# 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:** 381
**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:** [August 11, 2026, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/7991 "2026-08-11T01:17:47Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > > [@cladking](#): > > > > My father told me not to believe anything I heard and only half of what I see and this was the only advice I ever took. > > I also would like to point out that this is a very old saying. It has some wisdom to it, but it’s not meant to be taken literally. The version I heard was “Only believe half of what you hear and see. The trick is figuring out which half.” > [@cladking](#): > > I estimate odds of things being real based on the premises that reality exists and everyone makes sense Reality exists. However, lots of people don’t make sense. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2026, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/7992 "2026-08-11T01:40:52Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > I wish we were still talking about USB-C I don’t believe in USB-C, since I think ontozoologically. So I made a new model in my head. It looks like this: [![](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,width=500,quality=95/https://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/images500x500/startech_usb3sab1_usb_hi_speed_3_0_a_1366209429_961683.jpg) ](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,width=500,quality=95/https://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/images500x500/startech_usb3sab1_usb_hi_speed_3_0_a_1366209429_961683.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/7993 "2026-08-11T01:49:42Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Oh, yep the dumb way Discourse does replies gets really confusing if more than 1 conversation is happening in a thread. I did the same. I find it’s easiest to keep track of conversations when people quote the specific part of the post they’re responding to, and always, always, quote the post when you are replying immediately after a post (to get around Discourse’s refusal to consider that a reply). ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/7994 "2026-08-11T02:06:09Z")
> [@cladking](#): > > I am a Generalist, Nexialist, **Metaphysician** , and Experiential Epistemologist [Bolding mine] It never ceases to amaze how you can find all sorts of different experts on the SDMB! Now, I know you’re not _my_ metaphysician but maybe you could give me some quick basic advice so I’ll have a better idea of what to ask about when I see my personal metaphysician in a few weeks. I have these bleeding sores in the palms of my hands. My regular old profane doctor thinks the wounds are because I keep forgetting that Sierra Nevadas don’t have twist-off caps but I think it’s more likely that it’s stigmata. What do you think? ---
**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 11, 2026, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/7995 "2026-08-11T02:27:17Z")
Can we go back to talking about USB cables? ---
**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 11, 2026, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/7996 "2026-08-11T02:28:33Z")
I dunno, i was interested in the treatment of stigmata. ---
**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 11, 2026, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/7997 "2026-08-11T02:33:29Z")
Don’t be cross, but I’m holey uninterested. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2026, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/7998 "2026-08-11T02:35:20Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > i was interested in the treatment of stigmata. I think that Jake and Elwood treated Sister Mary Stigmata very poorly, though she was a mean penguin of a nun, and may have deserved it. [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMmExMjRiNDctOGMwOC00ZTU5LWI1ZGYtZjE3ZGRlZjUwODk1XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_QL75_UX388_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMmExMjRiNDctOGMwOC00ZTU5LWI1ZGYtZjE3ZGRlZjUwODk1XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_QL75_UX388_.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/7999 "2026-08-11T02:36:39Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > wish we were still talking about USB-C I saw a new one today. A cable with USB-C on one end and USB-B on the other. Makes total sense that it exists and is convenient for USB-C only laptops that need to plug into a printer. The ends of the cable did have symbols, but I intend to use it procedurally: 1. Plug B end into scanner 2. ~~go find USB-C dock~~ 3. Plug other end into laptop 4. Scan ---
**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:** [August 11, 2026, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8000 "2026-08-11T04:47:17Z")
Is there a term for someone that is an expert in a wide variety of bullshit? Like maybe “Jack Of All Crap”? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8001 "2026-08-11T05:32:19Z")
Standup Philosopher? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/V_Ck6v6c1ko/maxresdefault.jpg "History Of The World, Part One, Stand Up Philosopher. A Bullshit Artist -Mel Brookes, Bea Arthur") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Ck6v6c1ko) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8002 "2026-08-11T07:43:49Z")
It’s a Marvell that metaphysicians are never over-Donne. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8003 "2026-08-11T10:52:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Is there a term for someone that is an expert in a wide variety of bullshit? > Like maybe “Jack Of All Crap”? Hack of all trades. ---
**Author:** ![cladking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@cladking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cladking)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8004 "2026-08-11T13:18:37Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > It never ceases to amaze how you can find all sorts of different experts on the SDMB! > > Now, I know you’re not _my_ metaphysician but maybe you could give me some quick basic advice so I’ll have a better idea of what to ask about when I see my personal metaphysician in a few weeks. > > I have these bleeding sores in the palms of my hands. My regular old profane doctor thinks the wounds are because I keep forgetting that Sierra Nevadas don’t have twist-off caps but I think it’s more likely that it’s stigmata. What do you think? Fear not! It’s probably not Messiah Complex which is rare and always fatal (sometimes temporally) but it could still be messiah syndrome caused by living within a virtual monoculture. This is becoming more common as the more and more heretics are converted to the world’s fastest growing religion; “Scientism”. There are cures for the syndrome since it afflicts only individuals and there are many people now days working on an alternative to religion. Science just keeps moving forward and leaves ignorance and superstition in its wake. ---
**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 11, 2026, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8005 "2026-08-11T13:38:07Z")
> [@cladking](#): > > Science just keeps moving forward and leaves ignorance and superstition in its wake. It is taking longer than we thought. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8006 "2026-08-11T14:38:46Z")
> [@cladking](#): > > Science just keeps moving forward and leaves ignorance and superstition in its wake. Despite all your best efforts. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2026, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8007 "2026-08-12T14:24:13Z")
That is more “No Good At Anything” than “Really Good At Absolute Crap”. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8008 "2026-08-12T14:35:42Z")
Quack of all trades, master of bunk? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8009 "2026-08-12T15:45:28Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > master of bunk? I question the assertion of any kind of mastery. ---
**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 12, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8010 "2026-08-12T16:47:02Z")
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