# 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:** 339
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6766 "2023-09-20T14:57:41Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Honestly, I hope folks their age always have a reach that exceeds their grasp and dreams that exceed their competence; and I wish they would all do so in such a charmingly harmless fashion. Ah, you know, there’s _reach that exceeds their grasp_ that is harmless and provides a life lesson, like the time my friend bought two junk cars to build into one good one, realizing only after the fact that he bought cars from different model years that had almost no commonality. Then there’s _exceeding your grasp_ by taking on a dangerous task unprepared and failing on day one, spending the next several weeks building a hobo village in a public park. Best part: they wanted to re-live _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_, yet neither of them actually read it. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2023, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6767 "2023-09-20T14:58:15Z")
Of course, Warhammer 40K also has a very troubling approach toward sex. The Space Marines are eunuchs, the Eldar soldiers are psychopathically focused on war, the Orks (despite appearing male) are actually sexless fungi, the Tyrranids are insects, the Necrons are undead robots… the only people who have sex in the future are Chaos, and it’s _bad_ sex. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6768 "2023-09-20T14:59:56Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > Some of already knew a little bit more about her from the time she tried to float down the Mississippi on a raft packed with chickens. Spoiler: she didn’t get very far and mostly lived in a public park where the boat beached. _Velvet Glove Cast in Iron_ would be a good name for a _Culture_ or SpaceX ship. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6769 "2023-09-20T15:03:44Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I thought they cancelled the Squats. The Leagues are new as of a year ago. They haven’t been cancelled at all. There was an army box that was cancelled/only trialed, but as a faction, they’re still very much available for Kill Team and Combat Patrol. > [@](#): > > I also understand that WH decided that the Tau were too nice and gave them a whole busload of dark secrets. I specified the Farsight Enclaves, the Tau faction that’s broken away from the control of the Ethereals who run the mainstream Tau Empire via … pheromones/mind control/dark magic/take your pick. If Farsight’s being controlled by his sword, it’s not doing a very good job at making him chaotic - just immortal. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6770 "2023-09-20T15:09:17Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > the only people who have sex in the future are Chaos I’ve seen some Sisters of Battle cosplayers that say different… ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6771 "2023-09-20T15:55:02Z")
Damn, the only cultural references that have been posted in the last several hours that I understand are Huckleberry Finn, Bond villain, and Nelson Muntz. I am shocked that a sewing machine didn’t turn out to be useful to have on a raft trip. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6772 "2023-09-20T17:11:11Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > Damn, the only cultural references that have been posted in the last several hours that I understand are Huckleberry Finn, Bond villain, and Nelson Muntz. My fault for making an aside mentioning Warhammer, it’s a huge rabbit hole. Five years or so ago I was vaguely aware that it existed. Now I know ridiculous amounts of trivia about universes that don’t actually exist. And I’ve never played the tabletop games or owned a single miniature. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6773 "2023-09-20T18:18:02Z")
[![](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/957462459176861757/1154115772537376778/facebook_1695233028744_7110322673393422511.jpg) ](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/957462459176861757/1154115772537376778/facebook_1695233028744_7110322673393422511.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6774 "2023-09-20T18:19:32Z")
> [@Airbeck](#): > > We’re really witnessing the origin story of a Bond villain, aren’t we? The name is Blofeld; Ernst Starvo Blofeld. Or equivalently The name is Goldfinger; Auric Goldfinger. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6775 "2023-09-20T18:25:37Z")
Actually, I think Elon Musk would like to think he’s more like Le Chiffre from _Casino Royale_. Le Chiffre got the money from the African warlord, which he used to short-sell a bunch of stock in an aeronautics company against what the market thought would happen. He expected that the stock price would tank when his guy blew up the prototype airplane in a terrorist attack. But when Bond stopped the attack, Le Chiffre lost about a hundred million dollars. Elon Musk is Le Chiffre. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6776 "2023-09-20T18:32:44Z")
So, SR stands for Sir Robin??? ---
**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:** [September 20, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6777 "2023-09-20T19:25:25Z")
It sort of works out, doesn’t it? SR-71 \> Sir Robin 71. 🙂 A fortunate coincidence. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6778 "2023-09-20T19:35:46Z")
At some level, and minus the brilliance and actual good intent, Musk works well as the Emperor of Humanity. For those who aren’t 40k lore fans, the Emperor of Humanity was, quite honestly, what you’d get it you took the ambition and physical perfect of Khan from ST, made him immortal, and combined it with awe-inspiring (in the most literal sense) psychic gifts, complete with God-complex (arguably correct) and a vision of mankind’s manifest destiny. And if he had achieved his goals, humanity would likely have become the sort of super-race that Musk regularly has wet dreams about - super rational, technological and genetic supermen, under the control of an immortal King (NOT God, the Emperor would be sickened by the thought). Except, like all such beings, hubris was the downfall of the Emperor. He was so busy literally playing 4D Chess and planning for the future that he ignored the present, as well as ignoring the ‘human’ element of humanity. So his own genetic children fell into chaos and insanity and ripped his plans apart, leaving him dying but not quite dead for millenia, strengthening the forces of chaos he thought to force into dormancy, and basically going full Shakespeare tragedy. Never go full Shakespeare tragedy, not even the fools escape this one. 😉 ---
**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:** [September 20, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6779 "2023-09-20T19:59:45Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > GW made some public statements to the effect of “y’all, the humans are bad guys in our setting and also our nazi fans can fuck right off.” Here you go! [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/11/19/the-imperium-is-driven-by-hate-warhammer-is-not/](https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/11/19/the-imperium-is-driven-by-hate-warhammer-is-not/) > [@Alessan](#): > > the Eldar soldiers are psychopathically focused on war I mean, they used to have lots of sex. It’s not their fault that they were so good at sex and having so much of it that they collectively willed a chaos god into existence which destroyed their civilization and set galactic society back tens of thousands of years. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6780 "2023-09-20T20:17:51Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > From the article: > > > [@](#): > > > > Calling themselves Veruschka and Zelda Xox… I can see how Elmo would be irresistibly attracted to someone named Xox! 😉 ---
**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:** [September 20, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6781 "2023-09-20T20:27:03Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Actually, I think Elon Musk would like to think he’s more like Le Chiffre from _Casino Royale_. In actuality, he’s more like Jimmy Bond from the _good_ version of that film. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6782 "2023-09-20T20:29:00Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I mean, they used to have lots of sex. It’s not their fault that they were so good at sex and having so much of it that they collectively willed a chaos god into existence which destroyed their civilization and set galactic society back tens of thousands of years. As I said: sex bad, violence good. That’s the Warhammer way. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6783 "2023-09-20T20:32:05Z")
That’s the Zardoz way. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6784 "2023-09-20T21:49:05Z")
Elmo is now trying to lovebomb T-Swizzle. > ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6785 "2023-09-20T22:07:12Z")
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