# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=199 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 200 --- ## [First Pit and heartfelt...about Game Zone cheaters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-pit-and-heartfelt-about-game-zone-cheaters/179299)
**Author:** [@Tommyturtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommyturtle)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-pit-and-heartfelt-about-game-zone-cheaters/179299 "2012-10-24T11:53:30Z")
About once a day I go play hearts at MSN Zone Games and it’s getting harder and harder to get a game going without running into a cheater. They have various ways of cheating…some are shoppers(they pop in and if they don… --- ## [Undecided Voters?? Aggghhhhhhh](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/undecided-voters-aggghhhhhhh/638066)
**Author:** [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/undecided-voters-aggghhhhhhh/638066 "2012-10-24T04:19:36Z")
I gotta say, folks who sit there and say they are undecided drive me fucking insane, because I have not a clue what the fuck they expect to learn between now and the election? Obama has been President for almost four yea… --- ## [Fuck United Airlines](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-united-airlines/638332)
**Author:** [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-united-airlines/638332 "2012-10-24T00:11:24Z")
I’m standing here at the ticket counter missing my connection because the plane is two hours late and customer service is not being helpful. So fuck them all!!! --- ## [Stop moving the "next" button for slideshows](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-moving-the-next-button-for-slideshows/638334 "2012-10-23T16:48:23Z")
Goddammit. I don’t have all the time in the world. I want to flip through your slideshow quickly. So please fucking put the “next” button in the same place on every slide so I can just click-click-click. Instead I click … --- ## [Um...what the heck is wrong with this Palo Alto school?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-what-the-heck-is-wrong-with-this-palo-alto-school/638348)
**Author:** [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-what-the-heck-is-wrong-with-this-palo-alto-school/638348 "2012-10-23T00:43:32Z")
Wait…what? I’m confused. I have CF and this is the first I’ve heard of anyone believing that a carrier poses a threat to someone who actually has the disease. CF is a genetic disease, NOT a contagious viral or germ-ba… --- ## [I pit Italian justice (for convicting seismologists of manslaughter)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-italian-justice-for-convicting-seismologists-of-manslaughter/638573)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-italian-justice-for-convicting-seismologists-of-manslaughter/638573 "2012-10-22T23:02:57Z")
I thought the shenanigans in the Amanda Knox case were almost certainly as ridiculous as the Italian courts could get. I mean, they had upped the ante considerably since the Monster of Florence days and I couldn’t figur… --- ## [Bike thieves. You are both loathsome and dumb.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bike-thieves-you-are-both-loathsome-and-dumb/638557)
**Author:** [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bike-thieves-you-are-both-loathsome-and-dumb/638557 "2012-10-22T20:35:06Z")
A long and shitty day at work last week was topped off by going to get on my bike to get home and finding, instead, a neatly cut through lock lying on the floor of the car park. The “secure”, swipe-card-accessed undergro… --- ## [Mississippi Teabagger: Letting Women Vote A Bad Idea](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720)
**Author:** [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720 "2012-10-22T17:41:52Z")
Somehow, I’m not surprised a woman’s voicing this opinion: Here’s a direct link to the interview, and one last tidbit: But let’s not take her out of context: --- ## [Here we are god](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-are-god/638265)
**Author:** [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-we-are-god/638265 "2012-10-22T15:56:20Z")
Here in the Midwest protestant churches have taken to putting little sayings on a sign by the road. I find the concept annoying. It’s not like I’m going to see “Brush up on your bible; it prevents TRUTH decay“ and sudd… --- ## [Florida's Race-based Academic Standards](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floridas-race-based-academic-standards/638110)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floridas-race-based-academic-standards/638110 "2012-10-22T13:32:37Z")
Seriously, can someone explain this to me so it does not come across as racist? Here’s the blurb for the video: Oh, I see now why it’s not so racist–these goals are higher than the old goals. :rolleyes: ETA: For your … --- ## [Which is worse... me or....?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-worse-me-or/635979)
**Author:** [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-worse-me-or/635979 "2012-10-21T15:47:21Z")
Hi this is a serious question… I’m interested in people’s opinions… So firstly there is me - I started a thread where I was looking for a song to play in my wedding where it didn’t focus on the bride being gorgeous… … --- ## [If you're missing Aldebaran, I have found a contender for you!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-missing-aldebaran-i-have-found-a-contender-for-you/638226)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-missing-aldebaran-i-have-found-a-contender-for-you/638226 "2012-10-21T04:08:30Z")
Friends, Netizens, Teeming Millions\[sup\]TM\[/sup\]: Lend me your…er, eyes? Yeah, that’s it. Lend me your eyes! Perhaps some of you have already encountered this twerp, but alas I only recently had the misfortune of trying … --- ## [How to grocery shop (Since there seems to be some confusion): A rant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-grocery-shop-since-there-seems-to-be-some-confusion-a-rant/617663)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 225\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-grocery-shop-since-there-seems-to-be-some-confusion-a-rant/617663 "2012-10-21T00:36:38Z")
I work in a very large (106,000 sq. ft.), very busy, very low-price grocery store. This means that this time of the month is always nonstop, balls-to-the-wall excitement - between the military getting paid on the 1st and… --- ## [Goddamn it BigT, stop bumping ATMB threads you fucking knob.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-bigt-stop-bumping-atmb-threads-you-fucking-knob/637819)
**Author:** [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-bigt-stop-bumping-atmb-threads-you-fucking-knob/637819 "2012-10-20T23:34:16Z")
For the last week or two, every time I wander into ATMB there’s a thread that had died weeks ago back at the top of the list. “Oh, did something interesting happen?” I wonder as I click on it. No, it’s just BigT, final… --- ## [Gotta pit my coteacher](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-pit-my-coteacher/637332)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-pit-my-coteacher/637332 "2012-10-20T20:51:15Z")
Today’s lesson is problem solving. After 10 years of learned helplessness, these students need to figure out that hey cannot just count on a teacher to do their work for them but that they need to do the work with minim… --- ## [Hey, Mark Gill...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mark-gill/638322)
**Author:** [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mark-gill/638322 "2012-10-20T20:44:57Z")
…if that’s your real name. You are ugly, annoying, bearded, and strident, but you ain’t no Billy Mays. Also, you don’t speak with an English accent, so why should I believe anything you say? Get the fuck off of my TV! --- ## [People who think President Obama dedicated a statue to Hugo Chavez.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164 "2012-10-20T20:00:09Z")
Hopefully people like this are few and far between, at least I’d like to believe that. --- ## [I love my step-kids, but I pit step-parenting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-step-kids-but-i-pit-step-parenting/637808)
**Author:** [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-step-kids-but-i-pit-step-parenting/637808 "2012-10-20T15:12:37Z")
What a freaking thankless job this is. I have one absolutely great stepkid, one stepkid who’s typical, and one who’s not a good kid. The typical package, in other words, whether children of my own loins or not. I FREA… --- ## [I Pit The Sierra Club](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-sierra-club/637894)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-sierra-club/637894 "2012-10-20T13:44:41Z")
OK, are you dudes just luddites are do you actually believe in Global warming? You say that Human caused global warming is “a reality” and that we have to cut greenhouse gas emission, especial CO2. Fine. But if so, you… --- ## [Sam's Club](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sams-club/638064)
**Author:** [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2012, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sams-club/638064 "2012-10-20T07:48:15Z")
So a local Sam’s Club was closed for remodeling and is having a grand reopening event this weekend. To celebrate and bring in new suckers, uh, members they took out a full page ad in the local paper including a coupon t… --- ## [Republican voter registration scandal going national?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-voter-registration-scandal-going-national/638271)
**Author:** [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-voter-registration-scandal-going-national/638271 "2012-10-19T23:24:27Z")
Not certain this is a major issue or not. Voter registration scandal widens A Virginia official is busted for tossing voter forms. Turns out he works for the national party, too I was going to pick out a few interes… --- ## [WTF TV Guide? Spoilers on the cover?!?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-tv-guide-spoilers-on-the-cover/638154)
**Author:** [@ExcitedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExcitedIdiot)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 18, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-tv-guide-spoilers-on-the-cover/638154 "2012-10-18T22:37:25Z")
\*\*\*WARNING Sons of Anarchy Spoiler below \*\*\* I’m waiting in line at the supermarket, so I glance at the tabloids and Hollywood trash magazines. Joel McHale’s picture catches my attention, so I look and here’s the capti… --- ## [Thanks city for shortening the yellow lights!! (Red light cams)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-city-for-shortening-the-yellow-lights-red-light-cams/637831)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-city-for-shortening-the-yellow-lights-red-light-cams/637831 "2012-10-17T19:46:54Z")
The city I live in has shortened their yellow lights. Seriously, in the past two weeks, I’ve ran three red lights. The damn yellow lights turn red right when I’m in the middle of the intersection. I KNOW how to time ye… --- ## [Mitt, get that fucking smirk off of your face and try to show a modicum of respect.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-get-that-fucking-smirk-off-of-your-face-and-try-to-show-a-modicum-of-respect/636653)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 134\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-get-that-fucking-smirk-off-of-your-face-and-try-to-show-a-modicum-of-respect/636653 "2012-10-17T05:20:47Z")
In a Presidential Debate you have been so heavily programmed, rehearsed and directed that you’re incapable of wiping that obnoxious smirk off of your face. Either you chose the tactic or bought into someone’s brilliant c… --- ## [We fucked up the contract..so we call the cops and say you stole it....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-fucked-up-the-contract-so-we-call-the-cops-and-say-you-stole-it/636644)
**Author:** [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-fucked-up-the-contract-so-we-call-the-cops-and-say-you-stole-it/636644 "2012-10-17T04:39:31Z")
http://hamptonroads.com/2012/09/car-dealership-apologizes-customers-arrest pdf of lawsuit attached to page. In a nutshell Dealer sells car customer trades car for slightly more expensive different model dealer write… --- ## [Put the white back in the White House](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587 "2012-10-17T00:36:53Z")
I’m pitting the asshole in the picture at the top of this link. He’s wearing a Romney/Ryan t-shirt that says “Put the white back in the White House”. I’m certain it’s not an official t-shirt, and I hope that they didn’… --- ## [Teacher Orders Kid to Lose Romney Shirt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-orders-kid-to-lose-romney-shirt/636714)
**Author:** [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [October 16, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-orders-kid-to-lose-romney-shirt/636714 "2012-10-16T22:44:52Z")
An unidentified teacher orders a kid in geometry class get rid of her Romney T-shirt: When you see an educator with that kind of pedagogical talent and wisdom, you just have to stop and wonder how the teacher survived … --- ## [I pit politcal ads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-politcal-ads/637843)
**Author:** [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [October 16, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-politcal-ads/637843 "2012-10-16T21:43:30Z")
I’ve never lived in a swing state before so I mostly saw political ads on the Daily Show or some late night talk show. THIS election cycle, I live in Virginia and we are not only a swing state, we have a hotly contested… --- ## [Sleazy callers at work](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleazy-callers-at-work/637554)
**Author:** [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [October 16, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleazy-callers-at-work/637554 "2012-10-16T20:46:49Z")
My company is pretty small and we don’t have any receptionist, so I take most of our calls. We get a decent number of telemarketers and people like that, and what aggravates me most about them is that they just waste a … --- ## [The democrats are not playing 11 dimensional chess. They are incompetent. There is a difference](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-are-not-playing-11-dimensional-chess-they-are-incompetent-there-is-a-difference/637145)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democrats-are-not-playing-11-dimensional-chess-they-are-incompetent-there-is-a-difference/637145 "2012-10-15T23:28:05Z")
With Obama losing the first debate one thing that comes up in liberal circles is the theory that Obama is playing 11 dimension (or 7, or 3, or 5, take your pick) chess and outclassing the right via some long term strateg… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=198) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=200)