# 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:** 81
**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, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1605 "2023-11-23T22:48:54Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > 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. You mean part of Chuck’s staff? Cause that’s what they all called him, of course ---
**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 24, 2023, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1606 "2023-11-24T01:52:01Z")
I’m sort of sorry I missed the clown show, but he still isn’t coming off ignore. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2023, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1607 "2023-11-24T02:35:57Z")
Wow. I read the rest of the (parts of the thread on this topic) from there, and I admit to be gobsmacked. I have previously not read more than a couple of posts in a row from that poster in a single thread, but this time I persisted. I am glad to say that I have never met anyone in real life who was so unwilling to admit a mistake (or multiple mistakes, repeatedly). And what a hill to pick to die on. ---
**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 24, 2023, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1608 "2023-11-24T07:43:23Z")
And tonight’s award for patronizing dickhead goes to, > [@Is there still good and bad?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-still-good-and-bad/990513/54): > > But most of the genocides “recently” have been small minorities killed off by by people they were no threat to. Those are evil. FYI. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1609 "2023-11-24T20:17:05Z")
> [@Is there still good and bad?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-still-good-and-bad/990513/59): > > You didnt put in in a PM, thus you asked all of the SDMB. So, was your question a sincere one? - either you really asked if Genocide was bad or good, or you were not posting in good faith. Hahahahahahahaha, oh lord I nearly died laughing. Dr. Deez accusing someone of not posting in good faith; I’m pretty sure that level of irony is a violation of the Geneva conventions. ---
**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 24, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1610 "2023-11-24T20:27:17Z")
I thoroughly enjoyed him pretending that the question wasn’t as important as the answer was. An answer that DrDeth avoided. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1611 "2023-11-26T17:08:55Z")
Me, too. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1612 "2023-11-27T09:12:11Z")
DrD is the gift that keeps on giving. To my knowledge, he has never backed down from a statement he made. He will flail, deflect, move goalposts, change topic, change premise, post cites (that he often doesn’t read), backpedal and eventually quietly stop posting on the issue at hand. I do wonder what it’s like to live in that head, where thoughts and ideas were fossilized half a century ago - thoughts that a friend told him or he somehow picked up from a, by then, outdated textbook. The total inability to absorb any kind of new information is pretty staggering. He’s currently doing the DrDethDance in a couple of GD threads and it’s quite entertaining to see him smacked around. ---
**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 27, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1613 "2023-11-27T13:21:22Z")
He kind of admits that he’s wrong here: > [@They Say the South is friendly](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-say-the-south-is-friendly/993572/19): > > Hmm, I see your point. Yep. ---
**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 30, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1614 "2023-11-30T15:01:07Z")
Known Gygax fanboi dismisses critic as “a known and admitted WotC hater”. (Game Room, “DND OGL” thread) ---
**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 30, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1615 "2023-11-30T15:14:09Z")
Yeah, that whole thread is just weird. Being an oft irrational fan of an individual? Sure, I get that. Irrationally defending a faceless, multinational corporation explicitly seeking to rent seek? What the actual hell? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1616 "2023-11-30T15:16:14Z")
In the “Raccoons Are Giant Rats” thread, he asserted that it was illegal to shoot raccoons with a pellet gun or to trap and relocate them. I and a few others have pointed out that isn’t true in their states. He keeps insisting that in those cases we must have permits (plot twist: I do not). ---
**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 30, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1617 "2023-11-30T15:24:10Z")
Why oh why can’t you just submit/accept the authority of some cranky old white dude who has been conditioned throughout his life to automatically be granted deference through no virtue of his own?! ---
**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:** [November 30, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1618 "2023-11-30T15:46:53Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > In the “Raccoons Are Giant Rats” thread, he asserted that it was illegal to shoot raccoons with a pellet gun or to trap and relocate them. I and a few others have pointed out that isn’t true in their states. He keeps insisting that in those cases we must have permits (plot twist: I do not). Yeah, California does have strong animal rights laws, and it’s possible you need a permit to kill a pest animal in CA. But he keeps saying that’s the norm. It’s not. I did a lot of research in my home state because i have a lot of animal pests, and bought a pellet gun to kill them. (Plot twist, i don’t think i can do it, and the gun is still in its box.) But it’s totally legal for me to kill chipmunks with a pellet gun in my backyard. I think rabbits and gray squirrels need to be actively damaging my property, because they are game animals and can only be killed in season. OR when i am protecting my property. I admit i was surprised to learn that i can discharge a pellet gun in my suburban backyard, but i can. And i know a lot of farmers who dispatch pests, mostly by shooting them with small rifles and pellet guns. And those farmers live in a lot of states. ---
**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 30, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1619 "2023-11-30T16:23:19Z")
Yeah, in Texas it is totally ok (unsurprisingly) for a landowner to kill a raccoon (among other fur bearing and/or nuisance animals) on their own property with a regular firearm. Pellet guns would of course be totally ok as well. Or trap and relocate them - which is the more encouraged route, especially in cities and suburbs. No permits required. Texas isn’t big on restricting landowners from doing things on their own property. For such a big proponent of virtually unrestricted gun ownership/usage, it’s just a bizarre take. Even when he knows he’s wrong, he doubles down. Pretty sure he knows he’s wrong but has been conditioned in real life to not accept/admit error from social inferiors, which he clearly believes the majority of the board to be. I know too many older gents exactly like that ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1620 "2023-11-30T16:55:21Z")
Unless a species is federally protected or endangered I will dispatch any nuisance pest I need to. I’d prefer the OP of the thread doesn’t just send the kid out to do it. But, yeah, in Arkansas it’s totally legal to do so. ---
**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 30, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1621 "2023-11-30T17:09:22Z")
I think I can see the creaky wheels turning though. “California = anti-gun state” mean “Surely it must be illegal to shoot any animals in California without a permit and surely I can safely jump to that conclusion without doing any research whatsoever” Stupid git ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1622 "2023-11-30T17:16:50Z")
I get that I am a polar opposite politically from many of you on SD but DrDeth is the only person here that refuses to engage in any sort of dialogue about politics and sticks to “I’m correct and if you disagree you’re an idiot/evil.” And he’s a hypocrite about it too. At least be true to your ideals. ---
**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 30, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1623 "2023-11-30T20:05:31Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > he’s a hypocrite “Personally if I had my way, only medical professionals would be called ‘Doctor’ or ‘Dr.’” - **DrDeth** , almost exactly three years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1624 "2023-11-30T21:18:37Z")
Well, I’m sure DrDeez qualifies for the honorific. The same way that he’s a Fed because he works for social security, he’s probably a Doctor because he earned his medicine merit badge in boy scouts. It would be so unlike him to say anything misleading! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=80) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=82)