# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=212 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 213 --- ## [I'm pitting whoever is behind the phone calls attempting to suppress the Dem vote in Wisconsin.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-whoever-is-behind-the-phone-calls-attempting-to-suppress-the-dem-vote-in-wisconsin/624160)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 148\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-pitting-whoever-is-behind-the-phone-calls-attempting-to-suppress-the-dem-vote-in-wisconsin/624160 "2012-06-07T22:13:58Z")
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/barrett-campaign-sounds-warning-on-vote-suppression-calls Fucking Assholes. Anyone here want to try to defend this crap? --- ## [The Milton Friedman Communist.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-milton-friedman-communist/623816)
**Author:** [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-milton-friedman-communist/623816 "2012-06-07T21:17:25Z")
So, how would you describe your political beliefs? I’m a communist. You mean, you’re a Marxist, you subscribe to his theory of economic history. No, no, I don’t really believe in that. Not as such. You mean you’re a … --- ## [This kid must be high](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-kid-must-be-high/347345)
**Author:** [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Replies:** 260\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-kid-must-be-high/347345 "2012-06-07T19:45:56Z")
Not that it’ll completely destroy his life or anything like that, but what kind of dumbass consents to let a major metropolitan newspaper quote you saying that you use illegal drugs, and seem to intend to keep using them… --- ## [I Pit companies who won't ship to a USPS PO Box](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-companies-who-wont-ship-to-a-usps-po-box/623793)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-companies-who-wont-ship-to-a-usps-po-box/623793 "2012-06-07T03:49:49Z")
Vendor: OK, that’ll be $114.95, and how will you be paying for that? AHunter3: AmEx. Vendor: I see you have one on file ending in 1005? AHunter3: Yes, that one please. Vendor: OK so all we need now is a shipping… --- ## [I'm sorry your son's autistic but you stilll need to control him](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sorry-your-sons-autistic-but-you-stilll-need-to-control-him/623812)
**Author:** [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sorry-your-sons-autistic-but-you-stilll-need-to-control-him/623812 "2012-06-07T02:15:11Z")
Dear Lady, I’m sorry your child has autism, and I understand that it must be frustrating not be able go on outings with him like you would a non-autistic child, but that doesn’t mean that all the rest of us should just… --- ## [Another Wisconsin Recall Pit: Check out what FoxNation is trying to pin on the Democrats.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-wisconsin-recall-pit-check-out-what-foxnation-is-trying-to-pin-on-the-democrats/624193)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-wisconsin-recall-pit-check-out-what-foxnation-is-trying-to-pin-on-the-democrats/624193 "2012-06-07T01:44:10Z")
http://nation.foxnews.com/wisconsin-recall-election/2012/06/05/eyewitness-alleges-democrat-union-vote-fraud-wisconsin This is followed by a transcript of the on air conversation. The caller claimed to be on one of the… --- ## [John Stamos' Left Ear, you're a fucking idiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-stamos-left-ear-youre-a-fucking-idiot/623949)
**Author:** [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-stamos-left-ear-youre-a-fucking-idiot/623949 "2012-06-07T01:41:08Z")
Seriously, guy. How fucking stupid do you have to be to not understand that ends may not always justify means? \[QUOTE=Me\] I’m strongly pro-choice, pro-abortion, whatever you want to call it, and I happen to agree with … --- ## [RO: Doctor withholds HIV meds out of disapproval of patient's homosexuality](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-doctor-withholds-hiv-meds-out-of-disapproval-of-patients-homosexuality/623965)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-doctor-withholds-hiv-meds-out-of-disapproval-of-patients-homosexuality/623965 "2012-06-06T18:33:50Z")
I found out about this story via a couple of sites I sometimes look over. Now, the URL above seems to be the primary and sole (that I can tell from Google searching) source - nowhere else can I find anything about this … --- ## [I pit these two awful bitches that robbed a 9-year old of her Girl Scout cookie money](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-these-two-awful-bitches-that-robbed-a-9-year-old-of-her-girl-scout-cookie-money/623696)
**Author:** [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-these-two-awful-bitches-that-robbed-a-9-year-old-of-her-girl-scout-cookie-money/623696 "2012-06-06T15:51:55Z")
What in the actual fuck is wrong with these two idiotic sociopathic cunts? Here is raw interview footage with two girls that got busted for stealing money from a 9-year old Girl Scout who was selling cookies outside of … --- ## [Can we not steal children?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-not-steal-children/623506)
**Author:** [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Replies:** 237\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2012, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-not-steal-children/623506 "2012-06-06T12:36:09Z")
We are seeing another round of African adoption scandals. It’s not cool to adopt kids who have known living parents. It’s not cool to kidnap children. Not only does this have the potential to cause exactly the same wr… --- ## [I Pit The Credulous](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-credulous/623573)
**Author:** [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-credulous/623573 "2012-06-06T06:27:09Z")
Just had a visitor that dropped the anti-vax bomb. And it’s not just that vaccinations cause autism, they are also ineffective. Polio? Didn’t you know it was “already on its way out” when the vaccine was developed? This … --- ## [I pit chiggers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chiggers/623287)
**Author:** [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chiggers/623287 "2012-06-04T17:42:55Z")
SWMBO and I got to go caching yesterday. Our lives have been too hectic lately to allow us to do that, so we were really looking forward to it. Today, I itch like a sunnuvabitch. The critters chewed on me yesterday an… --- ## [Whose business is it whether I voted or not?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-business-is-it-whether-i-voted-or-not/623817)
**Author:** [@justrob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justrob)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-business-is-it-whether-i-voted-or-not/623817 "2012-06-04T05:30:56Z")
I came home today and found a mailer in the slot trying to get people to come out and vote in the recall. They mailer starts out… \[QUOTE=Greater Wisconsin Political Fund\] \*\*Dear Registered Voter: Scott Walker won in … --- ## [College is against your religion? Then why are you in it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-is-against-your-religion-then-why-are-you-in-it/623736)
**Author:** [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-is-against-your-religion-then-why-are-you-in-it/623736 "2012-06-04T02:03:33Z")
In college, I mean… Sigh This is beyond tiresome. I can see that I’ll have to add even more wording to my ever-increasing syllabus just to let everyone know ahead of time that a story I assign or a film I show ma… --- ## [Retail crap that's pissing me off](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retail-crap-thats-pissing-me-off/621620)
**Author:** [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Replies:** 145\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retail-crap-thats-pissing-me-off/621620 "2012-06-03T16:33:06Z")
Just to get it out of the way, I fully understand that stuff like this has been and continues to go on all the time. I just happen to have noticed a lot of it lately, and it’s irritating me. Hence the thread. First ex… --- ## [Modal fucking windows, and the kitten beaters who inflict them on us](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modal-fucking-windows-and-the-kitten-beaters-who-inflict-them-on-us/623862)
**Author:** [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modal-fucking-windows-and-the-kitten-beaters-who-inflict-them-on-us/623862 "2012-06-03T14:08:47Z")
I mean really? Really, really? (Warning: spoiler contains giant exasperated why) Fuck you jackasses. For those that don’t know a modal dialog is an attention whore dialog that hijacks, and kidnaps a program’s UI unti… --- ## [Spoilers and The Game of Thrones](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoilers-and-the-game-of-thrones/623220)
**Author:** [@coolbyrne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coolbyrne)\ **Replies:** 111\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2012, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoilers-and-the-game-of-thrones/623220 "2012-06-02T11:15:54Z")
Oh my god with the fucking spoilers already!!! I do not fucking get what the big fucking deal is with The Game of Thrones and these fucking viewers who have this incessant need to be virginal in all the show entails. How… --- ## [In the Bad Ol' Summertime](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-bad-ol-summertime/621065)
**Author:** [@SticksAndString](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SticksAndString)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-bad-ol-summertime/621065 "2012-06-01T23:32:56Z")
It’s that time of year again. Dear parents, for the love of crap, please please please please PLEASE do not send your underage minor children to the pool. Aside from the fact that it’s against the rules (they have to b… --- ## [May the rant be with you (May 2012 rant thread)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483)
**Author:** [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Replies:** 660\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483 "2012-06-01T20:01:55Z")
Go for it. --- ## [Time to officially Pit the Sanford Police Dept and their cover-up.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108)
**Author:** [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Replies:** 952\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-officially-pit-the-sanford-police-dept-and-their-cover-up/617108 "2012-06-01T18:43:54Z")
It seems that the effort to turn Zimmerman into a victim is blowing up, big time. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/os-trayvon-martin-zimmerman-video-20120328,0,6403058.story There was no beat down of Zimm… --- ## [Great diplomat Obama strikes again. "Ignorance and incompetence"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-diplomat-obama-strikes-again-ignorance-and-incompetence/623541)
**Author:** [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Replies:** 175\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-diplomat-obama-strikes-again-ignorance-and-incompetence/623541 "2012-06-01T18:37:09Z")
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-30/polish-premier-demands-u-s-response-to-obama-death-camp-remark.html “The White House will apologize for this outrageous mistake,” Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski wrote on his … --- ## [I pit handicap stalls that open inward.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-handicap-stalls-that-open-inward/623520)
**Author:** [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-handicap-stalls-that-open-inward/623520 "2012-06-01T18:00:34Z")
They make no sense and are not actually ‘accessible’ for someone using a wheelchair (which is what the design of the stall is supposed to be based around). If someone using a chair wanted to use such a stall, they would… --- ## [I pit the salivary gland stone in my face.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-salivary-gland-stone-in-my-face/623579)
**Author:** [@Imago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imago)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-salivary-gland-stone-in-my-face/623579 "2012-06-01T02:55:34Z")
Maybe it’s the Amoxicillin, but thinking about you makes me queasy. You’re despicable, a goddamn disgrace and a total jerk. You exist only to make Murphy’s Law a reality. I’d tell you to eat me or die in a fire but I’m a… --- ## [My graduate school is full of retards.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-graduate-school-is-full-of-retards/623256)
**Author:** [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Replies:** 106\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-graduate-school-is-full-of-retards/623256 "2012-05-31T20:34:34Z")
Anyone with tuition money can get a PhD these days because it’s apparently impossible to fail a class. We have to write 1000-word essays ever week on the current topic, and I swear, these people wouldn’t know a thesis i… --- ## [Thank you, Consumer Protection Agency](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-consumer-protection-agency/623356)
**Author:** [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-consumer-protection-agency/623356 "2012-05-31T15:03:35Z")
The short of it: the government is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The long: Come the end of July, our family business that has served the community for almost 30 years may be illegal, thanks to the newest set… --- ## [I pit the UN for appointing Mugabe as tourism envoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-un-for-appointing-mugabe-as-tourism-envoy/623544)
**Author:** [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2012, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-un-for-appointing-mugabe-as-tourism-envoy/623544 "2012-05-31T08:46:28Z")
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0530/Why-Zimbabwe-s-President-Mugabe-was-named-UN-tourism-envoy Really? They appointed a known torturer to an official position? This is a complete smack to the face to … --- ## [Superintendent Patrick Dubbs of Wayne Local School Ohio is a bully and a coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superintendent-patrick-dubbs-of-wayne-local-school-ohio-is-a-bully-and-a-coward/623491)
**Author:** [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superintendent-patrick-dubbs-of-wayne-local-school-ohio-is-a-bully-and-a-coward/623491 "2012-05-31T04:33:03Z")
Quick background: Gay student wears a shirt featuring a rainbow-colored Jesus fish with the logo ‘Jesus was not a homophobe.’ on LGBT Day of Silence April 2011. Is told to turn the shirt inside out. Complies. Wears the … --- ## [The Vatican cracks down on abusers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vatican-cracks-down-on-abusers/623334)
**Author:** [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [May 30, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vatican-cracks-down-on-abusers/623334 "2012-05-30T15:59:31Z")
Vatican chief Tedeschi dismissed Does this all seem awfully harsh to you as well? Shouldn’t they just move him quietly to another bank? :wink: A more accurate in spirit report. Vatican sacks banker after drawing lin… --- ## [Fuck McAfee and their shady business practices.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-mcafee-and-their-shady-business-practices/623282)
**Author:** [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [May 29, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-mcafee-and-their-shady-business-practices/623282 "2012-05-29T23:29:58Z")
Yup, I’ve got McAfee. Came preinstalled. Every week or so, it bugs me with ‘helpful hints’ about upgrades or other crap they want to sell me. Annoying enough on its own, but so be it. Just now, I got a message (paraphr… --- ## [Hey telemarketers......FUCK YOU! Fuck you & the God you worship!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-telemarketers-fuck-you-fuck-you-the-god-you-worship/26410)
**Author:** [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [May 29, 2012, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-telemarketers-fuck-you-fuck-you-the-god-you-worship/26410 "2012-05-29T07:58:53Z")
My wife (a non-doper) just read the post regarding telemarketers in IMHO and it really pissed her off the way people have this attitude that telemarketers are honest folks trying to earn a living. BULLSHIT! Telemarketing… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=211) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=213)