# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=73 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 74 --- ## [Y'all hate me...but you know I'm right](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-hate-me-but-you-know-im-right/822543)
**Author:** [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Replies:** 208\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-hate-me-but-you-know-im-right/822543 "2018-10-15T00:53:20Z")
I’ve been telling you all that we’re marching into authoritarianism and that American democracy is dying. I’ve been called chicken little and that I’m overreacting, but day by day, week by week, month by month…I’ve been … --- ## [Everybody must get groped...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-must-get-groped/822137)
**Author:** [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Replies:** 100\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2018, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-must-get-groped/822137 "2018-10-15T00:50:42Z")
Everybody Must Get Groped Well, they’ll grope ya when you’re trying to be so good They’ll grope ya just a-like you knew they would They’ll grope ya when you’re tryin’ to go home Then they’ll grope ya when they think … --- ## [Is Saint Cad so worthless he's not worth a Pitting?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-saint-cad-so-worthless-hes-not-worth-a-pitting/822879)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-saint-cad-so-worthless-hes-not-worth-a-pitting/822879 "2018-10-12T23:46:37Z")
Saint Cad has been “flying under the radar.” He’s not as pompously anal retentive as Bricker, nor as stupid as HurricaneDitka. I barely notice most of the Dopers, but Cad has been pinging me for years and the camel’s b… --- ## [People who knowingly spread the flu should be put in jail!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-knowingly-spread-the-flu-should-be-put-in-jail/822756)
**Author:** [@CoastalMaineiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoastalMaineiac)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-knowingly-spread-the-flu-should-be-put-in-jail/822756 "2018-10-11T20:20:01Z")
Fortunately for me, I have had my flu shot, and have been extra cautiously cleaning everything in my work area with bleach, so I have not had it yet, but it has been spreading all around my work place. So I just want to… --- ## [Terrible Awful web site design](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-awful-web-site-design/822452)
**Author:** [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-awful-web-site-design/822452 "2018-10-10T19:34:58Z")
If you’ve ever found yourself on a website that was designed for maximum user-unfriendliness, that made you want to smash your computer (in addition to never using the site’s product again)… I give you: StubHub. Having… --- ## [Partisan Derangement Syndrome -- A Proposed Diagnostic Exam](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/partisan-derangement-syndrome-a-proposed-diagnostic-exam/822654)
**Author:** [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/partisan-derangement-syndrome-a-proposed-diagnostic-exam/822654 "2018-10-10T12:49:51Z")
Instructions: Determine whether you agree or disagree with the following ten statements. For each “agree,” give yourself one point. \[ol\] \[li\]The other side is more ruthless and organized than my side.\[/li\] \[li\]Cable n… --- ## [Pitting Steophan, and any of the other lying liars from the now-closed Kavanaugh thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-steophan-and-any-of-the-other-lying-liars-from-the-now-closed-kavanaugh-thread/822604)
**Author:** [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-steophan-and-any-of-the-other-lying-liars-from-the-now-closed-kavanaugh-thread/822604 "2018-10-09T23:41:47Z")
Pitting Steophan for his post in this exchange in particular: Given the abundant citations in the thread referring to persons (such as Ford’s therapist) who corroborated her story, and the virtual impossibility tha… --- ## [F\*ck Trump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ck-trump/822488)
**Author:** [@DragonAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonAsh)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2018, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ck-trump/822488 "2018-10-09T10:45:58Z")
Knowing how history played out, I almost kinda wish McCain would have beaten Obama in 2008. Yes, it would have been bad, yes having Palin as Vice President (oh dear god gag me) would have been a disaster. But it would h… --- ## [\#WhyIDidntReport](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyididntreport/821770)
**Author:** [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Replies:** 276\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyididntreport/821770 "2018-10-07T20:59:08Z")
I couldn’t find an existing thread for this; maybe I’m not searching right. I thought the Pit was the right place, so people can let go and curse if they wish. Why didn’t I report? I really did not think anyone would h… --- ## [Concert tickets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concert-tickets/822525)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concert-tickets/822525 "2018-10-05T20:18:35Z")
Elton John tickets went on sale today for concerts in November…November, 2019. Let’s see, at NHL sized areas, which is where he’s playing, seating in the low-mid teens of thousands probably means gross ticket income of … --- ## [Tennessee high school AD put on leave after saying girls 'pretty much ruin everything'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-high-school-ad-put-on-leave-after-saying-girls-pretty-much-ruin-everything/821992)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-high-school-ad-put-on-leave-after-saying-girls-pretty-much-ruin-everything/821992 "2018-10-03T23:09:40Z")
this stupid dumbass decides to say this bullshit in this genderly charged era and posts it on youtube ………… he banned gym shorts ad then said this in his "a helping of Helnsley " blog its all girls fault and has been si… --- ## [A celebrity you don't like or a random Doper?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-you-dont-like-or-a-random-doper/822049)
**Author:** [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-you-dont-like-or-a-random-doper/822049 "2018-10-03T16:20:23Z")
Based on my Sinatra v. Ellison thread. Putting it here so nobody needs to be coy. Would you rather spend an evening with a celebrity you dislike or with a randomly chosen Doper? The celebrity can’t be someone you’ve a… --- ## [Jim Peebles is a fucking idiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-is-a-fucking-idiot/822029)
**Author:** [@JB99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JB99)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-is-a-fucking-idiot/822029 "2018-10-03T12:53:35Z")
Lies about Obama’s birth certificate and his religion have nothing to do with racial animosity. Claims that Mexican immigrants are criminals and rapists are not a racist statement. The suspending civil liberies for the… --- ## [Suck it, Vinod. You don't own the beach.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suck-it-vinod-you-dont-own-the-beach/822306)
**Author:** [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2018, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suck-it-vinod-you-dont-own-the-beach/822306 "2018-10-03T03:35:28Z")
In short: California has a law that beaches are public property and must remain accessible to the public. Vinod Khosla, a shitstain of the first order, bought a piece of property that just happened to completely clos… --- ## [Do you remember miniest rants of September?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-miniest-rants-of-september/820615)
**Author:** [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Replies:** 172\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2018, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-miniest-rants-of-september/820615 "2018-10-03T00:05:08Z")
Dear husband, I know you want to make me happy by suggesting a bigger zero turn lawnmower, but I don’t need it or want it. I’ve got the little one for the yards, and the tractor and bushhog for the pastures. I don’t want… --- ## [more HS stupidity :Repeatedly Groped Teen Almost Gets Expelled for 'Boys Are Not Allowed to Touch Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-hs-stupidity-repeatedly-groped-teen-almost-gets-expelled-for-boys-are-not-allowed-to-touch-me/822056)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-hs-stupidity-repeatedly-groped-teen-almost-gets-expelled-for-boys-are-not-allowed-to-touch-me/822056 "2018-10-02T16:12:02Z")
after yesterdays debacle in tennesee (you can peruse here https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=862919) we get this gem : MSN wow I always thought hs was just bullshit but stories like this make me thin… --- ## [Starving Artists thinks attempted rape is not "all that serious"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artists-thinks-attempted-rape-is-not-all-that-serious/821855)
**Author:** [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Replies:** 341\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2018, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artists-thinks-attempted-rape-is-not-all-that-serious/821855 "2018-10-02T03:45:09Z")
Yeah, we all already know about the paper towel tube thing. But at least his argument was that rape wasn’t possible, not that it wasn’t bad. This is far worse. But now he’s flat out said that what Ford alleged Kavinaugh… --- ## [Belief in \[a\] god as a signifier of sincerity or moral fortitude](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-in-a-god-as-a-signifier-of-sincerity-or-moral-fortitude/822085)
**Author:** [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-in-a-god-as-a-signifier-of-sincerity-or-moral-fortitude/822085 "2018-10-01T16:05:36Z")
There are enough conversations already about the hearings today, and I don’t want to derail any of them to pursue a second avenue of disgust, so I’ve started this one. All I listened to directly today was the tail end o… --- ## [The Special Snowflake Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617)
**Author:** [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617 "2018-09-28T19:16:12Z")
Here we have an omnibus thread for a collection of all things “snowflake”. Party agnostic, team agnostic, bring them all. Inspired by this episode following the 2016 Rose Bowl. I do love me some Stanford Band. I’m sur… --- ## [Birthdays; a rip off.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthdays-a-rip-off/821873)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthdays-a-rip-off/821873 "2018-09-28T19:05:08Z")
:mad: When you are a kid, birthdays rea fun. Presents! Parties! Friends! In short, profitable. In your (gulp :() mid thirties? Your friends start “suggesting” that we should all totally go for lunch. And yes of course… --- ## [All hail the brave pro-rape faction of the Teeming Millions!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-the-brave-pro-rape-faction-of-the-teeming-millions/821864)
**Author:** [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-the-brave-pro-rape-faction-of-the-teeming-millions/821864 "2018-09-27T21:32:07Z")
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=861606 I’m not cutting and pasting anything. It really starts up the last few days. It’s quite revealing and does include a few of the usual suspects here, so that’s… --- ## [Octotard is a fucktard!!!!!!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octotard-is-a-fucktard/821933)
**Author:** [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2018, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octotard-is-a-fucktard/821933 "2018-09-27T03:57:07Z")
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21230420&postcount=114 Congratulations troll. You figured out how to bait the mods into closing a thread that you don’t like, and that they find uncomfortable, so th… --- ## [Tardgasmic tardification treatment](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tardgasmic-tardification-treatment/821975)
**Author:** [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tardgasmic-tardification-treatment/821975 "2018-09-26T23:48:37Z")
Anyone posting in this thread will be responded to by adding the appellation of tard in some such manner as to affix the offending suffix or prefix as it were or shall I say will be to such posters name in such thread as… --- ## [Daily Kos's GOP Rape Advisory Chart: Now with updates!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-koss-gop-rape-advisory-chart-now-with-updates/821814)
**Author:** [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2018, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-koss-gop-rape-advisory-chart-now-with-updates/821814 "2018-09-25T06:54:47Z")
Oh, how I would love to skewer and burn to a crisp every ignorant, apathetic, deluded, uneducated, clueless, sadistic, and just plain perverse POS quoted on this chart–and anyone who supports or votes for them. An abstr… --- ## [Fucking Trump and his fucking tariffs.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-trump-and-his-fucking-tariffs/821799)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-trump-and-his-fucking-tariffs/821799 "2018-09-25T03:12:18Z")
I just placed a reasonably large electronic parts order with DigiKey. Everything has gone up in price, and there are shortages of ceramic MLCCs. All the parts from China now say “Tariff Applied.” Thanks for the tax in… --- ## [Employees of nursing- or group homes who steal from their clients](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employees-of-nursing-or-group-homes-who-steal-from-their-clients/821421)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2018, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employees-of-nursing-or-group-homes-who-steal-from-their-clients/821421 "2018-09-24T03:19:32Z")
One of my Facebook friends, a woman I worked with many years ago, has a son who lives in a special group home for people with both autism and mental retardation. (He appears to function on the level of about a 10- to 12… --- ## [Border Agent arrested for serial murder: Trump pardons him in....what, 90 days? Less?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/border-agent-arrested-for-serial-murder-trump-pardons-him-in-what-90-days-less/821458)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/border-agent-arrested-for-serial-murder-trump-pardons-him-in-what-90-days-less/821458 "2018-09-24T00:28:58Z")
Trump will pardon this badge-wearing speck of shit. Anyone want to guess the timeline? I say 90 days. Trump’s capable of creating such media mayhem on an hour to hour basis that he can erase stories from the front page … --- ## [Hurricane Florence and Ally Auto](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-florence-and-ally-auto/821741)
**Author:** [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2018, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-florence-and-ally-auto/821741 "2018-09-23T04:15:21Z")
Let me begin by saying, all things considered, I came through Hurricane Florence in pretty good shape. A lot of people around here (Wilmington, NC) lost everything. 30+ people died. I’m physically fine. I had damage to m… --- ## [Saying Hot Chick = Being A Misogynist Asshole](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-hot-chick-being-a-misogynist-asshole/820925)
**Author:** [@HeweyLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeweyLogan)\ **Replies:** 644\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-hot-chick-being-a-misogynist-asshole/820925 "2018-09-22T02:16:14Z")
This is no way a thread on moderator actions/beliefs board related to a question in ABTMB. It is, but it isn’t. To women, what part of ‘Hot Chick’ is offensive, the hot part or chick? --- ## [To Hell With My Uterus](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-my-uterus/649935)
**Author:** [@applebetty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/applebetty)\ **Replies:** 138\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-hell-with-my-uterus/649935 "2018-09-21T17:32:49Z")
I am entirely fed up with my uterus. I am going to have that bitch yankedaASAP. Goddammitt I spent the whole of Thursday night tending to blood flow, changing underwear, changing sheets, changing the comforter, finding… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=72) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=74)