# A Pit thread for Asahi **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944 "2019-02-04T14:14:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/81 "2019-02-05T16:57:45Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > It’s like if you cut me off in traffic, and I yell out the window, “You’re a terrible fucking driver!” If you yell “Cite?!?” I’m just going to flip you off again. No, it’s not like that. It’s like I didn’t cut you off in traffic, but you say I did. You hold me in disregard at least in part because of things that didn’t happen outside your head. Which is fine - being despised by idiots is not nearly as bad as you might think. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/82 "2019-02-05T18:14:52Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Which is fine - being despised by idiots is not nearly as bad as you might think. CITE?!?!?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/83 "2019-02-05T18:34:20Z")
No doubt you’re right. You don’t have any experience of it - the idiots like you. Birds of a feather and so forth. You will have to take my word for it. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/84 "2019-02-05T18:55:40Z")
It’s like Donald Trump and GWB got together to make a word salad… the GREATEST word salad! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/85 "2019-02-05T19:00:20Z")
As the Facebook saying goes: When you’re dead, you don’t know you’re dead. It’s only difficult for others. It’s the same way when you’re stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/86 "2019-02-05T19:12:11Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Here we have a very opinionated progressive, **RTFirefly** , going out of his way to say **asahi** is a nut. This made me think, “When is the last time that **Shodan** pitted **doorhinge**? Or **HD** pitted that Erudite fuckstick, whoever he is?” The answer is obviously, never. And when the “both sides do it!” chorus arrives again, I’m going to remind them of it. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=850392](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=850392) Thread from last year of Shodan pitting a Farnaby-esque poster. That’s his only pitting of someone else from the board I could find since I joined. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/87 "2019-02-05T19:21:32Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > As the Facebook saying goes: When you’re dead, you don’t know you’re dead. It’s only difficult for others. It’s the same way when you’re stupid. Are you talking about how you still haven’t conceded that this thread isn’t actually about asahi being a white supremacist? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/88 "2019-02-05T19:35:40Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > As the Facebook saying goes: When you’re dead, you don’t know you’re dead. It’s only difficult for others. It’s the same way when you’re stupid. Yes, we know it’s isn’t difficult for you. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/89 "2019-02-05T19:39:17Z")
> [@Covfefe](#): > > [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=850392](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=850392) > Thread from last year of Shodan pitting a Farnaby-esque poster. That’s his only pitting of someone else from the board I could find since I joined. No offense, I hope, but you are kind of missing the point. **Ravenman** tried to accuse me of something I haven’t done, and “now you have to Pit a non-liberal to prove you didn’t do it” very much misses the mark. _:shrugs:_ It’s the Pit. No one expects sensible debate. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/90 "2019-02-05T20:04:13Z")
Oooh, snap! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/91 "2019-02-05T21:00:31Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > **Ravenman** tried to accuse me of something I haven’t done…4 The upshot of the criticism is that you don’t criticize conservatives. You decided to narrow that down to a particular question in order to deflect from the main point of your egregiously partisan behavior. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/92 "2019-02-06T00:51:28Z")
Somehow I get the feeling that being called “stupid” by Mr. **D-K Regards** should be held up as a sort of badge of honor or something. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/93 "2019-02-06T20:00:21Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > As the Facebook saying goes: When you’re dead, you don’t know you’re dead. It’s only difficult for others. It’s the same way when you’re stupid. Are you plagiarizing my post from several years ago? :mad: > [@Stupid liberal idea of the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/501): > > While Republican heroes like Gingrich, Rove and Beck espouse stupid ideas deliberately (selling books or campaigns) and would be happy to be leftist slime-ball liars if it paid better, some Republicans remind one of _Sixth Sense_ wherein the Bruce Willis character … didn’t know his idea was stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/94 "2019-02-06T20:45:29Z")
You remember what you posted 7 years ago? I don’t even remember what I posted 7 minutes ago. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/95 "2019-02-07T01:43:34Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > You remember what you posted 7 years ago? I don’t even remember what I posted 7 minutes ago. Heh, I love reading a zombie thread I don’t recognize, then I see something I’m tempted to respond to, then see later in the thread that I’d already responded that way years ago. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/96 "2019-02-07T02:52:32Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Heh, I love reading a zombie thread I don’t recognize, then I see something I’m tempted to respond to, then see later in the thread that I’d already responded that way years ago. I envy you, Sir. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/97 "2019-02-07T03:59:41Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Heh, I love reading a zombie thread I don’t recognize, then I see something I’m tempted to respond to, then see later in the thread that I’d already responded that way years ago. I had an experience like that recently. I was reading people writing about the purpose of the Pit. I went to the [sticky at the top of the forum](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=527897) to see what the purpose of the Pit really was. To my amusement, then embarrassment, I was one of the people who posted in the sticky note and had forgotten all about it. I could probably stand behind most of my posts in that thread, but I’m finding myself in disagreement on some parts of that thread. For my consolation though, it’s obvious that no one reads it or it would have been taken down. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/98 "2021-09-03T13:17:16Z")
Bump > [@Republicans Ban School Mask Mandates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-ban-school-mask-mandates/949789/65): > > > [@Republicans Ban School Mask Mandates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-ban-school-mask-mandates/949789/64): > > > > We are surrounded by reptiles. We need to break out the Bowie knife. We’re going to have a fight. There is no way around it.- > > Metaphors are all well and good. What does this look like in Real World terms? Such colorful, careless metaphors lead to this > **[12 Million Americans Believe Lizard People Run Our Country](https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/12-million-americans-believe-lizard-people-run-our-country/316706/)** > > About 90 million Americans believe aliens exist. Some 66 million of us think aliens landed at Roswell in 1948. These are the things you learn when there's a lull in political news and pollsters get to ask whatever questions they want. and this > **[Pro-Trump mob storms US Capitol in bid to overturn election](https://apnews.com/article/congress-confirm-joe-biden-78104aea082995bbd7412a6e6cd13818)** > > WASHINGTON (AP) — A violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and forced lawmakers into hiding, in a stunning attempt to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the nation’s democracy and keep... ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/99 "2021-09-03T13:26:43Z")
A bit ironic, given that his own avatar is a reptile. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944/100 "2021-09-03T17:32:45Z")
We are going to owe asahi an apology if what he thinks will happen in next year’s election (which I fear as well), happens. Republicans have made a lot of moves designed to disenfranchise millions of Dem voters and few even here seem to believe that, having loaded the gun, they’ll pull the trigger. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pit-thread-for-asahi/828944.md?page=6)