# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=200 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 201 --- ## [I pit the Taliban](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-taliban/637271)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-taliban/637271 "2012-10-15T05:00:16Z")
As much as I think these douchebags deserve scorn, derision, contempt and eradication, they keep coming up with new reasons to hate them: \[ \](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS\_PAKISTAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEM… --- ## [Attention dipsticks: Bicycles can go damn fast.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-dipsticks-bicycles-can-go-damn-fast/637002)
**Author:** [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Replies:** 112\ **Last updated:** [October 13, 2012, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-dipsticks-bicycles-can-go-damn-fast/637002 "2012-10-13T10:58:54Z")
I am going down a single lane, one way street that has the right of way. My Sigma BC906 says I am going at 35km/h. This is 5km/h over the posted speed limit and what most cars usually do on that particular road. There a… --- ## [Motherfreakin' redneck Obama haters!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motherfreakin-redneck-obama-haters/636277)
**Author:** [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Replies:** 119\ **Last updated:** [October 13, 2012, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motherfreakin-redneck-obama-haters/636277 "2012-10-13T10:48:41Z")
This afternoon, I had eaten lunch at a Bojangles restaurant in Pendergrass, Georgia off of Interstate 85. I had finished eating and was sitting in my car in the parking lot, checking the Dope on my smartphone before head… --- ## [Latest email scam starts with "Start with Trust"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-email-scam-starts-with-start-with-trust/636729)
**Author:** [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-email-scam-starts-with-start-with-trust/636729 "2012-10-12T18:20:38Z")
I’m no longer surprised by the evil cleverness of pfishers and scammers, but this just arrived in my mailbox, addressed to someone not-me, supposedly from “BBB \”. The first clue that some… --- ## [Attention podcasters: Get to the fucking point!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-podcasters-get-to-the-fucking-point/637009)
**Author:** [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-podcasters-get-to-the-fucking-point/637009 "2012-10-12T14:30:57Z")
I love podcasts. It was only a few years ago that I had to time my afternoon jogs to coincide with the program I wanted to hear on FM radio, often to only have it marred by poor reception. So I now gleefully download man… --- ## [I Pit PBS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pbs/637226)
**Author:** [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pbs/637226 "2012-10-11T22:18:55Z")
I know they they have to raise money. I contribute every year. But when they run shows and spend more time asking for money than they do actually running the show it REALLY pisses me off. Case in point - they aired a Sim… --- ## [Pro-life Republican urges mistress to get abortion.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-life-republican-urges-mistress-to-get-abortion/637389)
**Author:** [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-life-republican-urges-mistress-to-get-abortion/637389 "2012-10-11T20:40:27Z")
Ahhhh, more hypocrisy from the party of family “values.” Rep. Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee, who is running for re-election, apparently recorded a conversation in 2000 in which he told his mistress to get an abortion. S… --- ## [Get (your shit) off my lawn, state rep Dan Branch, TX house 108th district!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-shit-off-my-lawn-state-rep-dan-branch-tx-house-108th-district/637233)
**Author:** [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-shit-off-my-lawn-state-rep-dan-branch-tx-house-108th-district/637233 "2012-10-11T20:28:14Z")
Dear sir or madam, You or one of your authorized agents entered my property today and placed an “Elect Dan Branch” sign on my lawn. You have 10 business days to remit $50,000 for a half day’s billboard lease (you’re lu… --- ## [Why do you need to harrass everyone on the road?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-need-to-harrass-everyone-on-the-road/637080)
**Author:** [@LearnToBePolite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LearnToBePolite)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2012, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-need-to-harrass-everyone-on-the-road/637080 "2012-10-11T06:39:20Z")
When you go to the grocery store, at McDonald’s, at the bank, at Wal-Mart, or anywhere else, and you go to leave, and twenty people are in line, and it takes forty-five minutes to get through, you are completely calm. Y… --- ## [commericals that do a diservice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-do-a-diservice/636965)
**Author:** [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2012, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-do-a-diservice/636965 "2012-10-11T05:57:00Z")
Watch this ad from CVS Ad in question Pop quiz: What is wrong with the ad? A. Nothing B. It is for CVS C. It has an character named Bonnie D. Other Answer: Sorry but this is a hot button of mine. When riding … --- ## [Tailgating Cops](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tailgating-cops/636917)
**Author:** [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tailgating-cops/636917 "2012-10-10T06:24:22Z")
I Pit cops who ride my ass in an attempt, I guess, to get me to speed. You’ve got lights and a siren and a get out of jail free card. Pass me if you want, but get off my ass, douche-fucking-bag! --- ## [Drought woes in the age of global warming denials](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drought-woes-in-the-age-of-global-warming-denials/588701)
**Author:** [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drought-woes-in-the-age-of-global-warming-denials/588701 "2012-10-10T02:33:44Z")
I don’t worry about daylilies as a rule. They’re tough. But today I noticed that the daylilies in my mom’s yard are drying out. I’m afraid the corms will dry out in the ground and die this year. That’s bizarre. It’s rid… --- ## [Gas prices - FMTT!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-prices-fmtt/636751)
**Author:** [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-prices-fmtt/636751 "2012-10-10T02:32:09Z")
I know that there have been pipeline problems and refinery fires, but fuck me to tears. I just saw the price of regular go up $.30/gal in 9 hours. It was $4.23/gal when I drove to school, and $4.53/gal when I drove home! … --- ## [Airplane seatmate from hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-seatmate-from-hell/636749)
**Author:** [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-seatmate-from-hell/636749 "2012-10-09T18:12:14Z")
This just popped up on my facebook newsfeed from my 24 year old neice who had just got off the plane in Vancouver from a wonderful European vacation and now on her way to catch a ferry to Victoria, B.C. What a fucking… --- ## [Former Copyright Boss Thinks The World Owes Him A Living](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-copyright-boss-thinks-the-world-owes-him-a-living/636333)
**Author:** [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Replies:** 134\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2012, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-copyright-boss-thinks-the-world-owes-him-a-living/636333 "2012-10-09T08:25:28Z")
This is why nobody takes copyright law seriously: Yep. The pro-copyright forces think the world owes them a living, even to the extent of making things pre-emptively illegal and destroying innovation that might hurt th… --- ## [badger5149, please leave, you add nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011)
**Author:** [@ExcitedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExcitedIdiot)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2012, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badger5149-please-leave-you-add-nothing/635011 "2012-10-08T08:12:38Z")
badger5149, in short, you lack the capacity for logical thought. You add nothing to this board, please leave. Umm, yes that makes you racist, or incredibly dense. He said this doozy in an Intelligent Design thread: … --- ## [St. German and others, is this a joke?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-german-and-others-is-this-a-joke/636639)
**Author:** [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-german-and-others-is-this-a-joke/636639 "2012-10-07T15:22:11Z")
Is this your idea of a joke? If it is, it isn’t a very funny one. I didn’t ask anyone for a DIME and I am offended that you would imply that I would. I’ve only been on the Dope about 11 years now, I think its obvious th… --- ## [A real-life handicap-parking story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-real-life-handicap-parking-story/586524)
**Author:** [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Replies:** 378\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-real-life-handicap-parking-story/586524 "2012-10-06T12:55:08Z")
I am posting this here because I was a bit shaken by some of the reactions I got from my thread about wheelchairs and airplanes, so I wanted to see what the reaction might be to this story. Now to let ppl know off the… --- ## [Obama will reduce unemployment benefits...apparently.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-will-reduce-unemployment-benefits-apparently/636782)
**Author:** [@Fat\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fat_Chance)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2012, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-will-reduce-unemployment-benefits-apparently/636782 "2012-10-06T06:47:26Z")
My company was bought by another not long ago and many are leaving on their own for new jobs, getting let go, or hoping and asking to be let go (severance packages, stock vesting, and unemployment actually being a net po… --- ## [Attempted line jumpers, just fucking stop!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attempted-line-jumpers-just-fucking-stop/635983)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attempted-line-jumpers-just-fucking-stop/635983 "2012-10-05T20:04:52Z")
Sideway’ers, the line starts behind the last person, parking your shopping cart off to the side of the line and trying to inch in or hope someone is slow to move so you can quickly merge in ahead of them is not joining t… --- ## ["Conservative media co-ordinates on the release of 5 yr old Obama video](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583)
**Author:** [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583 "2012-10-05T17:28:26Z")
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/03/conservative-media-coordinates-on-release-of-old-obama-video/ Hey, assholes, you’re supposed to report news, not try to manufacture it!:rolleyes: --- ## [The EU Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme is a bunch of fishy twats](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eu-prevention-of-and-fight-against-crime-programme-is-a-bunch-of-fishy-twats/635876)
**Author:** [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eu-prevention-of-and-fight-against-crime-programme-is-a-bunch-of-fishy-twats/635876 "2012-10-04T22:23:53Z")
Here is their €400,000 preliminary recommendations on how to combat Internet Terrorism: EU proposal to stop terrorist sites even more ridiculous than it sounds no funny pictures or cat picture on Facebook, a direct p… --- ## [Crazy Hours and no pay!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-hours-and-no-pay/634814)
**Author:** [@Fpoof230](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fpoof230)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-hours-and-no-pay/634814 "2012-10-04T13:38:06Z")
I work for a warehouse in NJ and I am on the verge of getting divorced because of this place. I am required to work every weekend even if other managers are there to cover, I a have to stay late when other managers have … --- ## [Senate nominee from Missouri Todd Akin is a feeble-minded moron.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 297\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993 "2012-10-04T02:24:31Z")
Here is my clinical evidence. http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/todd-akin-legitimate-rape.php --- ## [Time to remind the people raised on celebrity culture...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-remind-the-people-raised-on-celebrity-culture/635638)
**Author:** [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-remind-the-people-raised-on-celebrity-culture/635638 "2012-10-03T22:37:14Z")
Your wedding is NOT a show your friends have been auditioning for your entire friendship until you awarded them a part as bridesmaid or groomsmen, etc. It is you asking for their help on a day that’s important to you, n… --- ## [Ow ... Fuck!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-fuck/636611)
**Author:** [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-fuck/636611 "2012-10-03T21:43:08Z")
You know that involuntary inhale just before a ninja sneeze? I just snorted imported wasabi powder. \*\*\*Fucking ouch \*\*\* On the plus side, not only are my sinuses as clear as they have been in over a year, the volumino… --- ## [Smart cars and dumbass consumers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smart-cars-and-dumbass-consumers/636293)
**Author:** [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smart-cars-and-dumbass-consumers/636293 "2012-10-03T20:38:21Z")
Are you so fucking stupid you need your car to tell you how to get from say Houston to Chicago? You can’t figure out the weather in Roswell? You need your car to tell you to turn left here to get to the movie theater? I… --- ## [Fox News is trying really hard...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054)
**Author:** [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-is-trying-really-hard/636054 "2012-10-03T14:59:08Z")
I know it’s not news (ha! pun) that Fox is the republican network of record, but wow… Since the polls began to climb in Obama’s favor it really does seem they have just thrown off the pretense at this point. The top 3 … --- ## [HA HA! - Stupid paedo!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-stupid-paedo/422085)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-ha-stupid-paedo/422085 "2012-10-02T18:20:31Z")
http://www.interpol.int/Public/THB/vico/Default.asp I can’t help laughing at the stupid chump. He took the trouble to obscure his face in photographs of him having sex with children, but he used method that could be re… --- ## [Lifeguards refused to give CPR - BYSTANDERS revive 3 year old drowning victim.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lifeguards-refused-to-give-cpr-bystanders-revive-3-year-old-drowning-victim/367693)
**Author:** [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Replies:** 157\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lifeguards-refused-to-give-cpr-bystanders-revive-3-year-old-drowning-victim/367693 "2012-10-02T17:48:50Z")
Well, as the title says, it was a group of strangers that saved this kid’s life. Lifeguards refused to give the kid CPR because they didn’t have the protective mouthguard to prevent transmission of disease. Here’s the … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=199) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=201)