# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=201 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 202 --- ## [Psst... Hey, restaurant employees (and other service workers)... C'mere. We need to talk.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psst-hey-restaurant-employees-and-other-service-workers-cmere-we-need-to-talk/635907)
**Author:** [@Mann\_Slaughter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mann_Slaughter)\ **Replies:** 138\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psst-hey-restaurant-employees-and-other-service-workers-cmere-we-need-to-talk/635907 "2012-10-02T16:13:16Z")
First… When I walk into your restaurant with my girlfriend please don’t greet us with “Hi guys!” The last time I checked I was the only guy in this relationship. A friendly “Good afternoon, ma’am… sir.” works wonders fo… --- ## [What the heck is BYOD?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-is-byod/636221)
**Author:** [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-is-byod/636221 "2012-10-02T15:50:03Z")
(BYOD = Bring your own device) This is part rant, part factual question. In IT, somebody finds a slightly different application of an age old concept, slaps a new, catchy label and a new craze emerges. Take cloud file… --- ## [Try to remember...(the month of September?) (Sept. minirants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 422\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394 "2012-10-01T23:09:53Z")
No, that I only buy you a limited number of talking minutes on your phone every month! Two hundred. You are so stubborn when we’re out of the house about making a phone call to get information from a friend. I have to p… --- ## [Chris Kluwe's pitting of Emmett C. Burns, Jr.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kluwes-pitting-of-emmett-c-burns-jr/634090)
**Author:** [@ashtayk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ashtayk)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-kluwes-pitting-of-emmett-c-burns-jr/634090 "2012-10-01T16:38:59Z")
Wow - just wow This is just good allround pitting. Vikings punter responds to a Maryland state delegate. Side note: My first pit thread in 12 years! --- ## [Voter fraud discovered!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voter-fraud-discovered/636083)
**Author:** [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2012, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voter-fraud-discovered/636083 "2012-10-01T07:13:51Z")
and Volunteer Busted Only Registering Romney Voters I believe my psychology prof called the condition wherein a guilty person accuses another of doing the same thing is all “projection”. It seems the G… --- ## [You're not fighting ignorance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805)
**Author:** [@Docta\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Docta_G)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-not-fighting-ignorance/635805 "2012-10-01T01:52:43Z")
You’re just wasting time on a message board. Here, I’ll prove it: --- ## [They are not Replacement Refs...They are SCABS!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-not-replacement-refs-they-are-scabs/635798)
**Author:** [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Replies:** 117\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-not-replacement-refs-they-are-scabs/635798 "2012-09-30T22:23:18Z")
I see some folks feeling sorry for these guys, “They are trying their best, they are just in over their heads.” “Give them a break, they are being intimidated.” Fuck’em I say. They are scabs, plain and simple, they suc… --- ## [Entrapment - Police whores and stupid fundamentalists](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entrapment-police-whores-and-stupid-fundamentalists/613353)
**Author:** [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Replies:** 247\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2012, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entrapment-police-whores-and-stupid-fundamentalists/613353 "2012-09-30T08:06:59Z")
Drugs and terrorism aren’t major offences, but the police like to use them to accrue power and money and so on, so they take the opportunity to trick vulnerable people into commiting not-quite-crimes. Two cases that hav… --- ## [Work is no place for emotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-is-no-place-for-emotion/635745)
**Author:** [@Sekigahara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sekigahara)\ **Replies:** 100\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-is-no-place-for-emotion/635745 "2012-09-29T22:31:25Z")
I’m sick and tired of people bringing their personal baggage, egocentrism and psychoses into work. Unless you’re an actor, you need to leave the drama at home. We all just want to be reasonably productive and go the fuck… --- ## [Ok dude, we got it. You like lions and you hate tigers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-dude-we-got-it-you-like-lions-and-you-hate-tigers/633795)
**Author:** [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Replies:** 100\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-dude-we-got-it-you-like-lions-and-you-hate-tigers/633795 "2012-09-29T02:50:48Z")
What the fuck is this shit? This guy must have collected all the fucking links about lions on a single thread. What is this guy’s major malfunction? :confused: --- ## [I PIT isitlegalto](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065)
**Author:** [@lawbuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawbuff)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-isitlegalto/636065 "2012-09-28T05:35:21Z")
Date the ban will be lifted: 09-27-2013, 03:00 PM This jackass; Thorax; (a moderator) has absolutley NO knowledge of the law. When I posted, in a professional, polite manner, my views, he went off on his crap and ev… --- ## [Vive Charlie Hebro! French mag publishes naked Muhammad cartoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vive-charlie-hebro-french-mag-publishes-naked-muhammad-cartoons/635160)
**Author:** [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Replies:** 201\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vive-charlie-hebro-french-mag-publishes-naked-muhammad-cartoons/635160 "2012-09-27T22:05:20Z")
Link to story This is just what the crazy Muslim protesters need, a vigorous fuck you instead of sniveling apologies for free speech (which, alas, the French government instantly resorted to in response.) Mods: I wasn… --- ## [moonshot925](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonshot925/634747)
**Author:** [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Replies:** 253\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonshot925/634747 "2012-09-27T19:10:46Z")
This isn’t really a pitting (he’s really not worth it), but can we stop responding to him? He’s either a troll or someone who’s even stupider than Rand rover or Starving Artist. Is there one conservative who will defend… --- ## [I Pit Political Ads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-political-ads/635856)
**Author:** [@Bouncer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bouncer)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-political-ads/635856 "2012-09-27T18:59:12Z")
May I simply say: Holy Fuckity Fucking Fuck, SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY WITH THE ADS!!! I doubt there is one living person in Virginia who has not gone partially blind and deaf from the never-ending stream of garbage out … --- ## [Pitting the FAA](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-faa/635671)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-faa/635671 "2012-09-26T17:06:16Z")
… for trying to grind a former employee under the wheels of its bureaucracy run amok. Poor schlub takes a job with the FAA and then leaves for a private job. As he leaves, some payroll clerk is on vacation, and schlub … --- ## [Victims of customer servicers, telemarketers, and other phone people, tell us your horror stories.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/victims-of-customer-servicers-telemarketers-and-other-phone-people-tell-us-your-horror-stories/634928)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/victims-of-customer-servicers-telemarketers-and-other-phone-people-tell-us-your-horror-stories/634928 "2012-09-26T15:35:01Z")
It’s only fair that you have a place to voice your complaints, too. I, too have had problems with these people, but the details escape me so somebody else will have to start. --- ## [WTF? (Obama's speech on violence in the Mideast)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-obamas-speech-on-violence-in-the-mideast/635795)
**Author:** [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-obamas-speech-on-violence-in-the-mideast/635795 "2012-09-26T15:23:40Z")
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/no-video-justifies-an-attack-on-an-embassy-obama-tells-un/article4566506/ How come nobody told Obama that video has nothing to do with planned attack on embassy? And he gets to… --- ## [Rush Limbaugh blames femanazis for smaller penis sizes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-blames-femanazis-for-smaller-penis-sizes/635598)
**Author:** [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-blames-femanazis-for-smaller-penis-sizes/635598 "2012-09-26T13:14:01Z")
I thought his theory saying Al Qaeda gave up Bin Ladin to get Obama re-elected was crazy, but this is beyond that. --- ## [Please stop playing Moves Like Jagger. Thank you.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-playing-moves-like-jagger-thank-you/635040)
**Author:** [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2012, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-playing-moves-like-jagger-thank-you/635040 "2012-09-26T12:05:51Z")
I wanna fist fuck my own face holes every time I hear this tune. I don’t like the song but can appreciate that it is catchy and it would be popular but for christs sake it’s been on every commercial and tv show ad nause… --- ## [Why is mmmbeer unable to read certain words?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-mmmbeer-unable-to-read-certain-words/635659)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-mmmbeer-unable-to-read-certain-words/635659 "2012-09-25T17:29:34Z")
Yesterday, an encounter with mmmbeer reminded me of my encounters with Siam Sam. Feel free to join me in denouncing mmmbeer for inadequate reading skill, but my real question is about septimus :smack: Is there some fla… --- ## [Judge to woman groped in a bar: "If you wouldn't have been there that night, none of this would..."](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-to-woman-groped-in-a-bar-if-you-wouldnt-have-been-there-that-night-none-of-this-would/633934)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 157\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-to-woman-groped-in-a-bar-if-you-wouldnt-have-been-there-that-night-none-of-this-would/633934 "2012-09-25T17:05:10Z")
“…have happened to you.” (ran out of room in the title) I’m speechless that a judge, of all people, would say such a thing. A female judge in particular. Note I am making no comment on whether the defendant got a jus… --- ## [RO: Tweeting Taunts to the Brother of a Man Who Just Died (Ravens' Torrey Smith)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-tweeting-taunts-to-the-brother-of-a-man-who-just-died-ravens-torrey-smith/635733)
**Author:** [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-tweeting-taunts-to-the-brother-of-a-man-who-just-died-ravens-torrey-smith/635733 "2012-09-25T15:26:23Z")
Okay, here we go - I tend to read the Pit but not post here, not my cup o’ tea, but I feel like tossing this one out there. Yesterday after a loss to the Baltimore Ravens in the last moment of the game, a Patriots fan d… --- ## [God, I hate Paypal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-hate-paypal/635445)
**Author:** [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-hate-paypal/635445 "2012-09-25T14:21:14Z")
I once set up an account with Paypal using my debit card. I forget what I had to buy, frankly. But now that it’s in there I’m locked out of eBay, Project Wonderful, and some other sites with that card because it keeps … --- ## [Why can't Siam Sam accept correction?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-siam-sam-accept-correction/634779)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2012, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-siam-sam-accept-correction/634779 "2012-09-25T07:13:29Z")
By now, I’ve spent more time in Thailand than some young Dopers have spent in their native country. In many ways I understand Thai culture better than American culture. :smack: Learning Thai with little formal instruct… --- ## [I pit myself for buying music at Walmart](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-buying-music-at-walmart/635593)
**Author:** [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-buying-music-at-walmart/635593 "2012-09-24T20:09:21Z")
I really don’t like to shop at Walmart at all, but my boyfriend lives in the middle of nowhere and all of the local grocery stores have gone out of business, so we find ourselves there pretty regularly. Last night while… --- ## [Attention European Embassies in America: Use American Style Dating on Your Official Notices!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-european-embassies-in-america-use-american-style-dating-on-your-official-notices/633945)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Replies:** 139\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-european-embassies-in-america-use-american-style-dating-on-your-official-notices/633945 "2012-09-23T20:56:31Z")
Well, this is the Pit, so excuse me while I get the preliminary cursing out of the way… Dear goddamn motherfucking Kraut (or any applicable European ethnic slur) shitheads… Now on to the story: My mom is 86 years old,… --- ## [No more Taps at Funerals](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-taps-at-funerals/633608)
**Author:** [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-taps-at-funerals/633608 "2012-09-23T20:37:56Z")
The state of New York has a custom of paying for a musician to play Taps the funerals of military veterans. In order to save money, the musician will be replaced with a recording. Can’t ask rich people to pay for this. … --- ## [Romney Doesn't Remember How Big His Dick Is](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-doesnt-remember-how-big-his-dick-is/635307)
**Author:** [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-doesnt-remember-how-big-his-dick-is/635307 "2012-09-23T18:28:00Z")
I understand that he was asked an intimate question pertaining to this matter on the “Live! With Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan” Show the other day, and he fumphered around for a while, and finally said (with wifey Ann l… --- ## [Wordsteal and Wordox](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordsteal-and-wordox/430315)
**Author:** [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordsteal-and-wordox/430315 "2012-09-23T16:54:50Z")
So my long distance girlfriend and I have spent many a happy hour playing an online scrabble variant called Wordsteal, found at Wordsteal.com. Then, a week or so ago, the servers went down. Since then there is nothing on… --- ## [Encouraging Greed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encouraging-greed/634948)
**Author:** [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2012, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encouraging-greed/634948 "2012-09-23T12:58:37Z")
From another thread: I REALLY, REALLY hate ignorant statements like this. I have never tipped in a motel. (It’s motel, not hotel.) My parents have never tipped in a motel. My grandparents never tipped in a motel. … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=200) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=202)