# Heh heh heh- you HAVE to read this thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 4, 2002, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260 "2002-11-04T21:08:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2002, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/1 "2002-11-04T21:08:59Z")
Winner for most un-intentionally funny posts in one thread contest now has a clear winner. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=142499](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=142499) The last time this “concept” was posted it turned into a massive train wreck. Wonder what will happen this time. . . ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/2 "2002-11-04T21:49:53Z")
I think the clearance on the OP’s doorway needs to be raised at least 6 inches. ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/3 "2002-11-04T21:57:43Z")
I’m fighting the urge to put a penny on the track. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/4 "2002-11-05T01:16:00Z")
Actually, **elf6c** wasn’t just whistling Dixie – there really was a very similar thread four or five months ago. Predictably, it fast became a transparent excuse for bug-stupid screwheads to vent the equivalent of “blacks really are criminals” and “gays deserve their AIDS” and other ignorant shit. It got locked toward the bottom of the second page. Of course, I can’t find it now… ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/5 "2002-11-05T01:19:15Z")
Well, my opinion of some people just went through the floor… ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/6 "2002-11-05T02:53:41Z")
I was going to post a thread in the Pit about how I despised threads like that. The concept of posting an idea that is sure to meet with resistance while at the same time postulating that no debate is allowed is the antithesis of the ideals of the Straight Dope, and, by extension, the message board. Boo, I say. BOOOOOO! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/7 "2002-11-05T04:47:38Z")
Oooh, some of my favorites: > [@](#): > > -There is no such thing as “mental illness”, even if some people some of the time do have good results with the nerve-destroying pills that the psychiatric professions pushes. > -Anarchists should be denied constitutional protection in exchange for the right to continue to go on acting like arseholes. > -The following should be banned, in order of popularity: recreational drugs, cigarettes and cigars, guns, meat, cars, dairy, professional sports, and sugar. > > -Medical science is weekining the human race by saving people who should have died in childhood/infancy so they can reproduce and spread there illness. > -Instead of ‘one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind’ N. A. should have said’ I claim the moon in the name of the USA’ > -Clinton caused serious damage to our national security and will go down in history as one of the worst presidents in the US. > > -We should take the oil fields (back) by force. back becuase we constructed many of them before they were nationalized by Saudi Arabia. > -teachers make way to much money > -I believe that people should not have the right to vote. > > -Many (dont want to say most) black people are racist towards white people, and they have no right to be > > -I think it should be okay to laugh at anything you want, such as drooling retard windowlickers, or fat dykes who wear short shirts and their rolls of fat sort of bulge out over their 3/4 length pants. > > -The 4th Ammendment has been mis-interpreted or is out of date - you do not have the right to own, carry, buy or sell a gun. That privilege will be reserved for law enforcement and military only. > > -Anyone who thinks that marijuana should remain illegal, should be thrown in jail regardless of whether or not they’ve done anything wrong. They should come out after a year or two with an indelible criminal record and a lifelong stigma. Fuck you. As for the “teachers make to[sic] much money”, tell that to the teachers I had in grade school-who were forced to take second, part time retail jobs just to make ends meet. FUCK YOU. Mental illness doesn’t exist? Where’s your fucking degree, asshat? Um, the 4th ammendent doesn’t have anything to do with guns, dumbass. Just an excuse to be assholes, methinks. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/8 "2002-11-05T05:47:47Z")
“unpopular or unorthodox views” my ass. It’s more than anything “Post your asinine, devoid of fact, views here and know that someone will have to open a new thread to properly flay you for being a fuckwhistle”. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/9 "2002-11-05T06:03:56Z")
**Guinastasia** > [@](#): > > -I believe that people should not have the right to vote. This one here was mine, and the reason I don’t think people should have the right to vote, is that I think people should have to earn it with a test of some sort. The fact is, I think people take their right to vote far too lightly. I’ve got no problem debating any single thing I said, I didn’t realise it said no debating in the OP otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have even posted. I guess that was my fault for not reading it close enough. This isn’t an apology, I just don’t like being sworn at. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/10 "2002-11-05T06:07:44Z")
I posted in that thread before it started to utterly disintegrate. Now I wish I could take back my post, although I don’t withdraw what I said. (It was quite reasonable, _trust me_. 😉 ) An interesting dynamic going on in that other thread. At first I thought it was kind of nice how the more out-there views weren’t being ripped. Now, I’d like to start about 27 pit threads, one after the other. That thread was a bad idea and I’m sure it will be closed quite soon. Oh, and I too have to reconsider my opinion of several posters. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/11 "2002-11-05T06:17:09Z")
> [@](#): > > -I believe that people should not have the right to vote. Hey now, as a constitutional monarchist, I take exception to your suggestion that this one is absurd 😉 > [@](#): > > -There is no such thing as “mental illness”, even if some people some of the time do have good results with the nerve-destroying pills that the psychiatric professions pushes. This one sounds like it came from L. Ron Hubbard. This is exactly the line the $cientologists have been toting about psychiatry for decades. Makes me want to pour through that thread and see who wrote it, start being more suspicious of that poster…but that wouldn’t be in line with the spirit of that thread, so I’ll be fair and restrain myself. I seem to be jumping to alot of conclusions today. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/12 "2002-11-05T06:35:31Z")
Thanks for the laugh elf ! If ignorance is bliss, then there’s some blissful futhermuckers on that thread. I especially liked this: “Citizens should be required to perform some form of community service for the benefit of their nation (military service, corps of engineers, whatever). \*\*\*If they refuse then they should lose the right to vote, and their welfare benefits should be reduced/eliminated.” (he he sheee-it) thanks again, made my day! ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/13 "2002-11-05T06:46:24Z")
Gosh, I’m so glad I didn’t post my thoughts in there about cats and electric fences! _laughs_ That’s a joke, people… **Guin** , I’m totally with you about the “teachers make way too much money” line. That’s a real gem. I read that and thought “Tell it to my mortgage payment, jerk.” Riddle me this… Why is it that professional athletes can own three mansions and teachers can barely afford to own their own modest home? Yeah, and it’s _teachers_ who make way too much. :rolleyes: Good times. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/14 "2002-11-05T06:55:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*I think the clearance on the OP’s doorway needs to be raised at least 6 inches. \*\* Hey lieu, didn’t I see you in that other thread…can’t seem to remember what unpopular idea you espoused? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/15 "2002-11-05T08:30:51Z")
> [@](#): > > _sycrorob_ > **The 4th Ammendment has been mis-interpreted or is out of date - you do not have the right to own, carry, buy or sell a gun. That privilege will be reserved for law enforcement and military only** :rolleyes: > [@](#): > > _dougie\_monty_ > **Guns have nothing to do with the “4th Ammendment.” You’re thinking of the third Amendment.** _sound of head slowly, softly, quietly thudding against desk_ I’ve got a couple of unpopular opinions right now, let me tell ya. :smack: :smack: :smack: ---
**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:** [November 5, 2002, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/16 "2002-11-05T08:52:55Z")
Actually, the teachers comment is funny, if it was meant to be ironical. That fact that he can’t spell makes it even funnier. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/17 "2002-11-05T08:53:15Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve got a couple of unpopular opinions right now, let me tell ya. They are not as unpopular as you think. I saw that trainwreck coming a mile away, and now it has jumped to the pit, and the fireworks will begin! ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/18 "2002-11-05T10:52:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mayberrydan \* > …the reason I don’t think people should have the right to vote, is that I think people should have to earn it with a test of some sort. The fact is, I think people take their right to vote far too lightly. \*\* think this is a terrific idea. I’ve already got some suggestions for test criteria: No voting if you’re too black. No voting if you’re too Indian. No voting if you don’t have a penis. If you are black, and still really want to vote, no voting unless you can read a newspaper in Chinese. No voting if you can’t afford the poll tax. No voting if you don’t own land. And, most importantly, no voting if you don’t believe in God Almighty. (My specific version of God Almighty, that is.) ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/19 "2002-11-05T13:53:22Z")
Gee what a shock- the thread has arrived in the Pit. The one thing that made me laught was the dumb crack about the Constitution was in the same thread about Teachers making too much. Unintentional humor at its best. I was surprised that some higher post count types had some rather _unusual_ beliefs. Off to the other thread to view the carnage. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260/20 "2002-11-05T14:21:44Z")
“Oh, don’t be scared, Legomancer! Go ahead and confess your unusual belief! No one will judge it! It’s okay!” “Uh, sure, except someone challenged my frickin _Harry Potter_ opinion.” “Oh don’t worry about that! This isn’t GD or the Pit! It’s all smiley and happy here!” “Uh-huh. You know, I was born at night, but not _last_ night.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-heh-heh-you-have-to-read-this-thread/135260.md?page=2)