# 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:** 74
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1461 "2024-02-27T17:15:17Z")
I like it. Thanks. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1462 "2024-02-27T17:41:38Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Attention Junkie was suggested By me! Suggested by ME! Everybody, _ **I** _ suggested it! ---
**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 27, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1463 "2024-02-27T18:27:22Z")
Oh the irony! 😉 ---
**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 27, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1464 "2024-02-27T18:54:20Z")
Haha, nicely done. (What is the sound of one hand clapping for itself?) ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1465 "2024-02-27T19:35:15Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > I think you mean “This is a hill on which I am willing to die!” This is a situation up with which I will not put! ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1466 "2024-02-27T19:56:16Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > I can report that, in Southern California in 1965, at least among 14 years olds, “bitchin” meaning “good” was popular slang. I was still in elementary school (which went through 8th grade) in 1965, but I can report that bitchin’ (which is surfer slang, BTW) was still going strong for years after that. My mom was shocked by it in _my_ junior high yearbook signings. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1467 "2024-02-27T23:42:22Z")
“Bitchin” here in Chicago in at least the early 90s among my cohort was pretty popular, as well. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1468 "2024-02-28T00:04:48Z")
That’s about 30 years later than here! ---
**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:** [February 28, 2024, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1469 "2024-02-28T01:19:57Z")
Can we save the word history lessons (or whatever the “word” is for that field of study) for MPSIMS? This is the fucking pit, the forum where you can say fucking a lot. ---
**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 28, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1470 "2024-02-28T01:36:15Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Can we save the word history lessons (or whatever the “word” is for that field of study) That would be “etymology” (not to be confused with entomology) ---
**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 28, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1471 "2024-02-28T01:39:02Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > That would be “etymology” (not to be confused with entomology) Every time people confuse the two it really bugs me. ---
**Author:** ![Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/section_maker_jupe/32/1424_2.png) [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Section_Maker_Jupe)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1472 "2024-02-28T01:48:36Z")
Bitchin!!! Still used in the surfing community… ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1473 "2024-02-28T02:40:36Z")
Sorry, but I need to use this thread for its intended purpose for a bit. Dinsdale–read the room, dude. Discussion of a racial slur is not the place to be flippant and cracking jokes about how people are too sensitive. And when someone explains to you that the term was used against them, you don’t make light of it. Sure, it’s fine to ask if people know what the term means, or just how offensive it is. But when literally everyone else is taking it seriously, joking around about how insignificant it is is going to make you look like a jerk. It didn’t need to get the point where a mod had to step in, and honestly, I think you’re lucky it wasn’t a full on Warning. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1474 "2024-02-28T02:41:18Z")
Wicked cool! I thought we should honor both coasts. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1475 "2024-02-28T03:05:03Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > and honestly, I think you’re lucky it wasn’t a full on Warning. It should have been. ---
**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 28, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1476 "2024-02-28T03:25:58Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Dinsdale–read the room, dude. Discussion of a racial slur is not the place to be flippant and cracking jokes about how people are too sensitive. And when someone explains to you that the term was used against them, you don’t make light of it. Holy crap, that was easily the shittiest thing he’s ever posted, and that’s saying _a lot_. Isn’t there a pit thread on him somewhere? ---
**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 28, 2024, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1477 "2024-02-28T03:30:36Z")
Since we have a clean thread title, might we have a link to the offending Dinsdale Post? If not, just the thread name and/or broken link would be nice. ---
**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 28, 2024, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1478 "2024-02-28T03:37:20Z")
Here you go: [https :///boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-mary-poppins-has-had-its-uk-rating-raised-over-discriminatory-language/998160/37](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-mary-poppins-has-had-its-uk-rating-raised-over-discriminatory-language/998160/37) You have to read Mr Dibble’s post that he’s responding to. ---
**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 28, 2024, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1479 "2024-02-28T03:48:35Z")
Well, that was sickly smug. And he quite literally (Snicker) ASKED for it. That went past flippant and most likely into jerkish IMHO, absolutely worthy of this thread’s intended purpose. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1480 "2024-02-28T07:06:42Z")
Eh, it’s Dinsdale, he’s always been troll-ish. That whole thread is ridiculous to me, anyway. All the “I’ve never even heard the word before”, as if that fucking mattered in the slightest to whether it’s a slur. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=73) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=75)