# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=63 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 64 --- ## [Fuck you, Shenandoah! And you too, Confederate Railroad!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-shenandoah-and-you-too-confederate-railroad/836793)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 100\ **Last updated:** [July 12, 2019, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-shenandoah-and-you-too-confederate-railroad/836793 "2019-07-12T04:35:54Z")
I’ve heard of the band Shenandoah but Confederate Railroad was new to me. The bolded part of this brief article on the AP is what really got my ire going: How about you stop being racist, you fucking piece of shit ass… --- ## [July 4, 2019: Trumpendence Day!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-4-2019-trumpendence-day/835425)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 417\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-4-2019-trumpendence-day/835425 "2019-07-10T21:11:59Z")
According to the Associated Press, Trump’s 4th of July celebration is “a mystery”. I guess that’s the polite way of saying “a shitshow of epic proportions”. Isn’t this normally an event that draws hundred of thousands … --- ## [Shove your crowdfunded camera up your asses, Canon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shove-your-crowdfunded-camera-up-your-asses-canon/836606)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shove-your-crowdfunded-camera-up-your-asses-canon/836606 "2019-07-08T22:26:40Z")
Canon, an international company with almost 200,000 employees and annual revenue of over US$3.5B, is using the Indigogo site to try and get people to crowd fund a new camera. Look at the self-serving lie I bolded. “… --- ## [Edward Gallagher's Defenders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edward-gallaghers-defenders/834319)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [July 7, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edward-gallaghers-defenders/834319 "2019-07-07T00:23:02Z")
So I recently ate a warning for saying that certain folks who defended Edward Gallagher are “deserving of harm”. To quote Bone: In my defense: neither is anything about this situation. So you’ll have to excuse me if I… --- ## [Hahnemann Hospital in Philly is closing, and the employees found out on the news!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahnemann-hospital-in-philly-is-closing-and-the-employees-found-out-on-the-news/836550)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahnemann-hospital-in-philly-is-closing-and-the-employees-found-out-on-the-news/836550 "2019-07-06T23:06:02Z")
Not only are over 500 physicians going to have to find new residency programs, but the hospital also employees more than 800 nurses and several thousand other ancillary staff. And one source said that’s indeed how they … --- ## [Alabama woman indicted for the death of her unborn child after being shot by someone else](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-woman-indicted-for-the-death-of-her-unborn-child-after-being-shot-by-someone-else/836136)
**Author:** [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-woman-indicted-for-the-death-of-her-unborn-child-after-being-shot-by-someone-else/836136 "2019-07-06T22:32:27Z")
Was gonna do this in Great Debates, but no. No, no, no. The woman didn’t even shoot herself! She supposedly instigated the fight which meant that she endangered her fetus recklessly. In fact, the grand jury didn’t eve… --- ## [Who was the worst troll on this site?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487)
**Author:** [@femmejean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femmejean)\ **Replies:** 167\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2019, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-troll-on-this-site/785487 "2019-07-06T11:40:31Z")
Searching up SDMB questions on Google, I see that trolls have been just as massive of a problem in the early 2000s as they are today many of who are banned. Since some of you have been here since the beginning of the si… --- ## [Tucker Carlson, Home wrecker!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-home-wrecker/836400)
**Author:** [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-home-wrecker/836400 "2019-07-05T17:56:22Z")
It was the Bromance for the Ages. Bedtime calls, smoothies and smooches, the gentle reassurance of the reach-around. Has Sean Hannity’s noble Irish face been etched by the Hand of Time, the worry lines deepened, the on… --- ## [So North Korea? WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-north-korea-wtf/836300)
**Author:** [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Replies:** 138\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-north-korea-wtf/836300 "2019-07-05T13:03:35Z")
I’m very puzzled. The Donald seems to have a major big thing for NK and Kim Jong Un and I can’t figure out why. This latest schmooz - case in point. I know he has a propensity towards autocrats and assholes - Putin, Er… --- ## [DrDeth vs Hurricane Ditka: who's the bigger troll?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-vs-hurricane-ditka-whos-the-bigger-troll/832958)
**Author:** [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Replies:** 124\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-vs-hurricane-ditka-whos-the-bigger-troll/832958 "2019-07-03T11:45:00Z")
Discuss. There are many similarities. Both are fanatically committed to their partisan POV, yet unable to defend their beliefs other than by repeatedly parroting canned talking points. Neither have any shred of intellec… --- ## [Fuck This](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-this/836119)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-this/836119 "2019-07-01T14:45:45Z")
A few years back, I made a shitty, tasteless joke at the expense of jews and nearly got banned fror it. Here’s a joke in a thread about concentration camps at the southern border. Bolding mine. Here’s the context for… --- ## [Kids aren’t chickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-aren-t-chickens/835928)
**Author:** [@Dobbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dobbs)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-aren-t-chickens/835928 "2019-06-28T18:16:05Z")
A woman is accused of playing a game of ‘chicken’ with her SUV and her kids. Now her 3-year-old is dead. A woman is accused of playing a game of 'chicken' with her SUV and her kids. Now her 3-year-old is dead | CNN No w… --- ## [The Trump Outrages Come Thick and Fast](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031)
**Author:** [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-outrages-come-thick-and-fast/836031 "2019-06-28T15:09:36Z")
Just in the past few days: We’ve gotten detailed reports about the horrors of the Trump Adminstration’s kiddie concentration camps. The decision about whether or not to commit an act of war against Iran apparently … --- ## [What Inanimate Object Could You Go Full Basil Fawlty On?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inanimate-object-could-you-go-full-basil-fawlty-on/835997)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-inanimate-object-could-you-go-full-basil-fawlty-on/835997 "2019-06-27T23:30:27Z")
I wasn’t sure between this forum and IMHO, but this is for rants in general. You remember this scene? Of course you do. I feel for Basil because I can totally relate. At my workplace, they have recently renovated. No… --- ## [Med school students routinely perform vaginal exams on unconscious, unconsenting patients.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/med-school-students-routinely-perform-vaginal-exams-on-unconscious-unconsenting-patients/836096)
**Author:** [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/med-school-students-routinely-perform-vaginal-exams-on-unconscious-unconsenting-patients/836096 "2019-06-27T06:22:48Z")
Even in the age of Trump this is one of the most outrageous things I’ve seen in years. Med students routinely perform vaginal exams on unconcious, non-consenting women in completely unrelated procedures. One Duke stud… --- ## [The High Price of Insulin Is Killing US Citizens](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-high-price-of-insulin-is-killing-us-citizens/835676)
**Author:** [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Replies:** 133\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2019, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-high-price-of-insulin-is-killing-us-citizens/835676 "2019-06-26T06:44:03Z")
Note the title. Note the “US Citizens”. That’s very important, because it’s not happening in the UK or France or Britain or Australia or really anywhere else even slightly modern/technological. The price of insulin ha… --- ## [The Naomi Wolf Lying Thread For Lying Liars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naomi-wolf-lying-thread-for-lying-liars/835619)
**Author:** [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-naomi-wolf-lying-thread-for-lying-liars/835619 "2019-06-25T21:48:07Z")
Surprise, surprise! Naomi Wolf has been caught out lying yet again. I’m sure in a moment there will be monkeys leaping to the defense of the indefensible and that is fine. Until then, the non-simian among you can enjoy … --- ## [We have a russian troll, name of Barack](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734 "2019-06-25T13:37:05Z")
Yes, our poster named after our recent president is a Russian Troll, imho. Look at his thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=877270 In this thread (and others0) he purports to be supporting Ber… --- ## [A word on "fearful snowflakes" and Trump Derangement Syndrome (Lumpy)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-word-on-fearful-snowflakes-and-trump-derangement-syndrome-lumpy/835951)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-word-on-fearful-snowflakes-and-trump-derangement-syndrome-lumpy/835951 "2019-06-25T00:16:36Z")
Hey, I realize this is from a few years ago, but I thought now might be a good time to come back to an old thread Lumpy made. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/18/politics/donald-trump-term-limit/index.html https://boa… --- ## [A two-fer for a rugby snowflake and the PeeWee Kiwi - another day, more grift](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-two-fer-for-a-rugby-snowflake-and-the-peewee-kiwi-another-day-more-grift/835885)
**Author:** [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 24, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-two-fer-for-a-rugby-snowflake-and-the-peewee-kiwi-another-day-more-grift/835885 "2019-06-24T13:40:02Z")
Bigoted Snowflake wants money, just 'cause: … and is being promoted by a grifter (Turdball Ray Comfort, yet again) for more self promotion to attempt gathering fame off of the spoils. I can’t keep up with this shit… --- ## [Shut the fuck up and go away, OJ; this will not end well for you](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-and-go-away-oj-this-will-not-end-well-for-you/835577)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [June 22, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-and-go-away-oj-this-will-not-end-well-for-you/835577 "2019-06-22T15:25:18Z")
So says OJ in a video announcing his Twitter channel, reports the Associated Press. Yeah, well, lemme tell ya: the only thing 99.99% of people want to hear out of your mouth is that you finally admit that you killed y… --- ## [I hate these new "green" gas cans.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-these-new-green-gas-cans/627299)
**Author:** [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-these-new-green-gas-cans/627299 "2019-06-20T16:39:16Z")
The new, plastic, five gallon gas cans are shit. The one I bought last summer worked up until a month ago. The stupid thump switch thing on the spout decided to break. I went out and bought another one. Different desig… --- ## [Ray "Turd" Comfort annoying hospital patients n staff](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-turd-comfort-annoying-hospital-patients-n-staff/835790)
**Author:** [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-turd-comfort-annoying-hospital-patients-n-staff/835790 "2019-06-20T14:12:12Z")
Banana Man Ray Comfort, the PeeWee Kiwi, is currently hospitalized - award-buying author, plagiarist, grifter, liar-for-gawd, homophobe - and is using the situation to annoy the other patients. Yeah, those prayers real… --- ## ["I moved on her like a bitch"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-moved-on-her-like-a-bitch/835649)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-moved-on-her-like-a-bitch/835649 "2019-06-20T02:46:41Z")
Of course, that’s what trump said in the famous recording. Is this common slang wording? I’ve never heard a guy say such a thing. I probably would have said, “like a son of a bitch”. --- ## [When humanitarian behavior is criminalized...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-humanitarian-behavior-is-criminalized/835420)
**Author:** [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-humanitarian-behavior-is-criminalized/835420 "2019-06-17T09:59:51Z")
Feds may try to prosecute him again. It gets better. People who think that comparisons of this administration and its adherents to Nazi Germany are hyperbole are dangerously naive. --- ## [Stop giving Bannon so much credit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-giving-bannon-so-much-credit/780625)
**Author:** [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-giving-bannon-so-much-credit/780625 "2019-06-16T13:44:03Z")
Media talking heads and reporters have to stop painting that crypto-fascist as some sort of political mastermind. He’s not fucking Darth Vader, nor is he the least bit scary in his ill fitting dingy black shirts and Old… --- ## [I now know which is the dumbest burger-joint of them all!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-know-which-is-the-dumbest-burger-joint-of-them-all/835049)
**Author:** [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-now-know-which-is-the-dumbest-burger-joint-of-them-all/835049 "2019-06-13T17:39:44Z")
One chain, (which I shall not identify because that’d be mean, but it isn’t Burger King, and they have a thing for clowns) has finally broken my goggles, to where they do nothing. This chain (not Wendy’s, and they sound … --- ## [Ramadan came and went...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ramadan-came-and-went/835047)
**Author:** [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ramadan-came-and-went/835047 "2019-06-13T14:07:17Z")
it ended yesterday. Now, I didn’t read every post in every thread, but I guess I must have missed the SDMB’s coterie of angry atheists making puerile jokes at the expense of the Muslim holiday. Surely you must have do… --- ## ["You should be ashamed of yourselves"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-should-be-ashamed-of-yourselves/835399)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-should-be-ashamed-of-yourselves/835399 "2019-06-12T19:47:59Z")
Jon Stewart’s exact words while speaking to the House Judiciary Committee because only a handful of members showed up to a hearing to renew the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund. --- ## [Twofer: Alabama high school gets religion & WTF Urbanredneck?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twofer-alabama-high-school-gets-religion-wtf-urbanredneck/835400)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2019, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twofer-alabama-high-school-gets-religion-wtf-urbanredneck/835400 "2019-06-12T05:43:00Z")
In the thread High school football coach has players baptised regarding a school in Kentucky, I bumped it with this post about an Alabama high school pulling the same stunt. Good ol’ Urbanredneck jumped in with this bull… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=62) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=64)