# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=184 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 185 --- ## [Fuck interference engines](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-interference-engines/657050)
**Author:** [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-interference-engines/657050 "2013-04-30T18:18:03Z")
Hey look, we knew the car was not mint–that’s why we only had to pay 20% of the book value for it. Head gasket was blown, water pump was bad, other predictable and involved maintenance–stuff gets old and fails, I get it… --- ## ["Did you find everything you needed today?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-find-everything-you-needed-today/656916)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-find-everything-you-needed-today/656916 "2013-04-30T16:38:05Z")
Okay. Admittedly this is possibly the weakest Pit ever. But it does annoy me. Why do stores have their cashiers ask that every damn time now? And when did that start anyway? So what if I did not find the particular spic… --- ## [Who knew it would be this hard to give someone money?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-knew-it-would-be-this-hard-to-give-someone-money/586442)
**Author:** [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [June 23, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-knew-it-would-be-this-hard-to-give-someone-money/586442 "2011-06-23T22:42:41Z")
My daughter is buying her first car this weekend. We promised to help her out with the downpayment, so when we saw her last weekend we gave her a check for the promised amount. Tuesday she called and we realized that, … --- ## [I pit you, the general public.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991)
**Author:** [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Replies:** 228\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-you-the-general-public/653991 "2013-04-29T20:32:01Z")
I have since moved up in the world, but from time to time we are short on staff and my services are called upon yet again to bring people their beloved pizza. And tonight I got a full reminder of why I accepted that prom… --- ## [Congress has no shame](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congress-has-no-shame/656811)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congress-has-no-shame/656811 "2013-04-28T21:47:44Z")
Which comes as a surprise to nobody ever. This time it involves the sequester, a term I’m coming to hate with the fire of a thousand suns. Fuck the seniors who are not getting Meals on Wheels; fuck the cancer-ridden me… --- ## [Workplace Biggest Loser Competitions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-biggest-loser-competitions/655948)
**Author:** [@AnthonyElite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnthonyElite)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-biggest-loser-competitions/655948 "2013-04-28T19:10:28Z")
I pit my workplace’s Biggest Loser competition. We awarded a cash prize for the winner. Where the fuck is my cash prize for already being in shape? Reminds me of that old Simpsons episode where Homer asks everyone in t… --- ## [Sequestration is fine until it delays a Congresscritter's flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequestration-is-fine-until-it-delays-a-congresscritters-flight/656766)
**Author:** [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequestration-is-fine-until-it-delays-a-congresscritters-flight/656766 "2013-04-28T03:05:59Z")
Bipartisan “fix” for the FAA furloughs. The Democrats and the Republicans are equally guilty on this one. --- ## [Support the Troops my ass. The VA is horrid.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-the-troops-my-ass-the-va-is-horrid/656319)
**Author:** [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2013, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-the-troops-my-ass-the-va-is-horrid/656319 "2013-04-27T11:51:43Z")
In September of 2011, let me say again, 2011!, I submitted a claim to Veterans Affairs. Nothing major but I definitely wanted to get what I submitted on record. I hadn’t heard anything back from them. Seeing as how I sub… --- ## [Canon's HORRIBLE service!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canons-horrible-service/595744)
**Author:** [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canons-horrible-service/595744 "2013-04-27T04:21:39Z")
I shoot concerts. I four Canon cameras - an XH-A1, a HF-R11, a HF-S100 and an HF-200. I shoot from multiple angles, editing the whole thing together. I discovered that two of my cameras could not work with the newer Cla… --- ## [Guys, Y U no listen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-y-u-no-listen/655424)
**Author:** [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Replies:** 875\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-y-u-no-listen/655424 "2013-04-26T19:54:49Z")
So I’m spectacularly good at attracting men I have no interest in. If you ever need a clan of 23 year old boys or beta males, send me out into the wild and I’ll come back with, like, 20 of them. So when I met an adult ma… --- ## [The "reasonable conversation about guns" that anti-gun Internet people want](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reasonable-conversation-about-guns-that-anti-gun-internet-people-want/656334)
**Author:** [@Condescending\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Condescending_Robot)\ **Replies:** 174\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reasonable-conversation-about-guns-that-anti-gun-internet-people-want/656334 "2013-04-26T15:51:11Z")
You have a small penis. You like it when children die. You are on the extreme right and are probably a Nazi or some other kind of racist. Because I can conceive of some situation where I would allow one person to own a s… --- ## [My first pitting - James McCormick](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-pitting-james-mccormick/656508)
**Author:** [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-pitting-james-mccormick/656508 "2013-04-25T23:16:04Z")
What a prize dick - a man who made £50,000,000 from putting peoples lives in danger. --- ## [I pit the parents who let this happen \[6-year old shot in head and killed\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-parents-who-let-this-happen-6-year-old-shot-in-head-and-killed/655330)
**Author:** [@smaje1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smaje1)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-parents-who-let-this-happen-6-year-old-shot-in-head-and-killed/655330 "2013-04-25T23:04:39Z")
http://tomsriver.patch.com/articles/update-toms-river-6-year-old-shot-by-4-year-old-in-stable-condition A 4-year old boy goes into the house, brings out a rifle, and proceeds to shoot his friend in the head as the paren… --- ## [I pit the goat felching douchenozzle(s) who blew up the Boston Marathon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 466\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788 "2013-04-24T22:08:30Z")
I can’t even come up with anything more eloquent than the title. What the fuck? Stupid, ignorant psychopath(s). I’ll be very surprised if this isn’t some horribly conceived “tax day protest”. :rolleyes: This is some… --- ## [Sociopathic "Christian" shits on the Boston bombing interfaith service](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sociopathic-christian-shits-on-the-boston-bombing-interfaith-service/656144)
**Author:** [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sociopathic-christian-shits-on-the-boston-bombing-interfaith-service/656144 "2013-04-24T17:19:55Z")
Tony Miano is a creepy and sociopathic “Troo Christian” who spends his time deriding any and all who don’t follow his warped “Christian values”. This piece of fetid phlegm used to be a Ray Comfort employee, but is now a … --- ## [I pit Tollhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tollhouse/656431)
**Author:** [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tollhouse/656431 "2013-04-24T03:56:51Z")
For being a dumbass, for never providing cites, for ignoring cites that contradict hir narrative, for not doing simple research… Basically, Tollhouse is just another conspiracy nut , who is “only asking questions.” Unfo… --- ## [So when we know who bombed the Boston Marathon...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-we-know-who-bombed-the-boston-marathon/656026)
**Author:** [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2013, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-we-know-who-bombed-the-boston-marathon/656026 "2013-04-22T21:53:17Z")
Are we going to throw him in gitmo? Or is that just for the brown people? If he lives in an apartment building, are we going to blow the whole thing up with a drone, killing everyone in there? After all, the people in … --- ## [Treis, no means no.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treis-no-means-no/655556)
**Author:** [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Replies:** 552\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treis-no-means-no/655556 "2013-04-21T17:12:11Z")
Shit, I’ve never pitted anyone before, so if my pit sucks, screw you! In this eight page train wreck, I relayed a tale of someone not respecting boundaries and behaving like a generally shitty human being. Long story sh… --- ## [BIRT TubeMoguls "Brandsights" ads are the worst pre-video ads ever.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birt-tubemoguls-brandsights-ads-are-the-worst-pre-video-ads-ever/656227)
**Author:** [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birt-tubemoguls-brandsights-ads-are-the-worst-pre-video-ads-ever/656227 "2013-04-20T21:16:35Z")
Seriously. I’m not going to link you because they are so speaker/eardrum-damagingly loud. I’ve literally run across the room to turn off my speakers, lest I annoy my neighbours upstairs. When my volume is at 2%, they’re … --- ## [Roofies and victim-blaming: thanks small-town cops!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roofies-and-victim-blaming-thanks-small-town-cops/656075)
**Author:** [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roofies-and-victim-blaming-thanks-small-town-cops/656075 "2013-04-20T13:56:31Z")
Monday morning a coworker requested one of the 12-bar drug testing pee cups I use to administer our drug-free workplace program. The previous Saturday night, he’d gone to a beer & wing bar out in the sticks past the Atl… --- ## [Life continues to fuck over me and my family](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-continues-to-fuck-over-me-and-my-family/651011)
**Author:** [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-continues-to-fuck-over-me-and-my-family/651011 "2013-04-20T04:55:47Z")
Let’s review the last six months or so. First, some general background. I’m STILL in grad school, with my research going absolutely nowhere fast. I have no money, we’re sinking into debt, and I’m a decade or so older … --- ## [Gohmert Pyle strikes again. (Rep. Louie Gohmert Compares Gun Control to Bestiality)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gohmert-pyle-strikes-again-rep-louie-gohmert-compares-gun-control-to-bestiality/654682)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gohmert-pyle-strikes-again-rep-louie-gohmert-compares-gun-control-to-bestiality/654682 "2013-04-19T18:29:01Z")
I’ll condense and paraphrase: “You can’t limit the number of rounds in a magazine because gay marriage may lead to bestiality.” Here’s the video: With some people, everything leads back to sex with animals… --- ## [Rand Paul: Great White Hunter tries to educate students at Howard U. about Republican Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-great-white-hunter-tries-to-educate-students-at-howard-u-about-republican-party/655563)
**Author:** [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Replies:** 145\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-great-white-hunter-tries-to-educate-students-at-howard-u-about-republican-party/655563 "2013-04-19T06:40:29Z")
Jesus, this guy is as much of a fucking brain dead moron as the rest of his inbred compatriots seem to be. As this article points out, jon stewart eviscerates him on his Thursday night show with Larry Wilmore coming in … --- ## [Stormfronters here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stormfronters-here/655496)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 108\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stormfronters-here/655496 "2013-04-19T01:03:31Z")
Folks: Yep, I’ve finally seen the light. I mistakenly engaged with those morons. Of course, it had no effect. They are stormfronters for a very simple reason: they are very simple. Refuse to engage with them. Stay away f… --- ## ["Parody threads should be made in the Pit."???](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-should-be-made-in-the-pit/656013)
**Author:** [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-should-be-made-in-the-pit/656013 "2013-04-18T15:36:46Z")
Parody threads should be made in the Pit. (see last post) Since when? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a thread like that in the Pit. Who changed the rules? --- ## [1/3 of Americans are absolute morons!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-3-of-americans-are-absolute-morons/655064)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 175\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-3-of-americans-are-absolute-morons/655064 "2013-04-17T02:02:23Z")
At least, that’s the take-away I get from this story: More at the link above. I don’t know what to say. I’m gobsmacked at the stupidity. --- ## [I pit anti-gun pediatricians](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anti-gun-pediatricians/653578)
**Author:** [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Replies:** 325\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anti-gun-pediatricians/653578 "2013-04-17T00:48:01Z")
I took my kid to the pediatrician the other day and they asked mea bunch of questions about things like his vocabulary, his pre-school, his potty training and the last question was “do you have a firearm in the house?” … --- ## [Why no, I don't really need to be able to get to my car](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-i-dont-really-need-to-be-able-to-get-to-my-car/655321)
**Author:** [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [April 14, 2013, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-i-dont-really-need-to-be-able-to-get-to-my-car/655321 "2013-04-14T05:50:23Z")
Fuckin’ HOA. OK, I know for many, those two words say it all, but really, our HOA is generally not bad. Except when they need to do things to the street we live on. Twice within 12 months. See, this requires that EVER… --- ## [Las Vegas police are never accountable](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-police-are-never-accountable/655585)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-police-are-never-accountable/655585 "2013-04-13T22:16:18Z")
\[ \](Las Vegas News | Breaking News & Headlines | Las Vegas Review-Journal) No police shooting has resulted in criminal charges in Las Vegas, ever. Handcuffed guy running away and shot in the back? Justified. An una… --- ## [So you killed your kid while cleaning your gun.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-killed-your-kid-while-cleaning-your-gun/654020)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 354\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-killed-your-kid-while-cleaning-your-gun/654020 "2013-04-13T04:50:44Z")
Father cleaning shotgun shoots 10-year-old son in the head in N.C. Congratulations on demonstrating an astounding level of negligence when it really, really mattered. Not only did you not check to see that your gun was… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=183) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=185)