# Happy New Bitchfest! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 1, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605 "2014-01-01T00:37:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/361 "2014-01-17T04:09:19Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Fuck it’s hot. > > Melbourne (and the rest of southern Australia) is in the grip of a bit of a heatwave with temps over 40C all week…up as high as 46-47C in some regional areas. > > Just so’s you know, that’s 104F up to 116F. :eek: > > It’s 6.30am here now, and it’s already 30. > > ☹ I’m in one of those regional areas. At least twice this week we have had the highest temperatures in the state. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/362 "2014-01-17T12:02:45Z")
**flatlined** , surely you could train one of the cats to attack when you point? Steve, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/363 "2014-01-17T13:35:05Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Fuck it’s hot. > > Melbourne (and the rest of southern Australia) is in the grip of a bit of a heatwave with temps over 40C all week…up as high as 46-47C in some regional areas. I’m glad that’s over at last. My eyeballs were drying out. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/364 "2014-01-17T13:39:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > SOMEbody’s squidding didn’t take! Ha! 😉 I’m not sure they had squidding back in the day. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/365 "2014-01-17T14:00:23Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > It is 44.8ºc outside but I still had jobs to do (like try and save some plants) so now I have prickly heat and I wish to scratch my entire epidermis off. It’s been too damn cold in the Northern Hemisphere. I think we need to take Earth’s weather to the shop and have it looked at. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/366 "2014-01-17T15:13:21Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Amazon product reviews. There are check boxes for whether the review was useful. > > Now I just need one for this reviewer is too fecking stupid to have an opinion. Heh, was just thinking this yesterday. 1 star review for 1 oz Silver ‘Year of the Tiger’ coin. Australian Lunar Series II. Review basically consists of two sentences, the first complaining that it weighs the same but is larger than the Series I coin from 12 years earlier. Yup, that’s it. 1 star review of a beautiful coin for that. And that’s because it’s THINNER, you stupid shit for brains. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/367 "2014-01-17T15:37:14Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > It’s been too damn cold in the Northern Hemisphere. I think we need to take Earth’s weather to the shop and have it looked at. Do those shops give you replacement weather while you wait, or is that an insurance option only? ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/368 "2014-01-17T16:26:25Z")
Phone rang this morning at 6:15 am. After I answered, there was a lengthy pause, then someone with an Indian accent asking to speak with me, claiming he was from “Microsoft” and “Your computer has been attacked by Chinese hackers”. At 6:15 in the morning, I am not a polite person when shit like this happens. Much shouting into the telephone and F-bombs on my part ensued. What do we have to do to get some of our drone resources diverted to tracking down and blowing these asshole scammers up? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/369 "2014-01-17T16:41:53Z")
At that time of the morning, if it isn’t work or family, I turn off the damned phone. Then later in the day I report it to the Do Not Call list. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/370 "2014-01-17T18:36:03Z")
> [@Runestar](#): > > What do we have to do to get some of our drone resources diverted to tracking down and blowing these asshole scammers up? Right after they drop a bunker buster on “Rachel” from “Card Services”… ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/371 "2014-01-17T18:51:46Z")
I took The Boy in to the hospital (he’s getting a helmet for a flat spot on his head). The first appointment they take is 8:00. I am up for 8:45. How far behind can they fall in 45 minutes? Try an hour and a half. I asked how you can be 90 minutes behind when you’ve only been open 45 minutes and got some BS answer about the number of rooms available. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/372 "2014-01-17T18:55:46Z")
Dead tired, got to sleep around 8:30pm last night. 10:27pm I wake to my asshole neighbors cranking up the stereo again. 10:33 I call the night manager. 10:45 it gets turned down. I spend the next couple of hours twitching and tossing, unable to get back to sleep. 2am Finally, blessed sleep. ☹ 5am. Motherfucking alarm clock… ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/373 "2014-01-17T19:00:05Z")
> [@Kelevra](#): > > I took The Boy in to the hospital (he’s getting a helmet for a flat spot on his head). The first appointment they take is 8:00. I am up for 8:45. How far behind can they fall in 45 minutes? Try an hour and a half. I asked how you can be 90 minutes behind when you’ve only been open 45 minutes and got some BS answer about the number of rooms available. Yup, is a BS answer. One of the reasons I left my last doctor was this sort of shit. Open at 8:30. I have 8:40 appointment. Doctor walks in room at 9:45… ---
**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:** [January 17, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/374 "2014-01-17T20:13:32Z")
> [@Silver\_Fire](#): > > Ha! 😉 I’m not sure they had squidding back in the day. Yeah, when did we get the squid? My new debit card came three days ago. The PIN, to be sent separately, still hasn’t arrived. Grrrrr. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/375 "2014-01-17T20:13:42Z")
I’m feeling so down the last few days and I don’t know why. I guess I feel ugly, old, useless, unloved, unaccomplished, unimportant and just dissatisfied with life. I want to crawl in a corner and just sleep for a few days without this feel of constant worry that haunts me much of my days. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/376 "2014-01-17T20:21:58Z")
Ignore the above post. I made dinner for a friend. She’s not much older than I am and battling stage four breast cancer. I really have no right to whine so much. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/377 "2014-01-17T21:26:30Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Ignore the above post. I made dinner for a friend. She’s not much older than I am and battling stage four breast cancer. I really have no right to whine so much. Life isn’t graded on a scale. You should whine to us as much as you feel you need to. Just not directly to this friend, I reckon. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/378 "2014-01-17T21:42:10Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > I’m feeling so down the last few days and I don’t know why. I guess I feel ugly, old, useless, unloved, unaccomplished, unimportant and just dissatisfied with life. I want to crawl in a corner and just sleep for a few days without this feel of constant worry that haunts me much of my days. I just woke my Learning Disabled dogs when I did a fist pump and yelled **“Hey, dawgies, I feel ugly, old, useless, unloved, unaccomplished, unimportant… and I LOVE life! Suck on that, Lavender!”** Please tell me that I didn’t depress you more; that I just invented a new therapy. And watch for the “Hey, I Suck But Life’s Awesome!” coffeetable book. ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/379 "2014-01-18T00:15:34Z")
Woot! Cool change has arrived. A bit of rain last night and a maximum of 40 today. It is positively chilly. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605/380 "2014-01-18T10:21:08Z")
Extremely upset with my housemates. They appear to all have brains the size of walnuts, further reduced in acuity from copious drug use. This temporary living arrangement I am making has started to look a lot briefer than planned. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-bitchfest/677605.md?page=20)