# The world has lost its mind. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 27, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752 "2014-06-27T03:39:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/41 "2014-06-27T20:57:40Z")
I’m afraid that there is no one and nothing in this thread that can compare to [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17499963&postcount=15446) when it batshit crazy. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/42 "2014-06-27T21:00:13Z")
> [@TimeWinder](#): > > And I should care about your opinion? You’re probably one of them homo sapiens! Nuh uh, I’m a hetero sapien. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/43 "2014-06-27T21:03:40Z")
I have masticated at the dinner table one Thanksgiving dinner, in front of my whole family, grandparents included. Their reaction astonished me. They all started masticating and asked me to pass the gravy. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/44 "2014-06-27T21:04:23Z")
I’m reading this thread and masticating like crazy! edit: Dammit Dallas Jones! ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/45 "2014-06-27T21:10:00Z")
I’m pretty sure my neighbor’s one of them there pips, because I overheard him say he kept his hoes locked up in the shed. When I informed the police, they just laughed at me. He’s probably paying them off. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/46 "2014-06-27T21:12:20Z")
This one time, when I was in college, I matriculated all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/47 "2014-06-27T21:13:46Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > While we’re at it, let’s sign a petition to ban [Dihydrogen Monoxide](http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html). Aka Hydronium Hydroxide. Most caustic substance in the universe as it’s a mixture of pure acid and pure alkali. Speaking of thespians, I’d like to get Tatiana Maslany into some kind of Pit. I hope she’s paid triple for her work in _Orphan Black_. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/48 "2014-06-27T21:27:15Z")
Next, I believe that **WPA-Guy** should be shown the egress. ---
**Author:** ![WPA-Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WPA-Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WPA-Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/49 "2014-06-27T22:28:49Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > Next, I believe that **WPA-Guy** should be shown the egress. See, I knew one of you homo sapiens would eventually be flashing something. Keep this person away from the children. Won’t someone please protect the children from these dirty thespians? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/50 "2014-06-27T22:32:25Z")
Are you saying thespians are heavily soiled? Stage fright is mandatory. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/51 "2014-06-27T22:54:16Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > And the colored whats? Don’t quote me, but I think he’s talking about the Negros. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/52 "2014-06-27T23:21:00Z")
Sure, you all like to make fun of homo sapiens. But I just wonder how brave you would be having homo erectus shoved down your throat. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/53 "2014-06-27T23:43:06Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > Posting while putting is acceptable though. Chipping is a grey area, as we’ve yet to have a mod ruling on it. [Chipping](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipping,_Lancashire)sounds like a perfectly nice place. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/54 "2014-06-28T00:46:34Z")
You know the worst thing about Homo sapiens? They’re all primates. Every single one of them. And they’re all humanoids, too. Lousy humanoid primates. ---
**Author:** ![WPA-Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WPA-Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WPA-Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/55 "2014-06-28T04:16:58Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > Sure, you all like to make fun of homo sapiens. But I just wonder how brave you would be having homo erectus shoved down your throat. I hope you’re not incinerating that I am one of those homo sapiens. I am thoroughly heterogenous. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/56 "2014-06-28T06:42:49Z")
It’s INSULATE, you maroon. He was insulating you that you were a homo sapiens (which you are, probably a dirty thespian too). ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/57 "2014-06-28T10:42:06Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > This one time, when I was in college, I matriculated all over the place. Yes, but did you matriculate like a motherfuck? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Enn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dave_enn/32/426_2.png) [@Dave\_Enn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Enn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/58 "2014-06-28T12:04:02Z")
> [@WPA-Guy](#): > > And another thing,This country was ruined by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His wife was always out on the loose. Running around with the coloreds. Tellin’ ‘em they was gettin’ the short end of the stick. She was the one who discovered the coloreds in this country; we never knew they was there! This is where this comes from: Archie Bunker vs. Maude Over F.D.R.: [http://youtu.be/V\_FrB-hkiTc](http://youtu.be/V_FrB-hkiTc) ---
**Author:** ![WPA-Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WPA-Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WPA-Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/59 "2014-06-28T12:10:26Z")
> [@Dave\_Enn](#): > > This is where this comes from: > Archie Bunker vs. Maude Over F.D.R.: [http://youtu.be/V\_FrB-hkiTc](http://youtu.be/V_FrB-hkiTc) Oh, you caught me. I thought this was one of his funniest lines. Next only being trapped in the cellar with a bottle of vodka and meeting God. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752/60 "2014-06-28T17:08:28Z")
> [@Dave\_Enn](#): > > This is where this comes from: > Archie Bunker vs. Maude Over F.D.R.: [http://youtu.be/V\_FrB-hkiTc](http://youtu.be/V_FrB-hkiTc) Damn; whooshed again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-has-lost-its-mind/691752.md?page=4)