# May the rant be with you (May 2012 rant thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 1, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483 "2012-05-01T05:07:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/41 "2012-05-02T16:00:25Z")
Ducks-in-the-cement-pond update: The apartment manager got a wildlife rescue person to come out to relocate the quacker family. Unfortunately, the hillbilly neighbor contingent took exception to this “animal cruelty” and ran the rescuer off before he could capture all of them. So now we’re left with momma and three ducklings. The duck goo on the bottom of the pool continues to accumulate–the word is they’re going to have to empty the pool to get at the nasty stains. If they wait too long that black crap will be really hard to clean off. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/42 "2012-05-02T17:41:40Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > To the cop who pulled me over last night: > > So I pulled around your slow-ass moving car in the parking lot because I wanted to get home and at the speed you were creeping along, that probably wasn’t going to happen until next October if I demurely stayed behind you. And you pulled me over because of this. Please note: I don’t take issue with you doing this. If this was an illegal stunt that I pulled, then mea culpa. You have a job to do, whatever. Wait a minute. I thought cops weren’t allowed to do that in parking lots? They’re considered private property. Or at least that’s what I’ve always been told. Even if it is legal (I guess it must have been, she did it), the cop was a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/43 "2012-05-02T19:23:06Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > I got little spatters of either tar or blacktop material on my pants cuffs and canvas walking shoes yesterday during my work commute. :mad: Anyone know how to get it out? [http://www.carbona.com/stain-devils-7-motoroil-and-lubricant.html](http://www.carbona.com/stain-devils-7-motoroil-and-lubricant.html) I’ve found it it at Wal-Mart (shudder), and Jo-Ann Fabrics in the past. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/44 "2012-05-02T19:49:19Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > Ew… Moldy refried beans is one of the worst smells ever. > > Thanks to a bizarre series of events involving my cat, the fridge door, and a jar of salsa I just finished cleaning up a huge mess in the kitchen and I have what I fear is a broken pinky finger on my left hand. > > You’d think that my boyfriend would’ve noticed either me screaming (first in pain then at the cat to get the hell out of the kitchen) or the glass jar shattering. He was sitting less than 20 feet away. I poke my head out of the kitchen and say “I’m fine, thanks for asking.” He looks up from his phone and says, “Did you say something?” The level of obliviousness with that one sometimes… :mad: > > It’s really hard to type without using my left pinky… It’s turning interesting colors… maybe I should get this looked at. My condolences. I am currently recovering from a [Mallet injury](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallet_finger) on the same finger. It really sucks to type. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/45 "2012-05-02T20:30:59Z")
I may be single soon. This is entirely his fault and I’m sick of dealing with his shit. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/46 "2012-05-02T20:36:51Z")
Stopped at a gas station to take a leak this morning. Had to wait on a guy who was already occupying the facility. The guy who came out was an unhealthy looking older guy…not that that would have registered with me at all, had it been a routine restroom stop. I walked in, and _ugghghghghghhhhhhh_…the most horrible smell that could possibly come from a human body. Who hasn’t had to pee in a fog of someone else’s shitstench before? Whatever, you do what you have to do and leave. But this was different. It had this…distinct…something. It was horrible. It did not smell like shit. It smelled like disease, and rot, and horrible evilness. That’s it…when you read a description of a demon or something smelling like evil feces, that’s what it smelled like. I can NOT get rid of the memory of that smell. It’s ruining my appetite, 5 hours later. I don’t know WHAT was wrong with that dude, but he was sick. Very, very ill. And I have what I want to be a very nice evening planned at a brewpub I’ve never been to, and I’m afraid that I won’t be able to enjoy it because of that horrid phantom smell. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/47 "2012-05-02T22:17:51Z")
Speaking of the smells of sickness, there’s someone (I hope not multiple someones) who leaves the ladies’ room at work smelling like putrid rotten fish. Really strong and _wrong_ smelling. I don’t know if it’s poop-related or vagina-related but it reeks and someone needs to see a doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/48 "2012-05-02T23:42:02Z")
Update: finger not broken, just swollen and badly bruised. Still hurts like a bitch. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/49 "2012-05-02T23:58:41Z")
Dear coworker: The purpose of an analogy is to help make your point _clearer_. Your long, rambling analogies must have a point \*somewhere \*in them, but by the time you are done, no one is listening. ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/50 "2012-05-03T01:13:29Z")
You really don’t get it, do you? DVB : there’s a place for you. And your little dog, too. ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/51 "2012-05-03T01:14:42Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > Update: finger not broken, just swollen and badly bruised. Still hurts like a bitch. ☹ Glad you got it looked at. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/52 "2012-05-03T01:28:34Z")
> [@Cheez\_Whia](#): > > [http://www.carbona.com/stain-devils-7-motoroil-and-lubricant.html](http://www.carbona.com/stain-devils-7-motoroil-and-lubricant.html) > > I’ve found it it at Wal-Mart (shudder), and Jo-Ann Fabrics in the past. Thanks - my local grocery and hardware stores tend to have a lot of cleaning/laundry supplies like that. I got a bar of Fels-Naphtha soap at one of those not long ago. (Maybe it’ll get the remaining spot of tar-stuff off my **foot** , too. :mad: ) ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/53 "2012-05-03T01:33:34Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Thanks - my local grocery and hardware stores tend to have a lot of cleaning/laundry supplies like that. I got a bar of Fels-Naphtha soap at one of those not long ago. (Maybe it’ll get the remaining spot of tar-stuff off my **foot** , too. :mad: ) You aren’t sposta put that stuff (Fels) on your skin!!! What about nail polish remover? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/54 "2012-05-03T01:47:55Z")
> [@living\_in\_hell](#): > > You aren’t sposta put that stuff (Fels) on your skin!!! What about nail polish remover? Nah, I used the soap as a stain remover in the past, but I’m saying anywhere that carries Fels-Naphtha ought to carry Carbona. I’ll try the nail polish remover, too. Pretty soon I’ll have to resort to removing some skin if I can’t find an option. Soap and scrubbing sure isn’t working. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/55 "2012-05-03T02:09:08Z")
Conversation with husband, as we were discussing whether to fix truck bumper: Me: “Wow, the deer really have it in for you. That’s three in one year.” Him: “No, I hit one and you hit one. That’s only two.” Me: “I know I hit one, but you hit two with the patrol car - just before we moved last June, and right after you went to day shift in March, plus one in the truck.” Him: “Yeah, but I only hit one with the truck.” Me: “But you’ve had a total of three collisions involving deer and vehicles in the past year. One in the truck and two in the car.” Him: “Yeah, I guess… if you’re counting like that.” Me: !!! ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/56 "2012-05-03T02:51:51Z")
I’m not really sure if this is a rant or not, but here goes… I just saw a post (on Facebook, of course) from a woman who gave up her child for adoption in 1984 when she was 18. It was a closed adoption. Now “birth mothers have no rights” and her life won’t be complete until she finds her baby girl. Lady, people like you are the reason adoption records are sealed. If your daughter wants to get in touch with you, there are ways she can do that. No, you don’t have the right to interrupt her life; you gave that up when you gave her up for adoption. Leave it at that. You did a good thing for her when you gave her up, you said yourself you could not provide for her. Now, do another good thing and let her go. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/57 "2012-05-03T04:52:32Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Is Bill’s cat a thumbcat? Because if he is, you have reason to worry. Even if he isn’t a thumbcat, he has urine and feces to make his views known. The mystery is solved. Kinda. I used long stick pins to mount a piece of needlepoint in a cheap frame and one of them fell out. How it happened to fall out and land point down in my book is not known. I don’t think that Bill’s cat has thumbs, but he hides his paws from me. I’m the one with the claw clippers and my cats have warned him about this. Maybe he does have thumbs, because Bill says that he hides his feet at home as well. > [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > **Flatlined** , if your swamp cooler is set up properly, it should be able to run for a while even with no water coming in. In all of the swamp coolers I’ve seen, the bottom pan is filled with water as a reservoir, with a float to shut off the water when it reaches the top. The drain plug should look like [this](http://www.amazon.com/DIAL-MFG-9244-Overflow-Drain/dp/B000BQYG12/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1335968207&sr=8-3-fkmr1) with the vertical tube to allow the reservoir to fill up, but drain out if it gets too full. > > With 3-4 inches of water in the bottom of the pan, the pump should be able to run for at least a couple of hours without water coming in. Wow, someone else who knows how a swamp cooler works 🙂 Very cool. Thank you for the link. My swamp does work like that, but I’m gone 11-12 hours a day. I guess I should pit myself for leaving it running when I know the water might be cut off for hours and that when it is restored, that all the dirt and stuff will clog up the filters. I won’t. I’ll just keep blaming the people who are causing the problems instead of being proactive and shutting the swamp off and turning the AC on. Thank goodness I am gone 11-12 hours a day, because I’d really be pitching a fit if I couldn’t flush my toilet all day. > [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > Update: finger not broken, just swollen and badly bruised. Still hurts like a bitch. ☹ I’m glad you had it looked at. I used to think that I was bullet-proof until I broke my foot. My rant is about the lady who lives down the street. Her kids love kittens. She gets them kittens. When the kittens are about 6 months old, they are no longer cute and have started running from people because they have learned that they are playtoys to be tossed around and have tails pulled, so she puts them outside. Intact and clueless about how to survive. I have talked to her about how cruel it is to do that to housecats. She doesn’t care, her kids like kittens. I have had the teenager cats fixed for her, but they aren’t allowed in her house because they might scratch her precious children. Now I just trap them, have them fixed and take them to adoptions. I’m moving in November. I won’t be able to help those poor cats anymore. I’m moving my ferals to a ranch so now all of my hard work will go right down the drain because my idiot neighbor will populate the area with intact cats. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/58 "2012-05-03T05:09:26Z")
> [@](#): > > I have talked to her about how cruel it is to do that to housecats. She doesn’t care, her kids like kittens. I have had the teenager cats fixed for her, but they aren’t allowed in her house because they might scratch her precious children. Now I just trap them, have them fixed and take them to adoptions. One of my husband’s nieces or nephews or grandnieces or grandnephews is exactly like this, only with dogs and birds as well as cats. In one case, the family took off for over a week on a cruise, leaving a teenage kitty outside to look after herself. That’s how we got one of our cats. This cat is a 100% indoor kitty now. She likes to look out the window, but she has absolutely no interest in going outside. She’s been outside, and she thinks that being an inside kitty is marvelous. And the last I heard, that family has gone through 3 or 4 more kittens and puppies. I want to beat my head against the wall. Or possibly beat someone else’s head against a wall. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/59 "2012-05-03T06:27:21Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Look, this kind of shocked me…I’m not sure it should, because at this point it’s a stretch to consider it any of my business. But is it common for women to skip those for that long? It doesn’t seem like a good idea. I haven’t had a GYN exam since I had my tubal in 1988. Probably not a good idea but OTOH if it’s ain’t broke… > [@SpazCat](#): > > I may be single soon. This is entirely his fault and I’m sick of dealing with his shit. I’m sorry to hear this, and also not sorry. Divorce is a not-fun thing to have to go thru, but I was so much happier after dumping old whatshisface. Just keep thinking about how nice it will be to not have to deal with his shit, and come back to vent when needed! > [@flatlined](#): > > I’m moving in November. I won’t be able to help those poor cats anymore. I’m moving my ferals to a ranch so now all of my hard work will go right down the drain because my idiot neighbor will populate the area with intact cats. Can you put her together with a group that raises kittens until they are ready to go to their permanent homes? Wouldn’t that put a parade of kittens thru her house, but she could give them back when they get “boring”? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/60 "2012-05-03T08:21:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Can you put her together with a group that raises kittens until they are ready to go to their permanent homes? Wouldn’t that put a parade of kittens thru her house, but she could give them back when they get “boring”? The kittens are improperly socialized, and by the time they are “boring” they have learned to avoid humans. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483.md?page=4)