# 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:** 264
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5563 "2025-08-01T15:21:50Z")
More false accusations and lies. I guess NAZI-boy class got out early. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5564 "2025-08-01T15:37:52Z")
If that’s the case, he’s been on a binge for several days now. Which is obviously possible… ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5565 "2025-08-01T15:42:25Z")
How’s your Heroin addiction going? Is the Methadone working? Has it least gotten you to stop beating your wife and raping your kids like a Republican? I’m sure you can work through it, even if the kids do have to go to therapy. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5566 "2025-08-01T15:45:34Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > If that’s the case, he’s been on a binge for several days now. Which is obviously possible… Quite. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5567 "2025-08-01T15:46:03Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > It means I don’t want posts from you. I don’t want DMs from you. I don’t want any interactions with you. Too bad. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5568 "2025-08-01T15:48:58Z")
On another message board I peruse where the participants see each other in meat space occasionally one sage commented, “You can’t make a reputation here but you can sure ruin one.” ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5569 "2025-08-01T16:52:47Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > At this point it seems clear that MSH isn’t just stupid, but seriously mentally ill, so I think people should stop taunting him. It could be a feedback loop as well. Looking back over the last 6 months (no super seekrit mod powers needed) he’s posted almost exclusively in the Pit. Before that, there was more activity elsewhere, but again, 95% Pit posting for SIX MONTHS. Not playing chicken and egg, but if all you do is rant and flame (and trust me I GET that in the current climate) you never get to calm down or drop the axe you’re grinding (with cause or without). And that just makes you more angry, more frustrated, until you Hulk out. Doesn’t even take a diagnosed mental illness, though it certainly would make it worse, as would an extended bender. Seriously, MSH, I said it a little upthread, but take a break. Go outside. Do something else. Watch cat/dog/lizard videos for a couple of days. Watch some classic movies that aren’t so political, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, Young Frankenstein, or the OG Muppet Movies, whatever moves you. Something to help you relax. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5570 "2025-08-01T16:56:46Z")
Touch grass, as the kids say. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5571 "2025-08-01T17:09:06Z")
He’s either in the middle of a breakdown or he’s fucking with you guys. Either way I don’t see why y’all\* are engaging with him. Nobody else is benefiting from it. \*Parallel’s excellent advice excluded. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5572 "2025-08-01T17:13:30Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > he’s fucking with you guys. This is my vote. This particular forum does have a documented degree of tolerance for trolling, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5573 "2025-08-01T17:52:11Z")
Holy Moly! The bigots of the board are having a grand old time in the bigoted stereotypes thread in GD. It’s a “posters with a topic ban” love-in. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5574 "2025-08-01T18:17:50Z")
Yeah, it’s the ususal “Help! I’m suppressed! You don’t tolerate my intolerance, waah waah.” And started by the appropriate user, who likes to drop bigoted turds from time to time into threads all around the board, but is too cowardly to give an example of what he actually means in the OP. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5575 "2025-08-01T19:00:03Z")
Ref @ParallelLines fine advice a few posts ago, coupled to the last couple posts’ mention of the bigot thread … Boy I’m glad I banned myself from all those sorts of threads. What I don’t see doesn’t make me angry. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5576 "2025-08-01T19:48:09Z")
I stayed away but now you all make me want to go read it, so I think I will. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5577 "2025-08-01T19:54:15Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > Holy Moly! The bigots of the board are having a grand old time in the bigoted stereotypes thread in GD. > > It’s a “posters with a topic ban” love-in. Did any of them ever answer the question, “why do you WANT to talk about that nugget of truth that isn’t usually true for members of the group?” ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5578 "2025-08-01T19:54:29Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > It could be a feedback loop as well. Looking back over the last 6 months (no super seekrit mod powers needed) he’s posted almost exclusively in the Pit. Before that, there was more activity elsewhere, but again, 95% Pit posting for SIX MONTHS. He seems to think that the pit is the _safe_ place to post? A while back he posted a long question that I don’t fully remember but was about the movie _Practical Magic_ in the pit. As a first response I asked him if he actually intended to post it in the pit (because it was a Cafe Society question) and he immediately deleted the post and changed the subject line > [@Bad Question. ( Deleted )](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-question-deleted/1009119): > > \< Deleted \> Looking at other threads he’s started in the pit, I see one is a memorial post for a dead musician. Asked why he made the post in the pit, he says he stays out of CS because nobody plays nice there. > [@RIP David Johansen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-johansen/1014991): > > RIP David Johansen. OMG… I sort-of met him. I gambled on the other side of the table from him at Foxwoods back-in-the-day. He laughed, smoked a big cigar, and he won like Crazy. When I left the table, every other table I gambled at that night I was a winner. I liked his music, I liked his acting, I respected him enough not to fan-boy him. His gift to me was Good Luck. #GoneTooSoon ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5579 "2025-08-01T19:57:45Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Did any of them ever answer the question, “why do you WANT to talk about that nugget of truth that isn’t usually true for members of the group?” They never answer these types of questions because the answers are just so obvious. They want the freedom to be unashamed bigots. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5580 "2025-08-01T20:56:12Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > Holy Moly! The bigots of the board are having a grand old time in the bigoted stereotypes thread in GD. Oh yes. I took one look at the title and the OP and knew exactly how that thread was going to go. Lots of arguing in circles and the OP dodging around questions. It’ll collect hundreds of empty posts before the mods get tired of it and lock it ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5581 "2025-08-01T21:01:37Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I stayed away but now you all make me want to go read it, so I think I will. Okay, I read it, and it was basically just tedious. I thought something salacious was in it, but no. Yeah, I get what people were saying about certain posters who tend to make bigoted comments being in agreement with the OP (heh, talk about a stereotype, IRONY) but there was so much passive-aggressiveness that it just ended up being boring. That’s why I originally wasn’t tempted to read it; discussions with a premise like the thread title tend to be like that, and I guess I should have listened to my gut. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5582 "2025-08-01T21:43:01Z")
… oh honesty. And? You hated ‘Practical Magic’? You hated David Johansen? You think they’re bigoted and racist movies/actors? You think I’m bigoted and racist for liking a movie and meeting an actor/ musician? You think David Johansen never gambled? In his lifetime I bet he met a million people both in concerts, movie sets, and yeah maybe even in casinos. You want to do the math? Lets pretend David Johansen was wealthy and successful. Lets pretend that before Mohegan Sun, Foxwoods was where New England gambled. Let’s pretend he lived in that region. Lets pretend that a wealthy and successful person who loved to gamble might play for 5-6 hours at an 8 seat table on Friday and Saturday nights weekly. It would be pocket change for him. People might stay at that table in one of the seats 3-5 hands, think the seat is cold and leave. Another might jump in for an hour if his/her hands were hot. So, 5-6 hours, Fridays/Saturdays, when in town, Winter Spring Summer Fall. Stop me when we get up to multiple thousands of different people who can make the same claim of gambling with him. You tell me how it’s so impossible that I was one of those thousands and thousands and thousands of people. You think that it’s impossible that he ever gambled at Foxwoods and at the same table when I was there? Wow. I posted a nice tribute to him, one I’m proud of. I posted it where “when the thugs attacked” I could tell them all to go Fuck Off. I didn’t post it where “when the thugs attacked” they could all skulk off for a circle-jerk on Geoff’s board without so much as a reprimand while I’d get ‘dinged’ for self defense. The ‘Usual Suspects’ never get dinged; they’re always protected. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=263) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=265)