# Welcome to Pit, election belly-achers! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 8, 2000, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-pit-election-belly-achers/40303 "2000-11-08T15:09:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-pit-election-belly-achers/40303/1 "2000-11-08T15:09:25Z")
TO the authors of these threads: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45594](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45594) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45599](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45599) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45617](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45617) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45595](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45595) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45592](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45592) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45604](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45604) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45575](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45575) Hi! Welcome to the Pit! This is where you come to post this sort of whiny, bad-tempered garbage, not Great Debates, Humble Opinion, or Mundane Pointless. Most of you have been here quite a while and really ought to have figured out this difference by now. You obviously know how to type, so I assume you can read. Next time get it right and spare our overworked admin the trouble of having to clean up your mess, as well as us normal posters who would like to either ignore the current election mess or indulge in a rational, intellegent conversation about it rather than listen to the fecal tripe thrown by you in your temper tantrums. You see, the Pit is specially designed to accept the nonsensical ravings and sour grapes of pathetic, self-deluded fools who want everything their way or else. Here, the Pit staff and regulars can join in your diatribes nd/or rip them to shreds without having to abandon teh profanity and ad hominem attacks necessary for a complete breakdown of your breakdown. In future, you should bring it here. Now, read this every single day until Election Day 2002, preferably twice. Statistics indicate that by then you will have absorbed enough English reading skills to get the gist of this post, if not comprehend the whole of it out right. Thanks, and good luck on your cerebranalectomy! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-pit-election-belly-achers/40303/2 "2000-11-08T17:33:44Z")
Thank you, don! I couldn’ta said it better myself. You know, of course, a few select whiners are gonna accuse you of sucking up to the mods/admins, don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-pit-election-belly-achers/40303/3 "2000-11-08T17:36:23Z")
So, don, what do the mod’s duodenums smell like? ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-pit-election-belly-achers/40303/4 "2000-11-08T17:41:59Z")
Milo, you’re kinda cute when you gloat. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-pit-election-belly-achers/40303/5 "2000-11-08T18:02:48Z")
Milo, I can only offer this anecdote from _Being the True and Unverifyed Discurse on the Adventures of the Knyght James of the Sniffles, a Spanish Lord, written by that same Knyght in Spain and translated into Our English Language Late in This the Year of Our Lord 1583_: > [@](#): > > **Now oft it is said that _the internals of the board moderateurs have a Unique and Parlous nature,_ but I must as a good Knyght disavow this. In my experience the vitals of a Moderateur are a wonderful _perfume,_ with an odour of Cinnamon and Roses. There are those _Genoans_ and certain individuals of a _Greek heritage_ who claim (that there is) also a scent of the Flo(w)ers of Sicily, but this is not true, as can be smelt closely. I would recommend that the this _aroma_ be carefully Bottled and Sold for use as a an _elixir,_ if only it would not require the disembowellment of the said _Moderateurs_.** Hope that clears things up. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-pit-election-belly-achers/40303/6 "2000-11-08T18:22:03Z")
Uh, like I actually have time to go looking at all those threads. Next time you want to kiss some booty it might be better to include the thread title names. ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-pit-election-belly-achers/40303/7 "2000-11-08T18:29:29Z")
While I won’t disagree about the MPSIMS and IMHO ones, the thread you listed from Great Debates does indeed belong in Great Debates. In case you’ve forgotten, one of main things we debate there is _politics_. And what could be more political than a thread about one party not receiving the coverage that somebody thinks it should have? ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-pit-election-belly-achers/40303/8 "2000-11-08T21:09:49Z")
Demo: I don’t want to kiss any of 'em. Yecch. The posts in question (w/original posters) are: Barbra, Alec and Cher…See Ya! (Lyllyan) Hey Democrats, Whine here! Tell us how smart you all are and how dumb we all are! (Milossarian) Something fishy going on in the election? (Homer) Well, I guess Bush won… (tiggeril) Hey Stoidela, your room at Shady Acres is ready! (divemaster) Calling all Women and Homosexuals: Kiss your rights goodbye… (MetropoChris) Libertarians get no coverage… Again (Sam Stone) David, about that last one. Sam doesn’t really offer a debate. It’s a complaint about the lack of coverage of the Liberatarian candidate. I agree with him that Sam that Browne should have been covered, and a debate about why the coverage was lacking and what could be done to correct it in future would be great. But as is, Sam offers no debate. Oldscratch says as much in the first reply. I included this because complaints belong in the Pit, and didn’t want the Libertarians to feel left out any more. (Joke! I love the Libertarian Party! Mwah! Mwah! Mwah!) ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-pit-election-belly-achers/40303/9 "2000-11-09T00:59:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Sam doesn’t really offer a debate. It’s a complaint about the lack of coverage of the Liberatarian candidate. Sure it’s a debate. He said they didn’t get coverage. That means there is a second side: That they got the coverage they deserved. You don’t have to post a message that says, “Ok, here’s my position X, and I know the opposite position is Y, so let’s argue.” You state your position and the others do the rest.