# 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:** 286
**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:** [December 15, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6003 "2025-12-15T23:55:28Z")
SavageCabbage made a very bad smell. Miller cleaned it up. Eeeek! ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6004 "2025-12-16T00:09:59Z")
Was that a newbie troll now banned / cornfielded? If so this ain’t the thread for that. Try over here: > [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518): > > I don’t have any trolls to report but we’ve completely lost our last troll thread, so I’m hoping we can start again with a new one while the old one devolves into the same group of people bickering. If you see any actual trolling going on, this is where to discuss it. ETA: Found it: **[SDMB Search](https://boards.straightdope.com/search?context=topic&context_id=950518&q=%40savagecabbage%20order%3Alatest&skip_context=true)**. Generic drive by asshole not yet banned. ETA2: I posted there giving you credit for the point-out. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6005 "2025-12-16T00:23:55Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Generic drive by asshole not yet banned. They were banned quite a while ago. When I first checked hours ago they were banned. Remember, you have to click on their profile to see it. The profile has said “this user is suspended” for (I believe) 4 hours now. Though you’re right, this thread is definitely not for one-and-done banned trolls. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6006 "2025-12-16T00:43:30Z")
Thanks. I’d forgotten that Discourse uses “suspended” as the status we call “Banned” from Ye Darke Ageees of Ye Olden vBullitine. I’d mistakenly interpreted that as “in timeout pending a modloop decision” D’oh! 🤦‍♂️ ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6007 "2025-12-16T00:49:31Z")
D’oh. Me too. Thx for that @LSLGuy . But someone is featured greatly in that thread, (I read it)that we’ve come to know. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6008 "2025-12-16T00:54:23Z")
Hmm. It’s ancient of course but now I’ll have to read it. Thanks. I think. 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6009 "2025-12-16T00:58:45Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’d mistakenly interpreted that as “in timeout pending a modloop decision” It can mean either. A user can be suspended for an hour or forever. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6010 "2025-12-16T01:08:00Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > But someone is featured greatly in that thread, (I read it)that we’ve come to know. Pretty sure that someone has their own thread in the pit, and doesn’t belong in this one, either. 😉 (Maybe multiple pit threads.) ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6011 "2025-12-16T01:50:08Z")
Ahh..okay. I’ll remember that. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6012 "2025-12-16T01:57:08Z")
That one from 2003 was kinda a who’s who of problem children right from the git-go. Coincidentally, that thread was started very close to when I joined SDMB. And I missed it way back when. Quite the blast from the past of long gone major problem children, still here minor problem children, and good posters, both current and historical. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6013 "2025-12-16T02:11:17Z")
This is why I like old threads. I never know many of the Dopers but I think some were really funny and clever and clearly the baddies. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6014 "2025-12-16T02:38:38Z")
We were far more interesting in Ye Olden Tymes. Far more off-putting too. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6015 "2025-12-16T10:55:12Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > ETA: Found it: **[SDMB Search](https://boards.straightdope.com/search?context=topic&context_id=950518&q=%40savagecabbage%20order%3Alatest&skip_context=true)**. Generic drive by asshole not yet banned. There is a certain elegance to @Miller response, I must say. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6016 "2025-12-16T18:07:28Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I still want to know (to some degree) what makes HMS tick, to drive him to such extremes on a relatively banal topic. Even after apologizing to me in that thread, he’s back at it today. He’s posted in that thread 14 times, and nearly all of those amount to telling other posters “I disagree with you, and you are wrong.” He seems to feel compelled to reply to every post in which someone indicates that they don’t like that phrase, to tell them that their reasoning is flawed. I guess he’s found a new hobby. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6017 "2025-12-16T18:53:22Z")
Makes me wonder whether his Mom is one of those lovely black church ladies he always hears that uses “Have a blessed day” everywhere all the time. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6018 "2025-12-16T18:54:41Z")
What’s weird is that “have a blessed day” makes me think Pagan/Wiccan. It doesn’t sound like anything I’ve ever heard from a Christian. (And I am a Christian, though I don’t participate in organized worship or anything.) ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6019 "2025-12-16T19:01:23Z")
Now, if some skeevy looking guy tells you “Be sweet”. Run. Fast ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6020 "2025-12-16T19:26:35Z")
Well, as they say Sunday is the most segregated day of the week. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6021 "2025-12-16T19:57:35Z")
I heard it when living in Maryland, Nevada, and Georgia, and although I never asked, I have little doubt the speakers would have self-identified as Christian. I haven’t heard it a much here in Massachusetts. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6022 "2025-12-16T20:49:36Z")
I live in Massachusetts and work for a company that has offices all over the country. To me this is definitely a Southern thing. We have a big office about 60 miles from Atlanta and another in Louisiana. I hear it a lot from those folks. They are very, very churchy people and very, very MAGA and cannot seem to distinguish between “good” and “religious and patriotic”. Bible verses in email signatures, meetings that start with a “moment of reflection”, etc. And “godless” being a common insult directed at us Washington/New York/New England folks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=285) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=287)