# What do you believe that you could only say in the Pit? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 27, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674 "2007-05-27T02:33:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Miscue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@Miscue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miscue)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/101 "2007-05-28T17:00:23Z")
Calling all dark-skinned people African American by default is in itself racist and gay people getting maried doesn’t devalue the concept of marriage to me at all. Britney Spears getting married, however, does. and I don’t how people can justify voting Republican because of welfare or gay marriage or most anything else when PEOPLE ARE DYING RIGHT NOW. Seems like an issue of priorities, to me. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/102 "2007-05-28T17:34:53Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] Anyone who says everyone should have access to a network of roads and highways, yet hasn’t spent a weekend filling in potholes, is a fucking hypocrite. [/QUOTE] Anyone who says _anything_, including “a,” “and,” and “the,” is a fucking hypocrite. ---
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/103 "2007-05-28T18:47:32Z")
Let’s see, I’m sure I can add one or two to the list … At a certain point of mental retardation, a person should be denied the right to reproduce. People who don’t want women killing fetusus don’t give a shit about the life of that “baby” after it has been born. The dealth penalty is a useless deterent. It does, however, have a lot of potential for great entertainment. The drug war is the perfect example about what is wrong with american society. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/104 "2007-05-28T21:16:09Z")
> [@VCO3](#): > > - Black people are louder and more ill-behaved in public than any other races, regardless of socioeconomic class and context. Anyone who disagrees with this is simply trying to be politically correct and is wilfully ignoring the prevailing truth of the statement. -Generalizations like the ones above are usually stated because the person only tends to notice those who fit the stereotype. [QUOTE=Scissorjack] **VCO3** is a cunt. [/QUOTE] Who’s gonna argue with THAT? [QUOTE=r4nd0mNumb3rs] . -Dopers need to learn how to disagree politely without being snarky or condescending. [/QUOTE] But that’s what makes it FUN!!! 😛 -People who come into stores on holidays and say, “You shouldn’t be working today!” should be shot in the head. -People who smell because they don’t bathe shouldn’t be allowed to leave their homes. If they must, they should be bathed by force. -Guys with “No Fat Chicks” stickers and shirts are usually big, fat, hairy, unwashed, drunken slobs that no woman in her right mind would get within five feet of. -Starting at sixty-five, everyone should have to take an exam to be determined if said person is fit to drive. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/105 "2007-05-28T22:58:45Z")
1. I’d love to see [this face](http://i17.tinypic.com/4bi6ve1.jpg) with a broken nose. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/106 "2007-05-28T23:26:06Z")
Being habitually late is a conscious decision, and other people have every right to be annoyed by it. There is no defense. The people who are the most “interested” in books and ideas and debating are actually not the smartest people. They’re interested because they don’t know enough to form opinions and predict outcomes. This is either because they’re young, or because they’re stupid. It is a normal process of a bright person to, at some point, stop taking things in at a level of intense interest, and start pushing things out instead. London is the epicenter of human civilization. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/107 "2007-05-28T23:33:35Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Who’s gonna argue with THAT? [/QUOTE] I didn’t say it was controversial, but I am only allowed to say it in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/108 "2007-05-29T00:18:52Z")
[QUOTE=Scissorjack] I didn’t say it was controversial, but I am only allowed to say it in the Pit. [/QUOTE] Ah, right. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/109 "2007-05-29T01:06:43Z")
Hitler had the right idea, but lacked imagination. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/110 "2007-05-29T01:10:55Z")
I found the fawning admiration some people threw at **Eve** to be a bit mystifying. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/111 "2007-05-29T01:31:41Z")
Human suffering has produced great art, literature, philosophy and science. Perhaps, rather than always wishing to alleviate human suffering, we ought frankly to exploit or even increase it. (Paging Prof. Nietzsche…) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/112 "2007-05-29T01:38:01Z")
There is no inherent value in suffering. As often as it makes a big person deep, it makes a small person mean. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/113 "2007-05-29T01:44:32Z")
(You _really_ think you could only say that in the Pit?) ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/114 "2007-05-29T01:45:07Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] I found the fawning admiration some people threw at **Eve** to be a bit mystifying. [/QUOTE] I feel the same way about **Sampiro**. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/115 "2007-05-29T01:46:29Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] (You _really_ think you could only say that in the Pit?) [/QUOTE] Thread violation. Three demerits. Its a fair cop, but society is to blame… ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/116 "2007-05-29T01:50:33Z")
I believe that different populations (not directly mapped to race) have different strengths and weaknesses on average. I believe that modern science has gone out of its way to obscure this although supporting evidence seems to have picked up recently. It would be more amazing if all groups ended up exactly the same based on different environments and genetics over thousands of years. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/117 "2007-05-29T02:00:55Z")
I believe the subject of Shagnasty’s post was entirely predictable. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/118 "2007-05-29T02:02:14Z")
[QUOTE=pizzabrat] 1. I’d love to see [this face](http://i17.tinypic.com/4bi6ve1.jpg) with a broken nose. [/QUOTE] Who’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/119 "2007-05-29T02:40:46Z")
Tactical nukes and blanket bombing entire cities should be perfectly valid (and often used) solutions to geopolitical problems. Neutered pets are as good as dead. You might as well have them euthanized and save all the food expense. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674/120 "2007-05-29T04:33:10Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] I feel the same way about **Sampiro**. [/QUOTE] I dunno, it takes a special kind of talent to be both twittering and turgid at the same time. And **Scylla** should have been put out of his misery years ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-believe-that-you-could-only-say-in-the-pit/405674.md?page=7)