# 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:** 118
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2345 "2025-06-08T01:06:04Z")
You know the difference between yours and mine? I’m willing to provide documentation and you have paranoia. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2346 "2025-06-08T01:13:31Z")
Do you have a 2000 post Pit thread full of haters, not to mention a certain other board? All of whom would LOVE to Dox me. And I provided cites- lots of cites. Just nothing that can be used to dox. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2347 "2025-06-08T01:17:12Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Do you have a 2000 post Pit thread full of haters, not to mention a certain other board? All of whom would LOVE to Dox me. Aaand we’re back in Jonathan Swift territory. > [@DrDeth](#): > > And I provided cites- lots of cites. With your history of not reading your own cites? Please. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2348 "2025-06-08T01:28:50Z")
You’re an old man, right, Doc? What do you expect these Dopers to do, show up and yell at your clouds? ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2349 "2025-06-08T01:30:33Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Now I will go back to avoiding this cesspool of cowards and liars. Now why exactly didn’t I believe you? Has your imaginary ‘buddy’ told you to come back and read more? > [@DrDeth](#): > > Do you have a 2000 post Pit thread full of haters, not to mention a certain other board? Know what would be healthy for you? To ponder why exactly you have so many ‘haters’. And I personally could give two fucks who you are. I find it highly doubtful anyone else here gives enough of a shit about you to want to know who you are. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2350 "2025-06-08T01:41:47Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > Has your imaginary ‘buddy’ told you to come back and read more? Completely different friend. They’re like tissues; one always pops up when needed. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2351 "2025-06-08T01:55:33Z")
Now the shithead is posting his Dethless prose in [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-complete-and-total-jerk-asses-happen-to-be-right/1019273/29) in support of his moronic thesis that France behaved terribly towards poor Germany in the early to mid 20th century, so naturally the Germans were righteously aggrieved. What an ass. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2352 "2025-06-08T02:29:44Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > Know what would be healthy for you? To ponder why exactly you have so many ‘haters’. Alternatively, treat them as you would a troll and just. Stop. Responding. Period. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2353 "2025-06-08T03:00:56Z")
Ugh, are we really going to rehash drdeth’s father’s role in WWII. There are few topics i care less about. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2354 "2025-06-08T03:14:12Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Ugh, are we really going to rehash drdeth’s father’s role in WWII. There are few topics i care less about Hence my > [@needscoffee](#): > > This thread is getting tedious. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2355 "2025-06-08T04:02:05Z")
Well, this _is_ DrPedant we’re discussing. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2356 "2025-06-08T04:44:37Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > So, if someone attacked your family in a Pit thread, you’d let it go? Finally, a question I can answer. YES! What a stupid thing to get hung up on. If I told everyone my dad got his chemistry PhD in record time, and people didn’t believe me and said he was an idiot, I’d just ignore it. Why would I care if people I don’t know attack someone they don’t know? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2357 "2025-06-08T05:16:09Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > So, if someone attacked your family in a Pit thread, you’d let it go? Maybe, maybe not. It would depend on the specific circumstances. But I think the larger point here is that you appear to be consistently incapable of **ever** letting **anything** go. Many of us are guilty of this from time to time, but not with the kind of unyielding stubborn consistency that seems to imply some sort of mental disorder. The way you insinuate yourself into gun debates and bulldoze right past all facts and logic is legendary. I’m not a “hater”, to use your term for the critical posters here. I have nothing against your father and no particular reason to question your beliefs and recollections, and I really don’t have much interest in joining a pile-on against you, but your stubborn and disingenuous participation in gun control debates has really rubbed me the wrong way for a long time. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2358 "2025-06-08T05:20:20Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Do you have a 2000 post Pit thread full of haters, not to mention a certain other board? All of whom would LOVE to Dox me. Are you really this delusional? What the fuck would they do with your “Dox”? It’s dox Doc. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2359 "2025-06-08T05:49:35Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > YES! What a stupid thing to get hung up on. If I told everyone my dad got his chemistry PhD in record time, and people didn’t believe me and said he was an idiot, I’d just ignore it. Why would I care if people I don’t know attack someone they don’t know? I had tried to come up with something similar, couldn’t, then decided the hell with it. So, thanks to you and @wolfpup. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2360 "2025-06-08T07:33:42Z")
Friendly reminder: nobody has ever ‘attacked’ DrDipshit’s family. People don’t believe what he says about his father, because it is demonstrably nonsense, and he’s a pathological liar. DrDipshit that is. Not his father. Everything we ‘know’ about his father comes from DrDipshit. He’s either incapable of understanding the nuance that people are attacking him, and calling him a demonstrable liar, not his father, or likes to deliberately misconstrue it so he can get up on his cross. Yet again. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2361 "2025-06-08T10:37:12Z")
In a thread that was started for a given purpose, to then jump in with an erroneous “Hitler was right” is an egregious faux pas, to say the least. It tarnishes the memory of his dad who served honorably fighting Fascism, only to have his son turn around and spew such crap. For shame. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2025, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2362 "2025-06-08T11:41:18Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > People don’t believe what he says about his father, because it is demonstrably nonsense, and he’s a pathological liar. DrDipshit that is. Not his father. I trust that, in general, everyone understands DD is full of shit and I have just stopped feeding the troll. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2363 "2025-06-08T16:56:10Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Not _within_ enlisted ranks, no, but there had been breveting from noncommissioned to commissioned officers. I was a kid so I don’t remember the name but I saw a war movie where in the middle of a fierce battle most of the officers were killed so one of the few remaining pointed to a sergeant and said, “You! You’re a lieutenant now. Go take care of that bunker (or whatever was causing the most trouble)!” He lasted about five minutes of movie time before he, too was KIA and I wondered if his widow would get any extra from the insurance, assuming the promotion got recorded in the first place. Don’t know if it’s still a practice but when I was in the navy there was the practice of “frocking” when an enlisted person was known to be promoted but the paperwork has not come back. They are allowed to the accoutrements of the higher rank – mainly the uniform insignia – but not the pay. I was promoted from E5 to E6 when I was stateside but a couple weeks before being posted to Keflavik. I took advantage of that for all the tailoring it took to get a new crow on my dress uniform. Had it been from E4 to E5 I could also have gone to the Acey-deucy Club but that was moot from E5 to 6. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2364 "2025-06-09T00:34:13Z")
Frocking is definitely still a practice in the United States Navy. There are different regulations relating to the procedures and effective dates of the frocking for enlisted and commissioned officers. An example for the enlisted is when a Petty Officer Second Class is selected for advancement to Petty Officer First Class, the message announcing that selection also authorizes frocking to the higher rate. What I don’t recall is US Army enlisted having both a permanent and temporary rank. AFAIK, that’s a thing for commissioned officers. The more I see DD’s posts, the more it seems to everything he thinks he knows about the military is something he got from stories such as Heinlein’s \*If This Goes On…" and _Starship Troopers_. In others words: _fiction in, fiction out_. Finally, I wonder how Daddy D felt about D Jr’s attitude towards service members in administrative roles in combat zones. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=117) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=119)