# The BBQ Pit **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=85 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 86 --- ## [Door to door electricity scammers: again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-to-door-electricity-scammers-again/788809)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-to-door-electricity-scammers-again/788809 "2017-12-03T01:18:26Z")
I was going to post about this in my old thread about it here: Door to door electricity scammers. - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board But I decided that it would be better not to confuse people by waking a zombi… --- ## [Slimy men and their slimy words.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slimy-men-and-their-slimy-words/802333)
**Author:** [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Replies:** 118\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slimy-men-and-their-slimy-words/802333 "2017-12-02T20:01:45Z")
Going to take a leave of absence and reflect are you? Didn’t realize you were being inappropriate? Recognise now that your innocent actions could be misinterpreted? What a steaming pile of freshly dumped horseshit you ar… --- ## [Why the hell did I get a fundraising appeal from Donald Trump?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hell-did-i-get-a-fundraising-appeal-from-donald-trump/803267)
**Author:** [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hell-did-i-get-a-fundraising-appeal-from-donald-trump/803267 "2017-12-02T17:21:16Z")
I just got an email fundraising appeal from the Donald Trump campaign. What the hell? Anybody who knows anything about me knows I despise the man. --- ## [How Are They Going to Spin Flynn (A time sensitive thread)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-they-going-to-spin-flynn-a-time-sensitive-thread/803256)
**Author:** [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2017, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-they-going-to-spin-flynn-a-time-sensitive-thread/803256 "2017-12-02T09:22:41Z")
OK, Flynn is singing. Big ba-da-boom! Just happened. So, pretty soon, the reptile brain stem of the Forces of Darkness will stir. They will spin, spin they must… OK, what? Before they actually say it, what? Mine: … --- ## [No, No, No! (November rantings)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-no-november-rantings/800385)
**Author:** [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Replies:** 208\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-no-november-rantings/800385 "2017-12-01T15:00:32Z")
My rant? I couldn’t come up with a better title. --- ## [Lowe's flooring is about to have hellfire unleashed on them](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lowes-flooring-is-about-to-have-hellfire-unleashed-on-them/787224)
**Author:** [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2017, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lowes-flooring-is-about-to-have-hellfire-unleashed-on-them/787224 "2017-11-30T13:02:43Z")
I am in the middle of a remodel and spent weeks picking out a new floor in my living room and bedroom. Nothing fancy, just a nice laminate that came to about $6000 installed or so Lowe’s claimed. Their flooring specialis… --- ## [AARP, your constant mail will start my campfires.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aarp-your-constant-mail-will-start-my-campfires/802802)
**Author:** [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aarp-your-constant-mail-will-start-my-campfires/802802 "2017-11-30T04:35:14Z")
Hi. I’m Tripler. I am forty years old. AARP, I am fifteen years away from qualifying for your services, but I don’t give a shit. Whatever services you offer are for naught, 'cause I’m sick and tired of getting your g… --- ## [I pit assholes who instantly mock new users if their posts aren't grammatically correct](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-assholes-who-instantly-mock-new-users-if-their-posts-arent-grammatically-correct/802811)
**Author:** [@Arrogantly\_Ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogantly_Ignorant)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2017, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-assholes-who-instantly-mock-new-users-if-their-posts-arent-grammatically-correct/802811 "2017-11-30T00:50:50Z")
This has always been a pet peeve of mine, but I started this thread because of the replies to this one:http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=842509 Do you know what I thought when I read his first post? W… --- ## [HurricaneDitka, you are just so full of shit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricaneditka-you-are-just-so-full-of-shit/791699)
**Author:** [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricaneditka-you-are-just-so-full-of-shit/791699 "2017-11-29T16:12:56Z")
So over in GD, HurricaneDipshit drops this lovely turd: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=831416 The basic premise is that Republicans are more patriotic than Democrats. The reasoning behind this is … --- ## [National Moral and Religious Compassion Care Act](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-moral-and-religious-compassion-care-act/802848)
**Author:** [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-moral-and-religious-compassion-care-act/802848 "2017-11-28T22:38:18Z")
Alright, thought experiment time. We decide that we must find a compromise between liberal and religious compassion and care for the poor, the sick and the old, embodied in the modern liberal welfare state; and the cons… --- ## [Google and walmart sure did make it hard to claim the $25 gift card on google home products](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-and-walmart-sure-did-make-it-hard-to-claim-the-25-gift-card-on-google-home-products/802907)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-and-walmart-sure-did-make-it-hard-to-claim-the-25-gift-card-on-google-home-products/802907 "2017-11-28T00:32:58Z")
Maybe I’m an idiot, I’m open to the idea that I’m an idiot. On black friday, walmart had a deal where if you bought a google home product, you got a $25 gift card to walmart through google home express. Seeing how the g… --- ## [How can something travel intercontinentally faster than across a warehouse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-something-travel-intercontinentally-faster-than-across-a-warehouse/796378)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-something-travel-intercontinentally-faster-than-across-a-warehouse/796378 "2017-11-27T12:48:53Z")
4Q last year I bought something on Kickstarter (Yeah, I know, but it was only $60 or so). Then the emails started, over a period of months…the prototype didn’t work so they went back to the drawing board, then the new m… --- ## [Roy Moore -- self-hating closeted gay man?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-self-hating-closeted-gay-man/801676)
**Author:** [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2017, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-moore-self-hating-closeted-gay-man/801676 "2017-11-27T05:31:39Z")
He’s another one of these noisy religious types that rant interminably about ‘homosexuals’. They all seem to eventually be exposed as self-hating gays, usually by young hustlers they have hired (usually with church fund… --- ## [SarahWitch, the premier expert on American law.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713)
**Author:** [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713 "2017-11-27T01:01:15Z")
Based on your ramblings in GD and your refusing to put forward your bona fides in a forum in which you are expected to back up your assertions, clearly you are not the premier expert on American law despite holding your… --- ## [Entitled vendors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entitled-vendors/802223)
**Author:** [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entitled-vendors/802223 "2017-11-25T21:02:50Z")
We have been using the same vendor for 30 or 40 years. I notice that they are charging us retail when we buy more than most retail stores sell in a year. I shop around and with almost no effort, I get a vendor that wil… --- ## [Psychics are phony, Mr. Police Officer, in case you didn't know.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychics-are-phony-mr-police-officer-in-case-you-didnt-know/352779)
**Author:** [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Replies:** 172\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychics-are-phony-mr-police-officer-in-case-you-didnt-know/352779 "2017-11-25T18:46:29Z")
A year ago, the Centre County, Pennsylvania District Attorney, Ray Gricar, inexplicably disappeared. The day after he disappeared they found his car, and then later his laptop washed up on the shores of the Susquehanna R… --- ## [I was a sexual harasser.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-a-sexual-harasser/802360)
**Author:** [@zoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoo)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-a-sexual-harasser/802360 "2017-11-25T03:30:14Z")
Inspired by this post. I am pitting myself for sexual harassment. Back in the mid 80’s I was working as a bellhop at a resort hotel. I was 19 at the time and there was a cute girl working at the telephone PBX. I took t… --- ## [I pit Shodan the crybaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522)
**Author:** [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-shodan-the-crybaby/802522 "2017-11-25T01:12:51Z")
I’m sure Shodan has been pitted before - so sure I didn’t even search for it - but I want to pit him again. that whole “Regards” thing - so passive agressive and childish - so whiny, such a crybaby. didn’t used to both… --- ## [DAESH criminal infidel rot in hell again, Egyptian edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daesh-criminal-infidel-rot-in-hell-again-egyptian-edition/802632)
**Author:** [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2017, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daesh-criminal-infidel-rot-in-hell-again-egyptian-edition/802632 "2017-11-25T00:12:18Z")
The DAESH associated criminals have slaughtered the innocent again for the mere fact of the worship in a way that is different, killing over two hundred in the attackon a mosque ‘associated’ with Sufi practice. (bis to… --- ## [Sorry, maybe I'm naive, but I don't view all men as potential rapists or predators.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-maybe-im-naive-but-i-dont-view-all-men-as-potential-rapists-or-predators/802159)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 128\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-maybe-im-naive-but-i-dont-view-all-men-as-potential-rapists-or-predators/802159 "2017-11-23T21:23:51Z")
I realize that a lot of women do, and based on their life experiences, it can almost make sense, if they grew up with abuse. Yes, I do live in the real world, but I don’t go to, for instance, the grocery store, and thin… --- ## [Witness haters--are you happy now? :(](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221)
**Author:** [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Replies:** 1013\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witness-haters-are-you-happy-now/670221 "2017-11-22T20:01:02Z")
I found this article today in the Huffington post: \*It was a miracle no one was injured. After telling a group of three Jehovah’s Witnesses to get lost, Centeron, Ark., resident John Baldwin, 35, fired about 19 shots a… --- ## [Sooo, How will Trump Fuck Up the Traditional Turkey Pardon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sooo-how-will-trump-fuck-up-the-traditional-turkey-pardon/802229)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sooo-how-will-trump-fuck-up-the-traditional-turkey-pardon/802229 "2017-11-22T19:50:43Z")
My money is on naming the turkey Kim Jong Un, and chopping its head off on live TV. Ideas? --- ## [SDMB and their ADs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-and-their-ads/802079)
**Author:** [@dgrdfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dgrdfd)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-and-their-ads/802079 "2017-11-22T15:10:45Z")
Jesus Christ the popups in mobile are ridiculous - Facebook-Walmart.com with no option other than to go to a shady ass website to “claim your prize” I see this on no other website that I visit and is making this one damn… --- ## [Why don't people care about intelligent animals?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-care-about-intelligent-animals/802284)
**Author:** [@Trisha\_Gaurav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_Gaurav)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2017, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-people-care-about-intelligent-animals/802284 "2017-11-22T10:38:24Z")
I don’t see any memes about Lady the gorilla. It could be because she wasn’t shot, but still. And YouTube videos with intelligent animals don’t get as much attention as the ones with the “silly” animals. --- ## [Fucking leaf blowers. I am so sick of this goddam shit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749)
**Author:** [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Replies:** 142\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749 "2017-11-22T03:00:29Z")
I’m in school full time, finishing my project at home. I’m in an online program. Every Monday morning at about eleven, the gardener comes to the building next door. For what seems like an eternity we hear: dnnhhhddd… --- ## [I Pit the Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-pope/801775)
**Author:** [@BeenJammin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeenJammin)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-pope/801775 "2017-11-21T17:57:18Z")
So apparently Pope Francis has determined more clinically prescribed death might be a good distraction from the pedophilia, salacious depravity and greed presently confounding his institution. In all reality, probably … --- ## [I heard my first Christmas jingle radio ads today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heard-my-first-christmas-jingle-radio-ads-today/801161)
**Author:** [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2017, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heard-my-first-christmas-jingle-radio-ads-today/801161 "2017-11-21T06:06:57Z")
growls Death is too good for these people. --- ## [Ditka, it's apparently not okay when a democrat does it. Take that shit and stuff it.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ditka-its-apparently-not-okay-when-a-democrat-does-it-take-that-shit-and-stuff-it/801849)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2017, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ditka-its-apparently-not-okay-when-a-democrat-does-it-take-that-shit-and-stuff-it/801849 "2017-11-20T11:42:43Z")
In the recent thread about Al Franken, HurricaneDitka had this (and various nuggets to a related effect) to offer: Because, y’know, republicans take sexual assault so seriously. I’m reminded of an excerpt from I Can T… --- ## [Smilf ? Really ???](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilf-really/801684)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilf-really/801684 "2017-11-18T03:20:01Z")
SMILF. Honestly? – father and his 10-year old daughter are walking down the street to school. City bus rolls by with a large poster advertising this Showtime television program with the title splashed on the side of it.… --- ## [Thank God For The 2nd Amandment](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-the-2nd-amandment/801736)
**Author:** [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-the-2nd-amandment/801736 "2017-11-16T21:29:09Z")
Since you fucking Yankmericans want your fucking guns in plenty then I say celebrate it when they are used for what they are meant to be used for - killing people. No matter how many of you die you insist on holding ont… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=84) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-bbq-pit/11.md?page=86)