# 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:** 115
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2281 "2024-04-12T19:31:15Z")
I just didn’t find the Fallout posts to be a problem because I only saw them all together when they were originally posted. Sure, it took a while to fall off the page, but that just meant there were no new posts or replies, because it was so late. It in fact was the late night post that made me think it was going to be some spammer posting links to supposedly pirated content. ---
**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 12, 2024, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2282 "2024-04-12T19:47:34Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The only way a thread can end up in [Latest] but not also seen in [New] or [Unread] is if you dismissed it from [New], or unfollowed it from [Unread] at some time in the past. I have things adjusted so that Unread shows me threads that I’ve posted in. That’s much more useful to me than having it show me every thread I’ve ever read. I check Unread; then New; then rather less often Latest. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2283 "2024-04-12T20:55:27Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > high-powered always-on 24-7 execs have less stress than their flunkies or janitors. Yeah, because they force those “flunkies and janitors” to deal with the stress and ugliness they create, while getting paid a lot more to do so _and_ having their smug delusions of superiority polished by underlings and sycophants. The executives themselves are the source of the problem, and the system which produces executives, flunkies and janitors is designed to let the bosses skate on it. ---
**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 13, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2284 "2024-04-13T01:33:23Z")
Quite right. The stress delta is about who has control and who just has to suck it up. ---
**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 13, 2024, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2285 "2024-04-13T04:43:12Z")
> [@El\_DeLuxo](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > high-powered always-on 24-7 execs have less stress than their flunkies or janitors. > > Yeah, because they force those “flunkies and janitors” to deal with the stress and ugliness they create, while getting paid a lot more to do so _and_ having their smug delusions of superiority polished by underlings and sycophants. The executives themselves are the source of the problem, and the system which produces executives, flunkies and janitors is designed to let the bosses skate on it. I agree. For quite a few years of my career, I was doing IT consulting for large organizations. It was fascinating to experience the different organizational cultures. Senior executives of course always had control, but what fascinated me were the cultural idiosyncrasies. I won’t name names, but one organization (let’s just say affiliated with the traditional Bell monopoly) had a management culture of blatant hostility – full of infighting between internal groups and hostility both to underlings, vendors, and consultants. Another one (let’s just say a big cable company) had a culture simply characterized as cheapness and incompetence. But especially apropos to your point, another one (let’s just say a big bank) had such an incredibly entrenched formal hierarchy that even minor executives like department heads were accorded considerable sycophancy by those under them. When an actual senior executive came to visit an office or granted an audience to his underlings, wow, that was something else. Here I don’t mean a mere “vice president” – a typical big bank has thousands of them – I mean someone like a “senior executive vice president” which is code for “a real one”. When such a god-like creature appeared among the multitude, the sycophancy was just painful to watch. I half-expected some of the subjects to start bowing or prostrating themselves. What this must do to these assholes’ egos I can only imagine. As a consultant, I mostly didn’t give a shit about these rituals. My object was to get the job done and not get fired; I wasn’t angling for a promotion in this hellhole. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2286 "2024-04-13T08:21:01Z")
Exactly the same for me !! That’s why i wanted out (then i was made redundant, so out and with a big payout - _result_ !!) ---
**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 13, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2287 "2024-04-13T17:28:35Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > I just click into the board, go to one of the five forums I read in, run down the thread titles and click into the ones with the little blue number if there are new posts to what I’m following, or cursor-preview something that looks interesting; then drop down past the last thread post to new and unread to find other blue-number threads I’ve followed in that forum. Then forum-jump and repeat. That’s how I browse the board too. ---
**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 13, 2024, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2288 "2024-04-13T18:12:56Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > I’m another that uses “New” and “Unread” for my fix. I’m rather pleased that I read that as > [@](#): > > “New” and “Undead” But then again, I do like the zombie threads that surface every now and then. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2289 "2024-04-13T20:23:12Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > That’s how I browse the board too. Me, too. It’s all pretty informal. ---
**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 14, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2290 "2024-04-14T18:09:53Z")
Here’s resident rocket surgeon **Inigo\_Montoya** posting incoherently (link disabled but you can figure out how to use it): `https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10th-amendment-fever-dream/1000234` After 9 responses telling him he’s a wacko he comes back in post #11 to tell us it’s all self-evident genius and we’re whiny primadonnas. I’m out. ---
**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 14, 2024, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2291 "2024-04-14T18:14:27Z")
I blame it on drugs…Or, to be more benign, maybe a heavy fever. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2292 "2024-04-14T18:27:42Z")
You killed his thread. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2293 "2024-04-14T18:30:22Z")
And he got a Warning to boot. ---
**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 14, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2294 "2024-04-14T18:31:09Z")
Small feat if you insult the whole board. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2295 "2024-04-14T18:32:20Z")
Disappointed that the next post wasn’t the correct “prepare to die”… ---
**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 14, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2296 "2024-04-14T18:43:31Z")
Prepare to die! Although since I’m the killer, me threatening me to prepare to die lacks it’s familiar sting. ---
**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 14, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2297 "2024-04-14T19:06:11Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Disappointed that the next post wasn’t the correct “prepare to die”… Better yet, “I do not think [that amendment] means what you think it means.” Because, as the aptly named (given the thread title) **JRDelirious** noted, there doesn’t seem to be any connection between the 10th amendment and the “fever dream” scenario posed in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2298 "2024-04-14T19:15:20Z")
I want my thread back, you son of a bitch! ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2299 "2024-04-14T19:24:49Z")
That thread, I do not think it means what you think it means. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/2300 "2024-04-14T19:27:14Z")
This one-side stinker of a post almost felt like trolling to me, I had to bite my tongue due to the extreme dumbassery and limited one-side nearly antisemite bullshit. It ignores so much and we know he isn’t this ignorant, so was it trolling? > [@Why is Iran launching this attack on Israel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-iran-launching-this-attack-on-israel/1000251/28): > > Iran is retaliating because Israel attacked bombed their embassy and killed one of their generals. This was guaranteed to happen as soon as they did that. Iran has publicly stated they have no intention of any other attacks. So there is no reason whatsoever to jump to conclusions that Iran is trying to destroy Israel. You can’t think about countries as cartoon villains. We can debate if Israel was justified in their initial attack. But you can’t ignore that Israel deliberately attacked Iran’s … Many did a good job of answering such a crap post, but man oh man. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=114) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=116)