# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=263 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 264 --- ## [What's it take to get banned around here?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-it-take-to-get-banned-around-here/563137)
**Author:** [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-it-take-to-get-banned-around-here/563137 "2010-12-06T13:59:16Z")
Tell us about some of the famous bannings in SDMB history. You know you want to… think of it as one more chance to call somebody a stupid motherfucking asshole liar. Or tell us about an unwarranted banning … a great ch… --- ## [I don't know what to do with my life...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-what-to-do-with-my-life/562650)
**Author:** [@ImNotPaulAvery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ImNotPaulAvery)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-what-to-do-with-my-life/562650 "2010-12-06T01:10:29Z")
and actually I’m OK with that but everyone else keeps jumping my ass about it and its getting on my last damn nerve. See, I’m graduating college next month. Now everyone I know keeps needling me about where I’m going to… --- ## [Doom doom doom...doomy doom doom.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doom-doom-doom-doomy-doom-doom/562611)
**Author:** [@Cammacdon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cammacdon)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doom-doom-doom-doomy-doom-doom/562611 "2010-12-05T23:17:32Z")
We are all doomed you do know that right? I could go in depth, by why bother? just look around. Ignorant robber barons in control of the government, An endless army of religious lunatics willing to blow you up in the nam… --- ## [Fuck it, just raise my taxes, OK](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-it-just-raise-my-taxes-ok/562484)
**Author:** [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Replies:** 108\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-it-just-raise-my-taxes-ok/562484 "2010-12-05T14:06:50Z")
Compromise? Compromise? Demanding that the sunsetting tax cut for the rich be extended as is or else is what the Republicans call a compromise? Fuck this. Let the entire Bush tax cut sink below the horizon. I’m middle … --- ## ["War Hero" John McCain is a Complete Asshole](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-hero-john-mccain-is-a-complete-asshole/562835)
**Author:** [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-hero-john-mccain-is-a-complete-asshole/562835 "2010-12-04T23:15:41Z")
For a man who pretends to be pro-military he has very little respect for our military leadership and for the soldiers, sailors, and airmen in the field who in his twisted mind simply cannot handle serving side-by-side wi… --- ## [Warning: Tv tropes link](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727)
**Author:** [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-tv-tropes-link/562727 "2010-12-04T01:29:26Z")
Who gives a fuck? I hate the obligatory cutesy presumption that TV Tropes is \*soooo \*entertaining and addicting. Fuck off with that shit. --- ## [Fucking TV Station](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031)
**Author:** [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-station/562031 "2010-12-03T18:39:24Z")
Morons let some damned football game run on forever, shoving everything else on teh channel off. My mom has alzheimers, and is going nuts because the show that she always watches right now is not on. She is seriously up… --- ## [For all you people who bitch about being "corrected". This is for you. (Mild)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-people-who-bitch-about-being-corrected-this-is-for-you-mild/562482)
**Author:** [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-people-who-bitch-about-being-corrected-this-is-for-you-mild/562482 "2010-12-03T18:33:23Z")
All my working life I’ve been active in a field where something is either right, or it’s wrong. There can be many, many different ways that a system can work incorrectly. For instance, the power supply can fail, there… --- ## [Is there a name for this "logic fallacy"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-logic-fallacy/562572)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2010, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-logic-fallacy/562572 "2010-12-03T10:39:30Z")
From time to time we see something like: If I think football would be a better game if TD’s scored 4 points instead of 6, no one would expect me to insist on discarding two points on each of my TD’s if the other team d… --- ## [Palin's it-is-unfair-to-nitpick-someone's-misspeaking hypocrisy. Oh, and she is a liar, too.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-it-is-unfair-to-nitpick-someones-misspeaking-hypocrisy-oh-and-she-is-a-liar-too/562043)
**Author:** [@Pierrot\_Le\_Fou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pierrot_Le_Fou)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palins-it-is-unfair-to-nitpick-someones-misspeaking-hypocrisy-oh-and-she-is-a-liar-too/562043 "2010-12-02T21:45:46Z")
What a hypocrite. She even had to take a shot at Biden. And she is also a liar. When her daughter called someone a faggot for that person’s saying, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska is failing soo hard right now” and “hahahahaha t… --- ## [My children's school principal: Go to hell and burn. Slowly.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-childrens-school-principal-go-to-hell-and-burn-slowly/561010)
**Author:** [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Replies:** 346\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-childrens-school-principal-go-to-hell-and-burn-slowly/561010 "2010-12-02T20:32:15Z")
Where I live, bullying in school “is high up on the agenda”. Politicians write manifestos against school bullying. Schools make questionnaires. “Here, little, guy. Fill this out. Are someone bullying you?”. And when the … --- ## [Well, the Internet was nice while it lasted.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-internet-was-nice-while-it-lasted/562506)
**Author:** [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-internet-was-nice-while-it-lasted/562506 "2010-12-02T04:04:34Z")
Story here. Or to be specific, the link points to a screenshot I uploaded on my Photobucket site. Today, beginning at about 5pm Pacific time, I’m seeing a huge banner ad at the top of my browser screen. It isn’t a to… --- ## [Is Sarah Palin dumber than Ronald Reagan?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453)
**Author:** [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Replies:** 500\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453 "2010-12-01T23:50:59Z")
I’ve never really taken a position on Sarah Palin one way or another. Though I would vote for her before I would vote for John McCain, even she could not get me to vote for their ticket in '08 simply because McCain was o… --- ## [Fuck you, brother, this is NOT all about YOU](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-brother-this-is-not-all-about-you/562095)
**Author:** [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-brother-this-is-not-all-about-you/562095 "2010-12-01T21:59:47Z")
So, I posted what I thought was a fun threadto describe how I was handling my brother’s & nephew’s awkward gift requests for Christmas. Just fun, playful, no harm done. In fact, donating money to charity, so it’s win-w… --- ## [tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb/562519)
**Author:** [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2010, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb/562519 "2010-12-01T08:26:34Z")
Closing another thread I kinda liked for really no reason. Theres nothing I can do other than offer this lame-ass protest. You suck and your coddling mother instinct would be silly if it wasn’t so juvenile. --- ## [Media Innumeracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-innumeracy/562322)
**Author:** [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-innumeracy/562322 "2010-11-30T18:57:10Z")
The newly discovered Picasso artworks sure have a precise price: Really, can’t you just say “about $80 million”. Later on it does say where that number comes from: --- ## [Genitals Are Not "Junk"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genitals-are-not-junk/561910)
**Author:** [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Replies:** 118\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genitals-are-not-junk/561910 "2010-11-30T15:15:38Z")
“Junk” is useless crap that you throw away - so if you think your genitals are “junk”, fine - give me a knife, I’ll cut 'em off ya and toss that junk in the garbage disposal. Ever since the new body scanners at airports… --- ## [Fuck my life (long, and pathetic)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-life-long-and-pathetic/550585)
**Author:** [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2010, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-life-long-and-pathetic/550585 "2010-11-30T10:11:22Z")
Some Background: I met my wife when she was 13 and I was 16. We hit it off, but I thought she was just a kid. I spent the summer hanging out with her, and she kinda mentioned an ex, but I got the impression she didn’t… --- ## [Joe Rehyansky should eat crap and live to taste it!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-rehyansky-should-eat-crap-and-live-to-taste-it/562171)
**Author:** [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-rehyansky-should-eat-crap-and-live-to-taste-it/562171 "2010-11-29T21:27:47Z")
Magistrate Joe Rehyansky has an incredibly evil and sick delusion: That lesbians can be cured by straight sex. And in pursuit of ‘fixing’ lesbians, he thinks they should enlist in the Army, where red-blooded straight sol… --- ## [I pit dog show freaks, especially in the UK](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dog-show-freaks-especially-in-the-uk/561295)
**Author:** [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Replies:** 147\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dog-show-freaks-especially-in-the-uk/561295 "2010-11-27T22:36:19Z")
Oh my god FUCK YOU ASSHOLES. I am Dog Woman. I’m not in the dark about how unhealthy it can be and it is to create and perpetuate extreme dog breeds. But what fucking SICK SHIT is it when your dogs are in agony, when … --- ## [Fellow apartment resident: Don't wash bedspreads in small commerical washers!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-apartment-resident-dont-wash-bedspreads-in-small-commerical-washers/561517)
**Author:** [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-apartment-resident-dont-wash-bedspreads-in-small-commerical-washers/561517 "2010-11-27T20:24:56Z")
Yes, I’m talking to you, fuckhead. The person who loaded one of our small Maytag commercial washers with a king-size fucking bedspread. How do I know it’s a bedspread? Well, asswipe, when the fucking machine is spitting … --- ## [I pit Honda for not having a locking fuel door or fuel cap on the Insight.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-honda-for-not-having-a-locking-fuel-door-or-fuel-cap-on-the-insight/561325)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-honda-for-not-having-a-locking-fuel-door-or-fuel-cap-on-the-insight/561325 "2010-11-27T19:54:29Z")
Mild rant, I know, but still. Every damn car I’ve owned for the last two decades (all two of them) has had a fuel door that had to be opened from inside the car. This serves two purposes, preventing siphoning, and preve… --- ## [Fox News headline: "Obama Praises Indian Chief Who Killed U.S. General." The Indian: Sitting Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-headline-obama-praises-indian-chief-who-killed-u-s-general-the-indian-sitting-bull/560786)
**Author:** [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-headline-obama-praises-indian-chief-who-killed-u-s-general-the-indian-sitting-bull/560786 "2010-11-27T03:30:57Z")
Damn, these clowns really know no shame, do they? Here’s the story: http://gawker.com/5690436/fox-news-turns-obamas-kid-book-into-anti+american-war-epic Anyway this comment that someone left on there pretty much sums … --- ## [Some motherfucker smashed my car window](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-motherfucker-smashed-my-car-window/530842)
**Author:** [@banjoDavid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/banjoDavid)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-motherfucker-smashed-my-car-window/530842 "2010-11-26T15:42:46Z")
Last night, I was visiting a friend a few miles from home. I left at 1:15 in the morning, and found the driver’s side window on my car smashed. The car parked behind me had the same damage, the 4 cars in front of me ha… --- ## [Nice tomatoes and apples, Whole Foods](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-tomatoes-and-apples-whole-foods/561830)
**Author:** [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-tomatoes-and-apples-whole-foods/561830 "2010-11-26T03:13:54Z")
I don’t buy stuff at Whole Foods because I can get organic mushrooms, or free-range cucumbers, or pork chops that were told every day, “What a pretty hog!”, or any other frou-frou reason. I buy fruits, vegetables, and me… --- ## [Yet another bodyscanner Pit Thread (with pervs!)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688)
**Author:** [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688 "2010-11-25T21:29:14Z")
So, with the holiday season, we have enormous amounts of air traffic and matching lines at the airport along with all the anger over the backscatter radiation bodyscanners. And, as seems inevitable in this world, some T… --- ## [Are math students really this bad?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-math-students-really-this-bad/561570)
**Author:** [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2010, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-math-students-really-this-bad/561570 "2010-11-25T08:22:16Z")
I was just reading a GQ, and someone didn’t understand that multiplying decimals by each other makes them smaller! :confused: His teacher’s explanation of,“It just does.” wasn’t enough. That I kinda (kinda) understand… --- ## ["National Opt-Out Day" -- Aw, Fuck!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-opt-out-day-aw-fuck/560978)
**Author:** [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Replies:** 134\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-opt-out-day-aw-fuck/560978 "2010-11-25T01:22:34Z")
I have plans to fly next Wednesday evening. Yep, the night before Thanksgiving. I usually go out of my way to avoid traveling on this day, but for various reasons there are no better options for me this year. So I just … --- ## [A Gravity Pit (for warping the SDMB and its purpose by being a bumptious prick)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-gravity-pit-for-warping-the-sdmb-and-its-purpose-by-being-a-bumptious-prick/561721)
**Author:** [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-gravity-pit-for-warping-the-sdmb-and-its-purpose-by-being-a-bumptious-prick/561721 "2010-11-24T23:14:01Z")
Our resident polymath, Stranger on a Train, is, no doubt, a pretty smart fellow. He knows lots about lots with many here having remarked on the breadth and depth of his knowledge. I share their adulation, but only regard… --- ## [Una: Go Drink a Juicebox](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/una-go-drink-a-juicebox/560481)
**Author:** [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Replies:** 168\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/una-go-drink-a-juicebox/560481 "2010-11-24T19:44:56Z")
Una Persson: You asked a stupid question in the thread about Cooks Source. I pointed out it was a stupid question by answering it in a snarky way. When various people there didn’t immediately leap to your defense and ag… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=262) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=264)