# March Minirant Madness **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063 "2011-03-01T15:03:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 31
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/601 "2011-04-04T19:52:31Z")
> [@cwthree](#): > > Sellers, “bathroom” has a rather specific meaning in the developed world. At a minimum, it involves a toilet connected to a water supply and a waste pipe. Merely placing a toilet in an unfinished, unplumbed room doesn’t cut it. > > Why yes, I did look at a property where the advertised “upstairs bathroom” was an unfinished room with a toilet (unplumbed) and fiberglass shower surround (also unplumbed) sitting on the plywood subfloor. Why do you ask? > [@lindsaybluth](#): > > That’s…wow. I don’t actually have a response for that, you’ll have to settle for a story. > > I had a landlord showing me a place tell me “I was certainly too pretty for him” right in front of my boyfriend. That’s okay, since the day before when I asked him over the phone about showing dates with “How flexible are you?” and he responded “I can put my legs behind my head!” I wasn’t offended just…really surprised.. I remember looking at a house in Boston that my realtor said was the only one he’d ever seen whose value could be increased by _taking out_ a bathroom. It was a toilet and sink installed at the head of the stairs down to the finished basement. No door between it and the stairs, just a toilet sitting on the landing. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/602 "2011-04-04T20:36:33Z")
> [@ENugent](#): > > I remember looking at a house in Boston that my realtor said was the only one he’d ever seen whose value could be increased by _taking out_ a bathroom. It was a toilet and sink installed at the head of the stairs down to the finished basement. No door between it and the stairs, just a toilet sitting on the landing. :eek: That beats my grandma’s house, where the basement “bathroom” consisted of a toilet,\* not concealed in any way, over by the utility sink. And it definitely beats my old place, which had a basement toilet surrounded by a summer-camp-style wooden stall, the door and walls of which reached neither the floor nor the ceiling. \*Plumbed, of course. Grandma wasn’t a barbarian. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/603 "2011-04-04T21:22:35Z")
**ENugent** , now the real question is…did they call it a bathroom? Or a half-bath? Or was it just a “fun little surprise” you discovered once you were there? > [@cwthree](#): > > \*Plumbed, of course. Grandma wasn’t a barbarian. I nearly died reading this. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/604 "2011-04-04T21:45:30Z")
They claimed it was a half-bath in the listing. cwthree, I also laughed out loud reading your footnote. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/605 "2011-04-04T21:46:26Z")
“Half-bath?” If you don’t hook anything up, that’s considered a half-bath? That’s…creative. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/606 "2011-04-04T21:49:21Z")
Just a month into the semester and I’ve already reported three cases of plagiarism from one of my college classes. :mad: I told everyone in every class, as I do every semester, NOT to copy and paste material from the internet into a blank document, print it out, put their name on it and pretend it’s original. And then they do it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/607 "2011-04-04T21:59:41Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Og, but I hate forced password chages every 90 days. I’ll trade you–like **Moonlitherial** , our passwords have a forced change every 30 days. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/608 "2011-04-05T17:41:41Z")
So our group has this new…acquaintance, who is always asking me and my other friend Lacy\* for diet advice. It makes us very uncomfortable. Well, she moreso asks me for exercise advice (since I’m the gym rat) and asks Lacy what to eat since Lacy is a dietitian. Last night out she asked if bacon was “okay”. She saw Lacy drinking a few beers (Lacy runs 10 miles a day) so she assumed it was fine for her to drink too - pineapple juice and SoCo :smack:. She asked me what I would eat if I were eating and I honestly replied “an all veggie sandwich on wheat.” She ordered ciabatta, bacon and ham. I was polite and avoided giving her real responses to her other questions because let’s face it, she’s not looking for real answers (ETA: from us). She’s already seeing a doctor for her weight. She’s a sweet girl who is fun and very caring but it’s uncomfortable when she looks to us for food validation. Today Lacy sent me this video and said “This is what I deal with every day.” It’s pretty hilarious. Entirely SFW. [Link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Ruc1dMsm0). There are some real gems like "“The gummi bears are fat free. I don’t think you know what you’re talking about.” \*not her real name ETA: **vivalostwages** , do you flunk them in the course or just the paper/assignment? My future MIL said she used to flunk them in the course but she was told by admins that she was flunking too many people :smack: :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/609 "2011-04-05T19:46:20Z")
\*\*Chefguy \*\*started [a thread for April](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=603371). Reporting this one to be locked. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063.md?page=30)