# 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:** 66
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1301 "2024-02-22T04:56:10Z")
I suspect that @crowmanyclouds is referring to a pair of… factually challenged… posters that have been doing their best Hanz and Franz of victimization in their own, dedicated pit threads. One of whom finally went so damn far he convinced @Atamasama that he’s not just wrong and misled, but actively trolling. Neither of those fuckers (this is the Pit I say!) are salvageable in my opinion. (Just in case it wasn’t clear, I speak of **HoneybadgerDC** and **Sam\_Stone** , both of whom should be banned from the board long before we ever speak of doing so to Beck.) ---
**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:** [February 22, 2024, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1302 "2024-02-22T05:00:09Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > One of whom finally went so damn far he convinced @Atamasama that he’s not just wrong and misled, but actively trolling. Yeah it took me a while but that was too far for me. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1303 "2024-02-22T05:20:51Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > I can certainly see that if half the population were shamed (sorry, perhaps “encouraged”?) into refraining from careless promiscuity that there would be myriad public health benefits. So which half did you have in mind, octopus? Surnames A through M? Even just surnames N through P would probably help? I don’t care that much, to be honest, about other people’s sex lives. However, I don’t get holier than though and revert to ridiculous ad-hominem attacks when other people express their views on sexual matters. There is more than one acceptable opinion on subjects outside of online echo chambers. I do find it funny the intellectual contortions people engage in in order to, in essence, infantilize grown adults. I think the genesis of said contortions is that there is value in weaponized ostracism and by delegitimizing any and all who express disapproval of behaviors outside of a narrowly proscribed set said value is reserved for a privileged few. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1304 "2024-02-22T05:42:00Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > I don’t care that much, to be honest, about other people’s sex lives… I don’t get holier than thou… Those would be some core values associated with people who don’t slut-shame. So it seems that we’ve found some common ground. Where should we send your hexagonal membership card? ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1305 "2024-02-22T06:10:05Z")
I am not opposed to everything and anything the hive does. I actually agree with a lot that I read here. Where I strongly disagree is that I don’t think purity tests are productive. I also don’t think every Republican is literally Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1306 "2024-02-22T06:13:04Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > I also don’t think every Republican is literally Hitler. I believe Hitler protested that not all Hitlers are Republicans. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2024, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1307 "2024-02-22T06:16:27Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Where I strongly disagree is that I don’t think purity tests are productive. That’s what the hive™ is saying. Gooble gobble - one of us; we accept him - one of us. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1308 "2024-02-22T07:34:53Z")
How do the sheeple fit in a hive? Only buzzword dimbulb knows. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1309 "2024-02-22T16:38:44Z")
While I do appreciate Octo meeting us half-way as it were, I don’t want to become another season of the Octo show (although, at least recently they’ve been better about that than SS or HBDC, or those two have been so bad as to drown the flailing pseudopods out), and they’ve got a dedicated thread with lovely hot coals to roast them over if you want. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1310 "2024-02-22T22:17:00Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > And hard to classify her opinions regarding pornography as “bigotry”. I was under the impression that the problem was less the offensiveness of her opinions on that matter than the offensiveness of how they were expressed? I’ve never really taken to **Beck** ’s rambling, discursive posting style – just not my taste. But I know others do, and she’s seemed to be a good poster and an asset to the board; I’m content to let her post her “bad, bad, bad” threads and interact with whomever choses to engage her. That’s why I was a little surprised by her posts in the teacher porn thread. She really took an unexpectedly (to me) nasty, judgmental tone. When she started making up facts to support her opinion, things that she could have no knowledge of (like asserting that one teacher had a drug problem, or that the teacher was making big money off her videos and wasn’t interested in paying off her student loans), that’s where she crossed the line. In my opinion, of course. I’m not ready to write her off, and I think that she can still contribute to the board; but I do hope she’ll take some time to cool down and reflect. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2024, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1311 "2024-02-23T00:28:02Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > > > Skeevy nasty wish you had some, can’t get it, woman hating creep. > > You’ve been told a number of times how insulting it is that you keep insisiting that the only reason for men to disagree with you is that they’re horny and lonely creeps concerned with keeping the flow of porn going. And yet, you keep making that argument anyways. > > So instead of feeling bad for you, I feel that turnaround is fair play. Well, Beck’s post that you quoted was itself “turnabout” directed back at Mr. Dibble so… Fair Play. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1312 "2024-02-23T00:35:26Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > Well, Beck’s post that you quoted was itself “turnabout” directed back at Mr. Dibble so… Fair Play 1. That ignores all the times she posted that sort of crap earlier, outside the pit. WYKIYRTT. 2. I’m not the one insisting that MrDribble is a horrible person because he was better at flinging shit in a shit-flinging contest, so even if 1 wasn’t the case, I’m not sure what point you think you are making. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1313 "2024-02-25T03:42:58Z")
I find myself grateful for the existence of this thread, because there is a simple sentence that I want to put in print: aceplace57 makes me very tired. I don’t think I’m the only one. The posts don’t rise to any mod-able level that I’ve seen, mostly because they occur in MPSIMS and similar lightweight forums. If you’re going to ask what they do that is so tiring, just go read some of their posts, especially the ones in the threads that they started. The “socialite convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter” one is a good case in point. As I said above, after reading it all my energy is gone and now I’m going to go do something else. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1314 "2024-02-25T04:57:49Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > If you’re going to ask what they do that is so tiring, just go read some of their posts, He gets so close to the edge, and then backs off. But this one was extra bizarre: “Too be fair… the BAC in California is .08. Grossman barely met it. However, racing another car in a residential neighborhood and hit and run are contributing factors.” What a weird way to view it. He seems to always have a soft spot for attractive women victims or perps. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2024, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1315 "2024-02-25T05:39:08Z")
What I can never get past is how aceplace’s posts (almost) always read like they’re from a 4th grader writing a book report. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2024, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1316 "2024-02-25T12:10:17Z")
He’s an odd duck for sure. Seems to latch onto one tree and totally misunderstand the forest more often than not He also seems to not read the posts that respond to him very carefully. Or even those in the thread that aren’t responding to him but occur between his last post and his current one. **Jinx** is similar in that. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1317 "2024-02-25T18:50:53Z")
I have to respond: No repulican can “literally” be hitler. hitler was one person, so several people cannot be him. He is also dead. That also makes it impossible for anyone republican or not to “literally” be hitler. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1318 "2024-02-25T18:51:58Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > hitler was one person, so several people cannot be him. I hear there’s some fellas in Brazil who take issue with this statement. ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1319 "2024-02-25T19:04:46Z")
Ace has a pit thread. But I also understand not wanting to go through the effort. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1320 "2024-02-25T19:15:07Z")
My dislike of his posting does not rise to the level of pitting. He has a right, I suppose, to be annoying and gullible and undiscerning. As I have a right to complain without pitting, and now, thanks to this thread, a place in which to do it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=65) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=67)