# I forget, do we have a general HurricaneDitka Pit thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 6, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952 "2018-01-06T00:15:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/201 "2018-01-21T16:56:12Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Well, you could just turn it off. yaeh, I teried taht onec. It ddint’ wrok uot wel. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/202 "2018-01-21T17:07:06Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > yaeh, I teried taht onec. It ddint’ wrok uot wel. Yes, it did. “I” and “It” are both spelled all proper-like. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/203 "2018-01-21T18:49:50Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Well, you could just turn it off. I’m sorry **eschereal** , I’m afraid I can’t do that. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/204 "2018-02-22T23:43:47Z")
[:rolleyes:](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=849815) ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/205 "2018-02-23T01:24:51Z")
Stop being a crusty old marine, **Bo**. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/206 "2018-02-23T01:38:12Z")
Hey HEY hey… who are you calling a marine? 😃 Wait; that is what **HD** thinks is the scandalous thing, right? The “marine” label? :dubious::rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/207 "2018-02-23T03:03:46Z")
I’m pretty sure it’s the “uppity woman of the wrong party” part. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/208 "2018-02-23T03:12:59Z")
I doubt his little brain gets that far in justifying himself. Anyway, turns out he’s a liar. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20806591&postcount=308](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20806591&postcount=308) ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/209 "2018-02-24T17:44:23Z")
Lest you think H-D is worth engaging, I urge you to reconsider - In response to this post: > [@Stupid Gun news of the day (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7883): > > An excerpt from a recent Facebook post from the father of a student at MSD High School… > > > [@](#): > > > > If reading another long well written blog post is not your thing, here is a short quiz you can use to determine if you are a gun fetishist and a sociopath: > > > > When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you rush to the Internet to defend the rights of the weapon? > > > > When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, is your first thought that you hope there will be evidence of mental illness? (credit given if its your second thought with your first thought being please let is be a Muslim) > > > > When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you run out to buy more military weapons? > > > > When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, are you pre-armed with poorly sourced, easily debunked alternative facts in defense of your arsenal? > > > > When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you spend time correcting the terminology people use in describing the weapon? > > > > When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you like to bring up how the long dead founding fathers support your views? (Do you object to a standing army as strenuously as they would? Can you name any of them?) > > > > If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, I would highly recommend you do some serious soul searching. But who are we kidding, you are not capable of that. You would have to have one to be able to search it. > > [Eric Ronkin](https://www.facebook.com/eric.ronkin/posts/1773776982643808) (public link, no account or login required) H-D responded with this post: > [@CNN Media, Can we Trust CNN?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-media-can-we-trust-cnn/809421/44): > > My responses: > > No, but I do defend _my_ right to keep and bear arms pretty much always. > > No, but I do see it come up in the discussions afterwards often enough to notice some correlation. > > No, but I do make purchases fairly steadily and regularly. If anything, I delay after a shooting spree (and the ensuing gun control debate) because I know that demand, and thus prices, often spike. > > No, but I do certainly notice that the RKBA advocates are generally more knowledgeable and factual on the subject than the gun control advocates. > > Sometimes, if their mistakes are serious enough to affect the discussion in some significant way, and very occasionally just to poke a little fun at the other side’s ignorance, if I’m in a particularly foul mood. Oftentimes I try to educate. > > Not particularly, as I think there are generally better arguments to be made, but it’s probably come up a few times. And yes, I can name quite a few of them. > > You acknowledged that the first paragraph was hyperbole, but the last paragraph was just shitty too. **Fuck that guy, having his kid being in a school shooting couldn’t have happened to a more deserving asshole.** _bolding mine_ ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/210 "2018-02-24T18:36:41Z")
\*\*HurracaineDitka \*\*is also falling for the Lysenko-ism of the Republicans and the NRA. There is no other way to describe it, he does believe that is one finds statements from the scientists that show bias or flaws in a report that then it is justified to stop all research on guns. One should wonder who elected the NRA to dictate what should be researched or not. > **[Column: The NRA has blocked gun violence research for 20 years. Let's end its...](https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-gun-research-funding-20160614-snap-story.html)** > > The Orlando massacre reminds us that there’s an enormous amount we don’t know about gun violence — what causes it, what its consequences are for surviving families, how to stop it. No, numbnuts, what was needed was to remove the researchers that showed bias band then continue funding research. Otherwise it is [Lysenkoism](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lysenkoism), plain and simple. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/211 "2018-02-24T18:43:49Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Lest you think H-D is worth engaging, I urge you to reconsider - > > In response to this post: > H-D responded with this post: > > _bolding mine_ :eek: ‘Reprehensible’ doesn’t even begin to cover that. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/212 "2018-02-24T19:49:12Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Lest you think H-D is worth engaging, I urge you to reconsider - > > In response to this post: > H-D responded with this post: > > _bolding mine_ Just in case anyone thought he might actually have a soul. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/213 "2018-02-24T20:13:10Z")
He also sympathizes with the OK City bomber, IIRC. He’s not worth engaging IMO; wish I had recognized this earlier than I did. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/214 "2018-02-24T20:20:37Z")
Remember kids, HurracaineDitka would be seen as the voice of reasonable and responsible gun owners! CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/215 "2018-02-24T20:31:48Z")
Incredible. Fucking guy has the nerve to claim he’s engaging in “civilized” dialogue. I’d ask him what he believes his god will do with his “soul” when H-D is done with it. But they both can get bent if I give a damn. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/216 "2018-02-24T20:37:15Z")
**HD** said anyone who has a problem with him should take it to the Pit. Then when **Revenant Threshold** pointed out: > [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > I quickly checked, and it doesn’t look like you’ve ever posted in the Pit thread about you. It doesn’t seem like a good place to discuss things with you. **Ditka** replied: > [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > You are correct. I try to not post in the Pit at all. If you want to “discuss things” with me, we can do it here, and be part of the civilized world [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20809920&postcount=60](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20809920&postcount=60) What a hypocritical douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/217 "2018-02-24T20:37:43Z")
Whoops, I owe you an apology, **HD**. You’re absolutely correct, and through inattention I misrepresented you. I’m sorry about that. . ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/218 "2018-02-24T22:23:23Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Whoops, I owe you an apology, **HD**. You’re absolutely correct, and through inattention I misrepresented you. I’m sorry about that. > . ? I’ve been wooshed, no? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/219 "2018-02-24T22:35:05Z")
Nah, sorry. Should have quoted the [GD post](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20809975&postcount=63) I was replying to. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/220 "2018-02-24T22:47:42Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Nah, sorry. Should have quoted the [GD post](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20809975&postcount=63) I was replying to. > [@HuricaneDikta](#): > > But the father, yeah, fuck that guy with a rusty spoon. We crossed the line where I felt it was appropriate somewhere between him saying I’m a sociopath and him saying I don’t have a soul. And, as HD calls out this father who had a child in a school shooting, saying that the father deserved to have his daughter in the school shooting for having the audacity to have an emotional reaction afterward, he proves the father right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952.md?page=12)