# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=245 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 246 --- ## [Father of the year candidate puts daughter's face on porn photos; court gives the OK](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-of-the-year-candidate-puts-daughters-face-on-porn-photos-court-gives-the-ok/584947)
**Author:** [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2011, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-of-the-year-candidate-puts-daughters-face-on-porn-photos-court-gives-the-ok/584947 "2011-06-13T07:40:59Z")
Court: Dad can paste daughter’s face on porn photo I think I am pretty jaded about humanity and usually not surprised when people do terrible things, but this story was so over the top creepy that it made me go “WTF?!” … --- ## [Weiner comes clean! This is not intended to be a bad pun.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weiner-comes-clean-this-is-not-intended-to-be-a-bad-pun/584545)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 233\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weiner-comes-clean-this-is-not-intended-to-be-a-bad-pun/584545 "2011-06-13T03:34:41Z")
Arrogant little twit finally admits he is a lying sack of shit! Live on CNN! It is a photo of him, he sent it, he tried to cover it up with a bunch of lies. Politics as usual. Kinda fun to watch him squirm. --- ## [My 1st ever pitting of co-workers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-1st-ever-pitting-of-co-workers/584901)
**Author:** [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-1st-ever-pitting-of-co-workers/584901 "2011-06-12T22:15:59Z")
I don’t usually complain about the state of restrooms in various establishments but the one shared by co-workers sometimes causes me to evaluate long-term prospects of my current contract employment. I kind of think I’m… --- ## [A pitting of stupid job applicants. The economy is in the toilet - quit being so dumb. (lame)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-stupid-job-applicants-the-economy-is-in-the-toilet-quit-being-so-dumb-lame/584180)
**Author:** [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Replies:** 160\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pitting-of-stupid-job-applicants-the-economy-is-in-the-toilet-quit-being-so-dumb-lame/584180 "2011-06-12T14:02:04Z")
I guess this is sort of a public service announcement. It’s probably lame and yet I can’t help myself. (TL,DR, skip if you were hoping for something interesting, etc). My friend owns a small business. He is looking to h… --- ## [TX Gov Rick Perry hosting National Day of Prayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tx-gov-rick-perry-hosting-national-day-of-prayer/584709)
**Author:** [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tx-gov-rick-perry-hosting-national-day-of-prayer/584709 "2011-06-12T12:22:43Z")
Sonofabitch. The Story (CNN)– On August 6, Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants you to drop the Texas BBQ, grab a moist towelette and fold your hands to pray. On Monday, Perry declared the date a “day of prayer and fasting … --- ## [Jonathan Pollard Devastated By No Update From Bibi](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathan-pollard-devastated-by-no-update-from-bibi/583399)
**Author:** [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Replies:** 119\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathan-pollard-devastated-by-no-update-from-bibi/583399 "2011-06-12T01:45:56Z")
Like most people, I have been getting my Schadenfreude from the French guy in New York. But then I came across an article in The Yeshiva World News. (what, you don’t read the Yeshiva World News?) The headline is Jonath… --- ## [Fuck you, NCAA, you hypocrite greedy shitstains.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-ncaa-you-hypocrite-greedy-shitstains/583855)
**Author:** [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-ncaa-you-hypocrite-greedy-shitstains/583855 "2011-06-10T21:39:06Z")
What would you think of a multi billion dollar company that refused to pay most of it’s workers, (for anything except basic housing) wouldn’t let them have any other way of making money, including selling their OWN prop… --- ## [The best justice system money can buy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-justice-system-money-can-buy/584299)
**Author:** [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-justice-system-money-can-buy/584299 "2011-06-10T21:05:40Z")
This story is literally unbelievable. Some rich cunt with a long history of traffic violations and drug abuse drives like a maniac in Florida, mounts the curb and kills two British business men, fleeing the scene and th… --- ## [I pit assholes in movie theaters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-assholes-in-movie-theaters/583674)
**Author:** [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Replies:** 116\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-assholes-in-movie-theaters/583674 "2011-06-10T20:23:36Z")
We went to see Kung Fu Panda 2 last night. Wonderful movie, horrible experience. What the hell is it with people that they just have to use their cell phones and not take screaming kids out of a theater? I usually yel… --- ## [$1.99 is not $2 !!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-99-is-not-2/582390)
**Author:** [@tetranz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tetranz)\ **Replies:** 135\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-99-is-not-2/582390 "2011-06-10T19:26:57Z")
At the risk of sounding a little silly or not having enough to worry about… Most mornings I stop at a Dunkin Donuts drive-thru and get a cup of coffee which is priced at $1.99. I usually give them two dollar bills. One … --- ## [I pit people who hate metal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-hate-metal/583944)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 201\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-hate-metal/583944 "2011-06-10T14:39:23Z")
Err… This isn’t quite what you said earlier. “It’s not music”. Bold claims. I could easily dismantle this assertion by pointing to Power/Progressive Metal (Nightwish, Rhapsody, Blind Guardian, and Dream Theater are ma… --- ## [Human Evolution?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-evolution/584880)
**Author:** [@samjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samjones)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-evolution/584880 "2011-06-09T18:28:44Z")
Why was Colibri throwing his weight around in the Human Evolution thread? I get that mla1 is pretty nutty - but when Colibri was basically antagonizing him and just being plain old pushy it only engendered hostility and… --- ## [Nobel prize winner in Economics apparently "not qualified" to sit on Federal Reserve Board!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-prize-winner-in-economics-apparently-not-qualified-to-sit-on-federal-reserve-board/584517)
**Author:** [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-prize-winner-in-economics-apparently-not-qualified-to-sit-on-federal-reserve-board/584517 "2011-06-09T14:50:31Z")
Wow. Richard Shelby has to have balls of steel to make such an obviously bullshit claim. With that kind of nerve, I bet he could tell us the sky is green and still keep a straight face. --- ## [Abortion-clinic picketers.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-clinic-picketers/580935)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 2822\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-clinic-picketers/580935 "2011-06-09T02:51:35Z")
Hey Abortion-clinic picketers, we get it that you don’t approve of abortions, but unfortunately for you it is perfectly legal for women to seek a termination. Hanging around the entrances to the medical clinics is a pre… --- ## [June Mini-Rants Are Busting Out All O-o-o-over!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants-are-busting-out-all-o-o-o-over/584744)
**Author:** [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-mini-rants-are-busting-out-all-o-o-o-over/584744 "2011-06-08T16:42:35Z")
Welcome to Mini-Rants: June Edition! Me first… Cat, I love you dearly. You were our first fur-baby and I never actually regret pulling you through the window off of our roof that freezing January night. But you really … --- ## [Fukushima Reactor 1 Core Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-reactor-1-core-meltdown/581716)
**Author:** [@SherwoodAnderson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SherwoodAnderson)\ **Replies:** 136\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2011, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-reactor-1-core-meltdown/581716 "2011-06-08T05:58:58Z")
It seems TEPCO are pretty sure that the fuel rods have melted out of the reactor pressure vessel in the Fukushima Reactor #1. It probably happened pretty soon after the march 11 Tsunami. No further information on how far… --- ## [More Conservapedia fun: 'Scientific Theory' is a just the secularized version of the word "heresy"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-conservapedia-fun-scientific-theory-is-a-just-the-secularized-version-of-the-word-heresy/584322)
**Author:** [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-conservapedia-fun-scientific-theory-is-a-just-the-secularized-version-of-the-word-heresy/584322 "2011-06-07T21:10:26Z")
Lots of good stuff in the list. ‘Heresy’ is secularized to ‘Scientific Theory’ Washington’s Birthday was somehow non-secular, but President’s Day is secular. ‘Constitutionalist’ to ‘Birther’. --- ## ["Selling Out" - Learn what it means and use the term properly, please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-out-learn-what-it-means-and-use-the-term-properly-please/180162)
**Author:** [@Faerie\_Nuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faerie_Nuff)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-out-learn-what-it-means-and-use-the-term-properly-please/180162 "2011-06-07T19:14:37Z")
To every pretentious know-it-all (this isn’t aimed at anyone here) who keeps talking about which musicians have “sold out”, at least learn what that means before you talk. Just because a formerly obscure band suddenly f… --- ## [Denied Visitation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denied-visitation/584352)
**Author:** [@Donnie\_Page](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnie_Page)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denied-visitation/584352 "2011-06-07T16:37:51Z")
Divorced two years ago and we have 4 children which stay in Missouri with my ex and I moved back home to California. Our divorce consists of both her and I with Joint physical and joint legal custody and the visitation s… --- ## [My theory has been proven correct. Again.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-theory-has-been-proven-correct-again/584303)
**Author:** [@Le\_Jacquelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Jacquelope)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2011, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-theory-has-been-proven-correct-again/584303 "2011-06-07T13:17:59Z")
Other nations must stay desperately poor in order for offshoring to work. And here’s a solid example that is absolutely undeniable. WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay … --- ## [I pit furniture stores, mattress stores and rug stores.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-furniture-stores-mattress-stores-and-rug-stores/584038)
**Author:** [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2011, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-furniture-stores-mattress-stores-and-rug-stores/584038 "2011-06-07T08:15:02Z")
So if you ask the average person who is the slimiest salesman, you will hear, used car salesman a lot but frankly with all the internet sites giving you really specific estimates on what a used car is worth, its getting … --- ## [Why I Hate People Reason No. 72,373 (thieves\*)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-people-reason-no-72-373-thieves/584573)
**Author:** [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-people-reason-no-72-373-thieves/584573 "2011-06-07T04:37:14Z")
On Sunday, I bought a new memory foam mattress topper from Costco, to replace my current topper which has been crying from having spent several years under my girth. Looking at the box, I make sure I get the correct size… --- ## [I pit people that neither like nor hate metal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949)
**Author:** [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949 "2011-06-06T20:54:55Z")
How dare you, you lily-livered piles of indifference! --- ## [I pit people that like metal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-like-metal/583948)
**Author:** [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-like-metal/583948 "2011-06-06T20:49:55Z")
Come on now, metal is trash for 14 year-olds. There’s Mountain and then there’s Deep Purple and a few Black Sabbath tunes, the rest is pure trash. --- ## [Human Resources suck cock in hell.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-resources-suck-cock-in-hell/583940)
**Author:** [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Replies:** 134\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-resources-suck-cock-in-hell/583940 "2011-06-06T14:25:24Z")
What purpose do these useless bunch of fucktards have? Certainly not to respond to job applications it seems, sending them to a HR dept is second only to firing them straight into a black hole. I can only imagine that … --- ## ["Safety features" that impede functionality](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-features-that-impede-functionality/583955)
**Author:** [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-features-that-impede-functionality/583955 "2011-06-06T14:18:09Z")
Fuck. I spent two and a half hours last night working on our lawn tractor. There was an intermittent problem starting the thing, seemingly affecting my gf more than me. Turns out the “safety interlock” that keeps the t… --- ## [does Mr. George Fraser look black to you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mr-george-fraser-look-black-to-you/578704)
**Author:** [@code\_grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/code_grey)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mr-george-fraser-look-black-to-you/578704 "2011-06-06T02:48:59Z")
his photo may be found here http://www.wp.frasernet.org/ . His organization has the following noble goals in mind: He has a lot of black faces on the website, including some of his “wealth coaches”. But, thing is, wou… --- ## [SarahPAC Short-Bus Tour](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahpac-short-bus-tour/583588)
**Author:** [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahpac-short-bus-tour/583588 "2011-06-06T02:30:36Z")
Oh, shit… needs to be: http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/1765/vgtmo1.jpg :wink: --- ## [Mild pitting of the War on Drugs and Whitehouse's opinion of](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-the-war-on-drugs-and-whitehouses-opinion-of/584134)
**Author:** [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-the-war-on-drugs-and-whitehouses-opinion-of/584134 "2011-06-05T05:22:36Z")
So all these luminaries get together to publish a report that details how the trillion dollars spent on the war on drugs has only made things worse. They mention how corruption is rampant because of drugs. And they concl… --- ## [A "What the fuck?" to TheWhoToTheWhatNow](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-what-the-fuck-to-thewhotothewhatnow/583125)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 285\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-what-the-fuck-to-thewhotothewhatnow/583125 "2011-06-04T02:12:42Z")
I think new member TheWhoToTheWhatNow should meet ZPG Zealot. Something tells me they’d have a swimmingly good time. TWTTWN offered such gems in this thread (which is about rape) as this: Bolding mine. And how about … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=244) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=246)