# 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:** 232
**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:** [April 27, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4920 "2025-04-27T01:04:00Z")
Letting it go is okay, too. But long detailed posts about people who have their own threads are better in those threads. I’m my not-so-humble opinion. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4921 "2025-04-27T02:43:46Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > …people who have their own threads… Ah. The ‘Ongoing Harassment’ threads. Perpetual Cyberbullying. I thought we were collectively better than that these days. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4922 "2025-04-27T03:43:10Z")
Hey, why don’t you piss off and resurrect every other pit thread for the last five years again? Then people won’t even be able to find the beck pit thread! (Oh, wait. People already can’t, apparently). ---
**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:** [April 27, 2025, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4923 "2025-04-27T03:51:43Z")
Bravo! And Remember Kids! You Can’t Spell Asshole without ASL! ---
**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:** [April 27, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4924 "2025-04-27T04:04:44Z")
Coming from anyone else, I might actually feel humbled and humiliated. But from a shitposter like you? Nah, I’m good. ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4925 "2025-04-27T07:44:12Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Could i request that posts like this, that will generate a ton of replies, be posted to Beck’s thread in the future? > > (Request made as a poster, not as a mod. Just to be clear.) For the record, I didn’t come into this thread for any other reason than to call out Czarcasm for what I thought was an unfair attack on another poster. When Beck stuck her nose into the conversation, I should have just ignored her. She really isn’t worth the time. Lesson learned. So while I appreciate your advice, it isn’t really necessary. I won’t engage in her drama anymore. I’d rather chew aluminum foil. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4926 "2025-04-27T19:46:48Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Nah, I’m good. I’m glad. Have a nice weekend! ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4927 "2025-04-28T18:58:09Z")
Average @Der_Trihs post: > [@What makes bread-and-butter economic issues relatively unappealing for Democrats?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-bread-and-butter-economic-issues-relatively-unappealing-for-democrats/1017409/101): > > First, if that was true then the Democrats would be incapable of winning a single election since the majority of their base would just vote Republican. [![](https://i.imgur.com/4AK8C5a.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/4AK8C5a.png) > [@What makes bread-and-butter economic issues relatively unappealing for Democrats?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-bread-and-butter-economic-issues-relatively-unappealing-for-democrats/1017409/101): > > And then kill the remainder. [![](https://i.imgur.com/RxA2MvZ.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/RxA2MvZ.png) ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4928 "2025-04-28T19:08:25Z")
Dude! You need a new hobby. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4929 "2025-04-28T19:17:05Z")
Just trying to lighten things up in here… ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4930 "2025-04-28T19:17:07Z")
I never understood the ‘don’t you have anything better to do’ type comments in response to someone pulling a bunch of quotes. And not just here, I see it on facebook and reddit as well. Do people not realize there’s a search function that makes pretty short work of that? The quotes you’re seeing probably took a minute or two to grab, it’s not they spent hours looking for them. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4931 "2025-04-28T19:20:16Z")
And I’m free to have my own opinion. I just figure a musician and writer who lives in southern California would have more fun and interesting things to do. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4932 "2025-04-28T19:23:04Z")
Just for fun… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ePFeq8NOTYo/hqdefault.jpg "Shut up Shuttin' up (Bugs and Thugs) Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny Rocky") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePFeq8NOTYo) ---
**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:** [April 28, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4933 "2025-04-28T19:26:11Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > I just figure a musician and writer who lives in southern California would have more fun and interesting things to do. That comment could potentially apply to **any** of us who post here regularly, but here we are. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4934 "2025-04-28T19:30:09Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > Average @Der_Trihs post: I was responding to a post that amounted to a claim that most Democratic supporters are fascist racists. _Of course_ they’d kill everyone but them given the chance, history shows that. My entire point was that they were in fact _not_ acting like fascist racists. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4935 "2025-04-28T19:32:14Z")
That may be true for some, but if I was young and in southern California, I seriously doubt I’d be here. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4936 "2025-04-28T19:58:28Z")
What a bizarre statement. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4937 "2025-04-28T20:03:40Z")
Not really. I’m sure I could find many more fun and interesting things to do than interacting with The Sphincter Police Force on a message board. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4938 "2025-04-28T20:07:57Z")
Apparently not… ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4939 "2025-04-28T20:10:11Z")
I’m not young and in southern California. Pay attention. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=231) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=233)