# I pit Novelty Bobble **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 6, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914 "2021-11-06T22:48:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/1 "2021-11-06T22:48:39Z")
Expressing opinions that are racist as fuck, while playing the “I’m not touching you” game. And now trying to get people to call them a racist in IMHO to further their victimhood status. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/2 "2021-11-06T22:53:45Z")
Where are you putting him? Also, link? ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/3 "2021-11-06T23:01:22Z")
\< Setting out the “Who’s The Racist Scum” scales \> On one side… Mighty\_Mouse… On the other side… D\_Anconia… Hmmm… who will be judged the ignorant racist scumbag? ( Judges? To your Posting buttons… ) ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/4 "2021-11-06T23:04:13Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Where are you putting him? Unsurprisingly, I can’t parse this sentence into anything sensible. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/5 "2021-11-06T23:08:18Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > > [@D\_Anconia](#): > > > > Where are you putting him? > > Unsurprisingly, I can’t parse this sentence into anything sensible. You messed up the title of the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/6 "2021-11-06T23:10:01Z")
Ah, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/7 "2021-11-06T23:11:27Z")
Do you have a link to any of this alleged behavior? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/8 "2021-11-06T23:18:31Z")
Typo in thread title fixed. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/9 "2021-11-06T23:29:20Z")
Thanks ---
**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 6, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/10 "2021-11-06T23:33:57Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Do you have a link to any of this alleged behavior? No, this is one of those threads where you blindly accuse someone and everyone just chimes in and says “Yeah, fuck them!” I’m pretty sure based on the OP that’s what this is supposed to be. So yeah, fuck that guy maybe! ---
**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 7, 2021, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/11 "2021-11-07T00:34:57Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > No, this is one of those threads where you blindly accuse someone and everyone just chimes in and says “Yeah, fuck them!” Fuck assholes! Not literally, unless that’s your thing. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/12 "2021-11-07T02:16:58Z")
I hate OPs like this that provide no context. Not all of us read every single thread on this board. If you’re so afraid of the pittee seeing the link notification in the original thread, why did you think you could get away with mentioning their username in the thread title? Grow a pair, Meeky\_Mouse. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/13 "2021-11-07T02:30:07Z")
> [@Co-Worker accused me of being racist...was he right?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/co-worker-accused-me-of-being-racist-was-he-right/953703/340): > > What “bait” are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/14 "2021-11-07T02:31:26Z")
I was merely asking a mod if under the rules I could link to the thread. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/15 "2021-11-07T02:41:10Z")
Read the linked thread and understand the pitting. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/16 "2021-11-07T02:44:30Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Grow a pair, Meeky\_Mouse. I am a tiny bit rules oriented, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/17 "2021-11-07T03:26:53Z")
While I’m glad the OP linked the thread, I do note that searches on Discourse are much easier. Given the username and the forum, it takes a couple seconds to see which thread he was probably talking about, as it mentions racism in the title. It’s the one on top when you search `@Novelty_Bubble #IMHO`. As for the guy, he’s hit my radar a few times on these types of topics. He comes across as the type who is unknowingly clueless about bigotry related stuff, and thinks they get to dictate what does and doesn’t count as bigoted—not society, and definitely not the minority in question. They also tend to get offended when the subjects come up, and thus get very defensive and stubborn. I suspect they themselves have done the thing being describes as (possibly) racist. Rather than using that as a heads up that maybe they should reconsider doing so in the future, they instead take it as an insult. “I’m obviously not racist! They must be the ones who are wrong!” The irony is that, if they’d just listen, they wouldn’t encounter these situations so often. If they’d not read the mere discussion of bigotry as an insult, they’d learn to better navigate these very concepts they seem to have so much trouble with. Instead, the stubbornness often leads to saying more and more bigoted shit in order to defend themselves, with them winding up worse than where they started. For example, if NB had just said “Huh. I did made that sort of assumption before and no one seemed offended. I didn’t realize it might offensive. I didn’t mean anything bad by it,” then this would have been over with. Instead, he now has the outcome he clearly didn’t want: posters clearly implying he is in fact racist, misogynist, homophobic, etc. So my advice if you don’t want people to say those things about you is, well, don’t do that. Try the above strategy of being open to the ideas presented, rather than getting defensive. Try an outward focus instead of an inward one. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/18 "2021-11-07T03:53:40Z")
I had a college roommate. Nice guy, total stoner. He often drove stoned, and insisted that weed made him drive more carefully, so there was nothing dangerous about it. When he said that, it wasn’t at all persuasive. Instead, all it persuaded me of was that his judgment was for shit, and that he had no self-awareness or willingness to engage in honest self-reflection. It made me more, not less, wary of driving with him. Edit: I hope it doesn’t come across like I’m comparing my roommate to Novelty\_Bubble. Like I said, my roommate was a nice guy. NB seems like a real wanker. ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/19 "2021-11-07T04:16:37Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > I was merely asking a mod if under the rules I could link to the thread. The whole reason why they implemented the rule that required Pit thread titles not insult SDMB posters, is so that when you link to a Pit thread they don’t have an insulting tag included. Since that rule went into place it’s not a big deal. You chose a neutral title for this thread so you should be good. (I am not a mod, just posting the rules as I understand them.) ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914/20 "2021-11-07T04:18:09Z")
Thanks a mod also kindly explained that to me. I didn’t want to pick up a warning in the Pit while trying not to pick up a warning in IMHO! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-novelty-bobble/953914.md?page=2)