# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=56 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 57 --- ## [I pit Jonathan Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jonathan-chance/846924)
**Author:** [@thatsalotoff35s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thatsalotoff35s)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 25, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jonathan-chance/846924 "2020-01-25T01:24:00Z")
Jonathan Chance claimed I was “genuinely out of touch with reality” for claiming that, given that he is doing Explosive Ordinance Disposal and hadn’t actually managed to blow anything up yet, that Trump is doing a damn f… --- ## [Thread for Richmond Gun Rally Mon. Jan. 20](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-for-richmond-gun-rally-mon-jan-20/846598)
**Author:** [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Replies:** 115\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-for-richmond-gun-rally-mon-jan-20/846598 "2020-01-24T21:12:42Z")
Figured the pit would be the likliest forum for this potato, given that things could get really sketchy. Lots of militia groups and a number of hate groups will be descending on the the city, and Virginia Gov. Ralph Nort… --- ## [Fuck you too, electric boogaloo!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-too-electric-boogaloo/846235)
**Author:** [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-too-electric-boogaloo/846235 "2020-01-24T14:50:59Z")
Virginia elected a Democratic governor and legislature for the first time in a quarter-century, and when they proposed moderate gun control legislation, the right-wing snowflakes lost their shit and started threatening … --- ## [GlassesUSA](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassesusa/846850)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassesusa/846850 "2020-01-24T11:06:29Z")
Fuck you GlassesUSA! My glasses fell apart after a month and they say that they’ll replace them for 50% plus shipping. I should have known better than to buy glasses online. --- ## [School refusing to enrol kid, fucking idiots.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-refusing-to-enrol-kid-fucking-idiots/846834)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2020, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-refusing-to-enrol-kid-fucking-idiots/846834 "2020-01-24T06:42:48Z")
We recently moved to a new part of Australia, and as the school year is starting next week after extended holidays, my daughter attended the local primary school yesterday to enroll her two boys, aged 7 and 10. The kids… --- ## [Happy Impeachment Day!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-impeachment-day/846791)
**Author:** [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [January 23, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-impeachment-day/846791 "2020-01-23T21:03:21Z")
We’ve come so far. The end of the road seems likely to end just short of success, but I’m happy to celebrate our accomplishments thus far. This is a good day. Raise a glass, my friends: whatever else happens, they cann… --- ## [Gee, d'ya think this woman is genuine???](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-dya-think-this-woman-is-genuine/846649)
**Author:** [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gee-dya-think-this-woman-is-genuine/846649 "2020-01-22T12:41:04Z")
I really can’t tell.:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused: --- ## [Violent Criminals Owning Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-criminals-owning-guns/846306)
**Author:** [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Replies:** 144\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2020, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-criminals-owning-guns/846306 "2020-01-22T06:20:39Z")
I’m pitting a thread (here) rather than any particular poster. Apparently there are any number of people here at SDMB who think it’s unjust that people who have been convicted of, and/or pled guilty to, \*violent crimes … --- ## [Is Lev Parnas some sort of Putin plant?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-lev-parnas-some-sort-of-putin-plant/846558)
**Author:** [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2020, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-lev-parnas-some-sort-of-putin-plant/846558 "2020-01-21T10:17:37Z")
His interview with Maddow seems almost too good (too horrible?) to be true. He implicated Trump, Perry, Barr, Giuliani, Pompeo, Nunes, and probably a couple of others I’m not recalling off the top of my head. What happe… --- ## [The 2020 Rat's Ass Chronicles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2020-rats-ass-chronicles/846594)
**Author:** [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2020-rats-ass-chronicles/846594 "2020-01-18T21:11:42Z")
Many moons ago on this very forum I started a thread entitled “The Rat’s Ass Chronicles”, describing annoyingly inconsequential events about which I did not give a rat’s ass, but which still garnered feverish interest fr… --- ## [No, I'm not giving you all that information for a 10¢ donation to a school](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-im-not-giving-you-all-that-information-for-a-10-donation-to-a-school/846529)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-im-not-giving-you-all-that-information-for-a-10-donation-to-a-school/846529 "2020-01-17T18:45:05Z")
Remember Box Tops for Education? Those little pink/red squares on certain box tops or soup cans that you could cut out & give to your local school & when they turned them in they got a whopping (as I recall) 10¢ per lab… --- ## [Does the Republican party kill more Americans than terrorists?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-republican-party-kill-more-americans-than-terrorists/846434)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-republican-party-kill-more-americans-than-terrorists/846434 "2020-01-17T16:13:28Z")
Trying to wrap my head around the numbers. 9/11 killed some 3,000, with a few more isolated incidents in the years since then adding to the total. What about Republican policy? Inadequate healthcare, the death penalty, … --- ## [Completely helpless against FB ID-theft from stalker ex-GF](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-helpless-against-fb-id-theft-from-stalker-ex-gf/644956)
**Author:** [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-helpless-against-fb-id-theft-from-stalker-ex-gf/644956 "2020-01-17T07:00:39Z")
I never imagined that this would actually be possible, but holy fuck she’s got me. I broke up with my ex (“X” from now on) a few times over the last month but agreed to get back together for various reasons. I could wri… --- ## [What if killing Soleimani was the right move?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-killing-soleimani-was-the-right-move/846193)
**Author:** [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Replies:** 168\ **Last updated:** [January 16, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-killing-soleimani-was-the-right-move/846193 "2020-01-16T17:14:19Z")
If the Iranian response ends up being the recent rocket barrage on US bases, then in the end didn’t the US come out ahead? They took out an effective field commander, quite apparently the most capable Iran has to offer, … --- ## [Trump Does Not Lie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-does-not-lie/846243)
**Author:** [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-does-not-lie/846243 "2020-01-15T23:20:50Z")
\[URL=“The Power of Trump’s Positive Thinking - POLITICO Magazine”\]Reference: \[/URL Trump is an avid follower of the phyllosophy of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale: “Stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as… --- ## [To all the, "Trump is the peace candidate, Hillary will get us in to war," people...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-trump-is-the-peace-candidate-hillary-will-get-us-in-to-war-people/846107)
**Author:** [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Replies:** 90\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-trump-is-the-peace-candidate-hillary-will-get-us-in-to-war-people/846107 "2020-01-13T17:59:02Z")
Go fuck yourselves. --- ## [It was Sickening #44 who should have been impeached, not Glorious #45](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-sickening-44-who-should-have-been-impeached-not-glorious-45/846061)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-sickening-44-who-should-have-been-impeached-not-glorious-45/846061 "2020-01-13T14:13:23Z")
With the Democrats whining every day about some new alleged offense by our President — or even taking potshots at his lovely wife or his children — I was gladdened to see a new documentary on the Man from Kenya, whose re… --- ## [Websites that don't work at all without Javascript](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-dont-work-at-all-without-javascript/846099)
**Author:** [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-that-dont-work-at-all-without-javascript/846099 "2020-01-10T22:23:22Z")
You don’t really need JavaScript for most websites. Even when you do need JavaScript, such as when your website is a web application (eg: Google Docs/MS Office), it is considered common courtesy to display a message sayi… --- ## [Hillary found guilty again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-found-guilty-again/846240)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-found-guilty-again/846240 "2020-01-10T21:26:38Z")
Not. --- ## [Hillary found guilty again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-found-guilty-again/846239)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-found-guilty-again/846239 "2020-01-10T20:07:33Z")
Not. --- ## [This has to stop: extreme actions at political gathering](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-has-to-stop-extreme-actions-at-political-gathering/843927)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 657\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-has-to-stop-extreme-actions-at-political-gathering/843927 "2020-01-08T14:55:21Z")
An Antifa guy tried blocking someone’s car, smacks the car with a bat or pipe. It did not end well for him. Can’t we discuss civilly? Protest civilly? Agree to disagree, then vote accordingly? --- ## [Please honor the damned warranty!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-honor-the-damned-warranty/845935)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-honor-the-damned-warranty/845935 "2020-01-06T20:34:08Z")
I purchased an inexpensive yogurt maker from Amazon last August. It’s worked perfectly for months. A few days ago I tried to make my usual weekly batch. The power light came on and I assumed it was working. A whlie late… --- ## [The governor of Texas is an ass.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-texas-is-an-ass/845909)
**Author:** [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-governor-of-texas-is-an-ass/845909 "2020-01-06T13:56:31Z")
I’ve never started a Pit thread before, but this asshole put me over the edge. This morning, there was a murder just south of downtown Austin. The murder suspect appears to be someone who has had issues with homelessne… --- ## [DirecTV fuck you](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directv-fuck-you/845278)
**Author:** [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directv-fuck-you/845278 "2020-01-05T23:14:33Z")
Jesus, can you just fucking record the shows I tell you to record. Is it that fucking hard? --- ## [So what unwanted, unnecessary crap has the latest IOS update done to your devices?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-unwanted-unnecessary-crap-has-the-latest-ios-update-done-to-your-devices/845547)
**Author:** [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-unwanted-unnecessary-crap-has-the-latest-ios-update-done-to-your-devices/845547 "2020-01-03T16:33:14Z")
Was forced by work to update the iPad yesterday, let’s see… F@cebook no longer formats properly in Safari. The ads increase to cover everything when I scale. And FB doesn’t present at all properly in either of the other… --- ## [Judge Lets Killer Drunk Driver Off Because He's Spoiled](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-lets-killer-drunk-driver-off-because-hes-spoiled/676119)
**Author:** [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Replies:** 257\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-lets-killer-drunk-driver-off-because-hes-spoiled/676119 "2020-01-03T15:49:07Z")
The facts of the case are straightforward enough: How could this be, you may ask? What ingenious legal gambit led to this amazing result? Well, it’s simple. The defense lawyers convinced the judge that the poor boy wa… --- ## [Stupid News: Diet Dr Pepper does not cause weight loss](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-news-diet-dr-pepper-does-not-cause-weight-loss/845635)
**Author:** [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-news-diet-dr-pepper-does-not-cause-weight-loss/845635 "2020-01-03T03:23:55Z")
Wait, it doesn’t cause weight loss? Really. Are people really that fucking stupid? So the short version of the stories listed in the link is that one brainless idiot thinks Diet Dr Pepper is deceiving consumers into t… --- ## [I didn't have near enough frustration in my life, so I started to play Yathzee online](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-have-near-enough-frustration-in-my-life-so-i-started-to-play-yathzee-online/832924)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-have-near-enough-frustration-in-my-life-so-i-started-to-play-yathzee-online/832924 "2020-01-02T18:11:47Z")
Are you kidding me? I rolled 18 consecutive ‘Large Straights’ when I didn’t need them. And I was so happy to get it on my first roll! :rolleyes: Four Sixes! Oh, but I took a 7 on ‘Four of a Kind’ because it was a gift … --- ## [What's souring your Eggnog? (December Minirants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257)
**Author:** [@Dancer\_Flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancer_Flight)\ **Replies:** 235\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2020, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257 "2020-01-01T05:44:50Z")
My mechanic local didn’t tell my my winter tires were shot when he pulled them off this spring so when I went to have them mounted remounted, (at a different shop, the place across from work), I’m told I’m in for new one… --- ## [Iowa lady runs over girl with car because the girl "Looked Mexican"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iowa-lady-runs-over-girl-with-car-because-the-girl-looked-mexican/845240)
**Author:** [@Shoujin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoujin)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2019, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iowa-lady-runs-over-girl-with-car-because-the-girl-looked-mexican/845240 "2019-12-30T10:43:50Z")
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/woman-says-she-ran-over-girl-because-she-looked-mexican-according-to-police I’m sure the girl had a stick or something, right? This woman makes me fucking sick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=55) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=57)