# 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:** 258
**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:** [July 16, 2025, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5443 "2025-07-16T01:34:19Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > It’s still not a _good_ look, but may not be _trolling_. And of course, you were careful to add an (accurate!) qualifier of “usually”. So you’re still good! I agree totally, that’s why I wasn’t saying it definitively (and didn’t bring anything up in the troll thread). ---
**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:** [July 16, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5444 "2025-07-16T01:42:46Z")
And once again we have a breakout of consensus and agreement in the Pit. Dammit. 😉 ---
**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:** [July 16, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5445 "2025-07-16T05:48:18Z")
> [@digs](#): > > CC Who is CC? Me? I’ve dropped out of that thread because I said my piece, and really have nothing to add beyond what I’ve already said. So, in order to not raise my blood pressure, I’m no longer reading it. The truth is I’m sympathetic to other viewpoints expressed there, as long as they aren’t needlessly cruel. ETA: I see that the OP of the thread is “CC.” Whoever that is. Not me, at any rate. Whew. Back to your regularly scheduled outrage, please. Nothing to see here. ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5446 "2025-07-16T06:13:07Z")
Oh, there’s always something to see here! ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5447 "2025-07-16T06:13:45Z")
Not really. I don’t know what I’m talking about. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5448 "2025-07-16T06:45:23Z")
CC was the OP of the pit thread. Not you. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2025, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5449 "2025-07-16T07:07:25Z")
I also wondered who CC was, and assumed it was an acronym. For a charter member, CC doesn’t post much, at least not in threads i follow. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2025, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5450 "2025-07-16T07:16:38Z")
They have a long posting history from what I can see. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2025, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5451 "2025-07-16T07:27:39Z")
But not in threads i read. 🤷‍♀️ ---
**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:** [July 16, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5452 "2025-07-16T14:30:31Z")
@wolfpup just can’t seem to help himself - saying he has “no interest in casting aspersions” in the same post in which he says she’s not innocent, and implies malicious motives, just for writing about her personal experiences: > [@Cancel Culture and Canceling versus consequences for actions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancel-culture-and-canceling-versus-consequences-for-actions/1020644/515): > > As I said, I don’t know Chloe Dysktra (or Chris Hardwick, either) from a hole in the ground and have no reason to “cast aspersions” against her. But I am indeed casting aspersions big-time on the whole concept of cancel culture, which it seems she was exploiting. And I think it’s disingenuous to speak of her as someone who “did nothing more than write about her version of her own experiences”. What she wrote was profoundly damaging to someone else’s reputation and career, a consequence she s… Really seems like an internet meme, almost - stubborn old dude who thinks he means well but still doesn’t realize it’s wrong to talk about women the same way he did in the 90s. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5453 "2025-07-17T03:48:12Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > And once again we have a breakout of consensus and agreement in the Pit. > > Dammit. I know, right? What were you THINKING? ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5454 "2025-07-17T05:19:52Z")
Egads Puzzle-mod, you mean you _do not_ read everyword, everyday? 😱 Shocked! Shocked, I tell you… 😀 ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5455 "2025-07-17T05:23:37Z")
Yeah, mea culpa. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5456 "2025-07-17T14:24:15Z")
Back to “What were you THINKING?”, too many posters are engaging with **MW\_Degen\_Gamblr** in the _$250 hotel incidental charge for “unauthorized” tampering with HVAC controls_ thread as if that poster were not a troll. Their shtick is too start a thread with a controversial topic and then reply with just enough aggravating ignorance to keep way too many board members engaged. It’s pure bait and hook. Don’t feed the troll and don’t let them bait you. Swim elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5457 "2025-07-17T14:50:13Z")
Yeah, I can’t believe this absolutely-totally-legit poster is managing to keep pulling people in… ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5458 "2025-07-17T14:51:38Z")
I’m not sure it’s “trolling”, narrowly defined. But despite our sorta left-leaning political culture here, for sure SDMB has a lot of tiresome old biddies / geezers of both genders full of conventional judgementalism. And his schtick is to use his (real?) rather outrageous lifestyle to poke that hornet’s nest of righteous indignation and watch the following frothing fray of hollow harrumphing. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5459 "2025-07-17T14:53:48Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Don’t feed the troll and don’t let them bait you. Swim elsewhere. Yeah, I commented on that thread before I realized what was happening and have backed off now. Pure trollery. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5460 "2025-07-17T15:01:04Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > And his schtick is to use his (real?) rather outrageous lifestyle to poke that hornet’s nest of righteous indignation and watch the following frothing fray of hollow harrumphing. This is a textbook definition of trolling. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5461 "2025-07-17T15:06:12Z")
I’d gotten well behind the tip of that thread. Good golly are folks tying themselves in knots over there. I’ve since unwatched the thread. Some train wrecks are just too stupid to watch. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5462 "2025-07-17T15:58:18Z")
The general thesis, whether it’s okay to circumvent hotel thermostats, feels like classic SDMB nitpickery to me. The problem is the packaging rather than the content, and the OP does appear to be deliberately stirring the pot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=257) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=259)