# Got August Gripes? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 1, 2015, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712 "2015-08-01T07:48:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/181 "2015-08-13T05:32:12Z")
\*\*Would you like us to save the password for this site? \*\* No, I would like you to stop asking. Really, fuck off. Storing passwords is convenient, especilaly to fiends looking to do dastardly stuff on someone elses computer. you should never store a password. The ‘never for this site’ button is useless. Or maybe I clear my cache too often. but I have to. \*\*Please wait while Windows looks for a solution. \*\*And if it finds one, I will alert the media, because it will be the first it has found. **An outage has been reported.** Click to view. I click, because I want information on the outage that is in its 8th hour. A box pops up, saying there’s an outage and they are working hard to fix it. …thats it. None of the info I want, like outage area, cause, ETA, just another window with absolutely no more information than the last. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/182 "2015-08-13T13:55:33Z")
No, I did not attempt suicide. No, I’m not ‘cutting’. My cat got up on my chest, with her claws on my left arm. I moved my chair (office chair on rollers) forward and the edge of the seat hit the edge of the desk. Cat panicked and bolted. Four inch gash sideways on my forearm about an inch below the inner elbow. Yeah, it looked bad. Hurt bad for about an hour or two as well. Look, I don’t have to harm myself. I have a cat to do that. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/183 "2015-08-13T15:38:55Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > No, I did not attempt suicide. > No, I’m not ‘cutting’. > > My cat got up on my chest, with her claws on my left arm. I moved my chair (office chair on rollers) forward and the edge of the seat hit the edge of the desk. Cat panicked and bolted. Four inch gash sideways on my forearm about an inch below the inner elbow. > > Yeah, it looked bad. Hurt bad for about an hour or two as well. > > Look, I don’t have to harm myself. I have a cat to do that. I have scars from a cat leaving in a hurry and using my arm as a push off. They’re faint, but if the light hits it right. Plus it was a polydactyl cat, so I got extras. You did wash them out thoroughly with soap and water and applied a good topical antibiotic, right? And tea tree oil if you have it. Cat scratches can get nasty. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Angry\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@The\_Angry\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Angry_Badger)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/184 "2015-08-13T16:13:12Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > \*\*Please wait while Windows looks for a solution. \*\*And if it finds one, I will alert the media, because it will be the first it has found. So that’s not just me then… :dubious: I wouldn’t mind, but occasional, random crashes are a fact of life (although thankfully not nearly as common as they used to be). Crashed for no reason? Don’t worry about it, just restart the program and let me get back to where I was. If it does it two or three times in a row, then we’ll talk. But otherwise, sitting there trying (and failing… always failing) to figure out what went wrong is just wasting my time. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/185 "2015-08-13T16:28:20Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > … Look, I don’t have to harm myself. I have a cat to do that. > [@Morgyn](#): > > I have scars from a cat leaving in a hurry and using my arm as a push off … So, someone sees scratches on your wrists, inquires about your mental health, and you respond by saying you own a cat … This is like telling the police officer you’re too drunk to notice the traffic lights. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/186 "2015-08-13T16:52:34Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I have scars from a cat leaving in a hurry and using my arm as a push off. They’re faint, but if the light hits it right. Plus it was a polydactyl cat, so I got extras. > > You did wash them out thoroughly with soap and water and applied a good topical antibiotic, right? And tea tree oil if you have it. Cat scratches can get nasty. Nah, I licked it clean. Seriously. I licked it clean and left it. I do that every time and I’ve never had an issue. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/187 "2015-08-13T17:12:32Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Look, I don’t have to harm myself. I have a cat to do that. The motto of every cat owner. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/188 "2015-08-13T18:00:53Z")
Went out last night to see the Perseids. Quite a nice show. Not a lot of activity, but some quite spectacular fireballs that left glowing trails behind them. Stayed up too late watching because it’s very easy to get caught in that “Just one more and I’ll go to bed” trap. Eventually I went and got the camera, aimed it upwards and started taking twenty and thirty second exposures. Probably 30 or 40 of them. But did I catch any meteorites? Not hardly. Point the camera north, northwest? There’s a nice fireball over in the east. Take a few shots in the east? Sorry, not far enough east. Checking the focus on the camera? There goes one. Bah. I guess the thing to do is to set up the camera for interval shots, go inside and take a nap. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/189 "2015-08-13T20:13:32Z")
Ok, so [this](http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/reptiles_amphibians/frogs_toads/treefrogs/gray.html) is what my cat was chasing around my 3rd floor apartment last night. Nearest tree branches are a good six feet from my deck. I don’t know if it jumped, climbed the building (most likely for a tree frog I guess) or got dropped by a bird. Nabbed it with a measuring cup and carried it across the parking lot to the edge of the tall grass by the park. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/190 "2015-08-13T21:43:45Z")
UPS delivered my cable 'bout a half hour ago and all three drives are hooked up. Copying off the old drive now, running with the case off and a substitute power supply nearby. The power supply in the case only supports two SATAs and the case has no place for a third HD. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2015, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/191 "2015-08-14T01:01:46Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > No, I did not attempt suicide. > No, I’m not ‘cutting’. > > My cat got up on my chest, with her claws on my left arm. I moved my chair (office chair on rollers) forward and the edge of the seat hit the edge of the desk. Cat panicked and bolted. Four inch gash sideways on my forearm about an inch below the inner elbow. > > Yeah, it looked bad. Hurt bad for about an hour or two as well. > > Look, I don’t have to harm myself. I have a cat to do that. The other day, I was sitting at my desk attempting to help a friend put together and place an order on Amazon. Our cat, Brock, decided that it was time for me to give him pats, or snuggles, or food, or outsies, so he got up on my lap and into my face. As I was lifting him off so I could drop him back down onto the floor, he started flailing away with all claws out, and Roman Polanskied my right nostril. OUCH!!! ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/192 "2015-08-14T05:33:50Z")
I’ve been meaning to install an irrigation timer for some time. We all know where this is going. I’ve removed about 50 gallons of water from the basement so far. I reckon it’s still seeping as every 30 minutes or so I get another 5 out of the carpet. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/193 "2015-08-14T07:37:16Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Oh, isn’t that a horrifying moment? I remember the first time I had a scotoma - I was sure I was going blind and actually went running to my mommy. (Even though I was actually in my twenties at that point.) > Actually, I’m not sure how reassuring it is to learn that No, you’re not going blind, it’s just your brain going wacky on you… I did, in fact, call my mom. And I’m 25. 😛 > [@digs](#): > > I, on the other hand, have _only_ had vision symptoms. For years. No headaches, just a slowly-expanding area of black and white polygons that’d persist for a few minutes. So I never had a clue it might be migraine-related (friends who have migraines are debilitated with pain, with no visual cues). > > I assumed it was something wrong in my brain, something pressing on an optic nerve. > > Finally, one day I heard the term “migraine aura”. So I googled it. [The first image was a _perfect_ match](http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/what_is_migraine_aura.jpg) for what I’d been seeing for a decade or so! > > I was so relieved, and couldn’t stop saying “It’s nahhht a tumor!” [/arnold voice] Oh, I’ve had the polygons for a long time. This was a bit different. It’s hard to explain, but it’s like part of my vision was just **missing**. It wasn’t black or shimmery or anything, it was more like my field of view was just arbitrarily shortened. As far as my brain was aware, I was seeing everything (like I said, no black or anything), it’s just that “everything” encompassed a few degrees less on my left side. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/194 "2015-08-14T17:03:24Z")
Had to change the partition sizes of the new drive and start over. At least the old drive works fine for copying in normal mode as long as I don’t try to execute anything on it. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/195 "2015-08-14T23:17:02Z")
OMG. Living in a smallish town with a large-ish university has its benefits, which I truly appreciate most of the year. Not today, though. It’s move-in day at the dorms, so there are about 5000 extra vehicles wandering aimlessly around town, and no one knows where the hell they’re going, and apparently? Using a turn signal is now a college level class, because half of those spare cars were being operated without indicators. Ugh! (At least I was smart enough not to go to Walmart today!) Also, people at the grocery store who don’t know how to stand back to let me swipe my payment card and enter the PIN can get fucked. And that goes double for the cashier who gave ME the dirty look when I raised my voice slightly to repeat “Excuse me, sir. Can you please back up so that I can complete my payment?” ---
**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:** [August 15, 2015, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/196 "2015-08-15T07:45:44Z")
Well, you know, it’s like you’re accusing her customers of being thieves who want to read your PIN so they can steal your card later and clean out your bank account (of course). What could be more RUDE than taking routine precautions with your personal information? And in PUBLIC, yet! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/197 "2015-08-15T08:38:06Z")
Pop up ads are annoying enough----is it too much to ask the geniuses who have created the Internet to come up with software that disables pop-up ads when I click on a news story about a tragedy? For instance, and trust me, theres HUNDREDS of examples, tonight I go on [philly.com](http://philly.com) and see a headline about a race car driver getting killed in a modified race----and cant even read it because god forbid, I don’t get to see an ad for some fucking car dealership. I mean, JESUS CHRIST, can we have some respect for the dead in the media without trying to make a quick buck??? Don’t get me wrong----I highly doubt when theres a tragic news story on a website some marketing scumbag picks up his iPhone and emails “YEAH----FAMILY OF 6 GETS EXECUTED BY DRUG DEALERS: place there Aleve ad THERE!” and a lot of it is robotic . . . . but surely we can a little better??? ---
**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:** [August 15, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/198 "2015-08-15T12:27:50Z")
Online newspaper sites are basically clickbait. Get yourself an FM radio, join your local NPR affiliate and get your news there. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/199 "2015-08-15T13:05:11Z")
Went out to a small cafe for dinner, because we had a coupon:), sat at the counter next to an older man , probably in his late 70s . He was so obnoxious and rude to the waitstaff, mostly young women. The place was slammed and everyone was helping out as best they could. He was having none of it. Snapping his fingers , calling them stuck up and snobs. I think he was a regular, got to say they didn’t let him get them. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-august-gripes/726712/200 "2015-08-15T17:55:48Z")
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