# 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:** 70
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1385 "2023-03-18T12:43:26Z")
I don’t know that they are a troll. They have some “interesting” ideas that they present with force and without much skill, but they really aren’t that evocative, so if they are trolling, they aren’t doing a very good job at it. And even if that is the case, the fact that DrDeth throws a rock through a window everytime he sees one doesn’t mean that he did a public service by throwing a rock through this particular one. He saw a window and threw his standard #notallwhitechristianmen! rock at it. A stopped clock may be right twice a day, but it is still useless at telling the time. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1386 "2023-05-10T19:26:15Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > > [@mordecaiB](#): > > > > Also, the way he always calls himself a “fed - but not law enforcement.” When people say fed they specifically mean federal law enforcement. Nobody says fed when talking about the guy down at the social security office. > > [Now he’s not even bothering with a distinction.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-08-08-22/969329/3596) [What “training” would that be?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-tv-cop-shows/983820/5) ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1387 "2023-05-10T20:37:37Z")
Social security and Welfare Assault Training (SWAT)? Given to elite Fucking Bullshit Instigator agents? ---
**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 10, 2023, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1388 "2023-05-10T22:47:14Z")
His favorite thing here is to go down a long thread, quoting everyone in it in one big multipost, and answering, “Yep”, “Agreed!”, “So true!”, etc, to each and every comment, as though we were all just waiting on the edge of our seats for his revered remarks on every post. He adds nothing whatsoever to the conversation but his stamps of approval. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1389 "2023-05-11T15:46:17Z")
From your linked post. > [@Things I learned from watching TV cop shows](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-tv-cop-shows/983820/5): > > Yep. this one pisses me off. Goes against all training, which even I , a **mostly** desk guy, had to take. my bolding This is so classical DD. Here he’s saying “mostly” desk to imply that there are times isn’t not? He does this all the time on all of his made up BS claims. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1390 "2023-05-11T15:49:52Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > Here he’s saying “mostly” desk to imply that there are times isn’t not? I’m sure he goes to the breakroom or restroom at times. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1391 "2023-05-11T16:16:43Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > His favorite thing here is to go down a long thread, quoting everyone in it in one big multipost, and answering, “Yep”, “Agreed!”, “So true!”, etc, to each and every comment, as though we were all just waiting on the edge of our seats for his revered remarks on every post. He adds nothing whatsoever to the conversation but his stamps of approval. To be fair, the comment I think you are referring to was in his own thread (things I learned from cop TV shows), where I think responding like this to people contributing is good manners rather than pomposity. I haven’t noticed that he’s guilty of this habitually - a few other posters come to mind more readily. ---
**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 11, 2023, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1392 "2023-05-11T16:46:13Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > To be fair, the comment I think you are referring to was in his own thread (things I learned from cop TV shows), where I think responding like this to people contributing is good manners rather than pomposity. I haven’t noticed that he’s guilty of this habitually … He does it regardless of who started the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1393 "2023-05-11T18:08:24Z")
> [@Things I learned from watching TV cop shows](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-tv-cop-shows/983820/5): > > From your linked post. > > > [@Things I learned from watching TV cop shows](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-watching-tv-cop-shows/983820/5): > > > > Yep. this one pisses me off. Goes against all training, which even I , a **mostly** desk guy, had to take. > > my bolding > > This is so classical DD. Here he’s saying “mostly” desk to imply that there are times isn’t not? > > He does this all the time on all of his made up BS claims. Well let’s be fair to the poor guy. What he writes is _mostly_ true. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2023, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1394 "2023-05-11T18:11:01Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > He does it regardless of who started the thread. IIRC, he started it fairly recently, as an attempt to be “more positive” in his board interactions. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1395 "2023-07-29T08:49:46Z")
Someone’s getting paranoid… see the Banned words and Karen threads in ATMB: “Or was it just because I was the OP?” “Your motive here i suspect, and I think it has nothing whatsoever to do with grammar.” or, just maybe, it was because no-one else chose this particular stupid issue as their hill… ---
**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:** [August 14, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1396 "2023-08-14T19:07:44Z")
DrDeth in the Karen thread: “OK, so we all agree that Karen is akin the N word, right?” DrDeth in the Trolling in the Pit thread: “There is NO CONSENSUS!” All without a trace of self awareness. Never change, good doctor - never change. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1397 "2023-08-14T19:20:44Z")
John Mulaney: > I wrote a joke for this awards show that had the word “midget” in it. And someone from the network came down to our offices and he said to me, “Hey, you can’t put the word midget on TV,” and I said, “I sure would like to.” And he said, “No! ‘Midget’ is as bad as the ‘n-word.’” First off: no. No, it’s not! “Do you know how I know it’s not,” I said to him, "is because we’re saying the word ’midget,’ and we’re not even saying what the ‘n-word’ is! If you’re comparing the badness of two words, and you won’t even say one of them? That’s the worse word. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1398 "2023-08-14T19:23:02Z")
[![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/31/2e/03/312e0367b91e1176af4feba9dcc6ea9c.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/31/2e/03/312e0367b91e1176af4feba9dcc6ea9c.jpg) Ninja’d ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1399 "2023-08-14T19:30:53Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > John Mulaney: That’s one of his best punchlines. Anyway, a lot of that thread reads like a parody: “what a conservative nutjob thinks a liberal sounds like.” But of course, people only disagree with him because they’re bullies. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1400 "2023-08-14T20:10:54Z")
I’m guessing me sarcastically calling him Captain Obvious just reminded him his dad was just an NCO. Too soon! ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1401 "2023-08-14T20:39:58Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > That’s one of his best punchlines. Agree. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1402 "2023-08-14T20:40:37Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Ninja’d But you had pictures! ---
**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:** [August 14, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1403 "2023-08-14T21:14:31Z")
DrDeth can bring out the worst in people, I’ve gotten noted for getting too riled up by his deliberate misquoting of me. I put him on ignore after that, and he was on ignore for some time before I removed him after he pledged (to the board) he’d change some of his behavior. And he did. ( **SOME**.) I don’t blame you for going there with him, it happened to me. I haven’t had a really infuriating interaction with him for a while. I disagree with him a lot on things, but that’s okay. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1404 "2023-08-14T21:31:39Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > DrDeth can bring out the worst in people He is still the only person on my ignore list. His posting just rubs me the wrong way, and I fear I could probably end up getting noted or warned if I engaged. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=69) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=71)