# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=237 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 238 --- ## [Obama admits regulations bad for business](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-admits-regulations-bad-for-business/594322)
**Author:** [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2011, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-admits-regulations-bad-for-business/594322 "2011-09-04T10:47:42Z")
Scrapping Regulations Will Save Businesses $10 Billion It seems the Democratic Party is taking a page from the Libertarian Party. “Administration officials said the plans unveiled Tuesday include 500 regulatory reforms… --- ## [Damned CL&P \[electrical outage in CT\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-cl-p-electrical-outage-in-ct/595130)
**Author:** [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2011, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-cl-p-electrical-outage-in-ct/595130 "2011-09-04T05:17:42Z")
A week. Some areas are still out of power. \[although we did actually get a case of MREs and several gallons of water from FEMA. Not sure what we did to piss off FEMA that made them give us MREs though:dubious:\] We just g… --- ## [THIS is how you protest an illegally parked car](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-how-you-protest-an-illegally-parked-car/594193)
**Author:** [@Fred\_Garvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred_Garvin)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-how-you-protest-an-illegally-parked-car/594193 "2011-09-04T00:52:33Z")
Man parks illegally in a handicapped parking spot and calls police on himself --- ## [Bill-O tries to sic cops on wife's alleged boyfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-o-tries-to-sic-cops-on-wifes-alleged-boyfriend/594665)
**Author:** [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-o-tries-to-sic-cops-on-wifes-alleged-boyfriend/594665 "2011-09-03T16:55:58Z")
Here’s the story: http://gawker.com/5834808/how-bill-oreilly-tried-to-get-his-wifes-boyfriend-investigated-by-the-cops --- ## [Pitting the asshole that Will.Not.Move.Out!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-asshole-that-will-not-move-out/594937)
**Author:** [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-asshole-that-will-not-move-out/594937 "2011-09-02T21:24:21Z")
I’m engaged to be married, and my fiancee’s mom suggested we rent her rental house. Its a great commute for both of us and a nice big place, so we agreed. My fiancee is like her mom’s property manager. After the renter’s… --- ## [I Pit GARMIN!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-garmin/594109)
**Author:** [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-garmin/594109 "2011-09-02T04:19:46Z")
No sooner did Steve Jobs say “a product should be simple” on the nightly news than I’m dicking around with Garmin’s joke of a website, wasting time with their cluess Help operators, and so the list goes on and on and on!… --- ## [No men alone with that child, says Texas judge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-men-alone-with-that-child-says-texas-judge/594072)
**Author:** [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-men-alone-with-that-child-says-texas-judge/594072 "2011-09-01T16:17:30Z")
A Houston Chronicle story reports that a judge in that city has prevented the father leaving the child alone with any man unless a relative by “blood or adoption”. Because, you know, men are all voracious sexual predato… --- ## [How can people live like this!?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-people-live-like-this/594610)
**Author:** [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-people-live-like-this/594610 "2011-09-01T13:56:34Z")
So… Yesterday, myself and a couple of other ladies from the animal rescue group we’re all a part of, went to save some animals. The place was way in the middle of nowhere, hidden by trees. The place made a junk yard look… --- ## [Not hiring teachers... bullshit!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-hiring-teachers-bullshit/594173)
**Author:** [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-hiring-teachers-bullshit/594173 "2011-08-31T22:50:40Z")
I moved to this city just over 2 years ago, just as the economy was really tanking. With smaller government revenues, school districts either stopped hiring or severely curtailed hiring. So instead of getting a regular… --- ## [Hey, "Crazy Eyes" Michelle, now are you starting to get it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-crazy-eyes-michelle-now-are-you-starting-to-get-it/594261)
**Author:** [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-crazy-eyes-michelle-now-are-you-starting-to-get-it/594261 "2011-08-31T03:04:28Z")
Your campaign is starting to flame out like a 4th of July skyrocket. You are probably too stupid to figure it out why so I’ll explain it to you. Another person has arrived on the scene that is just as ignorant, misguide… --- ## [brazil84: preening, sexist, self-imortant, gynophobic douche](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brazil84-preening-sexist-self-imortant-gynophobic-douche/594046)
**Author:** [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Replies:** 271\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brazil84-preening-sexist-self-imortant-gynophobic-douche/594046 "2011-08-30T23:12:04Z")
From the Biblical marriage thread: I just wanted to let you know you’re a fucking creep, dude. And you ain’t no man. You’re a pussy who’s terrified of women. Your fantasy that they all want to be led by you, whet… --- ## [Cmon Euros...isn't Greece done yet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmon-euros-isnt-greece-done-yet/594508)
**Author:** [@Smurfie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smurfie)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmon-euros-isnt-greece-done-yet/594508 "2011-08-30T14:34:01Z")
Learn something from the United States already. You KNOW the powersthatbe/rich will not be taking a loss here. You KNOW that the grunt taxpayers of the EU will be picking up the tab. Why resist it? It will just go on… --- ## [In which I pit Apple for a diabolical annoying change in Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-apple-for-a-diabolical-annoying-change-in-lion/592869)
**Author:** [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-apple-for-a-diabolical-annoying-change-in-lion/592869 "2011-08-30T03:12:45Z")
Look, this may be just too mild for The Pit, but it is a constant annoyance to me since I upgraded to Lion on the very first day it was available. Some background - I work with PCs every day at work and Mac every night … --- ## [Thanks a lot, 'Drum Line.'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-a-lot-drum-line/594325)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-a-lot-drum-line/594325 "2011-08-29T21:23:52Z")
There was a time when I could hear. I could sit in my normal spot in the high school auditorium and know that one daughter was playing her clarinet well or that another had so completely perfected not actually playing h… --- ## [Pot smoking neighbors - what to do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-smoking-neighbors-what-to-do/560808)
**Author:** [@kafoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kafoo)\ **Replies:** 201\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-smoking-neighbors-what-to-do/560808 "2011-08-29T21:20:25Z")
I live in a house that was converted into apartments, with 4 on each floor. Someone on the floor downstairs is smoking so much pot that it makes the hallways smell, sometimes creeps into my apartment, and leaves me smell… --- ## [Dopers, please stop the FX nuclear blog](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-please-stop-the-fx-nuclear-blog/593515)
**Author:** [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-please-stop-the-fx-nuclear-blog/593515 "2011-08-29T20:50:56Z")
The damn thing is up to 25 pages now. He will continue it indefinitely as long as he gets responses. Do not post there. That thread needs to die. No, I am not going to link to it. The thread needs to die. --- ## [Goddamn home selling ruses](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-home-selling-ruses/349995)
**Author:** [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-home-selling-ruses/349995 "2011-08-29T15:01:14Z")
So, we’re trying to buy our first house. We spent months looking, and finally found a perfect place. It’s listed toward the top of our price range (let’s call it X dollars). We realize that there is interest in the pl… --- ## [Enough with the "mentally ill" insults outside of the pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-mentally-ill-insults-outside-of-the-pit/593177)
**Author:** [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-mentally-ill-insults-outside-of-the-pit/593177 "2011-08-28T21:29:08Z")
The latest incarnation can be found here in this thread. It’s bullshit and it’s way over the top. It’s just a weasely way to insult someone without drawing a warning. There is nothing to suggest that person has a medical… --- ## [Is it a Sam Stone economic prediction? Then it's guaranteed to be wrong.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-sam-stone-economic-prediction-then-its-guaranteed-to-be-wrong/594191)
**Author:** [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-sam-stone-economic-prediction-then-its-guaranteed-to-be-wrong/594191 "2011-08-28T17:02:15Z")
I saw a news story today that reminded me of a discussion here at the SDMB. Rather than re-open a two year old thread, and because this is more of a point regarding Sam Stone’s predictions generally, I thought it best t… --- ## [Obama campaign harvests emails and symbolically screws a blue elephant with a red wand](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-campaign-harvests-emails-and-symbolically-screws-a-blue-elephant-with-a-red-wand/594122)
**Author:** [@code\_grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/code_grey)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-campaign-harvests-emails-and-symbolically-screws-a-blue-elephant-with-a-red-wand/594122 "2011-08-28T02:58:01Z")
after clicking on an ad with a “VISIT The Official BARACK OBAMA WEBSITE NOW” slogan and a grim looking photo of the Kenyan renegade clad in a white shirt, I discovered that for the typical \[del\]sheeple\[/del\] citizen or v… --- ## [I Pit the jackass who just passed me on the road....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackass-who-just-passed-me-on-the-road/593372)
**Author:** [@Bosstrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstrain)\ **Replies:** 166\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackass-who-just-passed-me-on-the-road/593372 "2011-08-27T00:55:45Z")
This fucker rides my ass for about a mile or so, I’m even going 5 over the speed limit, taking various turns left and right, and still he’s behind me. :mad: Obviously he’s going the same way I am, and maybe he’s a littl… --- ## [Fuck GE Healthcare ad the Brits in general](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-ge-healthcare-ad-the-brits-in-general/531517)
**Author:** [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-ge-healthcare-ad-the-brits-in-general/531517 "2011-08-26T18:42:03Z")
GE Healthcare has a medicine which they market under the name of Omniscan. Danish physician noted that it might have some serious consequences for kidney patients and put forward his findings with a short presentation in… --- ## [My entire goddam family, come on down!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-entire-goddam-family-come-on-down/593696)
**Author:** [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-entire-goddam-family-come-on-down/593696 "2011-08-26T02:55:22Z")
So I just found out about a bit of family asshattery I was ignorant of, and now quite angry about. Let’s set the stage. ~6 years ago, my sister’s wedding: My father takes umbrage at both my grandma (mother’s mother) a… --- ## [POTUS Promotes Lead Poisening?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potus-promotes-lead-poisening/593904)
**Author:** [@Rekd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rekd)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potus-promotes-lead-poisening/593904 "2011-08-25T22:32:49Z")
Well, may not “promote” it, but he damned sure didn’t do anything to keep millions of kids from be at risk of lead poisoning… From the National Off-Highway Vehicle Conservation Council (NOHVCC) They’re all worried abo… --- ## [I pit the republican party for incredibly hypocrisy regarding taxes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-republican-party-for-incredibly-hypocrisy-regarding-taxes/593639)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 163\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-republican-party-for-incredibly-hypocrisy-regarding-taxes/593639 "2011-08-25T19:58:29Z")
http://www.cnbc.com/id/44218605 Okay, so payroll taxes are paid into social security, in part by the employer and in part by the employee. Obama subsidized the employee end of this last year, and wants to renew this tax… --- ## [Why is it when a man asks for romantic advice, people get so snarky?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-when-a-man-asks-for-romantic-advice-people-get-so-snarky/593909)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-when-a-man-asks-for-romantic-advice-people-get-so-snarky/593909 "2011-08-25T15:47:56Z")
I’m posting this in the pit because I want this thread to be “no holds barred”. Here’san example. Only five posts in and some one has to get snarky. You know, I see women on here asking for all kinds of advice regardin… --- ## [Steam burns fucking suck](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-burns-fucking-suck/593513)
**Author:** [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-burns-fucking-suck/593513 "2011-08-25T04:19:58Z")
So I’m making breakfast this morning, I reached over to the toaster to put down some bread. Right as I reached across the counter, I remembered that I’d put some water on to boil in the electric teakettle, and just as th… --- ## [USA medical "care" sucks!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-medical-care-sucks/593946)
**Author:** [@Lietuvis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lietuvis)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-medical-care-sucks/593946 "2011-08-25T00:37:26Z")
USA is an expensive shithole. I went to a local doctor practice and asked in advance how much the cholesterol test will cost me? They told me $60 total. They did not inform me that there will be huge hospital lab charges… --- ## [The Dictatorial Scum of who wail for Qadafi](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670)
**Author:** [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670 "2011-08-24T16:15:16Z")
I am angered to see this 1633: Kenya’s Assistant Foreign Minister Richard Onyonka has told the BBC’s Focus on Africa that Col Gaddafi will be missed in Africa. "Kenyans have seen Col Gadaffi as someone who has… --- ## [Yes, I Am Pitting Fox...For Once Again Being the Home of Assholes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-am-pitting-fox-for-once-again-being-the-home-of-assholes/592936)
**Author:** [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-am-pitting-fox-for-once-again-being-the-home-of-assholes/592936 "2011-08-24T02:29:16Z")
So MoveOn.org posted a video with some kids supporting a more progressive future. Specifically the Contract for the American Dream. Nice, if that is your political bent (it’s mine). If it isn’t, oh well, poor kids, they… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=236) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=238)