# 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:** 37
**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:** [April 27, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/724 "2021-04-27T18:07:26Z")
Quoth discobot nevermore. ☹ ---
**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:** [April 27, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/725 "2021-04-27T18:36:30Z")
Okay, okay. I think I got it… @discobot, tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore. ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/726 "2021-04-27T18:36:32Z")
> 🔮 Yes definitely ---
**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:** [April 27, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/727 "2021-04-27T18:37:05Z")
Thanks, discobot! I guess things aren’t so “dreary” after all… ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/728 "2021-04-27T18:59:43Z")
Quoth the raven, “she’s just outside, I’ll go get her” ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/729 "2021-04-27T19:14:11Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I obviously didn’t have time to check over there before you decided you were going to help a troll troll a poster you don’t like. I got a little lost, which one is the troll? ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/730 "2021-04-27T19:30:06Z")
> [@Enjoy\_Slurm](#): > > I got a little lost, which one is the troll I think SmartAlec is the troll while Miller and What Exit are aiding and abetting the troll. DrDeth is an innocent victim and Roo is Just Asking Questions in a totally innocuous way. BigT is, of course, a heroic knight in shining armor. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/731 "2021-04-27T19:32:55Z")
I think it was **SmartAlec** , in General Questions, with the lead pipe. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/732 "2021-04-27T20:15:03Z")
Puh-LEASE, people it’s AleQ–with a Q! Also, I admit nothing. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/733 "2021-04-27T20:19:52Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > I think SmartAlec is the troll while Miller and What Exit are aiding and abetting the troll. DrDeth is an innocent victim and Roo is Just Asking Questions in a totally innocuous way. BigT is, of course, a heroic knight in shining armor. And somehow _I’m_ the one who gets not warned. ---
**Author:** ![CardboardBoxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardboardboxx/32/7079_2.png) [@CardboardBoxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CardboardBoxx)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/734 "2021-04-27T21:21:41Z")
> [@DrDeth's suspension](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeths-suspension/940813/29): > > So this could happen to any of you regular posters here. Somehow, _without even a warning,_ you are _suspended_ for having a imaginary “pattern” of being disruptive, being singled out from a thread where the arguments got out of hand. Is that how we want to run this board? First they came for the disruptive morons who couldn’t spell properly… And everybody was happy. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/735 "2021-04-27T21:25:48Z")
The fact that he thinks his long documented history of disruptive behavior is “imaginary” tells you everything you need to know about his grip on reality. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/736 "2021-04-27T21:31:09Z")
His father once had a grip on reality. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/737 "2021-04-27T21:53:46Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > His father once had a grip on reality Was that before or after he single-handedly won the war in the Pacific theater? ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/738 "2021-04-27T22:54:43Z")
Hey!, you show some respect! His father existed once, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/739 "2021-04-28T01:44:23Z")
He’s really doubling down on his “thickest skull in the west” routine over in that ATMB thread. > [@DrDeth's suspension](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeths-suspension/940813/55): > > I despise the PIT and nothing good ever comes of it. In fact, I am reasonable sure that this sudden dislike of me by What\_Exit is caused by the Pit thread. I highly doubt that this is true, but if the Pit thread really DID turn What\_Exit against DrDeth, that would certainly be one good thing to come out of the Pit. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2021, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/740 "2021-04-28T03:20:50Z")
He keeps insisting that it is a personal vendetta by What\_Exit in spite of all the evidence that is presented to the contrary, and that he is a (poor me) victim of unfairness. Something about that approach sounds vaguely familiar… who could I be thinking of? ---
**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:** [April 28, 2021, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/741 "2021-04-28T14:57:00Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > He keeps insisting that it is a personal vendetta by What\_Exit in spite of all the evidence that is presented to the contrary, and that he is a (poor me) victim of unfairness. > [@Skywatcher](#): > > As we see time and time again, once he gets a notion in his head, it’s nigh impossible to dislodge. * * * ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/742 "2021-04-28T16:28:54Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > As we see time and time again, once he gets a notion in his head, it’s nigh impossible to dislodge. It looks like Asperger Syndrome to me. From wikipedia: > Asperger syndrome is distinguished by a pattern of symptoms rather than a single symptom. It is characterized by qualitative impairment in social interaction, by stereotyped and restricted patterns of behavior, activities, and interests, and by no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or general delay in language. Intense preoccupation with a narrow subject, one-sided verbosity, restricted prosody, and physical clumsiness are typical of the condition, but are not required for diagnosis ---
**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:** [April 28, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/743 "2021-04-28T16:36:39Z")
Eh, could be – and he has it worse than I do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=36) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=38)