# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=268 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 269 --- ## [Are you fucking kidding me Chevy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-fucking-kidding-me-chevy/556313)
**Author:** [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-fucking-kidding-me-chevy/556313 "2010-10-08T22:17:19Z")
Driving home from work this afternoon I glance down at my radio to change the station and when I looked back up and there is a bumper in the fucking road. I try to swerve to avoid it but it was too late. I ran over it an… --- ## [BrEkers, Tell Me All About G\*.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308)
**Author:** [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brekers-tell-me-all-about-g/556308 "2010-10-08T19:17:20Z")
A Letter My Son, A Basic Fundie. \[dad\] Dear \*, All souls are in AND of God and always have been. Eternity has neither beginning nor end nor time and space. Each soul is a thinking Thought of God, His image in microc… --- ## [The most disgusting CNN comment ever \[RO\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-cnn-comment-ever-ro/556269)
**Author:** [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disgusting-cnn-comment-ever-ro/556269 "2010-10-08T16:58:38Z")
So a child abduction case ended relatively happily when a complete stranger notices the vehicle in question and successfully brings it to a halt, whereupon the abductor released the child and unsuccessfully tried to get … --- ## [Hey guys, since we're so sure we're right, why don't we violently slaughter our enemies?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-since-were-so-sure-were-right-why-dont-we-violently-slaughter-our-enemies/555780)
**Author:** [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Replies:** 100\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-since-were-so-sure-were-right-why-dont-we-violently-slaughter-our-enemies/555780 "2010-10-07T19:33:04Z")
So reasons this motley crew of hip climate change activists, who produced a video in which skeptics are violently blown up, to cheerful music. They were mildly surprised that anyone would object to a video in which 10 y… --- ## [Fuck you Pakistan.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pakistan/555285)
**Author:** [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pakistan/555285 "2010-10-07T19:16:32Z")
You’re all up in arms because the NATO forces followed some scumbags and killed them, it’s just so happens the scumbags were followed from Afghanistan and in to Pakistan. If maybe you showed some interest in keeping you… --- ## [What was the Crown Attorney ('District Attorney') thinking?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-crown-attorney-district-attorney-thinking/555746)
**Author:** [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-crown-attorney-district-attorney-thinking/555746 "2010-10-07T02:47:41Z")
This article gives the outcome and basic facts of a criminal trial that had being going on for the last couple of weeks in the Canadian province of Newfoundland. Thank gawd it ended the way it did - with acquittal of the… --- ## [In which TSS Pits prosecutors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-tss-pits-prosecutors/556088)
**Author:** [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-tss-pits-prosecutors/556088 "2010-10-06T21:51:35Z")
and in particular State Bar Prosecutors. Less than 1 percent of prosecutors who commit misconduct in California are prosecuted. Duh. When the rate of prosecution is so low the incentive to avoid committing misconduct … --- ## [Cell phones are a plague upon peaceful fall evenings](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phones-are-a-plague-upon-peaceful-fall-evenings/555672)
**Author:** [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phones-are-a-plague-upon-peaceful-fall-evenings/555672 "2010-10-06T16:30:08Z")
The personal information that you offered during your hour long phone call from your balcony yesterday evening will no doubt come in handy to all your neighbors within 200 yards who were hoping to enjoy a beautiful fall … --- ## ["No Pressure"? How about no clue!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pressure-how-about-no-clue/556260)
**Author:** [@lalenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalenin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-pressure-how-about-no-clue/556260 "2010-10-06T16:28:09Z")
There is this group called 10:10, and they had a neat premise, to run a series of campaigns asking for a 10% reduction in carbon emissions by 2010, 10:10, get it? Not bad, seems like a worthy goal. But then just this m… --- ## [Visit from His Holiness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visit-from-his-holiness/556117)
**Author:** [@Leaking\_Boot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaking_Boot)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visit-from-his-holiness/556117 "2010-10-06T15:13:36Z")
Although not religious in any way, I suppose I’m very tolerant of others’ beliefs. Live & let live. But should I have to pay for them? Here in the UK we are going through financial turmoil. The new government has dec… --- ## [Secretly recording the gay roomate.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secretly-recording-the-gay-roomate/555561)
**Author:** [@Kilmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilmore)\ **Replies:** 179\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secretly-recording-the-gay-roomate/555561 "2010-10-06T06:00:24Z")
A dude’s college room mate set up a video camera with a remote feed to another room so he could secretly record him having sex with another male student and send the video all over the internet. I’m sure he thought it w… --- ## [Dear beowulff: re your remarks in the Life Insurance thread in GQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-beowulff-re-your-remarks-in-the-life-insurance-thread-in-gq/555643)
**Author:** [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Replies:** 137\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-beowulff-re-your-remarks-in-the-life-insurance-thread-in-gq/555643 "2010-10-05T21:10:30Z")
beowulff, The level of denseness you are displayingin this thread – and in particular posts 33, 35, & 38–is simply unbelievable. I no longer believe you are simply being disingenuous for the sake of argument. You are t… --- ## [Mainstream music makes the baby Jesus cry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393)
**Author:** [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Replies:** 107\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-music-makes-the-baby-jesus-cry/555393 "2010-10-05T14:31:15Z")
I know you are all waiting with bated breath for my rant-o-the-day. I need to pit something daily right now. Its my self prescribed mental therapy which helps me to handle the radiation therapy for my brain tumor. Onc… --- ## [Santa delivers a present to the "fake pimp" O'keefe.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santa-delivers-a-present-to-the-fake-pimp-okeefe/555488)
**Author:** [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santa-delivers-a-present-to-the-fake-pimp-okeefe/555488 "2010-10-05T13:42:55Z")
Well, not the Santa, but O’keefe just found a being that he also could had thought that it never existed: A conservative with ethics in his own media organization: That ethical behavior deserves commendations, No? U… --- ## [B&H Megastore --- what the fuck kind of way to run a store is this??](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-h-megastore-what-the-fuck-kind-of-way-to-run-a-store-is-this/554013)
**Author:** [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Replies:** 117\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2010, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-h-megastore-what-the-fuck-kind-of-way-to-run-a-store-is-this/554013 "2010-10-05T06:17:00Z")
Today for the first (and LAST!) time, I went to B&H Megastore, a giant electronics store near NY Penn which I’ve walked by many times, but never entered. I saw on their website that they had dual layer blu-ray blanks for… --- ## [Local idiot reports assault on Facebook, but not to police](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-idiot-reports-assault-on-facebook-but-not-to-police/555567)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-idiot-reports-assault-on-facebook-but-not-to-police/555567 "2010-10-05T04:05:21Z")
Story here. A student at UW Whitewater, wearing a T-shirt with the message “Legalize Gay” was punched in the face Sunday night by assailants who also screamed some unspecified anti-gay slurs. She didn’t report the assa… --- ## [In which I say a nice thing about a Republican](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-say-a-nice-thing-about-a-republican/555692)
**Author:** [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-say-a-nice-thing-about-a-republican/555692 "2010-10-03T22:47:47Z")
(Putting this in the pit even with no pitting because it’s not a great debate, and political threads always end up here). So on my way home from work this evening I turned on NPR and heard the very beginning of the Cali… --- ## [McDonald's to Hourly Workers; Drop Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-to-hourly-workers-drop-dead/555602)
**Author:** [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Replies:** 118\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-to-hourly-workers-drop-dead/555602 "2010-10-03T14:28:25Z")
McDonald’s says its health care provider (Aetna) cannot meet the new federal requirement that the insurance company spent 80% of its income on actual health care. Linky to the Wall Street Journal Article German insuranc… --- ## [Check your own lottery tickets - convenience store owners steal $12.5 million](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-your-own-lottery-tickets-convenience-store-owners-steal-12-5-million/555576)
**Author:** [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-your-own-lottery-tickets-convenience-store-owners-steal-12-5-million/555576 "2010-10-02T16:45:34Z")
A family that owns a convenience store stole a free ticket from a lottery player, and the ticket they stole turned out to be a $12.5 million winner, which this family claimed as their own. The family that stole the ticke… --- ## [The kinda bullshit we deal with, or love your computer tech.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kinda-bullshit-we-deal-with-or-love-your-computer-tech/553017)
**Author:** [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kinda-bullshit-we-deal-with-or-love-your-computer-tech/553017 "2010-10-01T21:58:57Z")
The setting, Central West Fresno, CA 7:03 PM Thursday, September 2, 2010 Technician: Drachillix arrives on scene. Customer has a laptop with a non-functional, most likely pirated Windows Vista install (key only prese… --- ## [Because thinking about how much you hate your coworkers on the weekend is productive.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-thinking-about-how-much-you-hate-your-coworkers-on-the-weekend-is-productive/554340)
**Author:** [@Fish\_Nya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Nya)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-thinking-about-how-much-you-hate-your-coworkers-on-the-weekend-is-productive/554340 "2010-10-01T21:01:01Z")
Background: I work at a YMCA nursery. We watch 6 month- 5 year olds for up to two hours while the parents work out. As we are not a full daycare or preschool, we don’t have to stress about lesson plans or teaching the ki… --- ## [Fuck you tow company and police](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tow-company-and-police/555432)
**Author:** [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tow-company-and-police/555432 "2010-10-01T16:37:13Z")
I was in an accident last week. Nobody was hurt, both cars were drivable but towed. They both look shitty, but it was cosmetic damage. The cop told me I needed mine towed because of the airbags. Today I went to get my c… --- ## [Biggest asshole in Congress](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-asshole-in-congress/500377)
**Author:** [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Replies:** 129\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-asshole-in-congress/500377 "2010-10-01T14:48:29Z")
So what congresscritter do you think is most worthy of the title Richard Cranium? My vote goes to Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe. Check out this story: He’s refusing to meet with Sonia Sotomayer, saying he’s already deci… --- ## [Tea Baggers everywhere....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256)
**Author:** [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Replies:** 89\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256 "2010-10-01T14:13:16Z")
I’m a member of a forum group called UER. We are all about urban exploration. Cool site, and usually good people. Imagine my frustration when I logged into their chat room only to discover Tea Party Truthers. can the… --- ## [In which Saxby Chambliss learns what an IP address is (not nearly the pitting it deserves)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-saxby-chambliss-learns-what-an-ip-address-is-not-nearly-the-pitting-it-deserves/554696)
**Author:** [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-saxby-chambliss-learns-what-an-ip-address-is-not-nearly-the-pitting-it-deserves/554696 "2010-10-01T03:58:48Z")
Unfortunately I don’t have the time to do justice to this, but since I didn’t see a thread already on the topic I’ll put it here. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) is the class act who when he was running for his seat open… --- ## [Shut your fucking dog up!!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-your-fucking-dog-up/332967)
**Author:** [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-your-fucking-dog-up/332967 "2010-09-30T22:46:38Z")
Oh Lord, deliver me from this fucking puppy. It seems my neighbors have recently acquired a new puppy over Thanksgiving. One that does not know how to SHUT THE FUCK UP. Imagine the sound a puppy makes of it were to get … --- ## [The stupidhate - it burns! MI Asst Atty Gen's Gay Derangement Syndrome \[\[duplicate thread\]\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidhate-it-burns-mi-asst-atty-gens-gay-derangement-syndrome-duplicate-thread/555587)
**Author:** [@ambushed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ambushed)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2010, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidhate-it-burns-mi-asst-atty-gens-gay-derangement-syndrome-duplicate-thread/555587 "2010-09-30T11:05:57Z")
I’m too gobsmacked to do anything but report the basic facts: Michigan assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvel is so batshit deranged about gays that he spends his off time focusing all his likely lust-fueled HATE on j… --- ## [Another Craigslist Idiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-craigslist-idiot/554933)
**Author:** [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-craigslist-idiot/554933 "2010-09-29T15:46:19Z")
Is there a male equivalence to PMS? If so, I have it today. With a vengeance. With a hot branding iron in one hand and a chainsaw in the other. My apologies for the long rant here. It is not, after all, that importa… --- ## [Stop murdering babies, you anti-vax morons!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-murdering-babies-you-anti-vax-morons/544312)
**Author:** [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Replies:** 152\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-murdering-babies-you-anti-vax-morons/544312 "2010-09-29T14:11:28Z")
Vaccinate your babies, people. Whooping cough breaks ribs ribs. Whooping cough leads to pneumonia, brain damage and death in little tiny babies. Fuck. --- ## [I just got off the phone with Comcast, and I'm disgruntled](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-off-the-phone-with-comcast-and-im-disgruntled/554324)
**Author:** [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-off-the-phone-with-comcast-and-im-disgruntled/554324 "2010-09-29T13:53:23Z")
Got on the phone at 4:05, got to a person at about 4:10. Hung up with the person just now, at 4:18. Comcast is the only good option for broadband in my new apartment. I’ve heard they’ve got awful customer service, but c… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=267) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=269)