# Hey Monty, what's the deal about Opal stabbing people in the back IRL? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 2, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034 "2015-03-02T19:14:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/641 "2015-03-13T20:13:50Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > You know, an actual bucket filled with surgically removed breasts would indeed be disgusting. That is why a bucket of tits is being used as a joke, sorta like a pickup truck bed of dead babies. A joke should be funny, not offensive. It’s no better than a rape joke. Dead babies, body parts and rape are not funny, they are disgusting. A person who tells such a joke is not being funny, they are being disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/642 "2015-03-13T20:17:08Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Good lord, maybe you’ll find a bucket of brains to fall in and come out able to climb stairs. _Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls Would scarcely get your feet wet ._ [http://www.mendosa.com/fluke.html](http://www.mendosa.com/fluke.html) ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/643 "2015-03-13T20:19:59Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > A joke should be funny, not offensive. It’s no better than a rape joke. Dead babies, body parts and rape are not funny, they are disgusting. A person who tells such a joke is not being funny, they are being disgusting. You need to adjust your wedgie. You’ll feel better if you do. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/644 "2015-03-13T20:30:50Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > _Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls Would scarcely get your feet wet > ._ > > [Deteriorata!](http://www.mendosa.com/fluke.html) See, now that’s a classy insult. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/645 "2015-03-13T20:31:28Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > A joke should be funny, not offensive. It’s no better than a rape joke. I like rape. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/646 "2015-03-13T21:07:56Z")
Nobody here would admit to liking rap, although I find Missy Elliot and Common enjoyable. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/647 "2015-03-13T21:11:16Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Nobody here would admit to liking rap, although I find Missy Elliot and Common enjoyable. You mentioned rap twice. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/648 "2015-03-13T21:17:51Z")
I give you : [A Bucket of Tits…](http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/236/c/8/bucket_of_tits_by_twapa-d5cbmnd.png) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/649 "2015-03-13T21:30:36Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > I would think that referring to a person being in a bucket of tits would be self-explanatory on why it is sexist and disgusting. Tits belong on people, not removed from people and in a bucket where someone is for some reason, trapped with the disembodied parts. It is an objectification of those parts, presumably removed from people, normally women when referring to “tits”, particularly since the “tits” are implied to be human objects of suckling, which is either an act of an infant feeding or of sexual gratification, which is to be presumed since it is compared to thumb sucking as a form of self-gratification. Why would body parts be in a bucket if not for some sick mutilator? Why would a person be in such a bucket? Why would a person in such a bucket not seek to merely escape, but instead, seek to suck his/her thumb, rather than the “tits”. It’s just an all around disgusting, despicable, inhuman and sexist metaphor, one that Morgenstern has thought appropriate to fling twice in a thread that has nothing to do otherwise with tits, buckets, thumbs or suckling. Using such a phrase is the sign of a disturbed, sexist, sick fuck. Ass man, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/650 "2015-03-13T21:42:28Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > A joke should be funny, not offensive. It’s no better than a rape joke. Dead babies, body parts and rape are not funny, they are disgusting. A person who tells such a joke is not being funny, they are being disgusting. Offensive and funny, or disgusting and funny, are not mutually exclusive. My cite is the entire history of comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/651 "2015-03-13T21:43:41Z")
Also, I like breasts in a bucket. Preferably deep fried, from KFC. Some people don’t, and that’s OK. Why do you hate vegetarians? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/652 "2015-03-13T21:50:01Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > Also, I like breasts in a bucket. Preferably deep fried, from KFC. Some people don’t, and that’s OK. Why do you hate vegetarians? Second KFC bucket of breasts joke in this thread for those keeping score. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/653 "2015-03-13T21:57:22Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Who are Joe or Jill Doakes? > > As for Opal, nothing referred to in any of the links justifies any of the venom directed her way. The jerks doing this are just assholes who complain bitterly when called on being jerk assholes. Screw 'em. From what I’ve seen here, they are the sort of incredibly nasty people who talk ill of the dead in a public place where her family can see for no other reason than that they had an argument with her two decades ago. When called on it they summon their other jerk asshole buddies to complain that it is okay to demean the deceased in a public forum because ‘jerks and assholes’. > > None of the deceased members or guests of this message board deserve to have their online personas trashed in a public forum, and decent people don’t do that. By definition, the people who have done that here aren’t decent people. Comparing the deceased to Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot who should be spoken ill of is just stupid. Don’t tell us how to be decent. It sickens me. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/654 "2015-03-13T22:21:18Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Who are Joe or Jill Doakes? > > As for Opal, nothing referred to in any of tI’ve seen links justifies any of the venom directed her way. Which posts would you describe as “venomous”? Seems q little over the top description to most of the stuff I’ve seen in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/655 "2015-03-13T22:21:21Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Don’t tell us how to be decent. It sickens me. Thanks for the tip. Get your elbows off the table. Don’t pick your nose. Say please and thank you. Let other people have their turn. Don’t point. If you must throw up, use a bag, not someone’s lap. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/656 "2015-03-13T22:40:11Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > Also, I like breasts in a bucket. Preferably deep fried, from KFC. KFC!?!:eek: Ok, obviously you have no taste at all. Now, if you had said Popeyes, you’d be OK. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/657 "2015-03-13T22:41:21Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > . Don’t pick your nose. Say please and thank you. . You can pick your nose. You can pick your friends. But you cant pick your friends nose. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/658 "2015-03-13T22:57:44Z")
> [@Calatin](#): > > Arguing with **TSS** is like beating a dead horse. > > Oh god, does that mean that I hate all animals now? In France, that’s meat tenderizer. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/659 "2015-03-13T23:06:06Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > You can pick your nose. > You can pick your friends. > But you cant pick your friends nose. You can try, but you’ll probably lose that friend. Especially if he likes to mine for his own boogers. Are you really a doctor of death? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-monty-whats-the-deal-about-opal-stabbing-people-in-the-back-irl/714034/660 "2015-03-13T23:06:26Z")
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