# Mild Pitting of Beck **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 12, 2024, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691 "2024-10-12T05:25:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/41 "2024-10-12T20:47:40Z")
> [@Jebbilene](#): > > I’m just cranky that people say “it’s a good thing you apologised because we’d all think so much less of you”, as if you can’t have your own thoughts and feelings about someone. How is that post any different than Beck saying she’s just got her own thoughts and feelings about some people and is entitled to express them here? I mean, I have thoughts and feelings that I think better of expressing, so at least usually I don’t express them. But it seems an odd thing to me for someone to say who appears to be criticizing Beck for doing so. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/42 "2024-10-12T20:48:14Z")
@CairoCarol , I certainly did not mean to hijack your thread. Thx so much for reporting me. Gah! This is getting so old. I made one post. My opinion. It was not me who hijacked. It was others responding to my post, which was quite lame. At worst. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/43 "2024-10-12T20:48:52Z")
Exactly ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/44 "2024-10-12T20:49:19Z")
…as the ghost of **Idle Thoughts** looms ethereally over this… ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/45 "2024-10-12T20:50:55Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > whoever posted it needed to change it so as not to be accused of plagiarizing it. I very much doubt that was the reason for the mistake. Community cookbooks, where plagiarism is the last thing on anyone’s mind, are rife with such carelessness. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/46 "2024-10-12T20:52:12Z")
Gotcha ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/47 "2024-10-12T20:53:07Z")
What? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/48 "2024-10-12T20:53:45Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > If some of you are foolish enough to believe he wrote those recipes, I just don’t what to tell you… The context of the recipe is that it was his entry in a hotdish competition among the members of Minnesota’s house delegation. He was a congressman comoeting against other congressmen. I think he can handle coming up with his own way to combine meat, cheese, condensed soup, and tater tots. This is a strange hill to die on. And for the record, I’m the one who flagged your post for threadshitting, not CairoCarol. There you go tossing off unfounded accusations again. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/49 "2024-10-12T20:54:47Z")
I believe you believe this. Copying from community cook books is one thing. A VP candidate who has made embellishments about his life has to be careful(or his people do). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/50 "2024-10-12T20:56:17Z")
Well, Carol said she flagged it. Don’t worry I ain’t dying in no hill. Not about this foolishness. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/51 "2024-10-12T20:56:18Z")
I’m still confused. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/52 "2024-10-12T20:56:43Z")
Sorry. What do you need to know. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/53 "2024-10-12T20:57:01Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m the one who flagged your post for threadshitting, not CairoCarol. I guess we both did! ---
**Author:** ![Jebbilene](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jebbilene/32/3414_2.png) [@Jebbilene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jebbilene)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/54 "2024-10-12T20:57:32Z")
The peer pressure, the group shaming, the ‘how dare you say mean things about Beck’ aspect. I’m not really so upset about Beck, because I ignore her, but the people rushing to her defence, as if she is above criticism does annoy me. Especially in the Pit. Go make a Beck support thread in MPSIMS if you feel she needs it. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/55 "2024-10-12T20:59:37Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Exactly Well, to be honest, I’m not saying I think expressing the particular thoughts about Walz was a good idea. I don’t think it was. I don’t think there’s any way to tell whether somebody likes to cook by looking at them; or by knowing that they like to do something else, at least unless it’s something genuinely antithetical to cooking, such as agitating to make everyone live on identical Human Chow. I was, however, pointing out what seems to me to be a contradiction in the particular post. I don’t think it’s fair to criticize you for doing something while upholding somebody else’s right to do the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/56 "2024-10-12T20:59:57Z")
I’ve had those. I’m good. Unless you wanna spread the love. ❤ ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/57 "2024-10-12T21:00:05Z")
Oh well, this is vanishingly unimportant. I should spend my time being confused about important things, not this. But anyway, if you are willing to engage, let’s start … > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I believe you believe this. What false thing is it that you think I believe? And why is my pointing out that plagiarism is not a concern in community cookbooks a “gotcha”? Is it because you think I am providing evidence that Tim Walz “stole” his hot dish recipe? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/58 "2024-10-12T21:01:47Z")
Which, I admitted was a lame thing to say. Again, he’s a public figure. You, me and Uncle Joe are free to judge him by whatever criteria we deem important. Good grief. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/59 "2024-10-12T21:07:01Z")
I think it was a big mistake to break this out into even a mild pit thread. The poster in question is incorrigible and intrusive and annoying, but pitting is pointless. Report individual posts as appropriate, is my advice, and let it go at that. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/60 "2024-10-12T21:08:37Z")
Never said any of that. I’m saying, one more time: He did not post it. He possibly followed his Grandma’s recipe when he won a contest. Hotdish is not particularly hard to make. I don’t know where his Granny got the recipe. Don’t care. My judging him on his type is not anything that no one else is doing. I’m saying, it doesn’t really matter. He’s not cooking his or anyones meals. So he was in a contest for a hot dish recipe. I suppose half of Minnesota can say that. Around here it’s King Rance recipe. Everyone, every person I know makes it. Tastes the same, every time. Some might add more peppers. It doesn’t matter because everyone drowns it in Louisiana hot sauce. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691.md?page=4)