August August minirants!

[EmAnJ]

Yeah, I understand the issues around Keystone, but really, what choice do we have (in North America) at this point? I work for oil and gas, of course, so I'm biased.

ETA: Man I hate that term 'tar' sands. It's not TAR, for crying out loud! It's bitumen - OIL. OIL SANDS!

[LavenderBlue]

We have two flies in the living room right now. I've never wanted to squish the life out of a living creature this much before.

[Chimera]

Kill them.

Flies have no intrinsic value except as food/prey for other species. To us they are only pests and disease carriers.

[Merneith]

I was annoyed while taking a shower and shaved my arm pits way to close. Then I applied deodorant. EEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

[Silver Tyger]

Phones apparently hate me. I replaced my old dumb phone that would die whenever you made a call, with no warning, with a new smart phone. Android. Shiny. Good battery.

And now I can't make calls on it. It crashes every time I try. I am not happy.

[Cinnamon Imp]

Miniscule rant - one of my fave reads on a blogging site has removed me from her friends list, which means I can only now read her public entries, and I suspect I'm missing out on a bunch of friends-locked stuff just now, as she's gone quiet, but normally updates everyday.

I respect that she's a Real Person (tm) with real privacy issues, but it still feels like missing episodes of a TV programme and having to pick up later with no idea of what you've missed!

[EmilyG]

Ugh. I'm sick and tired of musicians with perfect pitch thinking they're superior to those of them, like me, who don't have perfect pitch.

(Perfect pitch is the ability to name any note, or to sing any note without external guidance.)

I've known many musicians with perfect pitch, and many without it, and each group is as good as the other.

What I'm really tired of is perfect-pitch musicians showing off their abilities by putting up ads for themselves as music teachers, and mentioning their perfect pitch in the ad as a "qualification", as though that automatically makes them a better teacher than a musician without perfect pitch. It DOESN'T make them more qualified as a teacher. GET OVER IT.

(And no, I'm not just jealous because I don't have perfect pitch. I'm just angry at people lording their abilities/talents/gifts/whatever over those who don't have them.)

Sorry for the rant. This just really bugs me.

[Chimera]

Originally Posted by flatlined

Missed the edit window and also posted this in the wrong place. I'm sorry.Chimera, or someone else who knows...please help me show those pics.

Are you talking about the anti-Keystone FB share I mentioned?

If so, I just found it on his page and it was linked from Platzner Post.

[Cat Whisperer]

Originally Posted by EmAnJ

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ETA: Man I hate that term 'tar' sands. It's not TAR, for crying out loud! It's bitumen - OIL. OIL SANDS!

I'm trying not to post that rant every time someone calls them tar sands (and often failing).

[Jeep's Phoenix]

I must hang out with the right people -- I've only heard the phrase "oil sands".

What the hell is it with me and car chargers for phones? There is one around here someplace for my mom's phone, but I can't find it. I have located two chargers for my old phone (in separate vehicles), and one for my old Compaq iPaq. Grr.

[flatlined]

Originally Posted by Silver Tyger

Phones apparently hate me. I replaced my old dumb phone that would die whenever you made a call, with no warning, with a new smart phone. Android. Shiny. Good battery.

And now I can't make calls on it. It crashes every time I try. I am not happy.

I used to know how to get pics from my phone to an online account so I could share them with the world. Now that my phone is smarter than me, I can't do it.

However, if both sorts of phones are having the same problem, I'm wondering about your coverage. I have dead spots in my home, which offends me because one of them is by the window in my bedroom...which has a lovely view of the cell tower.

Originally Posted by Chimera

Are you talking about the anti-Keystone FB share I mentioned?

If so, I just found it on his page and it was linked from Platzner Post.

No, but I'd probably laugh at it. I can't figure out how to get the pics of the hardcore protesters (the ones with the pillows) from my droid to a share place.

Actually, I had some wait time today and instead of reading, I started playing with my phone and I might have gotten it figured out.

[flatlined]

Oops, sorry for the double post, I forgot my rant.

Everytime I go outside at home, I get swarmed by mosquitoes. I've been watching purplehorseshoe's thread so of course I don't want to get West Nile, even though it hasn't gotten here yet. Paranoid is me!

I also don't like getting bit by those things anyhow. I hates being ichy. I am very careful to not have standing water, after the summer storms, I always walk my yard and check to be sure that everything is draining.

Last night, I remembered that Crazy Neighbor Lady has one of those above ground pools for when her grandkids visit. The grandkids rarely visit and never use the pool. When I asked her about it, because we live in the middle of the desert and have water rationing, she told me that she was willing to pay to keep it filled because it entices her grandkids to visit.

So...this morning, I drove up the last road on the mountain and looked down at our homes. CNL has a cover over her pool that is filled with greenish brown water. I just know that is where the mosquitoes are breeding. Oh great. If I say anything, she will get upset and start doing her screaming thing again. Its been so nice and quiet lately.

[chizzuk]

Originally Posted by EmilyG

Ugh. I'm sick and tired of musicians with perfect pitch thinking they're superior to those of them, like me, who don't have perfect pitch.

(Perfect pitch is the ability to name any note, or to sing any note without external guidance.)

I've known many musicians with perfect pitch, and many without it, and each group is as good as the other.

What I'm really tired of is perfect-pitch musicians showing off their abilities by putting up ads for themselves as music teachers, and mentioning their perfect pitch in the ad as a "qualification", as though that automatically makes them a better teacher than a musician without perfect pitch. It DOESN'T make them more qualified as a teacher. GET OVER IT.

(And no, I'm not just jealous because I don't have perfect pitch. I'm just angry at people lording their abilities/talents/gifts/whatever over those who don't have them.)

Sorry for the rant. This just really bugs me.

I have perfect/absolute pitch (*ducks*), and I would actually prefer a teacher who didn't have it. The flip side of this ability, at least for me: I have horrible relative pitch. It's incredibly hard for me to think in terms of intervals, or transpose anything, or imagine a piece of music without actual names of notes, and I feel like it's been a real hindrance to developing any significant understanding of music theory. Just looking at solfege gives me a headache. Don't get me wrong, being able to produce notes on command or identify what pitch the refrigerator is humming at is kind of cool, but more in a party trick kind of way. Yeah, you can identify when you're out of tune, but that doesn't mean you're any better at consistently fixing it.

[Nava]

Originally Posted by EmilyG

Ugh. I'm sick and tired of musicians with perfect pitch thinking they're superior to those of them, like me, who don't have perfect pitch.

(Perfect pitch is the ability to name any note, or to sing any note without external guidance.)

I've known many musicians with perfect pitch, and many without it, and each group is as good as the other.

What I'm really tired of is perfect-pitch musicians showing off their abilities by putting up ads for themselves as music teachers, and mentioning their perfect pitch in the ad as a "qualification", as though that automatically makes them a better teacher than a musician without perfect pitch. It DOESN'T make them more qualified as a teacher. GET OVER IT.

(And no, I'm not just jealous because I don't have perfect pitch. I'm just angry at people lording their abilities/talents/gifts/whatever over those who don't have them.)

Sorry for the rant. This just really bugs me.

My music teacher didn't, but apparently she thought she did: while she was a great teacher in many ways, once I figured out that the first note in her dictations was always supposed to be a La I wasn't sure whether to kill myself or her My dictation grades moved from 0 to 100 once I knew where to start, as her full-notes were full-notes and her halves were halves, but often when she was trying to hit a specific note she would be a full note high.

Having perfect pitch is no requirement either to be a musician or to teach music but damnit, one should know whether one has it or doesn't!

It's a bit like "native" for teaching language: it may mean your accent/pronunciation/dialect is native (depending on where you're from or where you've been living, it may simply be messy), but it doesn't necessarily make you good at explaining grammar or at teaching pronunciation.

[Cinnamon Imp]

Originally Posted by flatlined

So...this morning, I drove up the last road on the mountain and looked down at our homes. CNL has a cover over her pool that is filled with greenish brown water. I just know that is where the mosquitoes are breeding. Oh great. If I say anything, she will get upset and start doing her screaming thing again. Its been so nice and quiet lately.

When she's out, can you sneak some chlorine, or diluted bleach or something, that will kill the larvae into the pool?

(not anything that would hurt the kids, obviously, even though the chances of them wanting to swim in the greeny brown water is limited!)

Today's mini-rant, one of my friends contacted me last night to give me an update on the former husbands latest, so once again I had a night full of nightmares about him. It's completely my fault, in this case I had actually asked her to let me know something, but stupid brain not letting me have a restful night.

[Cheez_Whia]

How about Mosquito Dunks? You can just chuck one of those into the pool.

[Silver Tyger]

Originally Posted by flatlined

However, if both sorts of phones are having the same problem, I'm wondering about your coverage. I have dead spots in my home, which offends me because one of them is by the window in my bedroom...which has a lovely view of the cell tower.

No, totally different problems. The old phone was at least 15 years old and the battery was going bad. It wouldn't hold a charge. The new phone fixed itself last night while it was charging, so it's all good.

[overlyverbose]

I sit in a cube farm on the end of a row of six. So I have four people behind me, one across the aisle. For some reason, everyone behind me feels compelled to pat my cube when they walk by. I don't get this. Why are you patting my cube, dammit?? Are you making sure I'm awake? Do you not notice that I spend a good six hours a day on conference calls? I get that I have no expectation of silence working in a cube farm, but knock it the hell off!

[kaylasdad99]

Originally Posted by flatlined

Oops, sorry for the double post, I forgot my rant.

Everytime I go outside at home, I get swarmed by mosquitoes. I've been watching purplehorseshoe's thread so of course I don't want to get West Nile, even though it hasn't gotten here yet. Paranoid is me!

I also don't like getting bit by those things anyhow. I hates being ichy. I am very careful to not have standing water, after the summer storms, I always walk my yard and check to be sure that everything is draining.

Last night, I remembered that Crazy Neighbor Lady has one of those above ground pools for when her grandkids visit. The grandkids rarely visit and never use the pool. When I asked her about it, because we live in the middle of the desert and have water rationing, she told me that she was willing to pay to keep it filled because it entices her grandkids to visit.

So...this morning, I drove up the last road on the mountain and looked down at our homes. CNL has a cover over her pool that is filled with greenish brown water. I just know that is where the mosquitoes are breeding. Oh great. If I say anything, she will get upset and start doing her screaming thing again. Its been so nice and quiet lately.

Do they have vector control in your town/county? If so you could drop a dime on her anonymously.

[purplehorseshoe]

Good idea, K'sdad. Not to mention, if she doesn't have a good fence with a lockable gate, it's a drowning hazard, and there might be something in the local ordinances about that.

[Chefguy]

Fucking fuckity FUCK! Our goddamn credit card has been compromised AGAIN! This one is only two fucking weeks old and now we have to change all the goddamned accounts again. The fraud people and the issuer just have no ideas at all other than someone out there may be using a roulette program of some kind. I don't buy it. I think there's somebody with the issuing people who is selling numbers. We're very careful with our card and all the charges we've made in the past two weeks have been at places where we see the card swiped or swipe it ourselves. Online purchases are from secure servers. Cocksuckers! ::throws self on floor in a John Belushi tantrum::

[Silver Tyger]

Originally Posted by overlyverbose

I sit in a cube farm on the end of a row of six. So I have four people behind me, one across the aisle. For some reason, everyone behind me feels compelled to pat my cube when they walk by. I don't get this. Why are you patting my cube, dammit?? Are you making sure I'm awake? Do you not notice that I spend a good six hours a day on conference calls? I get that I have no expectation of silence working in a cube farm, but knock it the hell off!

I'd kill people. I'm at the end of the cubicle block and every now and then I get somebody hitting my cubicle (or stumbling and catching themselves against it). So annoying but not that bad compared to one of my old jobs, where one of the salesmen would pound on my monitor as he walked by. So glad I don't work there anymore.

[LavenderBlue]

I don't really have time to pit Magellan properly right now. I wish the asshole would actually read what I wrote instead of what he thinks I wrote.

The thread in question is here

[Chefguy]

Originally Posted by LavenderBlue

I don't really have time to pit Magellan properly right now. I wish the asshole would actually read what I wrote instead of what he thinks I wrote.

The thread in question is here

The guy is a republican shill and a putz. Ignore him.

[Chimera]

My mother and father call me this morning at work. Since they know I don't take personal calls at work and tend to be annoyed by them, they have the good sense to only call when it is an emergency.

My father got an email from me containing nothing but one sentence telling him to click on a link. His virus scanner went nuts.

Which email account was it from?
"Yours!"
Yes, and which one of my accounts was it from?
"It was from your account!"
I got that the first time. I have several email accounts. Which one was it from.
"Oh I don't know. I deleted it. But you should check all your contacts to make sure they didn't get it!"
Thanks ever so much. My contact lists vary wildly depending on the account. Would have been helpful to know which one.

Immediately changed all my passwords, checked my bank and CC balances, etc. Nothing lost, no unauthorized charges so it wasn't through my iCloud/iTunes account. Don't see anything in my sent folders anywhere.

[LavenderBlue]

Originally Posted by Chefguy

The guy is a republican shill and a putz. Ignore him.

His behavior in that thread is just obviously trolling. Jeez. If you're going to troll at least do it with some wit and style. Instead all we get is him repeating the same fucking stupid accusations and attacks on my character over and over again. He doesn't address a single one of my points. He makes up wildly idiotic claims.

His basic argument is that Ann Romney has had breast cancer and MS. Therefore any implication that her wealth helped make that path easier for her, let alone any attempt to draw any attention to the fact that her husband's policies would make life harder for her fellow cancer and MS patients so that her husband and friends can get more money is somehow not allowing her to be a human being.

Oh and it's okay for her to pretend she was ever poor or financially struggling. Because well I don't know but that's what he thinks.

I swear he almost makes Rush look sane.

Almost.

He wasn't on my radar before but if this is his style of "debating" it's a wonder he isn't pitted half a dozen times a week.

[Cheez_Whia]

Chimera, your email address was probably spoofed. I just went through this BS with my sister last week. Tell them if they receive any more of them to just hover their cursor over the address they think is yours. It will show the real sender's email address. If it ain't you, it gets deleted.

[eulalia]

Originally Posted by Chefguy

Fucking fuckity FUCK! Our goddamn credit card has been compromised AGAIN! This one is only two fucking weeks old and now we have to change all the goddamned accounts again. The fraud people and the issuer just have no ideas at all other than someone out there may be using a roulette program of some kind. I don't buy it. I think there's somebody with the issuing people who is selling numbers. We're very careful with our card and all the charges we've made in the past two weeks have been at places where we see the card swiped or swipe it ourselves. Online purchases are from secure servers. Cocksuckers! ::throws self on floor in a John Belushi tantrum::

Could one of the places you swipe have one of those number harvester doohickeys attached? Those can be hard to spot.

[Yllaria]

Originally Posted by Cinnamon Imp

When she's out, can you sneak some chlorine, or diluted bleach or something, that will kill the larvae into the pool? . . .

From the post, I don't think the larvae are in the pool. I think that the neighbor has a pool cover that sags and the shallow depression is holding water in a puddle, above the pool. If I were considering sneaking bleach into the puddle, I'd worry about the bleach degrading the cover. They're usually plastic.

That wouldn't apply to the Mosquito Dunks, or other non-corrosive products.

[Chefguy]

Originally Posted by eulalia

Could one of the places you swipe have one of those number harvester doohickeys attached? Those can be hard to spot.

We don't use ATMs, so the places we use the card are groceries, etc. where we've been going for several years. I've decided to remove my card info from Amazon, but that still leaves the auto-pay places, although none of those payments were made during this two-week period. It's infuriating.

[flatlined]

Originally Posted by Cheez_Whia

How about Mosquito Dunks? You can just chuck one of those into the pool.

I honestly didn't know about those. Thank you so much. I stopped at a hardware store on the way home and bought something that is supposed to work like those. While CNL was distracted by watching the news (I could tell because I could hear her yelling at the TV), I tossed a couple in the pool cover. Offers you a big sloppy bikerhug in gratitude.

Originally Posted by kaylasdad99

Do they have vector control in your town/county? If so you could drop a dime on her anonymously.

Originally Posted by purplehorseshoe

Good idea, K'sdad. Not to mention, if she doesn't have a good fence with a lockable gate, it's a drowning hazard, and there might be something in the local ordinances about that.

This was Bill's advice as well, but I don't want to do that. It will still turn her into a screaching CNL, and I'm enjoying watching the kids fly their kites in the street without flinching when they run by her house.

Sidetrack: I never really got to fly kites when I was a kid, but shouldn't kites have tails? When I see the boys running around and the kite crashing I seem to recall that the tail gives it stability or something.

Originally Posted by Yllaria

From the post, I don't think the larvae are in the pool. I think that the neighbor has a pool cover that sags and the shallow depression is holding water in a puddle, above the pool. If I were considering sneaking bleach into the puddle, I'd worry about the bleach degrading the cover. They're usually plastic.

That wouldn't apply to the Mosquito Dunks, or other non-corrosive products.

You are right about where the water is. Monsoon season is almost done, so the sun will dry that water up in 4 or 5 days. I tossed some stuff that is supposed to work like Mosquito Dunks in the water and expect that the problem will be gone soon.

I learn so much here, thanks everyone

Oh, wait...I'm in the Pit...I hope the dunks cause the mosquitos to die in a lot of pain!

[digs]

Originally Posted by Yllaria

From the post, I don't think the larvae are in the pool. I think that the neighbor has a pool cover that sags and the shallow depression is holding water in a puddle, above the pool. If I were considering sneaking bleach into the puddle, I'd worry about the bleach degrading the cover. They're usually plastic.

That wouldn't apply to the Mosquito Dunks, or other non-corrosive products.

We've got a neighbor who's an etymologist. She's been known to prowl the 'hood (it could be a goodly woodsy 'hood). With a spray bottle full of vegetable oil (maybe some additives), and spray any stagnant water. So maybe there's a solution that's organic and easy to apply surreptitiously.

ETA: Oh, I see you did the surreptitious deed already, flatlined! Congrats on your ninja skills.

[Chimera]

Originally Posted by Cheez_Whia

Chimera, your email address was probably spoofed. I just went through this BS with my sister last week. Tell them if they receive any more of them to just hover their cursor over the address they think is yours. It will show the real sender's email address. If it ain't you, it gets deleted.

Yeah, I got nothing and no one else has said a word. A year ago their email was hacked when they unwisely used a "public wifi" in an airport in Europe* and we all got those phony "Help we're trapped in Europe, please wire money immediately!" emails. I half suspect that they got targeted by that scammer, who had gotten ahold of their contact list.


* Don't ever use a "public wifi" in an airport. They're seldom legitimate networks. They're scam networks set up to trap your signal and read the information you pass through it. T'would be nice if the police would set up stings, but that would require hardware, software, planning and computer skills.

[kaylasdad99]

Originally Posted by digs

We've got a neighbor who's an etymologist.

See if she can find out where the word "claymore" (meaning a large-ish sword) comes from.

[digs]

Originally Posted by kaylasdad99

See if she can find out where the word "claymore" (meaning a large-ish sword) comes from.

Oh, crap. As I was typing it, I was thinking "Wouldn't it be great to have a job where your specialty was the origin and derivation of names of insects? So you could be an entymology-etymologist?"

Someone who loves words should be more ept with them... maybe in the morning, when I'm ebriated.

[The Vorlon]

Originally Posted by flatlined

Oops, sorry for the double post, I forgot my rant.

Everytime I go outside at home, I get swarmed by mosquitoes. I've been watching purplehorseshoe's thread so of course I don't want to get West Nile, even though it hasn't gotten here yet. Paranoid is me!

I also don't like getting bit by those things anyhow. I hates being ichy. I am very careful to not have standing water, after the summer storms, I always walk my yard and check to be sure that everything is draining.

Last night, I remembered that Crazy Neighbor Lady has one of those above ground pools for when her grandkids visit. The grandkids rarely visit and never use the pool. When I asked her about it, because we live in the middle of the desert and have water rationing, she told me that she was willing to pay to keep it filled because it entices her grandkids to visit.

So...this morning, I drove up the last road on the mountain and looked down at our homes. CNL has a cover over her pool that is filled with greenish brown water. I just know that is where the mosquitoes are breeding. Oh great. If I say anything, she will get upset and start doing her screaming thing again. Its been so nice and quiet lately.

flatlined, hav a word with the local board of Health, they will have a 'come to Jesus' talk with her about the swamp over her pool.

I'm at the point where the watering can for the planters on the railing is being kept indoors. About a month to the Killing frost.

[Lynn Bodoni]

People, if you have a fairly common name like "Susan Smith", and you have an Amazon Wish List, it would be immensely helpful if you included SOMETHING to distinguish you from the 274 OTHER Susan Smiths that have an Amazon Wish List. A birthday, a location, interests, a picture...SOMETHING.

Yes, I'm trying to get a birthday present for a friend, but I don't want her to know that I'm gonna get her something from Amazon until it actually arrives. It looks like I'm going to get her a bottle of amaretto, though. I KNOW that she loves that.

[pinkyvee]

Prednisone. Now that you are no longer a necessary evil in my life ... I want to tell you what a drag it was to meet you. You made me fat. You clouded my vision. You made me anxious and verbose. You lowered my immunity and got me hospitalized. You are poison. You stole two years from me and I am thrilled we never have to meet again. These past 3 months without you have been a breath of fresh air. Go to hell prednisone.

[Cheez_Whia]

flatlined- glad I could help!

[flatlined]

Originally Posted by Cheez_Whia

flatlined- glad I could help!

They worked great! Thank you so much! I've been in and out all day and I haven't gotten bit once.

I can't see over my fence, so I just tossed the cubes in the general direction of her pool until I heard them plopping in water. It rained last night (probably the last storm of the season), so the ones on the ground are probably disolved as well. CNL will never know.

My rant: Bill and I have finally found something that we totally disagree on. Bill is afraid of Steve the feral housecat and doesn't want to move Steve to Texas. I think that Bill is afraid that Steve will wait until we are sleeping to escape his safe area and sneak downstairs to eat our faces.

Feral cats don't do that. Cats don't attack people unless they are cornered and even then, they only use their claws and teeth to escape.

Bill is being a butthead. He knows that I know a lot more about wild cats then he does. He supports my rescue efforts and loves our cats. All of them but Steve. Its NOT Steve's fault that Bill has scars. Bill is the one who caused that.

Besides, Steve has been a housecat for too long to just release again. He's lost his place in the colony and his body is used to air conditioning. It just wouldn't be fair.

(yeah, yeah...I know...Bill needs to be able to sleep without fear of having his face eaten. If it comes down to that, I can give Steve to a wildlife rehab place. She has feral cats and cares for them. She's so overloaded, though. I'd hate to do that to her when Steve is such a good housecat.)

[kaylasdad99]

I don't know if there's enough lead time for this to be practical, but could you drag Bill out to the rehab to find a feral that he feels able to get along with, then trade Steve in for that one?

[Lynn Bodoni]

My rant: Bill and I have finally found something that we totally disagree on. Bill is afraid of Steve the feral housecat and doesn't want to move Steve to Texas. I think that Bill is afraid that Steve will wait until we are sleeping to escape his safe area and sneak downstairs to eat our faces.

Feral cats don't do that. Cats don't attack people unless they are cornered and even then, they only use their claws and teeth to escape.

Tell Bill that ferals don't do that, only completely domesticated cats will do that. And they don't eat faces, only brains. And then only if you don't give them tuna right before bed.

I can sort of understand Bill not wanting to take on Steve and his baggage, but rescuing ferals is part of who you are, and it's part of what makes you appealing to him. Offer to get Bill a hockey mask to sleep in.

[etv78]

Appearantly there's no statute of limitations on stupid mistakes made in college. I was suspended from college about the time my life went to hell, (for misuse of my e-mail), and to reenroll (10+ years later) I need to receive an e-mail from to Dean to set up a meeting about it.

[flatlined]

Originally Posted by kaylasdad99

I don't know if there's enough lead time for this to be practical, but could you drag Bill out to the rehab to find a feral that he feels able to get along with, then trade Steve in for that one?

I don't know if this will make much sense, my friend, but Steve is now my cat. It doesn't matter that I didn't choose it, Steve did and I don't want to piss Bast off by refusing her blessing. I do have to confess that while I'm a great short term foster person, long term fostering is how I ended up with 4 cats...one of which was supposed to be dead from FIV a couple of years ago.

Steve is a wonderful house feral. He uses his litterbox, doesn't fight with my domestic cats and uses his scratching post.

I don't want a different feral, Steve is my responsibility now.

Originally Posted by Lynn Bodoni

Tell Bill that ferals don't do that, only completely domesticated cats will do that. And they don't eat faces, only brains. And then only if you don't give them tuna right before bed.

I can sort of understand Bill not wanting to take on Steve and his baggage, but rescuing ferals is part of who you are, and it's part of what makes you appealing to him. Offer to get Bill a hockey mask to sleep in.

Cracks up Are you channeling my domestic cats? Cause treat time is the one thing that cannot be forgotten.

I'm so going to buy Bill a hockey mask for next weekend!

Bill is very supportative about my rescue work, he's just afraid of Steve. I try to remind Bill that Steve didn't do anything but try to get away...Bill just remembers seeing the back claws rip his glasses off as Steve climbed up the tower of Bill.

Not to mention that Steve caused Bill to drop his beer. That is a sin that can never be forgiven.

[AlienVessels]

Originally Posted by flatlined

Bill is very supportative about my rescue work, he's just afraid of Steve. I try to remind Bill that Steve didn't do anything but try to get away...Bill just remembers seeing the back claws rip his glasses off as Steve climbed up the tower of Bill.
.

Even good kitties can do scary things when they're frightened. A couple weeks ago one of mine startle-launched at some odd sound or another and left 3 bloody claw tracks across my throat.

There's just not enough brain in there to plan this stuff. :-)

[Cheez_Whia]

September mini-rant thread here: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=664091

[Chipacabra]

You can't reason with a man about his fears! There's nothing reasonable about it!

The only solution is to eat his face yourself, so that there's nothing left for him to be afraid of.

[Nava]

Originally Posted by Chimera

* Don't ever use a "public wifi" in an airport. They're seldom legitimate networks. They're scam networks set up to trap your signal and read the information you pass through it. T'would be nice if the police would set up stings, but that would require hardware, software, planning and computer skills.

I'd correct that to "don't ever use a 'public wifi' that's not advertised to hell and back, and even then FFS don't use it to shop". Several of Spain's airports and quite a few towns (including tiny ones) have legit free wifi networks.

[Lynn Bodoni]

Originally Posted by Chipacabra

You can't reason with a man about his fears! There's nothing reasonable about it!

The only solution is to eat his face yourself, so that there's nothing left for him to be afraid of.

Face eating (and brain eating) is really supposed to happen NEXT month.

[Yllaria]

Originally Posted by flatlined

. . . Not to mention that Steve caused Bill to drop his beer. That is a sin that can never be forgiven.

I think you have successfully identified the core of the problem.