# 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:** 250
**Author:** ![natureboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@natureboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natureboy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5283 "2025-06-23T02:35:49Z")
The American media, run by Zionists and pro-Israel sympathizers, gets to see CNN journalists’ “trauma” as they have to go into a shelter to protect themselves from Iranian missiles (never mind Israel started the whole fucking war against Iran to begin with). When do these same CNN (or any other puppet US media) go into Gazan shelters (there are none) or shelters in Tehran? > **[Anderson Cooper and CNN team evacuate while on air | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/22/world/video/cnn-crew-evacuates-bomb-shelter-sirens-israel-anderson-cooper-digvid)** > > CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Clarissa Ward and Jeremy Diamond evacuate after receiving a 10-minute warning of an incoming missile in Tel Aviv, Israel. Anyone who can’t see how fucking horribly biased the US is in favor of Israel is blind. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5284 "2025-06-23T03:39:03Z")
[Moderating] Well, that’s pretty mask off, isn’t it? **natureboy** has been suspended pending a review and almost certain permanent ban by the moderation staff. [/Moderating] ---
**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:** [June 23, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5285 "2025-06-23T03:43:02Z")
Yeesh. Thanks, @Miller, for taking out the trash. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5286 "2025-06-23T09:55:20Z")
Am I a bad person for wanting to create a sock called _denaturedboy_? Yes. Yes I am. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5287 "2025-06-23T12:49:47Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Am I a bad person for wanting to create a sock called _denaturedboy_? For creating a sock, possibly. For the pun, no. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5288 "2025-06-25T21:31:25Z")
Looks like I missed some fireworks. So anyway, [Spiderman just started a thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-recourse-does-a-victim-s-family-have-if-they-dont-like-the-das-charges-plea-deal/1020031/35) which turns out to be about him being upset that a DA didn’t seek the death penalty for an 18 year old murderer. Yikes. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5289 "2025-06-26T23:11:26Z")
Why is it that in Factual Question threads, within a couple posts people start responding with opinions? The one I most recently recall is [the one asking for things which have been medically proven to speed up healing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legitimate-substance-that-really-promotes-healing/1019903). Within a few posts, people were throwing in “I wash it!” and “I like Bag Balm!” I mean, it’s easy to forget which category you’re in, but if you had even read the OP it was explicitly stated that they wanted _“scientifically proven”_ and _“legitimate peer reviewed materials”_. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5290 "2025-06-26T23:30:50Z")
oddly. I’ve gotten used to such diversions even when I ask specifics. You should dig up my post from years ago about what the biggest field was. It was a shit-show or responses. > [@USA's Largest cultivated field?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usas-largest-cultivated-field/741786): > > Illinois is great farmland. I see miles and miles of open cultivated crop land. It got me thinking. Do we know and what is the country’s largest crop field? I’ll define it as: must be cultivated as in plowed, seeded and harvested regularly, so pasture and hayfields do not qualify Defined boundaries such as fencing, ditches, rivers, roads, end or irrigation line,etc. So essentially the farmer has to stop activities in the one field, and go to the next. I would allow fields that just gradu… ---
**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:** [June 27, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5291 "2025-06-27T00:27:49Z")
FQ has lost a lot of its discipline and élan since the early days. Discourse does make it easy to browse the Dope not via the categories. That plus folks on phones w themes that hide the category once you’ve scolled past the OP make that an easy mistake to make. But yeah, it’s annoying. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5292 "2025-06-27T00:31:33Z")
Yes, i find it very hard to keep track of what category I’m in. There’s a reason i give a ton of mod notes and almost no warnings for inappropriate posts in breaking news threads. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5293 "2025-06-27T00:55:15Z")
It’d be nice if the FQs were modded more tightly. FQ is the reason many, if not most, of us joined in the first place. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5294 "2025-06-27T00:55:39Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > warnings for inappropriate posts in breaking news threads. Yeah, I’m guilty of that one! ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5295 "2025-06-27T04:26:35Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > It’d be nice if the FQs were modded more tightly. Good modding requires posters who report posts that are inappropriate for the forum. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2025, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5296 "2025-06-27T04:36:04Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > > [@needscoffee](#): > > > > It’d be nice if the FQs were modded more tightly. > > Good modding requires posters who report posts that are inappropriate for the forum Yes, I report them. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2025, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5297 "2025-06-27T05:28:23Z")
My understanding of the current attitude toward FQ posts is that the question must be factually answered - but once that has happened, if people want to shoot the breeze about the topic, it’s okay. I am guilty of random, “that reminds me of …” posts in FQ, but I don’t make them until the factual answer is plainly stated. @needscoffee: do those types of posts bother you even if they occur AFTER the factual answer has been presented? ---
**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:** [June 27, 2025, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5298 "2025-06-27T05:40:41Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > @needscoffee: do those types of posts bother you even if they occur AFTER the factual answer has been presented? The current rule is that they’re allowed after the question has been sufficiently answered, which doesn’t bother me a bit. In the thread I linked to, that wasn’t even close. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5299 "2025-06-27T12:30:12Z")
Yeah, I was genuinely interested in the question, it was a good question. Is there really any one out there that hasn’t already been given anecdotal based advice to rub bag balm or aloe vera on stuff? ---
**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:** [June 27, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5300 "2025-06-27T13:13:03Z")
Of course , that’s tons of evidence that aloe vera works. There’ve been hundreds of clinical studies, and as best as i can tell, most found aloe vera helps in healing: > **[Pharmacological Update Properties of Aloe Vera and its Major Active Constituents](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7144722/)** > > Aloe vera has been traditionally used to treat skin injuries (burns, cuts, insect bites, and eczemas) and digestive problems because its anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and wound healing properties. Research on this medicinal plant has been aimed... ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5301 "2025-06-27T13:28:59Z")
The irony of posting this here, instead of in the thread where I asked for it. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5302 "2025-06-27T15:10:08Z")
You know, when i notice that a thread is in factual questions, i usually try to avoid it. I clearly don’t agree with some here on what counts as evidence, and it’s just not worth the hassle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=249) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=251)