# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=39 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 40 --- ## [The Repeal of Obamacare/ACA: Step-bystep, Inch-by-inch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 1649\ **Last updated:** [July 15, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repeal-of-obamacare-aca-step-bystep-inch-by-inch/776146 "2021-07-15T13:27:56Z")
Please join me in following the Republicans as they tap dance, shuffle, and obfuscate in the process of dismantling the highly popular\* (yes, it is) and highly successful\* (yes, it is) Affordable Care Act over the next f… --- ## [A Thread for the Mueller Investigation Results and Outcomes (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 12237\ **Last updated:** [July 15, 2021, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093 "2021-07-15T10:22:00Z")
In the \*Atlantic \*online today (not news to anyone here): Robert Mueller’s First Charges I’m proposing that we locate most of the Mueller discussion here instead of posting simultaneous, ninja’d comments in the severa… --- ## [Fuck Stephen A. Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-stephen-a-smith/946337)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-stephen-a-smith/946337 "2021-07-14T19:25:12Z")
So this just happened: TL, DR: if you’re a baseball fan, then you know that Japanese pitcher/slugger Shohei Ohtani is one of the most amazing MLB players to come along in a while. His English is slightly better than m… --- ## [To those setting off fireworks: Fuck you, you fucking FUCKS!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-those-setting-off-fireworks-fuck-you-you-fucking-fucks/945693)
**Author:** [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Replies:** 182\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-those-setting-off-fireworks-fuck-you-you-fucking-fucks/945693 "2021-07-13T22:29:14Z")
You are scaring my dogs! They are terrified. We have been drugging them for 2 days. Yes, there will be a fireworks display tonight. A bunch of them. I have accepted this. But all you fucks setting off what sound like M8… --- ## [I pit triple A](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-triple-a/946198)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-triple-a/946198 "2021-07-13T18:04:41Z")
Driving to a friend’s house this evening, quite suddenly, the pressure went out of my brakes. I was not in a place where i could safely pull over, so i carefully drive to their house, with my other hand on the parking br… --- ## [Talking About Mental Health](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-about-mental-health/946178)
**Author:** [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-about-mental-health/946178 "2021-07-13T17:11:39Z")
Not too long ago, a poster found a mention I had made about wanting a counselor and decided to cite my mental health a derogatory slam. At the time, I found it in poor taste but completely in character for that poster. I… --- ## [The crap that is on my local news](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crap-that-is-on-my-local-news/946032)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crap-that-is-on-my-local-news/946032 "2021-07-13T15:34:39Z")
For a taste for what is like to live in the Bible Belt, a credulous story where a kid finds a piece of junk in another piece of junk, and everyone involved believes it is the Will of God and their mission to track down t… --- ## [Are the men and women of the US armed forces simply cowards or is it something else?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-men-and-women-of-the-us-armed-forces-simply-cowards-or-is-it-something-else/946185)
**Author:** [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [July 12, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-men-and-women-of-the-us-armed-forces-simply-cowards-or-is-it-something-else/946185 "2021-07-12T16:27:12Z")
The rapid departure of the US military ahead of the Taliban’s resurgence over the last 2-3 months has me convinced that they are cowards. I understand fear of being killed, I was in the military myself. With that said I … --- ## [Dumbest product ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [July 12, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533 "2021-07-12T13:22:30Z")
I saw this ad online and I kept thinking ‘this has got to be a parody, right?’ But it appears they’re serious. Today’s world is literally FILLED with radiation… but this device “blocks” it instantly. We’re getting ov… --- ## [Mr. ENT-MD, sorry I made your life so difficult](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-ent-md-sorry-i-made-your-life-so-difficult/946207)
**Author:** [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [July 12, 2021, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-ent-md-sorry-i-made-your-life-so-difficult/946207 "2021-07-12T03:04:56Z")
OK, so you were trying to clear up my ear infection with some sort of vacuum device, sucking up all the pus and other shit swimming around inside my ear, which was sensitive as shit from all the irritation, and the vacu… --- ## [Naomi Osaka will bless us with her presence at the Olympics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naomi-osaka-will-bless-us-with-her-presence-at-the-olympics/946003)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naomi-osaka-will-bless-us-with-her-presence-at-the-olympics/946003 "2021-07-10T19:57:36Z")
Our ‘mental health hero’ Naomi Osaka will play in the Olympics. I deplored her French Open temper tantrum. She elected not to play Wimbledon as well, perhaps that’s still being in a snit or perhaps it was picking the hom… --- ## [Privileged sociopath Elizabeth Holmes is pregnant, delaying her trial? WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/privileged-sociopath-elizabeth-holmes-is-pregnant-delaying-her-trial-wtf/937808)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 135\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2021, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/privileged-sociopath-elizabeth-holmes-is-pregnant-delaying-her-trial-wtf/937808 "2021-07-10T05:08:33Z")
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is pregnant, likely delaying her fraud trial. I’m putting this in the Pit because I really don’t know what to make of this, and if you want to excoriate me on feminist grounds of some s… --- ## [They're letting Bill Cosby out of prison](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-letting-bill-cosby-out-of-prison/945343)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-letting-bill-cosby-out-of-prison/945343 "2021-07-06T23:47:30Z")
the guy has at least fifty known victims and served two years. --- ## [Pickett's Charge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picketts-charge/945626)
**Author:** [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picketts-charge/945626 "2021-07-05T15:57:02Z")
158 years ago today the largest artillery barrage in North American history began as a prelude to the stupidest military maneuver ever seen on these shores. I’d just like to take a moment on this anniversary to say FUCK… --- ## [Lamest mod warnings - a running thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-mod-warnings-a-running-thread/945678)
**Author:** [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-mod-warnings-a-running-thread/945678 "2021-07-04T23:32:06Z")
Perhaps this will only entertain me, but what the hell. This thread is intended to be used to collect the most pearl-clutching and capricious mod warnings across the Dope. Pretty sure this fits within the rules of the Pi… --- ## [I pit drive-throughs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drive-throughs/945345)
**Author:** [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drive-throughs/945345 "2021-07-04T12:57:07Z")
There are (at least) three reasons restaurant drive-throughs suck: They take longer. I just picked up lunch at a local fast food place. There was a black Explorer third in line at the drive-through. I walked in, place… --- ## [You can't ask for help on the SDMB](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-ask-for-help-on-the-sdmb/945539)
**Author:** [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2021, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-ask-for-help-on-the-sdmb/945539 "2021-07-02T23:55:45Z")
I asked for tutoring help in GQ, stated the thread could be moved, said that the tutoring would happen off site, and Chronos closed the thread because he doesn’t like what I’m asking for. No one asked you to participate… --- ## [Just had to call 911 on my idiot neighbour](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-had-to-call-911-on-my-idiot-neighbour/945479)
**Author:** [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-had-to-call-911-on-my-idiot-neighbour/945479 "2021-07-02T21:24:47Z")
Here on the west coast (I am in BC) we have a total fire ban because of the tinder dry conditions. The town of Lytton was just completely destroyed in a matter of minutes because of a human caused fire. So I’m dozing of… --- ## [Hey June, don't make it bad (but you will) \[Mini-Rant\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-june-dont-make-it-bad-but-you-will-mini-rant/943383)
**Author:** [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Replies:** 465\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2021, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-june-dont-make-it-bad-but-you-will-mini-rant/943383 "2021-07-01T13:05:23Z")
Continuing the discussion from MAY we have a new Mini-Rant thread?: This was requested so I deliver, a new mini-rant thread for June 2021. I don’t really have much to gripe about except it’s my birthday this month and … --- ## [Bill Cosby: Rapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-rapo/289339)
**Author:** [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Replies:** 112\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-rapo/289339 "2021-06-30T22:16:47Z")
Has anyone seen any of this stuff? Woman accuses Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her. Cosby says encounter was consensual Woman has tapes of phone conversations Fox News is reporting that on the tapes,… --- ## [Mild Rant: I Don't Want To Be Your Business Partner](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-rant-i-dont-want-to-be-your-business-partner/943977)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-rant-i-dont-want-to-be-your-business-partner/943977 "2021-06-30T19:10:32Z")
Last year, coinciding with The Big Pandewski, both my second-best friend and I happened to lose our jobs (completely different jobs.) I searched for a new job for awhile, but decided to get into consulting, and that’s … --- ## [Fuck you, Chinese Communist Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chinese-communist-party/325852)
**Author:** [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chinese-communist-party/325852 "2005-10-15T15:42:53Z")
Dear Hu Jintao and other associated fuckwits, I’m sick and tired of your goddamn national firewall. You block anything that says things you don’t want to hear, like a fucking child covering his ears yelling “LALALALALAL… --- ## [Amazon’s new price of doing business—the right to buy ownership stakes in vendors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-s-new-price-of-doing-business-the-right-to-buy-ownership-stakes-in-vendors/945282)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-s-new-price-of-doing-business-the-right-to-buy-ownership-stakes-in-vendors/945282 "2021-06-29T21:47:32Z")
The e-commerce giant started including warrants—rights to buy stock in the future at a set price—in vendor contracts a decade ago. But in recent years, Amazon has been making the unusual request more frequently, accordi… --- ## [How is genocide defined, with an emphasis on cultural genocide?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-genocide-defined-with-an-emphasis-on-cultural-genocide/944198)
**Author:** [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Replies:** 322\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-genocide-defined-with-an-emphasis-on-cultural-genocide/944198 "2021-06-29T13:37:42Z")
I created this in the Pit because genocide denial is a hot button issue. In a thread in ATMB, DrDeth posts that in another thread, there was no genocide denial because there was no genocide. What Exit?, in a Pit thre… --- ## [Having to go back to the office is not employer abuse, and certain entitled people should stop whining as such](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-to-go-back-to-the-office-is-not-employer-abuse-and-certain-entitled-people-should-stop-whining-as-such/943810)
**Author:** [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Replies:** 139\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-to-go-back-to-the-office-is-not-employer-abuse-and-certain-entitled-people-should-stop-whining-as-such/943810 "2021-06-28T20:31:59Z")
I do not know what the general sentiment is here. In real life, with friends and family, I’ve found that most people are pretty reasonable about this topic, but my rant here is more in response to the sentiments I’ve be… --- ## [I pit the disingenuous Back the Blue and flag waving veteran supporters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-disingenuous-back-the-blue-and-flag-waving-veteran-supporters/945150)
**Author:** [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-disingenuous-back-the-blue-and-flag-waving-veteran-supporters/945150 "2021-06-28T14:34:49Z")
Our town and region (South Shore suburbs of Boston) are full of Back the Blue and Kneeling for the National Anthem is a Slap in the Face of Veterans jingoists. But when a white supremacist shoots a black retired State… --- ## [I Pit oldoaktree](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587)
**Author:** [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2021, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-oldoaktree/944587 "2021-06-27T00:34:53Z")
Continuing the discussion from I pit Myself, Oldoaktree: It’s not that easy to escape a pitting. You opened a P&E topic by addressing your "poor delusional liberal friends", i.e. the people who had the misfortune of… --- ## [RitterSport pitted to showcase linking](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rittersport-pitted-to-showcase-linking/915333)
**Author:** [@DeadTreasSecretaries](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadTreasSecretaries)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [June 24, 2021, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rittersport-pitted-to-showcase-linking/915333 "2021-06-24T10:31:40Z")
Sorry, I couldn’t resist (I do agree with you btw). --- ## [I Pit Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fenris/160703)
**Author:** [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fenris/160703 "2021-06-21T03:28:09Z")
Link Fenris … You know that we agree on a lot of things. Things of importance. Things of merit. We respect each other’s opinions. But goddamn it son, have you fucking lost your mind!! Bedknobs and Broomsticks is bette… --- ## [On the subject of attacking an armed man and getting shot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-subject-of-attacking-an-armed-man-and-getting-shot/853460)
**Author:** [@yarblek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yarblek)\ **Replies:** 266\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-subject-of-attacking-an-armed-man-and-getting-shot/853460 "2021-06-19T14:13:44Z")
A man was shot when he attacked another man with a gun. How responsible should the man who shot him be, legally, ethically, morally? We can all probably agree that attacking a person with a gun is not a good idea most o… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=40)