# 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:** 384
**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 24, 2026, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8051 "2026-08-24T21:39:02Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Very, very strange of you. People have scoured things clean with dirt throughout history! It’s pretty effective for grease removal in particular. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2026, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8052 "2026-08-24T21:44:13Z")
You need parsley to cleanse your palate. Not " **SHITCOCK".** I’m not sure, but that’s not dirt either. If you just let it go they fade out on their own. Pfft! Palate cleanser. 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8053 "2026-08-24T21:54:12Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > SHITCOCK Not a recommended version of badminton. ---
**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 24, 2026, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8054 "2026-08-24T22:30:54Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > SHITCOCK!!! Well, _I_ got the reference, fuckwad! ---
**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 24, 2026, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8055 "2026-08-24T22:51:34Z")
Haha, it was a bit obscure and I didn’t expect **anyone** to. ---
**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 24, 2026, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8056 "2026-08-24T23:24:31Z")
I mean, for nerd culture people who have been active on the internet for decades, it isn’t really that obscure. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8057 "2026-08-25T12:28:28Z")
Is Uzi some kind of Canadian MAGA? Should I just not bother engaging in the Carney 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:** [August 25, 2026, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8058 "2026-08-25T12:38:48Z")
This guy gets it. ---
**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 25, 2026, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8059 "2026-08-25T12:48:41Z")
Yeah, that’s pretty much accurate. Far right wing isolationist. Massive partisan blinders and constantly expects Mark Carney (and Trudeau before him) to perform the impossible when it comes to negotiating with Trump. And then blames everyone except Trump when the impossible fails to materialize. He also thinks Alberta should secede from Canada and it will magically become the Saudi Arabia of North America with its gigantic oil profits. Conveniently ignoring the practical issues (such as being landlocked) and the last 100+ years of history. I’ve been following the Canadian/Carney threads in P&E for quite awhile and what he’s doing in the newest thread is typical. No I wouldn’t consider him worth engaging with. Fairly benign as far as trolls go but he’s a one trick pony and he’s not going to budge because he’s just reading from a political hymnal. Nuance seems non-existent in his world. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8060 "2026-08-25T13:00:58Z")
OK, thanks! I think Canadian MAGA is pretty close to the mark, as far as trying to break through the mental blocks go. I don’t really know enough to engage usefully in that thread anyway. To answer this thread, I don’t know what I was thinking! ---
**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 25, 2026, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8061 "2026-08-25T13:20:38Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > the Saudi Arabia of North America #nottheflexhethinksitis ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8062 "2026-08-25T13:38:03Z")
The real solution to the Alberta “problem” is split the province between Saskatchewan and British Columbia. That way, Canada won’t be able to steal from Alberta anymore, and the people there can get all those great benefits that Albertans have been denied. ---
**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 25, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8063 "2026-08-25T13:47:37Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > > [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > > > For real. “I know what the person meant, but because I feel smart when I pretend that meaning derives programmatically from etymology, I’m gonna call them a dum dum!” is peak stupid. > > The accusation of “peak stupid” against some fun and friendly banter seems deeply ironic coming from someone who just recently said: Oh hell no it isn’t. It’s mean spirited and nasty to call someone “peak stupid”. If they happen to be a close friend and you have personal understanding that you are speaking in jest, it could be okay. But to say that about a stranger on the internet is, at best, an attempt to drive them away. It’s not cute. It’s not friendly. And i really hope the poster doesn’t read all those nasty comments about them. > [@wolfpup](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > If someone tells you they’re a spine doctor, does that mean they’re made of spine? > > Good thing no one calls themselves that, then. And “spine” is a noun, not an adjective. Maybe not, but my father used to refer to himself as a liver doctor, which is the same construct. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8064 "2026-08-25T13:56:49Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Maybe not, but my father used to refer to himself as a liver doctor, which is the same construct. What was it like to be raised by an anthropomorphic liver from a prescription medicine commercial? ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8065 "2026-08-25T14:02:13Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Maybe not, but my father used to refer to himself as a liver doctor, which is the same construct. That’s because he cut to the chase after the thousandth time of someone asking him what a hepatologist is. “So you work with snakes?” “No, that’s a _herpetologist_.” 😄 (My father was a nephrologist. He told everyone—non-medical people, of course—that he was a kidney doctor.) ---
**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 25, 2026, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8066 "2026-08-25T14:04:17Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Oh hell no it isn’t. It’s mean spirited and nasty to call someone “peak stupid”. If they happen to be a close friend and you have personal understanding that you are speaking in jest, it could be okay. But to say that about a stranger on the internet is, at best, an attempt to drive them away. To be fair, it was me calling @wolfpup’s behavior “peak stupid”. He just called engineers “not the epitome of literacy” and said that the poster “even g[o]t their job title wrong” and suggested they were a robot, based on his pretending to misunderstand what they meant when they said they were an “electronic engineer.” I was mean-spirited and nasty in calling that behavior “peak stupid,” I guess, but that sort of supercilious mockery of folks for their word choices gets up my nose. I shouldn’t let it irritate me so much, probably. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8067 "2026-08-25T14:08:04Z")
@Dr.Drake just figured it out, too! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8068 "2026-08-25T14:16:01Z")
I was actually trying to figure out a way to say “who, exactly, is paying you to post shitty anti-Canada propaganda on a small American message board?” without breaking P & E rules. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8069 "2026-08-25T14:26:18Z")
Yeah, not worth getting a warning for a shitposter like that. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8070 "2026-08-25T14:29:20Z")
The word for that kind of people is “Cipayo”: Sepoy, someone who fights for the interests of the colonial power instead of his own people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=383) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=385)