# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=209 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 210 --- ## [The Art World - I pit thee](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-world-i-pit-thee/627159)
**Author:** [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Replies:** 128\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-art-world-i-pit-thee/627159 "2012-07-10T13:39:55Z")
I remember I was showing my photography work at a gallery and I got chatting to some old man art journalist. He told me that every photograph was a piece of art. So I asked, “even my Mum’s snaps with her iPhone?” Yes, he… --- ## [Can we not flame SunGazer to death? OK?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-not-flame-sungazer-to-death-ok/627589)
**Author:** [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-not-flame-sungazer-to-death-ok/627589 "2012-07-09T20:39:08Z")
SunGazer popped up in a thread on hypothetical asymmetrical nuclear war, and made a comment about the USA being properly a republic not a democracy, which I have heard from various GOP partisans before. But SG was not a … --- ## [Exxon On The Run turns down money](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exxon-on-the-run-turns-down-money/627293)
**Author:** [@ScarletNumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScarletNumber)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exxon-on-the-run-turns-down-money/627293 "2012-07-09T16:39:16Z")
My local Exxon On The Run offers self-serve soft drinks for 79c up to 44 oz. The catch: they only provide cups up to 32 oz. I had a 44 oz cup in my car from a visit to a different Exxon On The Run. I used this to get … --- ## [A Pitting for the local Small Town Medical Clinc](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-the-local-small-town-medical-clinc/626786)
**Author:** [@kp\_72110](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kp_72110)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2012, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-for-the-local-small-town-medical-clinc/626786 "2012-07-08T12:10:40Z")
So I go there to have a growth on my ear looked at and as I’m going through the admissions process I inquire about the cost. I’m told the office visit would be $200. That doesn’t include anything else that may be done. J… --- ## [Congratulations Mr. Lynch. Please stop apologizing now.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-mr-lynch-please-stop-apologizing-now/627477)
**Author:** [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [July 7, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-mr-lynch-please-stop-apologizing-now/627477 "2012-07-07T17:13:17Z")
\*There was never any doubt that William Lynch throttled the priest. Lynch even conceded as much the moment he took the witness stand. But a jury acquitted Lynch of felony assault and elder abuse on Thursday, bringing … --- ## [Evidence is irrelevant to mister nyxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-is-irrelevant-to-mister-nyxx/624001)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 154\ **Last updated:** [July 7, 2012, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-is-irrelevant-to-mister-nyxx/624001 "2012-07-07T12:34:01Z")
There is another thread about a rather offensive mailing done by a Democratic (leaning) organization called the Greater Wisconsin Political Fund. It is an attempt to shame voters into getting out and voting against Scot… --- ## [God Bless America is not the fucking national anthem!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-bless-america-is-not-the-fucking-national-anthem/598856)
**Author:** [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Replies:** 283\ **Last updated:** [July 7, 2012, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-bless-america-is-not-the-fucking-national-anthem/598856 "2012-07-07T12:29:19Z")
You don’t need to remove your fucking hat. You don’t need to put your hand over your heart. You don’t need to stand still. You are allowed to move through the stands and through the aisles, head for the beer stand, head … --- ## ["Northern Ireland" is a separate country, its not a description.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-ireland-is-a-separate-country-its-not-a-description/626901)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 121\ **Last updated:** [July 7, 2012, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-ireland-is-a-separate-country-its-not-a-description/626901 "2012-07-07T12:24:07Z")
One of my associates has to visit Belfast on business. So she went and applied for a visa. An Irish visit:smack:. So she gets surprised when they turn her down, gently explaining that she should apply to the UK. She nee… --- ## [Winning a chance of winning something is not winning something](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-a-chance-of-winning-something-is-not-winning-something/627458)
**Author:** [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [July 7, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-a-chance-of-winning-something-is-not-winning-something/627458 "2012-07-07T04:35:07Z")
Clear eh? I hate this gimmick which is usually exclusive to radio shows and car dealerships. However, today in the company meeting I found out that I was honored with an ‘award’ …which was a chance to win $1000. One p… --- ## [All you Zimmerman-lovers in the Great Debates thread are...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-zimmerman-lovers-in-the-great-debates-thread-are/624470)
**Author:** [@al27052](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/al27052)\ **Replies:** 259\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-zimmerman-lovers-in-the-great-debates-thread-are/624470 "2012-07-06T20:23:27Z")
some racist bitches. And narrow-minded, too. I bet you wouldn’t have excused Zimmerman if Trayvon had been wearing a suit and tie. It’s just so massively brain-damaged to equate “hoodie-wearer” with “deserves violent … --- ## [Sir T-Cups, come on down](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sir-t-cups-come-on-down/627066)
**Author:** [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sir-t-cups-come-on-down/627066 "2012-07-06T17:31:01Z")
So I had finished my Sunday morning bike ride, sitting at Starbucks having my after ride coffee, and cruising the dope on my smart phone. I come across this thread. Now I ride bikes, and because of this I am predispose… --- ## [I Pit Google for finding Yet Another Way to spy on us.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-google-for-finding-yet-another-way-to-spy-on-us/627255)
**Author:** [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-google-for-finding-yet-another-way-to-spy-on-us/627255 "2012-07-06T16:32:56Z")
Now, for all I know, maybe they’ve done this all along, and maybe I’m just the slowest user in the world to have just noticed. But, for all that, I just noticed this. When you receive e-mail via gmail, and the e-mail c… --- ## [Naming retarded baby ”Trig”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-retarded-baby-trig/627380)
**Author:** [@End\_Racism\_Now](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/End_Racism_Now)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2012, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-retarded-baby-trig/627380 "2012-07-06T07:58:41Z")
What kind of sick fuck names a retarded baby ”trig”? So your baby is all tarded and you give him a name meaning smart and trim? You tarded, too. --- ## [Republicans and Racist Candidates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-and-racist-candidates/627368)
**Author:** [@End\_Racism\_Now](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/End_Racism_Now)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2012, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-and-racist-candidates/627368 "2012-07-06T06:10:46Z")
You won’t hear this from the racist, but corporate-owned media, of the six Republican candidates since 1980, four chose to join officially racist organizations. Three joined the officially segregated US military, and Ro… --- ## [Attention: Any EARNEST use in political discussion of the following terms brands the user an idiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-any-earnest-use-in-political-discussion-of-the-following-terms-brands-the-user-an-idiot/568381)
**Author:** [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Replies:** 237\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-any-earnest-use-in-political-discussion-of-the-following-terms-brands-the-user-an-idiot/568381 "2012-07-04T12:32:23Z")
To start with, from the RW side: Obamacare Obamanomics death panel warmist glow-ball warming Islamofascist Democrat Party Demonrats Dhimmis Dummiez Essentially, any disparaging variation on “Democrats” From t… --- ## [Fuck you Netflix!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-netflix/626454)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-netflix/626454 "2012-07-04T02:25:52Z")
Over the past few months I’ve been doing a rewatch of SG-1. I’m getting down to the last few episodes of their final season… And guess what? They just stop mid-season!! Leaving me hanging like a damn fool. They quit ri… --- ## [Stop responding to the racists.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-responding-to-the-racists/627041)
**Author:** [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2012, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-responding-to-the-racists/627041 "2012-07-03T07:26:28Z")
I’m going to make three requests: Please don’t merge this into the other thread. I would like this message to be short and sweet and not lost in the interminable garbage of that thread. If you agree with the message o… --- ## [Impeach Earl Warren](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658)
**Author:** [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Replies:** 137\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658 "2012-07-02T22:11:58Z")
Hey. I’m older than dirt. I remember driving through the highways in Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, much of the South and probably many other states in 1959. Huge signs saying “Impeach Earl Warren.” Of course, Warren, appo… --- ## [Bullied Grandmother...really?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullied-grandmother-really/625854)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 200\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullied-grandmother-really/625854 "2012-07-02T18:37:14Z")
So if you haven’t seen the latest bullying outrage about the Rochester, NY grandmother that had videos of her being bullied and pestered by a group of middle schoolers posted on YouTube…well here’s the story: http://www.… --- ## [June Bugs and Bothers (mini-rant)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-bugs-and-bothers-mini-rant/623794)
**Author:** [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Replies:** 497\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2012, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-bugs-and-bothers-mini-rant/623794 "2012-07-02T09:48:30Z")
The company I work for has sold the building I work in, but we’re not moving untill sometime this summer. Fat chance the broken equipment in the gym is ever going to get fixed. Why do they give us donuts and then cheap o… --- ## [Thanks AGW deniers! We were getting tired of all those trees!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-agw-deniers-we-were-getting-tired-of-all-those-trees/626462)
**Author:** [@spazurek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spazurek)\ **Replies:** 132\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-agw-deniers-we-were-getting-tired-of-all-those-trees/626462 "2012-07-02T01:51:38Z")
As a Coloradan, I’d like to personally thank all you who deny the existence of global warming, or of our ability/need to do anything about it, for courageously staying the course in the face of all the “scientific eviden… --- ## [Health Care Decision - Feet-In-Mouth, Hypocrites and Lying Liars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-care-decision-feet-in-mouth-hypocrites-and-lying-liars/626588)
**Author:** [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Replies:** 90\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-care-decision-feet-in-mouth-hypocrites-and-lying-liars/626588 "2012-07-02T01:06:25Z")
Starting this thread since I contributed to derailing the other thread. I’ll toss out a handful to start… Obama said ACA wasn’t a tax, now it’s been saved by the fact that (apparently) is a tax. Lying Liar! The libe… --- ## [Goddamn you all, I'll probably vote for Obama--and hate it.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-you-all-ill-probably-vote-for-obama-and-hate-it/626352)
**Author:** [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Replies:** 139\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-you-all-ill-probably-vote-for-obama-and-hate-it/626352 "2012-07-01T22:45:40Z")
I’ve been voting since I was eligible to do so. I voted for McGovern, Carter, Reagan, Mondale, Bush, Perot, Clinton, Bush, Bush and McCain. And now I have to choose between Obama and Romney. Thanks for the choices. T… --- ## [A complaint about supermarket checkers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-complaint-about-supermarket-checkers/626131)
**Author:** [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2012, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-complaint-about-supermarket-checkers/626131 "2012-07-01T08:58:05Z")
At a checkstand, I usually have to reach for the rubber dividers to put in front of the stuff I’m buying, and behind it, as a courtesy to the shopper behind me. I don’t see why the checker just sets the dividers in the n… --- ## [Republican Senator Tries To Add Conception Amendment To Flood Insurance Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-senator-tries-to-add-conception-amendment-to-flood-insurance-bill/626434)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-senator-tries-to-add-conception-amendment-to-flood-insurance-bill/626434 "2012-07-01T00:15:09Z")
From here: Seriously? A bill dealing with floods is going through the legislature and someone attaches a fucking anti-abortion bit to it? Before anyone suggests I would be ok with such a move if it were something I a… --- ## [Hey, idiot members of Congressional Black Caucus, you're not helping](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-members-of-congressional-black-caucus-youre-not-helping/626540)
**Author:** [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-members-of-congressional-black-caucus-youre-not-helping/626540 "2012-06-30T23:37:12Z")
Evidently, the Congressional Black Caucus has plans to walk off the floor during the Holder contempt vote. Way to go, guys. Because the only explanation for the AG being held in contempt is because he’s black. You know,… --- ## [Salvation Army says Gays should be put to death](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salvation-army-says-gays-should-be-put-to-death/626007)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 116\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salvation-army-says-gays-should-be-put-to-death/626007 "2012-06-30T21:57:42Z")
An interview with official Major Andrew Craibe, the Salvation Army’s Territorial Media Relations Director for the Southern Territory in Victoria, can be seen partially(and heard in its entirety) here. One of the intervi… --- ## [Enough with the straws!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-straws/626509)
**Author:** [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-straws/626509 "2012-06-30T16:58:45Z")
Probably only worthy of a mini rant but I feel a full thread is necessary. One straw per meal is more then enough. The practice of supplying a new straw with every drink at restaurants is so incredibly wasteful it drive… --- ## [Capitalism’s A Bitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalism-s-a-bitch/626446)
**Author:** [@Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bag_of_Mostly_Water)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalism-s-a-bitch/626446 "2012-06-30T00:04:45Z")
Note to all capitalists: When you hire someone as a temporary contractor, not only can you let them go at any time, but they can leave after fulfilling the terms of their contract. See, this contractor thing works both … --- ## [Pitting the Republican Party of Texas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-republican-party-of-texas/626436)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-republican-party-of-texas/626436 "2012-06-29T06:33:01Z")
I hardly know where to start with this. I picked up a link to a to the Republican Party of Texas political platform (PDF). Reading it I was so bowled over I thought surely someone must have made a really good fake. No… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=208) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=210)