# 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:** 313
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6246 "2023-08-14T21:55:06Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > collect his urine in jars yet? Collect? That stable genius would be selling it by the ounce. Maybe even mixing it into a perfume “Musk de Musk” or some shite. And the fanbois would leap at the chance to pay for the privilege of spritzing his piss directly onto themselves. ETA: well, shit. Apparently he already has a cologne - “Burnt Hair”. And, yeah, the fanbois bought it all up at $100 a bottle. I don’t think I want to live on this planet anymore ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6247 "2023-08-14T22:00:32Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > I don’t think I want to live on this planet anymore Has Elon got just the ticket for you! Just you wait till Starship is making routine passenger flights to Mars and you won’t have to live on this planet anymore! ---
**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:** [August 14, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6248 "2023-08-14T22:29:47Z")
Zuckerberg is away, so no clown fight today. > [@](#): > > “Mark is traveling right now and isn’t in Palo Alto,” a spokesperson for Zuckerberg at Meta, Iska Saric, tells The Verge. “Also, Mark takes this sport seriously and isn’t going to fight someone who randomly shows up at his house.” > **[The Elon Musk versus Mark Zuckerberg beef has reached a new level of absurdity](https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/14/23831915/the-musk-versus-zuckerberg-beef-has-reached-a-new-level-of-absurdity)** > > Musk is now saying he is going to show up at Zuckerberg’s house to fight. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6249 "2023-08-14T22:58:11Z")
Yeah, Elon’s comment on weight classes is on point - he’s 6 inches taller and something around 40 pounds heavier. Superior skill can overcome that, but it doesn’t sound like Zuckerberg has been training that long. He’ll need to get in some sort of disabling strike before Musk can grab him (assuming Musk can do that). ---
**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:** [August 14, 2023, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6250 "2023-08-14T23:15:06Z")
I really wish Zuckerberg had refused to engage in the first place. Put Elmo on his “Ignore” list, as it were. ---
**Author:** ![keeganst94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@keeganst94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keeganst94)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6251 "2023-08-14T23:16:34Z")
Zuck is training fairly seriously in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. The reason Brazilian jiu-jitsu got popular in the first place is that it gives smaller fighters better odds against larger opponents, maybe best demonstrated by Royce Gracie defeating much larger men in UFC1. It focuses heavily on takedowns, grappling, and submission holds, so significant striking would be unlikely. It might seem odd for a smaller opponent to want to wrestle, but wrestling is a lot more about positioning, leverage, and maneuver than raw strength. Striking would actually advantage Musk, since he has a greater reach and probably better power. Zuck hasn’t been training for long, but Musk seems to be a complete amateur. I’d say the most likely scenario is Zuck securing a takedown, followed by a bewildered Musk getting put in a choke or submission hold. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2023, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6252 "2023-08-14T23:38:06Z")
I expect it’d go something like CM Punk’s attempt at starting a UFC career in his late 30s. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jR3n9Vdg_xE/hqdefault.jpg "UFC 203: CM Punk v.s Mickey Gall | Full Fight") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR3n9Vdg_xE) ---
**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:** [August 14, 2023, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6253 "2023-08-14T23:42:21Z")
Online betting odds favor Zuckerberg, around 80% v 20%. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6254 "2023-08-15T00:21:05Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > > > I don’t think I want to live on this planet anymore > > Has Elon got just the ticket for you! Just you wait till Starship is making routine passenger flights to Mars and you won’t have to live on this planet anymore! Psst… don’t tell anyone, but Elmo has already missed his promised date to put people on Mars by two years. New target date is 2029! > **[Elon Musk promised to put humans on Mars by 2021: Now, the Internet wants...](https://www.financialexpress.com/life/science-elon-musk-spacex-mars-mission-deadline-2545184/)** > > Earlier in 2022, Musk had said that he had pushed back his target date for reaching the Mars mission. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6255 "2023-08-15T00:31:24Z")
Ya know, if he’s going to do us the favor of setting up and emigrate to the most inhospitable environment yet attempted, I’ll just stick around here. While I think it’s possible to make Mars even less livable for human beings, I think he’d be hard pressed to make it happen. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6256 "2023-08-15T00:50:17Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > He has more than 913,000 followers-that’s a lot of ears. And don’t forget, the ears usually outnumber the followers. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6257 "2023-08-15T01:08:48Z")
> [@digs](#): > > And don’t forget, the ears usually outnumber the followers. I’d hope so, but you never know. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2023, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6258 "2023-08-15T01:26:40Z")
My limited understanding is that training, depending on degree, compensates for a moderate to very substantial degree of height and weight advantage. Strength and speed also play a moderate to large significant role if they can be used effectively. But being big, but not muscular, might just mean one quickly tires. Being “several weight classes higher” for fighters built like whippets is not the same thing as a random bro with a paunch. But to someone who has trained to the degree they are capable (and I clearly don’t know how good a blue belt even is, or if Zuck won this fairly without favour), it seems odd to challenge them where they could use their chosen event if not better on something else. One supposes that with mixed martial, Musk could use whatever means he pleased, if indeed at all genuine in his trolling, which is certainly what this seems to be, and how often is trolling genuine? If he just showed up, what is the charity aspect? But of course this is largely just throwing meat to respective tribes and a marketing strategy of making lots of noise. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6259 "2023-08-15T02:43:58Z")
Musk sounds like a stupid teenager or school yard brat. He’s preening and prancing in front of his flunkies. He calls the other person names, tries pushing him around, and then he struts away and implies it’s that coward, baby, whatever’s fault. What a turd. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2023, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6260 "2023-08-15T04:00:29Z")
> ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6261 "2023-08-16T14:11:57Z")
TweetDeck, Twitter’s tool for managing posts, notifications, etc, has disappeared behind a paywall. Why innovate when you can just hold the status quo hostage? ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6262 "2023-08-16T15:03:12Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > TweetDeck, Twitter’s tool for managing posts, notifications, etc, has disappeared behind a paywall. Also has been renamed to an extremely memorable XPro. You can, or course, find XPro by X at [tweetdeck.twitter.com](http://tweetdeck.twitter.com). ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6263 "2023-08-16T19:54:03Z")
Hehehe, a glimmer of hope that there’s still an adult working at Twitter (I plan to call it that until people don’t know what I’m talking about). > [@](#): > > We contacted X today and will update this article if we get a response. While the [press@twitter.com](mailto:press@twitter.com) media contact email address used to auto-reply to all messages with a poop emoji, the auto-reply message now says, “We’ll get back to you soon.” > **[X apparently added 5-second delay for links to sites Musk doesn’t like](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/x-apparently-added-5-second-delay-for-links-to-sites-musk-doesnt-like/)** > > X, formerly Twitter, "confirmed the delay was removed but did not elaborate." ---
**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:** [August 16, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6264 "2023-08-16T23:57:29Z")
> While the [press@twitter.com](mailto:press@twitter.com) media contact email address used to auto-reply to all messages with a poop emoji, the auto-reply message now says, “We’ll get back to you soon.” “In two weeks.” ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6265 "2023-08-17T00:09:48Z")
Hey, it’s a step up from what amounted to “Eat shit”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=312) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=314)