# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=227 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 228 --- ## [\#OccupyWallStreet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupywallstreet/596851)
**Author:** [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Replies:** 2320\ **Last updated:** [December 15, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupywallstreet/596851 "2011-12-15T18:12:14Z")
I find this: http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/hey-president-obama-our-one-demand.html pretty damn funny. I have discarded several preconceptions about “The Left” in my 11-ish years here. But this call to… --- ## [Ramstein AFB v fuel economy standards](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ramstein-afb-v-fuel-economy-standards/597729)
**Author:** [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [December 15, 2011, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ramstein-afb-v-fuel-economy-standards/597729 "2011-12-15T12:13:56Z")
I realize that we avoided another last-minute government shut-down scandal as it looks like FEMA is going to have all the funding it needs. If you missed the story, here is an article. Here’s the nub: I’m putting this … --- ## [Opalcat, you need to seek help.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opalcat-you-need-to-seek-help/606278)
**Author:** [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 15, 2011, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opalcat-you-need-to-seek-help/606278 "2011-12-15T07:46:45Z")
Hi there, you don’t know me and I don’t know you. I am not your friend and I am not your enemy. I am just a random internet stranger, as you are to me. Still, after two minutes of searching, I was exposed to a photo of y… --- ## [I pit unsafe nuclear energy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-unsafe-nuclear-energy/606185)
**Author:** [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [December 15, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-unsafe-nuclear-energy/606185 "2011-12-15T00:06:13Z")
http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/second-life-the-questionable-safety-of-life-extensions-russian-nuclear-power-plan (much more at link) What the fuck? Seriously? Chernobyl style reactors, with so much spen… --- ## [I pit the asshole who stole my flashdrive](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-asshole-who-stole-my-flashdrive/605062)
**Author:** [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [December 14, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-asshole-who-stole-my-flashdrive/605062 "2011-12-14T22:42:21Z")
Ok yeah…it was absolutely my fault for forgetting it in the library, but how can you, as a college student who lives and dies by your own flash drive, steal someone elses? Do you know what you just did to me? I mean…yo… --- ## [Dear BigT...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-bigt/605923)
**Author:** [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [December 14, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-bigt/605923 "2011-12-14T20:30:32Z")
Let me just start by saying I think you’re a great person. Just super interesting with all sorts of qualities that will undoubtedly make some other damaged weirdo endlessly happy. But I think we need to see other peopl… --- ## [Pitting Untoward Parable and Condesending Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-untoward-parable-and-condesending-robot/604793)
**Author:** [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [December 14, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-untoward-parable-and-condesending-robot/604793 "2011-12-14T19:51:35Z")
In the tradition of Der Trihs and Naxos, the Leftist Helen Lovejoy-esque Hall of Shame is proud to present Untoward Parable: and Condescending Robot: Has the Kool-Aid drinking alcoholic bums at OWS been joining … --- ## [I pit Judge Robert Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-judge-robert-brown/605433)
**Author:** [@Chen019](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chen019)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [December 14, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-judge-robert-brown/605433 "2011-12-14T17:21:13Z")
Not being used to drinking (was there any evidence of this) is one of the weakest mitigating factors I’ve heard for racial violence: --- ## [I Pit Gene Marks.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-gene-marks/606175)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 14, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-gene-marks/606175 "2011-12-14T16:08:17Z")
There is hope,poor black youth! Just keep reading Forbes, as you are wont to do, and you will find the answers. What a jackhole. “I know a few school teachers and they tell me that many inner city parents usually have o… --- ## [I hate BP.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-bp/603949)
**Author:** [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [December 14, 2011, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-bp/603949 "2011-12-14T12:13:06Z")
Don’t you? --- ## [And the crackers will rise up against the honkies: or, Beck calls Gingrich supporters "racist"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-crackers-will-rise-up-against-the-honkies-or-beck-calls-gingrich-supporters-racist/606076)
**Author:** [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 14, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-crackers-will-rise-up-against-the-honkies-or-beck-calls-gingrich-supporters-racist/606076 "2011-12-14T00:52:39Z")
Now of course we haven’t even reached the first official GOP caucus/primary/shindig/taffy pull this election season, and we’ve already been through the rabbit hole so many times the rabbit done died. Personally I’ve alr… --- ## [I Pit the Pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-pit/606107)
**Author:** [@Hambil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hambil)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 14, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-pit/606107 "2011-12-14T00:34:40Z")
My third, and probably last pit. Another example of the failure of am internet freespeech forum. Just like in every other case I’ve seen, the shit rises to the top, by eventually driving out anyone with a brain via acti… --- ## [ClimateGate 2.0? Are you fucking kidding me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/climategate-2-0-are-you-fucking-kidding-me/604243)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 363\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/climategate-2-0-are-you-fucking-kidding-me/604243 "2011-12-13T21:24:01Z")
I’ll be frank here: the fact that anyone is giving this garbage a second look is simply offensive. Remember how, back a year or two ago, a bunch of emails were leaked that contained out-of-context sound bites that seemed… --- ## [Dear Republicans: This Is Not How Democracy Works!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-republicans-this-is-not-how-democracy-works/605625)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 219\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-republicans-this-is-not-how-democracy-works/605625 "2011-12-13T20:39:37Z")
Look, call me crazy, but wasn’t the CFPB created: As a response to a financial disaster and overall disgust of the general public With public mandate. This wasn’t some disasterous plea deal. This was something that … --- ## [Lucky's to Customers - Tough you got ripped off](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luckys-to-customers-tough-you-got-ripped-off/605539)
**Author:** [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2011, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luckys-to-customers-tough-you-got-ripped-off/605539 "2011-12-13T07:25:45Z")
Around the Bay Area 23 Lucky’s stores had skimmers installed in one or their self-checkout registers. Story. Their reaction amply demonstrates why I hate that chain and never use it unless to get stuff unavailable in our… --- ## [I pit Hyatt Hotels (KC skywalk disaster)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hyatt-hotels-kc-skywalk-disaster/605516)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hyatt-hotels-kc-skywalk-disaster/605516 "2011-12-13T02:41:33Z")
Hyatt Hotels has decided not to contribute to a memorial in a park across the street from the hotel in Kansas City where a skywalk collapse in the summer of 1981 killed 114 people. Their lame-ass reason? “It’s not our h… --- ## [What, no pitting for Alex or Jon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680)
**Author:** [@OtisCampbellWasRight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtisCampbellWasRight)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-pitting-for-alex-or-jon/605680 "2011-12-12T21:02:02Z")
The fact that no one has said a word about the recent activities of Alex Baldwin nor Jon Corzine is very, very telling here. Jon Corsine, or as he is known here in NJ, Jon Corslime. He buttraped the economy by promisin… --- ## [I pit Tenthers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tenthers/605376)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 132\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tenthers/605376 "2011-12-12T17:19:04Z")
What’s a tenther, you might ask? Well, here’s a few of them: -Michelle Bachmann -Ron Paul -Rick Perry -a great many libertarians What do all of these people have in common? Well, they oppose legislature like Obamac… --- ## [Hilary Alger - what's with all the one line OP polls?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilary-alger-whats-with-all-the-one-line-op-polls/605908)
**Author:** [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilary-alger-whats-with-all-the-one-line-op-polls/605908 "2011-12-12T16:42:43Z")
In the (new, probably temporary) spirit of kinder gentler pittings - What’s going on? You’ve gone from averaging less than half a post a day to 32 new threads started in the 12 days and all of them with minimal OP’s. N… --- ## [This is why Occupy Wall Street is stupid.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-occupy-wall-street-is-stupid/605447)
**Author:** [@Condescending\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Condescending_Robot)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2011, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-occupy-wall-street-is-stupid/605447 "2011-12-12T07:35:52Z")
A ridiculous decision caving in to the anti-contraception lobby. A pill that has been proven safe in millions of uses over the last 20 years all over the world, with no side effects, that will do nothing but REDUCE abo… --- ## [The Southern Baptist Church is considering a name change: recommendations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573)
**Author:** [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573 "2011-12-12T02:36:46Z")
The Southern Baptist Convention is considering a name change because the name “Southern Baptist” has very negative connotations for 35% of responders in a recent nationwide poll. Some would argue that it’s really not th… --- ## [Rick Perry Needs to Shut Up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407)
**Author:** [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Replies:** 125\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-perry-needs-to-shut-up/605407 "2011-12-11T21:35:41Z")
Evidently Perry has a new ad coming out. My favorite excerpt: “I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian,” Mr. Perry says in the ad, “but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong… --- ## [Who is the "Pit Person of the Year"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742)
**Author:** [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2011, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-pit-person-of-the-year/605742 "2011-12-11T08:13:40Z")
2011 is winding down so I’m thinking that we might as well have a mud-slinging match to decide who sits at the bottom of the Pit for the year. There are a lot of candidates. I’ll start with a few nominations: Michelle… --- ## [Rantings about stupid nuclear reporting, and I want to bitchslap somebody, also other crap](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077)
**Author:** [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Replies:** 1451\ **Last updated:** [December 10, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077 "2011-12-10T22:56:44Z")
I thought about activating an old thread here The environmental movement, and its irrational fear of nuclear energy The environmental movement, and its irrational fear of nuclear energy - Great Debates - Straight Dope … --- ## [Time to Pit "Mythbusters".](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508)
**Author:** [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [December 10, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508 "2011-12-10T22:04:34Z")
They really misfired on this one: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/cannonball-mythbusters-show-crashes-calif-home-amp-lands-minivan-article-1.988169 A cannonball decided to go on it’s own adventure. … --- ## [The ex-felon vs the two drunk douchebags](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ex-felon-vs-the-two-drunk-douchebags/599696)
**Author:** [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Replies:** 390\ **Last updated:** [December 10, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ex-felon-vs-the-two-drunk-douchebags/599696 "2011-12-10T01:26:39Z")
This story almost warmed my heart. Two drunk women go to McDonald’s. evidently the cashier questions the $50 bill one of them gave him. At that point, one of the women slaps him in the face. The other jumps over the coun… --- ## [Oh good Lord!!!! Not Nipples!!!!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-good-lord-not-nipples/604662)
**Author:** [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Replies:** 213\ **Last updated:** [December 10, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-good-lord-not-nipples/604662 "2011-12-10T00:40:37Z")
So as to not hijack the original thread here: Ladies: Show Us Your Nipples! Redux - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board (sorry I don’t remember how to do the cool word linky thing). Are some of you peopl… --- ## [Worlds worst Pit stop. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-worst-pit-stop-i-dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry/605130)
**Author:** [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-worst-pit-stop-i-dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry/605130 "2011-12-09T21:58:34Z")
This: http://news.yahoo.com/fleet-ferraris-ruined-japan-sportscar-pileup-064013838.html Fleet of Ferraris ruined in Japan sportscar pileup. Not sure who it is but somebody deserves to be Pitted for this mess. --- ## [Didn't your mother teach you not to say "fucking" in a restaurant?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-your-mother-teach-you-not-to-say-fucking-in-a-restaurant/604414)
**Author:** [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-your-mother-teach-you-not-to-say-fucking-in-a-restaurant/604414 "2011-12-09T21:57:05Z")
Not a dive, not top of the line either. $15-20 entrees. A quiet place, not even music, just the ambience of people talking and eating. Three sets of elderly couples, me, and three bankers whose loud conversation could c… --- ## [It happened again! (manager outsourced)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-happened-again-manager-outsourced/605536)
**Author:** [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-happened-again-manager-outsourced/605536 "2011-12-09T19:20:37Z")
Several years ago, I mentioned on SD that I knew a manager of a group that was proud of outsourcing her entire group to India. Our company is huge into outsourcing and pushes/rewards managers for doing so (carrot and st… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=226) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=228)