# I wonder why we haven't heard about this. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 30, 2013, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881 "2013-07-30T04:27:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/61 "2013-07-31T17:56:25Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I guess we could debate whether the OP knows what a debate is. Incidentally, as a Congenitally-Defective-American ™\*, I am much closer to this story than any of you and you can all suck it. > > \*I have an extra bone in each foot called an accessory navicular. My right foot got really sore one time after I walked a long way. I’m thinking of starting a charity dedicated to eradicating this scourge on humanity. I mean, I limped for a good ten minutes. So you’re going to bankrupt the country with your “super secret medical needs” once Obamacare takes effect. I hope you’re proud that when the Chinee take over and they call us New Tibet that it’ll be your fault. Or is that not the debate in this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/62 "2013-07-31T18:25:01Z")
I guess you haven’t been following along - there _is_ no debate in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/63 "2013-07-31T18:55:37Z")
Imma play both sides: Birth defects for some, tiny American flags for others. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/64 "2013-07-31T21:10:05Z")
I’m going to leave the debate about whether there is a debate to you folks. But I do want to say I learned that babies breathe their own pee. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/65 "2013-07-31T21:59:18Z")
That’s debatable. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/66 "2013-07-31T22:45:12Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > It’s a pretty boring story. Is it being paid for with food stamps taken away from poor people? No but the baby will be declawed and circumcised and the Mother didn’t tip the delivery room staff. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/67 "2013-07-31T22:58:47Z")
Goddamn, OP, how difficult would it be to come back to _your own fucking thread_ and explain what your point was? ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/68 "2013-07-31T23:19:01Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Goddamn, OP, how difficult would it be to come back to _your own fucking thread_ and explain what your point was? The OP has probably read the replies and realized whatever the “deabte” was will result in getting his ass handed to him. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/69 "2013-07-31T23:26:50Z")
I did like the sarcastic rolleyes that the OP used in explaining that he thought the debate was “self-explanatory” even though _no one_ seemed to get it. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/70 "2013-08-01T00:07:44Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Goddamn, OP, how difficult would it be to come back to _your own fucking thread_ and explain what your point was? Well, to be fair, she (the OP is a she, right?) _has_ come back to the thread a couple times now; she just ain’t got shit to say. So I must assume she doesn’t quite _know_ what the debate is. I think she figured the story had enough “buzzwords” that it just _had_ to be “debate-fodder” for the Dope, even if she herself didn’t quite know what that debate was, exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/71 "2013-08-01T14:53:07Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > So you’re going to bankrupt the country with your “super secret medical needs” once Obamacare takes effect. I hope you’re proud that when the Chinee take over and they call us New Tibet that it’ll be your fault. Probably, but it’ll be worth it when their Alternative Medicine makes my extra bone disappear! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/72 "2013-08-01T15:11:51Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > FTR, I’ve seen more beat up local pickup trucks waving the Confederate Stars and Bars in her District than I’ve ever seen in a Civil Ware reenactment. I just wanna know what Civil War reenactments you’re going to that have beat up pickup trucks in them. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/73 "2013-08-01T15:25:47Z")
So she had a kid without knees, or something? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/74 "2013-08-01T15:43:37Z")
> [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](#): > > I just wanna know what Civil War reenactments you’re going to that have beat up pickup trucks in them. They call it a “reenactment” but it’s really just training for the next one. Or the current one that isn’t over yet. Depends. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/75 "2013-08-01T15:44:57Z")
_sigh_ Will no one help out our Republican conservative friend? “I, Johnny Liberal, am simply devastated that she didn’t abort her fetus, and I hope it dies so it proves me right about abortion. Every second its alive is a threat to the LIBERAL AGENDA” Ok, everyone can go back into their homes now, no more to see here :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/76 "2013-08-02T00:10:44Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > No but the baby will be declawed and circumcised and the Mother didn’t tip the delivery room staff. 😛 Which is kinda shitty when you think about it, because after the second procedure, she’d have had a tip right there. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/77 "2013-08-02T03:52:14Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’m not sure what the debate is here but I’m willing to go on record as being against birth defects. You sick freak. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/78 "2013-08-02T04:01:09Z")
This thread has convinced me. I am 100% against abortions now. Ban 'em all, I say. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/79 "2013-08-02T04:11:28Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > This thread should have been aborted. Who is keeping it on life support? You uncaring monster. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881/80 "2013-08-02T14:36:02Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > _sigh_ Will no one help out our Republican conservative friend? I don’t think the OP is conservative. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-why-we-havent-heard-about-this/664881.md?page=5)