# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=207 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 208 --- ## [Another Reason Why DOMA is the Bullshittiest Piece of Bullshit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-why-doma-is-the-bullshittiest-piece-of-bullshit/629253)
**Author:** [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-reason-why-doma-is-the-bullshittiest-piece-of-bullshit/629253 "2012-07-31T17:36:57Z")
American Pioneer Sally Ride died yesterday, which totally sucks. You know what else sucks? Sally Rides partner of 27 years cannot receive federal benefits because of the Fucking Defense of Marriage Act, otherwise known … --- ## [Chick Fil A chicken isn't anything special](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chick-fil-a-chicken-isnt-anything-special/629805)
**Author:** [@Condescending\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Condescending_Robot)\ **Replies:** 114\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chick-fil-a-chicken-isnt-anything-special/629805 "2012-07-31T16:29:13Z")
Hey, people who are accused of being homophobic scumsuckers and respond “but it’s damn good chicken!”: your taste is as bad as the black velvet NASCAR paintings on the wall of your trailer would indicate. It’s shitty fa… --- ## [Can we raise the flags yet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-raise-the-flags-yet/629730)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-raise-the-flags-yet/629730 "2012-07-31T14:15:39Z")
I’m not entirely sure why flags have been at half staff since the shootings in Colorado, but as mourning periods go for a dozen people we didn’t know and who, mostly, did not die heroically it has been more than long eno… --- ## [You miserable fuck.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-miserable-fuck/629324)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2012, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-miserable-fuck/629324 "2012-07-30T08:51:05Z")
The Bloke and I are splitting up…he’s staying in our house, and I’m moving interstate. As a result, we’ve had to split some of the furniture too…he’s getting the bulk of it, and I’ve got dibs on (amongst other things) t… --- ## [Dutch Catholic sexual abuse of instititionalized boys? How about murder?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-catholic-sexual-abuse-of-instititionalized-boys-how-about-murder/626586)
**Author:** [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-catholic-sexual-abuse-of-instititionalized-boys-how-about-murder/626586 "2012-07-29T18:46:57Z")
Remember that Dutch scandal debated in this thread? A boy, vicim of sexual abuse in an Catholic institution, speaks up. The Church tries to silence him by labelign him as “ insane, gay and seductive”. The treatment? Cast… --- ## [I pit people who don't know how to have an honest debate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-dont-know-how-to-have-an-honest-debate/629567)
**Author:** [@HansGrosse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HansGrosse)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2012, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-dont-know-how-to-have-an-honest-debate/629567 "2012-07-29T06:04:59Z")
This pisses me off something fierce and makes me want to find the nearest woodchipper and copulate with it ASAP. All too often I find myself in a debate with someone who almost appears too dumb to function. Someone whos… --- ## [My roomie is about to NOT get to Pennsic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-is-about-to-not-get-to-pennsic/629384)
**Author:** [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-is-about-to-not-get-to-pennsic/629384 "2012-07-28T20:57:23Z")
backstory - mrAru had been out of work for about 5 months before getting this current temp gig. Roomie works as a blacksmith, so money is not really prevalent around here right now, and our chevy s-10 is currently hors d… --- ## [Sometimes the Onion comes too close to the truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-comes-too-close-to-the-truth/628963)
**Author:** [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-comes-too-close-to-the-truth/628963 "2012-07-28T19:21:25Z")
http://www.theonion.com/articles/sadly-nation-knows-exactly-how-colorado-shootings,28857/ snip --- ## [This is some kind of tasteless.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-some-kind-of-tasteless/629673)
**Author:** [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-some-kind-of-tasteless/629673 "2012-07-28T18:42:20Z")
http://www.kivitv.com/news/local/164092306.html Billboard comparing the president to the shooter in Colorado. This is disgusting. --- ## [Aging sucks!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-sucks/252727)
**Author:** [@Da\_Cissy\_Pimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Da_Cissy_Pimp)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aging-sucks/252727 "2012-07-28T15:41:31Z")
For the last seven (it will soon be eight) years now, I have been working in an aged-care facility, and during that time, have had the opportunity to see what has now probably been a few hundred people pass through the p… --- ## [Mosquitoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mosquitoes/629290)
**Author:** [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2012, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mosquitoes/629290 "2012-07-28T04:14:52Z")
Those awful Oedipal vampiric agents of Satan can go die under a giant flaming flyswatter. --- ## [curlcoat...yet again.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curlcoat-yet-again/622298)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 413\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curlcoat-yet-again/622298 "2012-07-27T21:18:33Z")
curlcoat, your obsession with all things pregnancy, baby or parenthood has become pathological. Your blatant refusal to acknowlege responses in threads that dispute your (erroneous) premises renders you no more than a f… --- ## [WSJ's James Taranto: Moral Blowhard](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wsjs-james-taranto-moral-blowhard/629409)
**Author:** [@Dostoyevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dostoyevsky)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2012, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wsjs-james-taranto-moral-blowhard/629409 "2012-07-27T11:27:46Z")
While reading Andrew Sullivan’s blog on The Daily Beast, I ran across this post from Andrew. \*The \*\*Wall Street Journal’s \*James Taranto’s latest tweet is quoted, which talks about the Aurora girls whose boyfriends save… --- ## [Cashiers! Put the damn receipt in the bag, and don't bother me with it!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-put-the-damn-receipt-in-the-bag-and-dont-bother-me-with-it/64549)
**Author:** [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-put-the-damn-receipt-in-the-bag-and-dont-bother-me-with-it/64549 "2012-07-27T00:14:41Z")
Okay, here’s how it used to work. The cashier rang up your purchases, then hit “total”. The register spit out a receipt, which was put in the bag with your purchases. Which is where it belongs! You paid, and got you chan… --- ## [Is getting beeped at in the West a huge insult?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-getting-beeped-at-in-the-west-a-huge-insult/629193)
**Author:** [@griffon502](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffon502)\ **Replies:** 100\ **Last updated:** [July 26, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-getting-beeped-at-in-the-west-a-huge-insult/629193 "2012-07-26T16:27:37Z")
So I just got back from uni. I got beeped when I was crossing a street near the uni, I don’t want to get into details but it’s safe to say it wasn’t my fault. It’s not a busy street, no traffic light, basically leading t… --- ## [I don't believe you when you say diet and exercise don't work. It's also kind of insulting.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-believe-you-when-you-say-diet-and-exercise-dont-work-its-also-kind-of-insulting/628779)
**Author:** [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Replies:** 461\ **Last updated:** [July 26, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-believe-you-when-you-say-diet-and-exercise-dont-work-its-also-kind-of-insulting/628779 "2012-07-26T14:19:34Z")
The intention of this thread is not to judge or insult people with weight issues. I know many people who have weight problems who are wonderful people in many different ways. I’m also not trying to call out any particula… --- ## [The Lastest From Darrell Issa](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lastest-from-darrell-issa/628851)
**Author:** [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [July 26, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lastest-from-darrell-issa/628851 "2012-07-26T03:34:22Z")
Remember the “Fast and Furious” story from a few weeks ago, wherein Congressman Darrell Issa and the House oversight committee was investigating Attorney General Eric Holder? No, I didn’t think so. Well thank God that’s … --- ## [Isn't anyone going to Pit the Denver Batman killer?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-anyone-going-to-pit-the-denver-batman-killer/628919)
**Author:** [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Replies:** 195\ **Last updated:** [July 26, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-anyone-going-to-pit-the-denver-batman-killer/628919 "2012-07-26T01:55:01Z")
I don’t know where to begin. WTF is going on? The whole thing is so bizarre I’ll just Pit him. Again, WTF is going on? --- ## [Fuck cacti!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-cacti/629107)
**Author:** [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [July 26, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-cacti/629107 "2012-07-26T01:27:06Z")
Today when I was doing yardwork I bumped my head on a cactus. This particular cactus is studded with tiny, hair thin spines which promptly lodged themselves into the back of my head. So instead of having a nice relaxing … --- ## ["Democrat" Zell Miller to Honour Swift Boat Vets?!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-zell-miller-to-honour-swift-boat-vets/280421)
**Author:** [@annaplurabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annaplurabelle)\ **Replies:** 183\ **Last updated:** [July 25, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-zell-miller-to-honour-swift-boat-vets/280421 "2012-07-25T00:29:31Z")
Here: The very same Zell Miller who introduced John Kerry in March 2001: Flip-flopper or just flipped? This is the very same Zell Miller who is joining Fox News as a political analyst. Why wasn’t this “zellout” kic… --- ## [Yet another reason not to get a Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-not-to-get-a-chihuahua/193675)
**Author:** [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [July 24, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-not-to-get-a-chihuahua/193675 "2012-07-24T21:00:29Z")
Hawk Attempts to Eat Chihuahua This just confirms what I’ve been telling people for years: Chihuahuas are not dogs. They are big Mexican rats. Who are we to believe, here? Dog people who insist that their little yapp… --- ## [I want to pit weather.com](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-weather-com/629223)
**Author:** [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [July 24, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-pit-weather-com/629223 "2012-07-24T18:24:21Z")
These guys must be officially using darts or something. I check today’s hourly weather 30 minutes ago. At that time, there was 30% chance of rain about 11:30am. It is now 7:30am and pouring so hard that the visibility… --- ## [Screw You, AIDS Project L.A.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-aids-project-l-a/627768)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-aids-project-l-a/627768 "2012-07-23T02:02:40Z")
Not because you’re fighting AIDS- I’m down with that. I’m talking about your totally bullshit “Concrete Hero” race and the complete bullshit that goes along with it. I run obstacle races. They’re fun. I intersperse m… --- ## [Pitting ungrateful and uncooperative communities when faced with crime (Toronto shooting)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ungrateful-and-uncooperative-communities-when-faced-with-crime-toronto-shooting/628542)
**Author:** [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ungrateful-and-uncooperative-communities-when-faced-with-crime-toronto-shooting/628542 "2012-07-22T13:19:17Z")
In Toronto’s Scarborough neighbourhood there was a shooting the other night where two young people are dead and 19 others, including an infant are injured in a gun fire exchange at the “block party” of some 200 people. Y… --- ## [drewtwo99, the next time you have a question about zombies...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drewtwo99-the-next-time-you-have-a-question-about-zombies/628461)
**Author:** [@ScarletNumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScarletNumber)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drewtwo99-the-next-time-you-have-a-question-about-zombies/628461 "2012-07-22T05:04:52Z")
…go down to the brothel and ask your mother. (Inspired by this post) --- ## [Stupid Romney lack of an idea of the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-romney-lack-of-an-idea-of-the-day/628752)
**Author:** [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-romney-lack-of-an-idea-of-the-day/628752 "2012-07-22T02:40:25Z")
One of the more interesting things (to me, at least) about Romney’s campaign for President is his unwillingness to take a position on any number of middling-level issues of the day. Today’s selection goes beyond middlin… --- ## [gvzod has to be a troll](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gvzod-has-to-be-a-troll/628865)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gvzod-has-to-be-a-troll/628865 "2012-07-22T02:13:55Z")
See here. This … person … can’t be real. The mix of odd grammar, appropriate grammar, and internet chat slang and strange posts can’t be anything but trolling. Not possible. --- ## [Mint Julep's Mexico Story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mint-juleps-mexico-story/627934)
**Author:** [@BottledBlondJeanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BottledBlondJeanie)\ **Replies:** 175\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mint-juleps-mexico-story/627934 "2012-07-21T14:07:11Z")
Mint Julep, you’ve had some recent interesting and dramatic threads. here about your dad going to jail on 6/28, here about your unexpected pregnancy from 6/20, and most recently here about your friend stabbing someone 7… --- ## [Peace Corps, mission trips, etc., and foreign policy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-corps-mission-trips-etc-and-foreign-policy/628889)
**Author:** [@OurLordPeace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OurLordPeace)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-corps-mission-trips-etc-and-foreign-policy/628889 "2012-07-21T03:33:45Z")
Maybe this belongs in another category. I just spent a long time trying to decide. I grew up in Dallas and lived there until 2009. I met a lot of people who would talk about going on “mission trips” and other similar a… --- ## [Today's Lesson: Context matters (Canadian edition)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-lesson-context-matters-canadian-edition/596370)
**Author:** [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-lesson-context-matters-canadian-edition/596370 "2012-07-20T23:26:56Z")
Those of you living in the Toronto area might have come across this story in your local papers, or on your local news today. It’s getting quite a bit of play in the academic community, where it serves as Example #25,739 … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=206) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=208)