# Pitting the pittings about the copious anitBush threads **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 24, 2004, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658 "2004-07-24T05:12:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrTuffPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/1 "2004-07-24T05:12:26Z")
You, like all of use here, have a choice in what you read. If you don’t care for them, then for fuck’s sake, don’t read them. Jesus, how long until people start bitching about all of the threads about people bitching? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/2 "2004-07-24T05:15:47Z")
> [@MrTuffPaws](#): > > You, like all of use here, have a choice in what you read. If you don’t care for them, then for fuck’s sake, don’t read them. Funny how advice like that can work both ways, innit? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/3 "2004-07-24T05:26:45Z")
> [@MrTuffPaws](#): > > You, like all of use here, have a choice in what you read. If you don’t care for them, then for fuck’s sake, don’t read them. Yes. That’s why I didn’t open this thread. Oh, wait… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/4 "2004-07-24T05:31:42Z")
> [@MrTuffPaws](#): > > You, like all of use here, have a choice in what you read. If you don’t care for them, then for fuck’s sake, don’t read them. > > Jesus, how long until people start bitching about all of the threads about people bitching? It is not just the copius anti-Bush threads, but how it leads to an air that puts down dissension. Anyone who says otherwise is immediatly piled on by twenty other posters. Even worse is the threads in the other forums that don’t have a damned thing to do with Bush, or politics at all, and get a number of posts that are filled with, or make allusions to anti-Bush rhetoric; [example](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=266129). Fuck, you people have become worse than the Republicans that used to always complain about Vince Foster and Whitewater. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/5 "2004-07-24T05:33:21Z")
_groan_ Me spell gud won dai. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/6 "2004-07-24T05:36:05Z")
A person doesn’t have to open and read all the threads to be annoyed at being bombarded by them in the pit and GD, the titles say it all. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/7 "2004-07-24T05:43:16Z")
> [@](#): > > A person doesn’t have to open and read all the threads to be annoyed at being bombarded by them in the pit and GD, the titles say it all. Yeah, I remember a happier day when these forums were filled with a cornucopia of fascinating threads concerning things I really care about, like fluffy kittens and the merits of circumcision, not this boring political stuff. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/8 "2004-07-24T05:49:03Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Yeah, I remember a happier day when these forums were filled with a cornucopia of fascinating threads concerning things I really care about, like fluffy kittens and the merits of circumcision, not this boring political stuff. > > 😃 Hey, I could go for a good bashing fluffy kittens thread!! 😃 (not really, I think cats are cute). ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/9 "2004-07-24T05:54:22Z")
You’ll circumcise my cat when you pry it out of my cold, dead paws! ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/10 "2004-07-24T06:03:06Z")
> [@Dr. Rieux](#): > > You’ll circumcise my cat when you pry it out of my cold, dead paws! Oh ouch damnit! I laughed, and choked. Maybe it’s that it’s late, and I have a migraine, but that was just awful. In a sick but funny way. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/11 "2004-07-24T06:05:15Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > things I really care about, like fluffy kittens Here you go: [The Infinite Cat Project](http://infinitecat.com/infinite/cat-html/32.html). ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/12 "2004-07-24T07:09:28Z")
Okay, so I’m easily amused tonite, but isn’t it kinda funny that the thread started by **MrTuffPaws** is turning out to be about cats? Okay, I thought so, \>slinks away ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/13 "2004-07-24T07:48:18Z")
> [@Muad'Dib](#): > > It is not just the copius anti-Bush threads, but how it leads to an air that puts down dissension. Anyone who says otherwise is immediatly piled on by twenty other posters. Even worse is the threads in the other forums that don’t have a damned thing to do with Bush, or politics at all, and get a number of posts that are filled with, or make allusions to anti-Bush rhetoric; Help, help! I’m being oppressed! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MrTuffPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/14 "2004-07-24T08:04:52Z")
> [@Muad'Dib](#): > > _groan_ > > Me spell gud won dai. Wut use tawlken bout? So sorry, even though I am of age, I am still suckling on a spell checker. Pubic education and all… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/15 "2004-07-24T13:35:42Z")
> [@MrTuffPaws](#): > > Jesus, how long until people start bitching about all of the threads about people bitching? Isn’t that what this thread is? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/16 "2004-07-24T16:17:28Z")
This thread is your thread, This thread is my thread, From the red-blood gore-fests Of the melt-down Pit-heads, To the Great Debate fights That get transferred Pi-i-i-i-i-tward; This thread belongs to you and me.\* \*Some restrictions may apply. Void where banned. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![WernhamHogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/17 "2004-07-24T18:21:51Z")
I say fuck 'em too. Bush is an asshole, and people are pissed off. It’s not our responsibility to sit around silently so Republicans can continue to lie to themselves and pretend he’s not a fucking retarded asshole from hell. Even if we did, the facts wouldn’t change. You elected him, assholes. We tried to warn you. Now you can admit you made a mistake or shut the fuck up. ---
**Author:** ![WernhamHogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/18 "2004-07-24T18:22:58Z")
Oops, one mistake in my post. You voted for him, but you didn’t elect him. He was appointed by a secret cabal or something. He wasn’t elected. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/19 "2004-07-24T19:47:50Z")
I don’t particulary like Bush, but I do get pissed off when somebody just has to annouce, for no reason at all, that they so despise the guy that they apparently cannot let a single thread go by without putting in an anti-bush remark in there somewhere. Case in point: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5099589#post5099589](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5099589#post5099589) A thread which had absoloutly NOTHING to do with politics at all, and out of the blue, a “Bush is an asshole” thread. Just because you may be right dosen’t mean you have to put it everywhere! God Knows there’s enough threads soley devoted to Bush Bashing to sate such longings. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658/20 "2004-07-24T20:39:06Z")
Your case in point is actually [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5097777&postcount=13) and it seems like a reasonable explanation of the difference between telling and showing, which is the topic of the thread. It’s not **rjung** ’s fault that **astorian** (and now you, two fished in on one post!) rose to the bait. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-pittings-about-the-copious-anitbush-threads/256658.md?page=2)