# 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:** 386
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8091 "2026-08-25T16:59:13Z")
Velocity’s umpteenth attempt to get others to bolster his bigotry. I’m surprised for once he didn’t mention trans people, though his little obsession with us always comes out sooner or later. ---
**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 25, 2026, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8092 "2026-08-25T18:34:24Z")
Hence my shotgun blast to the face as the first response to his OP. Best I could do under GD rules and while pecking at a phone. Now the Pit OTOH … Bring it! ETA: Thread just closed pending mod action. ---
**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 25, 2026, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8093 "2026-08-25T18:39:49Z")
I wasn’t answering your question. ---
**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, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8094 "2026-08-25T19:22:39Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > > [@wolfpup](#): > > > > Yet you came roaring in full of fire and brimstone > > Trust if it’s fire and brimstone from me you’ll know. That was just be being irritated with, as I said, supercilious mockery. My half-hearted apology. My impression is that wolfpup often says something nasty and then tries to laugh it off as all fun and games, and so i misread the thread. Fwiw, i thought the major thing wrong with the thread about people wanting more was that it was in FQ, and would have been fine elsewhere. The minor thing wrong was a fat-fingered typo that would have been fixed had the thread not been closed. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8095 "2026-08-25T19:30:34Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > My half-hearted apology. My impression is that wolfpup often says something nasty and then tries to laugh it off as all fun and games, and so i misread the thread. Wait a minute. You accused me of something that you railed on and on about that was something I never even said, and your apology is just “half-hearted”? Please cite something that I said that was “nasty” and then tried “to laugh it off as all fun and games”. I’m genuinely curious. If I’ve misbehaved, I’d really like to know where and when, so I can do better. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2026, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8096 "2026-08-25T19:46:24Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Velocity’s umpteenth attempt to get others to bolster his bigotry. I’m surprised for once he didn’t mention trans people, though his little obsession with us always comes out sooner or later. It really had a JAQ vibe. Like we don’t know the whole “women taking safety precautions” thing is a hot-button issue. If you want a serious discussion, maybe don’t lead with that. ---
**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, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8097 "2026-08-25T19:53:07Z")
I apologize. I overreacted to some of your posts, and shouldn’t have said that. Both your (admitted) pedantry and your sometimes overly-extreme characterizations sometimes rub me the wrong way. ---
**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 25, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8098 "2026-08-25T19:56:26Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > It really had a JAQ vibe That describes that OP (content) perfectly. Sounds innocent on the surface, but deliberately comes from a bad place going towards a worse place. The OP (poster) certainly has form on starting JAQ-ish threads. [aside] It’s a shame we use the term “OP” to mean the title and body content of a new thread’s first post, and also the person who wrote it. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2026, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8099 "2026-08-25T19:59:05Z")
Also, it’s not one thread topic but a pattern of thread topics that just have that vibe. So I’m predisposed to expect trouble. Edit: Ninja’d ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8100 "2026-08-26T00:14:32Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Yes to the first question. But go ahead and engage in the thread and others that **Uzi** pollutes, but for the sake of your blood pressure and mental health, maybe put the asshole in ignore. Yes, I can see how being consistently challenged with the truth can be hard on some people. It must be exhausting NOT trying to see a bigger picture behind one’s preconceived view of the world. > Good analysis. He also ignores the fact that the oil industry is in decline, and that a separated Alberta would be a sitting duck for almost immediate US colonization. [Not quite yet](https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/world-oil-demand-keep-growing-080457157.html) You can’t even get that simple data point correct. It must be frustrating to know you’re so right and be proven so wrong time after time? ---
**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 26, 2026, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8101 "2026-08-26T01:01:34Z")
Just a friendly reminder that it would be super cool if people don’t pull a “but somebody is wrong on the Internet” in response to that obvious bait. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8102 "2026-08-26T02:10:52Z")
My question is if this is the right thread to bring up the poster? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8103 "2026-08-26T04:01:06Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Please cite something that I said that was “nasty” and then tried “to laugh it off as all fun and games”. > > I’m genuinely curious. If I’ve misbehaved, I’d really like to know where and when, so I can do better. I mean, if you’re looking for criticism, I thought the initial snark about an elderly engineer allegedly “getting his own job title wrong” kinda showed your ass a bit. I wouldn’t rate it as strongly as “nasty”, but it came across as rather cluelessly arrogant. Seemed like you were so eager to dunk on the guy that you didn’t bother to check and find out that the phrase he used actually **was** a common job title among many engineers of his generation. And then when that was pointed out, there seemed to be no _”oh oops, well I guess the dude did know what he was talking about at least in that instance, my bad”_ concession, which would have been more magnanimous than a mere _”eh we were all just kidding around”_. Naturally, all of this is said without reference to Pit-specific behavior regulations, which you never came within a county mile of not complying with—-although of course those bars are exceedingly low. And it was a very trivial incident by any standards anyway. But you asked for examples, so. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8104 "2026-08-26T08:07:41Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Seemed like you were so eager to dunk on the guy that you didn’t bother to check and find out that the phrase he used actually **was** a common job title among many engineers of his generation. And then when that was pointed out, there seemed to be no _”oh oops, well I guess the dude did know what he was talking about at least in that instance, my bad”_ concession, which would have been more magnanimous than a mere _”eh we were all just kidding around”_. Fair enough to point out that I didn’t explicitly acknowledge that I didn’t know that it was once a legitimate job title. But I didn’t use “just kidding around” as an excuse – the discussion just spun off into an amusing linguistic tangent, as things are wont to do in the Pit. What surprises me is that @puzzlegal seems to have a preconceived notion of me as tending to be “nasty” to such an extent that she immediately misread someone insulting **me** as me being the perpetrator, and I’d like to see tangible examples of where that impression comes from. Particularly outside of the Pit, which is pretty much intended for that purpose. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8105 "2026-08-26T08:18:15Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > > Good analysis. He also ignores the fact that the oil industry is in decline, and that a separated Alberta would be a sitting duck for almost immediate US colonization. > > [Not quite yet](https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/world-oil-demand-keep-growing-080457157.html) > You can’t even get that simple data point correct. It must be frustrating to know you’re so right and be proven so wrong time after time? Do you even read your own cites? The “not quite yet” comment would seem to be a cleverly sarcastic link to a cite saying that the oil industry is absolutely booming. What it actually says is that the oil consumption of China, the world’s largest oil importer, has already peaked, and global oil consumption will peak less than three years from now, slightly later than expected. The chance that Alberta will secede from Canada is somewhat less than the chance that the moon will turn into a giant piece of green cheese tomorrow, but hypothetically if such a thing were to happen, by the time it could possibly come into effect the global oil industry would already be in rapid decline. > [@DSeid](#): > > My question is if this is the right thread to bring up the poster? **Uzi** is an established poster who constantly spouts bullshit. That’s exactly what this thread is for, though it’s not the right place to engage with him directly so I will no longer do so. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8106 "2026-08-26T08:54:58Z")
You didn’t ask if it was booming you stated it was in decline which is flatly wrong. You make a statement and can’t even admit when the facts prove you wrong. Then you have the gall to call me out. I know that the oil industry will be replaced. I also know you don’t leave trillions in the ground that could help you make the transition to something else. You just don’t like being called out on your bullshit. You’d like to be in a thread where everyone agrees with your ideas even when they are based on fantasy. Well suck it up, Sunshine. That ain’t going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8107 "2026-08-26T09:26:13Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > established poster who constantly spouts bullshit. That’s exactly what this thread is for My misunderstanding then. I thought it was for established posters who typically were just fine and had a brief bit of … what? Huh? The constant bullshit posters being more well placed in a troll thread. Well that and side discussions! ---
**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 26, 2026, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8108 "2026-08-26T10:32:32Z")
I’m with Dseid. This thread is for posters who don’t deserve their own thread in the pit. I don’t know Uzi well enough to have an opinion, but Dseid sure sounds to me like he’s suggesting Uzi ought to have his own thread, rather than being discussed here. (There’s also a trollrus thread for flash-in-the-pan likely trolls.) ---
**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 26, 2026, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8109 "2026-08-26T12:07:10Z")
Uzi is the most disingenuous poster that I’ve seen in a while. The posts in the Carney thread are 100% deflection and changing the subject. He’s as deeply in the right-wing propaganda sphere as any Canadian I’ve come across. That said, I actually brought up that thread here to put myself over here. Why was I engaging with a MAGA from Canada? What was I thinking? Why is anyone engaging with that brick wall in that Carney thread?? That thread would be a lot more informative if everyone just ignored those deluded posts. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8110 "2026-08-26T17:04:15Z")
Got it. “What were you thinking?” yourself, not the poster. Understood now. Yeah you are a typically excellent poster doing something that probably is not the best option … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=385) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=387)