# Are you allowed to make predictions for a Pit thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 11, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-allowed-to-make-predictions-for-a-pit-thread/683401 "2014-03-11T02:15:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-allowed-to-make-predictions-for-a-pit-thread/683401/21 "2014-03-13T20:27:30Z")
Oh shit it just gets better and better. > [@Reparations Revisited](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reparations-revisited/681969/201): > > You still have the cake. > > But per your request, 'et’s take a look at a typical Clothahump posting. Hey, my first post in this thread will do for an example, since it has followed the typical path of things. > > 1. I post something that either a) sails right over the heads of the libs in here (as in this case) or b) annoys the hell out of them because they can’t refute it. Or, as is also in this case, is completely asinine and which the context of “it’s a joke” does nothing to improve. In fact, almost all of your statements fall into that third category. > [@](#): > > 1. I get responses like yours, which show clearly that what I posted sailed over your head, but that doesn’t stop you from personally attacking me. No, even with your original meaning clear, it’s _still incredibly dumb_. Even as a joke that’s tasteless and pointless, and you’re _still comparing reparations for getting fucked in the ass for generations on end to reparations for loss of “property” when the property was people_. Even if it’s a joke. And given the context, you also happen to have quite possibly the _worst comedic timing ever_. This is like cracking “how many jews can you fit into a VW Beetle” at the Nuremburg trials, at least in terms of appropriateness given the tone of the thread. > [@](#): > > 1. The other libs pile on, because page 1 of the liberal handbook says that if you can’t refute them, simply yell louder and don’t forget to attack them personally. Refute them? Um, hey asshole, several people _have_. You know, the difference between “being owned as property for a few generations, then having both the law and public perception grossly stacked against you for the next few generations, and getting fuck-all in return” and “being prevented from owning people”. That they bought them “legitimately” is irrelevant because _they’re fucking people_. _You don’t own **people** _. Oh, and for the record? > [@](#): > > Jesus Christ on a crutch. For a board devoted to fighting ignorance, you people are as dumb as a box of rocks. No, I’m sorry, “We disagree with you most of the time because 99% of the time you are so wrong that you completely miss the number of ways you are wrong” does not make us dumb. Might say a thing or two about you, though. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-allowed-to-make-predictions-for-a-pit-thread/683401)._