# Jumpin' Jehosaphat! It's July! More mini-rants! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898 "2012-07-01T14:29:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/21 "2012-07-02T09:41:23Z")
Flash kept bugging me to update. I wasn’t having any problems, but I figured, sure, I’ll update, don’t want to be bugged any longer. Now my videos won’t play. Stupid updates. THIS is why I hate to update. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/22 "2012-07-02T12:07:33Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > If there’s a gap, Photoshop in something like Jabba the Hutt, or Gollum. 😃 Or Obama 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/23 "2012-07-02T13:44:17Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Flash kept bugging me to update. I wasn’t having any problems, but I figured, sure, I’ll update, don’t want to be bugged any longer. > > Now my videos won’t play. Stupid updates. THIS is why I hate to update. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I have 2 bitches. Firstly, youtube stopped working, so I had to go research what could have caused it, and uncheck some damned box in my options in realplayer. WTF dudes. I didn’t update my realplayer so somehow it broke so I couldn’t play youtube. Dudes, that just sucks ass. Secondly, how the fuck did buzzdock get loaded onto my damned computer, I haven’t installed anything in about 6 months. At least it is pretty easy to defang bub fucks sake, I am getting tired of all the fucking advertising and tool bars and garbage that people are trying to sneak onto peoples computers. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/24 "2012-07-02T14:09:08Z")
“Ok, we’ll agree to disagree”. Ummm…what? We’re not “disagreeing” – you’re stating something that is factually untrue, and I’m pointing you to citations that show the actual truth. You may not _like_ the truth, but fuck me, saying “we’ll agree to disagree” does _not_ magically make your misguided beliefs correct. ---
**Author:** ![Baracus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@Baracus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baracus)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/25 "2012-07-02T14:16:33Z")
What the fuck dude? Why the fuck do you think that I would prefer to hear that I didn’t get the job before going on vacation? And then when I couldn’t talk because I was driving,you thought it was a good idea to arrange to call me while on vacation to tell me I did not get it? Are you fucking retarded? Thank god instead of spendimg my trip worrying I can instead just feel like a worthless piece of shit. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/26 "2012-07-02T14:18:01Z")
I’m getting mighty sick of the mindless “Let’s all clap along!” during “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” Not only do you assholes not have a sense of rhythm, as KayT says, “We have an anthem; this is not it.” Yes, it is the National March of the United States. I don’t see you marching. I came to hear the band. I can clap at home. Oh, and “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” belongs in the seventh-inning stretch. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/27 "2012-07-02T14:34:15Z")
My Idiot Brother is making nasty facebook posts screaming that I did not attend my mom’s funeral on the other side of the country. I did not attend her funeral because a) I have children and no childcare b) it was the height of busy season at my job and I was afraid they would fire me if I did not work that week. My Idiot Brother only attended the funeral because he’s been unemployed for over a year and lives with my parents rent free. He has no children, relationship partner or job. He 37 and attends college part-time. He’s currently stalking my friends and insulting them for supporting me instead of supporting him. He’s also doing all that he can to alienate my dad against me and my little girls. I hate him. He’s lazy, stupid, immature and incredibly arrogant. He’d better hope that dad lives a long time. Once my dad dies I will not let him live in MY house rent free. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/28 "2012-07-02T15:21:19Z")
Mrs. KronJonDerSohn Yes, I do know this water is _really cold._ That’s how I like it, because it happens to be _really hot_ outside. What? Yes, I would mind if you turned it up. I don’t want to be petty about it, but I was here first. You remember 20 minutes ago in the kitchen when you remarked “you smell like sweaty balls”? Well you were right, I did. That’s the result of running around outside working on the honey-do list when it’s 109 degrees and humid. If you turn the water up to 180 degrees I’ll continue to smell like a locker room on a mink farm next door to a cheese factory because I won’t stop sweating. As much as I hate to throw you out, GTFO. I need the entire shower to myself right now. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/29 "2012-07-02T16:39:37Z")
Why is it that I am physically incapable of packing lightly? Seriously, I am leaving for Belize tonight and will be on a 10 day jungle/beach fantastic voyage. I’m bringing a bag-o-bathing suits, plus one pair of shorts, one pair of jeans, and a couple of tops that double as beach cover ups. Then there’s my tripod (I can’t _not_ take awesome pictures!), my snorkel (I’m not using someone else’s snorkel . . . I know people do it, but it weirds me right the hell out), a first aid kit, some prescription antibiotics in case I get some crazy jungle disease, then basic toiletries. Somehow, this all adds up to a giant, 50000 lb bag. Last night, I sat and stared at my bag, trying to figure out what to take out. For the life of me, I don’t know what I can leave behind. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/30 "2012-07-02T16:46:49Z")
Sweet merciful Christ, I just found out that United Airlines charges $200 if my bag is overweight. Um, I better go home and weigh it. Eep. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/31 "2012-07-02T16:56:36Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > For the life of me, I don’t know what I can leave behind. Ugh. The cannoli. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/32 "2012-07-02T17:41:57Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > The cannoli. 🙂 Whoa, whoa, _whoa_! Let’s not be ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/33 "2012-07-02T17:45:33Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Why is it that I am physically incapable of packing lightly? > > Seriously, I am leaving for Belize tonight and will be on a 10 day jungle/beach fantastic voyage. I’m bringing a bag-o-bathing suits, plus one pair of shorts, one pair of jeans, and a couple of tops that double as beach cover ups. Then there’s my tripod (I can’t _not_ take awesome pictures!), my snorkel (I’m not using someone else’s snorkel . . . I know people do it, but it weirds me right the hell out), a first aid kit, some prescription antibiotics in case I get some crazy jungle disease, then basic toiletries. Somehow, this all adds up to a giant, 50000 lb bag. > > Last night, I sat and stared at my bag, trying to figure out what to take out. For the life of me, I don’t know what I can leave behind. Ugh. Have fun on your trip! I do question the need for multiple bathing suits, though. 2 would be good, so you can let one dry while you’re wearing the other. Beyond that, meh. However, you could probably shed the most weight with the tripod. Could you buy a lighter-weight tripod today? Or buy a throwaway one at your destination? Either option is probably cheaper than $200. Of course, you might not need to do either. I had packed what felt like a huge-ass heavy bag for a trip to Nevada a few years back, and it was still under the weight limit. YMMV! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/34 "2012-07-02T17:54:28Z")
> [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](#): > > smell like a locker room on a mink farm next door to a cheese factory. I’m just quoting this because we have one of these triple delights not far from where I live. Fortunately, the prevailing winds are generally kind to me. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/35 "2012-07-02T18:01:00Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Have fun on your trip! I do question the need for multiple bathing suits, though. 2 would be good, so you can let one dry while you’re wearing the other. Beyond that, meh. > > However, you could probably shed the most weight with the tripod. Could you buy a lighter-weight tripod today? Or buy a throwaway one at your destination? Either option is probably cheaper than $200. > > Of course, you might not need to do either. I had packed what felt like a huge-ass heavy bag for a trip to Nevada a few years back, and it was still under the weight limit. YMMV! I actually might still be under the weight limit for all I know. I mean, last year when I went to Fiji, I was certain my bag was over weight, but it was a solid 10-12 pounds under the limit. I’m going to weigh my bag when I get home and then adjust accordingly. The swimsuits weigh next to nothing (because I am a classy lady :D:p). I suppose my description made it sound like I have far more than I do, when in reality I’ve a couple mix and match pieces (three tankini tops and three different bottoms) to alternate. We’re doing a lot of water activities, so I wanted to make sure I could not have to sit in damp stuff if I didn’t need to. You’re 100% right about the tripod. I’m trying to figure out where I can grab one on the quick quick for cheap. I’m asking my photographer friends in a hope of finding something local. Thank you for the suggestion! ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/36 "2012-07-02T18:29:36Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > I wish the people who decide these things (PWDTT) would stop having somebody sing “God Bless America” during the seventh inning of baseball games. For one thing, they’ve replaced a perfectly good song (“Take me out to the ball game”) with this drivel. For another, a whole lot of people at the Rangers game seem to think it’s the national anthem and put their hands over their hearts. The PWDTT encourage this by asking people to “rise to honor America”. Come on, people. We have an anthem; this is not it. Let’s go back to singing “take me out to the ball game”; I enjoy the faint air of ridiculousness involved in singing a request to be taken someplace you already are. Let’s leave the blessing of America out of it. We have one song for amateur singers to butcher before the game begins; they don’t need another opportunity. (We won’t even go into the matter of bringing Og to the ballgame, or the matter of “singers” who slow the song down to make their moment last…) I support this rant. The seventh-inning stretch is a great tradition. I love a bad “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” sing-along. But the instant I start hearing the awfulness that is “God Bless America” I’ll rise, all right. I’ll rise out of my seat and up the aisle because I’ve decided it’s a good time to go take a leak, or grab one last beer, rather than stand there and sing about a magic sky fairie who favors one country over all the others. Usually I’ll hum “TMOttBG” to myself as I’m walking, too, as kind of a makeshift fingers-in-the-ears “La-la-la-la” tactic. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/37 "2012-07-02T18:39:46Z")
I don’t know what the fuck I did to myself to give myself a stomachache for a day and a need to poop every 20 minutes but i’d really like for this shit to STOP. NOW. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/38 "2012-07-02T19:49:47Z")
Taken any Pepto-Bismol yet? ---
**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:** [July 2, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/39 "2012-07-02T20:09:12Z")
Goddammit, Woman! Stop asking me to do chores 10 minutes before you _ **know** _ I have to leave to be somewhere!!! I am sitting around, doing nothing, hours before. THAT would the time to ask me to that little chore you have in your mind. But it never fails. ME: Honey, I’m leaving! Honey: Before you go, can you carry all the plants from the back yard to front yard and unload all the stuff I bought at Target? Grrrrrrr ---
**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:** [July 2, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898/40 "2012-07-02T21:13:56Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Sweet merciful Christ, I just found out that United Airlines charges $200 if my bag is overweight. Um, I better go home and weigh it. Eep. :eek: Reminds me of the time my youngest son packed his computer on a trip, screen included. He had two overweight bags, which cost $50 each. The checker recommended that he change his ticket to first class, which would cover one of the bags. The upgrade was $50, so he didn’t save any money. He did get to fly first class, though, which was some consolation, especially for someone with long legs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jumpin-jehosaphat-its-july-more-mini-rants/626898.md?page=3)