# I pit DrDeth **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 28, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971 "2021-02-28T19:52:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 104
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2065 "2024-09-24T13:26:38Z")
I broke my vow, briefly, a few days ago when he was spreading nonsense in the proof of citizenship thread. I thought I would be okay because I was not replying to him directly, but then he replied to my reply and was so wrong I could not resist. I had provided a cite that show conclusively that he was wrong (and my cite was all of one sentence long, so not hard to read) and he not only glossed right over it, but actually insisted it supported his point. So I had to reply directly. And then he replied pretending that he had never actually said—or at least corrected himself on—the blatantly wrong thing he had both said and never corrected. I could almost imagine he’s engaged in gaslighting, but then I don’t think he’s nearly so bright as a gaslight. It just goes to show that real life isn’t like _Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey_. When you play with Deth, you lose. > [@How would you prove you're a citizen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-prove-youre-a-citizen/1007450/127): > > (3) The term “alien” means any person not a citizen or national of the United States. Note that word- national. Yes! Note that word: alien. As in, an “alien” is by definition NOT a US national. If someone is a US national, they are not an alien, resident or otherwise. Draw a big circle for US nationals, and within that draw another circle that is almost as big as and completely contained within the US national circle for “US citizens”. And then, draw a separate circle that does not overlap… ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2066 "2024-09-24T14:03:21Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > I broke my vow, briefly, a few days ago when he was spreading nonsense in the proof of citizenship thread. I saw that and had to walk away. > [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > When you play with Deth, you lose. Yup ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2067 "2024-09-25T06:03:02Z")
I was just perusing the [Things you think you know, but you don’t](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-you-know-but-you-do-not/1002166) thread. He questions everyone’s replies and if there’s nothing to refute he still has to chime in, ostensibly to show his agreement, but it’s really to prevent the other poster from having the last word. If nobody has posted for a bit he’ll post another factoid. Like Cliff Clavin’s less charming but more annoying brother. The real corker for me is that _he’s the one that started the thread_. He can’t actually give us an uninterrupted lecture so he starts a thread asking for peoples’ input and then dominates the whole thing. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2024, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2068 "2024-09-25T07:58:31Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > When you play with Deth, you lose. As long as you don’t flirt with him. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2069 "2024-09-27T03:40:45Z")
Wtf is it with his fave alternative spelling _pnut_? As if _enuf_ weren’t bad _enuf_? Maybe he thinks it keeps him young? I mean _yung_? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2070 "2024-09-29T21:39:51Z")
Oh whatevs - you don’t have to have a aneurysm over it. ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2071 "2024-09-29T22:14:36Z")
Dont you mean ‘you dont have to have a aneurysm over it’? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2072 "2024-10-01T03:28:10Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > For what it’s worth, the argument he’s trying to make there is irrelevant to the point I was making. It was completely relevant. You made a point that the benefit of antioxidants in foods “is a mirage” and put up cites that said the exact opposite. Moreover there was a specific factual question being asked, which your cites did not address. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2073 "2024-10-07T06:13:49Z")
More idiocy from drdeth: https ://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/340 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2074 "2024-10-08T02:03:40Z")
I think he is the only person in the English speaking world (including people who speak English as a second language) who has that weird belief, so it’s not really worth engaging with him. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2075 "2024-10-08T02:25:36Z")
Yeah, you’re right. I get too easily annoyed by Christians whining that we don’t all follow Christian nomenclature, despite his tortured logic. (Unlike others in the thread who just dislike it when terms get changed on them, which is quite reasonable.) ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2076 "2024-10-08T03:10:29Z")
He, like most American Christians, likes to imagine himself a victim of modern culture. Where modern is broadly defined to be the past 80 to 100 years or so. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2077 "2024-10-08T03:27:54Z")
Painting with a pretty broad brush about Christianity there. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2078 "2024-10-08T03:38:29Z")
_And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake…_ Matthew 10:22 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2079 "2024-10-08T03:53:46Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > so it’s not really worth engaging with him. Must… not… respond… to his latest reply… ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2080 "2024-10-08T04:02:16Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Must… not… respond… to his latest reply… This is why I have him on ignore. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2081 "2024-10-08T04:09:13Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > This is why I have him on ignore I try to keep my ignore list as short as I can, with only 3 people on it right now who infuriate me with their blatherings. He doesn’t infuriate me, just makes me roll my eyes into the back of my head, which I guess is almost as annoying… ---
**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 8, 2024, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2082 "2024-10-08T04:24:35Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > _And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake…_ > Matthew 10:22 If they are not truly persecuted, far too many of them think that what they encounter in their everyday lives must then be persecution. If they ruled the House, the Senate and the Presidency, and got got their wishlist of laws passed, they would still proclaim to one and all that they were persecuted. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2083 "2024-10-11T01:24:59Z")
Doc got his head up his ass again in the Helene private helicopter thread. [https://boards.straightdope.com/](https://boards.straightdope.com/) t/private-helicopter-pilot-not-allowed-to-fly-rescues-in-helene-disaster-zone/1008419/80 ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2084 "2024-10-11T01:36:58Z")
Again? You think he’s taken it out since the last time? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=103) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=105)