# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=266 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 267 --- ## [Shodan and AClockWorkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-and-aclockworkmelon/557705)
**Author:** [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Replies:** 291\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-and-aclockworkmelon/557705 "2010-11-02T20:02:57Z")
You two are absolutely contemptible. A person comes asking for assistance with alcoholism. A disease that kills people. And you two have to start a fucking debate about A.A. in a thread where someone is asking for help. … --- ## [People who base their voting decisions on campaign ads are idiots](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-base-their-voting-decisions-on-campaign-ads-are-idiots/558975)
**Author:** [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-base-their-voting-decisions-on-campaign-ads-are-idiots/558975 "2010-11-02T19:51:13Z")
I’ve made a strong effort to avoid television and radio the past month, because I just can’t stand the bullshit that’s being broadcast. You’re never going to get the whole truth from a 30 second soundbite! The people who… --- ## [The Great Pit Debate ("Racism!")](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-pit-debate-racism/559128)
**Author:** [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-pit-debate-racism/559128 "2010-11-02T19:15:00Z")
Are the people who keep posting these kinds of threads complete morons, or are they trolls? --- ## [Father kills infant daughter & baby's mother](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-kills-infant-daughter-babys-mother/559163)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-kills-infant-daughter-babys-mother/559163 "2010-11-02T18:11:52Z")
I kind of can’t come up with words right now. \[ \](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US\_TRUCK\_IN\_HOUSE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-11-01-21-38-24) My gut reaction is I want this guy to die, e… --- ## [Pro bono bullshit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-bono-bullshit/553132)
**Author:** [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Replies:** 1944\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-bono-bullshit/553132 "2010-11-02T04:46:51Z")
So one of the senior partners in my section sent around an email today reminding everyone of the firm’s goal of having every lawyer work 20 pro bono hours each year. Apparently our section wasn’t doing so hot compared t… --- ## [It's fun to tell Bill Clinton and Rudy Giuliani "Fuck you"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-fun-to-tell-bill-clinton-and-rudy-giuliani-fuck-you/559024)
**Author:** [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-fun-to-tell-bill-clinton-and-rudy-giuliani-fuck-you/559024 "2010-11-01T13:09:15Z")
Normally, I’m pissed when the phone rings and it’s a recording from a politician telling me who to vote for, especially so when I have turpentine and oil paint on my hands, but today I got to curse out Bill and Rudy and … --- ## [Dio, you are just wrong.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dio-you-are-just-wrong/558521)
**Author:** [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Replies:** 222\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2010, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dio-you-are-just-wrong/558521 "2010-10-30T05:12:46Z")
Regarding this hijack about arranged marriages. What fuck is your problem? You are wrong. Nobody is “changing the definition of the word.” Everyone is using it as it is commonly used. Now there may was a time that arra… --- ## [Hell's Kitchen, and it's viewers.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096)
**Author:** [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Replies:** 164\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096 "2010-10-30T04:57:53Z")
Almost posted this in the ongoing thread, but after composing decided it would be threadshitting, and it doesn’t really belong in Cafe Society, so here it is. I had my first experience with this show a week or so ago. I… --- ## [I pit Senator Mitch McConnel (R-Kentucky)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-senator-mitch-mcconnel-r-kentucky/558774)
**Author:** [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-senator-mitch-mcconnel-r-kentucky/558774 "2010-10-30T04:23:10Z")
This little gem from McConnel got my blood boiling: Helping the country get through the Great Recession is not your top priority. Your single most important goal is getting a Republican ass into the oval office seat. T… --- ## [SCOTUS Wife Virginia Thomas asks Anita Hill to apologize - WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotus-wife-virginia-thomas-asks-anita-hill-to-apologize-wtf/557798)
**Author:** [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Replies:** 822\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotus-wife-virginia-thomas-asks-anita-hill-to-apologize-wtf/557798 "2010-10-30T01:44:01Z")
Story here I will start this in the Pit because it will lead to bad language and politics and such, but in a general way - what good could she possibly think would come from this? She has said she “was trying to extend… --- ## [Chutzpah Award: Profitt (Kentucky Stomper) Wants Apology from Woman Whose Head He Stomped On](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chutzpah-award-profitt-kentucky-stomper-wants-apology-from-woman-whose-head-he-stomped-on/558532)
**Author:** [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Replies:** 106\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chutzpah-award-profitt-kentucky-stomper-wants-apology-from-woman-whose-head-he-stomped-on/558532 "2010-10-29T22:15:45Z")
I can’t believe it either. At least with Ginny Thomas, there’s still some room, however minuscule, to believe Anita Hill was making the whole thing up. But this guy knows that he saw Lauren Valle being held down on th… --- ## [RO: Mom kills baby for interrupting Farmville.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746 "2010-10-29T18:14:44Z")
Story found here. That’s pretty fucked up, to say the least. I’m not much of a recreational outrage-type person, but this one disgusted even me. --- ## [Juan Williams Fired from NPR](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/juan-williams-fired-from-npr/557992)
**Author:** [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Replies:** 112\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/juan-williams-fired-from-npr/557992 "2010-10-29T16:37:34Z")
Related story on HuffPo here Started in the Pit because I assume this could end up in the Pit. I think NPR had every right to do what they did - terminate an employee for their reasons - regardless of whether or not I … --- ## [Busting that chestnut: "Candidate X votes along party lines"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/busting-that-chestnut-candidate-x-votes-along-party-lines/558734)
**Author:** [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/busting-that-chestnut-candidate-x-votes-along-party-lines/558734 "2010-10-29T15:27:50Z")
It never fails. In any political discussion, some jerkwad will criticize that Candidate X always votes along party lines, like it’s something bad. Who in Washington doesn’t? Who has really distinguished themselves for b… --- ## [I hope you drop the soap in the shower, you fucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-you-drop-the-soap-in-the-shower-you-fucker/558038)
**Author:** [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-you-drop-the-soap-in-the-shower-you-fucker/558038 "2010-10-29T01:35:11Z")
Yes, you. Saeed, wasn’t it? (Not that it would have made it any better or worse whether it was Kevin or Winston or any other ethnic forename you like.) There I am, in a hospital ward for the first time in my life, feelin… --- ## [Facebook just caused me to delete pending "friend" request!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-just-caused-me-to-delete-pending-friend-request/557949)
**Author:** [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-just-caused-me-to-delete-pending-friend-request/557949 "2010-10-28T06:04:56Z")
I added 1 I knew back, but lost a BUNCH more! Is this Facebook thing or is it because my computer is a PIECE OF CRAP! --- ## [People Suck!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-suck/557954)
**Author:** [@dragongirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragongirl)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-suck/557954 "2010-10-27T20:27:18Z")
They really, really do! I’m super pissed off right now and I want to throw something (but that would disturb the downstairs neighbor), But I really hate certain people right now! --- ## [British Petroleum has not sucked my cock yet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-petroleum-has-not-sucked-my-cock-yet/558288)
**Author:** [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-petroleum-has-not-sucked-my-cock-yet/558288 "2010-10-27T16:07:52Z")
British Petroleum, the only outcome I will find acceptable is your disincorporation. I really don’t care if it causes jobs to be lost, money to be spent, an energy crisis, or heavens forbid, bad feelings between America … --- ## [ACORN "pimp" arrested for illegally accessing Senate office; tampering with phone system](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586)
**Author:** [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Replies:** 667\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586 "2010-10-27T15:41:59Z")
Remember the smarmy little ass biter who dressed up like a pimp and gave those doctored ACORN videos to Fox News? He just got arrested for trying to bust into Senator Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans district office and fuck … --- ## [The Tea Party is not socially conservative my ass](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760)
**Author:** [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Replies:** 1070\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tea-party-is-not-socially-conservative-my-ass/556760 "2010-10-26T20:57:21Z")
You know how I know that these scumfuckers are socially conservative? Because no one - NO ONE - here will be surprised to learn that one of their champions has made some pretty strong anti-gay remarks: The Republican ca… --- ## [Woman throws cat in bin.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-throws-cat-in-bin/551282)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 189\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2010, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-throws-cat-in-bin/551282 "2010-10-26T09:28:06Z")
BBC article and video here. For those on low bandwidth: a middle-aged woman is recorded by CCTV petting a cat, while surreptitiously looking at a wheelie bin. After a short time she grabs the cat by its scruff and dumps… --- ## [This is one reason I try and buy from Sinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-one-reason-i-try-and-buy-from-sinclair/557650)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [October 25, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-one-reason-i-try-and-buy-from-sinclair/557650 "2010-10-25T18:56:10Z")
\[ \](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/10/18/2010-10-18\_uae\_high\_court\_rules\_men\_can\_beat\_wives\_young\_children\_if\_there\_are\_no\_visible\_m.html) What’s fucked up is that I already know that many of the people on… --- ## [My ears are making me blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ears-are-making-me-blue/557767)
**Author:** [@Bibliovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliovore)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [October 25, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ears-are-making-me-blue/557767 "2010-10-25T03:06:42Z")
I’m hard of hearing and wear hearing-aids. My hearing loss is such that I can’t hear high-frequencies, so conversations are reduced to a mushy, mumbly mess unless people’s voices are directed right at me and I can see th… --- ## [Richmond Times-Dispatch, for shame](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richmond-times-dispatch-for-shame/557834)
**Author:** [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richmond-times-dispatch-for-shame/557834 "2010-10-24T23:57:34Z")
I will not post the article because it contains a link to a god-awful database. Want to know what your next-door-neighbor, the one who works for a state agency, makes? Just put in his name and it’s served to you on a p… --- ## [Assault with a deadly bubble](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362)
**Author:** [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2010, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assault-with-a-deadly-bubble/557362 "2010-10-24T07:31:11Z")
In this now well known encounter, Constable A. Josephs, aka “Officer Bubbles”, acts like a sociopathic prick when talking to a G20 Summit protester in Toronto in late June\*. Unlike the policewoman beside him who takes th… --- ## [You dumbasses ever heard of "historical re-enactment" or what?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dumbasses-ever-heard-of-historical-re-enactment-or-what/556845)
**Author:** [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Replies:** 194\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dumbasses-ever-heard-of-historical-re-enactment-or-what/556845 "2010-10-23T23:34:35Z")
A GOP politician from Ohio dresses up like a Nazi: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130492673 Quite a few people get pissed. Not me, though. Yes, yours truly, this Jewish race-mixer, is not up in ar… --- ## [My Answer To Second Stone's Reply To My Alleged Pit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715)
**Author:** [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Replies:** 185\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2010, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-answer-to-second-stones-reply-to-my-alleged-pit/556715 "2010-10-22T06:40:52Z")
Now appearing here adhay question - About This Message Board - Straight Dope Message Board Whatever? Let me remind you of your supporting posts in my Lenin/Imperialism OP. One of several. Well, I’m not polemicizin… --- ## [Biggest tax cut in history is invisible/ignored](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-tax-cut-in-history-is-invisible-ignored/557766)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-tax-cut-in-history-is-invisible-ignored/557766 "2010-10-22T04:26:25Z")
From The New York Times, we read: So voters are going to reject Demos because they raised taxes. … Even though they actually lowered taxes. Wonderful! I thought this was an interesting item, but wasn’t sure which fo… --- ## [US Bank, oh you little fuckers are at it again.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-bank-oh-you-little-fuckers-are-at-it-again/557252)
**Author:** [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-bank-oh-you-little-fuckers-are-at-it-again/557252 "2010-10-22T01:08:37Z")
Leave it to the big banks to find a way to slowly pick money out of your pocket again. I guess with the government putting the hammer down on overdraft charges your solution was to just change the name? So even though … --- ## [Anderson Cooper Defends Tea Party against NAACP Report of TP Bigotry, Slams Head of NAACP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anderson-cooper-defends-tea-party-against-naacp-report-of-tp-bigotry-slams-head-of-naacp/557855)
**Author:** [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anderson-cooper-defends-tea-party-against-naacp-report-of-tp-bigotry-slams-head-of-naacp/557855 "2010-10-21T21:40:13Z")
I just saw this on 360. Mountain time. Maybe someone can post the transcript. Strange days indeed. Yes, it needs to be in the Pit. BTW, this was Cooper interviewiing head dude of NAACP [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=265) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=267)