# Beck, you poor dumb thing. (Bad, bad, bad taste in my mouth) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275 "2020-05-22T02:24:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/21 "2020-05-23T03:26:54Z")
Oh no!! That’s scary. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/22 "2020-05-24T14:42:39Z")
My tongue is not glittery any more. The Grandwrex got a big charge outta looking at it. So…that was fun, kinda. New mishap: Running up and down the stairs, for various reasons is a daily occurrence. I was going up and caught my left pinkie toe on a edge of the carpeted tread. Ouch! Broken pinkie toe. Serious pain. Family in an uproar. Everyone has opinions.:dubious: No one is gonna touch it. I got tape and taped it to its neighbor and instant relief. I’ll live. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/23 "2020-05-24T19:21:42Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I don’t know, **~VOW** , I may have just invented something. A thing all the hipster Mommies are gonna want. > > _Glittery diaper rash paste_. > > This is gonna make a gazillion bucks. > Yep, ol’Beck might pull off a money making scheme yet! Hey, let me know if you put up a kickstarter. I’ll be there. It’s probably got to be organic, gluten free glitter though. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/24 "2020-05-24T19:48:14Z")
Scold! Scold! Scold! Barefoot again! _clobbers **Beck** on the back of the head with a slipper_ ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/25 "2020-05-24T21:35:31Z")
Oh, yeah. I forgot. Yes, I’ll wear shoes in the house forever more. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/26 "2020-05-24T22:55:38Z")
I took the duct tape off my toes. (Yes, I used duct tape, nice pink duct tape) My pinkie toe is a loverly tone of dark purple. Oh, crap! I may have to go to the foot doctor. I really, REALLY don’t want to do that. I had the lil’wrekker take pix. Maybe I’ll try sending them pix, tomorrow. Oh, they’ll be closed tomorrow. Aaaarrrggghhh! ETA: I was sitting in the sunlight. The lil’wrekker took the pix and one of my face. I still have glittery highlights. Ivevtakennat least 4 showers since the body spray incident. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/27 "2020-05-24T23:10:38Z")
Beck, gesundheit, ouch! And LOL glitter “bomb” > [@VOW](#): > > **Dorkie** , I haven’t found the perfect waffle yet. Still looking! > > If you are truly serious about eliminating salt, go to Amazon and buy sodium-free baking powder. Then let your fingers do the walking (who is old enough to remember that jingle?) start testing rdcipes. > > Damn-near all rdcipes call for salt. Don’t put any in, just skip over that ingredient. > > ANYTHING you make without salt will taste “flat.” It takes time before your tastebuds recalibrate. Just ride it out. In Mr VOW’s case, the whole house knew what the no-salt was for: Grampa VOW’s heart health. > > The sodium-free baking powder is the place to begin. > > (or you can get a bread machine) > ~VOW I’ve never heard of “sodium free baking soda” ( isn’t that an oxymoron?) Anyway, no salt doesn’t scare me since my family made an adjustment to a restricted salt diet when I was 6. I’ve been thinking about the recipe I use for waffles. I think I can get away with eliminating the baking powder and soda completely since most of the leavening comes from the beaten egg whites anyway. I’m gonna test it sometime in the next few weeks hopefully. No bread machine. Bread making is a good time party celebration of good food good friends and over indulgence in wholesome craftwork in the kitchen. Last time I made bread it was eaten as quickly as I pulled it from the pans and none was left of 8 loaves at the end of the day. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/28 "2020-05-25T00:51:12Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I took the duct tape off my toes. (Yes, I used duct tape, nice pink duct tape) Pink duct tape? I’d say that deserves a shot of glittery body spray for maximum effect. 😉 Here’s one: one of the guys at the sports bar takes a heart pill of some sort every morning. He doesn’t need his glasses; he knows where the pills are in the medicine chest without having to read the label. Until the day he went looking for something, and mixed things up a little bit without realizing the possible consequences. Next morning, he took his pill (without his glasses), like always. And the next day, and the next, for about a week. He was noticing that he was going to the bathroom a lot more. Turns out, he had inadvertently put laxative pills where his heart pills would normally go. He’s now known among the regulars at the sports bar, as “Senokot.” ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/29 "2020-05-25T04:26:16Z")
You are just not having a good weekend, Beck. 🙂 Moments of poor vision or distraction are why I get annoyed with DH’s insistence on leaving a can of Lysol on the kitchen counter. I keep worrying that one of these days, I’ll confuse it with cooking spray and toxically disinfect a pan instead of lubricating it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/30 "2020-05-25T20:56:25Z")
Do you know what’s _nice_, grown up adults laughing about my poor injured foot? My pinkie toe HURTS! Ok. I know I’m a drama queen. I’ve been breaking toes and taping them my whole life. I was a Pointe dancer many ions ago. Do you know what’s even _nicer?_ Four Grandwrex who like my ‘pink duct tape’ and glitter spray (thx, Spoons. Truly inspired) on my left foot. They like it so much I had to find more duct tape. Camo for the boys. Zebra stripe for the girls. Everyone got taped up and every one got glittered up. I drew a smiley face on 4 cheapo face masks. So…I have 4 kids running around in a right state! Imagine it, if you will. 😃 I love the fact these kids like everything I do. I sense world domination could be mine in the right circumstances. 😃 Their Mom’s are not to happy about my influence. Too bad. (:)) ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/31 "2020-05-26T02:46:51Z")
And everybody thought I was just goofin way back when, the day I declared you Empress! Hah! Trust not the Farce, they said. Just a game, they said. Uncertain the future is, yes, but the Poorly Lighted Side of The Farce is never wrong! ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/32 "2020-05-26T05:12:20Z")
Well, duct tape **IS** like the force. Hard to go wrong with duct tape. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/33 "2020-05-26T10:05:30Z")
This one’s for you, **Beck**. Sung to the Flintstones theme: \ ***Beck** ’s toe! Look at **Beck** ’s toe! It’s a glittery abnormality. From the State of Arkansas, She suffered a toe injury. Glittering up, All the Gran-Wrekkers’ feet. They found, when they’re taped up, Pink tape just can’t be beat. **Beck** ’s toe, Look at **Beck** ’s toe, It’s a “Can’t wear a shoe time, I’m waiting through time, I’m gonna walk in time!” Big Wrrrekkk! …\* ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/34 "2020-05-26T15:00:53Z")
Spoons! Dude! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/35 "2020-05-26T18:25:43Z")
Golf clap. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/36 "2020-05-28T22:00:48Z")
We sent pix of my purple toe and swollen foot to the Podiatrist. They said to stay home. Man, I can’t get any sympathy. :smack: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/37 "2020-05-28T23:26:47Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > We sent pix of my purple toe and swollen foot to the Podiatrist. > They said to stay home. > ☹ Maybe try applying some glitter to your purple toe\*. Won’t help heal it, but might make it look more pretty & cheerful. - Externally only, please! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/38 "2020-05-28T23:43:45Z")
The lil’wrekker brought me a thing of purple sparkly toe nail polish. Yeah, she thinks she’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/39 "2020-05-28T23:50:26Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > The lil’wrekker brought me a thing of purple sparkly toe nail polish. > > Yeah, she thinks she’s funny. Well, I think she is funny, too! Better than being all gloomy right now. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275/40 "2020-05-29T01:23:29Z")
She is a blessing to have around. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-you-poor-dumb-thing-bad-bad-bad-taste-in-my-mouth/854275.md?page=1)