# What's not allowed even in the Pit? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 15, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875 "2014-01-15T15:41:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/21 "2014-01-17T21:17:56Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > So, I suppose wishing another poster had a paper cut so I could squirt lemon juice on it is forbidden. Don’t even wish for them to die of old age either. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/22 "2014-01-17T22:43:01Z")
Anything to do with quarries is (or at least should be) a capital offense…with a capital ‘D’ for ‘death’. Even in the Pit… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/23 "2014-01-17T22:50:32Z")
Setting the cat on fire. Spacing your mother-in-law…when anyone who might disapprove is watching. Farting in the airlock. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/24 "2014-01-18T00:55:53Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Threatening a poster with physical harm, wishing harm/death on another poster, saying “Fuck you” to a poster, calling them any variation using the word “fuck,” and threatening the Dope in general with legal action of any sort. Uh, apparently calling one a Fu\*\*head is allowed as poster repeatedly uses it against me on the pit. It seems that the “variation using the word” is not really part of the rules. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/25 "2014-01-18T01:10:48Z")
Adjective - yes Noun - no. Don’t ask me why. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/26 "2014-01-18T04:24:29Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > It’s, its. > [@Katriona](#): > > Your, you’re. Both fucking autocorrect in Mac. Nine times out of ten it chooses the comma. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/27 "2014-01-18T04:43:24Z")
What about calling someone “worthless and weak” and threatening to make a notation on Their Permanent Record? Or Force Choking someone? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/28 "2014-01-18T05:08:39Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Or Force Choking someone? You can’t prove that was me. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/29 "2014-01-18T18:17:10Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Or Force Choking someone? Technically, that’s junior modding. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/30 "2014-01-18T19:57:34Z")
While it isn’t explicitly in the rules, being polite and civil in the Pit might get you dissed. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/31 "2014-01-19T05:59:05Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > While it isn’t explicitly in the rules, being polite and civil in the Pit might get you dissed. Hey, if you’re polite and civil in the Pit, you deserve what you get. That’s like not sinning when you’re in Hell. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/32 "2014-01-19T11:23:07Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Wearing white after Labor Day. Labour Day is in October\*, which is in spring and the perfect time to wear white, especially because it’s followed by summer in which white is also excellent attire. \*In most of Australia ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/33 "2014-01-19T17:04:54Z")
Immanentizing the Eschaton is frowned upon. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/34 "2014-01-19T17:35:04Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Immanentizing the Eschaton is frowned upon. 🙂 Is that a new verb by the guy? Gotta look it up. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/35 "2014-01-19T18:06:09Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > Labour Day is in October\*, which is in spring and the perfect time to wear white, especially because it’s followed by summer in which white is also excellent attire. > > \*In most of Australia Posting from Australia is also against the rules. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/36 "2014-01-22T02:58:24Z")
Posting from Australia is not against the rules. Admitting that you are aware of the existence of Australia (other than as a hypothetical construct, as in this sentence), however, is. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/37 "2014-01-22T04:02:41Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Posting from Australia is also against the rules. Unless you write your posts upside down. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/38 "2014-01-22T10:47:03Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Unless you write your posts upside down. I have a pet wombat named Bluey who writes all my posts for me. I dictate them to my kangaroo butler Red from my hammock underneath two gum trees outside the local pub, and he hops them to Bluey who handles the actualisation phase of the creative process. It’s still a matter of heated debated in the philosophy department of the University of Didjabringyagrogalong as to how the writings from our Northern Hemispherical friends appears the same way up as our own literary missives. The prevailing theory is that it’s not the writings which change orientation, but rather the reader subconsciously shifts their viewpoint and perception so that all words appear the same way up regardless of where they are read. This is further strengthened by the observation that writings from the Antipodes appear the right way up even when read in America or England. However, It must be said that there is a small but influential group, led by Dr Bruce “Brucey” Bruceson, who maintain the answer is “A Wizard Did It”. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/39 "2014-01-22T14:13:24Z")
Not against the rules but God Blessing James Otto or throwing ANYTHING into a quarry is considered very bad form. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875/40 "2014-01-22T14:50:00Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Unless you write your posts upside down. Hǝld’ ʇɥǝɹǝ,s ɥoʇ suoʍ ɟɐllᴉuƃ nd ɥǝɹǝ¡ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-not-allowed-even-in-the-pit/678875.md?page=3)