# 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:** 199
**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, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4260 "2025-03-17T15:47:08Z")
Laughing till I cough. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4261 "2025-03-17T16:32:47Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@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? When I saw that post I thought of giving a tuba to Voltron and would gave tried to recreate it in AI if I didn’t already know that AI (that I’ve tried) isn’t good at Voltron. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4262 "2025-03-17T21:17:55Z")
Wtf? Oooh the hopelessly ‘woke’ crowd. Oh heavens the oppression! Harumph! ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4263 "2025-03-17T22:21:26Z")
OMG I leave this thread alone for 2 days and come back to a 150-post digression over gender-(in)sensitive group terminologys. I have just one thing to say in response: What were you (all) THINKING??!? 😁 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4264 "2025-03-18T03:01:34Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Laughing till I cough Don’t do that! You know what happens to women our age when we cough! ---
**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:** [March 18, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4265 "2025-03-18T03:24:45Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > You know what happens to women our age when we cough! You die? > **[Incurable Cough of Death - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IncurableCoughOfDeath)** > > If you have a cough, you're going to be dead before the end of the show. This is usually accompanied by nasty amounts of Blood from the Mouth which is always a bad sign, even when there's no plausible reason for it. May also involve collapsing. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4266 "2025-03-18T15:52:25Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > You know what happens to women our age when we cough! The same thing that happened when as teenagers we laughed too hard? ---
**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:** [March 18, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4267 "2025-03-18T16:20:28Z")
Happens to men of a certain age too. ---
**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 19, 2025, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4268 "2025-03-19T03:05:03Z")
This is why grocery and drug stores have certain products in the “feminine care” aisle. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4269 "2025-03-19T05:09:05Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Don’t do that! You know what happens to women our age when we cough! Just to clarify: you fart? Something that also happens when I stand up and for the first three steps I take. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4270 "2025-03-19T13:34:06Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > As am I. It’s still kinda shitty to look down on someone based on an assumption. So, it’s been five days since you took me to task for this. Then, silence. I’m curious whether you’ve reconsidered. ---
**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 19, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4271 "2025-03-19T14:25:07Z")
I assume the reference is to peeing, not farting. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4272 "2025-03-19T17:12:00Z")
When you get older, it all happens sometimes - and never trust a fart! ---
**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 19, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4273 "2025-03-19T23:24:10Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I assume the reference is to peeing, not farting. I assumed as well. I remember a coworker many years ago that I’d sometimes make laugh so hard that she’d yell at me I was going to make her pee. (Which I just took as encouragement.) ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4274 "2025-03-20T00:43:36Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I assume the reference is to peeing My wife gets together with a group of friends, all of whom are mothers, about once a month for dinner and cocktails. Conversation and laughter are always part of the occasion. All of them make sure to wear their ‘giggle pads’ before leaving the house. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4275 "2025-03-20T01:11:41Z")
Do I need to teach ya’ll how to do kegels? Get them muscle toned, Ladies. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4276 "2025-03-20T08:54:27Z")
Not sure if songsoflovetrouble is a troll or just an asshole but they appear to be offering little more than abrasiveness. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4277 "2025-03-20T12:10:57Z")
They’re giving off a little bit of a racist vibe with their “supporting the right kind of racial discrimination” strawman. But other than that, I think just curmudgeonly asshole. Well, obviously anti-trans curmudgeonly asshole, at any rate. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4278 "2025-03-20T12:31:02Z")
The way they keep being like, “So what you’re saying is” and then giving a completely bullshit summary of what folks are saying–it’s giving me real Magellan vibes. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4279 "2025-03-20T13:44:01Z")
Jerk or troll; they’re both bannable offenses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=198) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=200)