# 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:** 113
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2245 "2025-05-26T12:27:01Z")
You don’t understand: President Biden supposedly didn’t recognize George Clooney at a dinner Clooney was holding last year, but that’s just because Clooney is so damn unrecognizable, and had nothing to do with Biden’s cognitive state. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2246 "2025-05-26T12:46:50Z")
Biden’s an octogenarian. Of course he checked out of popular culture in the 1980s. If that’s the best evidence you have for a “declining cognitive state”, then Biden must be quite sharp indeed. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2247 "2025-05-26T13:04:14Z")
Except that apparently, Biden and Clooney were friendly and had met on many occasions. I don’t recognize Clooney, either. But I’m pretty sure Biden’s failure to do so was a sign of cognitive decline. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2248 "2025-05-26T13:09:26Z")
Clooney has been world-famous for over 30 years, has been a friend of Biden’s for at least half that time, and is a leading Democratic activist. More to the point, **DrDeth** is trying to score useless political points, on a subject he’s obsessed about, in a completely unelated Cafe Society thread. Can we agree that’s kind of silly? ---
**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:** [May 26, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2249 "2025-05-26T13:12:30Z")
Yes, and he needs to avoid that. Politics is not supposed to be dragged into the Cafe. Maybe if we’re talking about a Political commentary show, but not fluffy Cafe threads. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2250 "2025-05-26T14:43:37Z")
It was a fluffy cafe thread. And i suppose i made it explicit what he was doing. Sigh. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2251 "2025-05-26T14:44:08Z")
I sent him a hopefully helpful DM about this. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2252 "2025-05-26T14:49:59Z")
I’d go beyond “silly” and say it’s truly obnoxious. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2253 "2025-05-26T15:02:49Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > obnoxious Isn’t this whole thread about how this is DrDerp’s standard mode? ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2254 "2025-05-26T15:16:50Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > OMG, he is shitting up the “Frontrunners for Dem Presidentlial Nomination” thread with his North Korean State Media-level denials that Joe Biden had any cognitive problems whatsoever. So fucking tiresome! Yeah, but at least you’re aware now that Pete Buttigieg is gay, so that’s helpful. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2255 "2025-05-26T15:33:33Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > More to the point, **DrDeth** is trying to score useless political points, on a subject he’s obsessed about, in a completely unelated Cafe Society thread. He completely whooshed me on it, too. I had forgotten about the story on Biden not recognizing Clooney last year, so I guess I had just assumed that DrDeth named Clooney, at random, as a celebrity he wouldn’t recognize. Now that I’ve been reminded of this, his intense, angry reactions to another poster and me in that thread, which amounted to “how dare you try to correct me about who I would and would not recognize,” makes more sense, and are on-brand with his obsession over Biden’s cognition, and correcting anyone who states otherwise in the political threads. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2256 "2025-05-26T16:01:57Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > a hopefully helpful DM about this. Hope springs eternal but may not be warranted at this point. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2257 "2025-05-26T16:17:03Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > . I had forgotten about the story on Biden not recognizing Clooney last year, so I guess I had just assumed that DrDeth named Clooney, at random, as a celebrity he wouldn’t recognize. It’s in the news now because the guys who wrote that book about the Biden dementia cover-up are talking about it in interviews, and i assume it’s also in the book. But i heard a long piece about it on NPR, which was pretty damning, honestly. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2258 "2025-05-26T16:27:21Z")
And entirely appropriate for a thread titled “Celebrities Biden doesn’t recognize”. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2259 "2025-05-27T02:14:09Z")
He came into The Last of Us season 2 discussion thread to say that 1. He doesn’t watch it. 2. “Can anyone tell why HBO puts a lot of good stuff on Max, that isnt on HBO itself?” ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2260 "2025-05-30T16:41:26Z")
He drug [MAGA thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-48/1014872/190) into the Survivor thread (out of nowhere), getting it temporarily shut down. And then goes on to argue that he doesn’t like “villains” on the show because in a _real life_ survival situation, you want team players - not villains. He is deliberately obtuse and the very definition of obduracy. I don’t know why I let myself get drawn into debating his idiocy. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2261 "2025-05-30T18:13:47Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > And then goes on to argue that he doesn’t like “villains” on the show because in a _real life_ survival situation, you want team players - not villains Maybe that’s his thing. He shat on Poker Face, a dramedy police procedural, because it’s unrealistic. > [@](#): > > I watched the first episode. It has SO many things wrong with it, that I couldnt watch any more- First there isnt one lone cleaner at the LAPD- it is a team, they wear uniforms, and are vetted. Next, crime information is locked up overnight, and also the LAPD doesnt close at night- maybe the team might sure, but there’d be people around. It is impossible that she could find something and make notes- “victim!”. There’s more. > > Generally if a non police who isnt at least a licensed detective starts trying to solve crimes they are considered a suspect, or arrested for interfering. The whole genre is bogus today. Sure, back in Sam Spades day (who at least was a PI) things were different. I never really understood that attitude. You’ll hear the same thing about other shows as well. The Office isn’t like a real office. Friends wouldn’t be able to afford that apartment. The cops would never let an un-uniformed cleaning woman work alone and go through all their evidence. That’s all correct, but there’s a reason TV shows aren’t just 22 minutes of unedited CCTV footage from various workplaces. Doesn’t get much more realistic than that, but it would be awfully boring. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2262 "2025-05-30T18:23:32Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > That’s all correct, but there’s a reason TV shows aren’t just 22 minutes of unedited CCTV footage from various workplaces. As I find myself saying to my lovely bride, when she makes similar complaints about TV shows (or, even worse, commercials): “It’s not a documentary.” FWIW, I believe that a lot of people have a difficult time enjoying a TV show (or movie, book, etc.) which is centered on their profession, their hobby, or their hometown, because part of their brains can’t help but notice – and get upset by – the “inaccuracies” that are in there, either due to artistic license, or lack of deep knowledge on the topic on the part of the writers or producers. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2263 "2025-05-30T18:35:18Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > FWIW, I believe that a lot of people have a difficult time enjoying a TV show (or movie, book, etc.) which is centered on their profession… Absolutely. I still get annoyed by a scene in The Bear when (no spoilers) there’s problem that’s driving the plot forward but the problem is so easily fixable that it didn’t even make sense. Granted, this was something I knew how to fix because of stuff I do IRL, but there where people there that had the same knowledge as I do. It would be like having an episode of The Office where they had to work in the dark because no one thought to turn the lights on. Spoiler for The Bear I’m referring to the scene when Carmine was locked in the walk in cooler. Even if the button on the inside was broken, the hinges are on the outside, as was Fak, who we knew from earlier in the episode had a screwdriver in his pocket He could’ve had Carmy out in a few minutes. But I don’t think DrDeth is a cop. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2264 "2025-05-30T18:35:32Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > FWIW, I believe that a lot of people have a difficult time enjoying a TV show (or movie, book, etc.) which is centered on their profession, their hobby, or their hometown, because part of their brains can’t help but notice – and get upset by – the “inaccuracies” that are in there, either due to artistic license, or lack of deep knowledge on the topic on the part of the writers or producers. Amen to that, and that’s why I cut our otherwise almost always obnoxious Doc some slack on that point. I’m an IT guy, and I have to roll my eyes at almost any scene in movies or TV shows that involve computers. But I’ve learned to live with it, and sometimes it’s even funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=112) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=114)