# Mild Pitting of Beck
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691
**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:** 70
### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1381 "2026-07-05T18:04:18Z")
Who are you to tell me what to do with my “expectations”?
I’d tell you what to do with yours, but I have good manners.
TYVM
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1382 "2026-07-05T18:05:47Z")
Banquet\_Bear, iiandyiiii, mangetout, LHOD, puzzlegal … plenty of posters I have time for (even if I don’t always agree with them.)
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1383 "2026-07-05T18:09:41Z")
Good list! I disagree with about 1.25 of that list, but overall, yes - those are posters I admire too.
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1384 "2026-07-05T18:14:14Z")
Ya might want to work on that defense. I looked early in the thread and you yelled at me in CAPS
A lonely old lady!
She’s not lonely; from what she’s said, about 7 other people live with her. I’m including Ivy.
Old? You posted she was " in her 30’s."
Not lining up there.
I was a supporter til one day I privately gave her constructive criticism; you’re not Always right, if a few people are against you, they’re right, its not a conspiracy to pit you for fun.
Then I became the enemy.
Maybe her narcissism doesn’t bother you.
Walks out of thread before the CAPS flame comes for me again. Have fun.
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### Author:  [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1385 "2026-07-05T18:21:15Z")
NTL your concern is still showing through you might want to adjust your attempts at feigning indifference.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1386 "2026-07-05T18:21:21Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Who are you to tell me what to do with my “expectations”?
It isn’t I who fails to understand the meaning of that phrase, then.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1387 "2026-07-05T18:32:33Z")
I’m so sorry. But I prefer not to follow quotes by “speech writers”.
I don’t allow the “news of the day” get me frothy.
Celebrities can believe or extoll their views. Not to me. Not hearing that noise.
If I wanted to go by a quote it would be
" **If you find yourself swimming against the current, you’re not a rebel…just a a lazy swimmer on a lazy river, find a boat"**
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1388 "2026-07-05T18:37:35Z")
I don’t understand that quotation. A lazy swimmer would swim WITH the current.
Speaking as someone who has of necessity swum against the current (I’m being literal, not metaphorical here), it’s difficult.
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### Author:  [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1389 "2026-07-05T18:40:59Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Gonna have that tattooed on my ass.
Bad bad bad place for it. Should be where you can see and reference it. And even if you, like many here, have your head up your ass a lot of the time, you’re not seeing what is tattooed _on_ it.
There are a fair number of intelligent posters here more often than not posting intelligent things. Some of whom I even feel I “know” to some value of that word. But no one here whose negative opinion of me would matter all that much? My sense of self is not so easily threatened … and playing here is just that, one of the things I do for _play_.
Yet _anyone’s_ criticism of me, here or IRL, is worth considering. Maybe dismissing after consideration, probably, but still considering it. Even if the person is an asshole or an idiot. Crap I’d even _consider_ criticism coming from Chela! 😁
Beck, please consider this, even if you then just dismiss it: not everyone here is every going to like you and some do; you, like all of us, have room to improve, and even _nasty_ comments from mean people may give information of value … or not. But the information is what is of possible value, not the opinions of strangers here.
FWIW.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1390 "2026-07-05T18:47:13Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> I’m so sorry. But I prefer not to follow quotes by “speech writers”.
It doesn’t seem like “preferring not to follow” the quote was what _actually_ tripped you up here.
I like what @DSeid wrote.
**TL;DR: a wise man can learn from a fool, but a fool cannot learn from a wise man.**
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### Author:  [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1391 "2026-07-05T19:01:54Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#):
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> Please be sure the ink used is NON-TOXIC.
>
> I can think of at least three Dopers whose lives might be saved by that simple gesture.
Okay, that was funny.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1392 "2026-07-05T19:10:10Z")
TOXIC has certain nasty connotation when aimed at women.
Might wanna watch that usage.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1393 "2026-07-05T19:12:10Z")
My comment had _nothing whatsoever_ to do with gender or misogyny.
Wow. Just … wow. Really.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1394 "2026-07-05T19:19:42Z")
When you are offensive you most assuredly will have to become defensive.
Defensive much? 😕
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1395 "2026-07-05T19:20:58Z")
Not famililar with the saying, “When you’re in a hole, stop digging,” huh?
Wow. Just … wow. Truly.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1396 "2026-07-05T19:21:48Z")
Who’s digging?
Look, David. I have no real beef with you.
You said some fairly nasty things about me in this thread.
I’m willing to let it go and move on. It’s your call.
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### Author:  [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1397 "2026-07-05T19:23:06Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
>
> When you are offensive you most assuredly will have to become defensive.
I believe Millard Fillmore’s speechwriter came up with this one.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1398 "2026-07-05T19:23:51Z")
Sorry, all me.
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1399 "2026-07-05T19:26:05Z")
Thirding the Wow’s.
Its delusional.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/1400 "2026-07-05T19:29:04Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#):
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> I believe Millard Fillmore’s speechwriter came up with this one.
The comic duck?
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