# 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:** 39
**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:** [January 2, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/761 "2024-01-02T20:42:31Z")
I can try to get us back on topic. Our lumped friend goes full McCarthy in [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marxist-labor-theory-of-value/995430/44), first asking an idiotically loaded question and then insisting that anyone correcting him is doing so because they are Marxists. I shit you not. I was trying to think of a way to reply to him in the thread, but I realized, there’s really no point. What’s “lumpy” is the consistency of the mush inside this idiot’s braincase. Eta: apparently I simulposted with Chronos, who closed the thread. Good riddance. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/762 "2024-01-02T20:53:57Z")
For the record, I don’t think your criticism is appropriate. You should apologize… …to @ParallelLines (because this is the thread for criticizing people who _aren’t_ trolls, and yet here you’re criticizing **Lumpy** ). ---
**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:** [January 2, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/763 "2024-01-02T21:09:04Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Eta: apparently I simulposted with Chronos, who closed the thread. Good riddance. And earned that OP a warning. He’s not been much on my radar as a problem child, but that might be part of which threads I get into. Speaking in general … I certainly post too verbosely. Maybe I should change my name to **BlahBlahTiresomeBlahGuy**. But folks asking / talking about complicated ideas with one sentence OPs and one-sentence follow-on posts pretty well prove they are either too disingenuous, too stupid, or too ignorant to participate in the conversation they’ve triggered. None of those options are a good look. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/764 "2024-01-02T21:14:06Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > But folks asking / talking about complicated ideas with one sentence OPs and one-sentence follow-on posts pretty well prove they are either too disingenuous, too stupid, or too ignorant to participate in the conversation they’ve triggered. Or sometimes all three, like the poster in question. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/765 "2024-01-02T21:25:56Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > I was middle-aged before I discovered Bujold. I was old before I discovered her. Then I read everything she wrote. And got my wife to try her, and she’s done the same. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/766 "2024-01-02T23:26:43Z")
Hey, update! Cenk Uygur is still pretending to run for president! ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/767 "2024-01-02T23:29:56Z")
U mad bro? Because there’s not many faster ways to be ignored at the SDMB… ---
**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:** [January 2, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/768 "2024-01-02T23:47:12Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > I was middle-aged before I discovered Bujold. I was middle-aged by the time most of her books were published. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/769 "2024-01-03T00:01:11Z")
Sorry to say, I was in my thirties. Read two of her books, and none after. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/770 "2024-01-03T00:25:29Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Hmmm. > > Is a “dumbassery” a kind of vertical conveyor for fish in a processing factory? 🤪 You would have fit right in at either SAIL (Stanford AI Lab) or the MIT AI Lab (CSAIL). An excerpt from the standard manual of speech required by all members: > Peculiar nouns: MIT AI hackers love to take various words and add the > wrong endings to them to make nouns and verbs, often by extending a > standard rule to nonuniform cases. Examples: > porous =\> porosity > generous =\> generosity > Ergo: mysterious =\> mysteriosity > ferrous =\> ferocity > Other examples: winnitude, disgustitude, hackification. > > BOGOSITY n. The degree to which something is BOGUS (q.v.). At CMU, > bogosity is measured with a bogometer; typical use: in a seminar, > when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his > hand and say, “My bogometer just triggered.” The agreed-upon unit > of bogosity is the microLenat (uL). ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/771 "2024-01-03T15:09:16Z")
And **Lumpy** also got warned for his Marxist thread in FQ, and had it shut down. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/772 "2024-01-03T15:12:54Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > And **Lumpy** also got warned for his Marxist thread in FQ, and had it shut down I called **Lumps-for-brains** out for his McCarthyesque accusations that anyone who doesn’t froth at the mouth quite as much as he does over Communism is a “Marxist” and was told that I should take it to the Troll thread. But I disagree. @Lumpy is a long time poster and has given no indication of a lack of sincerity. In deference to his tenure, I think we should all recognize that he really _is_ that fucking stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/773 "2024-01-03T15:21:04Z")
This is the first I’ve read that thread and I’m rather saddened that it got closed because there was some interesting discussion in it (although it was more a GD thread than an FQ one). It’s rare that the OP shits up their own thread at the expense of everyone else in it (at least outside the Pit) but there you go. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/774 "2024-01-03T16:26:33Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > This is the first I’ve read that thread and I’m rather saddened that it got closed because there was some interesting discussion in it (although it was more a GD thread than an FQ one). I agree that there is an interesting conversation there, but the OP’s well was poisoned from the start. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/775 "2024-01-04T00:58:41Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > …and was told that I should take it to the Troll thread. Half in jest, I assure you. But only half. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/776 "2024-01-05T20:00:59Z")
I’m totally disgusted with the views expressed by Saint Cad (Saint my ass) in his ‘why are the FEDS shipping all these immigrants all over’ thread. I think he is gross and icky. Yep, gross and icky. And he can’t fucking get his facts straight. And Dinsdale is a judge (if I recall correctly) who doesn’t care about the legal distinctions between an immigrant or a refugee. Glad I will never have to sit before his very judgmental self. What an ugly thread. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/777 "2024-01-05T20:21:44Z")
It’s a _dumb_ gish gallop that might work on some clickbait news site. Just drop it in there that “the feds” are the ones shipping people around. (Although it seems to be working _here_ more than I would have thought.) ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/778 "2024-01-05T22:20:47Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > As for why that made them beautiful in addition to authoritative, remember whose eyes we were seeing them through. Miles always had a thing for tall women. Though standards of beauty vary a lot, there are probably some features that are nearly universally appealing - and the Haut would find those. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/779 "2024-01-05T22:57:30Z")
Ever notice that when young children start off saying “She…” without any antecedents, the referent is always Mom? I’ve been hearing this since I was a young child myself, and the “She…” is always implicitly understood. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/780 "2024-01-05T23:06:15Z")
My kid is almost four and I don’t think he even understands gender yet. He calls objects “she” all the time but I’ve seen no indication he groks the difference between girls and boys much less gendered pronouns. This is probably typical in an autistic kid of his age. So much of what informs our gender identity is what we absorb from other people’s social expectations, and he doesn’t absorb anyone’s social expectations, ever. I think that’s kind of cool in a way. A lot of autistic people are trans also, significantly higher than the general population. So a part of trans-ness might be naturally finding these gender boxes completely irrelevant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=40)