# I pit DrDeth

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2024, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/1862 "2024-03-24T10:40:13Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> it’s what leads to your other idiocy like [thinking reading a Wikipedia cite about a place makes you more knowledgeable about it than the people who live there](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/427)

Interestingly, when I had a similar exchange with him, he chose to simply **[acknowledge my superior first-hand experience and thank me for my contribution,](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libraries-in-non-english-speaking-countries/989957/8)** and then he basically shut up for the rest of the thread. It was probably helpful that, despite clearly having googled up some facts so he could shove them up his ass and talk out of it (likely choosing something small and obscure where he expected google-fu to reign supreme), his statement was still vaguely in the vicinity of being accurate. In other words, this was a case where his recently-searched regurgitation just had to be adjusted and refined, rather than outright corrected, so it probably didn’t get his hackles up the same way.

Of course, it’s additionally possible that there’s some sort of difference between you and me that caused him to defer more respectfully to my direct local knowledge. I wonder what that could be.

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