# Jim Peebles, local idiot **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 7, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052 "2020-03-07T14:45:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/21 "2020-04-06T17:27:21Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > The moron is at it again. > [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22232616&postcount=5](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22232616&postcount=5) > Apparently, he’s giving up on the COVID-19 = vaping idea, and is now on to another harebrained one. Never let it be said that **JP** is not an industrious idiot: “No hole too deep!” ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/22 "2020-04-07T16:40:49Z")
Brainwashed idiot is [seeing green screens](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=893429). ---
**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 7, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/23 "2020-04-07T17:13:05Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Brainwashed idiot is [seeing green screens](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=893429). I’m always seeing green screens on my computer. But, then, I’m extremely colorblind. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/24 "2020-04-08T17:04:06Z")
Opened in Quarantine rather than P&E: [Bernie should have stuck with it longer even though virtually everyone who dropped out has endorsed Biden.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=893697) ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/25 "2020-04-08T23:18:50Z")
[Don’t forget the zinc](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=893724), for the perfect COVID-19 cure. Jim Peebles’ personal medical advisor, Dr. Donald J. Trump, has made this abundantly clear. You need zinc. There’s a peer-reviewed paper in the Snake Oil and UFO Report Monthly involving one participant, who died of ingesting fish-tank cleaner after heeding Trump’s advice, but obviously he didn’t take any zinc, which proves the point. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/26 "2020-04-09T01:40:27Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > [Don’t forget the zinc](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=893724), for the perfect COVID-19 cure. Jim Peebles’ personal medical advisor, Dr. Donald J. Trump, has made this abundantly clear. You need zinc. There’s a peer-reviewed paper in the Snake Oil and UFO Report Monthly involving one participant, who died of ingesting fish-tank cleaner after heeding Trump’s advice, but obviously he didn’t take any zinc, which proves the point. At this point, it’s just potentially dangerous misinformation. I wish a moderator would step in. I like when someone asked him for a peer-reviewed cite so he links to an ABC-TV segment. Is his behavior reportable at this point? If someone was urging people to drink Clorox to cure the disease, would the mods shut them down? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/27 "2020-04-09T01:49:33Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > At this point, it’s just potentially dangerous misinformation. I wish a moderator would step in. > > I like when someone asked him for a peer-reviewed cite so he links to an ABC-TV segment. > > Is his behavior reportable at this point? If someone was urging people to drink Clorox to cure the disease, would the mods shut them down? If you want to report him, there’s that red triangle up in the right hand corner of every post. Feel free. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/28 "2020-04-09T02:01:21Z")
Peebles said this… > [@](#): > > It’s ABC news and the interviewee is a doctor and CEO. Hardly seems quack to me. Go watch it. I provided a link to the French study (the one I infer he is talking about) in another thread. And the thread was locked a few seconds before I answered with… “CEO” Absolutely undermines and credibility of “doctor” here. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/29 "2020-04-09T02:37:57Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > At this point, it’s just potentially dangerous misinformation. I wish a moderator would step in. > > I like when someone asked him for a peer-reviewed cite so he links to an ABC-TV segment. > > Is his behavior reportable at this point? If someone was urging people to drink Clorox to cure the disease, would the mods shut them down? It’s clear that there’s a huge resistance to critical thinking at this point. Because that ABC segment, by claiming that the snake oil doesn’t work unless it’s sprinkled with magic fairy dust - contradicts all the other “studies” that claim that the snake oil works by itself - or that the snake oil only works when mixed with unicorn milk. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/30 "2020-04-09T04:15:00Z")
Yeah but there’s been a huge run on unicorn milk lately, at least around here, and people have been hoarding magic fairy dust since at least the 1800’s. What can I do? Should I just give all my faith to Jesus? ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/31 "2020-04-09T04:17:22Z")
[I suspect **Jim Peeble’s** real first name is Tony.](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2020-04/8/20/asset/7b9e65c22915/sub-buzz-4225-1586376826-16.jpg?crop=1824:1110;133,151&downsize=800:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/32 "2020-04-09T11:22:59Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > [I suspect **Jim Peeble’s** real first name is Tony.](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2020-04/8/20/asset/7b9e65c22915/sub-buzz-4225-1586376826-16.jpg?crop=1824:1110;133,151&downsize=800:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) > 😃 That’s excellent! I don’t feel like opening up another pit thread about **Magiver** , but fuck that guy for cutting NYC out of the US in idiot **Hewey Logan** ’s “but science says we should be doing something different” thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/33 "2020-04-09T12:06:04Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > What can I do? Should I just give all my faith to Jesus? It doesn’t have to be Jesus. It just has to be his blood - [cite](https://www.bandt.com.au/im-covered-in-jesus-blood-womans-utterly-bizarre-covid-19-tv-rant/). Now, as I understand it, Catholics consider wine to be the blood of Christ. Just get yourself a 5 gallon box of wine and just go crazy. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/34 "2020-04-09T17:43:34Z")
A) Boxed wine is more likely to be 3.75 liters (the equivalent of five 750ml bottles). A five-gallon box would measure a minimum of 10.5 inches on each edge (if perfectly cubical), and unlikely to fit in most household refrigerators. And that’s ignoring the 40-pound weight of the contents. B) Catholics consider communion wine to be just wine until a priest has done the magic spell that changes it into deity-blood. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/35 "2020-04-09T18:01:47Z")
You could also get 5 gallons of bottled wine (total) and put the bottles all in a box. Voila, 5 gallons of boxed wine! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/36 "2020-04-09T19:05:01Z")
That would weigh even MORE (if they were Carlo Rossi-type glass bottles). ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/37 "2020-04-09T20:54:19Z")
Yeah, I can’t imagine how much 5 gallons of bottled wine would weigh! Let’s see if I can do some rough math… Supposedly a “standard” bottle of wine (if there is such a thing) is 750 ml. 5 gallons is 18,927 ml, so that’s about 25 bottles (more like 25 full bottles and one that’s a quarter full but I’ll round down). An average wine bottle should weigh 2.65 lb when full, roughly, so those 25 bottles weigh 66.25 lb. That’s a heavy box! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/38 "2020-04-09T22:25:38Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > A) Boxed wine is more likely to be 3.75 liters (the equivalent of five 750ml bottles). A five-gallon box would measure a minimum of 10.5 inches on each edge (if perfectly cubical), and unlikely to fit in most household refrigerators. And that’s ignoring the 40-pound weight of the contents. > > B) Catholics consider communion wine to be just wine until a priest has done the magic spell that changes it into deity-blood. Well, I can as well mumble some mumbo-jumbo over my canister of wine and give it healing powers. And then get totally wasted on it. Profit! ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/39 "2020-04-09T22:35:16Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > An average wine bottle should weigh 2.65 lb when full, roughly, so those 25 bottles weigh 66.25 lb. That’s a heavy box! I know an enjoyable way to make it lighter, though. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/40 "2020-04-10T00:18:36Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > I know an enjoyable way to make it lighter, though. “Are you drunk?” “Yesh, but I did it for MATH!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052.md?page=3)