# 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:** 7
### Author:  [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2014, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/121 "2014-06-06T07:55:18Z")
Perhaps we can get some dead baby _rabbit_ jokes, that may smooth things over?
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### Author:  [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2014, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/122 "2014-06-06T08:03:42Z")
So let me get this straight. Some nun is asking the SDMB for handouts because she wants to air condition a bunch of dead baby rabbits? Typical…
Either way, all this talk about dead babies has really depressed my hermit crab. I’m remodeling his play room with a 70" flatscreen and a jacuzzi to cheer him up but it’s going to be a tight stretch for me financially. I just incurred some major gambling losses this month, and blew a fortune on my condo in the Caymans. Could any of you kind dopers slip me a little dinero until my most recent stock grant is fully vested?
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2014, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/123 "2014-06-06T08:18:05Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#):
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> So let me get this straight. Some nun is asking the SDMB for handouts because she wants to air condition a bunch of dead baby rabbits? Typical…
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> Either way, all this talk about dead babies has really depressed my hermit crab. I’m remodeling his play room with a 70" flatscreen and a jacuzzi to cheer him up but it’s going to be a tight stretch for me financially. I just incurred some major gambling losses this month, and blew a fortune on my condo in the Caymans. Could any of you kind dopers slip me a little dinero until my most recent stock grant is fully vested?
Obviously you know nothing of hermit crab ownership. They much prefer high quality LCD projectors and saunas to flat screens and jacuzzis. It’s ok though a lot of newbie hermit crab owners don’t know these things. Just give me your paypal info and I’ll forward you my most recent beanie baby profits. All of it.
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### Author:  [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2014, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/124 "2014-06-06T09:05:51Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#):
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> Obviously you know nothing of hermit crab ownership. They much prefer high quality LCD projectors and saunas to flat screens and jacuzzis. It’s ok though a lot of newbie hermit crab owners don’t know these things. Just give me your paypal info and I’ll forward you my most recent beanie baby profits. All of it.
You don’t know my little Lute like I do! The LCD I got him last year sits unused in his study, and he hasn’t set foot in the sauna once since the garlic butter incident.
Any help at all will be much appreciated. To top it off I just found out that I would need to pay a penalty if I change the dates of the Caribbean cruise I booked before all this came up, so now I’m going to have to hire a full time nanny to care for him while I’m away. Ugh…
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/125 "2014-06-06T14:55:18Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> My apologies for assuming, then.
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> At least you have some idea when these bills are arriving, right? Nobody hiding them from you because they have an irrational fear of finding sales calls in their voice mail?
This doesn’t even make sense. All I can make out from it is you get your bills through voice mail and your wife is afraid to check the voice mail to see if a bill came because there might be a sales call which she could, by the way, easily delete a few seconds into listening to it?
Seriously, credit cards. This is what they are for. Unexpected expenditures. It happens to everyone. Why it’s even happened to me before.
Like that sick kitty thread where you were asking for money to help with vet bills and then later in the thread you asked for someone to “lend” you $30 so you wouldn’t over draw your bank account. This is the time to bust out the credit card or at least take the hit of the overdraw fee.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/126 "2014-06-06T17:45:08Z")
> [@bup](#):
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> Also, nobody has openly acknowledged **Gatopescado** ’s
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> so I say, well done, lad!
…reluctantly, Father Mulligan asks The Mother Superior, "Mother Superior, What is a _“quickie”?_
“$20, same as down the street.”
Thank You! Thank You! I’ll be here all week! Be sure to tip your Bartender and Waitress! 😃
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/127 "2014-06-06T19:25:21Z")
I’d like to get the Dopers to donate money to me to clean the babies out of my septic tank.
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### Author:  [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/128 "2014-06-06T19:29:51Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> I’d like to get the Dopers to donate money to me to clean the babies out of my septic tank.
Just throw a rope in there, they’ll figure out how to climb out eventually.
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### Author:  [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/129 "2014-06-06T20:16:39Z")
> [@buckgully](#):
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> Just throw a rope in there, they’ll figure out how to climb out eventually.
Can’t they just use their umbilical cords? I mean, there’s 80 of them. Tying them end to end would surely be long enough.
It just might be a little slick.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/130 "2014-06-06T21:50:00Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> Heck, I won’t come back to this thread since it’s pretty much been hijacked to uselessness. But do what you must.
Bullshit. I bet you have a tab open to this thread and are hitting F5 every 10-15 minutes.
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/131 "2014-06-06T23:59:23Z")
And writing sweet nothings in his diary.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/132 "2014-06-07T00:22:59Z")
> [@faithfool](#):
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> I love you.
(blushing smiley here)
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/133 "2014-06-07T19:49:35Z")
> [@Calatin](#):
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> Can’t they just use their umbilical cords? I mean, there’s 80 of them. Tying them end to end would surely be long enough.
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> It just might be a little slick.
Meh, they’ve probably dried out by now.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/134 "2014-06-08T13:46:59Z")
I need money to clean dead babies out of my septic tank!
And just to be clear, I will actually _clean_ the dead babies after removal, 'cause who likes shitty dead babies?
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/135 "2014-06-08T22:56:14Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> This doesn’t even make sense.
Yeah, sorry. Not to sound like I’m making excuses but I’m aware that my brain doesn’t function the same as most people and sometimes I say or do things which make perfect sense to me but leaves pretty much everyone else like, WTF? This is especially noticeable when I haven’t been getting enough sleep.
I’m also aware of comments to the effect of that something is wrong with me. No disagreement there.
Now, I’m in the middle of a stay-at-home vacation and have better things to do. 🙂
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/136 "2014-06-09T01:18:06Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> Yeah, sorry. Not to sound like I’m making excuses but I’m aware that my brain doesn’t function the same as most people and sometimes I say or do things which make perfect sense to me but leaves pretty much everyone else like, WTF? This is especially noticeable when I haven’t been getting enough sleep.
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> I’m also aware of comments to the effect of that something is wrong with me. No disagreement there.
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> Now, I’m in the middle of a stay-at-home vacation and have better things to do. 🙂
You’ve made similar excuses before, and I kind of think it’s bullshit to do that in order to hand-wave away things that piss people off. I mean, you might think it’s an explanation, but it’s not. It’s an excuse, a request to be held to a different standard.
It’s the threat of giving into temptation to spout excuses like this is why I never disclose the fact that I have ADHD to my employers. Yes, some people’s brains don’t work like everyone else’s. Those poor suckers have to work harder then, not write off things as ‘well, you know my executive functioning is impaired, you can’t expect so much of me!’ Giving people sob stories over why I’m more impulsive than other people, why organization is harder for me, why I’m distractible, have a poor memory for conversation and have to work really damn hard at time management at best would elicit pity, and at worse actually end up causing people to think that I’m less capable than I am and give me less responsibility, which isn’t something I want to happen professional development-wise. So I keep that shit to myself and work harder at things. From the last eval my supervisor wrote, filled with exceeds expectations and even a far exceeds expectations, it seems to be a good strategy.
I know, I’m talking about work, but it tracks into the social world too. Most people don’t like to be pitied: ask yourself the next time you’re tempted to use your disability as an excuse if you’re one of the few that do.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2014, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/137 "2014-06-09T11:02:58Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> Yeah, sorry.
No problem, just keep bumping the thread and sooner or later something.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/138 "2014-06-10T14:41:48Z")
Oh, my, new development . . .
[Paging all anti-vaxxers!](http://www.salon.com/2014/06/09/the_catholic_irish_babies_scandal_it_gets_much_worse/)
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### Author:  [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/139 "2014-06-10T15:00:25Z")
Holy shit. Those nuns didn’t realize Swift was writing satire, did they?
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-tots-rot/690053/140 "2014-06-10T15:11:45Z")
We have a poster here named **psychobunny**. I wonder what his role in all this is… :dubious:
😉
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