# 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:** 171
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3656 "2024-11-25T16:26:19Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > That sounds like it could be the basis for an anthology. _Trock Around the Clock_ ---
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3657 "2024-11-25T16:37:28Z")
Trock and Troll ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3658 "2024-11-25T17:17:38Z")
The Ayatollah of Trock and Trolla ---
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3659 "2024-11-25T17:19:19Z")
A Trockwork Orange ---
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3660 "2024-11-25T17:22:34Z")
The Search For Trock ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3661 "2024-11-25T17:40:14Z")
Keep on trokin’ [![](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/EgQAAOSwArZlA2XO/s-l1600.png) ](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/EgQAAOSwArZlA2XO/s-l1600.png) ---
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3662 "2024-11-25T18:01:25Z")
Troller coaster ---
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3663 "2024-11-25T18:16:52Z")
Trocksgiving ---
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3664 "2024-11-25T18:40:02Z")
> A triscuit, a trasket. > Put the trock in a casket. This taunt best performed by a chorus of darling 7yos. Over and over and over and … until ~~Mom~~ the Mods reach for the Valium _and_ the white wine mid-day. 🤪 😁 ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3665 "2024-11-25T19:22:07Z")
Modder’s Little Helper. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3666 "2024-11-26T01:29:36Z")
Stick a trock on him, he’s done. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3667 "2024-11-26T01:35:21Z")
I was assured that tactical pants were not part of the dress code for this thread. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3668 "2024-12-02T22:27:50Z")
You ever read a post and immediately think “you 100% made this up?”. Over in the “Will Joe Biden pardon Hunter” thread, someone posted that they lost a $25 bet over the pardon. And not just whether Joe would pardon Hunter, but down in the minutia of whether it would be a pardon for a specific crime or rather a broad brush pardon. I’m sure that actually, really happened! ---
**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:** [December 3, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3669 "2024-12-03T00:53:02Z")
What about it seems unlikely? People make small bets like that with friends all the time. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3670 "2024-12-03T01:01:04Z")
I must be different than most because I’ve never heard of my friends making bets on very specific things like that. Friendly bets over who’s alma mater is going to win the football game, yes. This isn’t like that. He’s using it as an excuse to make it sound like Hunter has more to hide with Burisma. More of the “Hunter’s laptop” bs. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3671 "2024-12-04T12:20:40Z")
46 posts were split to a new topic: [Fascism, hope(lessness) and Trump’s America](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascism-hope-lessness-and-trumps-america/1011150) ---
**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:** [December 3, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3674 "2024-12-03T15:53:00Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I must be different than most because I’ve never heard of my friends making bets on very specific things like that. We’ve had threads and threads on betting as distinct from gambling. Some folks consider any opinion on any topic not backed by a willingness to bet on it to be one lacking in conviction / sincerity. “Money talks; BS walks.” Other folks find the idea of betting semi-trivial sums on [whatever] to be simply juvenile bravado-wankery. I (and presumably you) fall into the latter group. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3675 "2024-12-03T15:56:47Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I (and presumably you) fall into the latter group Definitely. Also, maybe it is a regional thing? I have never seen this behavior and I’ve had a lot of friends and family, and participated in a lot of different activities over my lifetime (I’m mid-50s). ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3715 "2024-12-04T00:43:38Z")
Most times I love the free-flowing nature of discussions in the Pit. But every once in a while, we get a thread like this where people can’t take the discussion to THE GODDAMN RIGHT THREAD. You want to point out someone being stupid in a thread? Fine, do it here. But arguments about the topic in a thread… Well, there’s already a thread right there for them. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3716 "2024-12-04T00:46:50Z")
To be fair, in a thread about folks being stupid, some amount of argument from the folks named is kind of inevitable. It’s already happened several times and is one reason this thing is so long. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=170) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=172)