# I pit people that neither like nor hate metal **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 1, 2011, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949 "2011-06-01T12:40:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/1 "2011-06-01T12:40:37Z")
How dare you, you lily-livered piles of indifference! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/2 "2011-06-01T12:50:32Z")
I save my strong opinions for pnictogens and chalcogens. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/3 "2011-06-01T13:04:43Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I save my strong opinions for pnictogens and chalcogens. No love/hate relationship with actinides? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/4 "2011-06-01T13:08:01Z")
It’s not so much “metal” as “meh-tal”. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/5 "2011-06-01T13:13:19Z")
You guilty pleasure seekers! You two-faced flip floppers! Can’t you make up your mind? ---
**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:** [June 1, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/6 "2011-06-01T13:18:09Z")
All I know is, my gut says maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/7 "2011-06-01T13:28:08Z")
Yes. No. Maybe. I guess? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/8 "2011-06-01T13:29:42Z")
They don’t know if they love it or hate it, but have abandoned trying to work it out because they think the answer is unknowable. Pieces ov shit! ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/9 "2011-06-01T13:36:46Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > All I know is, my gut says maybe. If I don’t make it out of this thread, tell my wife, “hello.” ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/10 "2011-06-01T13:50:43Z")
Spawn ov Satan, the lot of them. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/11 "2011-06-01T13:50:52Z")
If I die listening to metal, tell my husband, “Hello”. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/12 "2011-06-01T13:56:01Z")
Ova Satan? Deviled eggs? ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/13 "2011-06-01T13:56:39Z")
Well at least I learned something today - Ov is the Polish equivalent of the great god Og. Ov Smituv! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/14 "2011-06-01T13:56:44Z")
Really they are too stoopid to live! ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/15 "2011-06-01T14:00:51Z")
I only like precious metals. Is that ok? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/16 "2011-06-01T14:02:25Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Really they are too stoopid to live! Man I can see the mods warming up their hammers already. Anyway, I have to disagree. Spend some time crawling around in an attic full of the crap and then get back to me. If you haven’t bled out through a million tiny little pricks\*. -Joe \*I feel like a joke could be made there… ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/17 "2011-06-01T14:04:50Z")
However _And So I Watch You From Afar_ is kind of a really cool metal band, sort of, if you are in the mood. But they are big fun. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/18 "2011-06-01T14:05:01Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > No love/hate relationship with actinides? I _hate_ actinides. Actinides can blow me while I shit. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/19 "2011-06-01T14:05:18Z")
My first pitting! :embarrassed: ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949/20 "2011-06-01T14:06:22Z")
I used to drive a fiberglass car. It saved me in a crash because it bounced rather than crumpled. So, yeah, I endorse your pitting. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-neither-like-nor-hate-metal/583949.md?page=2)