# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=69 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 70 --- ## [Fuck Saudi Arabia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-saudi-arabia/828766)
**Author:** [@Batano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batano)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-saudi-arabia/828766 "2019-02-02T21:21:44Z")
I don’t understand why Saudi Arabia gets such a pass. Bin Laden was a Saudi, fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, they oppress the female half of their population, exploit low-wage foreign workers, and fun… --- ## [Hey: shove your nuclear waste up your own asses, fuckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-shove-your-nuclear-waste-up-your-own-asses-fuckers/828712)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-shove-your-nuclear-waste-up-your-own-asses-fuckers/828712 "2019-02-02T16:43:00Z")
“Gee, why do people in the western US distrust the federal government?” :mad: Fuck you and your nuclear waste. We don’t want it. Take it somewhere else or leave it at your place (where it is now), but we don’t fuckin… --- ## [The flu sucks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flu-sucks/828355)
**Author:** [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flu-sucks/828355 "2019-02-02T14:10:32Z")
Just what the title says. Motherfuckers, get your shots and/or stay home when you’re sick. Like I’m doing. I’m taking my collection of rehydrating fluids and going back to bed. --- ## [snfaulkner, come in here...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snfaulkner-come-in-here/828649)
**Author:** [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snfaulkner-come-in-here/828649 "2019-02-01T18:37:00Z")
…and then go fuck yourself, youmotherfucking asshole. That is all. --- ## [Auld Lang Whines (January Mini Rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-whines-january-mini-rants/827038)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 185\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2019, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-whines-january-mini-rants/827038 "2019-02-01T04:40:41Z")
This was our first Christmas holiday without mom, who passed away back in February. My wife and I usually take a trip around New Year’s to visit the family. (We live in the Kansas City area, the rest of the family lives … --- ## [Trump demands Mars be colonized by next Tuesday.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-demands-mars-be-colonized-by-next-tuesday/828498)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-demands-mars-be-colonized-by-next-tuesday/828498 "2019-01-31T23:54:30Z")
Okay, not quite literally, but asking for a manned landing before 2020 is only barely different. --- ## [Snow Day, But There's No Snow](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-day-but-theres-no-snow/828620)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-day-but-theres-no-snow/828620 "2019-01-31T12:38:05Z")
Today the schools announced a snow day. It’s not snowing. It did snow yesterday (the roads were awful, but they kept the schools open) but hasn’t snowed for eight hours, maybe ten. All the roads appear to be plowed. … --- ## [Shodan is not an asshole!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-not-an-asshole/828635)
**Author:** [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-not-an-asshole/828635 "2019-01-30T21:19:10Z")
For some unknown reason he thinks he is. https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21458354&postcount=127 "If Huey Freeman had much to teach us, I don’t care to learn it. I already know how to be an asshole. … --- ## [Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, on How to Pay for Medicare for All](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-ocasio-cortez-on-how-to-pay-for-medicare-for-all/825514)
**Author:** [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Replies:** 799\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2019, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-ocasio-cortez-on-how-to-pay-for-medicare-for-all/825514 "2019-01-30T21:05:26Z")
Let us all rejoice, because the lovely Ms. AOC has found $21 trillion under the mattress of the US military, so two-thirds of Medicare for All can be funded even before we start charging premiums. Setting aside minor qu… --- ## [Covington Catholic High (in case it hasn't been mentioned already)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090)
**Author:** [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Replies:** 848\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2019, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090 "2019-01-30T07:50:22Z")
Well, you may have already seen it if you use any social media and haven’t reduced your feed to a bunch of Ann Coulter wannabees, but let put it out there. A bunch of kids from this school were in DC for the March For L… --- ## [What the fuck is wrong with Huey Freeman?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-huey-freeman/827427)
**Author:** [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Replies:** 497\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-huey-freeman/827427 "2019-01-29T04:16:47Z")
tl;dr Huey is a ableist, racist bastard. In the Black Lives Matter Omnibus thread, Huey has an extremely odd and offensive fascination with autism. Here’s a sample: He uses autism as a pejorative routinely. I struggle… --- ## [NFL Honors? Is that what you call it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-honors-is-that-what-you-call-it/828503)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-honors-is-that-what-you-call-it/828503 "2019-01-29T03:09:03Z")
The very last thing the National Football League should be doing is crafting a ceremony that honors these motherfucking\*\* hoodlums. That $ 9 Billion league should spend more time working to eliminate the culture of fuc… --- ## [A Thread for the House Investigation Results and Outcomes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-house-investigation-results-and-outcomes/826870)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-house-investigation-results-and-outcomes/826870 "2019-01-28T19:27:38Z")
From the job adverts in Washington, it looks like we’re going to need a new thread, effective January 3: House Democrats scooping up staff, lawyers to power Trump investigations And, one last point that is sure to ha… --- ## [The official government shutdown "let them eat cake" thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-government-shutdown-let-them-eat-cake-thread/828413)
**Author:** [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2019, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-government-shutdown-let-them-eat-cake-thread/828413 "2019-01-28T17:53:59Z")
First it was Wilbur Ross who wondered why furloughed government workers (with no income) couldn’t just take out a loan. Today Trump did one better: borrow groceries. In honor of republicans’ abject stupidity and comple… --- ## [The masculinity paradox](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masculinity-paradox/822335)
**Author:** [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Replies:** 228\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2019, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masculinity-paradox/822335 "2019-01-28T03:14:39Z")
NOTE: I get that gender-roles are complex and non-binary but I wanted to on the cultural binary usage to target problems. People of differing genders often act differently, not because of biology but because of social n… --- ## [Fuck You Pakistan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pakistan/585524)
**Author:** [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [January 25, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pakistan/585524 "2019-01-25T21:11:40Z")
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/world/asia/15policy.html?hp I just give up. Just cut off all friggin aid and back India full-on on Kashmir and whatever else. We should have done this since 1947. Pakistan’s always had … --- ## [The iiandyiiii guide to white supremacists and their enablers/tolerators](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iiandyiiii-guide-to-white-supremacists-and-their-enablers-tolerators/828017)
**Author:** [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Replies:** 117\ **Last updated:** [January 25, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iiandyiiii-guide-to-white-supremacists-and-their-enablers-tolerators/828017 "2019-01-25T14:25:29Z")
Quoting from this thread which is up to 7 pages now. The emphasized portions are courtesy of yours truly and impetus for this thread. These words carry a lot of weight with some and could use their own thread. Well, i… --- ## [A Rant: Conservatives, Poverty, and Education](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-conservatives-poverty-and-education/828139)
**Author:** [@JB99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JB99)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-conservatives-poverty-and-education/828139 "2019-01-24T16:20:15Z")
So I recently read “Damnation Island,” by Stacy Horn. In 1883 a charity worker named Josephine Shaw Lowell wrote a letter to a relative. She wrote: I find this a depressing but common perspective. I have known many,… --- ## [Gillette's controversial ad -or- I found the incels!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gillettes-controversial-ad-or-i-found-the-incels/827939)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 105\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2019, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gillettes-controversial-ad-or-i-found-the-incels/827939 "2019-01-24T08:05:12Z")
Gillette has an ad asking men to not be jerks. This has not gone over well with a subset of the male population, who see it as a personal attack on each and every one of them. “This sucks! I’m not like that,” and “Gil… --- ## [Pence - just in case you forgot what a hypocritical cry-baby he is](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pence-just-in-case-you-forgot-what-a-hypocritical-cry-baby-he-is/828000)
**Author:** [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [January 23, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pence-just-in-case-you-forgot-what-a-hypocritical-cry-baby-he-is/828000 "2019-01-23T20:00:44Z")
It seems that Mike Pence does actually speak from time to time. HERE is a piece from the execrable Fox News describing how the Vice President (does he get embarrassed hearing the word ‘Vice’?) responded to recent news st… --- ## [Mitch McConnell's Shutdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnells-shutdown/827861)
**Author:** [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2019, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnells-shutdown/827861 "2019-01-19T23:03:39Z")
All Mitch has to do is allow the Senate to vote on the House bills, and there will be a steady progression towards veto-proof majorities to reopen more and more parts of the government. And even that progression would p… --- ## [Facebook, you suck](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-you-suck/824545)
**Author:** [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-you-suck/824545 "2019-01-19T12:20:15Z")
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-used-opposition-research-firm-to-link-critics-to-george-soros-report-says-2018-11-14 That bombshell report was produced by the NYT in an article titled: “Delay, Deny and De… --- ## [Corruption](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corruption/827993)
**Author:** [@Chip\_Dundas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chip_Dundas)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corruption/827993 "2019-01-18T18:57:39Z")
\ --- ## [Megan Kelly wtf?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 176\ **Last updated:** [January 16, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437 "2019-01-16T15:09:17Z")
Just saw this on the AP feed: What comments? These: :confused: WTF??? --- ## [Trump works for the media, tell me I'm wrong.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-works-for-the-media-tell-me-im-wrong/827674)
**Author:** [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2019, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-works-for-the-media-tell-me-im-wrong/827674 "2019-01-14T03:34:08Z")
I didn’t want to hijack the Tulsi Gabbard thread, so I’m putting this response in its own thread. Trump was the media’s candidate. NBC lied to the people for years, building up his image as a genius businessman. Fox ga… --- ## [Urbanredneck, what the FUCK were you THINKING???](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urbanredneck-what-the-fuck-were-you-thinking/827121)
**Author:** [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Replies:** 116\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urbanredneck-what-the-fuck-were-you-thinking/827121 "2019-01-12T18:48:50Z")
(Sorry for such a shitty Pitting – I have an intense headache, or I’d make a much better one) A poster makes a thread about his daughter’s problems with depression and anxiety. The poor girl has been having some seriou… --- ## [The president has gone full terrorist, and he's actively holding the government hostage.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-has-gone-full-terrorist-and-hes-actively-holding-the-government-hostage/827306)
**Author:** [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-has-gone-full-terrorist-and-hes-actively-holding-the-government-hostage/827306 "2019-01-11T13:02:34Z")
I’ve been pretty quiet about most of the clusterfuck, but at this point the government actually has a duty to take this terrorist out. He’s holding the government hostage and threatening to keep it shut down until he ex… --- ## [heres what mexico should do if the wall happens](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-mexico-should-do-if-the-wall-happens/827448)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2019, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-mexico-should-do-if-the-wall-happens/827448 "2019-01-11T02:36:10Z")
heres a few things id do or think about if I was in charge of Mexico and the wall happens or they begin building it pass a law that all north American companies that have Mexican workers they pay them 35 percent of t… --- ## [If Donald Trump interferes with air travel I’m going to be pissed as hell.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-interferes-with-air-travel-i-m-going-to-be-pissed-as-hell/827434)
**Author:** [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-donald-trump-interferes-with-air-travel-i-m-going-to-be-pissed-as-hell/827434 "2019-01-10T03:39:34Z")
Not sure whether to include this in the very long general Donald Trump pissed thread. However: I have a bunch of important trips scheduled in the next few months. If he interferes with them with his cockamamie shutdown… --- ## [Kelly wants us to judge him by "what Trump didn't do"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kelly-wants-us-to-judge-him-by-what-trump-didnt-do/827045)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kelly-wants-us-to-judge-him-by-what-trump-didnt-do/827045 "2019-01-09T20:05:35Z")
That’s the tag-line from Kelly’s interview with the Los Angeles Times: Okay, let’s take a look at what Trump didn’t do when Kelly was Chief of Staff: • Trump didn’t condemn white supremacists at Charlotteville, instea… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=68) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=70)