# I blew up a Toastmasters group last night **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 21, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blew-up-a-toastmasters-group-last-night/918672 "2020-08-21T14:38:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 122
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blew-up-a-toastmasters-group-last-night/918672/122 "2021-08-27T02:53:58Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > OP, you have my respect. I don’t mean just for speaking your mind, but also for being pretty damn eloquent. Thanks. As noted above, I do edit out my uh’s and you know’s & etc. But weird thing is, when I talk like this, all I do is bring something I wrote about to mind and go off that. For example, when I made the Wendy’s argument, I had this post (and similar) in mind: > [@Things that could be more acceptable to the other side if "sold" differently](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-could-be-more-acceptable-to-the-other-side-if-sold-differently/922727/33): > > The Election ‘This is a job review, not wish fullfillment like 2016. And with 200,000 dead and 20,000,000 unemployed, President Trump has shown himself incapable of doing the two things we expect even of our caretaker Presidents: Keeping Americans safe and keeping America prosperous.’ The Election ‘If I hired this incompetent goombah to manage my Wendy’s, right now he’s looking at a 3% drop in customers, a 12% drop in revenue, his incompetent staff all yelling at each other, all while purposely… … and just recited what I was seeing. If that makes any sense. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blew-up-a-toastmasters-group-last-night/918672)._