# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 105
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2081 "2024-04-05T15:57:10Z")
Like! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2082 "2024-04-05T15:59:00Z")
And Big Lebowski references! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2083 "2024-04-05T16:05:13Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Other examples: “Every accusation is a confession.” “Everything Trump touches turns to shit.” \< puts up hand \> \< slinks away \> ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2084 "2024-04-05T16:05:17Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Other examples: “Every accusation is a confession.” “Everything Trump touches turns to shit.” Great comments eight years ago when this was all new, repetitive filler now. Agreed. The threads about Trump’s legal woes are great when they are full of news updates and informed legal analysis. When they are trite observations–or, worse, fantasies about Trump suffering in jail or whatever–they’re dumb. I wish folks would start a thread called “My fantasies about Trump suffering” and make their jokes there. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2085 "2024-04-05T16:16:02Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > There are a few people who are still instinctively responding to certain news items with a default quip. Trump slowing things down in court? “The goal is to delay.” “Delay, delay, delay.” No fucking shit. You want to comment how a particular appeal is really intended to delay with no hope of winning the appeal? Sure, that’s a useful comment. But a content-free post just mentioning that hey, in general, Trump likes to delay? Maybe rethink if you’re adding something useful to the conversation. > > Other examples: “Every accusation is a confession.” “Everything Trump touches turns to shit.” Great comments eight years ago when this was all new, repetitive filler now. Yeah, it’s tiring. I reject insinuations that this is an echo chamber. But that’s not to say that we don’t get echos now and then. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2086 "2024-04-05T16:36:24Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > There are a few people who are still instinctively responding to certain news items with a default quip. Trump slowing things down in court? “The goal is to delay.” “Delay, delay, delay.” No fucking shit. THANK you!!! Yes!!! A couple more examples: “It’s fill-in-the-blank all the way down.” “It’s Schroedinger’s fill-in-the-blank.” Just fucking don’t. It’s no longer witty. Just a waste of everyone’s time who opens the thread to read it. Namely, mine. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2087 "2024-04-05T16:42:49Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > the narrow neck would have prevented them for being used in way cited in the anecdote). Unless you were an octopus. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2088 "2024-04-05T16:46:56Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > [pithoi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pithos), which are even larger. This is what Diogenes is actually written to have lived in. Well, that makes a whole lotta more sense than an amphora for sure, although it still have been a tight squeeze. Maybe Diogenes was a skinny little guy. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2089 "2024-04-05T17:03:00Z")
> [@ColdBrew50](#): > > You’re acting like some girl who got felt up at the drive-in. Speaking of misogyny – > [@ColdBrew50](#): > > there was absolutely no need for anybody to respond to my opinion about that wad-eating sack of shit cartoonist Still telling lies based on bullshit, I see. > [@ColdBrew50](#): > > Cancel this motherfucking bullshit, with the trolling “accusations.” How’s about you stop digging? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2090 "2024-04-05T17:08:39Z")
Well this has certainly been an edifying few hours in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2091 "2024-04-05T17:14:59Z")
Someone once told me, using foul, name calling language just for funzies does not make you sound very smart. I just figured it out, they were very right. In fact, they could’ve took it further and said “it makes a person sound extremely stupid, uneducated, ill-mannered, uncultured and probably should stay home looking in the mirror, instead of in public displaying their ignorance” ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2092 "2024-04-05T17:21:53Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Someone once told me, using foul, name calling language just for funzies does not make you sound very smart. That person was a stupid fuckwit. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2093 "2024-04-05T17:21:58Z")
That sounds like something a stinky poopoo head would say. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2094 "2024-04-05T17:25:00Z")
Meh. I’m bilingual. My native tongue tends to incorporate a liberal dose of profanity. My second language involves none, and is trotted out when I don’t know the sensitivity of the person to whom I’m speaking, or when I _do_ know them and they _really_ don’t like profanity. But I tend not to artificially limit which word I reach for when trying to optimally convey a thought 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2095 "2024-04-05T17:26:29Z")
He was my Marine Drill Instructor Daddy who cursed worse than anyone on this board has ever done, that I’ve seen. And he did it in 3 languages. But he also knew when _not_ to do it. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2096 "2024-04-05T17:31:53Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > But he also knew when _not_ to do it. But this is the Pit, where it’s supposed to be done _by definition_. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2097 "2024-04-05T17:37:20Z")
Well, ok. If that the deal, that’s the deal. I still don’t like it. Can we stop with the baser mysogisnistic and homophobic name calling? People are just trying to one-up with more and more terrible ways to fling crap. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2098 "2024-04-05T17:41:13Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I still don’t like it. Then don’t come to the Pit whining about it. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Can we stop with the baser mysogisnistic and homophobic name calling? In this I concur, those are out of bounds. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2099 "2024-04-05T17:45:27Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Then don’t come to the Pit whining about it. Actually, the Pit is _exactly_ where we should complain about it. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2100 "2024-04-05T17:45:54Z")
I do not whine. I offer a better way. My take. Sorry to interfere. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=104) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=106)