# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=198 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 199 --- ## [I can hardly stand the suspense!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943)
**Author:** [@A\_nice\_guy\_with\_an\_opinion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_nice_guy_with_an_opinion)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943 "2012-11-06T17:39:07Z")
Knowing Romney wants to attack women’s lady parts like they are unholy creations of the devil, and destroy the good bond between the parties that has BIPARTISAN bills flowing through smooth as silk, how can anyone not vo… --- ## [The Hunt for Rant October---minirant time!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-for-rant-october-minirant-time/636386)
**Author:** [@Septima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Septima)\ **Replies:** 650\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-for-rant-october-minirant-time/636386 "2012-11-05T17:39:50Z")
Well, I can’t find the mini-rants thread, and I’ve been waiting way too long, so here goes: Dammit! I hate, hate having computer trouble in front of my students. It’s soo damned embarrassing. And the new damn fancy elec… --- ## [Oh Brownie, you're still a douchewaste!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-brownie-youre-still-a-douchewaste/639389)
**Author:** [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-brownie-youre-still-a-douchewaste/639389 "2012-11-05T14:36:51Z")
Remember “Helluva job Brownie”? The slimey toad given the head of FEMA position, which Bush thought could be used as a patronage job? That worked fine until an actual disaster happened and Brownie was shown to be worse t… --- ## [I pit gum.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-gum/639681)
**Author:** [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-gum/639681 "2012-11-04T23:42:53Z")
You know what I really hate? Gum. I hate everything about gum. I hate having to sit near someone who’s chewing gum with their mouth open. I hate having to see their piece of chewed-up, spit-covered gum in their mouth. O… --- ## [Sandy, a Hurricane? Poor Gloria, how soon they forget you, my dear...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandy-a-hurricane-poor-gloria-how-soon-they-forget-you-my-dear/639401)
**Author:** [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandy-a-hurricane-poor-gloria-how-soon-they-forget-you-my-dear/639401 "2012-11-04T20:08:52Z")
Ok, I was wrong in the other thread. She never reached Cat 5, she only hit 4. And she was probably a 3 when she got to me. Still, that was in '85. NYC has seen worse. Much worse. Why everyone is freaking out about Sandy … --- ## [Romney gets charitable deduction for gifts to himself](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-gets-charitable-deduction-for-gifts-to-himself/639834)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-gets-charitable-deduction-for-gifts-to-himself/639834 "2012-11-04T19:51:37Z")
I just read about another tax dodge, the “charitable remainder unitrust,” which Romney uses to get tax deductions for charitable contributions of untaxed capital gains, while actually getting most of the financial benefi… --- ## [I pit the derisive, condenscending, anti-conspiriacy ... \[merged threads\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-derisive-condenscending-anti-conspiriacy-merged-threads/626653)
**Author:** [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Replies:** 1138\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-derisive-condenscending-anti-conspiriacy-merged-threads/626653 "2012-11-04T17:00:11Z")
This thread was closed. It was not my thread. The OP made some very good points which I wanted to emphasize. However, the fucking point of the OP was lost and I guess here I am defending myself and the OP and the few oth… --- ## [Driving pet peeves!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driving-pet-peeves/639224)
**Author:** [@CoastalMaineiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoastalMaineiac)\ **Replies:** 100\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driving-pet-peeves/639224 "2012-11-03T23:27:10Z")
Living in Maine, where driver’s ed is not mandatory for anyone over 18, and where it seems the majority of people here learned to drive on farm tractors a hundred years ago, I an come up with a lot of pet peeves! #1. Se… --- ## [What about climate? USA! USA!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-climate-usa-usa/639651)
**Author:** [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-climate-usa-usa/639651 "2012-11-03T15:23:58Z")
What about climate? USA! USA! USA! :rolleyes: This encapsulates the GOP position on Global Warming to a tee. I’m not joking. During one of Romney’s rallys, when he mentioned Sandy, someone interjected “What about clim… --- ## [National Review: Oh Noes! College Students Joke About Sex!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-review-oh-noes-college-students-joke-about-sex/639687)
**Author:** [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-review-oh-noes-college-students-joke-about-sex/639687 "2012-11-03T02:54:18Z")
Nathan Harden of National Review Online: Here’s a link to that “depravity so graphic.” Prepare to be seriously disappointed, because there ain’t nothing there but a lame sex joke in the form of a poster that someone s… --- ## [Sorry, But Sandy is "The New Normal"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-but-sandy-is-the-new-normal/639565)
**Author:** [@Troutsqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troutsqueezer)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-but-sandy-is-the-new-normal/639565 "2012-11-02T21:34:19Z")
It must be true because that’s what Al Roker said this morning on “Today”. So, East Coasters, you had better get used to it because we all know that Roker is a weather genius. Either that or he’s a complete idiot. :smack… --- ## [Stupid-ass redneck hicks can go die in a car fire. Seriously.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-ass-redneck-hicks-can-go-die-in-a-car-fire-seriously/638156)
**Author:** [@Oedipus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oedipus)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-ass-redneck-hicks-can-go-die-in-a-car-fire-seriously/638156 "2012-11-02T19:20:01Z")
At my school, its generally a LOT of “southern” people. Most of them just have the charm that is normally seen with southerners. Then, obviously, you just have the most DUMB-ASS, LOWDOWN, PIGFUCKING wastes of oxygen that… --- ## ["Why I don't think OMG ABC believes his own bullshit"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-think-omg-abc-believes-his-own-bullshit/638984)
**Author:** [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-dont-think-omg-abc-believes-his-own-bullshit/638984 "2012-11-02T15:10:30Z")
Because OMG a Black Conservative consistently refuses to put his money where his mouth is. I actually am not interested in betting him money that Obama will win the election. I’m interested in shaming him (and risking s… --- ## [Change.org Has Sold Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-org-has-sold-out/639208)
**Author:** [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-org-has-sold-out/639208 "2012-11-02T01:49:06Z")
Story in the Huffington Post Daily Kos on the change at change.org Basically, progressive bastion Change.org will now start offering its services to all and sundry – folks who oppose gun control, folks who wish to ban … --- ## [An early Trick or Treat rant.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-early-trick-or-treat-rant/639087)
**Author:** [@spotthegerbil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spotthegerbil)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-early-trick-or-treat-rant/639087 "2012-11-01T23:54:17Z")
It is Saturday 27th October around 7.30pm. There’s a knock at the door. Opening the door I am met with two children disguised as witches, aged 9 or 10ish, on my doorstep, with an accompanying parent at the end of the p… --- ## [politicians](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politicians/639567)
**Author:** [@stosh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stosh)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politicians/639567 "2012-11-01T21:53:45Z")
Take the devastation in new jersey. Obama flies in and him and Christie hop on a helicopter,that the taxpayers pay for,and check out the damage.When they land they say " the victim are in our prayers ". Does anyone beli… --- ## [Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Josh "Tank" Watts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mamas-dont-let-your-babies-grow-up-to-be-josh-tank-watts/639299)
**Author:** [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mamas-dont-let-your-babies-grow-up-to-be-josh-tank-watts/639299 "2012-11-01T20:08:04Z")
My first Pit thread & I’m not even sure where it begins or ends. Dumb-ass heaps abuse on double amputee Marine for wearing the wrong jersey & hilarity ensues. :rolleyes: --- ## [RN in NYC- Sandy has screwed me bad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rn-in-nyc-sandy-has-screwed-me-bad/639301)
**Author:** [@Little\_Cloud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Cloud)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rn-in-nyc-sandy-has-screwed-me-bad/639301 "2012-11-01T19:35:20Z")
Can’t leave hospital probably til Wednesday 16 hours on 8 hours sleep MAYBE Food bad and not enuf Not enuf staff Now gonna get more patients from hospitals that have lost power and flooded emergency generators Fuc… --- ## [I pit Mitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mitt/638423)
**Author:** [@Sekigahara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sekigahara)\ **Replies:** 91\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mitt/638423 "2012-11-01T16:01:12Z")
Politicians are a slimy lot but Mitt Romney exceeds historical norms. Here’s the interesting part: he came through the Republican primaries looking like a douchebag only to be hammered by Democrats for months thereafter,… --- ## [I pit New Yorkers who BAWWWW](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-new-yorkers-who-bawwww/639513)
**Author:** [@Fear\_of\_the\_Dark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_of_the_Dark)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-new-yorkers-who-bawwww/639513 "2012-11-01T12:21:29Z")
Yeah, what’s the matter with you? Let’s keep our fight here. I hate New York and anyone who love or gladly live in this city. Am I free to hate? I think so. Why am I not allowed to make negative comments? Wait a minute.… --- ## [BEEP! Beep. Beep BEEP. BEEEEEEP!......beep beep....BEEP!! BEEP BEEP!!! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beep-beep-beep-beep-beeeeeep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beeeeeeeeeeeeep/638802)
**Author:** [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beep-beep-beep-beep-beeeeeep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beeeeeeeeeeeeep/638802 "2012-10-31T01:53:21Z")
Either they’re not home, or they’re choosing not responding to your leaning on your fucking horn for the past 10 minutes. Maybe they’re pretending not to be home because you are such a brain-dead imbecilic shit-for-brai… --- ## [These guys should have stuck to the 'Got Milk?' ad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-guys-should-have-stuck-to-the-got-milk-ad/639095)
**Author:** [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-guys-should-have-stuck-to-the-got-milk-ad/639095 "2012-10-30T23:48:29Z")
Fairly disturbing video. What else is there to say? Politics aside, you really shouldn’t use kids to do your dirty work. Never mind the fact they don’t look to happy to be there to begin with. --- ## [Crappy science instruction](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crappy-science-instruction/638830)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2012, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crappy-science-instruction/638830 "2012-10-30T13:23:11Z")
This is what a pitting by a pedantic, overeducated mechanical engineer looks like. My wife found a YouTube video last night that purports to demostrate the cooling associated with adiabatic expansion of gases. The prob… --- ## [Obama be shuckin' 'n' jivin', dontchyaknow!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-be-shuckin-n-jivin-dontchyaknow/638784)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 138\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-be-shuckin-n-jivin-dontchyaknow/638784 "2012-10-29T15:27:58Z")
Sarah Palin accused the president today of shucking and jiving. What a fucking ignorant, hateful piece of shit. What’s next, Ann Coulter calling the president a retard twitter? Oh right… That being said, are there any… --- ## [So. You got cancer in your balls. And this entitled you to....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-got-cancer-in-your-balls-and-this-entitled-you-to/638521)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 151\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-got-cancer-in-your-balls-and-this-entitled-you-to/638521 "2012-10-29T04:26:40Z")
… build such a titanic and layered lie that millions of innocents were sucked into. People believed, people worked hard, donated, supported. You useless fucking whore. You went and turned a cleverly hidden doping techni… --- ## [My neighborhood megachurch is holding a "fall festival" on guess what night?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-neighborhood-megachurch-is-holding-a-fall-festival-on-guess-what-night/638667)
**Author:** [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-neighborhood-megachurch-is-holding-a-fall-festival-on-guess-what-night/638667 "2012-10-28T05:17:47Z")
Some of us think kids, in their natural state, are nice. Hardwired to enjoy life, guileless in their gluttony; it’s one of life’s sweet, civilizing moments to give candy to the little monsters. And if you don’t see it th… --- ## [Intruder in your home at 3 AM - if you live in Toronto, don't hurt the perp . . .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intruder-in-your-home-at-3-am-if-you-live-in-toronto-dont-hurt-the-perp/633350)
**Author:** [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Replies:** 207\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intruder-in-your-home-at-3-am-if-you-live-in-toronto-dont-hurt-the-perp/633350 "2012-10-26T22:29:42Z")
Here is a link to a current news story in Toronto. In brief, a guy and his significant other come home at 3AM and immediately notice there’s an intruder inside. Guy grabs a knife and confronts intruder in his girlfriend… --- ## [Italian seismologists charged with manslaughter for not foreseeing L'Aquila earthquake](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italian-seismologists-charged-with-manslaughter-for-not-foreseeing-laquila-earthquake/597085)
**Author:** [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italian-seismologists-charged-with-manslaughter-for-not-foreseeing-laquila-earthquake/597085 "2012-10-26T17:52:06Z")
Story here It could have been ridiculously funny, if it hadn’t been so incredibly, mindboggingly stupid. --- ## [Effectiveness of Greed, Advertsing and Lies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effectiveness-of-greed-advertsing-and-lies/638688)
**Author:** [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effectiveness-of-greed-advertsing-and-lies/638688 "2012-10-24T20:00:18Z")
Here’s an interesting one. Many folks would like a new bridge that can take transport trucks between Detroit and Windsor. There is a good bridge there now - the Ambassador Bridge carries 25% of Canada - US trade. That’… --- ## [I pit people who don't pay attention to their kids at the grocery store](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-dont-pay-attention-to-their-kids-at-the-grocery-store/636881)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 293\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-dont-pay-attention-to-their-kids-at-the-grocery-store/636881 "2012-10-24T17:18:45Z")
As I mentioned once before, I work in a very large and very popular grocery store, which for the purposes of this thread I shall call The Busiest Grocery Store In The World (TBGSITW, or Tibgassitaw’s if you will). I like… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=197) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=199)