# Just to lighten things up around here a bit, I'm pitting the doofus I saw yesterday.. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 19, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732 "2004-11-19T21:56:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/1 "2004-11-19T21:56:10Z")
wearing shorts, a t-shirt and sandles, and nothing else. Dude - yer in Canada. In November. Yes, the high today is above average, but that makes it +4 as opposed to 0. You look absurd - obviously, you’re only hurting yourself, and it’s not like you [poisoned your classmates](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=287517). Heck, you didn’t even [assult someone with a bird](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=287514). But you look really dumb, and for that I pit you. Ditto for you dumbass guys that strut around in 0 degree weather with only a t-shirt on trying to look macho with yer hands in yer pockets. Dumb, guys. Not cool. Dumb. That is all. (NB - This is **NOT** a joke thread, but a ligitimate pitting of people who look dumb.) On preview, my links up there are doing odd stuff, but perhaps they’ll work when I actually post this… ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/2 "2004-11-19T21:57:18Z")
Nope. They didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/3 "2004-11-19T22:01:56Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > You look absurd - obviously, you’re only hurting yourself, and it’s not like you [poisoned your classmates](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=287517). > > Heck, you didn’t even [assault someone with a bird](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=287514). Better? (You left out a quote mark in your URL tag.) ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/4 "2004-11-19T22:06:28Z")
Well… if they’re comfortable, what’s the problem? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/5 "2004-11-19T22:09:49Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > wearing shorts, a t-shirt and sandles, and nothing else. Jesus! How many threads about frozen turkeys do we need? Daniel ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/6 "2004-11-19T22:11:05Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > Better? (You left out a quote mark in your URL tag.) Thank you ever so. 🙂 And the problem **ParentalAdvisory** is that a) I don’t think they are comfortable, based on all the griping and b) The young guys with the t-shirts and the jeans wind up with wickedly hard nipples that protrude through said shirts and I feel like a dirty old woman because I can’t tear my eyes away from the spectacle it creates (it only seems to be the young, buff guys that do this - by the time they’re my age they’ve smartened up.) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/7 "2004-11-19T23:57:16Z")
So what? Look, enjoy, live a little. I know if it was a buxom young woman with hard nipples, I would just enjoy it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/8 "2004-11-19T23:59:42Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > Thank you ever so. 🙂 > > And the problem **ParentalAdvisory** is that > > a) I don’t think they are comfortable, based on all the griping Oh, if they’re griping, sure, I agree. ---
**Author:** ![SusanStoHelit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@SusanStoHelit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SusanStoHelit)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/9 "2004-11-20T00:00:58Z")
Yes, but white chicken legs with crepey goose bumps (to mix metaphors) does not equal sexy. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/10 "2004-11-20T00:17:21Z")
Not just Canadians, **alice**. There’s guys in Alaska who deliver mail while shirtless. In February. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/11 "2004-11-20T00:52:39Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > wearing shorts, a t-shirt and sandles, and nothing else You checked them for underwear? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![legion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@legion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legion)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/12 "2004-11-20T01:12:16Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > wearing shorts, a t-shirt and sandles, and nothing else. I see that a lot around my neck of the woods lately and I blame the fashion industry. Until these so called “designer labelers” come up with a way of making sensible knickers, stout shoes, jumpers and overcoats must have items for fashion victims, our streets and shopping centres will remain cluttered with the blue tinged flesh and corned beef legs of those must look cool even if it means they are actually freezing. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/13 "2004-11-20T02:46:04Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > wearing shorts, a t-shirt and sandles, and nothing else. > > \<\\> > > But you look really dumb, and for that I pit you. Dang, that’s pretty much what I wore to work yesterday. And probably what I’ll wear tomorrow. Changes in latitudes and all that. I agree in the Great White North that would be madness. Not so bad down here. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/14 "2004-11-20T15:41:33Z")
As an individual who used to shovel his snowy driveway in gloves, shorts, a T-shirt, and galoshes, I am particularly offended. Sometimes necessity dictates what I wear. :mad: Tripler And sometimes you buy a pickup truck, so you don’t need to shovel anymore . . . ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-to-lighten-things-up-around-here-a-bit-im-pitting-the-doofus-i-saw-yesterday/275732/15 "2004-11-20T18:34:45Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > wearing shorts, a t-shirt and sandles, and nothing else. > > Dude - yer in Canada. In November. Yes, the high today is above average, but that makes it +4 as opposed to 0. > > You look absurd - obviously, you’re only hurting yourself, and it’s not like you [poisoned your classmates](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=287517). > > Heck, you didn’t even [assult someone with a bird](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=287514). > > But you look really dumb, and for that I pit you. > > Ditto for you dumbass guys that strut around in 0 degree weather with only a t-shirt on trying to look macho with yer hands in yer pockets. Dumb, guys. Not cool. Dumb. > > That is all. > > (NB - This is **NOT** a joke thread, but a ligitimate pitting of people who look dumb.) > > On preview, my links up there are doing odd stuff, but perhaps they’ll work when I actually post this… Why, he had all the important extremities covered?