# Fuck that lucky fish **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 23, 2004, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533 "2004-07-23T16:21:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/1 "2004-07-23T16:21:12Z")
I’m in Sweden, where the summer so far has been a dreary collage of grey skies and constant rain. It’s slowly starting to let up, but we’ve had maybe three nice days all summer. Reflecting upon this, I turned to my beloved over breakfast and asked how it could possibly rain so much. All the water coming down has to get up through evaporation, so how can it rain a lot more certain periods? Surely it must even out somehow? More water evaporates when it’s warm, she says. “But it hasn’t _been_ warm!”, I complain. She points out that the evaporating water doesn’t necessarily rain down on the same spot from which it evaporated. “So there’s some fucker somewhere who’s had a lovely summer, and because of him I have to suffer through this?”, I said with a dramatic gesture towards the torrents of rain outside the window. “It doesn’t have to be over land”, she says. “It could be in the middle of the Atlantic.” In other words, somewhere in the Atlantic there’s a fucking lucky piece of shit fish who’s had the summer of his fish life, totally ignoring that I’ve lived through an eight week rainstorm. Therefore, I Pit that fish. Fuck it. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/2 "2004-07-23T16:37:29Z")
Where I live a guy could get into serious trouble fucking a fish. But I hear that Sweden is pretty liberal about those things. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/3 "2004-07-23T17:05:18Z")
Well, if you lived on a boat, you could just cruise around to wherever the good weather is and never have to worry about bad weather again. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/4 "2004-07-23T17:29:32Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > In other words, somewhere in the Atlantic there’s a fucking lucky piece of shit fish who’s had the summer of his fish life, totally ignoring that I’ve lived through an eight week rainstorm. Therefore, I Pit that fish. Fuck it. _Her_ life. 😃 _::d&r::_ ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/5 "2004-07-23T17:35:05Z")
The extended forecast here in Minneapolis shows highs in the mid to upper 70’s (24-27C) and sunny until _maybe_ next Wednesday. We _might_ have a shower or two then. 😃 Just thought I’d share. _runs from the thread_ ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/6 "2004-07-23T17:37:53Z")
I was afraid to open this thread, having just followed a link to [www.dolphinsex.com](http://www.dolphinsex.com) in another thread. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/7 "2004-07-23T17:39:32Z")
It turns out the fish are rather [grumpy](http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?flok=FF-APO-PLS&idq=/ff/story/0001/20040722/2227816410.htm) too. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Llama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@The\_Llama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Llama)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/8 "2004-07-23T17:39:40Z")
Mid Atlantic Fish here. Thanks to The\_Llama for letting me use his account. You pompous ass. I’ve made no less the 10… **10** visits to the magic fish asking for just one nice season. One teensy weensy bit of mid-Atlantic sun. But do I get to sunbathe in peace? Oh nooooo, I gotta hear about how the poor people in Sweden have to suffer with a wittle bit of wain. Suck it up, you hairless monkey! I’m wet 24/7 and even when I get nice sunny weather _I’m still fucking wet!!!_ So do me a favor, go out and use your “umbrellas” and your “awnings” and let a fish have his day.\* the thoughts expressed by mid-Atlantic fish are not necessarily those of the owner of this account. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/9 "2004-07-23T17:39:41Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Well, if you lived on a boat, you could just cruise around to wherever the good weather is and never have to worry about bad weather again. [I’ve already tumbled to that concept](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=195073). The problem of predicting the weather remains unsolved, though, unless I can find that fucking fish. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/10 "2004-07-23T17:44:38Z")
> [@The\_Llama](#): > > I’m wet 24/7 and even when I get nice sunny weather _I’m still fucking wet!!!_ If you weren’t wet, you’d _fucking drown_. Don’t blame me for that, blame God. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/11 "2004-07-23T17:51:09Z")
There seems to be a preponderance of pit threads that have the words ‘fuck’ and ‘fish’ contained in them. :wanders off to do a thread search: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Llama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@The\_Llama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Llama)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/12 "2004-07-23T17:51:39Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > If you weren’t wet, you’d _fucking drown_. Don’t blame me for that, blame God. Oh, I do… I DO! But don’t get all cutsie on me. I’d like a day on the beach, just like any other blue fin worker. I’m just sayin, you’re ungrateful. And just for you’re crappy attitude, I ain’t gonna tell you how to navigate your stupid ship idea to avoid the weather. (Sticks out fish tounge) ---
**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:** [July 23, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/13 "2004-07-23T17:56:00Z")
I’m trying to put myself in the perspective of the fish. Wouldn’t _she_ rather have it raining? Maybe one of those raindrops will knock some big ol bug out of the air and right onto the fishes dinner plate. Also, the little fishee could stick her head out of the water and get a drink of fresh raindrops instead of constantly drinking that nasty old salty ocean. Glad to help ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/14 "2004-07-23T18:20:52Z")
Well to be honest, I’m not much of a freshwater connoisseur. But it is nice sometimes to get a refreshing little sunshower while I’m basking. Thanks for being a sensitive man of the new millenium, **BubbaDog**. Mid-atlantic fish, don’t let him get to you like that. Just enjoy the fact that we have the great weather and he doesn’t. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jenny\_Haniver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Jenny\_Haniver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenny_Haniver)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/15 "2004-07-23T18:41:31Z")
I thought this thread was going to be about Led Zeppelin. ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/16 "2004-07-23T19:24:22Z")
Heh, want to trade places? I hate summer weather, I really do. I hate this goddamn consant 30+ degree weather and awful humidity. But more than that, I hate the constant sun. I work in a lab; I hate the way in shines in through these huge windows reflecting off every surface into my eyes; I hate the way it makes the computer monitor impossible to read; I hate the way the sun brings everybody out to the parks so I can’t fly my kites. Most of all, I hate the way sunlight makes my sinuses plug up with snot, my eyes water and my throat hurt. Dreary, cloudy, rainy days are like a little piece of heaven. They’re cool. The parks are empty so I can fly my kites in peace. I can see my computer monitors clearly and I don’t have to stand in awkward positions to avoid being blinded from stray reflections. I love the way that amusement parks are deserted on rainy days so you can go on the rides again and again - no lines. I love the fact that you don’t have to rub nasty, oily sunscreen all over. Most of all, I love the fact that my allergies are non-existant and I can actually get a full night’s sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/17 "2004-07-23T20:58:49Z")
> [@Trigonal Planar](#): > > I hate this goddamn consant 30+ degree weather and awful humidity. Considering your location I actually had to think about what scale you were mentioning 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/18 "2004-07-23T21:03:59Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > It turns out the fish are rather [grumpy](http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?flok=FF-APO-PLS&idq=/ff/story/0001/20040722/2227816410.htm) too. From the link, “Ziggy Zablotny” is the best name in the history of the universe. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/19 "2004-07-23T23:22:21Z")
[Sorry.](http://www.weather.com/weather/local/98506?lswe=98506&lwsa=WeatherLocalUndeclared)😃 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533/20 "2004-07-23T23:46:03Z")
**Priceguy** , you do realise that those motherfucking Atlantic fish make all the shit weather do a little “tester” on Ireland before they cruise across the UK and Norway to drop its guts on Sweden. So I join you in fucking the fish. (By the way, in Sweden do you get the same pattern that I’ve observed: two fine weeks in May guaranteed, but then a 50/50 that it will be nice in the traditional ‘summer’ months of June, July, and August?) Fuck the fish! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-that-lucky-fish/256533.md?page=2)