# 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:** 77
**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:** [October 25, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1521 "2019-10-25T14:27:38Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I need you to review [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=865S1zMcWMo&feature=player_embedded) and tell me what you think. Seems like they cut out a lot of info to cram it into that short running time. Do you have a link to the Director’s cut? ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1522 "2019-10-25T14:45:53Z")
Eight six seven, five three oh ni-YEE-ine! ---
**Author:** ![tricoteuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tricoteuse/32/4334_2.png) [@tricoteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tricoteuse)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1523 "2019-10-25T14:47:27Z")
Liberty Liberty Lib-er-ty! Lib-er-ty! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1524 "2019-10-25T14:58:47Z")
HUDSON THREE TWO SEVEN HUNDRED! Fucker blames a bridge collapse on lazy, unskilled workers. Dumb fuck. Some construction jobs require certification, but even for those that don’t any mistakes they make should be caught by competent construction oversight. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1525 "2019-10-25T15:15:22Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > HUDSON THREE TWO SEVEN HUNDRED! > > Fucker blames a bridge collapse on lazy, unskilled workers. Dumb fuck. Some construction jobs require certification, but even for those that don’t any mistakes they make should be caught by competent construction oversight. Who is going to do this oversight? Can’t be the government, because that’s socialism! ---
**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:** [October 25, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1526 "2019-10-25T15:41:32Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Who is going to do this oversight? Can’t be the government, because that’s socialism! You’re joking, but a communiqé yesterday from one of the Republican Congressmen opposed to the investigation of criminals referred to the Democratic Congressmen as “Socialists” — sorry, I didn’t save a Bookmark. He wasn’t talking about M4A or Green New Deal; he was talking about the investigation of criminal extortion and illegal collusion. “Socialist.” :smack: ```auto On a happier(?) note, I realize I violated my own rule about condoning mention of HD in *this* thread. I've purged my Ignore list down to just **HD** and **Annoying**. ``` ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1527 "2019-10-25T15:53:08Z")
Gonna address something further back: putting HD on ignore is a great idea, but if you are interested in the threads he inhabits and hijacks, it doesn’t really do you any good. He still winds up stopping the legitimate discussion with his tactics. That is, after all, the point of sea lioning–to stop the legitimate discussion. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1528 "2019-10-25T15:56:40Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Gonna address something further back: putting HD on ignore is a great idea, but if you are interested in the threads he inhabits and hijacks, it doesn’t really do you any good. He still winds up stopping the legitimate discussion with his tactics. > > That is, after all, the point of sea lioning–to stop the legitimate discussion. What do you mean by “legitimate”? 😉 ---
**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:** [October 25, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1529 "2019-10-25T16:07:40Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Gonna address something further back: putting HD on ignore is a great idea, but if you are interested in the threads he inhabits and hijacks, it doesn’t really do you any good. He still winds up stopping the legitimate discussion with his tactics. > > That is, after all, the point of sea lioning–to stop the legitimate discussion. What if EVERY ONE of us puts **HD** on Ignore? And if sealion abettors like **Annoying** quote **HD** in defiance, then we all put those abettors on Ignore? In that case **HD, Annoying** and other oafs could have their own conversation in a thread, but their whingeing and nonsense would be invisible to the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1530 "2019-10-25T16:11:20Z")
He is currently trying to hijack the transgender hate speech thread [with a “Republicans are mistreated too!!”](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21937116&postcount=128) post. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1531 "2019-10-25T16:17:29Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > He is currently trying to hijack the transgender hate speech thread [with a “Republicans are mistreated too!!”](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21937116&postcount=128) post. Why are you answering him in that thread then? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1532 "2019-10-25T16:23:53Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Do I have to un-ignore Hurricane Ditka to set this thread straight? All of you octopus feeding mother fuckers can fuck off. > [@QuickSilver](#): > > Wait a goddamn minute. You have HD on ignore presumably because you want to avoid his nonsense, but you regularly follow a thread about him in the pit - a thread in which he does not participate - so that you can keep up on the play-by-paly of what HD’s been up to lately. That’s not unheard of. I’m pretty much in the same boat. But not so I can keep up with the play-by-play of what he’s been up to. I just like seeing people saying horrible things about him. 😛 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1533 "2019-10-25T16:26:28Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Why are you answering him in that thread then? 1. I was pointing out to others why it was a hijack attempt. 2. The “Everyone should ignore him!” approach can only work if _everybody_ ignores him. There isn’t even a remote possibility of that happening, so stop pushing it. Got any solutions that involve reality? ---
**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:** [October 25, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1534 "2019-10-25T16:33:23Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > 1. I was pointing out to others why it was a hijack attempt. > 2. The “Everyone should ignore him!” approach can only work if _everybody_ ignores him. There isn’t even a remote possibility of that happening, so stop pushing it. Got any solutions that involve reality? “Everyone should ignore him” is not my idea. I’m scatalogically against the “Ignore” list concept. Just seems strange to complain about someone trying to hijack a thread and then help them hijack it. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1535 "2019-10-25T16:37:07Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I’m scatalogically against the “Ignore” list concept… So you’re saying you’re shit at it? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1536 "2019-10-25T20:03:02Z")
Well, it sure as shit ain’t “categorically”. Clearly too much ambiguity. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1537 "2019-10-31T13:32:29Z")
> [@Bad city's in America.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-citys-in-america/842631/60): > > It’s going to be 18° in SLC in a couple of hours. That sort of thing does wonders for one’s homelessness problem. HDickhead happy for homeless having issues in cold Salt Lake City. You could even read this as cheering homeless folks dying due to harsh conditions. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1538 "2019-10-31T13:45:42Z")
Is there any other way to read that? ---
**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:** [October 31, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1539 "2019-10-31T14:04:01Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > Is there any other way to read that? No, not really. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1540 "2019-10-31T14:27:36Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > Is there any other way to read that? My read was actually charitable: that the homeless would move south/somewhere warmer. It didn’t occur to me until later (when another poster mentioned it) that the homeless dying off reading was probably also meant. I guess that’s what I get for always trying to think the best of people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952.md?page=76) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952.md?page=78)