# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=47 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 48 --- ## [Do we have a thread for SlackerInc yet? Maybe we should](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 1122\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2020, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461 "2020-10-15T23:30:51Z")
I feel like this is a little bit overdue. SlackerInc has always been at least a wee bit of a racist sympathizer, and now we get this: “Why don’t Tom Steyer or George Soros move black Mississippians to Pensacola or Atlan… --- ## [Some cowardly shitstain fascist stole my Biden sign](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-cowardly-shitstain-fascist-stole-my-biden-sign/922364)
**Author:** [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-cowardly-shitstain-fascist-stole-my-biden-sign/922364 "2020-10-15T22:30:30Z")
Took it from my front yard in the night, like the cowardly coward he\\she\\it is. I knew it was going to happen. My lizard brain tells me to go an steal a Trump sign, but I will not be that guy. Trump supporters are bad … --- ## [Ultra-Orthodox Jews of New York spreading covid and other problems (ed. title)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultra-orthodox-jews-of-new-york-spreading-covid-and-other-problems-ed-title/922666)
**Author:** [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Replies:** 93\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2020, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultra-orthodox-jews-of-new-york-spreading-covid-and-other-problems-ed-title/922666 "2020-10-15T03:22:45Z")
Before anyone objects that this sounds anti-Semitic, let me just say that I have known many Reform Jews and they were literally all delightful people, every single one. But these ultra-orthodox/Hasids seem to be racist… --- ## [Stimulus package, off again, on again, on again, off again... WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stimulus-package-off-again-on-again-on-again-off-again-wtf/922443)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stimulus-package-off-again-on-again-on-again-off-again-wtf/922443 "2020-10-10T15:35:02Z")
Whiskey tango foxtrot? Over. This, Stimulus latest: Trump tweets halt negotiations, meaning federal help for millions is not coming anytime soon And this, Trump abruptly scraps stimulus talks, punting on economic relie… --- ## [How will Donald Trump deal with COVID (BBQ Pit version)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132)
**Author:** [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132 "2020-10-09T23:09:05Z")
Build a wall around it so it won’t infect him. Arrest it as an illegal immigrant and deport it. Make insulting Tweets about it so it will leave in shame. 4.Come up with 15 fake reasons why he doesn’t have COVID. --- ## [Trump on Golf vacation again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-on-golf-vacation-again/781412)
**Author:** [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [July 25, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-on-golf-vacation-again/781412 "2019-07-25T00:11:35Z")
Trump is off golfing in Florida again this weekend. The fourth time in a month he’s gone down to Florida for a nice holiday. Seems that’s what he does now. Of course, his golf trips now cost the taxpayer a pretty penny… --- ## [Has this many people ever wished for one person to die?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-many-people-ever-wished-for-one-person-to-die/922169)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 196\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-many-people-ever-wished-for-one-person-to-die/922169 "2020-10-08T01:44:44Z")
Trump is down with covid, and presumably many tens of millions of people around the world are hoping he dies. It would be beautiful, poetic justice. Has any person been this hated since Hitler and Stalin? Even Bin Laden … --- ## [I pit phone scammers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-phone-scammers/921266)
**Author:** [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-phone-scammers/921266 "2020-10-07T02:39:27Z")
This afternoon my 82 year old mother calls me in a panic. Someone called her by name from Bank X, saying there was a problem with an Amazon order for $900+ going to Germany that they think is fraudulent. My mother is no … --- ## [Tetracycline cost-WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tetracycline-cost-wtf/920051)
**Author:** [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tetracycline-cost-wtf/920051 "2020-10-06T00:33:51Z")
I had an upper endoscopy in August and was diagnosed with H. pylori (bacteria that can survive in stomach acid) gastritis. Most common therapy can include 1 or 2 of 4 antibiotic classes, an acid reducing medication, and… --- ## [Twenty-nine days hath September (or at least that's how long we get to mini-rant this month.)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 267\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624 "2020-10-01T23:42:31Z")
I guess that’s my mini-rant: how come none of you slackers started a new thread, hmmm??? --- ## [We are SO FUCKED (Ruth Bader Ginsburg died tonight)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-so-fucked-ruth-bader-ginsburg-died-tonight/920959)
**Author:** [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Replies:** 239\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-so-fucked-ruth-bader-ginsburg-died-tonight/920959 "2020-09-29T16:00:30Z")
Ruth Bader Ginsburg died tonight. And we all know that Turtleman will not abide by his, “the people should have their say through electing the President later this year”, either. --- ## [He did WHAT? A thread for the many Trump bombshell books](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-did-what-a-thread-for-the-many-trump-bombshell-books/920438)
**Author:** [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-did-what-a-thread-for-the-many-trump-bombshell-books/920438 "2020-09-28T15:53:03Z")
I’m putting this thread in the Pit because I may want to use insults and obscenities In the future, even though this post is pretty clean. As mentioned in the clusterfuck thread “September Surprise” books are being rele… --- ## [Let the "Lake Trump" jokes begin](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-lake-trump-jokes-begin/921514)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-lake-trump-jokes-begin/921514 "2020-09-26T23:38:47Z")
Don’t take a boat out on Lake Trump-- it will sink for sure. --- ## [Open hunting on police now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-hunting-on-police-now/920618)
**Author:** [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-hunting-on-police-now/920618 "2020-09-26T03:48:10Z")
I am saddened and heartbroken on the open hunting of the police. Re: the cold blooded shootings of the two transport deputies in Compton. The celebrations of the shootings by BLM , recording themselves laughing, blockin… --- ## [Wesley Clark, what the fuck was that?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-what-the-fuck-was-that/302304)
**Author:** [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wesley-clark-what-the-fuck-was-that/302304 "2020-09-25T20:33:06Z")
What in the world was the point of this little nugget? Does it irritate you so much that someone might be grateful for the military contribution of another country? Yes, American forces were essential to the liberati… --- ## [America is Sterilizing ICE Detainees!? What-The-Actual-Fuck...?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-is-sterilizing-ice-detainees-what-the-actual-fuck/920660)
**Author:** [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Replies:** 165\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-is-sterilizing-ice-detainees-what-the-actual-fuck/920660 "2020-09-21T21:25:25Z")
First, source links (because even I wouldn’t believe this is happening in America 2020 without a cite): https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ice-nurse-revealed-georgia-detention-215816246.html https://www.thestreet.com/mi… --- ## [Don't want to yell and froth at my parents tv tonight](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-want-to-yell-and-froth-at-my-parents-tv-tonight/920883)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-want-to-yell-and-froth-at-my-parents-tv-tonight/920883 "2020-09-20T20:15:56Z")
So I’m going to do it here instead. You stain, you fucking waste of flesh and skin, you stealer of air and thief of the precious oxygen real people need to live. I know a paramecium is a fucking Einstein level genius co… --- ## [Radford VA The Bigger Picture March - a student-led protest on racial inequality slated for Saturday afternoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radford-va-the-bigger-picture-march-a-student-led-protest-on-racial-inequality-slated-for-saturday-afternoon/921017)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radford-va-the-bigger-picture-march-a-student-led-protest-on-racial-inequality-slated-for-saturday-afternoon/921017 "2020-09-20T17:18:47Z")
I have just moved back to my hometown for a while after 30 years, was planning to stay for maybe a year. Maybe not. Predictably some residents are distoring this protest, calling it a Marxist event sponsered by BLM, a… --- ## [Fuck you, brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-brain/920751)
**Author:** [@mandala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mandala)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-brain/920751 "2020-09-20T03:47:57Z")
I would like to pit my brain, and brains in general. They sit up there, warm and secure inside the skill, constantly waited upon and served by legions of neurotransmitter systems, like they are a fucking king or somethin… --- ## ["Is it that the Dems don't understand white, working-class America?" No, that's not it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-that-the-dems-dont-understand-white-working-class-america-no-thats-not-it/773291)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 866\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-that-the-dems-dont-understand-white-working-class-america-no-thats-not-it/773291 "2020-09-19T19:14:52Z")
“The dark rigidity of fundamentalist rural America: a view from the inside” I’ve seen in different threads attempts to figure out what makes Trump supporters tick. There doesn’t seem to be any logic or self-interest at … --- ## [Is there a Covid form of "handshake rape"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-covid-form-of-handshake-rape/920368)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-covid-form-of-handshake-rape/920368 "2020-09-17T16:38:09Z")
If you haven’t been around the SDMB long enough, you probably don’t even know what I’m talking about. But our very own @ZPG\_Zealot (who I have not seen lately - is she still around?) claimed a few years ago that a man sp… --- ## [White Supremacy is not a rhetorical tactic, ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-supremacy-is-not-a-rhetorical-tactic-zpg-zealot/920396)
**Author:** [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Replies:** 352\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-supremacy-is-not-a-rhetorical-tactic-zpg-zealot/920396 "2020-09-17T16:37:03Z")
I would have liked to make this post in the thread in question, but it was declared off topic by the mod. I considered which forum to put this in, but the Pit seems appropriate if only so people can also use this to cont… --- ## [I have never in my life been so disgusted with the Democratic Party as I am now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-never-in-my-life-been-so-disgusted-with-the-democratic-party-as-i-am-now/913544)
**Author:** [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Replies:** 155\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-never-in-my-life-been-so-disgusted-with-the-democratic-party-as-i-am-now/913544 "2020-09-15T02:24:59Z")
This is about the coronavirus. This is specifically about the tens of thousands of Americans who will die of Covid-19 between now and January 20, when I devoutly hope that Joe Biden will be sworn in as President. I nee… --- ## [If Donald Trump were forced to listen to what you'd have to say; What would you tell him?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-were-forced-to-listen-to-what-youd-have-to-say-what-would-you-tell-him/919118)
**Author:** [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-were-forced-to-listen-to-what-youd-have-to-say-what-would-you-tell-him/919118 "2020-09-12T14:45:29Z")
So… I can’t begin to to think about what I would say. I hate him. I don’t know if I would talk his ear off, or say very little. I don’t know if I would yell or just shake my head and talk about how disappointing he’s bee… --- ## [Multiple boats sink at Trump boat parade on Lake Travis in Texas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905)
**Author:** [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Replies:** 105\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905 "2020-09-11T17:43:24Z")
First off, I hope no one is seriously injured and there is no loss of life. That said, this is hilarious. #Dumbkirk is trending on Twitter. It also works on a lot of levels. For example it could be a metaphor for the … --- ## [Trump limericks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-limericks/919600)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2020, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-limericks/919600 "2020-09-09T05:32:14Z")
A few months back there was a COVID limericks thread which I thought had promise, but unfortunately didn’t get much response. I’ve been thinking a thread about trump limericks might have more richly surreal (or plain bat… --- ## [Trump Robocalls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-robocalls/919446)
**Author:** [@Mickyfinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mickyfinn)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-robocalls/919446 "2020-09-08T14:55:51Z")
Ok. I still have a landline. I’ve been getting a fair amount of robocalls from the Trump campaign. When I dial back on the caller ID, I get the option to be put on a no call list (which the recording hilariously state… --- ## [Job hunting SUCKS!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hunting-sucks/919536)
**Author:** [@Mom-of-Andrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mom-of-Andrew)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2020, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hunting-sucks/919536 "2020-09-08T01:46:58Z")
Current gripe: Every blessed company requires you to upload your entire work history, educational history and references to their proprietary system to apply for any job. State agencies each have their own system. Whi… --- ## [Rantus Augustus (mini rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantus-augustus-mini-rants/916998)
**Author:** [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Replies:** 234\ **Last updated:** [September 7, 2020, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantus-augustus-mini-rants/916998 "2020-09-07T00:54:14Z")
I give up. The aphids win. no matter how much I spray my pepper plants, or what I use, I can’t get rid of them. I’ve tried the usual home remedies (solution of dish soap,) commercial insecticidal soaps, you name it. i… --- ## [Would the world be better off without Republicans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-world-be-better-off-without-republicans/918679)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 158\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-world-be-better-off-without-republicans/918679 "2020-09-05T16:50:17Z")
What good are Republicans anymore, either to America or humanity at large? When was the last time the party or ideology did anything good for its country or its people? Lincoln? WW2? They worship at the altars of stupid… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=46) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=48)