# 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:** 275
**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:** [October 24, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5783 "2025-10-24T21:58:24Z")
His posts on many topics are veering deeply into wacko-land. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5784 "2025-10-24T22:07:06Z")
I’m beginning to think he doesn’t actually care when Republicans are making it harder for rape victims or abuse victims, he’s just using survivors as pawns to score political points. Because in every other context he seems to fundamentally not give a shit about us. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5785 "2025-10-24T22:14:46Z")
I think he’s… I don’t know. His statements, collectively, don’t make sense. I don’t know what he believes. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5786 "2025-10-24T22:51:38Z")
I don’t dislike Der Trihs. I don’t think he’s an asshole. I’ve had good discussions with him, and I often agree with him about a lot of things, and think he’s pretty cool for the most part. But every once in a while, he completely departs from reality altogether. That’s not an insult, because again, I like him. There are a number of people I don’t like on this board, he is absolutely not one of those people. But sometimes, it’s like he has blind spots about certain things. It’s unfortunate. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5787 "2025-10-26T17:54:28Z")
36 posts were split to a new topic: [Management consulting digression and discussion from the What were you thinking thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/management-consulting-digression-and-discussion-from-the-what-were-you-thinking-thread/1024308) ---
**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:** [October 25, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5788 "2025-10-25T00:12:03Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I don’t dislike Der Trihs. I don’t think he’s an asshole. I’ve had good discussions with him, and I often agree with him about a lot of things, and think he’s pretty cool for the most part. I’m more or less with you. I’m sure there are times he made me rage quit in the past, but I was a lot more sensitive then. Lately I’ve found a lot more common ground with him. And at this point, that idea that women are collectively terrified of men is more amusing than upsetting. I’ve heard worse, from worse people. But this is what he does. He’s always said this and always believed this and it’s never going to change. At least he’s not a Republican. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5789 "2025-10-25T00:30:39Z")
He’s had this particular blind spot for years and years. I suspect something happened in his personal life that deeply wounded him. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5790 "2025-10-25T01:09:03Z")
Not rambling at all. A good little piece of prose. You did spark a little coal of old rage of having to sit through unhelpful and condescending bullshit from some overpaid and shallow consultants years ago in my short stint in the corporate world. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5791 "2025-10-25T12:32:32Z")
A problem w extreme views is it’s hard to hold just one. Pretty soon the tension between your collection of normal views and your one extreme view pulls another view over to extremism. Lather rinse repeat unless you have a very strong grounding in IRL friends and family and coworkers. IMO **Der\_Trihs** is circling the “all extremism all the time” drain. Sad to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5792 "2025-10-25T12:34:39Z")
That’s because extremism isn’t a belief, it’s a personality trait. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5793 "2025-10-26T17:59:11Z")
Did someone just delete a post from here ? My front page says last posted 2 minutes ago… but the last post here is from yesterday ! ---
**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:** [October 26, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5794 "2025-10-26T17:59:23Z")
A lot of posts about management consulting, along with all the requests to split them off, have been moved to their own thread. > [@Management consulting digression and discussion from the What were you thinking thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/management-consulting-digression-and-discussion-from-the-what-were-you-thinking-thread/1024308): > > You may have no idea who I am but I have been a big fan of your posts for twenty something years mainly because we are so different. We both got engineering degrees and you are just a few years younger than I am. I was a hippie deadhead in college and you were one of those frat boys that I had nothing but contempt for but I hung out with a few of them. The engineering program where I went to school were mostly insufferable geeks so the social people (Greeks system, hippies, athletes) studied to… ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5795 "2025-10-26T17:59:44Z")
Ah. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5796 "2025-10-26T21:01:37Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > A lot of posts about management consulting, along with all the requests to split them off, have been moved to their own thread. Thank you. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5797 "2025-10-27T02:26:44Z")
To be fair, @What_Exit did the move. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5798 "2025-11-02T22:46:17Z")
Well, the “\*pussy popping” (\*never thought I’d ever type that) thread. That was extra. Whew! glad its gone. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5799 "2025-11-02T22:49:17Z")
I can think of several things that might mean and don’t want to think about any of them. Also glad that it’s gone. And that I missed it. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5800 "2025-11-03T01:48:32Z")
Dunno what it was, but was it the work of a regular? If not, this is the wrong thread for random trolls. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5801 "2025-11-03T01:56:45Z")
Oh, IDK. I think they were a noob. Sorry, did not realize we couldn’t say what we were thinking. I didn’t have anything to say about the poster other than the post was “extra”. Scream-y mostly. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5802 "2025-11-03T01:59:17Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Myself, please notice the lack of the word “Moderating” and the lack of color. It sounded very moddy, hence my question. Since you did it as a poster I might report it as junior modding. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=274) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=276)