# Forward, March (minirants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131 "2017-03-01T20:24:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/161 "2017-03-30T02:23:44Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Perhaps the boxes would work if you stopped filling them with cat food. HOLY COW!!! Is that what I’ve been doing wrong?!?!:smack: 😃 > [@eulalia](#): > > Rider cat needs a Roomba. Rider cat is why we no longer have a Roomba. Roombas are not designed to carry 16 pounds of cat around. (That was a gadget that I actually did want. Rider cat only burnt one of those out, though.) > [@Nava](#): > > Nah, not really. It’s the other way round: he sees something SHINY! With MORE LIGHTS!!! and then seeks an excuse to buy it. I ought’a know, I’m an engineer too 😛 So…you are saying that he is just using me as an excuse? Or do I not even matter in his Shiny! With MORE LIGHTS!!! desire, he just says its to make my life easier to mollify me? OUTRAGE!!! I’ll show him an excuse to buy new appliances with more bells and whistles than the last ones! I’ll start COOKING again and he will get to buy all new kitchen appliances after I burn down the kitchen. That’ll learn him! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/162 "2017-03-30T02:39:03Z")
> [@eulalia](#): > > Rider cat needs a Roomba. > [@flatlined](#): > > Rider cat is why we no longer have a Roomba. Roombas are not designed to carry 16 pounds of cat around. (That was a gadget that I actually did want. Rider cat only burnt one of those out, though.) I’m beginning to get the germ of an idea for an invention… ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/163 "2017-03-30T03:21:25Z")
Dear Max Dog, You need to take your pills. I know they taste yucky and god knows I wouldn’t want that yucky lingering taste in my mouth but 1) I don’t have what you have, and 2) I’m much better at throwing 'em down the hatch in one shot. Your food pickiness is not helping. Peanut butter - nope Cream cheese - nope Wet dog food - worked until you figured out what was going on Homemade turkey meatballs - same as wet food Eggs - nope Coconut oil - nope You strategically picked them out of your regular food. You’ve either spit it out or hurled when they’re put in a semi moist treat. Pill pockets? Nope. Forcing them down your throat? Nope. You pretend to swallow then spit out the whole thing. I’m at my wit’s end because I don’t know how else I can make you take these pills. Please be a good boy. Why can’t you be amenable to them like your canine brother? ---
**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:** [March 30, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/164 "2017-03-30T03:34:04Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > Dear Max Dog, > > You need to take your pills. I know they taste yucky and god knows I wouldn’t want that yucky lingering taste in my mouth but 1) I don’t have what you have, and 2) I’m much better at throwing 'em down the hatch in one shot. Your food pickiness is not helping. > > Peanut butter - nope > Cream cheese - nope > Wet dog food - worked until you figured out what was going on > Homemade turkey meatballs - same as wet food > Eggs - nope > Coconut oil - nope > > You strategically picked them out of your regular food. You’ve either spit it out or hurled when they’re put in a semi moist treat. Pill pockets? Nope. > > Forcing them down your throat? Nope. You pretend to swallow then spit out the whole thing. > > I’m at my wit’s end because I don’t know how else I can make you take these pills. Please be a good boy. Why can’t you be amenable to them like your canine brother? Try butter? ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/165 "2017-03-30T03:42:43Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > Dear Max Dog, > > You need to take your pills. I know they taste yucky and god knows I wouldn’t want that yucky lingering taste in my mouth but 1) I don’t have what you have, and 2) I’m much better at throwing 'em down the hatch in one shot. Your food pickiness is not helping. > > Peanut butter - nope > Cream cheese - nope > Wet dog food - worked until you figured out what was going on > Homemade turkey meatballs - same as wet food > Eggs - nope > Coconut oil - nope > > You strategically picked them out of your regular food. You’ve either spit it out or hurled when they’re put in a semi moist treat. Pill pockets? Nope. > > Forcing them down your throat? Nope. You pretend to swallow then spit out the whole thing. > > I’m at my wit’s end because I don’t know how else I can make you take these pills. Please be a good boy. Why can’t you be amenable to them like your canine brother? [Pill popper](https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/well-and-good-easy-pill-dispenser?cm_mmc=PLA-GG-_-PTC_P_SUP_PLA-GG_FY16_NB-AllProducts-PLA-_-Supplies_All-Products-_-92700017178553481&kwid=p17178553481&device=c&gclid=CJ_hyLWn_dICFdGKswodISQBTQ&gclsrc=aw.ds)? Basically shoots the pill far down the throat. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/166 "2017-03-30T03:49:40Z")
If you don’t mind telling me what he gets, name of drug and number of miligrams per dose, I can tell you other options that may or may not be more money but just may work for both of you. PM if you prefer. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/167 "2017-03-30T04:47:05Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Rider cat is why we no longer have a Roomba. Roombas are not designed to carry 16 pounds of cat around. (That was a gadget that I actually did want. Rider cat only burnt one of those out, though.) 16 pounds! That’s enormous! I don’t think we ever had one that weighed more than 10. I’ve seen a video of a cat riding a Roomba before; I wonder if that one burned out later. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/168 "2017-03-30T04:49:16Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > There are Spanish versions where the dude is called _el príncipe Pagafantas_… I’m assuming that translation isn’t oficial, as a _pagafantas_ (“pays-for-sodas”) is a dude who’s always paying drinks for women who wouldn’t see him as an object of sexual attraction if he was the last man on Earth (or any other planet. Or universe), in hopes that some day they will realize he is the man of their dreams. Fitting label, mind you, he does sound like one. Was this about the Squatty Potty guy, or is this just in the wrong thread? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/169 "2017-03-30T04:52:03Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > Dear Max Dog, > > You need to take your pills. I know they taste yucky and god knows I wouldn’t want that yucky lingering taste in my mouth but 1) I don’t have what you have, and 2) I’m much better at throwing 'em down the hatch in one shot. Your food pickiness is not helping. > > Peanut butter - nope > Cream cheese - nope > Wet dog food - worked until you figured out what was going on > Homemade turkey meatballs - same as wet food > Eggs - nope > Coconut oil - nope > > You strategically picked them out of your regular food. You’ve either spit it out or hurled when they’re put in a semi moist treat. Pill pockets? Nope. > > Forcing them down your throat? Nope. You pretend to swallow then spit out the whole thing. > > I’m at my wit’s end because I don’t know how else I can make you take these pills. Please be a good boy. Why can’t you be amenable to them like your canine brother? I have to give my cat three pills a day. It’s not possible to get them down his throat without getting his teeth and claws into me. And even then he spits them out. So I crush the pills into a powder and mix them with a little condensed milk or ice cream. Now, he loves taking his pills. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/170 "2017-03-30T07:17:42Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > So…you are saying that he is just using me as an excuse? Or do I not even matter in his Shiny! With MORE LIGHTS!!! desire, he just says its to make my life easier to mollify me? > > OUTRAGE!!! I’ll show him an excuse to buy new appliances with more bells and whistles than the last ones! I’ll start COOKING again and he will get to buy all new kitchen appliances after I burn down the kitchen. That’ll learn him! Oh, no you do matter: your posession by cats and dogs gives him a great reason to look at SHINY! With lots of LIGHTS! stuff that he wouldn’t be able to look at if it wasn’t for your critter-owners. We’re talking about a guy who bought you cubic zirconia earrings to wear at your wedding because he knew he would have been forced to swallow diamond ones. If he’d been able to come up with a tradition in which weddings involved LED-lit earrings and lightsabers he would have been delighted. Maybe you can do that for an anniversary 😃 > [@eulalia](#): > > Was this about the Squatty Potty guy, or is this just in the wrong thread? About the guy licking unicorn shit, yes. I’m going to have that image in my mind any time someone calls another person a _pagafantas_… ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/171 "2017-03-30T10:50:19Z")
Dear Mr. Choir Director: Telling us that part of a hymn to be sung on Easter is arranged just like it is in the hymnal is reassuring, yes, but it doesn’t mean we can sing it (especially in 4-part harmony). (My church does not sing a lot of hymns. Especially straight out of the hymnal. Also, even if we did, the hymns in question are hymns so strongly associated with Easter, we’d only sing them once-ish a year). Also-- especially when the soprano 1s have funky rhythms, it’d be nice if we could run the soprano part(s) and the alto part(s) separately. And maybe take a minute and run the bass and tenor parts separately as well. But I’m glad you feel like we’re in good shape for Palm Sunday, given how quickly it’s coming up! ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/172 "2017-03-30T10:55:50Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I get that I don’t have the greatest computer, but holy hell, Windows, if I hit accidentally hit “Enter” on my sign in screen w/o entering a password, why do you need to take 10+ seconds to determine my password is incorrect when the damn thing wasn’t even filled in? I feel your pain-- I was trying to get gas the other day, and hit the wrong button for the first digit of my zip code, and couldn’t see a button to let me back up, but hit the cancel button and it took _forever_ before I could try again. OK, so there are probably reasons why it took forever, and it may be a lesson to me in paying attention, but still . . . ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/173 "2017-03-30T11:14:18Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Try butter? He’s going to know they’re there just like with the PB and coconut oil. My walker suggested something really stinky like canned tuna or salmon. I’ve got the former in the pantry. It’s worth a shot. In order to get to the backyard one has to walk through the kitchen. He’s now refusing to go near the kitchen. I figure when he’s desperate to potty he’s not going to care about dashing through it. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/174 "2017-03-30T11:16:28Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > [Pill popper](https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/well-and-good-easy-pill-dispenser?cm_mmc=PLA-GG-_-PTC_P_SUP_PLA-GG_FY16_NB-AllProducts-PLA-_-Supplies_All-Products-_-92700017178553481&kwid=p17178553481&device=c&gclid=CJ_hyLWn_dICFdGKswodISQBTQ&gclsrc=aw.ds)? Basically shoots the pill far down the throat. Our vet once suggested that and tried it on him. Getting his mouth open is a Herculean feat. He nipped my husband last night during the ordeal. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/175 "2017-03-30T11:17:34Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > If you don’t mind telling me what he gets, name of drug and number of miligrams per dose, I can tell you other options that may or may not be more money but just may work for both of you. PM if you prefer. I’ll send you a PM. Thanks 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/176 "2017-03-30T11:29:53Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I have to give my cat three pills a day. It’s not possible to get them down his throat without getting his teeth and claws into me. And even then he spits them out. So I crush the pills into a powder and mix them with a little condensed milk or ice cream. Now, he loves taking his pills. Yeah…I want to say that this particular med can’t be crushed. I’d have to check with the vet. It doesn’t help that he’s food-picky to begin with. Right now instead of eating he goes through almost every single morsel of his dinner checking to see if I put _anything_ in with it. It’s kind of funny to watch but at the same time I’m like, “Dude…REALLY?!?” ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/177 "2017-03-30T12:20:16Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > My walker suggested something really stinky like canned tuna or salmon. I’ve got the former in the pantry. It’s worth a shot. My roommates have started doing that with Big Fat Durwood Cat. He has these MSM treats he can’t eat because he has a bad tooth, so they soak them in tuna and he gobbles them down. Then again, Durwood would eat his own head if it were made of tuna. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/178 "2017-03-30T13:24:21Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > My roommates have started doing that with Big Fat Durwood Cat. He has these MSM treats he can’t eat because he has a bad tooth, so they soak them in tuna and he gobbles them down. Then again, Durwood would eat his own head if it were made of tuna. Max is weird when it comes to food. One would think, for example, he’d go for salmon because he’s a husky and Alaskan-type food would be hardwired in his genes. The few times we’ve tried it, it’s like, nope, WTF is that? I’m hoping the tuna is stinky enough. Have to check with our vet to see if the pills can be soaked/crushed, though. ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/179 "2017-03-30T15:25:29Z")
Definitely a mini-rant. We just had a presentation here at work, and on the majority of the slides the presenter had used " 's " to pluralize (Form’s, item’s, etc.). :smack: Just something that drives me crazy. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131/180 "2017-03-30T16:49:51Z")
> [@Runestar](#): > > Definitely a mini-rant. We just had a presentation here at work, and on the majority of the slides the presenter had used " 's " to pluralize (Form’s, item’s, etc.). :smack: > > Just something that drives me crazy. I’d be foaming at the mouth… and borderline-violent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forward-march-minirants/781131.md?page=10)