# Hey, it's October SOMEWHERE. Bitchtoberfesterama **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 1, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224 "2011-10-01T03:25:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/361 "2011-10-20T16:26:22Z")
What is it about local news websites that attracts so many bigots to the comments section? :mad: Also, why are so many recalled drugs not returning to the shelves? This is starting to really piss me off. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/362 "2011-10-20T16:54:27Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > You’re absolutely right. Thank you. You’re quite welcome. 🙂 > [@Jenaroph](#): > > Congrats **Little Bird**! Yay, tiny baby! Congratulations, indeed. > [@](#): > > Anyway. Stupid fucking cold. I’ve been mildly sick for about 5 days. Which wouldn’t be awful, but it hasn’t been the same sick more than two days in a row. First was a sore throat for a couple of days. Eh, bought some lozenges. Then the sore throat was better but I started sneezing and my head was stuffed up. Bought some decongestant. Then for a day and a half, my nose was running like a faucet. Broke down yesterday evening and got some spray-dry-up-your-nose stuff. Used it once. Today, it’s not running anymore, but I have what’s starting to be a deep cough. > > Stop it! Stop changing! Just pick a symptom and stick with it! My medicine cabinet is filling up with half-packages of stuff I needed yesterday but don’t need today! I had that stupid cold a week or so ago, too. It was a kind of strange one - I had all the same symptoms, in the same order as you, but mild - it was like a half-strength cold. I guess I’ll take that over a full-strength cold, but it was odd. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/363 "2011-10-20T17:31:50Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Anyway. Stupid fucking cold. I’ve been mildly sick for about 5 days. Which wouldn’t be awful, but it hasn’t been the same sick more than two days in a row. First was a sore throat for a couple of days. Eh, bought some lozenges. Then the sore throat was better but I started sneezing and my head was stuffed up. Bought some decongestant. Then for a day and a half, my nose was running like a faucet. Broke down yesterday evening and got some spray-dry-up-your-nose stuff. Used it once. Today, it’s not running anymore, but I have what’s starting to be a deep cough. > > Stop it! Stop changing! Just pick a symptom and stick with it! My medicine cabinet is filling up with half-packages of stuff I needed yesterday but don’t need today! That’s the exact pattern my colds almost always take. What are yours normally like? ---
**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:** [October 20, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/364 "2011-10-20T17:49:24Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Anyway. Stupid fucking cold. I’ve been mildly sick for about 5 days. Which wouldn’t be awful, but it hasn’t been the same sick more than two days in a row. First was a sore throat for a couple of days. Eh, bought some lozenges. Then the sore throat was better but I started sneezing and my head was stuffed up. Bought some decongestant. Then for a day and a half, my nose was running like a faucet. Broke down yesterday evening and got some spray-dry-up-your-nose stuff. Used it once. Today, it’s not running anymore, but I have what’s starting to be a deep cough. Isn’t this how colds normally run? I can’t remember the last time I had a cold that didn’t run almost exactly like this. I wouldn’t worry about the meds. Inevitably, you’ll catch another cold. Of course, for me, the cough tends to stick around for WEEKS after everything else is finished, and cough suppresants do jack shit about it, but eh. In other news, congrats to Little Bird! Tell your little Cock Robin, “welcome to the world!” for me. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/365 "2011-10-20T17:52:43Z")
> [@Little\_Bird](#): > > Rant partially redacted. Little fella showed up today all on his own. He is [Awesome](https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/295950_10150429733636609_633136608_10510220_1832983451_n.jpg). _Squee_! He’s so cute! Like a tiny space alien in a knit hat! Congratulations! Can we call him **Tiny Bird**? I’m on a restricted calorie diet, and today I must go to forced socializing with my coworkers. I am looking forward to it even less than usual. I hope they serve mineral water. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/366 "2011-10-20T21:10:06Z")
Glad for you that part is over, **Little Bird**! Welcome to the next phase! > [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > … forced socializing with my coworkers… Diet or no, that phrase is always teh sux. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/367 "2011-10-20T23:20:05Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Then the sore throat was better but I started sneezing and my head was stuffed up. Bought some decongestant. Then for a day and a half, my nose was running like a faucet. Broke down yesterday evening and got some spray-dry-up-your-nose stuff. Used it once. Today, it’s not running anymore, but I have what’s starting to be a deep cough. I dunno if this applies to you, but some people don’t get the connection. Decongestant means that it loosens up the crap so that it flows freely and you’re not stopped up anymore. Some people think it is a magical word that means it all just goes away. Then when it was freely flowing, you decided to take some stuff to stop if from flowing. Cross purposes to the stuff you’d just been taking. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/368 "2011-10-20T23:44:51Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I dunno if this applies to you, but some people don’t get the connection. > > Decongestant means that it loosens up the crap so that it flows freely and you’re not stopped up anymore. Some people think it is a magical word that means it all just goes away. > > Then when it was freely flowing, you decided to take some stuff to stop if from flowing. Cross purposes to the stuff you’d just been taking. Nah. As it was, I took it once, before bed because often it makes me loopy, and it didn’t do anything except make me loopy, so I never actually took another dose. The next afternoon, my nose started running. I have had colds that change symptoms before, but rarely so quickly running the gamut. And never had symptoms so completely stop dead as the next one started. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/369 "2011-10-21T07:40:05Z")
I hate that I need to start thinking about Christmas already, and I really hate that I just spent $900 on plane tickets I’m probably not going to use, because I’m pretty sure “sitting in my room drinking” would in fact be a much better use of my vacation time come December. ---
**Author:** ![Baracus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@Baracus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baracus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/370 "2011-10-21T13:03:07Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I dunno if this applies to you, but some people don’t get the connection. > > Decongestant means that it loosens up the crap so that it flows freely and you’re not stopped up anymore. Some people think it is a magical word that means it all just goes away. > > Then when it was freely flowing, you decided to take some stuff to stop if from flowing. Cross purposes to the stuff you’d just been taking. Huh? The stuff you spray up your nose is also labeled a decongestant, not nose stopper upper. My mini-rant: neighbors, did you seriously have your kindergartner just call us to hit us up for some money for his school fundraiser? Doesn’t it strike you at all odd when we have our own kindergartner with her own fundraiser? Perhaps not, given that your idea for bringing in some extra money during your leave of absence was to extort it from your friends and family via your Tastefully Simple “business”. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/371 "2011-10-21T14:27:22Z")
Not going into details about where I saw this - or else I’d have to put this in the workplace rants thread and also give away way too much meatspace info - but I just ran into this sentence on a community calendar: “The line dance classes are chocked full of fun.” Oh. My head. ---
**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/372 "2011-10-21T15:56:04Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Not going into details about where I saw this - or else I’d have to put this in the workplace rants thread and also give away way too much meatspace info - but I just ran into this sentence on a community calendar: > > “The line dance classes are chocked full of fun.” > > Oh. My head. It’s gotta beat having them chocked full of nuts. Bri2k ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/373 "2011-10-21T16:07:41Z")
My cat can do anything she wants because cats are “instinctual” and therefore “difficult to train”. But when I’m out overnight, come home and open the door and she pisses on the chair just after I come in -she sure seems to have a firm grasp on cause and effect. I call bullshit. That little fucker is trying to train _me_!! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/374 "2011-10-21T16:29:55Z")
When I’m in the kitchen making supper, my husband’s cat comes in and mewls at me endlessly. Since I started spraying her in the face with a water bottle when she does that, she does tend to hightail it out of the kitchen when I pick up the spray bottle. They do indeed get “cause and effect.” 🙂 ---
**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:** [October 21, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/375 "2011-10-21T16:50:34Z")
Hey, **JohnT** , does Tony still have a job? Are you still getting your loan through Wells Fargo? Nosy minds want to know! ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/376 "2011-10-21T18:15:16Z")
Dear sweet, wonderful, adorable, darling, cutest baby in whole damned world . . . take a fucking nap. I’m still bleary eyed from last night’s get up every hour from midnight to eight am cryfest. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/377 "2011-10-21T21:55:58Z")
All stores that are busily stocking their shelves with Christmas stuff already, when we still aren’t past Halloween, should all be bombed and the store owners and corporate management fed anthrax. One fucking seasonal merchandising event at a time, you assholes! ---
**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:** [October 21, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/378 "2011-10-21T23:34:42Z")
> [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](#): > > All stores that are busily stocking their shelves with Christmas stuff already, when we still aren’t past Halloween, should all be bombed and the store owners and corporate management fed anthrax. One fucking seasonal merchandising event at a time, you assholes! I heartily support the disgust at the base of this rant, if not the actual remedy. I just get back at them by not buying anything in their stores until December 1 (if then), and not even going in there if I can avoid it (I usually can). That’ll learn 'em! Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/379 "2011-10-22T01:47:10Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Not going into details about where I saw this - or else I’d have to put this in the workplace rants thread and also give away way too much meatspace info - but I just ran into this sentence on a community calendar: > > "The line dance classes You could have stopped there. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224/380 "2011-10-22T03:57:46Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Dear sweet, wonderful, adorable, darling, cutest baby in whole damned world . . . take a fucking nap. I’m still bleary eyed from last night’s get up every hour from midnight to eight am cryfest. Cartoon Network has some new Looney Tunes cartoons with Bugs and Daffy. Every now and then I stumble across them while they’re on and watch a few minutes. I caught a few moments (in between doing something else) of one where Daffy is babysitting. Baby in a crib, crying it’s head off. Daffy in the living room chair, about 5 feet away. Turns to the baby and deadpans _“Did someone give you a whole lot of bad news before you got here?”_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-its-october-somewhere-bitchtoberfesterama/598224.md?page=20)