# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442 "2022-04-25T22:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 110
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2181 "2022-12-17T23:24:07Z")
Celebrity? Please. He did _one_ cameo appearance on _the Big Bang Theory_; it must have gone to his head. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2182 "2022-12-18T00:25:13Z")
First I ever heard of him was his cameo in _Why Him?_, a comedy about a fuddy-duddy couple whose daughter marries a tech-bro He played a douch-bag in the film. That is to say, he played himself, literally, so … no stretch. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2183 "2022-12-18T06:23:07Z")
He’s got 10 acting credits on IMDB, not counting his hosting SNL. In the 21st century, Musk has had as many scripted roles as Dave Chappelle. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2022, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2184 "2022-12-18T06:48:21Z")
Elmo has unveiled the logo for Twitter Blue and it’s gaudy as hell; [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkL5QBRXkAE\_ao5?format=jpg&name=medium](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkL5QBRXkAE_ao5?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2185 "2022-12-18T07:36:48Z")
Twitter Vice. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2022, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2186 "2022-12-18T09:09:03Z")
From the cited CNN article: > New Twitter owner Elon Musk offered several of the journalists he banned from the social media website earlier this week the ability to return to the platform if they deleted the tweets he falsely claimed shared his “exact real-time” location. Wait, Elmo wants them to delete tweets they posted about five days ago that supposedly revealed his “exact real-time location”? I guess we can now add to the very long list of “things Elmo doesn’t understand” the following: - The meaning of the term “real-time” > [@Smapti](#): > > Elmo has unveiled the logo for Twitter Blue and it’s gaudy as hell; I imagine that Elmo evaluated a number of logo designers and finally concluded, as he usually does, that the best person for the job was his own almighty self. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2187 "2022-12-18T09:14:51Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I imagine that Elmo evaluated a number of logo designers and finally concluded, as he usually does, that the best person for the job was his own almighty self. On which note, the promo photos of the new Tesla model just dropped; [![](https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a1edfced5820d0fa07/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/the-homer-inline4.jpg) ](https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a1edfced5820d0fa07/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/the-homer-inline4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2188 "2022-12-18T09:17:21Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Celebrity? Please. He did _one_ cameo appearance on _the Big Bang Theory_; it must have gone to his head. He was also in _Iron Man 2_ for a brief moment. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2189 "2022-12-18T09:34:36Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I guess we can now add to the very long list of “things Elmo doesn’t understand” the following: > > - The meaning of the term “real-time” Also, - That Elmo and Elmo’s airplane are not the same thing or are they? Also, also, is Twitter Blue pr0n Twitter? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2191 "2022-12-18T09:50:53Z")
Journalists are not Antifa. There _is_ no Antifa. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2192 "2022-12-18T09:51:40Z")
> [@Chazzo131](#): > > does anyone know why he banned some journalists? Because wrote _about_ the guy getting banned who tracked his jet. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2022, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2193 "2022-12-18T10:02:24Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > There _is_ no Antifa. Then how do you explain this photo of Antifa radicals engaged in anti-government violence? [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Into_the_Jaws_of_Death_23-0455M_edit.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Into_the_Jaws_of_Death_23-0455M_edit.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2194 "2022-12-18T10:04:14Z")
Fuck. Ya got me. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2022, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2195 "2022-12-18T10:10:46Z")
Larry Elder makes a crass joke about “lefties” thinking Elmo is worse than Hitler, and Elmo’s mommy doesn’t get the joke and thinks Elder is threatening her Very Special Boy. > > > > Larry Elder @larryelder > > > Niik Goftar @NGoftar Elmo, meanwhile, wants you to know that the soyboy libtards can’t handle a gun, unlike himself who keeps his favorite toy guns on his nightstand with his piss bottle and coaster-less cans of Caffeine Free Diet Coke. > ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2196 "2022-12-18T10:12:05Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Larry Elder makes a crass joke about “lefties” wanting to kill Elmo, and Elmo’s mommy doesn’t get the joke and thinks Elder is threatening her Very Special Boy. > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/larryelder/status/1604241522005708800) I mean, Elder’s not wrong - you generally can’t kill the undead with regular bullets. Also, if I saw the three of them walking down the street, I’d assume that Elmo was some kind of necromancer, and take him out first on the hope that it would break the animation spell. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2197 "2022-12-18T17:41:26Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Also, if I saw the three of them walking down the street, I’d assume that Elmo was some kind of necromancer, and take him out first on the hope that it would break the animation spell. In RPG / CRPG terms, wouldn’t that be something if you _did_ that, and were immediately killed by the sheer volume of coin loot that dropped? What a way to go. On the other hand, we really, really shouldn’t talk (even in the pit) about killing public figures. On the gripping hand, Muskrat really, Really, REALLY seems like an avatar of the Aught’s era of Evil Corporate Tycoon that somehow reverse-Tron’d it’s way into reality… Hmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2198 "2022-12-18T17:44:58Z")
Lol, holy shit. This guy doesn’t even understand the Internet: [https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531261791522817?t=3JVjxK-93Kuajp6xCzx1Ng&s=19](https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531261791522817?t=3JVjxK-93Kuajp6xCzx1Ng&s=19) [https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531265419591681?t=8XFFe7aIgJlD\_YzZBIfJ4w&s=19](https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531265419591681?t=8XFFe7aIgJlD_YzZBIfJ4w&s=19) Saw Musk referred to as ‘Captain Hairplugs’, which was nice. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2199 "2022-12-18T17:49:14Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Saw Musk referred to as ‘Captain Hairplugs’, which was nice. - Was someone afraid to use “Buttplug”? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2200 "2022-12-18T17:53:06Z")
Does that mean no more cross posts from Truth Social? He must really want to get Trump back. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2201 "2022-12-18T17:53:38Z")
I don’t really know what it means, we will just have to see how this works in action. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=111)