# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=170 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 171 --- ## [ios7 So SOOOO UGLY!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ios7-so-soooo-ugly/671235)
**Author:** [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ios7-so-soooo-ugly/671235 "2013-11-11T02:40:11Z")
What the hell Apple? Oh, how I wish someone had warned me. So there’s the little 1 on my settings icon, warning me that I had a software update that needed to be downloaded. I finally got around to downloading it yest… --- ## [20 year mass grave in my hometown](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-year-mass-grave-in-my-hometown/673337)
**Author:** [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2013, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-year-mass-grave-in-my-hometown/673337 "2013-11-10T08:49:54Z")
I don’t know how to pit – I don’t have a vocabulary in any of the languages: Bosnian, Russian or English – but, at the same time, I don’t see where else to put this. It’s not up for a debate, it’s not a mundane issue, a… --- ## [An overdue but minor pitting of A nice guy with an opinion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-overdue-but-minor-pitting-of-a-nice-guy-with-an-opinion/673346)
**Author:** [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-overdue-but-minor-pitting-of-a-nice-guy-with-an-opinion/673346 "2013-11-10T04:43:53Z")
For this post from this thread: Not too outrageous, but that seems to be typical of guy – the sort of half-troll who never posts anything quite bannable. Which does not mean he never posts anything Pittable. \[insert … --- ## [To the liberals who utterly dominate the season-ticket holding ranks for the Wash Nat Opera](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-liberals-who-utterly-dominate-the-season-ticket-holding-ranks-for-the-wash-nat-opera/672667)
**Author:** [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Replies:** 336\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-liberals-who-utterly-dominate-the-season-ticket-holding-ranks-for-the-wash-nat-opera/672667 "2013-11-09T19:59:02Z")
(1) Yes, I am a conservative. (2) Yes, I love opera and have season tickets. (3) No, I am not a traitor to point (2) by virtue of being (1). Nor am I hostile to opera by believing that opera should pay its own way inst… --- ## [You need time off for surgery? You're fired!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-time-off-for-surgery-youre-fired/492749)
**Author:** [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Replies:** 268\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-need-time-off-for-surgery-youre-fired/492749 "2013-11-09T00:53:59Z")
Star saleswoman, facing health crisis, axed And here: Zales Fires Top Earning Saleswoman Because She Needs Surgery Can they DO that? Wouldn’t they be opening themselves up to a MAJOR lawsuit? And either way, what ki… --- ## [Dear NFL: You are making it hard to be a fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-nfl-you-are-making-it-hard-to-be-a-fan/673199)
**Author:** [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-nfl-you-are-making-it-hard-to-be-a-fan/673199 "2013-11-08T22:24:46Z")
Dear NFL, I adore your product. I know some do not, but they don’t understand that it’s not just brute force at play, goons playing kill the guy with the ball. At its best, professional football has the intelligence o… --- ## [Manners/Politeness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manners-politeness/673166)
**Author:** [@Matt\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Matt_T)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manners-politeness/673166 "2013-11-08T13:45:06Z")
Does anyone else feel frustrated and annoyed when others refuse or forget to be courteous when responding to a question, sometimes on a continual basis? Examples include: Not saying “how about you?” after you ask them … --- ## [Rick Perry on how to grow an economy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-on-how-to-grow-an-economy/672608)
**Author:** [@cornopean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornopean)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-on-how-to-grow-an-economy/672608 "2013-11-07T14:54:34Z")
Ok…read this article. Rick Perry: Follow the Texas model of success If you disagree with him, you can respond to this article in two ways: either he has his facts wrong or his facts are accurate but his interpretation… --- ## [Blackface - Why the hysteria?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackface-why-the-hysteria/673171)
**Author:** [@Iamnotivan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iamnotivan)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2013, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackface-why-the-hysteria/673171 "2013-11-07T10:48:25Z")
I don’t watch SNL, but I constantly see news clips of a white man portraying the President with is face painted black-ish. Last week there was a white woman in blackface as Oprah and Mrs. Ob. My oh my, that was just so… --- ## [God Dammit Internet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-dammit-internet/673243)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2013, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-dammit-internet/673243 "2013-11-07T06:00:59Z")
So today I popped in “Dust: An Elysian Tale” for the first time. First half an hour gave a solid first impression, combat was free-flowing and engaging, graphics were very attractive, aesthetic good and voice acting wond… --- ## [Son, it's not just about the drugs.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-its-not-just-about-the-drugs/672513)
**Author:** [@Cognoscant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cognoscant)\ **Replies:** 118\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-its-not-just-about-the-drugs/672513 "2013-11-06T22:23:01Z")
I know I’m not even your real dad, but you live in my house. And I’m sorry that you think it’s so patently unfair that I think a 16-year-old kid should not be blowing every dime he gets on pot, because I think most adul… --- ## [The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp/672975)
**Author:** [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp/672975 "2013-11-06T16:06:17Z")
The TPP is deliberately shrouded in secrecy and will benefit corporations represented by the lobbyists doing the negotiating to the detriment of the American people. NAFTA on steroids. http://tpp2012.com/ The Tra… --- ## [Gimme that old-fashioned racism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-that-old-fashioned-racism/673133)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2013, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-that-old-fashioned-racism/673133 "2013-11-06T10:07:00Z")
Happens every Halloween. Some people wear costumes in questionable taste and get accused of racism. And other people claim that it isn’t racism. So we argue over whether going in blackface as a TV character is racist or … --- ## [I think online polls should have a minimum voting age](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949)
**Author:** [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949 "2013-11-05T21:43:17Z")
First, the fact that Breaking Bad got more votes than M.A.S.H. as the greatest tv series doesn’t worry me. I’m just wondering whether or not the BB crowd ever got to see anything better in their lives. In another poll, n… --- ## [Sorry ladies, you can't hang with the SEALS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-ladies-you-cant-hang-with-the-seals/661250)
**Author:** [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Replies:** 435\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2013, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-ladies-you-cant-hang-with-the-seals/661250 "2013-11-05T12:26:19Z")
Sorry, I hope this doesn,t happen. You are fighter pilots, chopper pilots, forward combat ops. et al. But you can’t hang with the best special ops guys we have. Only because you are physically less capable than men. No o… --- ## [Baseball is the most boring sport evah!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-is-the-most-boring-sport-evah/672752)
**Author:** [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Replies:** 119\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2013, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-is-the-most-boring-sport-evah/672752 "2013-11-05T08:47:33Z")
Baseball is outdated and so completely boring that I can’t believe that it’s still even a thing. I can see maybe a hundred years ago baseball making sense. There was nothing else to do. No TV. No internet. Less prem… --- ## [Look, I don't care if your daughter is getting married](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-i-dont-care-if-your-daughter-is-getting-married/672989)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-i-dont-care-if-your-daughter-is-getting-married/672989 "2013-11-04T21:10:21Z")
…would you stop the fireworks, I am trying to get some ZZZzzz. Its bad enough wondering how that harpy got some poor man to agree to marry her, do you have to announce it with firecrackers. :mad: --- ## [Brazil84 doesn't get what's wrong with the claim that majorities of sub-saharan africans are retards](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brazil84-doesnt-get-whats-wrong-with-the-claim-that-majorities-of-sub-saharan-africans-are-retards/672198)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 357\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2013, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brazil84-doesnt-get-whats-wrong-with-the-claim-that-majorities-of-sub-saharan-africans-are-retards/672198 "2013-11-04T10:12:21Z")
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16786946&postcount=52 And then he goes on to bring up widespread illiteracy in areas with virtually non-existent school systems as an argument for why. Holy shit. This… --- ## [I Pit Fox Sports Football Broadcasts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fox-sports-football-broadcasts/671661)
**Author:** [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fox-sports-football-broadcasts/671661 "2013-11-04T03:25:59Z")
Yes, I have an HDTV in my living room, but I also have some old (but really, not THAT old) SDTVs in the bedroom and workshop. And Fox Sports has taken me back to the 60’s, where you don’t know what the score of a footba… --- ## [Teachers so full of shit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825)
**Author:** [@Mrmanface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrmanface)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825 "2013-11-02T17:30:43Z")
Half my friends are teachers. This one guy (not my friend just someone I know) is a career student, gets average grades. Finishes something like 5 years of college in basically bullshit. Gets accepted into teachers col… --- ## [Hannity calls hotline; girl gets fired for taking his call](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274)
**Author:** [@cornopean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornopean)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274 "2013-11-02T15:19:31Z")
Is this fair? The girl did a fine job. Probably had no clue who Hannity was. Then she gets fired. Seriously? Obamacare operator fired after Hannity radio call; Hannity to give her a year’s salary | The Daily Caller --- ## ['Bout time to Pit IceQube](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bout-time-to-pit-iceqube/672749)
**Author:** [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2013, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bout-time-to-pit-iceqube/672749 "2013-11-02T07:09:03Z")
For this thread, and in particular this post. Compare and contrast this one. Only if what you’re doing is a performance-art parody of a braindead RW asstard, Qube. --- ## [Fox News employed shills to rant in blog comments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-employed-shills-to-rant-in-blog-comments/671909)
**Author:** [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-employed-shills-to-rant-in-blog-comments/671909 "2013-11-02T00:30:52Z")
If the blog opposed Fox, their employees would counter. If the blog was neutral, the Fox employees would counter. If there were comments critical of Fox in the comment section, Fox employees would respond. They did not i… --- ## [How Fucked is the Dem Party?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fucked-is-the-dem-party/672576)
**Author:** [@IceQube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IceQube)\ **Replies:** 188\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fucked-is-the-dem-party/672576 "2013-11-01T20:40:55Z")
Should we start digging the grave for the Dem Party and have the embalmers on call and the head-stone makers in the wings? --- ## [Stop buzzing around my head you motherfucking mosquitoes!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-buzzing-around-my-head-you-motherfucking-mosquitoes/672701)
**Author:** [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-buzzing-around-my-head-you-motherfucking-mosquitoes/672701 "2013-11-01T15:55:38Z")
This year a new breed of mosquito has settled in the area and they are literally driving me insane. I don’t even care if I’m bitten, but they don’t just bite, oh no, that would be too possible to deal with. They buzz and… --- ## [Fuck Off with your Feigned Outrage and Shock over Spying](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-with-your-feigned-outrage-and-shock-over-spying/672228)
**Author:** [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-with-your-feigned-outrage-and-shock-over-spying/672228 "2013-11-01T14:26:09Z")
Every county spies to the extent that their resources allow. This has been the case since countries began. You spy on us, we spy on you, get over it. If you think your country is pure and innocent, you are a fucking idio… --- ## [Twenty Days Has October Rants - The Rest Are On Furlough](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-days-has-october-rants-the-rest-are-on-furlough/670074)
**Author:** [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Replies:** 626\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2013, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-days-has-october-rants-the-rest-are-on-furlough/670074 "2013-11-01T11:09:26Z")
Twenty Days Has October Rants - The Rest Are On Furlough. Well, we’re starting out with Stupid. The forecast is for more stupid, with self-righteous sauce. Lets make the effort to make this monthly rant thread cheerfu… --- ## [No, I will NOT 'like' your page just because you told me to!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-will-not-like-your-page-just-because-you-told-me-to/667869)
**Author:** [@Gretel\_burps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gretel_burps)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-will-not-like-your-page-just-because-you-told-me-to/667869 "2013-11-01T02:42:03Z")
Some acquiantence of mine from facebook are soliciting ‘likes’ to their own facebook page (of their own business whom I have no knowledge of), they do this by sending mass PM to people on their friend list with this : “… --- ## [I pit the fetal personhood statute of Wisconsin for jailing a pregnant woman for no good reason](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fetal-personhood-statute-of-wisconsin-for-jailing-a-pregnant-woman-for-no-good-reason/672200)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2013, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-fetal-personhood-statute-of-wisconsin-for-jailing-a-pregnant-woman-for-no-good-reason/672200 "2013-10-31T05:17:21Z")
Here is the link. In short, the woman told the clinic during a pre-natal visit that she was getting over a prescription drug addiction, using medication specifically designed for that purpose. She had no insurance, so … --- ## [Fuck you, Greek police, may all of you be cuckcolded by diseased gigolos](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-greek-police-may-all-of-you-be-cuckcolded-by-diseased-gigolos/672215)
**Author:** [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Replies:** 197\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-greek-police-may-all-of-you-be-cuckcolded-by-diseased-gigolos/672215 "2013-10-30T22:17:12Z")
http://news.yahoo.com/test-proves-bulgarian-woman-mother-mystery-girl-135631019.html She was Romany all the time, living with a Romany family who took her in because her mother was a poor olive picker and couldn’t affor… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=169) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=171)