# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=45 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 46 --- ## [Omnibus "religious people who think they control the virus" thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 388\ **Last updated:** [December 23, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616 "2020-12-23T11:06:57Z")
There are plenty of them to go around, but the one that finally caused me to start this is Kenneth Copeland, who commands the virus by calling it "doggone." (This thread may also encompass religious people who know why … --- ## [Swalwel and the CCP who loved me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swalwel-and-the-ccp-who-loved-me/928222)
**Author:** [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 17, 2020, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swalwel-and-the-ccp-who-loved-me/928222 "2020-12-17T04:26:42Z")
I’m putting this here because all the crickets and shut down elsewhere. This should be a investigation . If it ok then ok. But it’s a concern with all the other CCP interference. Eric Swalwell under fire for connection t… --- ## [Butt-Hurt Trump Takes to Twitter Again (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428)
**Author:** [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Replies:** 9997\ **Last updated:** [December 15, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428 "2020-12-15T20:43:15Z")
Story here and here. Pence attended a showing of Hamilton last night, where he was roundly booed by the audience and rightly lectured by the cast. Then Trump tweeted to demand an apology from the cast. We need an omnib… --- ## [I pit fake crowd noise at athletic events](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fake-crowd-noise-at-athletic-events/927706)
**Author:** [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fake-crowd-noise-at-athletic-events/927706 "2020-12-13T21:59:44Z")
This might belong more in MPSIMS, but I thought it would certainly be OK here. Fake crowd noise just about makes games unwatchable for me. I’ve been muting the sound and turning on closed captioning to follow games. I… --- ## [How does Milo Yiannopoulos exist, exactly?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 680\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298 "2020-12-13T19:10:14Z")
No, really. How does this person exist? How has he managed to make it to 30-odd years of life? If I hated an immutable part of my identity that much, I would have killed myself years ago. And yet, here we are, in 2016, s… --- ## [We interrupt this austerity to bring you $731 billion for the defense budget. Now back to regularly scheduled austerity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-interrupt-this-austerity-to-bring-you-731-billion-for-the-defense-budget-now-back-to-regularly-scheduled-austerity/927710)
**Author:** [@DeadTreasSecretaries](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadTreasSecretaries)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-interrupt-this-austerity-to-bring-you-731-billion-for-the-defense-budget-now-back-to-regularly-scheduled-austerity/927710 "2020-12-12T15:31:41Z")
Remember this bullshit the next time someone decides to put the words “national” and “security” in the same sentence to describe the grift that is our defense budget. Covid death rates are at record highs, scores of p… --- ## [The head of the NYPD's workplace discrimination office busted and outed as writer for racist cop blog](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-head-of-the-nypds-workplace-discrimination-office-busted-and-outed-as-writer-for-racist-cop-blog/927685)
**Author:** [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-head-of-the-nypds-workplace-discrimination-office-busted-and-outed-as-writer-for-racist-cop-blog/927685 "2020-12-11T14:44:43Z")
So, just a typical cop, huh? In messages posted on the website, “Clouseau” referred to Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark as a “gap-tooth wildebeest,” ridiculed Public Advocate Jumaane Williams for having Tourette’s s… --- ## [Dick head stepdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-head-stepdad/927588)
**Author:** [@meep1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meep1)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2020, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-head-stepdad/927588 "2020-12-09T06:36:01Z")
so tell me why are you so rude. i fucking hate you. why did you bamboozle my mother into marring you? you are as shity as the worst shit somebody has taken. so why stepdad? why the fuck do you come and ruin my day? why? --- ## [A message to you, Rudy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-message-to-you-rudy/926001)
**Author:** [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-message-to-you-rudy/926001 "2020-12-08T00:24:00Z")
Stop your messing around Better think of your future Time you straighten right out Creating problems in town… --- ## [Scott O'Grady, former war hero and now conspiracy theory proponent](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-ogrady-former-war-hero-and-now-conspiracy-theory-proponent/927270)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-ogrady-former-war-hero-and-now-conspiracy-theory-proponent/927270 "2020-12-07T15:04:14Z")
Yeah. That Scott O’Grady, who was shot down over Bosnia in the mid 1990s and survived by eating insects and drinking from puddles, is now a full-fledged conspiracy theorist in the Trump Administration, and it doesn’t he… --- ## [SDMB Bigoted Asshole Omnibus Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489)
**Author:** [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Replies:** 3685\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2020, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489 "2020-12-07T12:05:30Z")
We get it. You’re racist. More garbage here. I’m not going to debate with you. I’m just going to kindly ask you (and by you, I mean all you racist fuckers) to stop wasting space on my message board. Your opinion… --- ## [A letter to lswote, self-absorbed turd](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-letter-to-lswote-self-absorbed-turd/19523)
**Author:** [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-letter-to-lswote-self-absorbed-turd/19523 "2020-12-04T02:10:59Z")
lswote: Over the past few days you have made some ill-advised comments, and people have responded with hostility. In response, you made what you claimed was an apology, though the statement showed no real contrition. Wh… --- ## [Urbanredneck is a homophobic bigot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urbanredneck-is-a-homophobic-bigot/719775)
**Author:** [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Replies:** 269\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urbanredneck-is-a-homophobic-bigot/719775 "2020-12-03T23:07:03Z")
I don’t really have the drive to give him a proper pitting but I really just wanted everyone to know. Seems like he wants everyone to know too. here here here here here here here here here here he… --- ## [Remember, remember! The rants of November, The Election treason and plot. (minirants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-remember-the-rants-of-november-the-election-treason-and-plot-minirants/924468)
**Author:** [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Replies:** 236\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-remember-the-rants-of-november-the-election-treason-and-plot-minirants/924468 "2020-12-02T05:16:36Z")
I have had the same earworm continuously for the last two week. Not the whole song. Just the refrain. Over and over and over. Pilot of the airwaves Here is my request You don’t have to play it But I hope you’ll do… --- ## [Latest dumb Trumpism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-dumb-trumpism/926736)
**Author:** [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2020, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-dumb-trumpism/926736 "2020-12-01T04:59:06Z")
so now Trump is claiming FBI and DoJ conspired to steal election? Trump appointed the head of these agencies!! --- ## [To Every Poster Who Ever Asserted That Chump Would Win in 2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-every-poster-who-ever-asserted-that-chump-would-win-in-2020/925035)
**Author:** [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-every-poster-who-ever-asserted-that-chump-would-win-in-2020/925035 "2020-11-30T20:53:20Z")
I cordially invite you to suck my big, fat dick. You know who you are. --- ## [Remembering the Comedy of the Trump Presidency (RIP)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-the-comedy-of-the-trump-presidency-rip/926510)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-the-comedy-of-the-trump-presidency-rip/926510 "2020-11-30T17:15:20Z")
Now that his Assholeness is beginning to recede from… everything… it should not be forgotten that his administration was also responsible for more ridiculous content in its 4 years than the previous 10 administrations co… --- ## [Logitech - Please go the fuck out of business](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logitech-please-go-the-fuck-out-of-business/925596)
**Author:** [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logitech-please-go-the-fuck-out-of-business/925596 "2020-11-29T16:36:08Z")
Ended up needing a refund for a camera from long ago and still haven’t heard from those bozos. So I figure why not look for some customer reviews to vent some spleen, and hooooo-boy, yeah, I found customer reviews, al… --- ## [A question before I speak about the President](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-before-i-speak-about-the-president/926655)
**Author:** [@jimmyjoeraybubbabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmyjoeraybubbabob)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2020, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-before-i-speak-about-the-president/926655 "2020-11-28T15:03:19Z")
Is it okay to suggest here that Donald trump should take a ride on his way out of the White House gates in a ford pinto, slide under a gasoline tanker and taste his own blood before the explosion? I don’t wanna be too r… --- ## [Trump - best literate descriptors?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-best-literate-descriptors/926193)
**Author:** [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-best-literate-descriptors/926193 "2020-11-24T01:47:09Z")
This one came to my inbox again. I think it originally came out in the Spring. Maybe we can create a centralized repository for the people who took very deep breaths, had a few swigs of whatever gets the juices flowing… --- ## [Florida state rep. Anthony Sabatini: More proof that some people with vote for anything that calls itself (R)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-state-rep-anthony-sabatini-more-proof-that-some-people-with-vote-for-anything-that-calls-itself-r/926219)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-state-rep-anthony-sabatini-more-proof-that-some-people-with-vote-for-anything-that-calls-itself-r/926219 "2020-11-22T23:04:24Z")
Sorry it’s a Reddit link, but it’s the only one I could find that would post because I’m not on Twitter, where this goofball also said “Abortion is murder.” (But only if the baby hasn’t been born yet, I guess.) One won… --- ## [This is what "Defending your Home" with guns looks like](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-defending-your-home-with-guns-looks-like/924872)
**Author:** [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2020, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-defending-your-home-with-guns-looks-like/924872 "2020-11-22T04:40:33Z")
Man shoots his own 6 month pregnant wife in the head. She got up to use the restroom or get a drink or something; he heard a noise and did the only possible logical thing. What a fucking tragedy. --- ## [Conservatives: If there had to be a dictator, what would you want him/her to be like?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-if-there-had-to-be-a-dictator-what-would-you-want-him-her-to-be-like/925932)
**Author:** [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatives-if-there-had-to-be-a-dictator-what-would-you-want-him-her-to-be-like/925932 "2020-11-21T23:26:00Z")
In the past, when there were such threads, some Dopers dodged the hypothetical by replying, “I don’t want there to be a dictator, period.” So - suppose we bypass that for a moment - if there had to be a dictator - n… --- ## [Needy narrow minded ass hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needy-narrow-minded-ass-hats/926124)
**Author:** [@arteekgeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arteekgeek)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needy-narrow-minded-ass-hats/926124 "2020-11-21T15:20:21Z")
The look SOOOO good when you strut past your favorite store in the mall… but like always. All the cool people have worn it out and the solid citizen still sports it years after the real ass hats wear everything… whores. … --- ## [Sanford Health president and chief executive Kelby Krabbenhoft: your opinions are not facts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sanford-health-president-and-chief-executive-kelby-krabbenhoft-your-opinions-are-not-facts/926101)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sanford-health-president-and-chief-executive-kelby-krabbenhoft-your-opinions-are-not-facts/926101 "2020-11-21T13:17:19Z")
What an arrogant, entitled asshole you are, Kelby Krabbenhoft. Fuck you, asshole. --- ## [Local medical providers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-medical-providers/925507)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2020, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-medical-providers/925507 "2020-11-21T09:19:19Z")
When covid first hit, there was drive up testing practically every where. Time goes by, things settle down a bit, and a lot of that drive up testing disappeared. Regular testing as well. There is exactly 1 urgent care … --- ## [Mr Quatro's "Things God Told Me" thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 122\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067 "2020-11-18T23:34:50Z")
For those of you that don’t know, our board is graced with the presence of a prophet of God, who is periodically foretold the future so that he may share it with the world. He is very insistent that he be given a platfor… --- ## [Urbanredneck: Trifecta of ignorance.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urbanredneck-trifecta-of-ignorance/798209)
**Author:** [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Replies:** 283\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urbanredneck-trifecta-of-ignorance/798209 "2020-11-18T04:55:43Z")
Homophobe: Check! Misogynist: Check! Bigot: Check! Living proof that hateful and ignorant is certainly one way to get through life. --- ## [Lying bastards at UPS think I'm stupid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-bastards-at-ups-think-im-stupid/925395)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-bastards-at-ups-think-im-stupid/925395 "2020-11-16T18:59:55Z")
I am expecting a package via UPS (I did not have an option to choose another method of delivery). The package arrived at San Pablo, CA yesterday morning, which under the worst sort of rush hour driving is maybe 2 hours a… --- ## [Facebook, what drugs are you on?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-what-drugs-are-you-on/918604)
**Author:** [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-what-drugs-are-you-on/918604 "2020-11-14T00:57:11Z")
You really need to lay off the psychoactives, or at least reduce the dosage. Quit mixing whatever you’re mixing while you’re at it. You might be stunned to know that not everyone uses your site on a phone (which, BTW, R… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=44) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=46)