# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=211 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 212 --- ## [TV Tropes' "New Content Policy"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936)
**Author:** [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Replies:** 170\ **Last updated:** [June 18, 2012, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-tropes-new-content-policy/618936 "2012-06-18T09:15:17Z")
Okay, I don’t post here too often. I figure I’m allowed at least one petty, rambling lil’ rant of my own. Anyone else frequent TV Tropes? Y’know, fun, time-consuming wiki of fiction’s cliches, storytelling devices, etc?… --- ## [There's no Pit thread on the Romney bullying story yet, so . . .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-pit-thread-on-the-romney-bullying-story-yet-so/621582)
**Author:** [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Replies:** 319\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-pit-thread-on-the-romney-bullying-story-yet-so/621582 "2012-06-17T16:15:10Z")
This might be even worse than it looked at first. Now, I admit I’m approaching this from the perspective of one who feels in his gut that schoolyard bullies should not be allowed to get any older. Still, I think this … --- ## [British supremacist nonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-supremacist-nonsense/624982)
**Author:** [@Orca\_Eyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orca_Eyes)\ **Replies:** 120\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-supremacist-nonsense/624982 "2012-06-17T04:16:57Z")
(Reader discretion is advised.) I’m so tired of people of British heritage thinking that they are superior to everyone else. It’s because they think since they are descended from the colonial settlers/convicts of 200 ye… --- ## [Docta G, kiss my red-white-and-blue ass](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docta-g-kiss-my-red-white-and-blue-ass/624950)
**Author:** [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docta-g-kiss-my-red-white-and-blue-ass/624950 "2012-06-16T18:03:09Z")
Disclaimer 1: This post will be more disclaimer than content Commentary on disclaimer: That’s because I don’t want anyone to think that I’m the kind of person who engages in jingoism or American Extremism with any kind … --- ## [Pitting Teabaggers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-teabaggers/625035)
**Author:** [@5f4super](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5f4super)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-teabaggers/625035 "2012-06-16T01:57:23Z")
Sad to say I did not write this but it reads like I did. --- ## [Hi Morgenstern, and all my friends from GQ.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-morgenstern-and-all-my-friends-from-gq/625078)
**Author:** [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\ **Replies:** 112\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-morgenstern-and-all-my-friends-from-gq/625078 "2012-06-16T01:48:37Z")
Morgenstern, you cannot be that f\*\*king stupid. You would have stopped driving, called the shop, been without a car for several days, all because you could not get this little light out of your mind. A light that in no… --- ## [All religious people should be executed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863)
**Author:** [@mutantmoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mutantmoose)\ **Replies:** 403\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863 "2012-06-15T20:44:17Z")
The way I’m thinking this is that all of the religious people in the world should be executed. Now I’m aware that there are a lot of religious people in the world - probably the majority. So if the population of the worl… --- ## [I pit southern girls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-southern-girls/624062)
**Author:** [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Replies:** 207\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-southern-girls/624062 "2012-06-15T17:29:34Z")
“Well you’re just a yankee, who cares what you think?” “You rock…I wouldn’t expect such good manners from a yankee” I swear to god the next girl who calls me a yankee down here is getting punched in the vagina. Yes I’… --- ## [Man charged with child sex abuse felony for video editing!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-child-sex-abuse-felony-for-video-editing/571854)
**Author:** [@ambushed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ambushed)\ **Replies:** 107\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-child-sex-abuse-felony-for-video-editing/571854 "2012-06-15T04:36:24Z")
In a particularly egregious and self-humiliating act of mind-boggling legal insanity, the state of Michigan has arrested and charged a Muskegon man, Evan Emory, with ”manufacturing child sexual abusive material” – a majo… --- ## [Is it took much to ask that you take a flattering picture](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-took-much-to-ask-that-you-take-a-flattering-picture/624806)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-took-much-to-ask-that-you-take-a-flattering-picture/624806 "2012-06-14T21:17:22Z")
I had my passport renewed today. The lovely lady at the passport center apent a lot of time before she was happy with the new biometric photo. Chin up, tilt to the left and instead of looking natural she took a photogra… --- ## [Noonan is in rare form (commenting on WI and other things)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noonan-is-in-rare-form-commenting-on-wi-and-other-things/624462)
**Author:** [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noonan-is-in-rare-form-commenting-on-wi-and-other-things/624462 "2012-06-14T20:46:43Z")
She’s on fire. --- ## [Talk about avoiding reality.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-avoiding-reality/624615)
**Author:** [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Replies:** 148\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-avoiding-reality/624615 "2012-06-14T18:37:32Z")
I’m deliberately not using the OP of the linked threads name because this is not about him, it’s about the response and just in case the vacation isn’t real or when he returns he does a vanity search I’m trying to avoid … --- ## [Mea Culpa: George Zimmerman case](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mea-culpa-george-zimmerman-case/624858)
**Author:** [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mea-culpa-george-zimmerman-case/624858 "2012-06-14T15:09:05Z")
I’ve been meaning to do this and didn’t get around to it. However… I was wrong and misjudged goerge Zimmerman (of the “Trayvon Martin” case). Right when it first came out, I said a thing or two on this board. I was disg… --- ## [Hi Morgenstern, and all my friends from GQ.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-morgenstern-and-all-my-friends-from-gq/625089)
**Author:** [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-morgenstern-and-all-my-friends-from-gq/625089 "2012-06-14T01:12:08Z")
Morgenstern, you cannot be that f\*\*king stupid. You would have stopped driving, called the shop, been without a car for several days, all because you could not get this little light out of your mind. A light that in no… --- ## [I'm Pittin' You, You worthless Bastard. F-you and you deserve it.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pittin-you-you-worthless-bastard-f-you-and-you-deserve-it/624564)
**Author:** [@Super\_Kapowzler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Kapowzler)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pittin-you-you-worthless-bastard-f-you-and-you-deserve-it/624564 "2012-06-13T03:24:08Z")
Fuck you. You’re an idiot. You come home, from the bar, grab a couplea freshies from the fridge and proceed to plop into a chair out on your deck. Oh, you got some good weed. Really? I’m impressed. Whaddaya 16? Oh… --- ## [Jack Hanna is still a moron.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-hanna-is-still-a-moron/624742)
**Author:** [@BShunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BShunter)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-hanna-is-still-a-moron/624742 "2012-06-13T00:39:05Z")
This clown is uncomfortable around animals and does not know jack about animals. People think this idiot has a PHD in zoology which is a joke. The following are his actual academic credentials. Bachelor of Arts, from … --- ## [People who like to teach solely because they enjoy showing off](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-like-to-teach-solely-because-they-enjoy-showing-off/624183)
**Author:** [@FixMyIgnorance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FixMyIgnorance)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-like-to-teach-solely-because-they-enjoy-showing-off/624183 "2012-06-12T19:25:39Z")
Go fuck yourselves. Wipe those smug grins off your faces and quit acting as if you’re just trying to help. We can see through the bullshit, you highfalutin, ego-bloated, cockbag-fucktard bastards. When your explanations… --- ## [Antonio Vivaldi, RIP 1741. Someone tell YouTube about this.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/antonio-vivaldi-rip-1741-someone-tell-youtube-about-this/624769)
**Author:** [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/antonio-vivaldi-rip-1741-someone-tell-youtube-about-this/624769 "2012-06-12T01:16:56Z")
Apparently YouTube thinks Vivaldi lived for 200 years or more. I just posted a 2012 violin/piano performance of the Four Seasons and YouTube said I was violating a copyright. I’d say their audio scanner is a little too… --- ## [Haha very funny motherfuckers (hiking trail boobytrapped)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-very-funny-motherfuckers-hiking-trail-boobytrapped/619784)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 93\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-very-funny-motherfuckers-hiking-trail-boobytrapped/619784 "2012-06-11T21:45:26Z")
\[ \](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US\_BOOBY\_TRAPS\_HIKING\_TRAIL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-04-23-20-39-57)What the fuck was going on in these guys heads? Did they think this would be a ter… --- ## [I pit the lady who slapped Tom Barrett after WI election](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-lady-who-slapped-tom-barrett-after-wi-election/624336)
**Author:** [@Makeitstop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Makeitstop)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-lady-who-slapped-tom-barrett-after-wi-election/624336 "2012-06-11T17:33:46Z")
Link I mean, I don’t like Tom Barrett’s politics much, but he didn’t deserve that. Come on lady, the man just lost a big election, he already feels pretty bad. You don’t beat down someone who has put as much(and I would… --- ## [Listen, when you call me at 1:30 AM....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listen-when-you-call-me-at-1-30-am/624349)
**Author:** [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listen-when-you-call-me-at-1-30-am/624349 "2012-06-11T15:09:22Z")
You’d better have a damned good reason. Last night’s recorded call about my credit card accounts wasn’t it. I figured someone was either dead or dying but nope, you just wanted to sell me some shit. It may even have b… --- ## [UGA professor arrested for transvestite prostitution](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uga-professor-arrested-for-transvestite-prostitution/624660)
**Author:** [@Gestalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gestalt)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2012, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uga-professor-arrested-for-transvestite-prostitution/624660 "2012-06-11T12:03:20Z")
A UGA German professor, Max Reinhart, was advertising for transvestite sexual services at backpage.com. Cops contacted him pretending to be a potential client and set up a meeting time in a hotel room, where they agree… --- ## [David42 stay away from my sisters/cousins/neices](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david42-stay-away-from-my-sisters-cousins-neices/624464)
**Author:** [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2012, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david42-stay-away-from-my-sisters-cousins-neices/624464 "2012-06-11T07:18:32Z")
Really are you that ignorant that you think forcing people to have large families in abusive homes will improve marriage? That allowing to people of the same gender will make the institution of marriage fail but codify… --- ## [Steve Almond: Don't feed the trolls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-almond-dont-feed-the-trolls/624734)
**Author:** [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-almond-dont-feed-the-trolls/624734 "2012-06-11T00:13:59Z")
From today’s NY Times Magazine. The actual title was: Liberals Are Ruining America. I Know Because I Am One. He contends that by attempting to discuss or debate with the right wing trolls, liberals actually aide and … --- ## [When AA says I should turn my life over to a higher power I don't think they meant you.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-aa-says-i-should-turn-my-life-over-to-a-higher-power-i-dont-think-they-meant-you/615639)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-aa-says-i-should-turn-my-life-over-to-a-higher-power-i-dont-think-they-meant-you/615639 "2012-06-10T21:27:51Z")
A week ago I joined Alcoholics Anonymous and began going to meetings at a center that is near my home that has many meetings of all sorts every week. The people are nice and helpful and didn’t seem to have any problem w… --- ## [I despair of today's youth.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-despair-of-todays-youth/624415 "2012-06-10T03:51:31Z")
Your friends were killed in a car crash. So do you mourn them sensibly, or do you gather at the site of the crash, by the side of the road, spilling onto that road, dashing over the road in turn to take photographs? Nee… --- ## [Yes, you DO have to show that voter fraud is actually happening](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-you-do-have-to-show-that-voter-fraud-is-actually-happening/624067)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2012, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-you-do-have-to-show-that-voter-fraud-is-actually-happening/624067 "2012-06-09T10:17:58Z")
On another forum, there’s this discussion going on about Voter ID laws and how Florida governor Rick Scott is purging voters from the rolls and all kinds of things, and immediately, a right-wing fellow popped up. In refe… --- ## [Pit you Donald Trump for suing Miss Penn.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-you-donald-trump-for-suing-miss-penn/624285)
**Author:** [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2012, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-you-donald-trump-for-suing-miss-penn/624285 "2012-06-09T08:31:42Z")
Miss Pennsylvania claims the Miss USA Pageant was fixed. And a lot of people have problems with the outcome. She says the top 5 finalists were selected ahead of time, and a lot of people believe have doubts that this was… --- ## [Activist questioned over coal mining child porn. What the frack?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/activist-questioned-over-coal-mining-child-porn-what-the-frack/624287)
**Author:** [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/activist-questioned-over-coal-mining-child-porn-what-the-frack/624287 "2012-06-08T20:28:53Z")
The ‘Tar Baby’ Colorado Republican is at it again. From the Denver Post: Gah, I don’t know how many friends on FB post pics of their kids in a bathtub. In case you were wondering, here is the picture in question. … --- ## [Angry Tweets Threaten Gov Walker's Life, Family](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-tweets-threaten-gov-walkers-life-family/624338)
**Author:** [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-tweets-threaten-gov-walkers-life-family/624338 "2012-06-08T15:36:56Z")
From here, some choice words from angry right wingers. (I assume they are right wingers, because I remember earlier threads in which posters solemnly assured the Boards that this kind of violent imagery is a tool of the … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=210) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=212)