# Lots of tots rot!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 4, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053 "2014-06-04T19:38:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 5
### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/81 "2014-06-05T21:20:58Z")
> [@GrandWino](#):
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> Let’s not forget it was Lute’s [second Doper cash-grab](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=623646) in service of his pets. He had retirement accounts back then too, but he definitely kept the money that time.
Had to. We weren’t at all prepared for multiple vet visits within the same month for a cat which turned out to have been abused by her previous owner. The little bit we got from Dopers, most of it in cash, covered our electric bill for that month.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/82 "2014-06-05T21:22:08Z")
This thread isn’t at all about shipment of tater tots that got spoiled. I’m so confused.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/83 "2014-06-05T21:27:05Z")
This thread reminds me how much Skywatcher stinks. I was enjoying the forgetting.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/84 "2014-06-05T21:28:41Z")
Let’s not pretend that cash given to make up for multiple vet visits and cover an electric bill is in any way equal to holding monies in PayPal until they turned out to be unnecessary and refunded.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/85 "2014-06-05T21:34:27Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> Let’s not pretend that cash given to make up for multiple vet visits and cover an electric bill is in any way equal to holding monies in PayPal until they turned out to be unnecessary and refunded.
Ohhh. That’s sig worthy.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/86 "2014-06-05T21:39:23Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> Let’s not pretend that cash given to make up for multiple vet visits and cover an electric bill is in any way equal to holding monies in PayPal until they turned out to be unnecessary and refunded.
Not sure I follow, can you explain?
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/87 "2014-06-05T21:41:31Z")
**Skywatcher** - I’m still paying off my late wife’s final hospital bills, my daughter needs new glasses and summer school, and my son’s college tuition bill for fall just showed up. I was lamenting my financial situation, but then I remembered some people have vet bills and electric bills the same month. I feel like such a jerk. I’m sorry.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/88 "2014-06-05T21:43:43Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> Let’s not pretend that cash given to make up for multiple vet visits and cover an electric bill is in any way equal to holding monies in PayPal until they turned out to be unnecessary and refunded.
Vets often will set up monthly payment plans.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/89 "2014-06-05T21:44:35Z")
> [@bup](#):
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> **Skywatcher** - I’m still paying off my late wife’s final hospital bills, my daughter needs new glasses and summer school, and my son’s college tuition bill for fall just showed up. I was lamenting my financial situation, but then I remembered some people have vet bills and electric bills the same month. I feel like such a jerk. I’m sorry.
You should be. Some people seem to want him to pay for the things he’s obligated to pay for with his own money. Yes, you heard me. His own money!
People are _bastards_.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/90 "2014-06-05T21:46:10Z")
> [@bup](#):
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> **Skywatcher** - I’m still paying off my late wife’s final hospital bills, my daughter needs new glasses and summer school, and my son’s college tuition bill for fall just showed up.
How much ya need?
Joking aside, surely you’re better prepared for such emergencies than we had been. We were basically living paycheck-to-paycheck at the time.
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### Author:  [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/91 "2014-06-05T21:47:10Z")
> [@Fenris](#):
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> You mentioned me before I mentioned you, bunny-boy.
Reported as anti-bunnite hate speech.
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/92 "2014-06-05T22:08:05Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> How much ya need?
Ha! Good one! Because you _ask_ for money, which is the opposite of giving it.
> [@](#):
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> Joking aside, surely you’re better prepared for such emergencies than we had been. We were basically living paycheck-to-paycheck at the time.
Well, surely. I mean, my wife hadn’t been working for several years because of her health, and we’d been incurring lots of medical costs (we qualified for the tax thing where you can deduct from your taxed income the portion of your medical expenses that are more than 7.5% of your income 5 years running!), and many paychecks I still put the second weeks’ groceries on a credit card because the money runs out before the days do, but, surely I’m better prepared, because…reasons. Surely you and your wife were worse prepared for emergencies than anyone else, and anybody you encounter on a message board isn’t living paycheck to paycheck.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/93 "2014-06-05T22:21:11Z")
Of course the more important question is, can someone spare me a 20 till payday?
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/94 "2014-06-05T22:27:06Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> Of course the more important question is, can someone spare me a 20 till payday?
Let me guess, you have one in your pocket, but taking it out is so much effort?
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### Author:  [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/95 "2014-06-05T22:27:26Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> How much ya need?
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> Joking aside, surely you’re better prepared for such emergencies than we had been. We were basically living paycheck-to-paycheck at the time.
So, in your world, getting The three months of overtime that you said you were offered but chose not to take in the original thread wouldn’t have helped you get ahead on your bills? That’s interesting universe you live in, bunny boy
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/96 "2014-06-05T22:30:59Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> Of course the more important question is, can someone spare me a 20 till payday?
Will you gimme $20 if I can tell you where you got your shoes?
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/97 "2014-06-05T22:33:47Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> Will you gimme $20 if I can tell you where you got your shoes?
Are we in the Pit or the French Quarter?
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### Author:  [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/98 "2014-06-05T22:34:01Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> Seems to me that deliberately making up crap (savings accounts, trust funds, the entire notion that I grabbed the money the first chance I got, etc.) to illicit a negative response is trolling no matter which forum.
You realize that _illicit_ makes no sense at all in that sentence? _Elicit_ is the word you’re grasping for.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/99 "2014-06-05T22:47:43Z")
> [@ruadh](#):
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> They were in a septic tank, it has been mentioned and played on with great outrage here in Ireland.
Thanks. The linked article was a lot less direct. This is an outrage that will linger.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/100 "2014-06-05T22:51:22Z")
> [@GrandWino](#):
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> Are we in the Pit or the French Quarter?
I’m working on a 5 year plan to make the Pit more NOLAesque. For example, right now I’m sipping a Hurricane out of a plastic go-cup. We’ve already got performance artists doing their shtick.
😃
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