# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=58 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 59 --- ## [Fuck WeatherTech (car mats and liners)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-weathertech-car-mats-and-liners/677712)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 118\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-weathertech-car-mats-and-liners/677712 "2019-12-06T22:19:45Z")
Wow. Just wow. Anyone who reads any of the car magazines knows what a big deal MacNeil Automotive makes about their WeatherTech mats, US manufacturing and bend-over-backwards customer service. Until this week, I’d have … --- ## [Racist, or Stupid? A Party Game](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-or-stupid-a-party-game/844413)
**Author:** [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-or-stupid-a-party-game/844413 "2019-12-06T14:21:17Z")
You might be familiar with the classic game, Drunk or Kid. If you aren’t, the rules are very simple. Players take turns telling amusing and usually embarrassing stories, and the other players have to guess if these stori… --- ## [Why is it so hard to get psychiatric help in this country?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-get-psychiatric-help-in-this-country/844266)
**Author:** [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-get-psychiatric-help-in-this-country/844266 "2019-12-05T19:25:51Z")
This isn’t about me, it’s about a patient I had. I’m an ICU nurse and this patient comes to me after an attempted suicide overdose. She’s bipolar and was trying to get help and was staying at a rehab clinic, but the re… --- ## [Defend a Conservative in Some Way: FOR SHAME](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/defend-a-conservative-in-some-way-for-shame/844256)
**Author:** [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/defend-a-conservative-in-some-way-for-shame/844256 "2019-12-05T17:43:51Z")
Here’s a fun idea, though: once in a while, if something occurs to you that might actually criticize a liberal or defend a conservative, post it in a thread like this. See how quickly people ignore what you wrote and sta… --- ## [I'm not clicking on Rachel Maddow anymore. Life is too short](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-clicking-on-rachel-maddow-anymore-life-is-too-short/844194)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2019, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-clicking-on-rachel-maddow-anymore-life-is-too-short/844194 "2019-12-05T05:27:35Z")
My 10th-grade English teacher taught us how to write an essay: Tell the reader what you’re going to tell him. Then tell him. Finally, tell him what you’ve told him. Ms. Maddow carries that too far. She tells us that… --- ## [Fuck the holidays and all this fake happy ass shit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-holidays-and-all-this-fake-happy-ass-shit/843898)
**Author:** [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-holidays-and-all-this-fake-happy-ass-shit/843898 "2019-12-04T02:16:38Z")
Srsly! For fucks fucking sake, why are they playing goddamned Christmas music before fucking Thanksgiving?!?! Fuck all this fucking contrived crap. I used to love Thanksgiving because I had dead turkey on my plate – j… --- ## [Apparently, modern digital theaters don't have surge supressors.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-modern-digital-theaters-dont-have-surge-supressors/844154)
**Author:** [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-modern-digital-theaters-dont-have-surge-supressors/844154 "2019-12-03T00:45:28Z")
I took my mom out to see the new Tom Hanks movie tonight. Three quarters of the way through the film, it froze, then went black. We waited several minutes, then another patron went out to find out what was happening. S… --- ## [Michael Savage](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-savage/844047)
**Author:** [@Yankees\_1996\_Champs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankees_1996_Champs)\ **Replies:** 151\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-savage/844047 "2019-12-02T21:01:01Z")
Has anyone listen to The Savage Nation, a rightwing talk radio show, hosted by nationalist Michael Savage since 1994. Savage is one of the most listened to talk show hosts in America, which has vaulted him to the Talk R… --- ## [From me to Louis C.K.: You can fuck off and die now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-me-to-louis-c-k-you-can-fuck-off-and-die-now/827900)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 349\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-me-to-louis-c-k-you-can-fuck-off-and-die-now/827900 "2019-12-02T19:28:07Z")
I was almost completely unaware of Louis C.K. back in the 1990s, even though I had Comedy Central on around the clock. Going back for old clips, I do recognize a few of his bits, but none of them made a big impression on… --- ## [Hurricane Ditka, Shodan, Octopus, and BigT...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522)
**Author:** [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Replies:** 237\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ditka-shodan-octopus-and-bigt/843522 "2019-12-01T18:09:45Z")
all have my admiration for not allowing themselves to be shouted down. I am placing this in The Pit so that the usual choads can get right to their usual choading, --- ## [Religious indoctrination is child abuse.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-indoctrination-is-child-abuse/844001)
**Author:** [@Barack\_Obama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barack_Obama)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-indoctrination-is-child-abuse/844001 "2019-12-01T18:01:42Z")
Every single religious family, whether they are good or bad, whether they’re teaching their kid science is fake, or homosexuals are bad, or if they’re just teaching them not to hold onto material possessions and show com… --- ## [Rants Giving (November mini-rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rants-giving-november-mini-rants/842811)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 278\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rants-giving-november-mini-rants/842811 "2019-12-01T17:59:12Z")
You’ve heard of “suicide by cop”, of course. Well, if you see, in the next few days, that someone got chucked out an open bathroom window in Beijing but there is not a scratch from the window screen on them, you might no… --- ## [Seeing how health insurance companies force out those who play by the rules and then get sick.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-how-health-insurance-companies-force-out-those-who-play-by-the-rules-and-then-get-sick/844015)
**Author:** [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-how-health-insurance-companies-force-out-those-who-play-by-the-rules-and-then-get-sick/844015 "2019-11-30T23:14:52Z")
I’m sure there are other ways, but a scummy method just came to light. Now this is not for me, but I see it’s effect on 4 people who are long time workers, always carried medical insurance, and who have developed seriou… --- ## [Trump's distraction du jour. Pardon convicted war criminals over Pentagon objections.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-distraction-du-jour-pardon-convicted-war-criminals-over-pentagon-objections/843514)
**Author:** [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Replies:** 105\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-distraction-du-jour-pardon-convicted-war-criminals-over-pentagon-objections/843514 "2019-11-29T23:39:38Z")
I think he really wants the military on his side for what’s coming. --- ## [The tenth, eleventh and twelfth circles of Hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tenth-eleventh-and-twelfth-circles-of-hell/844089)
**Author:** [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tenth-eleventh-and-twelfth-circles-of-hell/844089 "2019-11-29T19:07:37Z")
I was Ubering home yesterday when I heard it. The vanguard of the invasion. The ever-encroaching start to The Season. Yes, it was a Christmas song, shoving aside Thanksgiving and stepping over its prone body, the beginni… --- ## [The imPEACHment Pit Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-impeachment-pit-thread/843685)
**Author:** [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Replies:** 144\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-impeachment-pit-thread/843685 "2019-11-28T18:34:39Z")
I have to do this . I’ve really had it with the gaslighting in the thread in the Elections forum. And I’d still like to have the same basic kind of civil discussion we are have over there, but I’d like to rant some. And… --- ## [If Trump Loses the Election](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-loses-the-election/844035)
**Author:** [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-trump-loses-the-election/844035 "2019-11-27T18:34:41Z")
A facebook post… We will be at the point of no return, with nowhere to run. We should all be prepared to have a plan, if something goes down , we have plan for our families to meet at certain place and not be separated … --- ## [FFS, shut the fuck up about the mods](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ffs-shut-the-fuck-up-about-the-mods/844041)
**Author:** [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2019, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ffs-shut-the-fuck-up-about-the-mods/844041 "2019-11-27T02:35:56Z")
Srsly, I’ve had my own run in with the mods, but Christ I’ve never seen so much fucking whining and crotch grabbing over this issue and that issue. I’m honestly not trying to get in mods’ good graces either: I will writ… --- ## [Mark Zuckerberg is a fucking sociopath - seriously, just delete that shit already!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159)
**Author:** [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Replies:** 122\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159 "2019-11-26T09:32:57Z")
If you have Facecrook, you’re a fucking stooge. Srsly! I’m so fucking sick of this smug piece of shit showing up and just asserting his right to be a politically disruptive c\*nt. Are people so addicted to their own s… --- ## [In which Steophan hijacks an ATMB thread about misogyny by accusing Blasey Ford of false accusation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-steophan-hijacks-an-atmb-thread-about-misogyny-by-accusing-blasey-ford-of-false-accusation/843610)
**Author:** [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Replies:** 362\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-steophan-hijacks-an-atmb-thread-about-misogyny-by-accusing-blasey-ford-of-false-accusation/843610 "2019-11-25T20:06:41Z")
You are one slimy little worm, aren’t you Steophan? If you’re convinced that Christine Blasey Ford lied, you’ve got the whole board in which to raise that issue. But the latest ATMB thread about misogyny on the Dope wa… --- ## [Our "security" is so good, nothing fucking works anymore](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-security-is-so-good-nothing-fucking-works-anymore/843368)
**Author:** [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-security-is-so-good-nothing-fucking-works-anymore/843368 "2019-11-22T16:46:57Z")
I’ve spent two hours today trying to do two things: Renew a security credential at work, and sign up for an online service provided by the USPS. Denied. Neither works. Here are the myriad problems I’ve had: Incorrect… --- ## [Hey Junior, go to hell.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-junior-go-to-hell/843187)
**Author:** [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Replies:** 123\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-junior-go-to-hell/843187 "2019-11-21T15:44:33Z")
Fuck you. Fuck you, in the asshole, with a saguaro cactus, followed by some iodine and a good salting. And then another cactus. And more salt. Fuck you. Fuck you, fuck your family, fuck anyone that looks like you… --- ## [Fuck Cancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-cancer/843741)
**Author:** [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2019, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-cancer/843741 "2019-11-21T12:36:18Z")
Just heard from my daughter. Fuck Cancer. That is all. --- ## [Bombs keep turning up at prominent Democrats houses](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 265\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2019, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428 "2019-11-21T09:03:55Z")
Yesterday George Soros, today the Clintons. Yet all the ads I see on YouTube are from the GOP talking about how violent and out of control Democrats are. --- ## [Jimmy Dore Sold Out (Tulsi video)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-dore-sold-out-tulsi-video/843563)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-dore-sold-out-tulsi-video/843563 "2019-11-20T18:51:48Z")
I know he has a lot of fans here, and I admit I watch the show, and he’s right about a lot of things, but the Tulsi/israel shilling video today even turned his own fans against him. 99.9% of the comments are ripping into… --- ## [Dopers who long to kill, or fantasize about killing, certain groups of strangers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-long-to-kill-or-fantasize-about-killing-certain-groups-of-strangers/829966)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 152\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-long-to-kill-or-fantasize-about-killing-certain-groups-of-strangers/829966 "2019-11-17T16:18:45Z")
I’m not sure if any Dopers have out-and-out stated that they want to kill strangers due to political ideology or some other categorization, but at least a few have, IMO, given strong indications that they secretly long t… --- ## [Yet another ghod damned school shooting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-ghod-damned-school-shooting/843435)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2019, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-ghod-damned-school-shooting/843435 "2019-11-16T04:51:30Z")
One dead so far in Santa Clarita. Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck --- ## [Republicans eagerly pucker up and kiss Trump's ass again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-eagerly-pucker-up-and-kiss-trumps-ass-again/843443)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-eagerly-pucker-up-and-kiss-trumps-ass-again/843443 "2019-11-15T21:21:54Z")
Meet your new Federal judge-Steve Menashi. This idiot has never tried a case, made oral arguments in court or conducted a deposition, so what qualified him in Trump’s eyes? --- ## [Man set on fire for disagreeing with protesters - China](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-set-on-fire-for-disagreeing-with-protesters-china/843468)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2019, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-set-on-fire-for-disagreeing-with-protesters-china/843468 "2019-11-15T11:59:00Z")
Yes, I know we have problems enough at home but goddammit, what the ever-loving-fuck is wrong with people? Im disgusted on a personal, humane level. This guy was not armed, he was not threatening, he was fucking TALKI… --- ## [Stephen Miller and cosmopolitan bias](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040)
**Author:** [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Replies:** 154\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-and-cosmopolitan-bias/793040 "2019-11-14T17:41:58Z")
Stephen Miller was asked if the proposed immigration policy supported by the Trump administration that weights the ability to speak English higher than previous immigration policies was intended only allow immigrants fro… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=59)