# 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:** 58
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1141 "2025-11-19T02:52:09Z")
Here is HBDC showing his “intellectualism” again. ```auto https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness/1024971/22 ``` Just copy and paste, I didn’t want to link to it directly. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1142 "2025-11-19T03:57:08Z")
So is he a full-on trumper? ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1143 "2025-11-19T04:08:10Z")
Maybe, maybe not, but he has established already that he’s a full-on idiot. Of course he’s the one person to actually support the insult. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1144 "2025-11-19T05:06:48Z")
That was one of the dumbest comments I have seen this month. And I’m including some trolls whose posts have been sent to the cornfield. Sure, it’s OK if Trump insulted a reporter with a juvenile name. Because maybe… just maybe that was actually an _unethical_ reporter. Ya, that’s the ticket! She deserved it! Honeybadgerman is a complete absolute waste of skin. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1145 "2025-11-19T05:09:10Z")
I was wondering if that moron had been pitted. HBDC: I haven’t read the article but it’s cool she was disrespected for possibly being unethical. Even though I don’t know she’s been unethical. And I haven’t read about this case. Dude needs to put down the bong and spare what few brain cells he has left. > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > That was one of the dumbest comments I have seen this month. This ⬆ ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1146 "2025-11-19T05:26:36Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > and spare what few brain cells he has left. I think that ship has sailed. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1147 "2025-11-19T05:45:22Z")
I wonder if the noble white knight will come back to justify his pathetic attempt at protecting his despicable hero? If not, I assume it is OK to call him a “piggy” in a non-pit thread. He would find it refreshing to disrespect him due to his unethical (at least moronic) posting practices? ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1148 "2025-11-19T05:57:43Z")
> [@digs](#): > > my wife noted that I’m very susceptible to placebo effects. I said “Well, that’s how powerful my mind is!” I once read a study that said, “Placebo effects can be effective even when the person KNOWS it is a placebo, because that’s how the brain works.” How rigorous/peer reviewed/replicable the study was, I have no idea. But it immediately made sense to me, for the simple reason that my parents - both scientifically-oriented; a nurse and a veterinary school dropout who worked in pharmaceuticals - swore by a “placebo” effect/old wive’s tale remedy for sore throats: tie a rag (not too tight) around your neck. They said, “this has no scientific basis, it’s purely psychological. But it’s comforting. It helps. Mind over matter.” It’s always worked for me - as a placebo, definitely. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1149 "2025-11-19T12:02:02Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > HBDC: I haven’t read the article but it’s cool she was disrespected for possibly being unethical. Even though I don’t know she’s been unethical. And I haven’t read about this case. Whoa. HBDC is Speaker Mike Johnson! Wait, am I allowed to doxx people here? ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1150 "2025-11-19T13:00:32Z")
The stereotype of the college sophomore taking a bong hit and believing their own inanities represent deep thoughts was supposed to be just that - a stereotype. Not an actual blueprint to live by or meant to resemble, except as caricature, any actual human being I find it remarkably fascinating that HBDC engages and probably touts the benefits of recreational drug use yet is paradoxically (and inadvertently?) among the biggest arguments against ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1151 "2025-11-19T13:22:55Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > I find it remarkably fascinating that HBDC engages and probably touts the benefits of recreational drug use yet is paradoxically (and inadvertently?) among the biggest arguments against I dare him to try DMT; that is so far from recreational (it did get the moniker "the businessman’s drug in the 70s because it could be done in lunch hour… but man, that 40 minute experience needs several hours recovery). It is properly scary. It is second only to hyperventilating chloroform (IMHO) in really scary out of body experience. I would, if it was not against board rules, wager the good friend has not ventured beyond alcohol and tobacco. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1152 "2025-11-19T13:29:10Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > The stereotype of the college sophomore taking a bong hit and believing their own inanities represent deep thoughts was supposed to be just that - a stereotype. I never really looked at his avatar, but once I zoomed it, it all made sense. [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQFZvbDKSw7KorIPwoDGTauc5FNbrRFsetaKA&s) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQFZvbDKSw7KorIPwoDGTauc5FNbrRFsetaKA&s) ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1153 "2025-11-19T14:27:04Z")
Not judging this case because I don’t know the details involved, but if HoneybadgerDC has posted in unethical ways, it is refreshing to see him being disrespected in this thread. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1154 "2025-11-19T14:28:59Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > If not, I assume it is OK to call him a “piggy” in a non-pit thread. He would find it refreshing to disrespect him due to his unethical (at least moronic) posting practices? Unfortunately I don’t think that it is, because otherwise the _perfect_ response to his post would have been a chorus of “Quiet, Piggy” followed by a hundred people putting him on ignore at once. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1155 "2025-11-19T14:39:44Z")
Piggy’s got the conch bong. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1156 "2025-11-19T14:45:29Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Piggy’s got the ~~conch~~ bong And that’s how I’d make _Lord of the Flies_ a better book with one simple change. Eta: when I first made the post Discord removed the crossing out from “conch”, and I agree with this change. Piggy’s got the bong he made out of a conch. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1157 "2025-11-20T19:17:00Z")
For fairness’s sake, here’s their retraction: > [@How can we take this latest Trump nastiness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-take-this-latest-trump-nastiness/1024971/107): > > I will officially retract my statement because I didn’t really mean it. I sometimes find myself getting angry at the press, and I have lapses in my objectivity. I detest low class insults as much as anyone else. especially from our commander in chief. I don’t think most of the public or at least those around him are fooled. I believe we overlook almost everything because Trump seems to be the only one willing to carry the ball. I don’t want to hijack the thread so I will stop there. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1158 "2025-11-20T19:20:03Z")
“only one willing to carry the ball”? Geez, even his retractions are idiotic ---
**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:** [November 20, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1159 "2025-11-20T19:23:00Z")
My first thought was, what does he mean by that? My second (and better) thought was, I don’t really care. What an idiot. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/1160 "2025-11-20T20:02:36Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > “only one willing to carry the ball”? I was going to reply to that and say, no, he isn’t carrying the ball. He claimed it, it’s his, and he’s taking it with him. You’ll have to pry it from his dead, cold, tiny hands. But I didn’t want to further hijack the thread so I deleted my reply before submitting it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183.md?page=59)