# 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:** 262
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5523 "2025-07-27T00:05:57Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Obsessed with times (get it?) If you look at his profile, his first name is Tim and his last name starts with Z. Timz seems to be a perfectly normal username. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2025, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5524 "2025-07-27T03:48:04Z")
You think he put his real name in his profile? Or maybe I’m not picking up on the sarcasm through the keyboard. …aurora maire ---
**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:** [July 27, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5525 "2025-07-27T12:35:36Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > You think he put his real name in his profile? We do get the occasional member that uses their full name on the board. Either as a username or will post it in threads for one reason or another. If you google that name and the word ‘time’, you’ll find other posts related to time. I’m seeing someone with that name posting about railroad timetables going back more than 20 years. I’m guessing that’s the poster’s real name. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5526 "2025-07-27T12:36:50Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’m guessing that’s the poster’s real name. And also the poster’s real topic fixation. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5527 "2025-07-27T13:36:27Z")
I see **tuckerfan** has gotten some mod love for pointlessly bumping ancient threads. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5528 "2025-07-27T13:41:37Z")
Seriously, we didn’t keep the old Zombie rule, but you should only bump old threads, especially really old threads; with something new directly pertinent to the thread or a directly related question **on topic**. Bumping 5 threads over 17 years old with nothing to add is just a pain in the ass for the Mod staff. If a new user did it, they would be treated as a troll and banned and posts cornfielded or deleted. Possibly drunk or high posting? I absolutely don’t recall him ever causing problems on the board. ---
**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 27, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5529 "2025-07-27T13:43:43Z")
I missed that, but my guess, just on general principles, is drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5530 "2025-07-27T13:45:42Z")
I’m just glad that when I am drinking I can barely find the threads that are on the front page, so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5531 "2025-07-27T17:09:26Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Bumping 5 threads over 17 years old with nothing to add is just a pain in the ass for the Mod staff. If a new user did it, they would be treated as a troll and banned and posts cornfielded or deleted. I very nearly reported one of those last night, and reconsidered, thinking, “established user, and bumping old threads isn’t against rules.” Mea culpa, I’ll flag it next time. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5532 "2025-07-27T17:22:51Z")
One in isolation is no big deal, 5 in an hour, that’s bs. Someone flagged one of them and then I saw what happened checking on the one flag. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5533 "2025-07-30T06:26:59Z")
Over in the SovCit thread, wolfpup is trying to convince us cops are perfect little angels during all encounters with the public and that you don’t have the right to refuse to answer police question (unless arrested) and moreover you shouldn’t have that right in the United States. He’s been shown he’s wrong, but that doesn’t stop him so at this point he’s just SovShitting the SovCit thread. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5534 "2025-07-30T17:59:31Z")
He’s not being nearly as big a fool in that thread as Lumpy, though. Lumpy actually seems to be at least SovCit-adjacent. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5535 "2025-07-30T18:13:28Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > But the glass bottle or can debate was said so many times it irritated me. Sorry. I skipped a bunch of posts when I mentioned the glass bottle thing so I didn’t know it had been done already. > [@Spoons](#): > > I cannot speak to his Common Core concerns, but I had a look at his triangle thread, and I was like, “What gave rise to this?” Triangles are triangles; you can learn all you need to know from watching _The Point_. Maybe a touch of the neurodivergence? My son recently off-handedly referred to our dishes as, “The plates with equilateral triangles and parallelograms.” I’ve had those plates for twenty years and never thought of describing them that way… > [@LSLGuy](#): > > There are a LOT of on-the-spectrum barely-social obsessives out there IRL. Who tend to be overrepresented in the quirkier corners of online life. That somebody like that could find us and use us to occasionally satisfy some corner of their obsession seems reasonable to me. Yes! ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5536 "2025-07-30T19:17:28Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > He’s not being nearly as big a fool in that thread as Lumpy Nah, wolfpup is just inspired by the Gestapo. You’re an asshole if you stand on your rights with police. I’m still not 100% convinced that he accepts that cops can abuse their power either. ---
**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 30, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5537 "2025-07-30T19:39:45Z")
Happy Doperversary there @Saint_Cad !! Too much drink, too much popular internet, & not enough recent IRL socializing can convert nearly anyone into a vexing closed-minded curmudgeon. Add some propaganda to the mix and you’ve got a raging MAGA on your hands. Fortunately we don’t see much of that last bit around here. But too much of the former. Sometimes even including me. 😉 ---
**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 31, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5538 "2025-07-31T16:29:58Z")
> [@Jewel Eye: Staring down the beryl (July Mini-Rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewel-eye-staring-down-the-beryl-july-mini-rants/1020332/346): > > I can’t believe there is no thread about the NYC shooter. How he drove cross country with seemingly no direct information, coaching, of funding directly to the NYC office building where the NFL had an HQ. How he had a Huge semi-automatic weapon with a can (silencer?) on the front and a huge banana mag underneath in his car, but nobody noticed as he drove through the bridge/tunnel that he took to get into the city. That it was as long as half of his body, and he did not appear to be short. Ho… Is MSH off their meds or something? This is Qanon type shit right 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:** [July 31, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5539 "2025-07-31T17:16:52Z")
It looks like standard MSH posting to me (in other words, completely deranged). ---
**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 31, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5540 "2025-07-31T19:05:10Z")
I thought MSH was lucid most of the time, I think I’ve seen their name come up before in Pit complaints but I usually see them post something sane and not something you’d yell at strangers trying to enter a subway. ---
**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 31, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5541 "2025-07-31T19:23:44Z")
He took a deep dive into “MSM are all lying all the time” land. That’s not healthy for anyone, but for somebody with underlying tendencies it’s even worse. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5542 "2025-07-31T19:43:53Z")
I checked out some threads he’s started, and they tend to start out pretty normal but quickly veer into paranoid territory. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=261) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=263)