# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=240 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 241 --- ## [Bill the feminist, sex workers speaking for their damn selves, and assorted feminist issues........](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-the-feminist-sex-workers-speaking-for-their-damn-selves-and-assorted-feminist-issues/591112)
**Author:** [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Replies:** 132\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-the-feminist-sex-workers-speaking-for-their-damn-selves-and-assorted-feminist-issues/591112 "2011-08-06T16:00:15Z")
(Didn’t wanna go right to the Pit with this, but if you think it needs to be there, mods, I defer to your judgment.) I feel only a momentary twinge of guilt putting this guy on the block (Bill, not Argent, haha). Allow… --- ## [George W Bush Was Only Thinking Of The Children On The Morning Of 9/11.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-w-bush-was-only-thinking-of-the-children-on-the-morning-of-9-11/590696)
**Author:** [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Replies:** 234\ **Last updated:** [August 5, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-w-bush-was-only-thinking-of-the-children-on-the-morning-of-9-11/590696 "2011-08-05T15:26:02Z")
In a new interview with National Geographic Channel, GWB said his reaction (inaction?) when told of the World Trade Center attacks (he was famously reading from “My Pet Goat” to a Florida elementary-school class when his… --- ## [I pit brazil84 for: his rules of debate; "quote me"; bailing out. (Nothing new under the sun)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-brazil84-for-his-rules-of-debate-quote-me-bailing-out-nothing-new-under-the-sun/590687)
**Author:** [@SherwoodAnderson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SherwoodAnderson)\ **Replies:** 143\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-brazil84-for-his-rules-of-debate-quote-me-bailing-out-nothing-new-under-the-sun/590687 "2011-08-03T15:23:01Z")
Some of you are aware of the poster brazil84, and the fact that \[ul\] \[li\]he has his own set of debating rules\[/li\]\[li\]he is often vague about, or evades specifying which propositions he’s arguing\[/li\]\[li\]but he usually… --- ## [Scotty Mo, get your dumb ass down here....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotty-mo-get-your-dumb-ass-down-here/591239)
**Author:** [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Replies:** 106\ **Last updated:** [August 5, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotty-mo-get-your-dumb-ass-down-here/591239 "2011-08-05T01:08:43Z")
Lil Scotty thinks this would be a fun-filled, peaceful world if women ran things. Because, as we all know, women are humble, sensitive, nonviolent, nurturers who would never start a war or hurt anyone. And 170 commen… --- ## [Sherwood Anderson - Pompous and Dishonest](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherwood-anderson-pompous-and-dishonest/591122)
**Author:** [@Chen019](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chen019)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [August 4, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherwood-anderson-pompous-and-dishonest/591122 "2011-08-04T14:40:49Z")
Heh, it is a truly heady experience being accused of intellectual dishonesty by someone who: a) disapeared once I provided the source of Tino Sanandaji’s figures. b) Continues to suggest he gave incorrect data, when I… --- ## [The very overdue pitting of Susanann](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032)
**Author:** [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Replies:** 257\ **Last updated:** [August 4, 2011, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032 "2011-08-04T01:57:07Z")
Susanann is our resident expert on all kinds of things, from the JonBenet Ramsey murder case, to the Casey Anthony murder trial, to the solution to the national debt problem, to the eternal question of what happens to an… --- ## [Commissar is a troll.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407)
**Author:** [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Replies:** 411\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407 "2011-08-03T18:10:43Z")
One of his best yet. Meh. Just wanted to say it. --- ## [RO: David and Mark Geier](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-david-and-mark-geier/580791)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-david-and-mark-geier/580791 "2011-08-03T00:21:17Z")
My first Pitting - of two fellows who make a living applying dangerous, unnecessary and expensive ‘treatments’ to autistic children. Since it’s my first time, I’ll let these brief quotes from the link speak for me http… --- ## [Texas AGAIN!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-again/590035)
**Author:** [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-again/590035 "2011-08-02T19:30:59Z")
Oh wait… My only question is Why was it even fucking necessary? --- ## [Joe Walsh is a fucking hypocrite (big surprise)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-walsh-is-a-fucking-hypocrite-big-surprise/590798)
**Author:** [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-walsh-is-a-fucking-hypocrite-big-surprise/590798 "2011-08-01T21:07:37Z")
The Tea Party freshman Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill) is such a fucking hypocrite it’s sickening. This guy bloviates in phony indignation on national televison about how he will not stand for letting another dollar of debt be s… --- ## [Bile bears](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bile-bears/590506)
**Author:** [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bile-bears/590506 "2011-08-01T15:12:30Z")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile\_bear fuck.. i’m sorry for the contentless op but, just.. what the hell? --- ## [Too Damn Hot or Not Hot Enough: July Minirants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516)
**Author:** [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Replies:** 603\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516 "2011-08-01T13:58:32Z")
Seriously, Milwaukee, could we pick some fucking weather? You’ve been two months behind for most of spring and summer, and now today we’re supposed to jump straight to the upper 90s. In other news of things not worthy o… --- ## [That screaming woman cell phone commercial.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-screaming-woman-cell-phone-commercial/590098 "2011-08-01T04:05:06Z")
Does anyone else hate this f’n commercial as much as I do? I believe it’s a commercial for Samsung. Where in a phone is placed on a restaurant table and the lady starts screaming at it because it has a picture of a spid… --- ## [RO: Glenn Beck compares Utøya murder victims to Hitler Youth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-glenn-beck-compares-utoya-murder-victims-to-hitler-youth/590311)
**Author:** [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Replies:** 246\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-glenn-beck-compares-utoya-murder-victims-to-hitler-youth/590311 "2011-07-31T18:06:15Z")
… OH MY GOD SHUT YOUR GODDAMN MOUTH YOU HORRIBLE SWINE. Those young people were politically aware, engaged, and passionate about their beliefs, they were learning about participation and debate, they were taking part… --- ## [Obama attempts to "modify" the BIG THREE entitlements, I will remove his 2012 sticker from my Jeep!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-attempts-to-modify-the-big-three-entitlements-i-will-remove-his-2012-sticker-from-my-jeep/590118)
**Author:** [@Cyclone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyclone)\ **Replies:** 171\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-attempts-to-modify-the-big-three-entitlements-i-will-remove-his-2012-sticker-from-my-jeep/590118 "2011-07-30T20:34:16Z")
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid have been Democratic ideals since 1932, and President Obama is willing to play poker with their future? As a lifelong Dem I have stopped contributing to the party, and I am on rec… --- ## [Fuck drivers/pedestrians who endanger cyclists and a fuck you to those who ride dangerously as well.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-drivers-pedestrians-who-endanger-cyclists-and-a-fuck-you-to-those-who-ride-dangerously-as-well/590451)
**Author:** [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-drivers-pedestrians-who-endanger-cyclists-and-a-fuck-you-to-those-who-ride-dangerously-as-well/590451 "2011-07-30T02:52:01Z")
This is inspired by this thread about broken bottles on the biketrail which I did not want to completely hijack: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=316246 I live in NYC and thoroughly despise the MTA (… --- ## [Pat Buchanan: "Breivik may be right"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-buchanan-breivik-may-be-right/590407)
**Author:** [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-buchanan-breivik-may-be-right/590407 "2011-07-29T23:55:55Z")
sigh And now Pat Buchanan weighs in. (He’s still alive?!) \ Pat, you lost any relevance you may have had when you turned your faction of the Reform Party into the America First … --- ## [My wife was drunk and high and drove the wrong way killing seven people! It's the state's fault....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-was-drunk-and-high-and-drove-the-wrong-way-killing-seven-people-its-the-states-fault/590615)
**Author:** [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-was-drunk-and-high-and-drove-the-wrong-way-killing-seven-people-its-the-states-fault/590615 "2011-07-29T20:03:07Z")
…and I’ll sue I’ve heard of having big cajones and being in a state of denial, but this jerk takes first prize. --- ## [The Big Meat Industry caught on video abusing pigs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-meat-industry-caught-on-video-abusing-pigs/587422)
**Author:** [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Replies:** 160\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-meat-industry-caught-on-video-abusing-pigs/587422 "2011-07-29T18:29:22Z")
Animal Cruelty: Could a Barbaric Pig-Handling Video Hurt Major Grocery Chains? The video in question can be seen on Pig Abuse Exposed - Mercy For Animals I think most people don’t support this kind of mistreatment but … --- ## [Hey assholes, do your jobs.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-assholes-do-your-jobs/590503)
**Author:** [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-assholes-do-your-jobs/590503 "2011-07-29T15:59:31Z")
An ostensibly VoIP-related, but really about fucking morons rant, and for once the customer is not the moron here: A customer called in yesterday because they were having problems switching their account between handset… --- ## [People who deceive?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deceive/590573)
**Author:** [@browncoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/browncoat)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-deceive/590573 "2011-07-29T14:22:00Z")
“Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman’s quality.” Pierre Corneille Events in my life have resulted in wondering is this just a woman’s quality? What with the news of the world etc…that wa… --- ## [To the jagoffs who left a broken Jones Cola bottle in the middle of the bike trail](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-jagoffs-who-left-a-broken-jones-cola-bottle-in-the-middle-of-the-bike-trail/303551)
**Author:** [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2011, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-jagoffs-who-left-a-broken-jones-cola-bottle-in-the-middle-of-the-bike-trail/303551 "2011-07-29T12:04:39Z")
Fuck you. Just Fuck you. I just wanted to get home from work before the thunderstorms hit last night. They didn’t hit until later but that’s not the point. I had to limp the last 2 miles on the rim, having not brough… --- ## [national debt crisis invective thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-debt-crisis-invective-thread/590100)
**Author:** [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Replies:** 108\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2011, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-debt-crisis-invective-thread/590100 "2011-07-29T09:15:31Z")
I decided not to hijack my own post ( #58 ) for this: Go ahead, start a global depression, let the American T.E.A. Party middle-income class get blamed for everybody’s bad decade. But in 20 years, your constituency & pl… --- ## [Missing banter at work](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-banter-at-work/590485)
**Author:** [@Bibliovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliovore)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-banter-at-work/590485 "2011-07-29T02:01:55Z")
\[background note - I’m hard of hearing and wear hearing aids\] I’m getting really fucking pissed off at missing twenty fucking conversations a day here at work - especially when people keep fucking talking over my fuckin… --- ## [Those cable news show polls-real cliffhangers!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-cable-news-show-polls-real-cliffhangers/590591)
**Author:** [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-cable-news-show-polls-real-cliffhangers/590591 "2011-07-28T17:02:13Z")
I know you know what I’m talking about; the “question” that gets posed on some of the primetime cable news shows at the outset of the programming with the viewers encouraged to text either A or B, with the results annou… --- ## [Another asshole politician bites the dust](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-asshole-politician-bites-the-dust/590277)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-asshole-politician-bites-the-dust/590277 "2011-07-27T19:44:42Z")
What is it with politicians and their dicks? Do they really think they’re untouchable, or that nobody will notice that they’re being naughty? And why is this guy getting a pass from the press? David Wu (D-OR) has a hi… --- ## [$!%#\* Golf!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golf/590397)
**Author:** [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golf/590397 "2011-07-27T19:33:31Z")
Two weeks ago, my fair mistress, you teased me with drives striped down the middle and iron shots of a deftness that indicated a golden age of Gangster Octopus golf playing. Then yesterday you fucking snatched it all aw… --- ## [Port-A-Potty Peeping Tom!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/port-a-potty-peeping-tom/590044)
**Author:** [@jeredc1983](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeredc1983)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2011, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/port-a-potty-peeping-tom/590044 "2011-07-27T06:59:00Z")
http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-boulder-police-porta-potty-peeping-tom-suspect-arrested-20110623,0,873549.story What. The. Fuck. This is absolutely incredible. What depths of depravity did this man come from? To gain s… --- ## [Road Rage—I pit the guy who smashed my window on the highway](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-rage-i-pit-the-guy-who-smashed-my-window-on-the-highway/588426)
**Author:** [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [July 26, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-rage-i-pit-the-guy-who-smashed-my-window-on-the-highway/588426 "2011-07-26T22:32:47Z")
Do you really think that was appropriate or safe, even if you think I cut you off? On Rte 1 North just north of Dover, DE driving back from the beach on July 5th, someone threw a ratchet through my car window while we w… --- ## [Fuck procrastinators who make their "emergency" your emergency](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-procrastinators-who-make-their-emergency-your-emergency/589999)
**Author:** [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [July 26, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-procrastinators-who-make-their-emergency-your-emergency/589999 "2011-07-26T18:12:58Z")
I don’t want to give any specific details since the inciting incident that inspired this post was work-related, but man, fuck these people in the ass with a rusty hammer (and not the handle end). When something is so fu… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=239) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=241)