# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=27 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 28 --- ## [Happy New Rant Year!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rant-year/977461)
**Author:** [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Replies:** 282\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2023, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rant-year/977461 "2023-02-04T00:13:25Z")
I don’t actually have much of a rant, other than I can’t think why I thought I liked painting walls in the house - Ugh, SUCH a pain. May this thread be very little used in this new year :heart\_decoration: --- ## [DeSantis declares war on a progressive college](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desantis-declares-war-on-a-progressive-college/979135)
**Author:** [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2023, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desantis-declares-war-on-a-progressive-college/979135 "2023-02-03T03:40:12Z")
Ron DeSantas has decided that the small, progressive, state college in Florida needs to be taken over by bigots. I caught this on MSNBC. A small college in Florida called New College whose whole identity is basically acc… --- ## [What makes someone like Megyn Kelly so nasty? I just don't understand the need for this sort of thing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-someone-like-megyn-kelly-so-nasty-i-just-dont-understand-the-need-for-this-sort-of-thing/979008)
**Author:** [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-someone-like-megyn-kelly-so-nasty-i-just-dont-understand-the-need-for-this-sort-of-thing/979008 "2023-02-02T23:27:17Z")
Here’s her tweet: I truly just don’t get it. Of course she’s being raked over the coals, but I’m sure she must have known she would be. Is it a need for attention, even if it’s bad? I think she comes across as ugly… --- ## [It wasn’t a coup](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-wasn-t-a-coup/930407)
**Author:** [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Replies:** 875\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2023, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-wasn-t-a-coup/930407 "2023-02-02T14:45:19Z")
It just was not. I am very Liberal. I am pissed off at what happened, as everyone in the nation should also be, regardless of party. But this was not an attempt at a takeover of government. It just was not. Hang the… --- ## [Goddamn Facebook scammers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-facebook-scammers/979144)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-facebook-scammers/979144 "2023-02-01T20:38:12Z")
They apparently got an auntie of mine, because “she” sent me a Messenger scam that’s apparently been popular in the last year. I didn’t know about it, so I, like a moron, clicked the link. It showed what appeared to be a… --- ## [Wow this is fu\*\*ed :A Canadian woman with disabilities is pursuing medically assisted death after failing to secure affordable housing Canadian dopers is there more to this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-this-is-fu-ed-a-canadian-woman-with-disabilities-is-pursuing-medically-assisted-death-after-failing-to-secure-affordable-housing-canadian-dopers-is-there-more-to-this/963870)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-this-is-fu-ed-a-canadian-woman-with-disabilities-is-pursuing-medically-assisted-death-after-failing-to-secure-affordable-housing-canadian-dopers-is-there-more-to-this/963870 "2023-01-28T23:05:08Z")
Now I’ve always thought that the Canadian government did more for its citizens but I don’t think the right to die law was meant for this s the housing situation that fucked for someone like her? Or is there more not bei… --- ## [I have a hypothesis about COVID that everybody hates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-hypothesis-about-covid-that-everybody-hates/952914)
**Author:** [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [January 27, 2023, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-hypothesis-about-covid-that-everybody-hates/952914 "2023-01-27T08:30:05Z")
This is a hypothesis that I have never seen put forward. An idea that just seems beyond peoples understanding. It has to deal with the origin of COVID19. In Februarry of 2020, before I even knew what COVID was, I got … --- ## [BBC Documentary Censored (A Thread for am77494)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-documentary-censored-a-thread-for-am77494/978830)
**Author:** [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 27, 2023, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-documentary-censored-a-thread-for-am77494/978830 "2023-01-27T06:12:43Z")
Here you go @am77494 . You can come and rant here all you like since apparently you never discovered the “New Topic” button. Oh wait, I forgot. You’re stupid, so I need to set up your rant. Regardless of what you thi… --- ## [Wikipedia's Mobile version](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-mobile-version/944509)
**Author:** [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [January 27, 2023, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedias-mobile-version/944509 "2023-01-27T00:11:45Z")
Fuck you, Mobile version of Wikipedia! Rot in hell! I am absolutely sick of Wikipedia having an entire separate URL for their mobile versions. It seems as though people on mobile devices are automatically redirected t… --- ## [Canadian Woman Got Drunk at Concert Blew up a Home and caught the neighborhood on fire is Now Suing the venue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-woman-got-drunk-at-concert-blew-up-a-home-and-caught-the-neighborhood-on-fire-is-now-suing-the-venue/978659)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [January 25, 2023, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-woman-got-drunk-at-concert-blew-up-a-home-and-caught-the-neighborhood-on-fire-is-now-suing-the-venue/978659 "2023-01-25T09:24:39Z")
Ok this dumbass wants to make leaving a concert take 4 fucking hours or longer? because she decided to drive home drunk? Now if this was here in Cali they might have a shot because anyone serving booze is supposed t… --- ## [I hate Jacksonville Nazis](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-jacksonville-nazis/978513)
**Author:** [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-jacksonville-nazis/978513 "2023-01-24T20:54:21Z")
Seriously - WTF is going on in Jacksonville and elsewhere in Florida? Someone (or several someones) has been projecting Neo-Nazi messages on the sides of buildings. I mean, this is hardly the only incident invol… --- ## [St. Andrew's Second Epiphany](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-andrews-second-epiphany/978375)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-andrews-second-epiphany/978375 "2023-01-19T19:04:11Z")
That Glorious, Soul-lifting Enlightenment when you realize all bad things in your life… Are Your Fucking Fault. And, as a side Butt-Fuck, all bullshit as a result are your fault as well! I used to be An Asshole. I still… --- ## [Targeted texts wrt religion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/targeted-texts-wrt-religion/973569)
**Author:** [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/targeted-texts-wrt-religion/973569 "2023-01-17T13:03:48Z")
Help? First, a disclaimer; currently medicated (high af). Make of this what you will. Second, if this works better elsewhere, the mods know best. I give blanket authorization for the mods to do with this as they will. … --- ## [I Pit Quay Walker of the Green Bay Packers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-quay-walker-of-the-green-bay-packers/977934)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 132\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2023, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-quay-walker-of-the-green-bay-packers/977934 "2023-01-17T08:49:37Z")
From ESPN: GREEN BAY, Wis. – For the second time this season, Green Bay Packers rookie linebacker Quay Walker has been ejected for unsportsmanlike conduct. Walker was thrown out of Sunday night’s regular-season finale… --- ## [I know you're not supposed to judge how other people spend money, but](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-not-supposed-to-judge-how-other-people-spend-money-but/977861)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-youre-not-supposed-to-judge-how-other-people-spend-money-but/977861 "2023-01-14T17:42:01Z")
sometimes… A family in our town recently had their five year old child die after a long illness, and had a super-elaborate funeral for him. Not just the usual viewing/church service/burial, but all sorts of extras. Th… --- ## [Can anyone stand Joe Scarborough?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-stand-joe-scarborough/977976)
**Author:** [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2023, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-stand-joe-scarborough/977976 "2023-01-14T04:47:54Z")
Putting this is Cafe Society, though mods may disagree, because it’s his on-air personality more than his politics I have an issue with. The guy is so abrasive, so obnoxious, so egocentric, so disagreeable that when I f… --- ## [Pitting AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007 "2023-01-12T21:49:30Z")
I couldn’t find another pit thread for him, so… fuck this guy. He spends the beginning of the Ukraine/Russia thread insisting Russia will sail to an easy victory, poo-pooing Ukraine’s chances to resist. Okay, that’s not … --- ## [Stop using 'Let Alone' Incorrectly](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-using-let-alone-incorrectly/952478)
**Author:** [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2023, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-using-let-alone-incorrectly/952478 "2023-01-12T07:45:24Z")
The phrase ‘let alone’ is frequently used in English to illustrate the outrageousness of a thing. “I went to the Statue of Liberty, but couldn’t walk up the stairs into the pedestal, let alone to the crown.” “The docto… --- ## [January 6 "Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander is back on Twitter](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6-stop-the-steal-organizer-ali-alexander-is-back-on-twitter/978039)
**Author:** [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6-stop-the-steal-organizer-ali-alexander-is-back-on-twitter/978039 "2023-01-11T17:44:36Z")
I am not sure which forum to post this to -I thought here would be best Activist Ali Alexander’s Twitter was supposedly “banned” from Twitter in part for organizing the January 6 “Stop the Steal” rally/riot/coup(?)back … --- ## [I pit...myself](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself/977744)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 175\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself/977744 "2023-01-11T15:52:59Z")
In recent posts regarding Jordan Peterson I attempted to voice concerns about the sanctions one faces when voicing disagreement…and only made myself come across as a transphobe. My sincere apologies to all who were offe… --- ## [Oh poor George (Cardinal Pell)...might have been easier to come home!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-poor-george-cardinal-pell-might-have-been-easier-to-come-home/746315)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 531\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2023, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-poor-george-cardinal-pell-might-have-been-easier-to-come-home/746315 "2023-01-11T09:06:34Z")
Cardinal George Pell, currently residing in the Vatican, has been deemed too unwell to return to Australia to answer questions in a Royal Commission into Clergy Abuse. Whist the sexual abuse of children covers the whol… --- ## [Pitting PKBites](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-pkbites/950075)
**Author:** [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Replies:** 509\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-pkbites/950075 "2023-01-10T16:19:58Z")
Continuing the discussion from Dealing with a kid who is willfully destructive: Okey dokey. You’re discussing the ways you beat your children for no reason. Your old man sucked, and so do you. --- ## [Speak LOUDER, not closer!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-louder-not-closer/976576)
**Author:** [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-louder-not-closer/976576 "2023-01-09T13:24:18Z")
New pet peeve. A bit of background: I have some hearing loss. How much I do not know. I am working on scheduling a hearing test when work settles down enough I’m able to actually request a particular day off (retail … --- ## [Octopus here's your own thread to shit all over](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550)
**Author:** [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Replies:** 1345\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550 "2023-01-07T18:30:37Z")
Octopus is very, very good at his occupation. He trolls relentlessly until the entire thread is about him, then he whines about how mean people are, and won’t someone think of the children. I am fully sympathetic to the… --- ## [Why capitalize "Black"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-capitalize-black/977455)
**Author:** [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Replies:** 339\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2023, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-capitalize-black/977455 "2023-01-06T06:32:12Z")
I posted in the pit because I am probably going to get roasted… but, what’s up with the new trend to capitalize the word “black” when refering to their ethniticy? I’m as lily white as possible, absolutely anglo-saxon. P… --- ## [Rant-a Claus is coming to town! (December mini-rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-a-claus-is-coming-to-town-december-mini-rants/975866)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 364\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-a-claus-is-coming-to-town-december-mini-rants/975866 "2023-01-03T23:55:45Z")
I don’t have anything to rant about (yet) but I noticed there wasn’t a December thread yet and I had an idea for a thread title, so there you go. --- ## [Putin pretends to be Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-pretends-to-be-sauron/977557)
**Author:** [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-pretends-to-be-sauron/977557 "2023-01-03T21:28:35Z")
The story of the rings is well known here, so this will need little further comment: Putin gives away eight rings as gifts to the leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries at an informal summit he… --- ## [I still want to know: has trump aways talked this way?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-still-want-to-know-has-trump-aways-talked-this-way/977132)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2023, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-still-want-to-know-has-trump-aways-talked-this-way/977132 "2023-01-01T14:45:40Z")
I guess I cratered the Jan 6 thread… sorry, @Aspenglow. I wasn’t paying attention. :woozy\_face: But I still want to know: RE the trump video \[he starts around 1:15\]: I’m proud to say that the last time I heard trump’… --- ## [Why so many lies about Trump?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-lies-about-trump/740145)
**Author:** [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Replies:** 185\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2023, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-lies-about-trump/740145 "2023-01-01T02:48:09Z")
Why do so many feel compelled to lie about what Trump says? Sanders said on The Tonight Show about Trump "first he tells us to hate Mexicans, now he’s telling us to hate Muslims. . . " That’s a complete and total lie. … --- ## [Guess what Texas immigration authorities did to Kamala Harris - AGAIN?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 134\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091 "2022-12-29T22:29:26Z")
You guessed it - dumped a busload of migrants on her doorstep. On Christmas Eve night, this time. Just when I think some people can’t sink any lower, well, they do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=28)