. I don’t blame them one bit, and every time I’ve gotten an actual person on the phone, I get wonderful service. I never can seem … --- ## [No, nothing barbaric about this (death penalty rant)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-nothing-barbaric-about-this-death-penalty-rant/687347)
**Author:** [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Replies:** 223\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2014, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-nothing-barbaric-about-this-death-penalty-rant/687347 "2014-05-05T07:15:44Z")
From CNN: I admit it’s legal, and I admit it’s constitutional, to get those out of the way. But the government of a state of the United States strapped a man down and ended his life in a way that is at least supposed … --- ## [Shagnasty, stop apologizining for the Nazis, you racist fuck.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shagnasty-stop-apologizining-for-the-nazis-you-racist-fuck/687418)
**Author:** [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Replies:** 121\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shagnasty-stop-apologizining-for-the-nazis-you-racist-fuck/687418 "2014-05-03T19:27:54Z")
Based on this. and this, and more. It’s not that hard to understand, some of us think that it is very wrong for people to deem the darkly complected as Second Class citizens whilst according First Class status to our … --- ## [Another case of millionaire immunity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-case-of-millionaire-immunity/687030)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2014, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-case-of-millionaire-immunity/687030 "2014-05-03T07:27:06Z")
Gurbaksh Chahal attempted to beat his girlfriend to death. But he’s rich so when he was arrested he posted a million dollar bail and lawyered up. The judge threw out the evidence, the charges were reduced to a misdemeano… --- ## [What does etv78 bring to this board?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-etv78-bring-to-this-board/687205)
**Author:** [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Replies:** 125\ **Last updated:** [May 2, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-etv78-bring-to-this-board/687205 "2014-05-02T21:34:16Z")
etv78 is a lying troll who consumes attention and exudes a finely-perfumed mist of bullshit. I’ve never crusaded for a bannination before, and I’m not starting now. But he brings nothing positive to the board. So can we … --- ## [RO: Police shoot, kill mentally ill teenager](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-police-shoot-kill-mentally-ill-teenager/678311)
**Author:** [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Replies:** 255\ **Last updated:** [May 2, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-police-shoot-kill-mentally-ill-teenager/678311 "2014-05-02T19:58:21Z")
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/investigation-north-carolina-kid-killed-cops-article-1.1568523 This story makes me fucking sick. Once again, the police prove how inherently corrupt, immoral, and unconcerned a… --- ## [Screw them sweepers!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-them-sweepers/686868)
**Author:** [@Richard\_North](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_North)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [May 2, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-them-sweepers/686868 "2014-05-02T18:39:45Z")
Gosh, there’s no one I hate more than the guys who drive sweepers. They are pea-brained cowards who love to bully people in sweeper trucks to compensate for their small dicks!!! They like to drive like a bat out of hell.… --- ## [Pope John Paul II is not deserving of sainthood](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pope-john-paul-ii-is-not-deserving-of-sainthood/687120)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [May 2, 2014, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pope-john-paul-ii-is-not-deserving-of-sainthood/687120 "2014-05-02T01:05:44Z")
I’m not a Roman Catholic but I despise Pope John Paul II and strongly disagree that he should be considered as a saint. His reactionary views on abortion and homosexuality alone should be enough to disqualify him. His a… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=158) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=160)