# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=223 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 224 --- ## [I pit people who don't train their big dogs.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-dont-train-their-big-dogs/612075)
**Author:** [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-dont-train-their-big-dogs/612075 "2012-02-09T23:39:07Z")
I’m a cat person, but I love dogs too. Small dogs are usually manageable, but if you’re going to get a big dog, don’t expect me to enter your home unless you’ve trained it. I don’t want it to bite me, I don’t want it t… --- ## [Enough with the bottom-of-the-page overlay ads!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-bottom-of-the-page-overlay-ads/612267)
**Author:** [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-bottom-of-the-page-overlay-ads/612267 "2012-02-09T18:19:36Z")
Seems like on a lot of web pages these days, only about 50% has to do with content. The rest is ads and other clutter. Fine - my mind can filter that out with no problem, and advertising equals upkeep of the site and fre… --- ## [One again the UN has proved its uselessness.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-again-the-un-has-proved-its-uselessness/611991)
**Author:** [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-again-the-un-has-proved-its-uselessness/611991 "2012-02-09T02:37:28Z")
so the United Nations failed to pass a resolution condeming the violence in Syria. Apparently, China and Russia are having fun watching the show. Or something. I wish I could say I’m surprised, but I’m not. Could som… --- ## [Update on Gannett pitting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-on-gannett-pitting/612128)
**Author:** [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-on-gannett-pitting/612128 "2012-02-09T01:49:31Z")
Remember how I had once said that I pitted Gannett because I thought that their papers were very substandard, and not at all what I had grown to love? Well, there are a couple of exceptions among the papers of that compa… --- ## [Ew. Blackmailing girls using a web cam.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874)
**Author:** [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874 "2012-02-06T15:10:26Z")
I came across a post on another forum I visit warning parents not to let their teenagers use webcams in random chat rooms because of the risk of “blackmail”. Apparently it’s sort of a favorite activity among certain gro… --- ## [I pit my company for their hypocrisy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-company-for-their-hypocrisy/610756)
**Author:** [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-company-for-their-hypocrisy/610756 "2012-02-05T02:33:29Z")
Three years ago, our company, a major utility in the northeast decided that ‘in the best interest of all employees, we will no longer celebrate Veteran’s Day. Those who wish to continue to celebrate this holiday, may us… --- ## [I get that I don't get why you don't go with the internet.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-that-i-dont-get-why-you-dont-go-with-the-internet/610688)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 193\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-that-i-dont-get-why-you-dont-go-with-the-internet/610688 "2012-02-05T22:23:55Z")
So I’m old enough to be your father and I REALLY don’t understand why you don’t get the internet, much less why you don’t let the rest of your salesforce, who do, use it to make us all rich. We are recent hires. We cam… --- ## [So, uh, whatcha readin' over there?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-uh-whatcha-readin-over-there/610593)
**Author:** [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-uh-whatcha-readin-over-there/610593 "2012-02-05T00:55:13Z")
I hate having to explain what I’m reading. If I wanted to be conversing with you instead of reading this book in front of me, then I wouldn’t be reading, now would I? But of course you know that. It’s your little passive… --- ## [I pit dentists/dentistry!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dentists-dentistry/611432)
**Author:** [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2012, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dentists-dentistry/611432 "2012-02-04T03:56:34Z")
I hate you all with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns, you bastards. I have had a horrible dental history, stretching from them almost breaking my jaw to remove my wisdom teeth, when younger, through years, of … --- ## [If after 50 f'n pages, you are still trying to engage SA; YOU ARE DUMB!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-50-fn-pages-you-are-still-trying-to-engage-sa-you-are-dumb/611405)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 248\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-50-fn-pages-you-are-still-trying-to-engage-sa-you-are-dumb/611405 "2012-02-03T22:17:37Z")
FFS people! Just let it go. Please. --- ## [Just another reason why the punkfaggots must die!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-reason-why-the-punkfaggots-must-die/610686)
**Author:** [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-reason-why-the-punkfaggots-must-die/610686 "2012-02-03T21:16:03Z")
The gophers won this one. --- ## [Jan Brewer: liar and hypocrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-brewer-liar-and-hypocrite/610837)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 128\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-brewer-liar-and-hypocrite/610837 "2012-02-03T00:50:18Z")
By now, most people have prolly heard about the tarmac conversation between President Obama and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. I’d wager that about the same number have by now seen the image of Gov. Brewer pointing her fi… --- ## [If you think 50 f'n pages is enough to pit SA: U R DUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-think-50-fn-pages-is-enough-to-pit-sa-u-r-dum/611507)
**Author:** [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2012, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-think-50-fn-pages-is-enough-to-pit-sa-u-r-dum/611507 "2012-02-02T05:32:08Z")
SA is creating insane content at exponential rates. Each new post could break off and become a thread of it’s own, like fractals, only weirder. So, for all 3 of you posters that want to end this perfect storm, I say, u… --- ## [Left out of the loop, and it hurts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-out-of-the-loop-and-it-hurts/611358)
**Author:** [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-out-of-the-loop-and-it-hurts/611358 "2012-02-01T21:50:38Z")
Dear Friend, Why didn’t you tell me? I thought we were true best friends, the platonic equivalent of soul mates. I thought I was one of the few people that you trusted with your secrets. We kept so much from your famil… --- ## [Bonematter, you're an annoying fuckwit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bonematter-youre-an-annoying-fuckwit/606530)
**Author:** [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bonematter-youre-an-annoying-fuckwit/606530 "2012-02-01T20:53:26Z")
In less than 30 minutes, you started two God-bothering gotcha threads: Last Rites In the Begining You aren’t very bright, and you have nothing interesting to say. Stop it and go away. --- ## [Google! What the hell did you do to Google Docs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-what-the-hell-did-you-do-to-google-docs/611263)
**Author:** [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-what-the-hell-did-you-do-to-google-docs/611263 "2012-02-01T19:55:45Z")
I use a Google Docs spreadsheet for the laughably simple job of tracking sales of DVDs. Rows of buyers, columns for the purchaser information, address, how paid, and boxes for the number of each title. The most complicat… --- ## [And a bitchy New Year - January 2012 minirants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-bitchy-new-year-january-2012-minirants/608003)
**Author:** [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Replies:** 519\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-bitchy-new-year-january-2012-minirants/608003 "2012-02-01T16:08:14Z")
It’s 3am and I’m awake. Why am I awake? Is it because I was up at midnight to welcome the new year? No, it’s because some guys who couldn’t hit a note with a hammer were singing outside. Seriously, dudes, celebrate all … --- ## [A new level of annoyance at other posters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231)
**Author:** [@randomface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomface)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-level-of-annoyance-at-other-posters/611231 "2012-02-01T14:23:40Z")
Today, I saw the first round of posts that made me feel ill reading them. A user by the name of gluten free. See this thread. Is man a meat-eater or a vegetarian by nature?" For all that anyone holds holy, please quit… --- ## [Freddie Mac Betting Against Struggling Homeowners](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddie-mac-betting-against-struggling-homeowners/611210)
**Author:** [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddie-mac-betting-against-struggling-homeowners/611210 "2012-02-01T06:21:29Z")
Three years ago we bailed out Freddie Mac to the tune of $169 billion for grossly mismanaging its funds, making risky bets and failing. We, the public, saved them. Here’s how they’re making their money today. They loa… --- ## [lol! First world problems!!!!1111](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lol-first-world-problems-1111/610514)
**Author:** [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Replies:** 179\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lol-first-world-problems-1111/610514 "2012-02-01T05:10:38Z")
(Allow me to preface this thread by saying that I completely understand that this thread, in its own lil’ meta way, is a LOL FIRST WORLD PROBLEM!11!! There. I just spared you 15 posts attempting at clever humor, which re… --- ## [Pitting ALL those who are Ok with a man watching a child being raped](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-all-those-who-are-ok-with-a-man-watching-a-child-being-raped/602982)
**Author:** [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\ **Replies:** 125\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-all-those-who-are-ok-with-a-man-watching-a-child-being-raped/602982 "2012-02-01T02:32:47Z")
Ok, I am pitting everyone who thinks it is ok to watch a small child being raped and not contact the police. This is in response to the “Explain The Penn State Fiasco” thread here: Explain The Penn State Fiasco - Factua… --- ## [Honey, did you tell our state senator that it was okay to put his sign in our yard?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-did-you-tell-our-state-senator-that-it-was-okay-to-put-his-sign-in-our-yard/611052)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-did-you-tell-our-state-senator-that-it-was-okay-to-put-his-sign-in-our-yard/611052 "2012-01-31T22:56:35Z")
“No.” “It should probably go.” “Yes.” It’s not our state rep, whom I have disliked since I knew him in high school. And it’s not our village trustee, whom Wife has known forever and has been useful and whose signs ar… --- ## [Dear Ex-wife: Pls, thank your imaginary god for giving my son nightmares!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-wife-pls-thank-your-imaginary-god-for-giving-my-son-nightmares/610210)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2012, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-wife-pls-thank-your-imaginary-god-for-giving-my-son-nightmares/610210 "2012-01-31T05:19:19Z")
Un-fucking-believable! I have a 13yo autistic son. He has problems with nightmares. Over the past few years, I have spent a significant amount of time teaching him how ghosts and other stuff like that he sees on TV is n… --- ## [!!!!11!!one!1](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/11-one-1/610954)
**Author:** [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/11-one-1/610954 "2012-01-30T22:41:54Z")
Would you all please quit fucking doing ^that^? Nobody actually does that except with your intended irony. You’re mimicking a characterization based on fantasy. And it makes you look like a fucking idiot. --- ## [Look on the bright side](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-the-bright-side/610995)
**Author:** [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-on-the-bright-side/610995 "2012-01-30T19:43:31Z")
I’m starting to hate this expression. I work with a woman that I cannot even make the most casual negative remark around, because it is always met with 'Look on the bright side". Grey, miserable day out? Don’t mention… --- ## [Cursing without cussing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853)
**Author:** [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853 "2012-01-30T15:03:57Z")
I thought about putting this in IMHO, but with the language that may come forth I thought it better belonged here. Mods, please feel free to move if this is the wrong forum. I work in a cubicle…four walls, no privacy. … --- ## [No wonder EDF energy is having a record year](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-edf-energy-is-having-a-record-year/610881)
**Author:** [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-edf-energy-is-having-a-record-year/610881 "2012-01-29T14:32:27Z")
…for complaints. I’ve had a bill for £200 that arrived not all that long after I’d paid the previous one, so I thought I’d make them wait as it was pretty near Christmas. The money was put to one side, today I decide… --- ## [I Pit Thee: dumb ass marketing commercial assholes!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025)
**Author:** [@The\_Niply\_Elder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Niply_Elder)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025 "2012-01-29T04:04:13Z")
As most recently seen in the Subway commercial exhibiting morbidly-obese individuals with lethal buttons shooting out of their waists as they sat down, etc. I was most outraged at their vulgar slaughtering of one of hist… --- ## [The "You are dumb" thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-you-are-dumb-thread/609441)
**Author:** [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Replies:** 134\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-you-are-dumb-thread/609441 "2012-01-28T19:29:05Z")
If you think that evolution is “just a theory” and somehow that undermines its credibility, then you are dumb. If you believe people are waging/declaring “war on \_\_\_\_” when there is no actual combat, weapons, or anythin… --- ## [PETA wanjts to buy OJ Simpson's house](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wanjts-to-buy-oj-simpsons-house/610373)
**Author:** [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [January 27, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wanjts-to-buy-oj-simpsons-house/610373 "2012-01-27T23:53:14Z")
The content is on the label regarding this thread. Here’s the link: PETA To JPMorgan Chase: Give Us O.J. Simpson’s Foreclosed Home. I’m not sure I have the jokes for that to put it in MPSIMS, that’s why I’m putting it … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=222) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=224)