# Lets all March forth and rant
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [March 2, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080 "2021-03-02T01:31:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/221 "2021-03-26T23:12:36Z")
> [@chela](#):
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> grocery store without paying $10 USD in ground beef 80/20
Or send a check or online donation to a nearby food bank to get it off your mind. That store donates hundreds of dollars worth of good a week to food banks and pantries-they just donated $10.00 more.
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### Author:  [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/222 "2021-03-26T23:18:22Z")
Fuck Nintendo for selecting _one_ retailer for distribution of some very desirable Amiibo cards, and fuck Target for 1) having a craptastic website, and 2) setting the cards out for sale in the store when it had been repeatedly communicated that the cards were supposed to be for sale exclusively online with in-store pickup.
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/223 "2021-03-26T23:24:27Z")
I feel like you can relate to this Wondermark comic.
> **[\#1525; Bedtime, in Overtime](http://wondermark.com/c1525/)**
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> (Click to read the whole comic)
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### Author:  [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/224 "2021-03-27T00:44:50Z")
Our litter robot died a slow, lingering death this afternoon. Our spoiled feline overlords have gotten qued to always having a freshly scooped litter box and are not pleased with this development.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2021, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/225 "2021-03-27T04:38:02Z")
My shipment of salmon steaks finally arrived, six days after it was sent. I had to open the carton to ascertain that they’re now room temperature. Thank god they’re sealed in their plastic pouches, or I would have passed out.
The company will send a new carton next week.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2021, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/226 "2021-03-27T08:55:24Z")
And now I’m fasting for 12 hours, before having blood work done in the morning. I’m so hungry, I could even eat that spoiled salmon.
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### Author:  [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2021, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/227 "2021-03-27T11:42:55Z")
Did you have the LRII, or a newer LRIII?
I LOVED my old LRII. I’ve been a lot less enamored of the III - it’s effing finicky. All the electronic bells and whistles misfire more than they should, IMO, for the price of the damned thing. That said, it is great in a _very_ multicat household to have a constantly clean box!
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### Author:  [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/228 "2021-03-27T17:17:25Z")
We have the LRII. Hubs thinks he’s going to be able to fix it, he says it needs to be taken apart and cleaned out really well because the litter dust gets in the gears.
We put a regular box by the robot and one of the cats still insisted on using the robot which is rather overfull and stinky. The robot is outside in pieces now and kitty is yelling at me.
If the robot can’t be repaired, it will be replaced post haste. Everyone in this household is very spoiled now.
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2021, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/229 "2021-03-28T02:56:20Z")
> [@saje](#):
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> I LOVED my old LRII. I’ve been a lot less enamored of the III
OMG that’s what imma blow some of my stimulus money to buy! Can you (or @JaneDoe42 ) explain the brand name, please? What does that stand for?
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### Author:  [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/230 "2021-03-28T03:01:53Z")
[Litter Robot](https://www.litter-robot.com/), we were able to fix ours and our feline overlords are happy again.
We’ve had it for 5 years and it worked without a glitch with monthly cleanings, but it finally said it wanted _all_ of the litter dust vacuumed out. Hopefully, it will work for 5 more years without protest. (We will start doing a full cleaning yearly.)
You will get sticker shock looking at the price, but its really worth it.
PS we have the II, second generation. Saje has the third generation, III.
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### Author:  [@Old\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Wench)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2021, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/231 "2021-03-28T03:02:40Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> > [@saje](#):
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> > I LOVED my old LRII. I’ve been a lot less enamored of the III
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> OMG that’s what imma blow some of my stimulus money to buy! Can you (or @JaneDoe42 ) explain the brand name, please? What does that stand for?
“LR” stands for “Litter Robot.”
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### Author:  [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/232 "2021-03-28T10:42:41Z")
The thing is stupid expensive, but it is SO much better to pull the bag out of the drawer once a week or so than to have to scoop daily.
I also have a couple of [CatGenie](https://www.catgenie.com/) boxes that scoop, wash, and dry themselves. Also stupid expensive, also worth every penny.
11 house cats = I need robotic assistance!
And JaneDoe - SO glad yours was resurrected!
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/233 "2021-03-28T19:57:51Z")
> [@saje](#):
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> 11 house cats
Oh
My.
Goodness.
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### Author:  [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2021, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/234 "2021-03-28T20:00:54Z")
> [@saje](#):
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> And JaneDoe - SO glad yours was resurrected!
Not nearly as happy as we are! I looked at the LRIII when I found the link for purplehorseshoe and really can’t see any reason I’d want to control the litter box with my phone. Have you found that to be a useful option?
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/235 "2021-03-28T20:14:53Z")
My beautiful husband is utterly helpless in the kitchen and it’s driving me nuts. The other day after I made broccoli littles (literally just sticking them in the toaster oven for 10 minutes) I mentioned they needed to cool before feeding them to our kid.
“How do you check them to see if they are cool? Do you break them in half or…?”
JFC.
And today, again with the broccoli littles.
“It says to flip them after 5 minutes. Should I turn the toaster oven off and then restart it after I flip them or just leave it on?”
This is a 38 year old man. I’m still having nightmares about the time he tried to make mashed potatoes on his own by trying to mash _raw potatoes._
What he doesn’t seem to accept is that cooking in any capacity is a trial and error process. There is no one right answer to most of his questions. If he would just do it by himself each way he’d figure out the optimal way to fucking flip the broccoli littles. He can’t cook meals for himself, he can only dump a can of beans into a bowl of spinach and call it good. He is the laziest person in the kitchen that I have ever seen. I am tired of answering his stupid questions.
I occasionally get into fits where I feel dumber than him and in those dark times I try to remember shit like this.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/236 "2021-03-28T21:23:13Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> I’m still having nightmares about the time he tried to make mashed potatoes on his own by trying to mash _raw potatoes._
The first time I directed my then-husband to chop an onion, I discovered I’d neglected to tell him to peel it first.
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### Author:  [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/237 "2021-03-29T01:19:53Z")
Oh my. I would suggest just using Google and Youtube these days for basic cooking techniques (and haven’t you mentioned that **Sr. Weasel** is of Italian heritage? Odd that he escaped any knowledge even if he was never called upon to actually cook). You can Google just about anything these days and get a good answer. I’ve certainly done it.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/238 "2021-03-29T01:28:49Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> I’m still having nightmares about the time he tried to make mashed potatoes on his own by trying to mash _raw potatoes._
My brother did this. Also raw potato salad, which we didn’t know was raw till it was in our mouths.
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### Author:  [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2021, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/239 "2021-03-29T01:30:54Z")
> [@panache45](#):
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> My brother did this. Also raw potato salad, which we didn’t know was raw till it was in our mouths.
Bless his heart.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2021, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-all-march-forth-and-rant/934080/240 "2021-03-29T03:02:37Z")
_Hey, nobody minds when lettuce salads are crunchy._
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