# Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives lawsuit **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diners-drive-ins-and-dives-lawsuit/599556 "2011-10-13T17:35:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diners-drive-ins-and-dives-lawsuit/599556/21 "2011-10-14T16:08:41Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Anybody in the world has the right to not only chose their own name, but to pronounce it however they choose. To call someone a douchecanoe for doing so indicates douchebaggery all right, just not in the way intended. I’m sorry, but if I say that Hyacinth Bucket is a douchecanoe, I don’t accept that this makes me a douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diners-drive-ins-and-dives-lawsuit/599556/22 "2011-10-14T18:39:12Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I’m sorry, but if I say that Hyacinth Bucket is a douchecanoe, I don’t accept that this makes me a douchebag. That’s Bouquet. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diners-drive-ins-and-dives-lawsuit/599556/23 "2011-10-14T19:32:16Z")
I can’t stand Fieri. In a just world Adam Richman would have his show and Guy would be the one who has to torture himself by eating 6 lb. burritos slathered in bhut jolokia puree. Both shows would instantly be so much more entertaining and satisfying. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diners-drive-ins-and-dives-lawsuit/599556/24 "2011-10-14T19:36:51Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I’m sorry, but if I say that Hyacinth Bucket is a douchecanoe, I don’t accept that this makes me a douchebag. Well, not for Hyacinth at least. In that we are in complete agreement. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diners-drive-ins-and-dives-lawsuit/599556/25 "2011-10-14T20:41:23Z")
I am shocked — shocked! — to find that an a supposedly personable and fun-loving television host is actually kind of a jerk in real life! I find his show entertaining, and it promotes for the most part small family owned businesses, which happen to be exactly the sort of place I prefer to frequent when I’m traveling (or when I’m at home, for that matter). And his restaurant here in town (Tex Wasabi’s) happens to serve some pretty good food. Reading the linked story, it sounds like there was a power struggle, Fieri won, Page lost, and now he’s bitching and whining and airing dirty laundry. If Fieri is actually as big of an ass as Page makes him out to be, then the two probably deserve each other. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diners-drive-ins-and-dives-lawsuit/599556/26 "2011-10-15T01:12:02Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > If you can’t pronounce a rolled _R_ properly, then it’s douchebaggery to try to approximate it with “a ‘d-’ or soft ‘t-’” when there’s no reason to. For example, when you’re not actually speaking Italian. Exactly! > [@silenus](#): > > Anybody in the world has the right to not only chose their own name, but to pronounce it however they choose. To call someone a douchecanoe for doing so indicates douchebaggery all right, just not in the way intended. If you want to name yourself whatever, that’s fine. But to intentionally mispronounce it _while claiming that your mispronunciation is linguistically appropriate_ is definitely douchebaggery. Say that it’s Fieri pronounced Feety because you _like it that way_, fine. Say that it’s Fieri pronounced Feety because that’s proper Italian? Douche move. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diners-drive-ins-and-dives-lawsuit/599556.md?page=1)