# 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:** 82
**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 30, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1625 "2023-11-30T21:40:23Z")
You’re conflating Dinsdale (social security) with DrDeth (Fed). Get your D’s straight, D! ---
**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, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1626 "2023-11-30T21:46:09Z")
Unless they were mistaken, DrDeez is only a Fed in his mind, and social security in real life. > [@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) ---
**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:** [November 30, 2023, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1627 "2023-11-30T21:50:17Z")
I believe he once referred to himself as “mostly a desk guy.” Is “mostly” doing a whole lot of lifting there? Well, sure. ---
**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, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1628 "2023-11-30T21:52:53Z")
Yeah, not “Fed” as in FBI but as in "fed"eral employee. Deliberately misleads people with that one. I don’t recall which thread but got really defensive about how it was still a valid use of “Fed”. I think it is the Social Security office (seems to actually have some expertise on SS) but could be some other part of the federal bureaucracy. ---
**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 30, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1629 "2023-11-30T21:55:41Z")
LOL, by that measure, when I worked at a US Navy movie theater, I worked directly for the federal government, technically for Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR). That means I was a “fed”. (To be fair, I did have an actual civil service rank, NF-1, which meant I worked part time making minimum wage.) But yeah, I can claim that I spent time “as a fed” popping popcorn and selling tickets. Also a couple of my best friends work for SS (well, one retired a couple years ago). It’s not particularly glamorous. Don’t expect a new drama on ABC called “Social Security Adventures” with stakeouts and gunfights and foiling terrorist plots. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1630 "2023-11-30T21:58:30Z")
They also serve who only stand and wait for the popcorn to stop popping. ---
**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 30, 2023, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1631 "2023-11-30T21:59:06Z")
**Cleaning** the popcorn maker was the grunt work. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1632 "2023-12-01T14:05:40Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > 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. This exactly. The guy is an idiot. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1633 "2023-12-01T15:04:27Z")
There’s a real-life Dr. Deth who used to be a go-to “authority” for antivaxers blaming the thimerosal preservative that used to be in vaccines for causing autism. "it’s the scientific community’s inability to provide a definitive cause (for autism) that has led so many to thimerosal. “The final answer to me will come when that paper is written that says, ‘This is what causes autism’,” said Dr. Richard Deth, a pharmacologist at Northeastern University in Boston, who calls thimerosal “a prime suspect.” > **[Autism activists unmoved](https://www.baltimoresun.com/2008/01/09/autism-activists-unmoved/)** > > For years, the scientific evidence has been accumulating. The latest, published this week, once again showed that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative long used in childhood vaccines, does not … ---
**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:** [December 1, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1634 "2023-12-01T15:36:41Z")
And he moved to California? That certainly would explain why he’d want to hide his identity in these parts. 😉 ---
**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:** [December 1, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1635 "2023-12-01T16:19:42Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > 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 I just spent way too much time researching that to discover, (spoiler alert) he wasn’t even right about California. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1636 "2023-12-01T16:31:14Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > “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. The only ideal in play is “I’m right and you’re not and you’re a stoopid doodoohead.” And he is completely consistent in this. Lay whatever charges you wish at his feet, but “hypocrisy” isn’t one that can stick. He doesn’t believe any of his own shit, other than “I’m right, STFU.” ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1637 "2023-12-01T16:56:32Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Yeah, not “Fed” as in FBI but as in "fed"eral employee. Deliberately misleads people with that one. I don’t recall which thread but got really defensive about how it was still a valid use of “Fed”. You know, it just occurred to me what a dangerous person and potential threat to the government I am. I mean, I always knew I was special and of grandiose importance but never consider just how much so. The Feds personally check up on me by sending an agent to my home almost every day of the week. They only take off on Sundays and federal holidays. Apologies to the USPS. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1638 "2023-12-01T17:43:48Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > I believe he once referred to himself as “mostly a desk guy.” > > Is “mostly” doing a whole lot of lifting there? Well, sure. Mostly sitting at a desk, but sometimes gets up to get a snack from the vending machine. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1639 "2023-12-11T22:21:40Z")
I get that bashing Trump is the raison d’etre for many on this board but Jesus Fucking Christ, DrDeth brings it up in every thread he’s in - even if it has nothing to do with Trump. I could post a banana bread recipe and he’d try to hijack it into a Fuck Trump thread. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1640 "2023-12-11T23:17:53Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > I could post a banana bread recipe and he’d try to hijack it into a Fuck Trump thread. “Orange zest? I hate everything orange because of Trump.” ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1641 "2023-12-12T01:28:43Z")
Try sticking to military or history threads, I don’t recall him ever ranting about the orange one in those. He seems to be too busy getting everything possible factually wrong and inventing tales of his father and Douggie MacArthur’s relationship. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1642 "2023-12-12T22:03:35Z")
Seriously, can we get a topic ban for DrDeez posting about anything related to the military or history? Now he’s trying to threadjack the “Why were collective farms so bad at farming?” with his usual factually incorrect garbage by comparing the T-34s encountered by Germany in June 1941 with models of the Pz-IV introduced in March 1942 _in response_ to the T-34 as if they were the models of the Pz-IV in use in June 1941. > [@Why were collective farms so bad at being farms?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-were-collective-farms-so-bad-at-being-farms/994136/131): > > Let us compare the T34 1941 to the 1941 Panzer 4 T34 front hull armor- 50 mm Panzer 4 front armor= 50mm. T34 gun- 76 mm tank gun M1940 F-34, penetration 50mm Panzer IV gun (1941 model) 7.5 cm Pak 40 penetration 108 mm Speed- T34- 33 mph Pkw IV= 26 mph. Now yeah the 1941 Pkw 4 replaced the earlier model with slightly lighter armor and a lesser gun. The 400 1940 T34 with an inferior gun did face the Pkw IV with an inferior gun, true. So which tank was better? The first Pz. IVs went int… What any of this has to do with collective farming is beyond me. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1643 "2023-12-13T00:18:18Z")
I don’t know anything about tanks but I can see that he posted that in response to your post about tanks. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2023, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1644 "2023-12-13T00:26:21Z")
Saw that myself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=81) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=83)