# 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:** 202
**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 21, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4320 "2025-03-21T00:50:48Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Funny you mention that - Israeli police has been tracking a wildlife smuggling ring that apparently got (so far) a Nile crocodile, four lion cubs, and sixteen monkeys across the border using drones. Doesn’t that sound like a military operation? ---
**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 21, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4321 "2025-03-21T01:05:54Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > On the other hand, a guy in a much more central town was the one busted with the croc, as well as an anaconda, poison dart frogs, and a bunch more reptiles he wasn’t supposed to have. I heard the anaconda didn’t want none unless it had buns. ---
**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 21, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4322 "2025-03-21T02:28:29Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > I want my silver back. I see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4323 "2025-03-23T13:53:29Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Stupid questions asked by members are irritating me. Bloody hell they’re irritating. Starts a factual thread asking some sort of gotcha question about dna in red blood cells. Gotta be a bright guy, but damn was that dim. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4324 "2025-03-23T14:41:57Z")
I’ve read that post several times and am having trouble finding out what about it is a “gotcha question” and why anybody, particularly somebody who describes themselves as phlegmatic, should be irritated about it. Maybe try staying out of FQ is you don’t like reading questions. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4325 "2025-03-24T09:32:43Z")
> [@More Jokes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/5989): > > ### Did you know Ukraine has no Walmarts? > > Only Targets. Fuck off you witless copy-paste clown. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4326 "2025-03-24T11:07:32Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > I’ve read that post several times and am having trouble finding out what about it is a “gotcha question” and why anybody, particularly somebody who describes themselves as phlegmatic, should be irritated about it. > > Maybe try staying out of FQ is you don’t like reading questions. Dumb questions deserve enlightenment. Preferably in the bbq pit. What’s your beef? Me? Piss off. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4327 "2025-03-24T12:12:07Z")
> [@chela](#): > > What’s your beef? I suppose I don’t quite get people who feel the need to, hold on, let me check my notes… > [@chela](#): > > gossip, bitch and moan about other members That. People who feel the need to do that. ---
**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 24, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4328 "2025-03-24T14:38:35Z")
They sure show themselves to be ignorant MFs. But sneeringly self-unaware ignorant MFs. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4329 "2025-03-24T14:52:37Z")
Don’t forget hypocritical! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4330 "2025-03-24T15:25:03Z")
There’s always an XKCD, [and the relevant one here](https://xkcd.com/1053/) is my all-time favorite. Making fun of people for asking questions is a deeply shitty thing to do, even if (_especially_ if) they have simple answers. Save the fire and pitchforks for trolls who use questions as smokescreen, and otherwise celebrate every opportunity to reward a curious mind. ---
**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 24, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4331 "2025-03-24T16:14:09Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > There’s always an XKCD, [and the relevant one](https://xkcd.com/1053/) It occurs to me to wonder whether he was well under 30 when he wrote that. Because I’m in my 70’s and I’m still sometimes TodayILearned. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4332 "2025-03-24T16:53:17Z")
Looks like he was 29 when he wrote it (he was born in 1983 and the comic was written in 2012). ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4333 "2025-03-27T10:37:33Z")
It must be the smoke emanating from the bbq pit that draws me in, a gateway to speaking one’s mind. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > They sure show themselves to be ignorant MFs. But sneeringly self-unaware ignorant MFs. Which Festrunk brother are you? Your musings in the mmp are giving off serious vanity project vibes. ![](https://media1.tenor.com/m/rVs3yKkKVogAAAAd/dancing-shaking.gif "Dancing Shaking GIF - Dancing Shaking Steve Martin - Discover & Share GIFs") ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4334 "2025-03-27T15:13:08Z")
How mature of you. Setting the highest example, as always. ---
**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 27, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4335 "2025-03-27T15:17:20Z")
They’re a basic fool, not worth the time. They’ll doubtless come back with some halfwit insult on me for saying this, but c’mon. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4336 "2025-03-27T17:24:44Z")
Over in a thread about AI, Darren Garrison is berating anyone who hasn’t heard of his favorite Anime studio. > [@Open AI's latest wonder: text to video with Sora](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-ais-latest-wonder-text-to-video-with-sora/997648/105): > > > [@Open AI's latest wonder: text to video with Sora](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-ais-latest-wonder-text-to-video-with-sora/997648/103): > > > > It’s very much not, not even in the same zipcode. > > I suppose. After all, they have won two of the six Best Animated Feature Oscars they have been nominated for, and been the only group ever awarded a Cannes Palme d’Or, but it is still possible for people (especially American ones) who pay extremely little attention to the film industry to have never heard of it. To their extreme loss. This is what I was originally going to say: Cool story, bro. There are lots of cool things I’m familiar with that you may not be, but I’m not about to berate you for it. But now that we’re in the Pit, I’ll also throw in a “you fucking asshole” to the end. Smugly superior pricks like you suck regardless of which hobby or interest they’re smugly superior about. The idiot insisted that not hearing of his hobby horse is like not having heard of _Disney_, which is _hilariously_ culturally disconnected. ---
**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 27, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4337 "2025-03-27T17:28:53Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Over in a thread about AI, Darren Garrison is berating anyone who hasn’t heard of his favorite Anime studio. People who drop onto a thread about someone/something famous in order to say “never heard of it” are _very_ rarely making themselves look good. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4338 "2025-03-27T17:34:02Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > People who drop onto a thread about someone/something famous in order to say “never heard of it” are _very_ rarely making themselves look good The thread wasn’t _about_ your stupid fucking Anime studio, you pretentious piece of shit. It was about AI. In fact, it was about AI Text to Video generators, so you posted in the wrong AI thread, dumbass. And here is the post that offended you so: > [@Open AI's latest wonder: text to video with Sora](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-ais-latest-wonder-text-to-video-with-sora/997648/84): > > I have no idea what Studio Ghibli is, but these pictures are pretty hillarious As anyone who isn’t a braindead idiot like yourself can tell, I wasn’t shitting on Studio Ghibli or on the pictures; I was, in fact, expressing appreciation for them. So you can get over yourself, prick. Eta: actually, that’s unfair, you’re not the one who brought up the non-video topic first. So I retract that part. But you’re still a pretentious fuckwad. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4339 "2025-03-27T17:40:12Z")
I love studio Ghibli. I would not expect most Americans to know of them, even though they may have seen one or two of their films. I watched and re watched Nausicaa Valley Of The Winds because of the over all high quality and because Nickelodeon used to show it a lot. I didn’t learn of the existence of Studio Ghibli until decades later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=201) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=203)