# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=173 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 174 --- ## [The pitting of people who mistakenly conflate justice with legality (Martin/Zimmerman related)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitting-of-people-who-mistakenly-conflate-justice-with-legality-martin-zimmerman-related/664028)
**Author:** [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Replies:** 971\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitting-of-people-who-mistakenly-conflate-justice-with-legality-martin-zimmerman-related/664028 "2013-09-27T18:09:24Z")
So we’ve recently had the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the 2nd degree murder of Trayvon Martin. And a lot of people are outraged that he wasn’t convicted because Zimmerman did a lot of actions of questionable merit… --- ## [Black market ivory buyers, and the poachers who fill their demand](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-market-ivory-buyers-and-the-poachers-who-fill-their-demand/669655)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-market-ivory-buyers-and-the-poachers-who-fill-their-demand/669655 "2013-09-27T18:02:51Z")
So you bought a little ivory trinket on the black market. Congratulations asshole, you’re part of the problem. What’s the problem? Poachers poison 90 elephants with industrial cyanide This is the kind of indiscrimina… --- ## [Could you quiet your Montessori kindergarten during working hours?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-quiet-your-montessori-kindergarten-during-working-hours/669122)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-quiet-your-montessori-kindergarten-during-working-hours/669122 "2013-09-27T02:21:54Z")
The program operating across the aisle from me is incoming sales. The people working on it top out at about age 25, with most hovering around 21. For most of them this is their first non-food-service job and can be use… --- ## [Fuck you, Texas Republicans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-texas-republicans/661942)
**Author:** [@Feyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feyrat)\ **Replies:** 380\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-texas-republicans/661942 "2013-09-26T21:54:35Z")
Fuck you for immediately demonstrating WHY we needed the Voter Protection Act. The god damn body wasn’t even cold yet before you were all over it. Fuck you for calling a point of order on Wendy Davis for PUTTING ON A BA… --- ## [I want to stab my eyeball out of my face](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-stab-my-eyeball-out-of-my-face/669534)
**Author:** [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-stab-my-eyeball-out-of-my-face/669534 "2013-09-26T14:54:25Z")
I have a muscle twitch in my lower left eyelid that has been going, pretty consistently, for close to a month now, and it’s driving me out of my mind. It’s been going especially crazy today. That is all. Insert more s… --- ## [I pit patients with tattoos from head to toe (including swastikas) who whine over getting shots](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 95\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2013, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-patients-with-tattoos-from-head-to-toe-including-swastikas-who-whine-over-getting-shots/669115 "2013-09-26T05:54:55Z")
because they’re “afraid of needles”. :smack: I swear, I cannot make this stuff up. :dubious: --- ## [Dear Irritating Ignorant Coworker](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-irritating-ignorant-coworker/372210)
**Author:** [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-irritating-ignorant-coworker/372210 "2013-09-25T12:41:55Z")
Listen, I know this has been a crap year for you thus far. First there’s your ongoing I’m-taking-him-to-court drama with your ex who, I agree, has become more than a SOB since the divorce 4 YEARS AGO and now that he has… --- ## [I pit people who talk to themselves in front of others](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-talk-to-themselves-in-front-of-others/669231)
**Author:** [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-talk-to-themselves-in-front-of-others/669231 "2013-09-24T20:24:20Z")
Making unintelligible speech-like noises is a passive-aggressive ploy for attention. Speech is for communicating with others; silent thoughts are for communicating with yourself. Social obligation requires that people re… --- ## [Waist size bullshitters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waist-size-bullshitters/665736)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waist-size-bullshitters/665736 "2013-09-24T16:51:14Z")
I was looking online this morning for references to waist size reduction in relation to weight loss. I could not get over the sizes of the waist sizes being reported in relation to weight. Things like 285# 43" waist. Or … --- ## [Excuse me, but when did GPS become a valid legal identifier of a property?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-when-did-gps-become-a-valid-legal-identifier-of-a-property/664644)
**Author:** [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Replies:** 310\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-when-did-gps-become-a-valid-legal-identifier-of-a-property/664644 "2013-09-23T18:57:32Z")
Look, dipshits, GPS is a handy tool for finding your way to that shop you’ve never been to before, or your friend’s new house. If it misleads you, you can pull out your cell phone and call. But since when was GPS suffi… --- ## [Whaaaaa! The Ark Park is sinking...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaaaaa-the-ark-park-is-sinking/669496)
**Author:** [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaaaaa-the-ark-park-is-sinking/669496 "2013-09-23T15:22:05Z")
… because of Obamacare!! headdesk No, you brain-dead Aussie asshole, Ken “Hamboner” “Pig Porker” “Flim Flam” “Hamalamadingdong” Ham, if anything - it’s a sign from your non-existant deity that your ‘museum’ of vacuous … --- ## [Hey Catholics Don't send your daughters to College](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-catholics-dont-send-your-daughters-to-college/668709)
**Author:** [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Replies:** 125\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-catholics-dont-send-your-daughters-to-college/668709 "2013-09-22T16:18:59Z")
This is so outrageous I thought I’d pass it along. --- ## [If a poster is wrong more than half the time, would you take them seriously?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-poster-is-wrong-more-than-half-the-time-would-you-take-them-seriously/668238)
**Author:** [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Replies:** 262\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-poster-is-wrong-more-than-half-the-time-would-you-take-them-seriously/668238 "2013-09-21T21:10:54Z")
I ask because as may of you know, I’m wrong a lot. I make dumb arguments, I recite facts from memory that turn out to be laughably wrong. Some would say that because of that, I’m not worth being taken seriously. Some hav… --- ## [Fuck Tom DeLay and Corrupt Texan "Justice"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-tom-delay-and-corrupt-texan-justice/669237)
**Author:** [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Replies:** 118\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-tom-delay-and-corrupt-texan-justice/669237 "2013-09-21T15:59:58Z")
Tom DeLay’s conviction on money laundering was overturned. I think my favorite\[sup\]1\[/sup\] part is the opinion from the court that overturned it: “Sure, a jury convicted him, but we think they shouldn’ta.” Fuck you! … --- ## [Death penalty for child rapists](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty-for-child-rapists/669104)
**Author:** [@TashaKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TashaKitty)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2013, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty-for-child-rapists/669104 "2013-09-21T05:29:33Z")
I just read this article http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/\_news/2013/09/17/20541518-father-of-gang-raped-5-year-old-demands-justice-as-case-sparks-protests-across-pakistan and am absolutely FURIOUS. I think that raping a ch… --- ## [American teenage hot chix go to UK to exorcise Harry Potter](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-teenage-hot-chix-go-to-uk-to-exorcise-harry-potter/668635)
**Author:** [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-teenage-hot-chix-go-to-uk-to-exorcise-harry-potter/668635 "2013-09-20T21:52:50Z")
Story here. May your so-called holy water rot and burn your sweet lovely sexy flesh, Christian grrllzz, and may your false God burn in his own Hell. May such a curse fall between your thighs that the fairest swain betw… --- ## [And you thought Halliburton was done with doing Pittable things?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-halliburton-was-done-with-doing-pittable-things/669329)
**Author:** [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-halliburton-was-done-with-doing-pittable-things/669329 "2013-09-20T21:07:21Z")
Apparently they played some role in causing the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, or at least in covering up something about out. Story here. :frowning: Poor Halliburton! A second’s income, shot to Hell! --- ## [I pit Chase](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chase/669270)
**Author:** [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chase/669270 "2013-09-20T20:51:31Z")
In May, somebody stole my Chase credit card number and bought gas with it. Chase dinged the fraud right away and reversed the charge. Happy ending? No. Chase also declared two other pending transactions to be fraudulent… --- ## [Remember BP CEO Robert Dudley?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-bp-ceo-robert-dudley/666758)
**Author:** [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-bp-ceo-robert-dudley/666758 "2013-09-20T17:38:25Z")
Now he’s balking at paying damages for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Dudley’s claim that BP has in good faith agreed to all of the damages misrepresents the current state of affairs. The company has actually been wo… --- ## [Just fuck you, Tom Delay](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824 "2013-09-20T15:45:11Z")
Have fun in that federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison you’re going to. All that noble speech and righteous indignation, and all along you were just a common criminal and a liar. Fuck you. That should be DeLay, if a mod … --- ## [Stupid Religious news of the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132 "2013-09-18T20:51:53Z")
The Republicans, liberals, and gun people should not have all the fun. This thread is for the funny, stupid, and eye-rolling shit that people for–and against–ANY religion on the planet say and do. What it is NOT for is… --- ## [New Ambulance Siren Sound! WTF is that?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ambulance-siren-sound-wtf-is-that/668797)
**Author:** [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ambulance-siren-sound-wtf-is-that/668797 "2013-09-18T04:51:51Z")
Driving along city streets, I heard a sound I’d never heard before. Sort of like a twittering or warbling bird-call, high pitched. High for a second, low for a second. I had no idea what it could be. Absolutely new t… --- ## [Why is the Boardwalk fire such a big story?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-boardwalk-fire-such-a-big-story/668804)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-boardwalk-fire-such-a-big-story/668804 "2013-09-18T01:48:34Z")
I feel bad for the people who were injured and lost their jobs, but why is this getting so much coverage? Those of you who live(d) in the area would know, I guess. :confused: --- ## [I violently hate calculus and physics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-violently-hate-calculus-and-physics/268144)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 124\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-violently-hate-calculus-and-physics/268144 "2013-09-17T20:48:54Z")
Violent hate. My educational background isn’t too bad, i’ve had 3 college math courses (algebra, pre-calculus and trigonometry). None of them were too bad and my grades were A, A, A-. I’ve also had 8 science course in co… --- ## [Doctor's medications and vivid dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctors-medications-and-vivid-dreams/668955)
**Author:** [@smee\_goan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smee_goan)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctors-medications-and-vivid-dreams/668955 "2013-09-17T15:21:24Z")
I went to Wikapedia and discovered that topral (Generic metaprolol) causes vivid dreams. I experienced those dreams years ago on “nicotine patch”. I get them nightly now. also causes inability to have sex. sure I’m n… --- ## [Conservapedia: relativistic concept of "curvature of space" promotes broad legal right to abortion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602)
**Author:** [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602 "2013-09-15T17:06:13Z")
More comedy from our friends at Conservapedia: http://www.conservapedia.com/Relativity#Political\_aspects\_of\_relativity Footnote 63: --- ## [So how bad do you want this job?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193)
**Author:** [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193 "2013-09-13T02:38:09Z")
Apparently the UK version of Best Buy has a new interview technique. I wonder if someone shot at their feet? I’m so glad my working days are over. I don’t think I’d last a year anywhere these days. Oh - FUCK 'EM! --- ## [Why I hate Apple (long)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-apple-long/640528)
**Author:** [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Replies:** 184\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2013, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-apple-long/640528 "2013-09-12T12:49:37Z")
I got an iPad a few months ago. It’s for work, and there’s one app I have to use and keep updated. But I can also use it for other stuff, and I like to listen to podcasts. Here is the step-by-step issue I had today that … --- ## [Stupid bitch Michelle Bachman](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bitch-michelle-bachman/662225)
**Author:** [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-bitch-michelle-bachman/662225 "2013-09-12T12:42:39Z")
Just shut up you stupid fucking bitch. Yapping on and on, complaining about Obamacare and rambling about people’s biological imperative to have children. What does that even have to do with anything? I didn’t listen t… --- ## [Weak pit of Craigslist trawlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weak-pit-of-craigslist-trawlers/668585)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2013, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weak-pit-of-craigslist-trawlers/668585 "2013-09-12T08:44:47Z")
I don’t really mind listing stuff on CL; where I’m at, most people who respond and are willing to come out to the deep woods to get an item are honest and minimally flaky. I am polite to those who try to chisel the price… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=172) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=174)