# I know you hate each other, but... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 21, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434 "2005-04-21T16:18:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/1 "2005-04-21T16:18:48Z")
[Do you have to hijack a thread to prove it?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=312820) Crikey–how interesting can it possibly be to keep telling one another how bad the other person is? Why must you do it in the middle of other threads? If you want to pit someone, can’t you figure out how to start your own thread to do it? **Weirddave** , **Elvis** , **Unclebeer** , and others, I’m pitting you for this. I asked y’all nice to take your ridiculous little playground bickering elsewhere, and you refused to do it. Very obnoxious. ( **RTFirefly** , I’m specifically NOT pitting you, since you backed away from it. Thanks for doing so!) Daniel ---
**Author:** ![griffen2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce7236/32.png) [@griffen2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffen2)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/2 "2005-04-21T16:22:54Z")
Could we have a link please? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/3 "2005-04-21T16:24:57Z")
> [@griffen2](#): > > Could we have a link please? [The first sentence was a link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=312820). 😉 Daniel ---
**Author:** ![griffen2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce7236/32.png) [@griffen2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffen2)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/4 "2005-04-21T16:24:59Z")
Shit. Sorry. For some reason my browser wasn’t registering your link as a link. [sub]scuttles away to download firefox[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/5 "2005-04-21T16:27:08Z")
Fuck you. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/6 "2005-04-21T16:27:37Z")
**griffen2** , the very first sentence of the OP is a link. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/7 "2005-04-21T16:33:13Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > Fuck you. A reasonable response from a reasonable man. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/8 "2005-04-21T16:37:29Z")
As could be reasonably expected. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/9 "2005-04-21T16:47:59Z")
It’s a Pit thread, not a GD thread. IMO one is not entitled to complain when one’s Pit thread turns into a name-calling flame-fest. Because it’s kind of a “given” that that’s what Pit threads **do**. Besides, I’m, like, “Huh?” You’re trying to have a serious, sensible discussion of what DeLay may or may not have meant? In a Pit thread? That you started solely in order to Pit him? And now you’re upset that it turned ugly and personal? What am I missing here? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/10 "2005-04-21T16:52:27Z")
> [@Duck Duck Goose](#): > > Besides, I’m, like, “Huh?” You’re trying to have a serious, sensible discussion of what DeLay may or may not have meant? In a Pit thread? That you started solely in order to Pit him? And now you’re upset that it turned ugly and personal? > > What am I missing here? Perhaps you’re missing the posts in which that discussion was happening, among myself, **John Mace** , **Hamlet** , **Shodan** , **Bricker** , and others. It’s an interesting question, but it’s also an interesting question about pittable behavior on DeLay’s part. **Unclebeer** started off posting on-topic (albeit making absurd demands and then questioning my integrity when I didn’t comply), but ended up engaging in the slapfest with others; thus his inclusion in this pitting. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/11 "2005-04-21T16:58:42Z")
No, I didn’t miss the discussion, I saw it. But…you don’t know how to ignore the children squabbling in the background while you discuss Politics? You feel a need to keep your entire thread on-topic? I have yet to see a Pit thread that didn’t have _some_ kind of off-topic muttering going on at the same time as the discussion of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/12 "2005-04-21T16:59:21Z")
_yawn_ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/13 "2005-04-21T17:06:26Z")
> [@Duck Duck Goose](#): > > It’s a Pit thread, not a GD thread. IMO one is not entitled to complain when one’s Pit thread turns into a name-calling flame-fest. Because it’s kind of a “given” that that’s what Pit threads **do**. > > Besides, I’m, like, “Huh?” You’re trying to have a serious, sensible discussion of what DeLay may or may not have meant? In a Pit thread? That you started solely in order to Pit him? And now you’re upset that it turned ugly and personal? > > What am I missing here? It wasn’t that they were being hostile, it’s that they were hijacking the thread to bitch at each other about stuff that happened before, or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/14 "2005-04-21T17:23:19Z")
Another Pit thread complaining about another Pit thread. Yawn. Get a new act, **LHOD**. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/15 "2005-04-21T17:27:52Z")
No, Left Hand of Dorkness is right, Unclebeer’s stupidity (and that of others) is definitely pitworthy. There are only so many ways you can say, “I hate you, and what you stand for, and I am going to hijack a topic about a legitimate complaint.” Personally, if he posts here again, I will just not pay attention. I will still be able to read it, but my eyes will skip past his post. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/16 "2005-04-21T17:29:54Z")
> [@](#): > > It wasn’t that they were being hostile, it’s that they were hijacking the thread to bitch at each other about stuff that happened before, or whatever. Actually, the jerk who felt it necessary to introduce long dead events to that thread, has been specifically excluded by the OP here. So this thread ain’t about that either. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/17 "2005-04-21T17:30:59Z")
Then here’s two back-to-back posts you can not read, Scotty. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/18 "2005-04-21T17:41:27Z")
In LHOD defense, I’ve been here for a bit and I’ve never seen a thread trainwreck so completely into personal squabbles and knee jerk hostility. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/19 "2005-04-21T17:42:28Z")
And here’s a back to back shout out to you UncleBeer. Maybe you should try some deep breathing and cut back on the rage a smidge. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434/20 "2005-04-21T18:33:24Z")
Honestly-- **UncleBeer** I’m used to seeing fly off the deep end when his political leanings are challenged. For such a mostly nice guy, his knee-jerk conservatism makes him look a little like a raving looney. **WeirdDave** and **manny** I’m surprised at. Oh sure, **manny** has had punch-out, nasty fights with people over many issues but, even though I don’t agree with him a third of the time, he’s always been at least on topic. The referenced thread is just plain ugly and it was the three of them who made it ugly. They should be ashamed of themselves. So far in this thread, it doesn’t look like **Beer** or **Dave** mind the ugly. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-you-hate-each-other-but/300434.md?page=2)