# 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:** 69
**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:** [January 28, 2023, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1365 "2023-01-28T03:00:13Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Anyway, I’m still holding out hope he’s just that clueless/sense. Nobody is clueless to the point where they will say that the beating death of a man by 5 people was “an error”. That’s not clueless. At least if he’s trolling, he does not sincerely believe that. He’s just lying about believing it to get a reaction from people. That’s the best possible spin on it. ---
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1366 "2023-01-28T03:38:37Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Lister and Rimmer were crewmen on the _Red Dwarf_ starship, but they basically just cleaned up after everyone else. (Actually, Lister slacked off and Rimmer yelled at him about it, I don’t know how much work either did.) They were the lowest two ranks on the ship. Maintenance Technicians Class 2 and 3, iirc. Lower than the ships robots, who I think had a better union/contract. The first episode showed them going and cleaning a chicken soup dispenser, where Lister was slacking, but still pushing their cart and handing tools to Rimmer. ---
**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 29, 2023, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1367 "2023-01-29T02:14:52Z")
Apparently he’s still [on that weird anti-smoking kick](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/66) (Café thread about the Peacock series “Poker Face”). ---
**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:** [January 29, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1368 "2023-01-29T03:54:12Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Apparently he’s still [on that weird anti-smoking kick](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/66) (Café thread about the Peacock series “Poker Face”) This one, I’m happy to let him. I haven’t seen the show yet, though, so I don’t know how it’s presented. ---
**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 29, 2023, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1369 "2023-01-29T04:01:33Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I don’t know how it’s presented. [Doesn’t matter as far as he’s concerned.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/58) ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1370 "2023-01-29T16:03:55Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > But would it be some much less horrible to troll over something like that? Kind of like when someone says “I’m not a racist, I just like telling racist jokes to get a rise out of people!” Uh, yeah… how are you not a racist, again? Someone once explained to me that Donald Trump wasn’t homophobic, because look at how friendly he was with actual gay and trans people, he just enacted anti-gay policies and appointed anti-gay judges to get his base’s approval. I was all like “But that’s worse! Don’t you see that’s worse?” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1371 "2023-01-30T02:27:01Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > This one, I’m happy to let him. I haven’t seen the show yet, though, so I don’t know how it’s presented. It isn’t presented as a cool thing to do, it is a signal that she is kinda trashy. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1372 "2023-01-30T04:14:00Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > I was all like “But that’s worse! Don’t you see that’s worse?” That’s like the stereotypical “It’s nothing personal, just business” in mob execution tropes. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1373 "2023-01-30T05:10:49Z")
Of course, the apotheosis of this trope will be when Clarence Thomas follows through on Dobbs to vote that interracial couples don’t have the right to marry. ---
**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 30, 2023, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1374 "2023-01-30T06:06:43Z")
He’s Catholic; that may be his way of separating himself from his wife without having to go through a divorce. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1375 "2023-01-30T06:35:05Z")
“I’m sorry Ginni. It’s nothing personal. Just business.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_tmKRk2AIJI/maxresdefault.jpg "The Godfather 1 - Michael and Kay, final scene") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tmKRk2AIJI) ---
**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:** [January 30, 2023, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1376 "2023-01-30T22:16:21Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > He’s Catholic; that may be his way of separating himself from his wife without having to go through a divorce. It’s more likely because he believes it’s a privilege to be married to him. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2023, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1377 "2023-02-18T04:24:06Z")
I have an idea: stop posting half-cocked (Doc’s AOC thread in P&E and attempted hijacking of same). ---
**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:** [February 22, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1378 "2023-02-22T23:06:54Z")
Doc seems to have confused Roald Dahl with [Lewis Carroll.](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12608-when-i-use-a-word-humpty-dumpty-said-in-rather) 😉 ---
**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:** [March 17, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1379 "2023-03-17T23:06:12Z")
I see that drdeth drew @slicedalone into a warning with his classic “you woke people are the REAL bigots and Straight White Men are the REAL victims” routine. Yet another demonstration that he is a jackass who’ll hijack any thread with his cries of “but what about MEEEE???” ---
**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:** [March 17, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1380 "2023-03-17T23:12:58Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > I see that drdeth drew @slicedalone into a warning… Note, not warning. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1381 "2023-03-17T23:17:15Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Note, not warning Oh yeah, you’re right! Either way, I’m glad I was smart enough not to be the one telling DrWhiteFragility to stuff it for once. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1382 "2023-03-18T04:52:38Z")
I’m pretty sure **slicedalone** is a troll, so… yeah. Every now and then, even **DrDeth** may do a public service. In a “boy breaks a window” kind of way, where it just so happens that the shopkeeper in question is hoarding all the town’s wealth, so maybe it’s not such a bad thing he has to shell out some money for a new window after all. Troll got bit in its own thread as far as I’m concerned. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1383 "2023-03-18T05:34:00Z")
Which thread was this? ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1384 "2023-03-18T07:18:07Z")
The GD thread titled **Defining “woke”**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=68) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=70)