# 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:** 108
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2145 "2025-01-15T12:45:07Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > he’s in deeeeeep denial I think there’s a lot of deep denial that the subject of this thread is posting anything that’s not designed to troll this board. Come on, someone supporting a rapist to such an extent that some question whether or not it’s also a rapist? That’s 100% pure troll gold. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2146 "2025-01-15T13:05:48Z")
That’s giving DD way too much credit. There are receipts from the last couple decades. This is one seriously dumb person. As in, not remotely smart enough to design a classroom seating chart, much less any semi-intelligent campaign of trollery. And with some bizarre hangups. He’s at times put up more protracted efforts supporting his bizarre WWII fantasies and ridiculous spellings than supporting this particular rapist. Not every poster is some Machiavellian plotter considering every post. I know the internet is full of trolls but sometimes a dumbass is just a dumbass. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2147 "2025-01-15T13:09:21Z")
I don’t ascribe any intelligence to it, just enough cunning to see what’s getting attention and dialing it there. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2148 "2025-01-15T13:14:13Z")
Nah, at this point none of his particular bugbears are surprising anymore. This latest bit of inanity is unsurprising. It involves an author he likes and also women. So of course he supports the author. It seems to be some sort of (perhaps undiagnosed?) mental health thing. He has periods of overly pedantic, legalistic and combative posts interspersed with better behavior. I think I posted it before in this thread (?) but DD shows every sign of being an older, no doubt white gent who finds it unfathomable that his social inferiors question his assertions to his face. Stuck socially back in the '60s with no alternative but to deal with the 21st century. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2149 "2025-01-15T15:03:18Z")
Personally, I don’t want to hate Neil Gaiman. His works have brought me such great pleasure throughout the years and I don’t want to throw all that away. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2150 "2025-01-16T19:52:09Z")
Doc Pedant is at it again. > [@"The American Civil War wasn't about slavery because slavery didn't actually exist in the South"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-civil-war-wasnt-about-slavery-because-slavery-didnt-actually-exist-in-the-south/1013037/21): > > Not true. Mexico gave Texas a dispensation on slavery. And Texas declared independence along with something like 5 other Mexican states, including Yucatan and Zacatecas due to Santa Anna tearing up the Constitution and making himself a dictator. Did Yucatan declare independence over slavery? How about Zacatecas? ---
**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:** [January 16, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2151 "2025-01-16T19:58:07Z")
At least a pedant would be correct. As usual, his cites and arguments don’t actually refute anything. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2152 "2025-01-16T20:01:17Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > At least a pedant would be correct. Okay, _wannabe_ pedant. 🙂 ---
**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:** [January 16, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2153 "2025-01-16T20:10:58Z")
I swear he (or somebody like him) has made that argument before and had it shot down. ETA: Et voila > [@When did the American Empire begin](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-american-empire-begin/1008724/60): > > So very untrue. The Mexican Constitution excused Texas from their general ban on slavery, and did the Republic of Yucatán and the handful of other Mexican states that declared independence when Santa Anna declared himself dictator leave due to slavery? No, Texas had only a few slaves and was guaranteed them anyway. All those mexican states declared independence as Santa Anna was a depostic dictator. This is just another of those myths pushed from the 'all of American History was slavery all… ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2154 "2025-01-16T21:21:37Z")
It is probably worth flagging his post and mentioning he is arguing an old argument already disproved. If you do, please include that link. FQ is not my forum. I think he was modded in that thread. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2155 "2025-01-16T21:46:30Z")
Personally, I thought he was referring to our long-ago racist poster **Chief Pedant**. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2156 "2025-01-16T22:33:44Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > That’s just Deth, Dething on a hill I’d just like to take a moment to admire this phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2157 "2025-01-16T22:39:51Z")
There’s a sliver of truth in what he says, and if he actually looked for cites to establish instead of assert, he could make a correct nitpicking comment that doesn’t help his case, instead of an unsupported incorrect nitpick that doesn’t help his case. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2158 "2025-01-16T22:48:55Z")
Once, I saw feces with a kernel of corn in it. Perhaps that corn was a perfectly good kernel. But I had no desire to go digging through shit to find out. And that pile of shit would still be a pile of shit even if had been extracted. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2159 "2025-01-16T22:58:54Z")
I grasp the metaphor ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2160 "2025-01-16T23:04:15Z")
I hope you wash your hands afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2161 "2025-01-16T23:04:44Z")
Thoroughly ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2162 "2025-01-16T23:11:54Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > It is probably worth flagging his post and mentioning he is arguing an old argument already disproved. Wait, that’s a flaggable offense? Because I’ve got a couple hundred posts of his that I could flag if that’s the case. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2163 "2025-01-16T23:16:03Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Once, I saw feces with a kernel of corn in it. > > Perhaps that corn was a perfectly good kernel. Actual kernels won’t pass through the digestive system intact, just the hull, a structure without a kernel in it. It looks vaild but there’s no actual substance to it. The only reason it hasn’t collapsed is because it’s literally full of shit. Your analogy is therefore **very** apt. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2164 "2025-01-16T23:18:24Z")
No, it was because I think he was modded about this specifically. Sorry, I’ve been busy and didn’t right a clear post at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=107) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=109)