# 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:** 493
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9876 "2024-07-23T12:28:58Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > And in another thread of ElmoThink, they are the start of the Master Race. I’m actually a bit surprised he’s not going full Charlemagne. Yet. IOW, trying to leave 500 direct offspring and predominantly male intending to ~~conquer~~ pollute the human gene pool forever. He could start another company, MuskX, and operate on the HelloFresh model. Every month subscribers receive a chilled turkey baster full of essential Musk fluids and try to impregnate themselves / dress a salad. He’d hit 500 Musklets in no time. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9877 "2024-07-23T13:00:12Z")
Lol, his fanboys would corner the market. DR. Strangelove would never let such an opportunity pass him by. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9878 "2024-07-23T13:06:53Z")
Plus, just attempting to generate enough ‘product’ to satisfy orders would keep him too busy and exhausted to do anything else. Win-win! Or he’d do the usual thing and a few people might get a delivery 5 years late, if at all, and he gets some free publicity in the mean time. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9879 "2024-07-23T15:46:07Z")
He’s actually made a good start. In a thousand years, he’ll be one of the forgotten ancestors of quite a lot of people. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9880 "2024-07-23T16:27:52Z")
Taking > [@yendis](#): > > Every month subscribers receive a chilled turkey baster full of essential Musk fluids and try to impregnate themselves / dress a salad. and > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Plus, just attempting to generate enough ‘product’ to satisfy orders would keep him too busy and exhausted to do anything else. together … IANA expert, and I recognize that horses and cattle have larger ejaculate volumes than mere humans. But the people who manage stallions and bulls for semen production manage to spread one male load across an awful lot of sales. Which sales technique must result in lots of successful pregnancies or they’d not get much repeat business. Properly captured, stored, diluted, and then inserted into the target individual using scientific means or IVF, one male human shot of sperm could probably produce a few _thousand_ viable embryos. And maybe even 10x that number. We are talking 250M-plus sperm per load. Unrelated to the above … > [@Dr.Drake](#): > > In a thousand years, he’ll be one of the forgotten ancestors of quite a lot of people. Which may be why he’s so wound up about having a transgender offspring. Those folks, of whichever nature and for whatever reason, have a very low rate of reproduction. Lopping off 1/12 ~= 8% of his eventual multi-thousand member downline has gotta hurt for a guy bent on world domination forever. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9881 "2024-07-23T16:37:37Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Properly captured, stored, diluted, and then inserted into the target individual… Damn! You are one Smooth-Talkin’ Romantic Devil, You! 😁 ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9882 "2024-07-23T16:43:24Z")
Who knew world domination would be so … clinical?!? ---
**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 23, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9883 "2024-07-23T16:47:12Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > the people who manage stallions and bulls for semen production Given what I know about that, **Elon:** WAIT!!! You want to stick that where? I thought semen collection was going to be fun for me… ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9884 "2024-07-23T16:52:49Z")
Everything I know about the semen collection process comes from watching an episode of _Dirty Jobs_. In that case / episode it was a retired racehorse stallion. Host Mike had what can best be described as a horse-sized fleshlight and the stallion knew exactly what was coming and could hardly wait to engage with it. The hard part of that dirty job was/is standing right next to a very large, very strong, and very, very excited but not very smart animal who’s really, really thinkin’ with the (very big) little head right then. ---
**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 23, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9885 "2024-07-23T16:56:58Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > a horse-sized fleshlight What I’m, slightly, aware of is electrical stimulation of the prostate. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9886 "2024-07-23T17:27:20Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > What I’m, slightly, aware of is electrical stimulation of the prostate. Apparently often unnecessary for [stallion semen collection](https://www.vet.upenn.edu/docs/default-source/research/equine-behavior-laboratory/ground-collection.pdf?sfvrsn=7e24e0ba_0#:~:text=Semen%20can%20be%20collected%20from,risk%20of%20falling%20during%20mounting) (no pix, thankfully), once the horses “learn to respond without a mare, using conditioned stimuli such as estrous mare urine, a specific conditioned auditory cue, or other situational cues”. Still too much cross-species manual stimulation in that procedure description for my liking, but I guess if you need horse semen deposited somewhere other than inside a mare then you do what you gotta do. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9887 "2024-07-23T17:32:07Z")
Whether horses or Elmo, definitely better you than me ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9888 "2024-07-23T17:46:12Z")
> [@yendis](#): > > He could start another company, MuskX, and operate on the HelloFresh model. Every month subscribers receive a chilled turkey baster full of essential Musk fluids and try to impregnate themselves / dress a salad. I can only think of this. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WaSTOhsXygY/hqdefault.jpg "In Living Color 5x04 Loomis Simmons Knock You Up") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaSTOhsXygY) ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9889 "2024-07-23T18:02:50Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Host Mike had what can best be described as a horse-sized fleshlight and the stallion knew exactly what was coming and could hardly wait to engage with it. I initially read that sentence as “_Hot_ Mike had what can be best described as a horse-sized fleshlight…” and thought, “That is not a situation where I would want to be thought ‘hot’.” ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9890 "2024-07-23T18:16:44Z")
Gives a new meaning to the phrase “hot mic moment”, right? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9891 "2024-07-23T18:31:44Z")
Somewhere a screenwriter is furiously typing away at the script for the new romantic screwball comedy, “Hot Mike”. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9892 "2024-07-23T20:54:58Z")
[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTLWwBxXAAE60sX?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTLWwBxXAAE60sX?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**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:** [July 24, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9893 "2024-07-24T00:39:49Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > What I’m, slightly, aware of is electrical stimulation of the prostate. Certain documentaries suggest that works on human males too. Volunteers are apparently not hard to find. The www is quite a fountain of knowledge on all things ejaculatatory. @Smapti just above. Did you find that or use a comic generator to create that just for us? In either case I salute your fine and perceptive sensibilities on the topic. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9894 "2024-07-24T00:50:43Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Did you find that or use a comic generator to create that just for us? The comic is signed by Sophie Labelle. > **[Sophie Labelle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Labelle)** > > Sophie Labelle is a Canadian cartoonist, public speaker, and writer. She created the webcomic Assigned Male, which draws upon her experiences as a transgender child. She is an activist in the transgender rights movement, and speaks on the subjects of transgender history and transfeminism. > Labelle grew up in rural Quebec, near Châteauguay. She worked as an elementary school teacher, and was the camp coordinator for Gender Creative Kids Canada. > Labelle is the author and illustrator of Assigne... I found one panel of that strip on her Instagram page. [https://www.instagram.com/labellesophie/?hl=en](https://www.instagram.com/labellesophie/?hl=en) She’s clearly really, **really** good. More of her work is here: > **[Serious Trans Vibes - Comics by Sophie Labelle](https://www.serioustransvibes.com/gallery)** > > Transgender comics ---
**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:** [July 24, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9895 "2024-07-24T01:00:05Z")
Cool. Not someone I was aware of. Seems I have some reading to do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=492) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=494)