# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=195 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 196 --- ## [I pit “The Gifts of Hope”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-gifts-of-hope/643332)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-gifts-of-hope/643332 "2012-12-12T20:46:23Z")
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/opinion/19kristof.html?\_r=2&sq=kristof%20somaly&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1354906968-kwnQg5nVE0+VEgKHQXuFzQ NYT writer Nicholas Kristof is again pushing his shitty and selfish Scroo… --- ## [This board is a bunch of hypocritical douchebags](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450)
**Author:** [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Replies:** 252\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-board-is-a-bunch-of-hypocritical-douchebags/642450 "2012-12-12T02:48:49Z")
So I asked permission to cross post my own thread, but then I decided, that I don’t feel like waiting , fuck you all I don’t care. 98 percent of people who posted are happy to judge someone as unworthy because of sta… --- ## [Reaching into our pockets and stealing, a cable company rant to be...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-into-our-pockets-and-stealing-a-cable-company-rant-to-be/643523)
**Author:** [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reaching-into-our-pockets-and-stealing-a-cable-company-rant-to-be/643523 "2012-12-11T04:48:45Z")
So now we may need as many boxes as we have TVs to watch even the basic channels. I am willing to predict that they will not give people free boxes after the FCC mandated time frames. So this is a new fee. My favori… --- ## [Idiots who pray](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-pray/632189)
**Author:** [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Replies:** 136\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiots-who-pray/632189 "2012-12-08T13:26:47Z")
A recent announcement revealed that Chicago’s Cardinal George has a recurrence of cancer. Not good. Sorry. And a number of people are interviewed on the “news” to give their responses to hearing of his health problems… --- ## [Woman who loves dog throws them out of her car](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-who-loves-dog-throws-them-out-of-her-car/643042)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-who-loves-dog-throws-them-out-of-her-car/643042 "2012-12-08T05:40:12Z")
I don’t think it takes a doctorate in any field to figure out this bitch doesn’t have all her dogs barking. Evidently, she’s been snooping around people’s homes for years and, when those people aren’t home, stealing thei… --- ## [Google/YouTube Nazis...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-youtube-nazis/638696)
**Author:** [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-youtube-nazis/638696 "2012-12-08T01:26:57Z")
What troubles me is that the Real World on hand Experience/Education is being undermined by using google/youtube. Subtly little by little over years…until. :confused: I do it all the time for quick reference… i.e.“Quic… --- ## [McConnell whines about filibuster reform. That he brought about.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-whines-about-filibuster-reform-that-he-brought-about/643205)
**Author:** [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2012, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-whines-about-filibuster-reform-that-he-brought-about/643205 "2012-12-07T12:18:01Z")
Ried was an idiot to trust Mitch when Mitch claimed the filibuster wouldn’t be abused. But they made a handshake deal. And it lasted about a month. I don’t understand how Mitch can complain here. Hey asshat. You had it c… --- ## [asshat who stole my bike](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asshat-who-stole-my-bike/642885)
**Author:** [@Gesturing\_Mildly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gesturing_Mildly)\ **Replies:** 145\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asshat-who-stole-my-bike/642885 "2012-12-07T02:37:50Z")
I hope you choke on a bag of dicks. I FINALLY move into the city and FINALLY get a bike, and just as the world of biking to work and around town opens up to me, you decide that you’d like a nice bike, too, but would rat… --- ## [I Pit facebook, and all companies on facebook](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-facebook-and-all-companies-on-facebook/641692)
**Author:** [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Replies:** 173\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-facebook-and-all-companies-on-facebook/641692 "2012-12-05T19:09:11Z")
Facebook sucks. I know a lot of you use it, and thats fine. But it sucks. Mark Zuckerberg sucks. The whole damn thing sucks. It is an invasive data mining tool disguised as a people friendly applicarion… The ultimat… --- ## [I don't like the phrase "meat space"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-the-phrase-meat-space/642714)
**Author:** [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2012, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-the-phrase-meat-space/642714 "2012-12-05T06:08:07Z")
meat space sounds like you are hanging out in the butcher’s back room, where recognizable things are hanging on hooks. ugh. can’t we meet IRL or in 3D? a weak pitting, you say? tough toenails. :mad: --- ## [I pit WiredBadger's use of grammar nazis](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-wiredbadgers-use-of-grammar-nazis/629509)
**Author:** [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-wiredbadgers-use-of-grammar-nazis/629509 "2012-12-05T02:59:00Z")
OK - my first time using “pit” as a verb. Wiredbadger (love the name, btw) I am enjoying your thread about science but will you please stop using grammar nazis? care about grammar, spelling, whatever or not - the wor… --- ## [We should give Israel to the Mormons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-should-give-israel-to-the-mormons/641458)
**Author:** [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Replies:** 177\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-should-give-israel-to-the-mormons/641458 "2012-12-04T18:12:42Z")
Or the Hindus. Or the Buddhists. Or the Zoroastrians. Anyone but who’s living there now. If the Jews & the Palestinians can’t learn to share, NEITHER of them should get to keep it. Who agrees with me? --- ## [School district calls 12-year-old rape victim ‘negligent’ and ‘careless’ in her own abuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-district-calls-12-year-old-rape-victim-negligent-and-careless-in-her-own-abuse/642576)
**Author:** [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-district-calls-12-year-old-rape-victim-negligent-and-careless-in-her-own-abuse/642576 "2012-12-04T17:51:57Z")
Link. Classic defense. Blame the victim. So what if she was only 12 at the time. Really? So what level of fucking outrage is appropriate for blaming a 12 year old for being molested by an adult in a position of au… --- ## [Dear Attractive Married Women: Plz Wear A Ring.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-attractive-married-women-plz-wear-a-ring/641336)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 525\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-attractive-married-women-plz-wear-a-ring/641336 "2012-12-04T14:28:56Z")
So this week I was visiting a customer for a few days. They had a new admin assistant and holy moly, she was a goddess. Absolutely perfect. Not only beautiful, but obviously smart as hell, personable, and funny. And… … --- ## [Remember, remember, the rants of November](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-remember-the-rants-of-november/639560)
**Author:** [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Replies:** 672\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-remember-the-rants-of-november/639560 "2012-12-03T17:32:27Z")
A new month, and time for a new mini-rants thread! (I thought up that damn thread title in September…been waiting a month and a half to type it out!) To start things off: The town I had to spend last night, and all of … --- ## [The GOP Banghazi/Anti-ERice Stupidity...it Burns!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291)
**Author:** [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gop-banghazi-anti-erice-stupidity-it-burns/642291 "2012-12-03T04:42:59Z")
…and zee goggles, zey do nothing! Seriously, fucking John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte continuing this bizarre anti Susan Rice crusade over perfectly reasonable comments she made is fucking sickening. “Oh N… --- ## [A christmas gift from us atheists to the religionists on the SDMB](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-christmas-gift-from-us-atheists-to-the-religionists-on-the-sdmb/642508 "2012-12-02T03:40:48Z")
In the spirit of cooperation and understanding, we give you The Idiot Atheist. --- ## [I Pit the Motherfucking Post Office: A Rant in One Part](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-motherfucking-post-office-a-rant-in-one-part/642611)
**Author:** [@Bpelta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bpelta)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-motherfucking-post-office-a-rant-in-one-part/642611 "2012-12-01T18:36:37Z")
I was pickpocketed a bit back; luckily, I didn’t have anything valuable in the wallet, but my driver’s license was taken. However, since I have a viable passport and I don’t drive, I didn’t really need it. Now, for what… --- ## [Shall we Pit Condescending Robot?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-we-pit-condescending-robot/642053)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-we-pit-condescending-robot/642053 "2012-12-01T07:51:53Z")
I browse SDMB to learn about science and world affairs, not to take sides in intra-SDMB squabbles, but I still get to know some of the players. There are about a dozen Dopers who I’ll know I’m going to agree with, and a… --- ## [Pitting of religious extremists . . . today it's the Hasidic Jews.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-of-religious-extremists-today-its-the-hasidic-jews/621532)
**Author:** [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-of-religious-extremists-today-its-the-hasidic-jews/621532 "2012-12-01T01:38:40Z")
Today the New York Times ran an extensive story about how ultra-orthodox Jews shun people in their own community who report child sex abuse. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/nyregion/ultra-orthodox-jews-shun-their-own-… --- ## [Cops Taze Then Shoot Dog to Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-taze-then-shoot-dog-to-death/642385)
**Author:** [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-taze-then-shoot-dog-to-death/642385 "2012-11-30T18:07:39Z")
This is one of those stories that I wish to hell I hadn’t read…but now that I have, I’ve just got to pit these fucking trigger-happy cops. See story in the Seattle Times here. If you’ve got a really strong stomach, the… --- ## [Gun lovers don't see how far gone they are....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-lovers-dont-see-how-far-gone-they-are/641933)
**Author:** [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Replies:** 268\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2012, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-lovers-dont-see-how-far-gone-they-are/641933 "2012-11-30T08:05:29Z")
The first response? It goes on like this. Lots of dodging the question, including an appeal to the long-gone “assault weapons ban.” Wow. Someone asks a serious question, and all the libertarian kooks immediately come… --- ## [Wrong teachings when I was young](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-teachings-when-i-was-young/641673)
**Author:** [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Replies:** 153\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-teachings-when-i-was-young/641673 "2012-11-30T02:32:53Z")
It’s a pit because I know hapless kids are still being fed the same wrong dope. Examples: Hottest part of the flame - ‘the blue part.’ This was already answered in a Cecil Adams column I think, but saying ‘blue’ is no… --- ## [I pit movie theater seats! (shared armrests)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-movie-theater-seats-shared-armrests/642107)
**Author:** [@CoastalMaineiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoastalMaineiac)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-movie-theater-seats-shared-armrests/642107 "2012-11-29T20:07:09Z")
OK, so some of the newer theater seats aren’t too bad. They’ve made some improvements over the years, (bigger seats, cup-holders, etc) but one thing remains constant: the shared armrest! You know, that one armrest in the… --- ## [Papa John claims health care reform is too expensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/papa-john-claims-health-care-reform-is-too-expensive/640945)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 211\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/papa-john-claims-health-care-reform-is-too-expensive/640945 "2012-11-29T19:08:10Z")
John Schnatter has been railing about the affordable care act, claiming it’ll cost him 5 to 8 million a year, and fifteen cents a pizza and implying this will damage his business. There are numerous problems with this. … --- ## [Republicans: A War On Science and how you are letting them win](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-a-war-on-science-and-how-you-are-letting-them-win/636856)
**Author:** [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Replies:** 263\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2012, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-a-war-on-science-and-how-you-are-letting-them-win/636856 "2012-11-29T07:48:39Z")
What does Todd Akin have in common with Paul Brown? Both are Republican members of the House Science Committee. Akin famously bought into the beliefs of a man named Jack C. Willke: Of course, scientists say that Will… --- ## [Christmas Vandals](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116)
**Author:** [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-vandals/642116 "2012-11-29T03:44:25Z")
Really!? My wife and I put up our display Saturday afternoon, one of the cutest we’d ever done. The centerpiece was a Santa’s sleigh with 4 reindeer pulling, all lit up with lights intertwined within. I was a little w… --- ## ["This is a Catholic country". Your foetus is more important than your life.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-catholic-country-your-foetus-is-more-important-than-your-life/640966)
**Author:** [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Replies:** 190\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-catholic-country-your-foetus-is-more-important-than-your-life/640966 "2012-11-29T01:40:08Z")
A 31-year-old woman, Savita Praveen Halappanavar, has died in an Irish hospital after being denied an abortion to save her life. Link She was suffering a slow miscarriage and getting sicker and sicker, but doctors refu… --- ## [Bricker fooled me for too long](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835)
**Author:** [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Replies:** 403\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835 "2012-11-28T20:01:01Z")
Now, I know that Bricker pittings are pretty much a “oh is it that time of the year again?” sort of thing, but this isn’t so much a pitting of Bricker, as it is of myself, and everyone like me. That is, I suppose I’m sa… --- ## [I pit Stanford's "Personal History Statement"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stanfords-personal-history-statement/642258)
**Author:** [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stanfords-personal-history-statement/642258 "2012-11-28T19:26:22Z")
…(700 characters max) Really? 700 characters? 700 measly characters? Your damn question is 579 characters! What the hell is this? A challenge to describe and discuss diversity in 5 tweets or less? Regards diversity as… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=194) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=196)