# DrDeth is Pitted Again **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 17, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044 "2025-10-17T03:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/221 "2026-05-24T19:31:56Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > But it’s not the individual citizens’ place to choose to deprive the police of an accurate statistical understanding of what’s going on. Yeah, no. Fuck that and fuck the police. I will report (or not) whatever crimes I damn well please. I give fuck all about crime fighting statistics. Respectfully. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/222 "2026-05-25T18:00:05Z")
Always ready to take a stand…against things never mentioned by anybody in said thread. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/223 "2026-05-25T18:51:53Z")
Assuming you’re talking about DD … Well if somebody can’t read and understand their own cites, it’s a good bet they can’t read and understand the thread they’re responding to any better. Which leads to rebuttals of imaginary arguments etc. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/224 "2026-05-25T20:25:35Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Well if somebody can’t read and understand their own cites, it’s a good bet they can’t read and understand the thread they’re responding to any better. No kidding. > [@What’s a good “warts and all” subject matter for a movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-a-good-warts-and-all-subject-matter-for-a-movie/1030355/47): > > > [@What’s a good “warts and all” subject matter for a movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-a-good-warts-and-all-subject-matter-for-a-movie/1030355/2): > > > > We really need a non-romanticized bio-pic about P.T. Barnum which features his purchase and exploitation of [Joice Heth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joice_Heth). This was the start of America’s adulation of conmen…and certainly not the end. > > She was paid a LOT of $$- > > > Historian [Eric Lott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lott) claimed Heth earned the impresario $1,500 a week, a princely sum in that era (equivalent to $47,000 in 2025).[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joice_Heth#cite_note-lott-9) Does he think Heth was the impresario? ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/225 "2026-05-25T20:31:26Z")
Or, for that matter, even if she was paid a lot of money, that only just makes here _part of the con_. It doesn’t make it not a con. So many levels of reading comprehension fail. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/226 "2026-05-25T20:32:15Z")
More likely he thinks Heth was paid $1,500 a week _by_ the empresario Barnum. Lysdexia is read a thing terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/227 "2026-05-25T21:10:09Z")
Or he’s just plain dumb. And always has been. No need for a fancy diagnosis. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/228 "2026-05-25T21:32:57Z")
Could well be. The dyslexia idea just popped into my head. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/229 "2026-05-25T22:32:56Z")
In hindsight, Freud had some wacky notions of his own, but he was apocryphally right about one thing. Sometimes a dumbass is just a dumbass [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044.md?page=11)