# Pitting Honeybadger **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 7, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183 "2018-03-07T15:40:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 49
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/961 "2024-02-22T04:18:40Z")
You’ve never seen all these sovereign citizens being bullied by the police and the courts? Just for traveling in a private conveyance, not driving in a commercial vehicle? /S ---
**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:** [February 22, 2024, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/962 "2024-02-22T04:20:45Z")
Cmon guys…it’s conservative logic Bullying is not only acceptable but expected if the victim is a judge, a federal law enforcement agent or a private citizen that also happens to be an election worker, health care worker, teacher or school administrator or a member of a Democratic politicians family. Bullying transgender children and adults and POC and Democrats and other liberals is also acceptable. But if you bully rednecks with marital problems, you’ll drive them to suicide and it’ll be all your fault. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/963 "2024-02-22T04:23:28Z")
Oh, get off it. You’re not a victim here, nor is Sam\_Stone. You both trot out nonsense and then double or triple down on it when called on that. Now you’re both going the _Woe is me_ route. If you two want to be respected as a poster here and not considered a troll, perhaps you should try learning. Oh, and an apology or two for your stunts that derail perfectly good threads might be of use, too. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/964 "2024-02-22T04:39:54Z")
Today’s koan. What happens if you use the world’s largest and most powerful projector to cast an image of the world’s tiniest violin? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/965 "2024-02-22T04:56:22Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > I defend Honeybadger because I don’t like bullies. I have stood up against bullies my entire life. As someone that was bullied in school in the old country (up to the point of being pushed down marble stairs in the hope of braking bones or getting killed by one or them (quick footwork saved me that day and my feet skipped half a floor of stairs)) I have to say that it is more sad to find out that your scientific feeds or sources of information were not enough to prevent you from taking seriously true antiscience fascist bullies of the right like [Richard Hanania.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2056) If you seriously are against bullies, the least you can do is to remove and denounce the links to that kind of racist anti social bully trash, and understand that when people like me tell you that those sources are not only bad, but evil, we are not doing it just for shits and giggles. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2024, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/966 "2024-02-22T04:56:37Z")
Maybe I should bully those two Republican style, by tricking them into sending me a dick pic and then having it published on the front page of a major newspaper and blown up into a poster that is displayed in a Congressional hearing. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2024, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/967 "2024-02-22T05:18:23Z")
> [@digs](#): > > But the average person will say _light green, light blue, light red…_ oops, no, can’t say that, it’s _“pink”!_ Only for the last 400 years or so. Before that, the word wasn’t used for the colour. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/968 "2024-02-22T06:31:07Z")
Republicans would never! They stole those dick pics fair and square. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/969 "2024-02-22T08:49:50Z")
Okay, this is enough. I’ve had my say. I’m just going to go ahead and suspend myself from P&E, at least until after the election. Mods can make that official if it makes their lives easier. I’m not trolling, I’m calling it like I see it. But it’s just all become too much. Good luck with the election, and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/970 "2024-02-22T09:09:28Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > I’m just going to go ahead and suspend myself from P&E, at least until after the election And the pit? Since that was where you convinced @Atamasama that you were trolling. Nothing in P&E. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/971 "2024-02-22T09:42:57Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > I’m just going to go ahead and suspend myself from P&E [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JVIovQTzfwc/maxresdefault.jpg "TOMBSTONE Clip - Peach of a Hand (1993) Val Kilmer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVIovQTzfwc&t=86) ---
**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:** [February 22, 2024, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/972 "2024-02-22T10:53:23Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > I’m just going to go ahead and suspend myself from P&E Great, guys. You’ve just freed up more of his time to shit in other forums. Ones I actually care about. Nice Job Breaking It, Heroes! ---
**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:** [February 22, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/973 "2024-02-22T13:34:45Z")
Blaming the victims? ---
**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:** [February 22, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/974 "2024-02-22T15:36:35Z")
I recall someone saying stuff like: “Oh for God’s sake - words are not violence, and your safety is not threatened from hearing them.” But it’s another great pivot. The free speech absolutist indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/975 "2024-02-22T15:51:49Z")
Free speech for me. Shackles for thee. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/976 "2024-02-22T16:07:58Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > In fact, that’s how I met my wife. She was being bullied by a couple of men at a baseball game, and I stepped up and told them to get stuffed. This you? > [@Internet Relatonships](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-relatonships/16758/17): > > I met my wife online, but it was a local BBS and we met in person almost immediately. Edit: or this? > [@Warren Zevon Dead at 56](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-zevon-dead-at-56/200270/51): > > I met my wife because of Warren Zevon. I was chatting with a bunch of friends one day, and mentioned Zevon. My future wife was in earshot, and she perked up and said, “You like Warren Zevon??” And it was like we were immediately old friends. We were engaged in three weeks, married in six months, and it’s now 13 years and counting. So, you met her online, but also she overheard you talking about Warren Zeavon, all while being bullied at a baseball game? ETA, I reposted this in the [Sam Stone thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/2083). ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/977 "2024-02-22T16:14:13Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > So, you met her online, but also she overheard you talking about Warren Zeavon, all while being bullied at a baseball game? How _dare_ you be _so mean_ to Sam that you would _read his posts_? What kind of sick freak would do such a thing? You should be ashamed of your bullying ways. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/978 "2024-02-22T16:17:42Z")
This is disheartening. I feel like this is not a safe space for me if people are going to read my posts. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/979 "2024-02-22T16:29:04Z")
Maybe Sam likes to marry a lot? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/980 "2024-02-22T16:55:32Z")
Nitpick: wouldn’t a ball gag be more topical? Unless you’re situationally literalizing the analogy, in which case you need some kind of restraints for typing fingers. Which I don’t know. But perhaps I’m overthinking this a little. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183.md?page=48) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183.md?page=50)