# 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:** 198
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4237 "2025-03-17T01:21:14Z")
And you damn well know that is not the use of the word being talked about here. Let me know when/if your computer and/or cat feel oppressed by the word, okey dokey? ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4238 "2025-03-17T01:27:46Z")
Really? The way you’re going on about it, it seemed you wanted the evil patriarchal appellation banished from civil discourse. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4239 "2025-03-17T01:30:57Z")
This is what happens when you gear up to fight you own overblown imagination instead of real people, I guess. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4240 "2025-03-17T01:37:36Z")
So you’ve been looking in your mirror, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4241 "2025-03-17T01:39:40Z")
Aren’t _you_ the clever little child! ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4242 "2025-03-17T01:40:16Z")
Yes, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4243 "2025-03-17T01:50:34Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > > [@Superdude](#): > > > > The sound of one hand clapping. > > Lets have no humor in the pit, young person. It’s been a while since I’ve been called a young person. Am I older than you? I turned 52 last month. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4244 "2025-03-17T01:51:29Z")
I’m 64. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4245 "2025-03-17T01:54:11Z")
I’m 67, youngsters. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4246 "2025-03-17T02:00:03Z")
76, you whippersnappers. ETA: Well? Anybody gonna top that? I’ll give you a tube of Voltaran if you do. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4247 "2025-03-17T02:57:59Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I just think it’s time that “you guys” was well recognized as gender-neutral. It’s surprising to me that there doesn’t seem to be much recognition among posters in this thread that “you guys” **IS** considered gender neutral on a regional basis in the US and has been for decades. Back in the early 1990s, I had to work with a large cohort of white, wealthy women who were almost all from Texas. As a New Englander, I referred to groups of people as “you guys” with no regard to gender, which meant I often addressed groups of women as “guys.” They told me that was offensive and that I should call them “gals,” which struck me as weird and condescending. But I had to concede that they were, both literally and figuratively, coming from a different place than I was. I eventually came to embrace “y’all,” which I think is an excellent all-around term for addressing groups of people regardless of gender. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4248 "2025-03-17T02:58:00Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Just curious, anyone know what the board experience is like when all the other posters are on your ignore list? Pretty chill, actually. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4251 "2025-03-17T03:04:38Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I eventually came to embrace “y’all,” which I think is an excellent all-around term for addressing groups of people regardless of gender. I am a New Englander and a fan of y’all. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4253 "2025-03-17T05:31:27Z")
[Moderating] There were a couple posts that shared a bit too much personal information about another poster. At that poster’s request, I’ve deleted them. No warning issued to anyone, but to anyone who saw them before I hid them, please don’t discuss their content. [/Moderating] ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4254 "2025-03-17T05:41:18Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > if I, an elderly female New Englander, blurt out an exasperated “DUUUUUUUUUDE!” at my cat, or my computer, or the thing I just dropped, am I being oppressed by the patriarchy? The computer doesn’t care. Come to think of it, the cat doesn’t either. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4255 "2025-03-17T06:15:42Z")
[There is no pleasing some… uh..](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AymQiC_178) ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4256 "2025-03-17T06:41:58Z")
Oh, my goodness. Here we had a perfectly nice thread going, where we could talk smack about each other and throw each other under the bus, like civilized humans, and it just _had_ to devolve into yet another “war of the sexes” argument. > **Summary** > > I blame men. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4257 "2025-03-17T15:36:02Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > I’ll give you a tube of Voltaran if you do. Is that the robot that forms when the smaller anti-inflammatory drugs merge together? ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4258 "2025-03-17T15:38:25Z")
Nano-bots that burrow into your joints and do battle with the Arthrobots attacking them. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4259 "2025-03-17T15:44:48Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Arthrobots I won’t lie, I laughed in real life at that one. **“Arthrobots, transform!”** “Ouch!” “Ugh!” “My back!” “Sorry boss, I think I’m going to be stuck in vehicle form until I see a mechanic or a chiropractor.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=197) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=199)