# 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:** 299
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5966 "2023-07-31T13:41:16Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > Seriously. The Mayor needs to drop the hammer hard on this asshole. You don’t get to deny access to a lawful request from a duly authorized government agent. The next visit needs to include police with plenty of handcuffs. As I understand it, the city can force the issue but needs to get a warrant if not allowed in. So it will likely take a little (and I do mean little) effort to get up there. My cite is my personal run-in with the city inspectional services (though not in CA). ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5967 "2023-07-31T13:56:40Z")
X/Twitter has a new motto: [https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1685894753932500992](https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1685894753932500992) Definition of “blaze of glory” according to… …Collins Dictionary: > [@](#): > > If you go out **in a blaze of glory** , you do something very dramatic at the end of your career or your life which makes you famous. > > _I am going to make national news headlines and go out in a blaze of glory._ …The Free Dictionary: > [@](#): > > In an extraordinary and impressive manner. Used to describe a final action. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5968 "2023-07-31T14:03:28Z")
“Witness Me!” ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5969 "2023-07-31T14:04:40Z")
I’m seeing “blaze” as “blazing up” is slang for smoking and a “doobie” is _slang for a blunt which is weed (marijuana) wrapped up in paper_. Elmo been known to dabble. Also you have - “Developed by BC Seed company, _Blaze_ is one of the most potent sativas with an average _THC_ level of 20% and a _CBD_ level of less than 1%. This energy-inducing …” ---
**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:** [July 31, 2023, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5970 "2023-07-31T14:09:39Z")
So, “Blaze your glory” is basically telling someone to drop dead in a spectacular fashion, such as being killed by a gigantic strobing “X” falling off the roof of a San Francisco building. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5971 "2023-07-31T14:14:29Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > being killed by a gigantic strobing “X” falling off the roof of a San Francisco building. I think it would be more like standing on top of the giant X playing an electric guitar while it falls off the roof, plunging you to your death as you grind out one last power chord. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5972 "2023-07-31T15:14:38Z")
“Blaze Your Glory?” Did he accidentally set his dick on fire while smoking weed or something? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5973 "2023-07-31T15:19:28Z")
That would be “Blaze Your Shrivelled, Useless Appendage that you are Constantly Overcompensating For”. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5974 "2023-07-31T15:34:03Z")
Don’t know about that slogan. Perhaps he hopes to inspire users to make their blazing saddles a torch to light the way. But it sounds like something a personal trainer might say. Feel the burn! It’s all you! This is _your_ Twix! Maximize synergy! Serenity now! Push your paradigm! ---
**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:** [July 31, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5975 "2023-07-31T16:33:38Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > STRANGE BUT TRUE - HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS! > "X-Twitter has now refused two notices of violation and two inspection visits by San Francisco building department, for their new “X” logo sign. > > The inspector was told the sign is temporary and is for an upcoming event. > > **Elon issued a strange tweet that he will not abandon San Francisco as other companies have done."** > > **_The “strange tweet” is a thinly veiled threat to leave San Francisco if/because the evil inspectors made him._ Had to break the lease too.** > > Meanwhile, the CEO of “X” issued this Xeet, “Synergistic, integrative, iterative, quantum, garblegurglemuurrph … whirrrrrrrr…recalculating recalculating…” Strikes me that it may be intended as a “thinly veiled threat,” but it comes off as a desperate bluff. Where’s he going to find a sucker willing to turn over the keys to a building at this point? Of course, past performance suggests that if there’s ever a mogul dumb enough to pack out of one location without having first secured a destination facility, it’s gonna be Elon. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5976 "2023-07-31T17:15:57Z")
Downtown SF retail is in crisis, so I would understand if the the city slow walks this one. Musk may be a deadbeat tenant, but his employees presumably generate a fair amount of spending and tax revenue. “Blaze your glory”: I see a lot of Cheech and Chong ads on twitter. Maybe Musk has given up on securing mainstream advertising. Promoting an edgy look is a niche strategy, not a mainstream one. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5977 "2023-07-31T17:21:50Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Where’s he going to find a sucker willing to turn over the keys to a building at this point? Texas. There are plenty of states and landlords who will see Musk’s behavior as “owning the libs” and believe he’ll pay them without a problem. And they might be right. Musk has plenty of money to pay for things he wants to pay for. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5978 "2023-07-31T17:28:55Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > That would be “Blaze Your Shrivelled, Useless Appendage that you are Constantly Overcompensating For”. If only that were true. He’s on a mission to save the world from the existential threat of underpopulation of wealthy white people, personally having fathered (using the term in the loosest sense) 10 children, one of which is trans who he deadnames, two of whom he decided to come up with their names while high as a kite, an ex-wife who he is convinced (and managed to convince her) is a product of his mind’s creation inside the Matrix he lives in - oh, and he had a three-way with Amber Heard while she was still married to Johnny Depp. Thankfully Depp wasn’t the third party in that threesome. God how I wish I was making any of that up. Less than two years ago I was blissfully entirely ignorant of Elmo’s sex life. Now? There isn’t enough brain-bleach to do the job. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5979 "2023-07-31T17:32:43Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > Thankfully Depp wasn’t the third party in that threesome. It’s not Elon’s fault that even when he masturbates it’s, at least, a threesome . . . because his ego is the size of the Grinch’s heart. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5980 "2023-07-31T17:37:00Z")
Are you suggesting Elon’s ego is three sizes smaller than it should be? Although sometimes childish, I admire some of the things the man has done. However, this might not be his best work. Ad astra. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5981 "2023-07-31T17:41:04Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Strikes me that it may be intended as a “thinly veiled threat,” but it comes off as a desperate bluff. Where’s he going to find a sucker willing to turn over the keys to a building at this point? It’s not even a threat - it’s just Musk blurting out words he thinks will let him get his way. The truth is he’d leave in a heartbeat if the whim took him, no matter what statements he makes now or what the city let him get away with. In fact, it’s that attitude that makes it imperative they get into the building - I have no trouble believing Musk would endanger his (remaining) employees and the public with some half-assed construct because he wanted it up _now._ ---
**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:** [July 31, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5982 "2023-07-31T17:42:52Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Are you suggesting Elon’s ego is three sizes smaller than it should be? ‘I don’t have an ego!’ ~ Elon ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5983 "2023-07-31T18:11:30Z")
All superego. Even his ego is super. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5984 "2023-07-31T18:19:03Z")
He must be pissed at Nick Cannon. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5985 "2023-07-31T18:22:21Z")
I would just like to point out that Elon Musk traded in “tweet”, a branded term so powerful that using your service is in the dictionary, with the generic “post”, and is now pushing “Blaze your glory”, where “blaze” already means to pay to self-promote on rival platform Tumblr. It’s hard to express how stupid this is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=298) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=300)