# 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:** 132
**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:** [August 12, 2026, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2625 "2026-08-12T19:40:20Z")
A sudden and inexplicable need to get stoned, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2626 "2026-08-12T20:23:00Z")
And the two ls in line 6 (or are they Is?) form parallel lines - which, famously, never meet. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2627 "2026-08-12T21:19:26Z")
From my thread about Amazon interface changes — > [@Shopping on Amazon rapidly turning to shit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-on-amazon-rapidly-turning-to-shit/1032313/29): > > why jump on me? Because of this: > [@Shopping on Amazon rapidly turning to shit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-on-amazon-rapidly-turning-to-shit/1032313/21): > > Sure you can. Where you so casually denied my experience and, by implication, belittled my understanding. Oh, of course, you didn’t mean me personally, it was just the generic “you.” You may have just meant to offer up your own experience – but if that was the case, you could have said “I am able to do this thing, and here is how I do it,” as nearly everyone else did. What is most likely to me is that you (personally) never stop to think about how your choice of words is likely to read to other posters. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2628 "2026-08-12T21:48:14Z")
Unless you find some of ther posts of useful quality, just ignore them. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2026, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2629 "2026-08-13T06:49:15Z")
Yeah, he was really an ass in that thread. Thanks for the thread, by the way. That was really useful info. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2026, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2630 "2026-09-01T12:51:51Z")
Jesus Fucking Christ dude, I think we understand your position on ICE at this point! > [@Democratic Party Official Position is to Abolish ICE](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democratic-party-official-position-is-to-abolish-ice/1032355/23): > > The first step, in early 2027, after the Dems take Congress is to cut back it’s budget to Biden levels. Easy, peasy. > [@Democratic Party Official Position is to Abolish ICE](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democratic-party-official-position-is-to-abolish-ice/1032355/125): > > My idea is to scale back ICE and what it does to what it did under those Dem Administrations. > [@Democratic Party Official Position is to Abolish ICE](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democratic-party-official-position-is-to-abolish-ice/1032355/141): > > Cut back their funds to Biden era levels- that means they can not support all those stupid raids and new agents. Some new agents can be transferred- others laid off. > [@Democratic Party Official Position is to Abolish ICE](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democratic-party-official-position-is-to-abolish-ice/1032355/198): > > The Dems can cut back the Budget for ICE early next yeah. Then ICE will have to get rid of all those excess Agents and it will not be able to fund that kinds of raids it has been doing. > [@Democratic Party Official Position is to Abolish ICE](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democratic-party-official-position-is-to-abolish-ice/1032355/298): > > Yep. Scale it back to Biden era levels. > [@Democratic Party Official Position is to Abolish ICE](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democratic-party-official-position-is-to-abolish-ice/1032355/307): > > No, they are not “wannabe Gestapo stormtroopers” , and if the Dems control Congress next yeah, all they have to do is cut the budget back to Biden era levels, and the budget will not support the new hires. Most will have to be laid off. > [@Democratic Party Official Position is to Abolish ICE](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democratic-party-official-position-is-to-abolish-ice/1032355/342): > > Cut back it’s budget (to Biden era levels), making it lay off all the new hires, fire all the trump appointees, and then reorganize and rename. It can then do what it did under Obama and Biden. Find a new talking point, ffs, before we all poke our eyes out. ---
**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 1, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2631 "2026-09-01T13:00:14Z")
But I wonder… would he have us cut ICE’s budget, and if so to what? It’s hard to discern his particular position and I’d really like some clarification from him on the subject. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2026, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2632 "2026-09-01T14:57:53Z")
He may be repetitive but then again so are all the posters who say over and again there is nothing that can be done that would fix things, just blow the whole thing up, without acknowledging that most of what is Trump bad would be reversed by those actions. He’s not wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2633 "2026-09-01T15:09:54Z")
Ahhh, they’re 2020’s-style “Deth layoffs”. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2026, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2634 "2026-09-01T15:22:46Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > He may be repetitive but then again so are all the posters who say over and again there is nothing that can be done that would fix things So go pit them if you want. > [@DSeid](#): > > He’s not wrong. Debatable, but wrongness is not the point I was making. Also, wrongness is not the point I was making. And you might be right, but wrongness is not the point I was making. I hope you understand now that wrongness is not the point I was making. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2635 "2026-09-01T15:32:49Z")
Why are you trying to make a point about wrongness? ---
**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 1, 2026, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2636 "2026-09-01T15:38:51Z")
I happen to think he’s right about it not being about wrongness, and even if he were wrong about what it’s about it would be right to talk about things other than wrongness. And it’s not right to say he’s wrong for doing so. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2026, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2637 "2026-09-01T15:54:53Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > So go pit them if you want. Nah. Creating a Pit thread is, for me, for egregious things, not the mildly annoying. Even the “What were you thinking?” one needs more than just dumb in my mind. (But should be for a usually fine poster, not a troll or consistent idiot.) OTOH responding to and participating in Pit threads in progress is a low effort bar. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2638 "2026-09-01T17:01:21Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > So go pit them if you want. He complained about them in the Pit; that’s what you responded to. Doesn’t that literally mean he already did? It’s not like there is a formal application you have to fill and submit for approval prior to something being a Pitting. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2026, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2639 "2026-09-01T17:07:43Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > He complained about them in the Pit; that’s what you responded to. Doesn’t that literally mean he already did? Sigh. My point, perhaps poorly phrased, was that he was weirdly white-knighting our good Doctor by saying “everyone else is doing it, too!” (paraphrased) Which is both not really true and also irrelevant to my post here. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2026, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2640 "2026-09-01T17:08:23Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > Which is both not really true and also irrelevant to my post here. That is fair and seems accurate to say. ---
**Author:** ![Hawkeyeop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@Hawkeyeop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hawkeyeop)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2641 "2026-09-01T17:23:06Z")
I haven’t found anyone close to as prolifically repetitive as him. He has these beliefs (Biden just had a cold, Buttigieg is too inexperienced etc..) and insists on telling everyone them over and over anytime those people are tangentially related to a thread. And it ends up derailing discussions because a lot of these beliefs are wildly off base (Biden not actually very popular) so people try to correct him instead of talking about what the thread is actually about. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2642 "2026-09-01T17:30:39Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > white-knighting Gawd I fucking hate that phrase. This isn’t “what aboutism” either. It’s a mild complaint about such a mild complaint. Yes threads like that often get into posters just repeatedly doing a series of contradictions. “It is impossible to fix.” “X would fix it.” “It is impossible to fix.” “X would fix it.” Rinse repeat rinse repeat. And I did it some in that thread too. Poor self control on my part. _Trying_ to not repeat myself too. It is such a common thing that it seems … trite … to Pit over. Especially in comparison to the bulk of the complaints in this thread. But whatever. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2026, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2643 "2026-09-01T17:41:32Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Gawd I fucking hate that phrase. Tough nuggies. > [@DSeid](#): > > It is such a common thing that it seems … trite … to Pit over. Especially in comparison to the bulk of the complaints in this thread. But whatever. After the 9th or 10th time reading DrDeth post the same damn thing with almost the same damn words, I found myself getting really annoyed, and rather than pointing it out in thread, derailing that discussion (for whatever it is worth), and probably getting a warning for a personal attack, I did what we’re supposed to do and took it here. Sorry that bothers you. Not really sorry, of course, since you’re completely in the wrong here 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 1, 2026, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2644 "2026-09-01T17:51:41Z")
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