# I pit the goat felching douchenozzle(s) who blew up the Boston Marathon **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 15, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788 "2013-04-15T20:38:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/81 "2013-04-16T04:42:41Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > There’s no courage _whatsoever_. > > Everyone is going to die someday anyway. Someday is someday. And if I tell you to kill yourself (for a cause you deem supremely good, and to be materially helped by it) **right now?** Makes a difference, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/82 "2013-04-16T04:43:00Z")
I thought this was one of the lowest crimes ever. Bomb the Boston Marathon? What for? Which makes me think it must be a foreigner responsible. But it is tax day, and Patriot’s Day, and the bombs look like they weren’t very good, which makes it look like domestic nutjob. So who the fuck knows. Sure is a low down crime though. It is terrible that what is basically a celebration ended in amputation. I wish I could help ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/83 "2013-04-16T04:43:48Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Well, that’s the whole point of terrorism, isn’t it? > > In which case, maybe terrorism needs to be, y’know, a bit better thought-out . . . Never does seem to do the terrorists any good, nor anybody else . . . You answered your own question. No, I don’t think the 9/11 terrorists, for example, were looking at the increase in government power and reduction in respect for freedoms and invasion of Iraq in the win category. Their agenda and the agenda of the politicians in the terrorized country are different. Occasionally they line up, occasionally they’re at odds, but those politicians and the hysterical public that gives them their power are a million times more dangerous than some guy dumping bombs in garbage cans. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/84 "2013-04-16T04:49:44Z")
> [@](#): > > …I wish I could help Remain civilized. Encourage others to do so. Its not enough, and you will never be sure that its doing any good at all. On the other hand, think of all the damage done by people who are sure about what they are doing, and take some comfort. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/85 "2013-04-16T04:52:39Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Looks like one is already in the NY Post, suspected of running away from an explosion while being brown. That **is** suspicious. Considering that they don’t feel pain like humans do, they usually just stand and take it, desert-style (palm or cactus, don’t make no nevermind). ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/86 "2013-04-16T04:53:47Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Everything is a conspiracy if you earn a living off conspiracies. I don’t know which is sadder, that someone makes a living off of whacked-out nut-job conspiracy theories or that there are enough people paying him so that he makes a living off of whacked-out nut-job conspiracy theories. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/87 "2013-04-16T05:02:06Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > And the Fox-induced frenzy of rabid hatred is [already starting](http://samuel-warde.com/2013/04/erik-rush-tweets-all-muslims-should-be-killed-in-reponse-to-boston-explosions/). Mustn’t. Mustn’t. Mustn’t. . . . [clicks] :o So, can, like, an infidel issue a fatwah, or something? Any mullahs here? Help a dhimmi out? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/88 "2013-04-16T05:06:11Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Remain civilized. Encourage others to do so. Its not enough, and you will never be sure that its doing any good at all. On the other hand, think of all the damage done by people who are sure about what they are doing, and take some comfort. +1 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/89 "2013-04-16T05:07:24Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I don’t know which is sadder, that someone makes a living off of whacked-out nut-job conspiracy theories or that there are enough people paying him so that he makes a living off of whacked-out nut-job conspiracy theories. Oh, that’s easy! Only the latter is sad! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/90 "2013-04-16T05:14:05Z")
Saw an intertubes rumor that the Westbummer Church was going to picket the funerals. I don’t know what to think about that, so I’m not gonna. I’ll just burden you with it, and split. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/91 "2013-04-16T05:21:17Z")
Yeah, not a rumor. Not surprisingly, the explosions made the [Westboros](http://www.ibtimes.com/westboro-baptist-church-hails-boston-marathon-explosion-plans-picket-funerals-1194185#) happy. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/92 "2013-04-16T05:31:06Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Now, now, credit where it’s due. No matter **what** you believe about the afterlife, it takes one kind of courage to volunteer for a dangerous mission, and quite another kind to volunteer for a suicide mission. . . . > [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > There’s no courage _whatsoever_. . . . Well, he said a “kind” of courage, and I have to agree. Speaking of terrorism per se, itt’s a sick kind of courage. It’s a sniveling kind of courage, the kind that says, “Okay, I’m gonna die, but I’m gonna take more than one of you with me.” It’s a “last laugh” kind of thing, the ultimate in schadenfreude. The last thing he sees in his life is someone else hurt, or afraid, or simply walking into a cafe in utter ignorance of what is about to happen. It’s a shitten kind of courage. There are other kinds of suicide missions: the kind in wartime, against an armed enemy, such as calling in an artillery strike on your own position, or standing as a “forlorn hope,” being the last guy to retreat, firing off all your ammo to buy the rest of your unit an extra minute. There, the motive isn’t the infliction of unnecessary pain, but (usually) an actual tactical goal that makes sense. This is the kind of courage we celebrate as valor. There are a hell of a lot of emotions available to the human spirit, some a lot nicer than others. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/93 "2013-04-16T05:32:44Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Saw an intertubes rumor that the Westbummer Church was going to picket the funerals. I don’t know what to think about that, so I’m not gonna. I’ll just burden you with it, and split. Well, obviously, it’s God’s punishment on our society for letting fit young women and men run skimpy-clad right out in public with their plump bloated baskets swinging so sweatily and so shamelessly, that’s why. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/94 "2013-04-16T05:37:32Z")
Was there like a BizzaroWorld Jesus that I never heard about in Sunday School? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/95 "2013-04-16T05:45:35Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > suspected of running away from an explosion while being brown. _Bus-ted!_ > [@Shooby](#): > > Why did they have to bomb the end of the marathon, instead of the beginning? These people just ran 26 miles in a grueling display of physical endurance, and they get this shit as their reward? > > I don’t know why, but that upsets me more than anything else. It’s just _mean_. That was the entire point; the cruelty of it. I can’t even imagine what it was like, after enduring 26 miles of a hellish body-wrecking marathon, to immediately be plunged into the carnage, destruction, confusion and horror of this attack. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/96 "2013-04-16T05:54:04Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/97 "2013-04-16T05:59:31Z")
> [@](#): > > …But then an unusual thing happened: The first question at Patrick’s latest press conference came from somebody asking if the bombing was a false flag operation (in which a government uses a fake hostile attack as an excuse to go to war). “No. Next question,” Patrick said… > **[Bombing Truther Crashes Boston Press Conference](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/04/bombing-truther-crashes-boston-press-conference.html?mid=google)** > > Asks Governor Patrick if attack was a 'false flag.' Christ, what an imagination I’ve got. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/98 "2013-04-16T06:20:10Z")
> [@](#): > > goat felching douchenozzle Geez that is a disgusting and unfair comparison. To goat felching douchenozzles everywhere. These perps make Fred Phelps and clan seem civilized by comparison. How about doing everything we can to find them and prosecute them? ---
**Author:** ![newcomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/99 "2013-04-16T06:25:37Z")
I may have a totally different candidate for pitting. Here’s a headline and a link to [World markets slump after terror attack](http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/15/investing/world-markets/index.html?hpt=hp_t2) on [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) making a relationship between today’s attack and world markets. And even though the article states that the slump was already happening they just embedded the attack in it and made this direct relationship that does not exist at all. But, it’s already made and the link is there embedded in a collective mindset and nobody can undo it. So, how come so called business journalists get a pass on this? If this is not scare-mongering I don’t know what is … ---
**Author:** ![newcomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788/100 "2013-04-16T06:53:16Z")
Not to mention Jane Harman saying on CNN’s Wolf Blitzer show that “bombings pointed in the direction of Al Qaeda” while the smoke was still on the streets of Boston. Got to make some money. Fast! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-goat-felching-douchenozzle-s-who-blew-up-the-boston-marathon/655788.md?page=6)