# Is "The BBQ Pit" a Harbinger of the End Times? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 10, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840 "2012-07-10T22:38:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/21 "2012-07-11T09:20:40Z")
> [@NojNoj](#): > > Is there any way to see these things as positive? Yes, It keeps the unpleasantness in one well defined area, so that other areas can be nice and tidy. Kind of like how you have a toilet so you don’t have to piss in your kitchen sink. ---
**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 11, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/22 "2012-07-11T11:29:37Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Yes, It keeps the unpleasantness in one well defined area, so that other areas can be nice and tidy. Kind of like how you have a toilet so you don’t have to piss in your kitchen sink. That’s why the missus is always angered with me. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/23 "2012-07-11T11:53:05Z")
Damn. I knew the OP was a racist, but a _telemarketer_? That’s going too far… …Oh, Telemarker! It’s some sort of … skiing? How Nordic. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/24 "2012-07-11T12:26:39Z")
The Pit is in place because this board is primarily populated by intelligent people having reasonably intelligent conversations. Sometimes, very occasionally, those conversations turn nasty because one or more of those posters either has a lapse of judgement or manners, or is simply being a twit. Since we are dedicated to fighting ignorance rather than let it stand, it makes sense to have a forum where we can revile that type of nonsense with the venom and disdain it deserves. Doing so IN the thread tends to derail it terribly, and doing nothing could be viewed as tacit acceptance that all opinions are equally valid regardless of their content. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/25 "2012-07-11T12:33:24Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > …Oh, Telemarker! It’s some sort of … skiing? How Nordic. Don’t blame me, I voted for Lindsey Vonn. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/26 "2012-07-11T13:49:31Z")
**NojNoj** , this thread doesn’t belong in Great Debates. It could go in either ATMB (as a discussion of why we have the Pit) or The Pit itself (as a complaint about people who feel the need to use insults). I think you were shooting for the latter, so I’m sending this to the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/27 "2012-07-11T13:59:49Z")
This is the kind of ‘Pit’ this place is; [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rADdKqPNdaM/hqdefault.jpg "Kids In The Hall - Simon & Hecubus") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rADdKqPNdaM) ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/28 "2012-07-11T14:41:32Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Why are certain insults banned in the Pit anyway? > [@Oakminster](#): > > There are approximately 9,999,387,264 threads detailing the story and rehashing same in ATMB. Unfortunately, you’re too young to read them without parental consent. I thought it had to do with The Reader having been bought by Creative Loafing. Of course, that’s out the window now. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/29 "2012-07-11T14:52:12Z")
> [@NojNoj](#): > > I don’t get it. People need a place to insult other random people who they only know by some internet handle? Or they get gleefully excited about the ways they can mess with “sock puppets,” and others. When did sadism become cool? I haven’t a clue. Mama Plant won’t let me post there. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/30 "2012-07-11T15:07:42Z")
> [@NojNoj](#): > > I don’t get it. People need a place to insult other random people who they only know by some internet handle? **Of course** they do, how long you been online?! The Pit exists to keep all that out of threads in **other** forums. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/31 "2012-07-11T15:08:50Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > This, as they say, will not end well. You just knew what the posters registering date was before you opened the topic, right…right? Me too. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/32 "2012-07-11T15:12:25Z")
July 2012. The Summer of our Discontents. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/33 "2012-07-11T15:30:45Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > You just knew what the posters registering date was before you opened the topic, right…right? > > Me too. It’s too easy. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/34 "2012-07-11T15:37:49Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Damn. I knew the OP was a racist, but a _telemarketer_? That’s going too far… > > …Oh, Telemarker! It’s some sort of … skiing? How Nordic. It’s [a place in Norway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemark). I think it is where telemarketers come from. (of course, I’m part Swedish, so I might be a wee bit biased) ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/35 "2012-07-11T15:42:39Z")
> [@NojNoj](#): > > When did sadism become cool? Reading and posting in the pit is more like masochism. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/36 "2012-07-11T15:50:13Z")
Let’s just hope it’s more entertaining than \*End of Days \*with Arnold. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/37 "2012-07-11T15:57:14Z")
> [@NojNoj](#): > > I don’t get it. People need a place to insult other random people who they only know by some internet handle? Your wide-eyed “golly gee, people on the Internet are insulting each other??? What ever for???” act might have had a better chance of working 15 years ago. Now it’s just embarrassing. Especially since you’re [laying it on a little thick](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=658106), don’t you think? If you’re going to try to pull of the “I’m ever so confused by this mod instruction, I saw them call someone a poopyhead in some forum called the BBQ Pit!” act, I recommend at least putting some effort into it. Use broken English, pretend to be from Belgium, maybe wear a fake mustache while you post. Trolls these days are just so lazy. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/38 "2012-07-11T16:34:53Z")
I posted this to a thread NojNoj started in ATMB: I’ve given this advice before\*, but I’m willing to repeat myself\*\*: If you’re new here, just read for a while, and learn. I did that for probably three years before I waded in and posted. Mostly because I realized that once I started, it would suck up a good chunk of my free time, but also because most of the people here are highly intelligent, and I figured I’d learn from them. And I was right on both counts. \*But everyone I’ve had to point this out to has ended up banned before they took the advice. \*\*Just ask my students, or my kids… (see, this cross-posting is proof!) ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/39 "2012-07-11T16:56:00Z")
> [@NojNoj](#): > > When you insist I come to the Hall of Audiences, I’ll know it’s time to scadaddle… > [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Why are certain insults banned in the Pit anyway? Forget which account you were logged into, Curtis? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bbq-pit-a-harbinger-of-the-end-times/627840/40 "2012-07-11T17:07:47Z")
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