# I pit jtur88 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 4, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309 "2017-01-04T14:39:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/81 "2017-01-09T14:13:59Z")
Well, he’s blind, so how would he know which one he’s already visited? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/82 "2017-01-09T14:48:23Z")
I usually try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but yeah, I’ve officially upgraded this bozo from senile idiot to [troll](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19906922&postcount=2). modz plz ban k thx. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/83 "2017-01-09T15:35:03Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > I don’t want to defend **jtur88** or suggest that he’s telling the truth here, but I do know of some people who aim to visit lots and lots of counties: people who take pictures of county courthouses. I did it myself for about 5 years while living in the US, and there’s a group on Flickr devoted to these monomaniacs: [U.S. County Courthouses](https://www.flickr.com/groups/countycourthouses/). So, while I suspect that our friend has not done it, there are a very few who might have done it as a photographic hobby. As I said, I recognized the possibility that he might be collecting counties, and there are some websites for this hobby. (On one site there are about a dozen people who claim a perfect score.) However, when asked about it he offered no explanation but ignored the question. And as I also said, even if this were your hobby why would you visit “most of them” twice? It’s that bit that makes no sense at all. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/84 "2017-01-09T17:36:28Z")
He once called the cops on a guy who refilled a dirty plate at a buffet. > [@What's the dumbest crime you ever witnessed or were a victim of?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-crime-you-ever-witnessed-or-were-a-victim-of/776715/2): > > By “dumbest crime”, do you mean dumbest perpetrator of a crime, or dumbest example of something that legislators in their infinite wisdom have criminalized? > > I was in a buffet once that had a sign saying “state law requires diners to take a clean plate each trip to the buffet”. I saw a guy refill his dirty plate, and I called the TIPS hotline to report it, but the police did not seem interested. I suspect that in actual fac,t he state law only requires the restaurant to post tht sign. I thought you were required to use dirty plates at a dumpster. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/85 "2017-01-09T18:08:43Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > He once called the cops on a guy who refilled a dirty plate at a buffet. > > I thought you were required to use dirty plates at a dumpster. In this case, at least, I think you are mistaking hyperbole to make a point (the second of his choices about a “dumb crime”) vs. actual jerkitude vs. lying just for the sake of getting a reaction. I suspect that many of his claims are this kind of hyperbole. Probably not all of them, though. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/86 "2017-01-09T18:14:11Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > In this case, at least, I think you are mistaking hyperbole to make a point (the second of his choices about a “dumb crime”) vs. actual jerkitude vs. lying just for the sake of getting a reaction. > > I suspect that many of his claims are this kind of hyperbole. Probably not all of them, though. I don’t think I’m mistaken. It was an idiotic comment. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/87 "2017-01-10T02:06:41Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I don’t think I’m mistaken. It was an idiotic comment. No, you are mistaken, he wasn’t being serious in that quote. He’s said multiple times over the years that he would never call the cops even if he was witnessing a crime being committed because he doesn’t believe in arresting people. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/88 "2017-01-10T02:56:19Z")
I reject your reality and substitute my own! ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/89 "2017-01-10T16:07:51Z")
I’m looking forward to **jturd** commenting on the latest SD Classic, [Can Tupperware cause botulism](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2500/can-tupperware-cause-botulism): > [@](#): > > For example, in a 2002 outbreak reported in the Anchorage Daily News, eight people became ill with suspected botulism after eating “muktuk from a beluga whale they found dead along the shore.” Sounds like it’s right up his alley. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/90 "2017-01-10T18:11:50Z")
“[Follow the money](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19906950&postcount=34)”? Conspiracy theory buzzwords plus that posting style strongly suggests [socking](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/91 "2017-01-10T19:15:39Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > He once called the cops on a guy who refilled a dirty plate at a buffet. > [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > No, you are mistaken, he wasn’t being serious in that quote. He’s said multiple times over the years that he would never call the cops even if he was witnessing a crime being committed because he doesn’t believe in arresting people. So he either calls the police for people violating buffet line rules or he never calls the police even if he witnesses a serious crime being committed because he doesn’t believe in arresting people. You have to give him credit. Most people couldn’t express two beliefs so contradictory and manage to sound like an idiot in both of them. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/92 "2017-01-10T19:30:25Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > “[Follow the money](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19906950&postcount=34)”? Conspiracy theory buzzwords plus that posting style strongly suggests [socking](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php). Why that sounds like AB. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/93 "2017-01-11T00:59:28Z")
Here’s his latest turd (granted, the thread was about horoscopes so it’s not like there was much quality there to start). No idea if he’s serious, joking, or trolling. He’s a walking corollary to Poe’s Law. > [@jtur88](#): > > Because motion of astronomical bodies affect the tides, as well as reliance on vision, they affected the breeding habits of organisms from which we descended. Why are you so sure that all (absolutely ALL) vestigial awareness of astrological influence was lost through evolution to sentient beings? > > Isn’t menstruation itself living and conspicuous proof of a retained astrological cycle? And with that, I think I’m done giving him attention here. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/94 "2017-01-11T02:31:36Z")
I think it’s time to update my Ignore list. The one id on it has, blessedly, disappeared. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/95 "2017-01-17T22:14:33Z")
Hates doctors and dentists but [likes chiropractors.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19927484&postcount=4) ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/96 "2017-01-18T20:22:23Z")
> [@usedtobe](#): > > (I was going to point out certain consistencies between **Jturd** and another infamous poster, but the mods don’t need the work) Well, don’t be shy. I’ll report him. Unless you find him wildly entertaining. I find him an annoying asshole on his best days. > [@Shodan](#): > > Well, he’s blind, so how would he know which one he’s already visited? > > Regards, > Shodan His biggest “tell”. Blind as a bat, but he’s always regaling us with tales of things that he has seen. > [@TroutMan](#): > > Here’s his latest turd (granted, the thread was about horoscopes so it’s not like there was much quality there to start). No idea if he’s serious, joking, or trolling. He’s a walking corollary to Poe’s Law. > And with that, I think I’m done giving him attention here. Yep, troll. Granted, he’s been getting more and more ridiculous, but this puts him firmly in the Bridge of the Month club. > [@Skywatcher](#): > > “[Follow the money](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19906950&postcount=34)”? Conspiracy theory buzzwords plus that posting style strongly suggests [socking](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php). OK - we have a candidate. > [@madsircool](#): > > Why that sounds like AB. A different candidate? Or another sock of the same? Has anyone reported **jturd** for socking yet? If not, I will. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/97 "2017-01-23T23:56:32Z")
Here we go: **jturd** on food safety: > [@Is it safe to eat food that was outside all night?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-to-eat-food-that-was-outside-all-night/777921/23): > > What do you think the temperature is in your refrigerator? Before electric fridges, people kept food for days in an ice box, which was typically in the 50s inside. Before that, they kept food all summer in a cellar, where temperatures are typically about 50 where they are insulated by a trap door from atmospheric temperature. > > Enjoy your soup, and stop worrying about it. I’ve been eating leftovers for decades that I forget and leave on the stove overnight, at 70. Probably almost every week. Left food out overnight, on your front porch? No problem. I just leave mine on the stove at 70! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/98 "2017-01-25T03:14:43Z")
And he never gets sick. His contribution to the thread asking where the sick Dopers are right now. " > [@Bring out your dead: flu/URI roll call](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-out-your-dead-flu-uri-roll-call/778090/10): > > I haven’t had a cold in more than ten years. I never got a flu shot. Victoria, Texas. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/99 "2017-01-25T17:51:12Z")
Now he thinks it’s a good idea to wash vegetables while you are showering in order to save time. Right. Dingleberries and pubic hair and soap scum add a certain _je ne sais quoi_ to veggies and salads. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/100 "2017-01-25T18:03:45Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Now he thinks it’s a good idea to wash vegetables while you are showering in order to save time. > > Right. Dingleberries and pubic hair and soap scum add a certain _je ne sais quoi_ to veggies and salads. What thread is that in? Because it’s straight from a Seinfeld episode. He’s got to be trolling. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309.md?page=6)