# Barbecued Pig **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 25, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045 "2014-07-25T19:10:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [July 25, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045/1 "2014-07-25T19:10:48Z")
OK, I kind of have to do this. Here was the OP: > [@Court rules that even on a bicycle, it's reckless driving.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/court-rules-that-even-on-a-bicycle-its-reckless-driving/693724/1): > > [Finally.](http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Court-rules-that-even-on-a-bicycle-it-s-reckless-5635029.php) What the ever-loving fuck, **Little\_Pig**? Nothing at all to say about it? Just link-trollery? Come on. And then the thread gets ugly, people arguing rather vehemently back and forth, and you come in weeping, “_Oh, please, calm down._” Because, you know, all you did was find a can of worms, and everyone knows what you do with a can of worms. Just, stop with the lame-ass trying to get them back into the can. As though, hey, this was not your fault, we were all supposed to be happy that one of these guys at last got justice, not break into a firestorm. Honestly, I think I bear you little if any ill will, **Pig** , but you could at least pretend to contribute more than a one word snide comment in your OP. Offer something of value to the conversation. Because here you come off looking like a goddam bridge-dwelling neanderthal. So knock the dumbshit shit off, and at least fucking apologize when you fuck up and lose control of your thread instead of blaming it on everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045/2 "2014-07-25T21:53:25Z")
OPs don’t control their threads. It was a lame OP, though. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045/3 "2014-07-25T23:35:33Z")
It’s a stupidly-written OP about a perfectly rantable topic. It’s like someone who comes up with a cool superhero name but his superpower is an uncanny ability to do Jar-Jar impressions. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045/4 "2014-07-26T00:03:40Z")
> [@Bozuit](#): > > It was a lame OP, though. So is this one. The link in _this_ OP goes to a San Francisco based something or other written by a “Bob Egelko”. Granted, the link is provided in a quote from **Little\_Pig** , but I still don’t know why the OP is angry at this particular pork chop. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045/5 "2014-07-26T00:36:12Z")
Now I’m hungry again, and I just had dinner. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045/6 "2014-07-26T00:40:00Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > So is this one. The link in _this_ OP goes to a San Francisco based something or other written by a “Bob Egelko”. Granted, the link is provided in a quote from **Little\_Pig** , but I still don’t know why the OP is angry at this particular pork chop. Sorry, the little blue arrow in the quote box will take you to the thread in question. That is where the asshattery all takes place. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045/7 "2014-07-26T02:39:32Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Sorry, the little blue arrow in the quote box will take you to the thread in question. That is where the asshattery all takes place. Seriously - 13 years on the Dope, and he doesn’t know how the quote link function works. He may be armed, but at least it’s not with a gun! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045/8 "2014-07-26T03:53:02Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Seriously - 13 years on the Dope, and he doesn’t know how the quote link function works. He may be armed, but at least it’s not with a gun! 🙂 Seriously, that function is stupid. It’s hidden. Which brings us back to our present OP, who expects us to do all the work. Even after I click the little arrow it doesn’t tell me a damn thing. He didn’t say why he’s pissed at pork chop. I can only assume it’s something about bicycles, and I sure as hell am not going to sift through three pages. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045/9 "2014-07-26T04:01:28Z")
Oh Hell, just ignore me. I need some sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045/10 "2014-07-26T04:23:49Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > I can only assume it’s something about bicycles, and I sure as hell am not going to sift through three pages. The gist is charging people on bikes with reckless driving if they violate traffic rules and injure someone, which is certainly possible - a reasonably powerful cyclist can easily get up enough momentum to hurt or kill a pedestrian he crashes into. The article describes two cases of drunken cyclists striking pedestrians, in one case inflicting serious injury, the other fatally. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045/11 "2014-07-26T15:17:51Z")
Why Pit someone who has only been here for four months? The OP could have been a reply in the thread. They keep doing it to troll, then obvious troll is a troll and goes on your ignore list. Is it because it’s the Pit and there’s some sort of need to be a shitty to someone? Also, just as click-bait is bad form for an OP, so is not putting the poster’s name in the title. I would have expected this to be about that ne’er-do-well detective, Freddie the Pig. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045/12 "2014-07-26T15:35:14Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > Seriously, that function is stupid. It’s hidden. Which brings us back to our present OP, who expects us to do all the work. Even after I click the little arrow it doesn’t tell me a damn thing. He didn’t say why he’s pissed at pork chop. I can only assume it’s something about bicycles, and I sure as hell am not going to sift through three pages. It’s okay. I’ve been here over 14 years, and had no idea that blue arrow was even there and clickable until now. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045/13 "2014-07-26T18:31:36Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > I would have expected this to be about that ne’er-do-well detective, Freddie the Pig. That’s Freddy with a y, my friend. And when I get pitted, it will make a much bigger and better barbecue than this! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecued-pig/694045/14 "2014-07-26T18:35:12Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Why Pit someone who has only been here for four months? The OP could have been a reply in the thread. Not really. > [@Court rules that even on a bicycle, it's reckless driving.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/court-rules-that-even-on-a-bicycle-its-reckless-driving/693724/105): > > PLEASE everyone calm down immediately. This sniping needs to end here. If you cannot, please take your difference with another to the Pit. Any more posts of the “wassa matter, can’t you take it you big baby” variety will be warned. > > So if you want to keep discussing this, be civil.