# I pit OpalCat - but my heart's not really in it. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 12, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872 "2011-12-12T03:17:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/161 "2011-12-13T15:36:34Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > [It’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14557828&highlight=vegetarian#post14557828) [hard](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14557428&highlight=vegetarian#post14557428) [to](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14554422&highlight=vegetarian#post14554422) [narrow](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14553880&highlight=vegetarian#post14553880) [it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14551300&highlight=vegetarian#post14551300) [down](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14549786&highlight=vegetarian#post14549786) [to](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14548894&highlight=vegetarian#post14548894) [just](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14540475&highlight=vegetarian#post14540475) [one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14537933&highlight=vegetarian#post14537933) [cite](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14536860&highlight=vegetarian#post14536860) [so](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14533766&highlight=vegetarian#post14533766) [I](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14533113&highlight=vegetarian#post14533113) [figured](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14532074&highlight=vegetarian#post14532074) [I’ll](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14502034&highlight=vegetarian#post14502034) [give](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14500429&highlight=vegetarian#post14500429) [ya](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14488146&highlight=vegetarian#post14488146) [just](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14487538&highlight=vegetarian#post14487538) [the](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14486535&highlight=vegetarian#post14486535) [last](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14471845&highlight=vegetarian#post14471845) [month’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14465355&highlight=vegetarian#post14465355) [worth](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14458501&highlight=vegetarian#post14458501) [of](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14456610&highlight=vegetarian#post14456610) [data](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14451136&highlight=vegetarian#post14451136) > > 134 more links to go but I figured that was unfair. She’s different now. Just saying. I don’t have time to click those links. Could someone summarize for me, whether or not she says she’s a vegetarian? ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/162 "2011-12-13T15:37:28Z")
How does one go about “opening posts” within a thread? ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/163 "2011-12-13T15:44:17Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > How does one go about “opening posts” within a thread? I’m not sure, but I have this great recipe for tofu… ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/164 "2011-12-13T16:00:27Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > …She’s different now. Just saying. Different is the new same. * * * > [@Duke](#): > > I’m not sure, but I have this great recipe for tofu… Shoot. Just make sure there’s a lot of beef (preferably, very bloody) in it. ETA: though I must admit that wearing lettuce for shoes sounds very appealing to me. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/165 "2011-12-13T16:02:36Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > I don’t have time to click those links. Could someone summarize for me, whether or not she says she’s a vegetarian? I can report that she mentions being a vegetarian in what I hope was a representative sample of the linked posts. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/166 "2011-12-13T16:09:27Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > I don’t have time to click those links. Could someone summarize for me, whether or not she says she’s a vegetarian? TLDR. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/167 "2011-12-13T16:10:28Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > TLDR. What does that mean? Can somebody look that up for me please? I don’t have the time to go through Urban Dictionary and all those other textspeak sites to find it. When I was a child, and asked my mother what a certain word meant when a football game was on TV, she told me to go look in a dictionary. To this day I get really anxious whenever I see an unfamiliar word or acronym. Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/168 "2011-12-13T16:12:26Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > I can report that she mentions being a vegetarian in what I hope was a representative sample of the linked posts. That’s not what I’m asking for. I want a specific instance of where she says she’s a vegetarian. This is very important to me because I’m a vegetarian, in case you didn’t know. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/169 "2011-12-13T16:13:19Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > What does that mean? Can somebody look that up for me please? Thanks in advance. [Hope this helps!](http://kunika.deviantart.com/art/TEAL-DEER-62735168) ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/170 "2011-12-13T16:14:12Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > TLDR. Please do not use acronyms. I was forced to use acronyms as a child and is traumatic to me as an adult. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/171 "2011-12-13T16:17:47Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > How does one go about “opening posts” within a thread? Maye he’s viewing the site in [threaded mode](http://i.imgur.com/Efcuf.png), just like with a WWWBoard-based site from the 1990s. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/172 "2011-12-13T16:20:30Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > [Hope this helps!](http://kunika.deviantart.com/art/TEAL-DEER-62735168) TLDR means deer, which have eyes, which are called buckeyes? That grosses me out so much! I will never use a reference to dear’s eyes in a thread! ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/173 "2011-12-13T16:29:05Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > …Thanks in advance. Would you people please stop with these “thanks in advance” closing? When I read them I feel all kinds of pressure to respond even if I don’t have a clue what’s being asked for. Has to do with my dad forcing me to be hyper-polite as a child – it hurts to this day, all day. So how about it? Think of my feelings for a change. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/174 "2011-12-13T16:40:17Z")
I’m an omnivore. ---
**Author:** ![BottledBlondJeanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/0ea827/32.png) [@BottledBlondJeanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BottledBlondJeanie)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/175 "2011-12-13T16:57:13Z")
**elmwood** please don’t mistake this as an attempt to defend **Opalcat** , this thread is long overdue, but your issues with her appear a bit personal based on your posts in this thread. I’m sure that isn’t the case and you would want to avoid that appearance. ---
**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 13, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/176 "2011-12-13T17:07:23Z")
> [@BottledBlondJeanie](#): > > **elmwood** please don’t mistake this as an attempt to defend **Opalcat** , this thread is long overdue, but your issues with her appear a bit personal [You don’t say?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14438971#post14438971) ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/177 "2011-12-13T17:45:36Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > That’s not what I’m asking for. I want a specific instance of where she says she’s a vegetarian. This is very important to me because I’m a vegetarian, in case you didn’t know. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. I’m terribly sorry. One of those links leads to a post by Opalcat that says, in part: [QUOTE=OpalCat] (I’m a vegetarian) [/QUOTE] If there is anything else I can do to help, please let me know. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/178 "2011-12-13T17:53:08Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > I’m terribly sorry. One of those links leads to a post by Opalcat that says, in part: [(I’m a vegetarian)]. If there is anything else I can do to help, please let me know. Sorry that doesn’t help. I was looking for a specific wording. That’s not it. Could you try again? . ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/179 "2011-12-13T18:36:28Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Sorry that doesn’t help. I was looking for a specific wording. That’s not it. Could you try again? > > . I don’t think I could bear the pain of disappointing you again. Maybe someone else will try to read your mind. Whose turn is it? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872/180 "2011-12-13T18:48:56Z")
Side note: I read [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14541817&postcount=6) about her ring falling off her “supposedly-falling-out-proof necklace charm” and remembered a similar [“no, not that” thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=482315) from a couple years ago. Object lesson: Do not try to render assistance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-opalcat-but-my-hearts-not-really-in-it/605872.md?page=10)