# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=214 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 215 --- ## [This article spreads myths about Latin American Muslims](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-article-spreads-myths-about-latin-american-muslims/622281)
**Author:** [@Orca\_Eyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orca_Eyes)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 18, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-article-spreads-myths-about-latin-american-muslims/622281 "2012-05-18T13:50:01Z")
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/muslim-women-in-spain-and-latin-america-as-imports-of-a-“worse”-patriarchy/ Are they kidding or something? I’m Muslim and have relatives in Latin America: plenty live in Brazil … --- ## [Why are Mexicans chopping each other up?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-mexicans-chopping-each-other-up/621935)
**Author:** [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [May 18, 2012, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-mexicans-chopping-each-other-up/621935 "2012-05-18T08:04:28Z")
Seriously? What the fuck is wrong down there? Can’t they cut the army loose on the fucking cartels? I think there’s been about 100 beheaded bodies lying on the highway this year. Time to drop the hammer of justice! --- ## [Kudos for Rand Rover-Out and Proud!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kudos-for-rand-rover-out-and-proud/621423)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 100\ **Last updated:** [May 16, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kudos-for-rand-rover-out-and-proud/621423 "2012-05-16T19:08:56Z")
I don’t know if it was the President’s coming out in favor of gay marriage, but Rand Rover has decided to come out of the closet and I applaud his decision and will support him as he struggles against the homophobes th… --- ## [No BofA, I Don't Want To Take Your Survey!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-bofa-i-dont-want-to-take-your-survey/621896)
**Author:** [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-bofa-i-dont-want-to-take-your-survey/621896 "2012-05-15T19:24:17Z")
BofA is nagging me to take their fucking survey. If I wanted to give them feedback I would have done it the first time they asked. To make it worse, when I replied to tell them to fuck off the email bounced. I guess they… --- ## [What the hell is wrong with my NON DIGITAL DEVICE???](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-my-non-digital-device/621740)
**Author:** [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-my-non-digital-device/621740 "2012-05-15T15:23:21Z")
I was thinking about recording a show my band was doing. All I have is an 8mm Sony Cam and plenty of tape. They scoffed at the idea that it wasn’t…(cough)…DIGITAL. WTF??? I can upload to my computer just fine with it… --- ## [Design the most hated Doper - with two rules.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-the-most-hated-doper-with-two-rules/620462)
**Author:** [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Replies:** 131\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2012, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-the-most-hated-doper-with-two-rules/620462 "2012-05-15T06:59:09Z")
Your job is to design a Doper who would earn the coveted ‘most hated’ award. Think of it as a 'we don’t like those types round ‘ere’ list for purposes of codifying. There are two rules: You can’t just name a current Do… --- ## [What the hell has happened to some of my friends?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-has-happened-to-some-of-my-friends/621839)
**Author:** [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-has-happened-to-some-of-my-friends/621839 "2012-05-15T00:39:39Z")
Gosh, sometimes I loath Facebook. It doesn’t do anything to make me like some of my friends any better. Let’s just not mention that I am surrounded by a gazillion seemingly illiterate people. I am here to complain about… --- ## [Pitting today's bully. Not Mitt Romney.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-todays-bully-not-mitt-romney/621663)
**Author:** [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-todays-bully-not-mitt-romney/621663 "2012-05-14T17:53:21Z")
I was hoping that someone else would Pit this. Alas, I have to do it. Today’s bully to be pitted is not Mitt Romney (he is yesterday). Today, the bullies that got bumped from the top spot yesterday are the bunch of assh… --- ## [You-hoo, living\_in\_hell! Over here!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-hoo-living_in_hell-over-here/621574)
**Author:** [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Replies:** 105\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-hoo-living_in_hell-over-here/621574 "2012-05-14T16:02:55Z")
Y’know, my dear little troll, I probably shouldn’t be doing this since it’s only feeding your “PAY ATTENTION TO ME, DAMN YOU!!!” complex. Still, in your \[del\]pay attention to my tantalizing little problems I’ll tease yo… --- ## [Chesire Human, you're stupid and an asshole.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chesire-human-youre-stupid-and-an-asshole/621755)
**Author:** [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chesire-human-youre-stupid-and-an-asshole/621755 "2012-05-13T23:18:17Z")
This pitting arises from your contributions to this thread. You are stupid because you apparently failed to understand that in Post #5, PapSett is asking what is wrong with people that fail to take reasonable steps to… --- ## [Where in I pit amazon whom I used to love](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-i-pit-amazon-whom-i-used-to-love/621450)
**Author:** [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-i-pit-amazon-whom-i-used-to-love/621450 "2012-05-13T22:38:18Z")
So, I’ve been a big fan of Amazon and the Kindle for a long time. I have/had a Kindle 2, 3 and Kindle touch. Loved them all and never had any problems…… So when my Kindle 3 dropped dead after being placed on a table wo… --- ## ["Rev" Jesse Lee Peterson needs pittin'. See why.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rev-jesse-lee-peterson-needs-pittin-see-why/621477)
**Author:** [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rev-jesse-lee-peterson-needs-pittin-see-why/621477 "2012-05-12T18:56:31Z")
Well, he certainly gets my vote for misogynistic, medieval, bullshit-spewing, piece of crap assbucket of the decade. --- ## [Anyone else rolling their eyes at the recent topics in IMHO?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-rolling-their-eyes-at-the-recent-topics-in-imho/621358)
**Author:** [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Replies:** 90\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-rolling-their-eyes-at-the-recent-topics-in-imho/621358 "2012-05-12T16:38:30Z")
What the fuck with these threads: “peeing with a tampon in–let me tell you about my girlfriend saying that her used tampon smells like urine” “what’s your fetish–now we can all circle jerk” “do you females negotiate p… --- ## [Note to Mariah Carey............](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-mariah-carey/621619)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-mariah-carey/621619 "2012-05-12T13:46:42Z")
…stay the fuck away from Auld Lang Syne It sounded like someone trying to sing it in an American accent; for exaggerated effect. --- ## [In which I pit businesses that don't want my money](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-businesses-that-dont-want-my-money/621660)
**Author:** [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2012, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-businesses-that-dont-want-my-money/621660 "2012-05-12T13:43:12Z")
…and sometimes support legislation to prevent others from selling me stuff they don’t want to sell me. – Exhibit A: Florida’s alcohol industry. Apparently no wine store in Brevard wants to sell me Cru Beaujolais, (alth… --- ## [Greenlife and other similar people](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenlife-and-other-similar-people/621613)
**Author:** [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenlife-and-other-similar-people/621613 "2012-05-11T16:15:17Z")
The new member greenlife has not made a single coherent, intelligible post since signing up. Not one. Go ahead and see for yourself. Despite such obvious trolling, people are responding to threads with titles such as “M… --- ## [Rocker Ted Nugent threatens to assassinate President Obama](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocker-ted-nugent-threatens-to-assassinate-president-obama/619089)
**Author:** [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Replies:** 341\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocker-ted-nugent-threatens-to-assassinate-president-obama/619089 "2012-05-11T00:58:43Z")
The Secret Service is looking in to it. --- ## [Dumbassery and hysteria re: Brazilian forest code (ranty)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbassery-and-hysteria-re-brazilian-forest-code-ranty/621519)
**Author:** [@Toffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toffe)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbassery-and-hysteria-re-brazilian-forest-code-ranty/621519 "2012-05-10T21:54:00Z")
So a bunch of my acquaintances on Facebook are sharing a bunch of bullshit links like this one inciting a panic over the Brazilian forestry code. It’s been going on for months, on and off, and it’s all stupidity. There… --- ## [I hereby pit AAA's website (x2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hereby-pit-aaas-website-x2/621462)
**Author:** [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hereby-pit-aaas-website-x2/621462 "2012-05-10T21:31:39Z")
I had (or so I thought) a reservation to fly up to see my birth family tomorrow. I, like the idiot I am (so I am also Pitting myself to a certain extent) only bothered to check the dates an hour ago when I was printing … --- ## [Dammit, Microsoft, I didn't say you could stop doing bing411!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-microsoft-i-didnt-say-you-could-stop-doing-bing411/620952)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-microsoft-i-didnt-say-you-could-stop-doing-bing411/620952 "2012-05-10T14:12:03Z")
It was bad enough that goog411 went away without even the courtesy of asking my permission. I was happy to have bing411 there to take up the slack, and they did the job pretty adequately for the past year and a half. Fu… --- ## [Stupid Liberal idea of the day, part duh](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day-part-duh/621310)
**Author:** [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day-part-duh/621310 "2012-05-10T13:02:20Z")
President Obama has gotten us a budget surplus…for the month of April. Hmmm, what happens in April? Something with a lot of checks coming toward Washington? :smack: --- ## [Is Asinine Parsimony an especially American thing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-asinine-parsimony-an-especially-american-thing/621058)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2012, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-asinine-parsimony-an-especially-american-thing/621058 "2012-05-10T10:58:38Z")
U.S. airlines used to be fun to fly. Free food; free booze; overweight luggage was usually OK especially if you smile at the check-in station. Now prices are driven down by shoppers trying to save a dollar, so the airl… --- ## [And so the Gestapo tactics begin (OWS)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-so-the-gestapo-tactics-begin-ows/620505)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 262\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-so-the-gestapo-tactics-begin-ows/620505 "2012-05-10T05:30:03Z")
Yes I Godwinized my own thread in the title but in this case it is actually a fitting description. How can this be seen as anything less than fascist? (more there but can’t quote all of it for Board rules) I know man… --- ## [WTF!!! (Bystanders ignore child run over by truck in China)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918)
**Author:** [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2012, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918 "2012-05-10T05:25:16Z")
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543\_162-20121691-503543.html Someone mentioned this at a party last night. I thought it had to be bullshit. WTF is wrong with these people!!! Words fucking escape me, I just keep spitt… --- ## [NC Preacher advocates beating the gay out of kids](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nc-preacher-advocates-beating-the-gay-out-of-kids/620663)
**Author:** [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nc-preacher-advocates-beating-the-gay-out-of-kids/620663 "2012-05-09T14:49:42Z")
This makes me more sad than ranty. In North Carolina, we’re getting ready to vote on whether or not there should be an amendment added to our constitution defining the only legally recognized domestic union as a marriag… --- ## [I Pit Men Who Think Working Women Are There to Service Their Sex Drive](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-who-think-working-women-are-there-to-service-their-sex-drive/620441)
**Author:** [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Replies:** 424\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2012, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-who-think-working-women-are-there-to-service-their-sex-drive/620441 "2012-05-09T08:24:24Z")
Now, as a woman working in a retail environment I see a LOT of men. Most of them are extremely decent, respectful human beings that treat me like I’m a professional human being. Then there are exceptions. This rather … --- ## [Climate Scientists are Mass Murderers!!!One1](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/climate-scientists-are-mass-murderers-one1/620909)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Replies:** 118\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/climate-scientists-are-mass-murderers-one1/620909 "2012-05-09T03:46:34Z")
Wow. My OP sucks because I am just too dumbfounded to actually do it justice. I am sure that being speechless will pass, so I am putting this in the pit so I can come back and use the words “fucking assholes” when I ge… --- ## [People tagging gang signs in the hallway in my apartment complex](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-tagging-gang-signs-in-the-hallway-in-my-apartment-complex/621230)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-tagging-gang-signs-in-the-hallway-in-my-apartment-complex/621230 "2012-05-08T22:18:06Z")
This sucks. I am glad I only signed a 6 month lease, but moving all this shit to a new apartment is going to be hard. Apparently a few days ago some kids were messing with cars in the parking lot, trying to break in. Th… --- ## [Good riddance to bad rubbish: Chuck Colson is dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 122\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2012, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-chuck-colson-is-dead/619550 "2012-05-08T11:07:56Z")
The fucker finally died, at 80 years old. Sorry, but I don’t buy into the born-again thing, especially not for someone as devious and cynical as Colson was, so no, he doesn’t get any credit for working the God angle. H… --- ## [I pit the person who is using my Dad's picture to pick up men (long, whiny)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-person-who-is-using-my-dads-picture-to-pick-up-men-long-whiny/618892)
**Author:** [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [May 7, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-person-who-is-using-my-dads-picture-to-pick-up-men-long-whiny/618892 "2012-05-07T13:22:58Z")
Someone - and we’ll discuss the possibilities in a minute - is using a picture of my father to create profiles on gay hookup/dating sites. Backstory: A few months ago my Mom was using my Dad’s computer for something or … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=213) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=215)