# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=67 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 68 --- ## [A ridiculous end to a ridiculous "trial"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ridiculous-end-to-a-ridiculous-trial/559034)
**Author:** [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Replies:** 285\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ridiculous-end-to-a-ridiculous-trial/559034 "2019-03-25T23:56:15Z")
Omar Khadr was fifteen years old when, by his own admission, he killed a US Delta Force medic in firefight in Afghanistan. He also admitted to planting bombs targeting, among others, civilians (NB - AFAIK, the bombs were… --- ## [We should have a permanent FOX pit thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-should-have-a-permanent-fox-pit-thread/828171)
**Author:** [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2019, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-should-have-a-permanent-fox-pit-thread/828171 "2019-03-24T08:02:58Z")
For moments like this one:’ --- ## [The Southern Poverty Law Center has jumped the shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-poverty-law-center-has-jumped-the-shark/770588)
**Author:** [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Replies:** 171\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-poverty-law-center-has-jumped-the-shark/770588 "2019-03-23T13:15:12Z")
I just learned from Sam Harris’s podcast that the SPLC has placed Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Maajid Nawaz on their list of hate groups. This is absolutely absurd, and really despicable as it endangers their lives. I am partic… --- ## [I pit people who hate Marshmallow Peeps](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-hate-marshmallow-peeps/654509)
**Author:** [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2019, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-hate-marshmallow-peeps/654509 "2019-03-20T05:40:25Z")
This has been a long time coming, and despite that this is inspired by the forum name changes, and despite that it’s April fools, I mean it. I’m pitting all you Peeps haters out there. Peeps are a wonderful, delicious a… --- ## [Human Nature is Inherently Stupid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-nature-is-inherently-stupid/831290)
**Author:** [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2019, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-nature-is-inherently-stupid/831290 "2019-03-20T05:06:06Z")
Why can’t people reason out that, when entering a crowded area, you HAVE to let people OUT before you can squeeze in! What the hell is it with people that they CANNOT for the life of them reason this out? Will self-absor… --- ## [Trump wants to replace food stamps with a box of processed food, everyone gets the same thing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wants-to-replace-food-stamps-with-a-box-of-processed-food-everyone-gets-the-same-thing/808789)
**Author:** [@Chetumal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chetumal)\ **Replies:** 176\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wants-to-replace-food-stamps-with-a-box-of-processed-food-everyone-gets-the-same-thing/808789 "2019-03-20T05:03:34Z")
Link: here “The proposal, buried in the White House’s fiscal 2019 budget, would replace about half of the money most families receive via the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, with wh… --- ## [Ignored](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignored/831284)
**Author:** [@Spherical\_Bus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spherical_Bus)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignored/831284 "2019-03-19T20:47:50Z")
Why the hell am I being ignored? Been here since 2017! Nobody but a bot answered my thread --- ## [Common Core Math](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-core-math/821118)
**Author:** [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Replies:** 205\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-core-math/821118 "2019-03-19T13:53:40Z")
This has probably been covered already but… WTF is this bullshit!!! It seems like math for people who can’t grokk math. Can’t they just put all the slower kids in a different class and teach them common core? Questio… --- ## [Omnibus thread for how the current admin is sticking it to the poor & middle-class](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-thread-for-how-the-current-admin-is-sticking-it-to-the-poor-middle-class/808763)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2019, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-thread-for-how-the-current-admin-is-sticking-it-to-the-poor-middle-class/808763 "2019-03-18T19:38:38Z")
I’ll kick off. White House wants to deliver food to the poor, Blue Apron-style A “bold, innovative approach”! The Trump Administration Just Gutted Payday-Lending Regulations Work requirements for the poor to access… --- ## [People are actually trying to kill me, indirectly](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-are-actually-trying-to-kill-me-indirectly/831159)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-are-actually-trying-to-kill-me-indirectly/831159 "2019-03-17T18:16:01Z")
Infected feet. Can’t walk. Parked in nursing/rehab home for a couple weeks. Okay, you’re up to date. Daughters were visiting and I was in a wheelchair. I started coughing really hard, as did a daughter. We both tho… --- ## [Rick famous people bribe and cheat to get their kids into top Universities](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-famous-people-bribe-and-cheat-to-get-their-kids-into-top-universities/831048)
**Author:** [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2019, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-famous-people-bribe-and-cheat-to-get-their-kids-into-top-universities/831048 "2019-03-17T03:36:33Z")
This takes the cake. Parents wealthy enough to “donate” a building instead decide it’s a good idea to bribe and cheat their kids into top Universities. It’s not enough that their wealth can buy the best private schools, … --- ## [Ilhan Omar can fuck right off](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-can-fuck-right-off/830815)
**Author:** [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2019, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-can-fuck-right-off/830815 "2019-03-16T17:57:34Z")
Words cannot express how angry this makes me. I cut her slack on the alleged “anti-Semitism”, but this is a bridge too far. Or, like, a thousand bridges too far. Jesus fucking Christ. :mad: :mad: :mad: Taking dee… --- ## [WTF is with people who don't turn on their headlights at night?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-people-who-dont-turn-on-their-headlights-at-night/830901)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2019, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-with-people-who-dont-turn-on-their-headlights-at-night/830901 "2019-03-15T03:21:39Z")
Is it confirmation bias of some sort or has this gotten exponentially worse over the years? I come to an intersection, it’s 6:45 PM in midwinter and the sky is overcast and rain is falling; I’ve got my headlights on and… --- ## [Paint A Vulva Picture: or Mansplaining Fail.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paint-a-vulva-picture-or-mansplaining-fail/830749)
**Author:** [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Replies:** 254\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2019, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paint-a-vulva-picture-or-mansplaining-fail/830749 "2019-03-12T09:02:29Z")
Apologies if there was an earlier thread, couldn’t find one. A man tries to explain why he thinks a woman was using the word vulva wrong (Narrator: She wasn’t) and … it does not go well for him…to the point wherea dicti… --- ## [Disappointed in the Catholic Church once more.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointed-in-the-catholic-church-once-more/830777)
**Author:** [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointed-in-the-catholic-church-once-more/830777 "2019-03-11T21:33:00Z")
Wednesday evening I met my gf at a local brewery for beers and dinner. This is the time of year when, for reasons I’m not sure of, Catholic churches around here fry fish. One church in particular offered a deal for patro… --- ## [AOC's "Green New Deal" pipe dream](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aocs-green-new-deal-pipe-dream/829160)
**Author:** [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Replies:** 272\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aocs-green-new-deal-pipe-dream/829160 "2019-03-11T13:51:39Z")
Mike Pesca delivers a nice takedown of AOC’s truthiness schtick in the latest episode of his daily Slate podcast The Gist, starting at 19:30: Note that Pesca (like me) is a center-left Democrat, and he explicitly says… --- ## [fedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fedman/830836)
**Author:** [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fedman/830836 "2019-03-09T21:27:58Z")
Perhaps we’re going to need a thread to call out fedman’s asshattery, before someone loses patience and ends up getting a warning for giving his nonsense the response it deserves somewhere outside the Pit. I suppose if… --- ## [Fuck you, Deaf "Community"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-deaf-community/454994)
**Author:** [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Replies:** 273\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-deaf-community/454994 "2019-03-08T19:48:18Z")
My 4-year-old daughter is deaf. She is not “Deaf” with a capitol D. She simply has no hair cells in her cochlea, she has no functioning inner ear. Even though she is deaf, she is not automatically part of your littl… --- ## [The New Normal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-normal/830650)
**Author:** [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-normal/830650 "2019-03-08T15:42:03Z")
This thread is for the oppressed masses who have no power or influence. Trump is probably going to be re-elected, so we should prepare for the New Normal. Feel free to add to this list. \[ul\] \[li\]Democrats are only goin… --- ## [Fuck 3rd party sellers on Amazon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-3rd-party-sellers-on-amazon/830162)
**Author:** [@UCBearcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UCBearcats)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-3rd-party-sellers-on-amazon/830162 "2019-03-07T16:46:21Z")
I’m having a difficult time getting a refund for an incorrectly shipped item by a 3rd party on Amazon. They will not send a return label for the item. They want us to send back and give them a copy of the receipt. WTF?!?… --- ## [Black Lives Don't Matter (Walter Scott)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-lives-dont-matter-walter-scott/774007)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-lives-dont-matter-walter-scott/774007 "2019-03-07T12:30:24Z")
They caught it on video. They fucking caught it on video. They clearly caught, on video, the police officer shooting the fleeing suspect in the back, then planting a taser on him in order to intentionally frame it as s… --- ## [Online Transactions that don't warn you when the next "OK" completes them](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-transactions-that-dont-warn-you-when-the-next-ok-completes-them/830603)
**Author:** [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-transactions-that-dont-warn-you-when-the-next-ok-completes-them/830603 "2019-03-06T01:24:56Z")
So there are some transactions online when you have multiple screens to go through before completing the transaction, and sometimes I’m waiting for the point in the transaction where I enter something specific to the tra… --- ## [How's February shorting you? ~ 28 days of mini-rants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-february-shorting-you-28-days-of-mini-rants/828815)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 206\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2019, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-february-shorting-you-28-days-of-mini-rants/828815 "2019-03-04T02:13:27Z")
I live in Beijing. I hate, despise, and loathe cold weather. I have an especial dislike of snow. So I’m on vacation in Busan. It snowed the day before I arrived in town. Snow is a rarity in Busan, unlike in Seoul. The id… --- ## [What gives with rat avatar?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-with-rat-avatar/828612)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-with-rat-avatar/828612 "2019-03-03T21:14:40Z")
In a GQ thread, there is a “discussion” between Rat avatar and myself. He seemed unwilling to acknowledge a simple point about statistics, so I concocted a trivial example involving a move away from equilibrium in a two… --- ## [Michael Cohen's House testimony](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 374\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297 "2019-03-03T07:31:21Z")
Wanted to have a central place for discussion so I’m not bouncing from thread to thread to read updates and commentary on it. So far, what I’ve seen is Republicans trying to stop/delay the hearing with parliamentary non… --- ## [Goodbye, Straight Dope](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-straight-dope/819899)
**Author:** [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Replies:** 326\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2019, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-straight-dope/819899 "2019-03-02T05:30:15Z")
I’ve been on this board since 2007 and 2,852 posts. While living overseas for 12 years, this board was a bit of a connection back to the US, but in recent years this board has gone so far to the political left that it ha… --- ## [Donald Trump Is A Disgusting Human Being](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-is-a-disgusting-human-being/828863)
**Author:** [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-is-a-disgusting-human-being/828863 "2019-03-02T00:35:04Z")
As are those who support him. "The Trump administration said in a court filing that reuniting thousands of migrant children separated from their parents or guardians at the U.S.-Mexico border may not be “within the re… --- ## [Just Had to Find a Place to Put This (Comparing Nobel Laureates to Politicians)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-had-to-find-a-place-to-put-this-comparing-nobel-laureates-to-politicians/830342)
**Author:** [@chargerrich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chargerrich)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-had-to-find-a-place-to-put-this-comparing-nobel-laureates-to-politicians/830342 "2019-03-01T16:59:20Z")
As I am watching/listening to a series of who’s who panels of elite American scientists (Guth, Krauss, Baltimore, Bard, DeGrass-Tyson, Bonner, Witten, Blackburn, Thorne) as I work today, I cannot help but chuckle (then s… --- ## [Ever notice how some PhD holder are incredibly arrogant and think of themselves as gods?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-notice-how-some-phd-holder-are-incredibly-arrogant-and-think-of-themselves-as-gods/829468)
**Author:** [@scarface54345](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scarface54345)\ **Replies:** 132\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-notice-how-some-phd-holder-are-incredibly-arrogant-and-think-of-themselves-as-gods/829468 "2019-03-01T01:14:19Z")
I guess the words “doctor of philosophy” are what give them the wrong idea of them being so godly or godlike. Anyway, I was reading about how a PhD advisor said “Listen I’m the boss here. If you don’t like that, then get… --- ## [Jussie Smollett - Say It Ain't So](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jussie-smollett-say-it-aint-so/829698)
**Author:** [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Replies:** 182\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jussie-smollett-say-it-aint-so/829698 "2019-02-28T18:18:39Z")
It appears Jussie PAID his attackers and staged his racist mugging. Oh, fuck. I’m really hoping this isn’t true. Really, REALLY hoping, but not looking that way. The Orange Dick Suckers will eat this up as “proof” tha… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=66) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=68)