# lindsaybluth, please provide a cite **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 30, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575 "2011-03-30T23:12:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/461 "2011-04-06T11:13:35Z")
I’m not really familiar with **lindsay’s** life. What does/did she study in college? Obviously something more “important” than social work or English. Is she planning to become a doctor like her parents? (Ooh, how original). Don’t hate on me too much, but I can kinda-sorta get why people don’t understand English majors. I don’t share that attititude because I love being able to read and write, and I’m sure at least one of the English teachers I have had through the years majored in English. But social work? Maybe I’m biased because that’s essentially what my mother did for a living, but without social workers, kids would be left in abusive homes, handicapped people wouldn’t have access to services to help them live independently, homeless people would stay that way forever, and elderly people would also be lost in the cracks. Not to mention, licensed social workers provide almost identical services as clinical psychologists. Social workers are one of the most valuable commodity our society has. They should get paid more than they do because they see those horrible things first-hand that we only see glimpses of on the news. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/462 "2011-04-06T11:23:31Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > No problem. I am just a little sensitive about the value of the liberal arts. And of course lindsay has no respect for Spanish. It’s the language of poor people, after all! Isn’t **lindsay** half-Cuban? I’m pretty sure she’s cool with Spanish, if not with Spanish majors. ---
**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 6, 2011, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/463 "2011-04-06T11:27:36Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > TWO! Three if you count my [special noodle pot](http://www.independentliving.com/prodinfo.asp?number=201111&variation=&utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=comparison-shopping&utm_campaign=Froogle) with holes in the lid. I told you I was a woman of privilege. Owning more than one colander may be a sign of class, but this is simply decadence. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/464 "2011-04-06T12:18:20Z")
I covet your orange colander. Loved your post, olives. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/465 "2011-04-06T12:56:30Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > \ > Just because I wanted to impress everyone, I used a rock and a used nail to pound holes in one of my cat’s bowls. My _cat_ now has a colendar!!! Beat that bitches!!!\ Your cat has a calendar? What’s the point of that? Cats don’t care about keeping appointments. > [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > I deserved to be called out on that one. I’m sorry. I love English lit, and wasn’t intentionally slamming people who made that choice. I found the English program at my university to be rather lackluster and I’m kind of a ‘‘path of most resistance’’ sort of person so I went with Spanish literature, which had all the fun of English lit but for me, twice the challenge. I am really comparing a mediocre English program with an excellent Spanish program, though, so it’s hardly fair. I doubt **lindsay** has much more respsect for Spanish majors than English majors anyway. > [@MandaJo](#): > > No problem. I am just a little sensitive about the value of the liberal arts. And of course lindsay has no respect for Spanish. It’s the language of poor people, after all! Dammit - I was hoping for a Humanities Fight! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/466 "2011-04-06T14:13:27Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Dammit - I was hoping for a Humanities Fight! SKETCHBOOKS AT DAWN, SlR!! ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/467 "2011-04-06T15:24:21Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > But social work? Maybe I’m biased because that’s essentially what my mother did for a living, but without social workers, kids would be left in abusive homes, handicapped people wouldn’t have access to services to help them live independently, homeless people would stay that way forever, and elderly people would also be lost in the cracks. I too am kinda sensitive about this issue because my SO is a social worker, and—believe me—she’s quite bright (modulo a little math anxiety). It’s not easy, say, to find placement for the psychiatrically ill and disabled when discharged from the hospital. Without social workers (or those in social work roles) no one solves the dirty little problems. > [@](#): > > Not to mention, licensed social workers provide almost identical services as clinical psychologists. Social workers are one of the most valuable commodity our society has. And they really get little respect. A lot of people seem to think of social workers as meddling baby-stealers; but even beyond that perception they’re often treated as a low-paid commodity. Where my SO works, nurses with baccalaureate degrees doing the same job are paid more than the social workers, who must have master’s degrees. It simply doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me (especially given that it isn’t what nurses are even trained to do). In the interest of perfect fairness, however, I suppose part of the perception must come from the fact that there are dumb social workers. Most grad programs have ridiculously low entry requirements, so the least intellectually capable simply aren’t weeded out as well—and given the extremely low pay higher competitiveness is a double-edged sword. > [@](#): > > They should get paid more than they do because they see those horrible things first-hand that we only see glimpses of on the news. Seeing horrible things, and occasionally having horrible things done to them: [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/26/national/main2125370.shtml](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/26/national/main2125370.shtml) > **[NASW WV Statement: Social Worker Brenda Lee Yeager’s Murder | Social Work Blog](http://www.socialworkblog.org/advocacy/2008/08/nasw-wv-statement-social-worker-brenda-lee-yeagers-murder/)** ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/468 "2011-04-06T15:50:35Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > I just thought something else that is interesting. > > When I was growing up, we had two colanders. When one was dirty, it was okay, because we could always use the other one. > > It’s because of this privilege that I’m where I am today. I would just like to give **you with the face** a shout-out for being first with the colander thing. Mine is white enamel and covered with sunflowers. It hangs on a _pot rack_ above my head. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/469 "2011-04-06T16:00:46Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > Isn’t **lindsay** half-Cuban? I’m sure she knows a few Cubans (or knows someone who visited Cuba) - so close enough. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/470 "2011-04-06T16:04:56Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > I covet your orange colander. > > Loved your post, olives. Her posts are always spot on. She makes purrfect sense of things I would deal with in a very negative way. ---
**Author:** ![llcoolbj77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@llcoolbj77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llcoolbj77)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/471 "2011-04-06T16:27:20Z")
I have six colanders. Six, bitches… It is merely a product of growing up an Army brat (oh the riches), paying for my own education through an athletic scholarship, and working through law school. Now that I’m a public defender, I spend the big bucks however I choose. Suck it, proles! ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/472 "2011-04-06T17:11:11Z")
> [@llcoolbj77](#): > > I have six colanders. Six, bitches… > > It is merely a product of growing up an Army brat… I call foul - you were clearly a member of the Colander Scouts as a youth…I can just imagine your helmets… ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/473 "2011-04-06T17:44:21Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I call foul - you were clearly a member of the Colander Scouts as a youth…I can just imagine your helmets… I’m thinking a good supply of tinfoil. ---
**Author:** ![Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stendhal_Syndrome)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/474 "2011-04-06T18:19:40Z")
First of all, I would like to apologize if I am breaking any cardinal rule around here by making my first post a pit post. My boyfriend has been here a while and I have usually lurked under his username…just on and off. He told me about this lindsaybluth character a few days ago and at first I thought he was just exaggerating about her attitude and I told him that you all were probably being too hard on her…UNTIL I started reading this thread and reading all her previous posts. On a side note…we are not as privileged as I thought we were. We only have one useable plastic…yes plastic colander. The other one we have has rust in its tiny holes. I am waiting for all the tiny holes to fill up with rust so I can use it as a bowl. It will be…um…rustic. And I sent my daughter without fruit to school today since our home ran out of fresh fruit two days ago. Forget fresh…we don’t even have frozen fruit. But, on the brighter side, I have a phone that autocorrects the word “privileged” for me. Now…isn’t that frickin’ interesting? ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/475 "2011-04-06T18:37:15Z")
> [@Stendhal\_Syndrome](#): > > The other one we have has rust in its tiny holes. I am waiting for all the tiny holes to fill up with rust so I can use it as a bowl. It will be…um…rustic. I hereby award you one-half of a shiny new internet and a voucher good for waivering either the “Squid” or “Goat” (but not both) portions of your SDMB Initiation Ritual for that pun. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/476 "2011-04-06T18:50:52Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I would just like to give **you with the face** a shout-out for being first with the colander thing. When I die, I hope that folks will remember me for the colander thing…and not as the lady who allowed FutureHilter to rise up and annihilate the entire western world. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/477 "2011-04-06T19:49:35Z")
Oh, my. I have: one large metal colander one small plastic sieve, blue a pasta pot, that has a removable colander-type thing to drain the past water And I used to have another metal sieve, but it broke. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/478 "2011-04-06T20:15:50Z")
Oh, well, if we’re including _sieves_… I have three of those. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/479 "2011-04-06T20:42:50Z")
I haven’t owned a colander or a sieve for 6 years. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lindsaybluth-please-provide-a-cite/576575/480 "2011-04-06T21:07:59Z")
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