# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=19 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 20 --- ## [Pitting SayTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-saytwo/924070)
**Author:** [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Replies:** 330\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-saytwo/924070 "2024-07-01T22:16:10Z")
I can’t really post any transgressions as I’ve had him on ignore for a very long time now, but any regular in The Quarantine Zone knows what I’m talking about. I started ignoring him in the early days when he claimed tha… --- ## [Fuck pretty people](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-pretty-people/1003460)
**Author:** [@cjackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjackson)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-pretty-people/1003460 "2024-06-29T04:23:19Z")
We date, marry people who are attractive as we are, new analysis finds Shit like that makes me fantasize about disfiguring attractive people. See who wants to fuck them then. If you are hot do us all a favor and rub you… --- ## [Email non-answers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-non-answers/1002784)
**Author:** [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-non-answers/1002784 "2024-06-26T03:18:14Z")
Grrrrrr. So, I’m massaging some of our data for another company. They in turn use it for a product that our company will get. It’s a pet location service for Animal Control. Fine. Great really I love our pets. Anyway, … --- ## [New user sees ignorance here on the Dope (about Trump)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-user-sees-ignorance-here-on-the-dope-about-trump/1002612)
**Author:** [@jimcommonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimcommonsense)\ **Replies:** 254\ **Last updated:** [June 24, 2024, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-user-sees-ignorance-here-on-the-dope-about-trump/1002612 "2024-06-24T10:11:33Z")
I see the ignorance runs rampant here. It’s the left that used and weaponized the DOJ against Trump as they have nothing positive to campaign on. They are just like the 1930-1940’s nazi Germany using the gestapo to get… --- ## [Web Cookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-cookies/1003177)
**Author:** [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [June 24, 2024, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-cookies/1003177 "2024-06-24T05:43:00Z")
I’m sure we all know about web cookies, Initially a “good” thing: "Hi! We’ve seen you before. (An implied ""we do not know your name / who you are, yet glad to see you again) and an unsaid perhaps we know your location o… --- ## ["Environmentalists" spray-paint Stonehenge in broad daylight](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmentalists-spray-paint-stonehenge-in-broad-daylight/1003074)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [June 22, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmentalists-spray-paint-stonehenge-in-broad-daylight/1003074 "2024-06-22T23:21:42Z")
Folks, there are better ways to do this. Idiots. And on the eve of the summer solstice, no less. --- ## [Martin Shkreli's trial starts today {June 26, 2017}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-trial-starts-today-june-26-2017/789916)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 197\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-trial-starts-today-june-26-2017/789916 "2024-06-20T22:10:26Z")
“Pharma Bro” just won’t keep his mouth shut. I thought about resurrecting one of the zombie threads, but there were a few of them and I finally decided that we might as well have a new one just for the trial and any aft… --- ## [The discourse here is bad for my mental and physical health, and yours, too. Prove me wrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-discourse-here-is-bad-for-my-mental-and-physical-health-and-yours-too-prove-me-wrong/1001714)
**Author:** [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Replies:** 200\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-discourse-here-is-bad-for-my-mental-and-physical-health-and-yours-too-prove-me-wrong/1001714 "2024-06-17T00:30:37Z")
Okay, so about a year ago, I found myself being insulted and mischaracterized… not over politics or social issues, but over how I prefer to consume entertainment. I realized that I was allowing others to get me worked up… --- ## [Odd Feeling](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-feeling/1002934)
**Author:** [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-feeling/1002934 "2024-06-16T23:25:24Z")
Getting an odd feeling about the " Has any government ever addressed rude behavior by LOCALS" Dislike foreigners vibe? --- ## [This is parody, right? (Meme about extreme libertarianism)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-parody-right-meme-about-extreme-libertarianism/997554)
**Author:** [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Replies:** 270\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2024, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-parody-right-meme-about-extreme-libertarianism/997554 "2024-06-16T04:19:55Z")
This has been on my Twitter feed a lot of late, being justifiably mocked. I’m assuming it is meant to be from anarcho-capitalists of some kind. But it’s not right? It’s got to be a parody? The people critiquing it are ju… --- ## [Gov. DeSantis signs bill that strikes climate change from Florida Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gov-desantis-signs-bill-that-strikes-climate-change-from-florida-law/1001649)
**Author:** [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gov-desantis-signs-bill-that-strikes-climate-change-from-florida-law/1001649 "2024-06-14T18:33:25Z")
Fuck this asshole already. He shouldn’t be in office, he should be in prison. Florida, probably the US State at greatest risk from Climate Change and he is trying hard to ignore for ? reasons? What the Hell? He’s loweri… --- ## [Is there a living politician that, if running for president in this US election (2024), would get you to vote for Donald Trump?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-living-politician-that-if-running-for-president-in-this-us-election-2024-would-get-you-to-vote-for-donald-trump/1002455)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2024, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-living-politician-that-if-running-for-president-in-this-us-election-2024-would-get-you-to-vote-for-donald-trump/1002455 "2024-06-12T02:54:47Z")
This post is inspired by the current post in the Pit, If Hillary ran against Trump again, you’d stay home? Please explain. I figured to take the flip side. What politician/government official, alive today, is so bad th… --- ## [Time To Dismember (Rants of September){OLD}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 546\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475 "2024-06-11T23:14:43Z")
I think this is new for this month. Went to our local bank today to attempt to open a savings account to deposit a fairly hefty check in. Talked to a rather sleepy cashier who told me that “both managers are off for the… --- ## [The Poetry of Donald J. Trump -- Special Felony Conviction Edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-felony-conviction-edition/1002347)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-poetry-of-donald-j-trump-special-felony-conviction-edition/1002347 "2024-06-11T20:49:29Z")
Trump produced a thirty minute screed in his typical stream-of-consciousness word-association mode. There’s no way I’m reproducing that whole thing, even to re-format it into a blank verse poem. But I’d feel guilty if I … --- ## [The Crane Brouhaha over Gaza, Pit edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crane-brouhaha-over-gaza-pit-edition/1000742)
**Author:** [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Replies:** 171\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2024, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crane-brouhaha-over-gaza-pit-edition/1000742 "2024-06-11T17:24:07Z")
BigT, what were you thinking when you posted this? Ignore Crane for a second. If I say, “I’m so hungry I could eat a cow”, and TOWP asks, “a cow?”, and I clarify, “a whole cow”, you realize I am being hyperbolic through… --- ## [Screw you MS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-ms/1002576)
**Author:** [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-ms/1002576 "2024-06-07T20:37:54Z")
For months been getting popups telling me that Windows Mail is going away and I need to upgrade to Outlook. This morning I decided to make the switch. The first thing I notice is ads. What the hell. I find out I have to … --- ## [Ban books from the library to "protect" children? Fine. We're banning your children!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ban-books-from-the-library-to-protect-children-fine-were-banning-your-children/1001819)
**Author:** [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2024, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ban-books-from-the-library-to-protect-children-fine-were-banning-your-children/1001819 "2024-06-07T15:35:50Z")
Idaho has recently passed HB 710, which: …allows parents or guardians to lodge complaints against materials they deem inappropriate for minors. Once a complaint has been filed, public and school libraries have a tota… --- ## [So he was convicted. Big honking deal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-he-was-convicted-big-honking-deal/1002368)
**Author:** [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Replies:** 245\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-he-was-convicted-big-honking-deal/1002368 "2024-06-05T18:24:46Z")
34 felonies, and you know damned well that if Donald Trump serves any time at all–which isn’t gonna happen for reasons, all of which stink on ice–it’s going to be in one of those tennis-lessons prisons where they put all… --- ## [What's gotten you worked up this month? (May 2024 mini-rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-gotten-you-worked-up-this-month-may-2024-mini-rants/1001008)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 309\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-gotten-you-worked-up-this-month-may-2024-mini-rants/1001008 "2024-05-31T22:17:51Z")
I am really impressed by the United States Postal Service. Wow. My sister (in the US) mailed something to me (in China) way back on 3 April 2024. The clerk at the post office told her the item should take “six to ten day… --- ## [People in the comment section of the news makes me think democratic society will be dead soon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-in-the-comment-section-of-the-news-makes-me-think-democratic-society-will-be-dead-soon/1000221)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [May 30, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-in-the-comment-section-of-the-news-makes-me-think-democratic-society-will-be-dead-soon/1000221 "2024-05-30T19:55:23Z")
Ok some background before the OP I know Vietnam is corrupt and has been corrupt even before France colonized it and made Thailand look virtuous Even the natives are aware of this to the point that during the war it… --- ## [Assassination Attempt in Slovakia: Is this Putin?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assassination-attempt-in-slovakia-is-this-putin/1001596)
**Author:** [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [May 30, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assassination-attempt-in-slovakia-is-this-putin/1001596 "2024-05-30T16:46:16Z")
First of all, I have not seen this as a thread (but it needs to be one obviously). If there is another thread, could the Mods please close this one with a link to the other one? Second, everything about this stinks of … --- ## [Jardiance is a scary drug](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jardiance-is-a-scary-drug/998868)
**Author:** [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jardiance-is-a-scary-drug/998868 "2024-05-24T18:07:57Z")
For the record I am a Type II diabetic. I’m not particularly conscientious about it, and I’m on several non-insulin drugs for it. (Metformin, Victoza.) Have been for many years. Recently after having routine bloodwork d… --- ## [Poll: Would you like to Pit @Humans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-like-to-pit-humans/1001947)
**Author:** [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-like-to-pit-humans/1001947 "2024-05-24T08:00:33Z")
Continuing the discussion from Would you undergo surgery for an advanced and reliable brain computer interface?: I concur. But not only because of the polls, but mainly because of the subjects he starts. They seem to b… --- ## [I'm pitting cellular providers (I think)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-cellular-providers-i-think/1001778)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-cellular-providers-i-think/1001778 "2024-05-23T20:52:02Z")
If I understand this article correctly, then this is a well deserved pitting of cellular providers. It’s about iSIMs. They’re planning to do away with SIM cards. Phones will come.with the number integrated into the pr… --- ## [Damn Dirty April! (Monthly Mini-Rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-dirty-april-monthly-mini-rants/999679)
**Author:** [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Replies:** 316\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-dirty-april-monthly-mini-rants/999679 "2024-05-11T21:44:18Z")
I’ll start with a self-Pitting. I saw this tweet and as a Seahawks fan, for a moment I was a bit dismayed: Then I realized what fucking day it was. :man\_facepalming: --- ## [Shiva Ayyadurai is a Criminal Lunatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722)
**Author:** [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [May 2, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiva-ayyadurai-is-a-criminal-lunatic/851722 "2024-05-02T17:57:29Z")
People have started passing around video clips of this guy: Shiva Ayyadurai. Here’s his website. Until now, he was known for claiming he invented email and running for the Senate in Massachusetts with the tagline “MIT P… --- ## [Arizona abortion ban accomplished](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arizona-abortion-ban-accomplished/972110)
**Author:** [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [May 2, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arizona-abortion-ban-accomplished/972110 "2024-05-02T16:28:05Z")
Because of course we want 1864 laws to govern our right to control our own bodies. It wasn’t hard to notice that this law predates the year (1919) women got the right to vote. I can’t decide if I am stunned or furious… --- ## [The Biden Administration: a puppy-hug in the making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 213\ **Last updated:** [May 1, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886 "2024-05-01T16:43:40Z")
Sure, it will probably be all rainbows and unicorns compared to The Trump Years, but we can have a place-holder thread waiting here, just in case. --- ## [I have a disability so I can do anything I want](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-disability-so-i-can-do-anything-i-want/972779)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 251\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-disability-so-i-can-do-anything-i-want/972779 "2024-04-29T18:08:41Z")
No not me but … I’ve known people that because they have a disability they believe they can do whatever they want at work because hey they have a disability. The idea of reasonable accommodations escapes them along wit… --- ## [The Democratic president of the United States of America, the guy who ran against Donald Trump and just launched his campaign to do so again, just called someone "an illegal" in the State of the Union address](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-the-guy-who-ran-against-donald-trump-and-just-launched-his-campaign-to-do-so-again-just-called-someone-an-illegal-in-the-state-of-the-union-address/998607)
**Author:** [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Replies:** 236\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2024, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-the-guy-who-ran-against-donald-trump-and-just-launched-his-campaign-to-do-so-again-just-called-someone-an-illegal-in-the-state-of-the-union-address/998607 "2024-04-29T16:45:37Z")
Language about which SDMB users recently argued: "Illegals" and "invaders" should be moderated as hate speech in the context of immigration debates Marjorie Taylor Greene gives Biden a pin and yells at him about it, so … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=20)