# 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:** 80
**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:** [October 27, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1585 "2023-10-27T20:55:46Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Thus demonstrating that, despite complaints otherwise, this site doesn’t have a bias against conservatives but against dumbasses. ![](https://media.tenor.com/_axzKvBBqnMAAAAC/true-that-thats-true.gif) In the Venn diagram of dumbasses and conservatives, the dumbass circle is a lot bigger. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1586 "2023-10-27T21:18:11Z")
> [@digs](#): > > …cities are knee-deep in homeless feces … I hate when that happens. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1587 "2023-10-27T21:18:44Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > dumbasses I preemptively apologize to those people who have been medically diagnosed with the condition. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1588 "2023-10-27T22:20:35Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > I preemptively apologize to those people who have been medically diagnosed with the condition. In over 4 decades of practicing medicine, I don’t believe I ever made an official diagnosis of “dumbass”. I just called it “microdeckia”. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2023, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1589 "2023-11-16T08:08:36Z")
From the ATMB tone policing thread (which is some bullshit but that’s for a different thread) DrDeth: > But some people dont know what “cite?” means, it appears. Aww, it looks like I hit a nerve in that GD capitalism thread. _Also_ DrDeth, in the capitalism thread: > a Book as a cite is not the best Tell me you’ve never been in academia without telling me you’ve never been in academia… ---
**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:** [November 17, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1590 "2023-11-17T15:10:40Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > _Also_ DrDeth, in the capitalism thread: > > > a Book as a cite is not the best …unless it’s a book that DrDeth read and devoutly believes is _the_ last word on whatever subject he’s pontificating about. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2023, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1591 "2023-11-20T04:45:06Z")
Welp, I’m done. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2023, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1592 "2023-11-20T05:10:17Z")
There’s a reason I have him on ignore. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1593 "2023-11-20T06:35:17Z")
Unfortunately for me, there’s a reason I _don’t_ have him on ignore. History, particularly military history, is something I have a passion for and actually care about. @DrDeth is a plague on any discussion involving those - well, he’s a plague on any discussion period, but that’s where I usually cross paths with him. I have never met a poster more consistently and aggressively factually wrong who hasn’t been banned. As an illustration, last month the thread in FQ [Could the Japanese have used alternative carriers during the Battle of Midway? - #26 by Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-japanese-have-used-alternative-carriers-during-the-battle-of-midway/953509/26) was bumped after 2 years. Mr Deth posted three times “correcting” the facts of other posters. He was factually wrong every single time. That’s par for the course with him. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1594 "2023-11-20T15:43:11Z")
Every once in a while, Discourse’s ignore function fails, and the only person on my ignore list is visible to me. It always, without fail, makes my day a little worse. > [@Jackmannii](#): > > whatever subject he’s pontificating about. I move to call it “dethicating” rather than “pontificating”. It just has a certain ring to it… ---
**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:** [November 20, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1595 "2023-11-20T16:41:34Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > I move to call it “dethicating” rather than “pontificating” He certainly ain’t no Pope. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1596 "2023-11-20T16:51:40Z")
Definitely doesn’t build any bridges, either, when he gets challenged ---
**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:** [November 20, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1597 "2023-11-20T16:58:29Z")
What he does in the woods stays in the woods? ---
**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:** [November 23, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1598 "2023-11-23T17:55:15Z")
Oy > [@The reign of King Charles III of the United Kingdom](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/1017): > > Maybe it’s a guilty conscience? (It is not.) A mixture of feudal law and a consitutional weakness when it comes to differentiating between the person and state seems to have led to some rather unseemly financial practices on behalf of our monarch. The Duchy of Lancaster, a controversial land and property estate that generates huge profits for King Charles III, has collected tens of millions of pounds in recent years under an antiquated system that dates back to feudal times. Financial ass… ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1599 "2023-11-23T18:14:15Z")
There is an upper limit on the number of words I am going to spend on the inevitably futile endeavour of getting him to say, “maybe I was too hasty” and it is not high. So pithiness is the order of the day. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1600 "2023-11-23T18:26:12Z")
Yes, our American “fed” who is an “expert” on military history, firearm regulation, and apparently British property law 🙄 ---
**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:** [November 23, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1601 "2023-11-23T19:21:41Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > an “expert” And who apparently does not know what “The Crown” means in Britain or Commonwealth countries. I guess he just watches the miniseries by that name for information. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1602 "2023-11-23T21:42:34Z")
Since it’s Thanksgiving, we should all say what we are thankful for. I’m thankful that Dr Deez’s father wasn’t allegedly a part of “The Crown’s” staff and privy to secret information. Were he British, I have no doubt he would have been. Allegedly. For entertainment purposes only. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1603 "2023-11-23T22:09:23Z")
Hey, he’s admitted it’s confusing. Unfortunately that admission won’t then lead him to reconsider the confidence with which he approached the topic, and the wisdom of the choice to contribute flat assertions rather than questions, but it’s as close as we can hope to get. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1604 "2023-11-23T22:12:32Z")
It was amusing just how assertive he was. He came in confident as shit. Surprise, surprise he doesn’t know what he’s taking about. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=79) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=81)