# 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:** 30
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/581 "2024-12-15T19:35:38Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > cutesy thread numbers It’s not “cutesy”. It’s the simplest and quickest method to directly link without linking. With the number I can get to the thread about 5 seconds. Copying the entire URL and breaking it achieves the same thing too. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/582 "2024-12-15T19:43:22Z")
The egg hijack wasn’t just Beck. It was a bunch of us who got off track. I don’t think it was pit worthy either. Come to think of it, it’s been ages since she’s annoyed me. I think she’s doing much better. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/583 "2024-12-15T20:57:42Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > The ethics of food stamps thread. Thanks. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/584 "2024-12-15T21:46:19Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > The egg hijack wasn’t just Beck. It was a bunch of us who got off track. I don’t think it was pit worthy either. This bit: > I don’t believe the free range, organic, cage free crap is actually _really_ true. > Like average people believe. > You realize chicken shit is organic, right? was just foolish ignorance. Rather than google to see what the differences are, she’s all “I don’t believe it.” If I didn’t know better, I would think she posted something so obviously wrong just to start a hijack. But never attribute to malice… ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/585 "2025-02-14T19:09:11Z")
I have never been one of her detractors. In fact, I have been one of her defenders. But y’all _aren’t wrong_. I just felt like adding it here 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/586 "2025-02-14T22:37:35Z")
Thank you, that’s helpful. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/587 "2025-02-15T17:05:33Z")
Or you can surround the link by backticks (a.k.a. graves, usually to the left of the ‘1’ on a QWERTY keyboard). > `https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/579` yields > `https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/579` Or you can put a backslash ‘\’ before the colon. > https\://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/579 yields > https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/579 ~Max ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/588 "2025-02-18T20:27:04Z")
Oddly, my ears were burning a short while ago: > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’ve been told my opinions on this are not relevant and maybe I should just , well, shut up! Which feels to me like a plaintive and heartfelt entreaty for me to be a bit more forthcoming and fulsome about what I actually _did_ say to you. Happy to oblige: > [@](#): > > My awareness of the _potential to do harm_ of some of your “opinions” really kicked off here: > > [https://boards](https://boards) [link broken] [straightdope.com/t/the-tradwife-lifestyle-does-anyone-else-find-this-appealing-or-have-personal-experience-with-it/1009528/101?u=davidnrockies](http://straightdope.com/t/the-tradwife-lifestyle-does-anyone-else-find-this-appealing-or-have-personal-experience-with-it/1009528/101?u=davidnrockies) > > And continued on in that thread. Spreading bad information about subjects as dire and grave as domestic violence and human trafficking (and similar horrors) when _being factually correct would have been so damned easy_ is inexcusable and unforgivable. It’s also exactly what you did – repeatedly. > > There was also this one: > > [https://boards](https://boards) [link broken] [straightdope.com/t/family-sues-panera-bread-over-possible-death-from-energy-drink-do-they-have-a-case/992226/295?u=davidnrockies](http://straightdope.com/t/family-sues-panera-bread-over-possible-death-from-energy-drink-do-they-have-a-case/992226/295?u=davidnrockies) > > And now your (pretty clearly entirely baseless) “opinions” about moving to another country? > > Some of your “opinions” have the potential to cause real harm to real people. Instead of trying to do better – in keeping with the “fighting ignorance” mission of the Straight Dope Message Board – you tend to get hugely defensive and hammer on the “just my opinion” line, as though that somehow makes it okay to hold opinions based on bad information or no information at all. > > To that point: > > 1. _“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”_ --Isaac Asimov > > 2. “Just my opinion” is about as effective as saying, “No disrespect intended, but you’re really a piece of crap.” Saying ‘no disrespect’ did _nothing_ to nullify the disrespectful aspect of the rest of the statement. > > Cervaise was right: > > [https://boards](https://boards) [link broken] [straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-in-trumps-america-should-we-stay-fight-or-get-out-and-whats-the-final-straw/1014197/74?u=davidnrockies](http://straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-in-trumps-america-should-we-stay-fight-or-get-out-and-whats-the-final-straw/1014197/74?u=davidnrockies) > > You don’t always have to have, or contribute, your opinions on a given topic, and the higher the stakes, the more important it is that your opinions are _based on something –_ something substantial, relevant, factually accurate, and well-considered. > > “Just my opinion” isn’t a Get Out of Jail Free Card, nor should it be. HTH. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/589 "2025-02-19T02:47:30Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Happy to oblige: Happy to tell you to Go Fuck Yourself. Pull your head out of the Port-O-Shitter and your ears won’t burn so much. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/590 "2025-05-06T22:17:29Z")
WHY must she continue to hijack the Socialized Medicine thread when she demonstrably knows _nothing_ about socialized healthcare? Or even US healthcare if it didn’t personally happen to her? Yet it hasn’t stopped her from posting _28 times_ in the thread of 102 posts. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/591 "2025-05-06T22:30:30Z")
I like the “ok, I’ll shut up” early in the thread. Classic. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/592 "2025-05-06T22:37:23Z")
> You don’t have to get nasty. –Beck (in that thread) [ME, PUTTING WORDS IN HER MOUTH] Whereas, I DO (it is both a legal requirement and a moral imperative) have to give you my two cents. The codicil to the applicable law is … the less actual knowledge I have, the greater the mandate that I both contribute _to_ the thread _and_ try to make the totality _of_ the thread about me. [/ME, PUTTING WORDS IN HER MOUTH] If you didn’t know. There’s a distinct “the death of shame” aspect to it, every time. Shocking, really. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/593 "2025-05-06T22:58:55Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > WHY must she continue to hijack the Socialized Medicine thread when she demonstrably knows _nothing_ about socialized healthcare? Or even US healthcare if it didn’t personally happen to her? Yet it hasn’t stopped her from posting _28 times_ in the thread of 102 posts. I don’t think that’s entirely a fair criticism. She knows nothing about how universal health care works in other countries and has said as much, and also asked for more information so she could learn. Which she got, and thanked several of us for. I hope she reads it. Frankly I have a bigger problem with **Velocity** playing Junior Mod and telling Beck that this is supposed to a thread about Australian health care. It was, but has long since morphed into a more general discussion that I think has been useful and informative, with different posters talking about their own personal experiences in different systems. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/594 "2025-05-06T23:07:20Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I don’t think that’s entirely a fair criticism. She knows nothing about how universal health care works in other countries and has said as much, and also asked for more information so she could learn. Which she got, and thanked several of us for. I hope she reads it. I hope she reads it, too. I left the thread for a couple days and came back to see she was still going on about how great _her_ US care has been. It’s not too hard to look at life expectancies in other countries when they’ve been linked. > [@wolfpup](#): > > It was, but has long since morphed into a more general discussion that I think has been useful and informative, with different posters talking about their own personal experiences in different systems. Yeah, because they’re trying to educate Beck to get her to stop going on about how great American health care has been for her. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/595 "2025-05-06T23:17:39Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Frankly I have a bigger problem with **Velocity** playing Junior Mod {…} There’s a multiplier effect when she does what she does in perfectly interesting threads. Very respectable, moderate [no pun intended], valuable Dopers find themselves trying to gently curb her worst (generally, narcissistic) impulses and re-rail good and intriguing conversations. The Beck Multiplier EffectTM. It lowers the signal-to-noise ratio of nearly every substantive thread in which she can’t resist the apparent compulsion to dive in, head first, totally unprepared to contribute substantively. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/596 "2025-05-06T23:31:05Z")
I apologize. Yeah, I shouldn’t have junior-modded. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/597 "2025-05-06T23:45:22Z")
I think that she’s a very valuable contributor to the boards. Hell, she even promised me authentic Ralph Lauren Polo shirts in the $19 range, which would save me a fortune. Because I’m obviously an idiot, or as she says: > If you just gotta have the applique. > But, yeah. You do you. Now, if only she would provide an actual fucking link. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/598 "2025-05-07T00:40:46Z")
Since this thread is back in business, can we add this mini clueless rant: > [@"Locking down your device when crossing borders" (AP article)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locking-down-your-device-when-crossing-borders-ap-article/1017868/32): > > How about this: completely turn your phone off. Stick it in a bag. Not your pocket. > > Don’t say “oh, but my boarding pass”. Get a paper one. > I assume that’s still a choice. > > Surely you can read that paperback long enough to get boarded. > > What is wrong with people? This is not that hard. > > Plus, maybe don’t take pix or talk about your criminal behavior. That is just stupid. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/599 "2025-05-07T02:23:09Z")
> [@"Locking down your device when crossing borders" (AP article)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locking-down-your-device-when-crossing-borders-ap-article/1017868/32): > > How about this: completely turn your phone off. Stick it in a bag. Not your pocket. > > Don’t say “oh, but my boarding pass”. Get a paper one. > I assume that’s still a choice. > > Surely you can read that paperback long enough to get boarded. > > What is wrong with people? This is not that hard. > > Plus, maybe don’t take pix or talk about your criminal behavior. That is just stupid. What is clueless about it? I admit, she does come off a little snarky at the end, but why is this a bad or stu[id idea? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/600 "2025-05-07T02:33:43Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > but why is this a bad or stu[id idea? Just a guess - they can search you and your phone whether or not you’ve stuck it in a bag? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691.md?page=31)