# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6204
**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 8, 2026, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6204 "2026-01-08T12:54:42Z")
We have a new candidate for pointless self-inflicted wound. In this thread: **[Search results for ‘in:title WhiteDate after:2026-01-06 before:2026-01-07’ - Straight Dope Message Board](https://boards.straightdope.com/search?q=in%3Atitle%20whitedate%20after%3A2026-01-06%20before%3A2026-01-07%20order%3Alatest_topic)** poster **Reply** decides to come out as an angry resentful white guy. When heretofore he’d been an earnest middle of the roader and one of our younger more promising long term members. One is welcome to their opinions. One would do well to manage which of them they share with which audience. Despite my vast and personally open _oeuvre_ here, there are topics I don’t broach. This is one bell he’s going to have a hard time unringing. Oops. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532)._