# June (Rants) is Busting Out All Over **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 1, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331 "2015-06-01T13:21:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/381 "2015-06-24T21:34:14Z")
Or at some point you need to tell him to stop forcing his Diet-of-the-Moment on you. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/382 "2015-06-24T21:54:41Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > Ha. I wouldn’t recommend it. Though the watermelon, kale, tomato and pineapple smoothie I had last night only tasted a little like dirt, not only like dirt, so that’s an improvement. Remove the vegetables and that sounds like a refreshing summer drink. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/383 "2015-06-24T23:18:55Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Or at some point you need to tell him to stop forcing his Diet-of-the-Moment on you. This. What he eats is up to him. You are an intelligent adult who is quite capable of managing such decisions for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/384 "2015-06-25T00:43:21Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > And that, boys and girls, is the reason why I no longer speak to someone who, at one point, was one of my bestest friends for life. She turned into a professional victim after her divorce and my tolerance for her whiny pity-me bullshit and her circle of enabling “friends” went straight into the Earth’s core. Which made for a \*\*real \*\*fun conversation when she messaged me on AIM (this was back when we were first learning to assemble the tubes for the internet) and straight up asked me why I wasn’t speaking to her. “It’s not you, it’s me” covers a multitude of sins. I’m finding the older I get, the less tolerance I have for precisely this bullshit. We’ve never met IRL, thank god (the person I was talking about, not you!) > [@](#): > > In the present day, FUCK THIS HEAT. It’s in the low 90s and I am \*dying \*here. Before you people in the southwest point your fingers and laugh, please note I do not have air conditioning. Not in my apartment, not in my car. Usually I don’t need it, but right now I can’t even sleep at night because it’s so fucking hot. Our downstairs A/C died the first over 80 day we had. I’m surprised it lasted for as long as it did, tbh. It’s a big old heavy wall unit. I don’t even think they make A/Cs that big anymore. The box fan isn’t doing much good. At least the bedroom A/C works! The A/C in my Jeep only works on the highest setting. I don’t even bother turning it on most of the time. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/385 "2015-06-25T01:55:39Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > Um, WE? > > Did I miss something Shoe? I moved in with a longtime (girl)friend whom I’ve known since college. We both needed to move for assorted reasons and it’s far more affordable for both of us this way – the location gives each of us some distinct advantages over our respective previous homes – although I do sincerely hope our friendship, which is solid in a way few are, doesn’t get tested too severely. She has a remarkable amount of growing up to do for someone whose 35th b-day is in their rearview mirror _smug face_ so I’m sure I’ll need to bitch at some point about her here. Might as well get the introductions over with. > [@Catamount](#): > > …In the present day, FUCK THIS HEAT. It’s in the low 90s and I am \*dying \*here. Before you people in the southwest point your fingers and laugh, please note I do not have air conditioning… Aww, I’d never point and laugh at you. 90s and no way to escape it is certainly miserable. At that point, cold showers and then standing still-wet in front of a fan is the only way left to cool your blood. My sympathies. > [@overlyverbose](#): > > Ha. I wouldn’t recommend it. Though the watermelon, kale, tomato and pineapple smoothie I had last night only tasted a little like dirt, not only like dirt, so that’s an improvement. > > Unfortunately, he also watched a documentary on veganism. He wants to be vegan now. I did that once on a dare for a month and I hated it. I need to take his Nook away, or most of my food will be consumed in liquid form and I’ll have to say goodbye to cheese. He wants to be vegan now. How nice for him. Enjoy your cheese anyway, as others have been saying upstream. Or at least ask him to make you a separate smoothie with just the watermelon and pineapple, hold the kale and tomato, extra rum. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/386 "2015-06-25T05:45:13Z")
Rum’s made from cane, it’s a veggie! ---
**Author:** ![Dunkelheit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dunkelheit/32/248_2.png) [@Dunkelheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunkelheit)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/387 "2015-06-25T07:37:50Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > I want to call someone out on FB so badly I can taste it. > > I won’t. I won’t because 1) I’m really not the flame war type; 2) if what I think about a major part of this particular someone’s ongoing saga is true, then they don’t deserve any sympathy because it was self-inflicted, and 3) the story keeps changing to the extent that anyone still believing the saga must be, IMO, deranged. > > I shared some information about a specific incident with this person a few years ago. This person is the type who squirrels information then spins it into a self-sympathy-plea-for-attention saga. This person did it countless times in the past. This person also has a loyal band of followers/friends/whatever who provide the head pats and whatnot. This is what’s happening now. > > I want to call this person out so badly I can taste it. But I won’t. Is this person my last ex’s last ex? Because it totally sounds like her, right down to the bullshit cheerleading squad. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/388 "2015-06-25T07:52:38Z")
> [@Dunkelheit](#): > > Is this person my last ex’s last ex? Because it totally sounds like her, right down to the bullshit cheerleading squad. Probably not. It’s not my female housemate either, although she would give this person a run for their money in the poor-poor-pitiful-me department. No doubt my patience for such behavior is shot because I’ve been living with it for several months now. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/389 "2015-06-25T08:05:56Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I moved in with a longtime (girl)friend whom I’ve known since college. We both needed to move for assorted reasons and it’s far more affordable for both of us this way – the location gives each of us some distinct advantages over our respective previous homes – although I do sincerely hope our friendship, which is solid in a way few are, doesn’t get tested too severely. She has a remarkable amount of growing up to do for someone whose 35th b-day is in their rearview mirror _smug face_ so I’m sure I’ll need to bitch at some point about her here. Might as well get the introductions over with. Heh, I’ve been bitching about mine in a private filter for months now. She, her husband (who was never part of the original deal btw) and their dog are FINALLY moving to their own place in a couple of weeks. They were supposed to move around Memorial Day but the complex did a major snafu on the apartment they thought they were getting and she, being Ms. Entitlement-Poor-Pitiful-Me, refused the alternate because of the “view” (I think her exact words were, “I can’t abide sitting on a balcony overlooking a parking lot after a long day at school.”) :smack: ANYWAY, the point I was trying to make was that she and my husband were pretty good friends in college and kept in sporadic touch for a few years afterward before everything petered out. She then suddenly contacts him out of the blue upon getting a job up this way because she remembered he lived here. She was supposed to stay here for 2 months. It’s been almost a year (plus the husband plus the dog) because she nearly collapsed at the COL here. It’ll be interesting to see if their friendship still exists after they move. ---
**Author:** ![Sario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sario/32/18580_2.png) [@Sario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sario)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/390 "2015-06-25T09:37:14Z")
It’s only June, but it already feels like August. What the hell, weather?:mad: ---
**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:** [June 25, 2015, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/391 "2015-06-25T10:28:31Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Rum’s made from cane, it’s a veggie! I like the way you think! > [@kiz](#): > > It’s not my female housemate either, although she would give this person a run for their money in the poor-poor-pitiful-me department. Oooooh a “poor pitiful me” cage match! I think we have a viable competitor for WWE here! ---
**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:** [June 25, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/392 "2015-06-25T13:58:13Z")
If we’re having an annoying housemate cage match, I’ll volunteer my housemates (mom and teen daughter.) Mostly, they aren’t pity-partiers, but boy, oh boy, do they love drama. Everything with the drama. And I’m pretty sure that tapeworms have better parenting instincts than Mom… And we, too, are having August in June. This week is better than last - the high temps have only been in the mid-nineties, versus last week’s 98-101 Fahrenheit, plus we’re getting a little bit of rain in the afternoons. If you listen carefully, you can hear the grass growing, and the a/c saying “help me!” ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/393 "2015-06-25T14:40:36Z")
What the hell is in the air today? My sinuses have been in clear-the-decks mode since I woke up! ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/394 "2015-06-25T14:45:40Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Rum’s made from cane, it’s a veggie! And chocolate is made from beans, so that makes it, uh, protein! ---
**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:** [June 25, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/395 "2015-06-25T14:56:57Z")
^^ username/post combo FTW 😛 My underwear is schizophrenic today. This is a micro-rant that will go over the heads of the male half of y’all, but there it is. It’s not even a color-coordination mishmash, as they are both black. However, because {reasons} today I’m wearing a thong and a sports bra. So part of me feels all voluptuous and alluring and bow-chicka-bow-wow and part of me feels minimized and utilitarian and decidedly unsexy. That’s an odd feeling. So is wearing a thong in the 1st place, btw, as I haven’t donned one in years and was curious if I could get back in the habit comfortably. Found one that had been hiding in the back of Ye Olde Undies Drawer when everything got jumbled and topsy-turvy in the move, shrugged, and figured “why not?” ---
**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:** [June 25, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/396 "2015-06-25T15:50:00Z")
> [@Kelevra](#): > > What the hell is in the air today? My sinuses have been in clear-the-decks mode since I woke up! I know what happened to my sinuses. Some jackass with the electrical fixin’ things company (not the power company) was in my workplace parking lot fixing a pole light this morning. He managed to knock the power out for a few minutes, which caused the automatic doors to get stuck for about half an hour. We had to manually open the doors and leave them open until maintenance could fix them. The truck was right outside the door which meant we were all breathing diesel fumes and they have killed my sinuses for today. I’ve been sneezing and coughing all morning. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/397 "2015-06-25T17:11:34Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > And chocolate is made from beans, so that makes it, uh, protein! As is coffee. That’s how I get at least two of my vegetable servings every day. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/398 "2015-06-25T17:32:01Z")
If we’re counting coffee, I’ve had all my my recommended servings of vegetables for today, and about 3/4 for tomorrow. Also, my smallest children are going to be forcefully packed off to Grandma’s if they don’t shut the hell up for five minutes. Soon. And the husband might have to go with them. You know that childish retort “That’s my name, don’t wear it out”? They’ve worn mine out already today, and it’s just lunchtime! ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/399 "2015-06-25T17:56:09Z")
I hate to be the buzzkill, but coffee comes from berries, and chocolate comes from a tree fruit pod. The coffee “bean” and cacao “nib” are the seeds. So you’ve had some fruit today, but still gotta eat your veggies!! Um, I may be on my third cup of coffee. I may have put cocoa in it. And cinnamon. And maple syrup. Oh, and possibly a nip of bourbon in that last one… what? It’s my day off and it’s past noon. On the weather front, it’s humid as heck, but near the beach on the glorious air conditioner called Lake Michigan, it’s 70F and I absolutely cannot complain. Last summer was pretty mild and I’m praying for more of the same this summer. Heat is not my friend. I’m so sorry for those stuck in heatwave conditions, when it happens here I seriously get the summer version of SAD and don’t do anything or go anywhere and people check on me because I’m depressed and not myself. I want to move farther north! ---
**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:** [June 25, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/400 "2015-06-25T21:58:58Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > I seriously get the summer version of SAD and don’t do anything or go anywhere and people check on me because I’m depressed and not myself. I want to move farther north! Holy God, I thought I was the only one who got like that. I’m fine in the winter but summer heat beats me down flat. It’s why I moved up to the mountains where it usually isn’t this hot. It looks like the storm front is moving in, though, so bring on cooler temperatures! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331.md?page=21)