# 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:** 33
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/641 "2018-11-08T12:16:40Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > Yeah, the question of enforcement has crossed my mind…he told me he would be traveling for a few weeks after the election, so we shall see. > > I definitely wouldn’t touch your bet, although I would be happy to buy you dinner there if I am ever in your province. He’s just a big fucking snowflake liar. Because even though he didn’t POST anything yesterday, he’s been active since then. He’s just crying and wetting his pants while pretending he’s on some sort of post election business trip. Because he’s a bigger fucking baby than his sniveling kid. Like McDonalds is going to send him on a cross country trip to teach other countermen how to make fries. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/642 "2018-11-08T15:08:55Z")
In the case of McDonalds, “fries” are a misnomer. They are “soaks”, lowered into boiling grease just long enough to thaw. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/643 "2018-11-09T00:48:19Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > In the case of McDonalds, “fries” are a misnomer. They are “soaks”, lowered into boiling grease just long enough to thaw. Pistols at dawn, varlet. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/644 "2018-11-14T21:19:20Z")
Looks like the final vote count has Dems at a hair over $56 million, so that’ll be $100. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/645 "2018-11-14T23:43:03Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > He’s just a big fucking snowflake liar. Because even though he didn’t POST anything yesterday, he’s been active since then. He’s just crying and wetting his pants while pretending he’s on some sort of post election business trip. Because he’s a bigger fucking baby than his sniveling kid. Like McDonalds is going to send him on a cross country trip to teach other countermen how to make fries. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn he’s hanging out on your southern border hoping he gets a chance to protect you from the scary healthy young men with leprosy and smallpox and possibly scurvy too. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2018, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/646 "2018-11-15T00:05:19Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > I wouldn’t be surprised to learn he’s hanging out on your southern border hoping he gets a chance to protect you from the scary healthy young men with leprosy and smallpox and possibly scurvy too. Actually the people down on the border are hoping to get a chance to purloin some sweet national guard equipment. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/647 "2018-11-15T00:10:12Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > I wouldn’t be surprised to learn he’s hanging out on your southern border hoping he gets a chance to protect you from the scary healthy young men with leprosy and smallpox and possibly scurvy too. Wherever he is, he has internet access. Because his last activity was today, even though he’s been too butthurt to post since the election. Whiny snowflake. And he probably doesn’t know we can tell. But what do you expect from the kind of person that’s scared to go to Applebee’s without an AR-15? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/648 "2018-11-15T00:15:56Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Wherever he is, he has internet access. Oh. Well, that rules out a good chunk of rural America. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/649 "2018-11-17T03:47:36Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > Whoa, looks like per our election bet, Ditka will have to donate about $150 to the charity of my choice. I’m taking suggestions.😃 Did this guy ever show back up? I don’t care about idiocy, but I’m a big fan of integrity. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/650 "2018-11-17T06:00:40Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Did this guy ever show back up? I don’t care about idiocy, but I’m a big fan of integrity. Whoah now there son, integrity? That’s a big ask from HD don’t you think? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/651 "2018-11-17T06:43:11Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Wherever he is, he has internet access. Because his last activity was today, even though he’s been too butthurt to post since the election. Whiny snowflake. And he probably doesn’t know we can tell. But what do you expect from the kind of person that’s scared to go to Applebee’s without an AR-15? Applebee’s? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/652 "2018-11-17T14:30:58Z")
Yeah, he strikes me as more of a Red Robin guy. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/653 "2018-11-17T15:54:10Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Did this guy ever show back up? I don’t care about idiocy, but I’m a big fan of integrity. Wouldn’t it be nice if he didn’t ever show back up? ---
**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:** [November 17, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/654 "2018-11-17T21:22:56Z")
Just to leave it on the record; there where times, like I said early in 2017, that Trump may be reelected if he dumped people like Bannon early in his presidency, **HurricaneDitka** said that Bannon being dumped was not likely at all. 😛 Then, back in June of this year, I made this note regarding a poll about the direction America was taking, HD made the point that Trump fans must be driving the then improving optimism of Americans, so I said: "that poll includes liberals and conservatives. But it also includes those superficial lovers of America. People that in reality are happy to see the institutions that made America great to be undermined. On a more optimistic note, one has to notice that there is no mechanism that omits from that poll people that do expect the law to catch up to Trump and to vote many Republicans out of office. They are also included in the poll and they are feeling happy that soon they will help guide the direction America should take." HD then replied: > [@The Trump era - what's surprised you the most?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-era-whats-surprised-you-the-most/816246/106): > > You have some really far out ideas, but they’re entertaining to read, so please don’t change. So, how about that far out Blue wave eh? Tubular dude! 😃 So, yeah, those polls had many Trump haters that were optimistic too, in that besides enjoying a better economy too; they where hopeful that they would get at least a House that would be a check on Trump. They were also thinking that America was on the right course. And there was nothing far out about thinking that before. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/655 "2018-11-18T23:54:46Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Wouldn’t it be nice if he didn’t ever show back up? I kind of like hearing how other people think about things. Even if they are moronic most of the time. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/656 "2018-11-19T15:32:58Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I kind of like hearing how other people think about things. Even if they are moronic most of the time. True - it is educational having folks like him around. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/657 "2018-11-25T08:51:18Z")
May I hijack this thread to ask a question about Moderation? As we know, Mr. Ditka thinks the Oklahoma mass murder was “not entirely unreasonable.” Recently he told us that there have been “lots of left-wing terrorist attacks” in the last few decades. Surely it was natural for me to ask for clarification. Was he excluding “reasonable” attacks from the “lots of”? But of course Ditka went whining to the Mods, hoping to earn a warning for me: > [@Were there any cases of left-wing domestic terrorism in the USA in the 1990s and 2000s?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-there-any-cases-of-left-wing-domestic-terrorism-in-the-usa-in-the-1990s-and-2000s/824980/19): > > **[Moderating]** > > **septimus** , if you want to make veiled digs against other posters, the Pit is that way. Or unveiled digs; those are allowed there, too. But not here. Veiled dig?? 😕 I thought it obvious that the clarification was needed before assessing this latest Ditka turd. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/658 "2018-11-25T14:02:56Z")
Personally I think there should be a boardwide insult exception toward anyone too fainthearted to show his pasty overclenched ass in the Pit, but that was pretty clearly an off-topic personal jab in the forum that least tolerates them. I suspect that the Shakiest Gun Nut in the West clicks the “report post” link like a Morse code operator, so it’s probably best not to give him more ammo. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/659 "2018-11-25T14:17:03Z")
As some of you may have noticed, I was away from this board for a couple of years. I came back a little while ago in large part because I was looking to have intelligent discussion of current politics (especially American). So, when **Bone** closed my GD thread about ‘forgiving’ Trumpists (which I admit was open in its predicate that Trump and his enablers do not deserve forgiveness), I was pissed. But not at Bone, at **Ditka** ; for single-handedly inflaming the debate, and the thread, with his jaw-dropping ignorance, provocations, and general jerkishness. Are we in the Pit, hold on, let me check . . . Fuck you Ditka, fuck you good and fuck you dry. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/660 "2018-11-25T14:42:09Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > May I hijack this thread to ask a question about Moderation? No, you may not. If you have a question about Moderation, and you want a response from the mods, you need to ask it in ATMB. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952.md?page=34)