# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=260 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 261 --- ## ["... and 2D in select theaters." Bite me.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-2d-in-select-theaters-bite-me/564580)
**Author:** [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Replies:** 136\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-2d-in-select-theaters-bite-me/564580 "2011-01-05T22:35:49Z")
Well, I suspected it was going to happen, and it’s finally done so. I can barely see 3D movies (due to my amblyopia), and my wife absolutely can’t (she’s blind in one eye). As such, we’ve been getting increasingly anno… --- ## [Joe Arapaio, Sentient Pustule](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arapaio-sentient-pustule/565376)
**Author:** [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Replies:** 248\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arapaio-sentient-pustule/565376 "2011-01-05T19:06:04Z")
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/merry\_christmas\_sheriff\_joe\_makes\_inmates\_sing\_for\_good\_food.php?ref=fpb (HuffPost, rather leftish…) n short: Sheriff Arapaio will hold a Christmas caroling contest in … --- ## [Slow news: Ugandan newspaper starts outing locals](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-ugandan-newspaper-starts-outing-locals/558067)
**Author:** [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-ugandan-newspaper-starts-outing-locals/558067 "2011-01-05T15:03:28Z")
\[ \](Attacks reported on Ugandans newspaper 'outed' as gay - BBC News)If not violence, just the hell what \*\*was \*\*he trying to incite?! --- ## [Calling it a non-combat death doesn't make it any better](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-it-a-non-combat-death-doesnt-make-it-any-better/566148)
**Author:** [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2011, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-it-a-non-combat-death-doesnt-make-it-any-better/566148 "2011-01-05T05:45:32Z")
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/world/asia/02suicide.html?src=twrhp Being a long-time reader of SDMB, I know I do not possess the verbal dexterity to compose a worthy Pit. But I hereby Pit every member of the Army wh… --- ## [Yes, Virginia, there is class struggle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-virginia-there-is-class-struggle/566017)
**Author:** [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-virginia-there-is-class-struggle/566017 "2011-01-05T02:32:22Z")
I do not mean to say that there is a class struggle; certainly not the class struggle, with all the Marxist baggage attached to that phrase; but only that class struggle exists. A spinoff of this thread on Marxism. Sta… --- ## [Winter's a-coming! Season of Death Mini-Rants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833)
**Author:** [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\ **Replies:** 1440\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833 "2011-01-04T22:02:31Z")
Did you ever have a nice little rant that you wanted to set loose upon the world but it wasn’t worth the effort of cleaning it up and starting a whole thread for it? Something stuck in your craw but not requiring an ER … --- ## [Mr. Referee? A word, please...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-referee-a-word-please/565929)
**Author:** [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-referee-a-word-please/565929 "2011-01-04T21:54:48Z")
Anyone catch that Pinstripe Bowl game? Quite a competitive affair between Syracuse and Kansas State. Lots of excitement and big plays. I was a casual observer but I was still taken in by what a fun game it was to watch. … --- ## [Dear Homeless Person: Show respect when I give you spare change!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-homeless-person-show-respect-when-i-give-you-spare-change/557841)
**Author:** [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Replies:** 310\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-homeless-person-show-respect-when-i-give-you-spare-change/557841 "2011-01-04T17:35:37Z")
Earlier today, somehow I wound up down in Brentwood with an hour to kill, so I went looking for the Fatburger at Wilshire & Bundy that a friend had told me about. Had trouble finding the place, so I asked a homeless guy… --- ## [Fuck off, retarded sports fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-retarded-sports-fan/565738)
**Author:** [@El\_Presidente](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Presidente)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-retarded-sports-fan/565738 "2011-01-02T14:28:59Z")
My friends and I discussing the Eagles-Vikings game is NOT an invitation for you to turn around, butt in and tell us you are a Redskins fans and how much the Eagles suck. Especially in Pennsylvania. Of course, when … --- ## [Am I surrounded by butt ugly pussies?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-surrounded-by-butt-ugly-pussies/565686)
**Author:** [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-surrounded-by-butt-ugly-pussies/565686 "2011-01-01T19:30:09Z")
Ok, I have an hypothesis which I offer you to examine and comment on. Presuming that hypothetical Monkey is an Adonis. That lets Monkey bone more super models before breakfast than 49/50 people will see in a Victoria’s … --- ## [Post Xmas Blizzard 2010](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-xmas-blizzard-2010/565647)
**Author:** [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-xmas-blizzard-2010/565647 "2011-01-01T18:57:37Z")
Ordered a snow blower, a good one from Sears, due to arrive between 27th & 29th. :fist:a) Wait, today I get an Email that it is delayed, now the 30th. We were do to get 12"-19" of snow, crap crap crap why couldn’t i… --- ## [Sick of "Best of 2010" reports](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-of-best-of-2010-reports/566059)
**Author:** [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-of-best-of-2010-reports/566059 "2011-01-01T17:59:54Z")
I’m sick and tired of every news outlet, magazine, etc. regurgitating the year’s (or the decade’s) top stories at the end of the year. It’s lazy reporting, as far as I’m concerned. :mad: It’s called “NEWS,” not "OLDS,’ f… --- ## [Up yours, penny piching bastards](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-yours-penny-piching-bastards/565602)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-yours-penny-piching-bastards/565602 "2011-01-01T17:39:43Z")
So I got called into our Chambers accounts office today with respect to expense claims made for a trip last month. They said “well see AK84, everything else is ok, but this claim for a dry cleaning bill is not”. WTF!!! W… --- ## [No, you can't use my bathroom](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491)
**Author:** [@Sat\_on\_Cookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sat_on_Cookie)\ **Replies:** 397\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491 "2010-12-30T22:15:15Z")
Dear random worker who is doing random work in my home, Stop taking 15 minute dumps in my bathroom. It’s fucking disgusting. See that van you rolled up in? The one with the letters and business phone number on the side?… --- ## [For hysterical women, I prescribe marriage](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-hysterical-women-i-prescribe-marriage/565645)
**Author:** [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-hysterical-women-i-prescribe-marriage/565645 "2010-12-30T20:26:31Z")
The above advice is first recorded as having come from Hippocrates, or at any rate one of the ancient medical sages. If you thought that this sort of thing was out of fashion in the age of psychotherapy and Paxil, think … --- ## [BritishAir: Rot in hell.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britishair-rot-in-hell/564570)
**Author:** [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britishair-rot-in-hell/564570 "2010-12-30T18:03:22Z")
My daughter is on her way home from Germany, and is now stuck in Heathrow due to the snow. Unluckily for her, she if lying on BritishAir. They are not responsible for the weather, but they are responsible for not giving… --- ## [May the creator(s) of "System Tool2011" be lobotomized](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-creator-s-of-system-tool2011-be-lobotomized/565398)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-creator-s-of-system-tool2011-be-lobotomized/565398 "2010-12-30T15:49:36Z")
Imagine a rapist whose cock protrudes barbed spines into your tender flesh, locking him in place. That’s about how unwelcome and hard to purge this motherfucking virus is. Goddamn it! --- ## [Motherfucking seven inch centipedes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motherfucking-seven-inch-centipedes/563517)
**Author:** [@pericynthion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pericynthion)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motherfucking-seven-inch-centipedes/563517 "2010-12-30T06:47:17Z")
Don’t go to Hawai’i without a hermetically sealed space suit. --- ## [Inarticulate Rage GQ: What is the name of this stupid, insipid attitude I keep encountering?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inarticulate-rage-gq-what-is-the-name-of-this-stupid-insipid-attitude-i-keep-encountering/565588)
**Author:** [@Strain\_of\_Thought](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strain_of_Thought)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inarticulate-rage-gq-what-is-the-name-of-this-stupid-insipid-attitude-i-keep-encountering/565588 "2010-12-29T19:47:30Z")
ARGHGLBLARGPTHBTT! Rage. Rageragerageragerageragerage. Okay, that’s out of the way. What prompted this didn’t even occur on this forum, but I’ve certainly seen it here in the past, and this seemed like the best place t… --- ## [Ho-fucking-ho: Christmas Season mini-rants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-fucking-ho-christmas-season-mini-rants/562309)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 378\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-fucking-ho-christmas-season-mini-rants/562309 "2010-12-29T15:30:12Z")
Hey, that other thread is getting unwieldy, and I just know that the holiday season of love, peace and understanding is just pissing a lot of people right the fuck off. I’ll start off with Black Friday and Cyber Monday: … --- ## [I've been "Pitted" on giraffe boards!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-pitted-on-giraffe-boards/565655)
**Author:** [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-pitted-on-giraffe-boards/565655 "2010-12-28T23:17:26Z")
Googled my old username (looking for something else entirely), found I’ve been pitted by Dopers who also post here! Guess I’m not gonna become member there! :rolleyes: --- ## [Awesome dumbshit conservative bumper sticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318)
**Author:** [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Replies:** 120\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318 "2010-12-26T03:02:40Z")
“THE SECOND AMENDMENT MAKES THE OTHER NINE AMENDMENTS POSSIBLE” (on the bumper sticker of a Plymouth Voyager, next to a McCain/Palin sticker). Sometimes newspapers make misprints in their haste, sometimes politicians s… --- ## [Jess Hart, It's on, Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jess-hart-its-on-babe/564904)
**Author:** [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Replies:** 251\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jess-hart-its-on-babe/564904 "2010-12-26T00:40:13Z")
I just saw this on Fox News: Jess Hart, Victoria’s Secret Supermodel says “If you see me, or another model, in a bar wait until you are spoken too before you speak.” I understand exactly where you are coming from. I… --- ## [I have goblins in my pants, please Straight Dope, tell me a factual answer to getting rid of them.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-goblins-in-my-pants-please-straight-dope-tell-me-a-factual-answer-to-getting-rid-of-them/564951)
**Author:** [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-goblins-in-my-pants-please-straight-dope-tell-me-a-factual-answer-to-getting-rid-of-them/564951 "2010-12-25T20:12:32Z")
Seriously. I must have goblins and instead of you proving factually that I’m incorrect in my assumptions, you need to go along with my delusions in a website that’s blah blah blah ignorance. Link \[QUOTE=TomNDebb\] Giv… --- ## [Merry Christmas you f'ing thieves!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-you-fing-thieves/565107)
**Author:** [@WPA-Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WPA-Guy)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-you-fing-thieves/565107 "2010-12-25T14:50:43Z")
Living here in Western PA is like living in the 1950’s and I hate it when the real world encroaches on our corner of the boonies: our area has had two robberies in the past few days. A crime wave right at Christmas. O… --- ## [Obsceneta Claus](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obsceneta-claus/564986)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obsceneta-claus/564986 "2010-12-25T00:58:27Z")
No, not parody / comedy images of Santa doing Mrs. Claus or banging the cute elves or whatever. Mainstream images stuck up all over, in businesses’ windows, on tasteless neighbors’ apartment doors. I don’t care for any… --- ## [Both of the parties should die.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/both-of-the-parties-should-die/564565)
**Author:** [@Cammacdon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cammacdon)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/both-of-the-parties-should-die/564565 "2010-12-25T00:35:32Z")
Some moron named Hroark or something recently made a topic in the great debates about the death of liberalism. I laughed to myself as not too long ago I was hearing about the death of conservatism from the same kind of m… --- ## [DADT repeal: National security destroyed, our soldiers raped in their sleep](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dadt-repeal-national-security-destroyed-our-soldiers-raped-in-their-sleep/564737)
**Author:** [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Replies:** 100\ **Last updated:** [December 24, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dadt-repeal-national-security-destroyed-our-soldiers-raped-in-their-sleep/564737 "2010-12-24T12:12:22Z")
Bryan Fischer: Benedict Arnold Republicans destroy military and our national security. I find it somewhat impressive how the fear-mongering is on at least 3 different levels: National security is destroyed There will… --- ## [Roger Ailes of Fox News goes full Godwin about NPR](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-of-fox-news-goes-full-godwin-about-npr/561118)
**Author:** [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [December 24, 2010, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-of-fox-news-goes-full-godwin-about-npr/561118 "2010-12-24T10:31:33Z")
So Fox News’s boss Roger Ailes gave an interview to Howard Kurtz of the Daily Beast, which is weird enough in and of itself. And he called Jon Stewart “crazy” in the interview, which is really par for the course these d… --- ## [Eric Cantor - Republican Whip or Anti-science Republican Scourge?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-cantor-republican-whip-or-anti-science-republican-scourge/563628)
**Author:** [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [December 24, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-cantor-republican-whip-or-anti-science-republican-scourge/563628 "2010-12-24T02:38:36Z")
Eric Cantor, the republican House Majority Leader Elect, has launched YouCut, a program in which people report what they construe as “wasteful spending” by Congress. Sounds awesome, right? Not so fast, my friend. They… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=259) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=261)