# 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:** 110
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2181 "2024-04-06T03:16:50Z")
Fair enough, this is not the thread for ColdBrew50. ---
**Author:** ![ColdBrew50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@ColdBrew50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdBrew50)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2182 "2024-04-06T03:17:35Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I look forward to your banning, which is inevital. The only question is, when? And why would that be? For responding in kind to idiotic posts in some random BBQ Pit thread? I have no real knowledge of the modes’ knowledge, but, I’m pretty sure we’re doing just fine here. Not a troll, not a sock, not nothing. Just an average jackass who controls his language when appropriate. And who in the fuck does that “Parallel Lines” asstard think it is? Obviously, on ignore, but when choosing to view its idiotic rantings, it seems to think it is somebody whose opinions matter. We disagree. ---
**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 6, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2183 "2024-04-06T03:19:30Z")
Prove it. ---
**Author:** ![ColdBrew50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@ColdBrew50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdBrew50)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2184 "2024-04-06T03:29:49Z")
/ [www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEstJ98TcM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEstJ98TcM) ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2185 "2024-04-06T04:00:45Z")
> [@digs](#): > > > [@TroutMan](#): > > > > There are a few people who are still instinctively responding to certain news items with a default quip. > > I’ve been suckered in so many times by “Hey, someone just posted something in the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ thread! Great, I bet there’s some breaking news!” > > Nope. > > It’s just someone resurrecting a months-old thread to say something akin to “And his hair looks like a small woodland animal, am I right? Har, har!” I agree. Sometimes there will be a large number of new posts in a thread, and I’ll open it out of interest to see what’s up, and it’s just a lengthy back-and-forth about some completely off-topic tangent. I don’t mind one or two posts that are jokes or otherwise not informative, but very long digressions are disheartening. This is almost entirely limited to the Pit, though. In other forums the mods are pretty good at controlling hijacks. > [@TroutMan](#): > > “Everything Trump touches turns to shit.” Great comments eight years ago when this was all new, repetitive filler now. Notwithstanding my prior comments, I don’t agree with this. Trump is as incompetent as he is ignorant, and has a long history of starting hare-brained schemes that inevitably collapse. So when Trump Steaks and Trump Vodka and Trump University go out of business, when yet another Trump lawyer is sanctioned or disbarred, when yet another court exposes his malfeasance, it’s not entirely a bad thing to point out how this fits a historical pattern. This is, after all, a message board, not a newswire. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2186 "2024-04-06T04:10:55Z")
Of all the posters on this board, so far I’ve had only one on ignore. Now there are two. This special recognition is awarded, in this instance, for being boundlessly arrogant, insufferably vulgar, and completely devoid of the slightest redeeming quality. Congratulations. What a piece of shit you must be in real life. I don’t mean to imply that you actually have a life, but the people unlucky enough to have to put with you do. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2187 "2024-04-06T05:52:05Z")
@discobot quote ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2188 "2024-04-06T05:52:07Z")
> 🗨 _Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible._ — Mary Bethune ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2189 "2024-04-06T06:19:45Z")
That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever read. Dumbass. ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2190 "2024-04-06T06:19:47Z")
Hi! To find out what I can do, say `@discobot display help`. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2191 "2024-04-06T06:19:58Z")
Fuck you too, buddy. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2192 "2024-04-06T06:22:19Z")
Wow… that escalated quickly. I mean, you said some things, I said some things. But all in all I think it’s good that we had our first fight, and now we can move past it and become a stronger, healthier couple. Can you ever forgive me? ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2193 "2024-04-06T06:22:20Z")
> 🔮 Signs point to yes ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2194 "2024-04-06T06:23:07Z")
You’re my angel! ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2195 "2024-04-06T06:25:29Z")
Lol! Now the pit is making me happy You know what the pit needs? More discobot ---
**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 6, 2024, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2196 "2024-04-06T06:37:12Z")
[![](https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/5293/screenshots/7385315/media/6609e6af892d5cba6622a53b07388d92.gif) ](https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/5293/screenshots/7385315/media/6609e6af892d5cba6622a53b07388d92.gif) ---
**Author:** ![ColdBrew50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@ColdBrew50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdBrew50)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2197 "2024-04-06T06:38:14Z")
No, we don’t think we need any more nerds bellying up to the bar and telling us what’s what. I think we need a good cup of that tea that some people drink when they’re having their regular meltdowns, and also a big cup of shut the fuck up. Put a beret and some hair on it, and maybe you’ll catch it this time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2G1Ht59cpM Discobot and Ben really need to get together sometime. I mean they got to got to got to got to go to Ben’s. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2198 "2024-04-06T07:01:47Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > You know what the pit needs? > More discobot No, Discobot should be banished to the lowest level of Hell. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2199 "2024-04-06T08:20:08Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > No, Discobot should be banished to the lowest level of Hell. Wouldn’t the second level be more appropriate? ---
**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 6, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2200 "2024-04-06T16:41:57Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I kindly invite you, @ColdBrew50 to get off the pile, and never return. > > I think you are more suited to a very different type of website, and you may find life there happier when you are surrounded by like-minded people. > > Here, you are just a boring bigot Yeah, this is getting really boring. Asshole’s gonna stay an asshole, without showing any signs of having the utility of one. > [@ColdBrew50](#): > > I hate you and your stupid cartoon. It is too smart for me. Aha! A moment of clarity in the murk of invective! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=111)