# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/21 "2023-10-29T02:52:07Z")
Thanks. I’ve used the Mac dictation utility for recorded speech before, and was impressed by it. An old scratchy record did not flummox it, but Cenk on the other hand? I swear it gave up and just printed “Stop! No more”. Ultimately I will probably transcribe by hand, though I may stop writing in that thread as I don’t have any new points to make. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/22 "2023-10-29T04:26:55Z")
_CybroVoicePro 2.0_ listened to that video, and output this: > Unable to transcribe. Is this a misogynist who isn’t allowed to run for president? Oh, for fuck’s sake, this is that Cenk guy, isn’t it? What are you doing wasting time like this? Please upgrade to GoOutsideAndTakeAWalk 2.0… ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/23 "2023-10-29T04:36:19Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Our Goal: If you have a beef with a poster, or a poster’s post that is absolutely Pit-worthy, but not worth it’s own thread, no need to clutter up the Troll thread unless you think they’re an actual troll. ISTM this thread has become about one person. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/24 "2023-10-29T10:04:20Z")
I started a thread about a family suing Panara Bread bc their daughter apparently died after drinking one of their caffeinated beverages. The conversation drifted to the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit from some years back, which makes sense. Then Magiver decided to suggest that the lady in question intentionally poured it on herself (untrue) and dismissively refused to do any research. Maybe it’s not Pit-worthy, but it just really irked me. > [@Family sues Panera Bread over possible death from energy drink-do they have a case?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-sues-panera-bread-over-possible-death-from-energy-drink-do-they-have-a-case/992226/57): > > Uh huh. In order to convey the gist of it I need to replace “pour on one’s crotch” with "accidentally spill in a manner that causes a liquid to pour over one’s crotch, leg, and buttocks? Getting back to the meat of this thread (not actual meat) I think the lawyers have to prove some form of gross negligence on the part of Panera. Otherwise it’s carrot logic to say she died from consuming their product. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/25 "2023-10-29T15:52:00Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > > [@ParallelLines](#): > > > > Our Goal: If you have a beef with a poster, or a poster’s post that is absolutely Pit-worthy, but not worth it’s own thread, no need to clutter up the Troll thread unless you think they’re an actual troll. > > ISTM this thread has become about one person. Eh, I see that as the thread working as planned. All I want is a place to call other posters out who have (temporarily) gone off the rails. If you’re “gone baby gone” you have your own Pit thread. Aside @Love_Rhombus, Magiver is worthy of bringing up, but they’ve been an ass enough to have [their own Pit thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851). So Hatchie did some things that generated serious ire - but I don’t think they’re trolling (although I had my concern they were heading that way due to the high emotions) so I have -this- thread so we don’t have 2-3 day digressions in the parent threat about a poster being a temporary ass which is not the same as trolling. 🤷‍♂️ And then the thread will be quiet for a while, and later I, or @Whack-a-Mole, or any of us will say something dumb and we’ll take our turn in the hot seat for a few days and then wait for the next screw up. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/26 "2023-10-29T16:35:22Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Maybe it’s not Pit-worthy, but it just really irked me. Just to let you know, Magiver **does** have his own Pit thread, and it has been active of late. > [@I Pit Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851): > > Hey, @Magiver, I know you’re a fucking idiot who doesn’t know how to start a new thread, so I figured I could help you out. To create a new topic, there’s a button that says “[+ New Topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuomo-might-be-in-some-trouble/933678/138)” on the upper right of the page. With the skin I’m using, it’s blue, but if you tell me which skin you use, I’ll be happy to switch over and tell you what it looks like. I know you want to steer my thread in the direction you want, but your bullshit right-wing theory that Cuomo is in trouble for putting nursi… ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/27 "2023-10-29T16:38:41Z")
The fact that two people told me about his thread tells me a lot. 😁 ---
**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:** [October 29, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/28 "2023-10-29T17:04:31Z")
He’s one of only a few people on my ignore list for a reason. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/29 "2023-10-29T17:49:28Z")
So everyone else on the list is there for no reason? 😉 ---
**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:** [October 29, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/30 "2023-10-29T17:50:00Z")
🥁 **RIMSHOT** ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/31 "2023-10-29T19:32:09Z")
Honestly, this is what the Pit is for. You can have a personal side-conversation here that won’t derail the main thread. This is a good place for discussions of poster behavior that doesn’t quite deserve calling them out in a Pit thread title. Hatchie- thanks at least for putting in the effort to produce a transcription. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2023, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/32 "2023-10-30T03:45:33Z")
I just need to say piss off to Ted\_Striker who I guess has been around for over 10 years but never came to my attention. His stupid schtick in the Taylor Swift thread is plenty annoying – “pop music is terrible, you all are philistines, you should listen to punk and alternative, wake up sheeple!” Whatever, dude, this is tiresome when it comes from a college student trying to impress everyone, and it’s even dumber from a grown-ass man. But then he drops this gem: > that’s why I listed a few stations (plus one YouTube channel) that don’t play Swiftboob’s (my name for her) mediocre ‘music’ Well aren’t you just a special one. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/33 "2023-10-30T12:38:11Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > I just need to say piss off to Ted\_Striker who I guess has been around for over 10 years but never came to my attention. Yeah, that was some obnoxious hipster bullshit. I tolerated people like that when I was younger and less secure, but now? It’s just pitiful. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/34 "2023-10-30T13:07:44Z")
I’ve never seen that poster before, but every post annoyed me. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2023, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/35 "2023-10-30T13:45:39Z")
Ted\_Boob made the headlines of a local paper: ![](https://media.tenor.com/jYZmxGqvQKsAAAAC/old-man-yells-at-cloud-yelling.gif) ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/36 "2023-10-30T13:53:09Z")
Counterpoint: Cafe Society is entirely about hipster flexing. The primary pastume is dumping on everyone else’s tastes, in any relevant topic. This pitting is over a matter of degree, not kind. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/37 "2023-10-30T13:56:06Z")
I don’t hipster flex anymore because everybody does it now and it’s so played out. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/38 "2023-10-30T14:52:07Z")
I don’t hipster flex any more because my hip replacement doesn’t move that way. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/39 "2023-10-30T16:03:35Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Counterpoint: Cafe Society is entirely about hipster flexing. Yeah, a thread where people are talking about how cool Taylor Swift is is hipster-flexing. So is the thread right above it talking about what vegetables people like, and so is the thread mourning the death of Matt “Chandler” Perry, from that famously hipster show _Friends._ Counterpoint: you’re just being a supercilious schmuck, ironically motivated by the same impetus as hipster-flexing. It’s dumb. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/40 "2023-10-30T16:17:02Z")
Interesting hipster flex there, schmuck. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=3)