# We need better anti-retard filters for reporters **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 23, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-better-anti-retard-filters-for-reporters/482659 "2009-01-23T16:45:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-better-anti-retard-filters-for-reporters/482659/41 "2009-01-25T14:24:08Z")
> [@Bobotheoptimist](#): > > I’m 40 (that’s 48 metric). Thanks Bobo. I’m still chuckleing at this. ---
**Author:** ![Obeseus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbce88/32.png) [@Obeseus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obeseus)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-better-anti-retard-filters-for-reporters/482659/42 "2009-01-25T14:25:37Z")
One of the worst sports reporter interviews I’ve ever seen occurred in 2003. Aaron Boone of the New York Yankees hit a game-ending, pennant-winning home run to defeat the Boston Red Sox. After the game, a reporter asked Red Sox player Kevin Millar what his feeling was when the last out was recorded. Millar said he didn’t understand what he meant. The reporter asked again what it was like when he saw the last out recorded. Millar then had to inform him that there was no last out recorded, because a guy hit a home run to end the game. ---
**Author:** ![Obeseus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbce88/32.png) [@Obeseus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obeseus)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-better-anti-retard-filters-for-reporters/482659/43 "2009-01-25T14:32:28Z")
sorry, duplicate post. Can a mod delete? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-better-anti-retard-filters-for-reporters/482659/44 "2009-01-25T19:26:41Z")
Years ago, after Desert Storm was over, a local National Guard unit came home, and it’s arrival at the airport was covered by local news. One soldier was in a clinch with his wife, oblivious to the world, and the chirpy young reporter stuck out a mike and said “do you have any plans for this evening?” ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-better-anti-retard-filters-for-reporters/482659/45 "2009-01-26T04:11:13Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Years ago, after Desert Storm was over, a local National Guard unit came home, and it’s arrival at the airport was covered by local news. > > One soldier was in a clinch with his wife, oblivious to the world, and the chirpy young reporter stuck out a mike and said “do you have any plans for this evening?” It would have been great if he had described his plans in detail. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-better-anti-retard-filters-for-reporters/482659/46 "2009-01-26T19:56:01Z")
There’s a joke about a Finnish soldier coming home from the Winter War. (Your ethnic group may tell this joke about a different ethnic group, but I’m telling it right now.) A local radio station sent out a sweet, naive young female reporter to interview him. The interview went about like this: She: “So what was the first thing you did when you got home?” He: “I took my wife to bed and fucked her.” She: “Um, and afterwards…?” He: “After that I fucked her again.” She: “No, I mean after that…” He: “Then we did it again. I’d been away from home for months, you know.” She: "But _after_ you and your wife were finished in bed! What did you do _then?!?"_ He: “Well, I took off my rifle and my backpack and my skis, and…” ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-better-anti-retard-filters-for-reporters/482659/47 "2009-01-26T20:37:23Z")
I feel stabby when a reporter (or anyone else) refers to something being in close proximity. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-better-anti-retard-filters-for-reporters/482659/48 "2009-01-26T20:55:00Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Kilo = 2.2 pounds. Yes, if it wasn’t for drug references I wouldn’t know that. Anyway… Once, when I was a newly minted engineer, I was in my manager’s office when another engineer poked his head in and asked, “how many grams in a ounce?” The boss and I immediately and simultaneously said, “twenty-eight” without missing a beat. Then we both looked at each other and busted up laughing. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-better-anti-retard-filters-for-reporters/482659/49 "2009-01-26T20:58:19Z")
> [@](#): > > I tremble in awe and fear of the ton-and-a-half cow. Answer: Anywhere it wants to. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-better-anti-retard-filters-for-reporters/482659/50 "2009-01-26T21:07:17Z")
> [@catsix](#): > > I feel stabby when a reporter (or anyone else) refers to something being in close proximity. You don’t think this redundant pleonasm is a necessary requirement ? ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-better-anti-retard-filters-for-reporters/482659/51 "2009-01-26T22:06:05Z")
> [@photopat](#): > > It would have been great if he had described his plans in detail. In a situation like this, the correct answer is, “Well, I can tell ya, but I’d much rather show ya”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-better-anti-retard-filters-for-reporters/482659.md?page=2)