# Pitting Laziness, Procrastination, & Corner-Cutting **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 31, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-laziness-procrastination-corner-cutting/617410 "2012-03-31T20:46:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-laziness-procrastination-corner-cutting/617410/21 "2012-04-03T01:41:39Z")
> [@living\_in\_hell](#): > > Doesn’t the period go in the quotes? (I’m actually asking seriously.) Strunk & White say yes. Fowler says it’s optional, but lays forth the superior logic (IMO) of having the intent of what the sentence is trying to dictate the placement of the punctuation. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-laziness-procrastination-corner-cutting/617410/22 "2012-04-03T01:43:24Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > Depends on which side of the sea you are, but you know what. I say you need puncutation in and out of the quotes. > > You might ask “why?”. I ask is the preceding sentence a question of why or statement of you potentially asking it? It’s a statement wrapped around a question. Shouldn’t it be represented as such? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-laziness-procrastination-corner-cutting/617410/23 "2012-04-03T01:51:20Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Well, then, listen for a while, _then_ talk. I lurked here for a decade before I thought I’d paid my dues enough to start a thread (AND I waited until I had something important to say). > > I’m betting if any of us go to a Knicks game, we’d watch for years and years before we run out on the court and grab the ball… See, this is what I don’t understand. What important thing is there to say in a thread like: Should I cut my toenails? Or: It’s cold out–should I turn on the heat? And yet people flock to those kinds of threads. Because sometimes it’s fun and not everybody is afraid to speak up. We’re individuals, with opinions, and a funny bone and good, working brains. I bet most of us hop from the Toenail Cutting to Does This Prove That Neandertal and Cromagnon (sp) Mated to And Then They Tore Out my Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat. It’s mentally stimulating. If I didn’t sometimes say what I want to add I’d feel like I was in a dentist’s chair unable to respond. I can’t imagine feeling that way for years. My contribution to the OP is: I agree. I can’t stand triflin’ people. I hate a liar but I think I dislike laziness even worse. And it makes me especially mad when it’s me. ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-laziness-procrastination-corner-cutting/617410/24 "2012-04-03T03:09:32Z")
Thank you. Apparently pitting is appropriate to settings on certain tablets, mutant vegetables, and posters with whom you disagree as evidenced by lengthy posts and references to specific comments…not something we all wrestle with in some way. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-laziness-procrastination-corner-cutting/617410/25 "2012-04-03T03:49:49Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Let me try…I’ve never started a pit thread, but I’ve read some really good ones. > > Fuck me to tears. I didn’t bother to plan my fucking move and just tossed stuff in the back of my friend’s pickup. Of course, I was too stupid and lazy to box it properly and now that cheap crap is broken. I don’t care that much about the plastic battery operated sex toys, they are cheap. Its my goddamned bike trainer that hurts. That bitch was expensive and I need it to keep my ass looking good enough that I don’t need the sex toys. > > FML, fuck moving and I hope my friend’s pickup dies in a fire because it damaged my trainer! > Any better? Did you major in turd-polishing? Because you did an excellent job. A+ ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-laziness-procrastination-corner-cutting/617410/26 "2012-04-03T07:39:25Z")
Wait, you broke your sex toys while moving? Aren’t they made to withstand, ah, vibration and thrusting and stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-laziness-procrastination-corner-cutting/617410/27 "2012-04-03T08:02:46Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Wait, you broke your sex toys while moving? Aren’t they made to withstand, ah, vibration and thrusting and stuff? No, she broke the exercise bike, so now her ass is going to get fat, guys won’t like her, and she’ll need the sex toys to get off. Reading for comprehension. Try it sometime. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-laziness-procrastination-corner-cutting/617410/28 "2012-04-03T08:35:34Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > No, she broke the exercise bike, so now her ass is going to get fat, guys won’t like her, and she’ll need the sex toys to get off. Reading for comprehension. Try it sometime. 😉 I went back and read the second pitting attempt, and I’m still getting that the box was thrown hard enough to break the sextoys inside of it. Which doesn’t make sense unless they were delicate blown glass. idk, it’s fuckin’ 330a-fuckin’-m. heheh… blown. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-laziness-procrastination-corner-cutting/617410/29 "2012-04-03T14:10:49Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > blown glass. I see what you di… > [@](#): > > heheh… blown. Oh, nevermind 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-laziness-procrastination-corner-cutting/617410/30 "2012-04-04T04:32:55Z")
My ass is far from fat. In fact, I managed to fix the trainer and rode two hours on Saturday followed by a 25 mile run on Sunday. And with an ass like mine why would I need sex toys? Methinks the ladies doth project too much. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-laziness-procrastination-corner-cutting/617410/31 "2012-04-04T05:13:42Z")
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