# Random pointless stuff I must share **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 9, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565 "2010-06-09T18:49:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/21 "2010-06-11T01:22:43Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > The MMP is a little…private clubby for my taste. 🙂 Translation: Can’t afford the requisite chocolate and squid. At least we MMPers provide the goat… ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/22 "2010-06-11T01:36:23Z")
I step in cat puke on a daily basis, as the resident cat is a puker. My husband thoughtfully covered up today’s puke pile with a tissue, so I would see it and clean it up off the floor without stepping in it first. Mr. Sali, you are spoiling me with your thoughtfulness. I have two male hummingbirds battling over the nectar feeder, as that deck ain’t big enough for the two of them. There’s one dowdy little female, too. And there are two male rose-breasted grosbeaks (striking big birds, black, white beaks, with white undersides and crimson shields on their, uh, breasts) squabbling over the sunflower seeds. One female grosbeak, who looks like a gigantic sparrow, with white eyeliner. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/23 "2010-06-11T01:40:49Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > I had a really good poop today. I hadn’t pooped for a couple of days because I didn’t eat lunch. But today’s poop was epic. I didn’t even think it was unusual until I turned around and saw that the poop had filled the little tunnel thing and was about 3-4 inches up the side of the bowl. Eyeballing, I would say it was over a kilo of poop. > > Also, I would like to say that thanks to this thread, I no longer feel the need to call my wife and inform her of what a truly awesome poop I had today. I’m re-thinking this thread. 🙂 > [@VunderBob](#): > > Translation: Can’t afford the requisite chocolate and squid. At least we MMPers provide the goat… It’s true; ever since I’ve been unemployed, I can’t afford chocolate and squid. ☹ Disclaimer from the Craigslist Calgary job section: > [@](#): > > FUN FACT: If you are able to determine a scammer’s “affiliate ID” and report it to their affiliate marketing program, this will often result in termination of the scammer, and confiscation of the scammer’s ill-gotten gains by the affiliate program. I can get fully on-board with terminating scammers. Throw in spammers and glurge forwarders, and I want to marry this idea. ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/24 "2010-06-12T09:05:06Z")
> [@congodwarf](#): > > pictures taken which are then texted There’s a delicious oxymoron: texting a picture! ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/25 "2010-06-12T13:42:33Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > The MMP is a little…private clubby for my taste. 🙂 It’s the best club that ever was! Everybody is a member once they make their first post. It’s sort of like the Hotel California. 😛 Also, to answer your user title… No, but a friend of mine in Tennessee does. As a matter of fact the momma goat just gave birth to two kids the other day and they are sooooo cute! 😃 ---
**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:** [June 12, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/26 "2010-06-12T18:24:55Z")
I have to go dig if I want any supper today. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/27 "2010-06-12T20:54:48Z")
> [@Baffle](#): > > There’s a delicious oxymoron: texting a picture! I really really didn’t want to phrase it that way but I honestly couldn’t come up with a better verb. Is there a picture version of texting? Picting? Company coming today. Boyfriend is under the impression that just serving his famous chili is enough. I prefer to actually give guests things like drinks, fruit, cheese, chips, dessert. He is making fun of me for going overboard. We have the chili, Italian bread, cheese, fruit, and pastries. I don’t understand how someone can invite people to the house for the first time and expect to just feed them chili. I clogged the sink. Our guests should be here in an hour or so and he’s in there trying to unclog it (I’m too short to plunge the kitchen sink or I’d be doing it myself). ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/28 "2010-06-12T21:05:34Z")
The other day I was walking home from the bus station downtown, and the strap on one of my flip flops broke. So I had to walk about a mile barefoot. My feet are still kind of killing me. Ow. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/29 "2010-06-12T22:29:06Z")
We got a wasp AND a bumblebee in the house today - the bumblebee I escorted out, the wasp Jim just whuppawed. I tried to dig, but the kids across the road where out and yelling. Then I tried to work in the back, and the neighbour started mowing. I’m inside now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/30 "2010-06-12T22:55:26Z")
My wife tried a traditional recipe for the first time today. It’s a dish I don’t especially like (kimchee,) so I’m tempted to hurt myself or hide so I won’t have to be a lab rat for every little adjustment she makes. I already made a sign for when she calls her parents to send for help. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/31 "2010-06-13T02:27:49Z")
The dog trainer came today. She finally got to see the girls in their Thunder Shirts. She assured us that they are not terrified of the shirts, they’re just not used to wearing clothes. She also said that watching the girls in their Thunder Shirts is hilarious and she said I should take some video to put on facebook. She also took a walk with us and she finally got to see the dog around the corner. She agrees with us that the dog is a tragedy waiting to happen and advised us to not walk that way. She then gave us the certificate of completion for the first puppy class for both puppies. As soon as we had the certificate, both girls started acting like they had never been to a single obedience class. :rolleyes:😛 ---
**Author:** ![nbooj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@nbooj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nbooj)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/32 "2010-06-13T03:45:35Z")
I found my record player and listened to “101 Strings in a Hawaiian Paradise”. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/33 "2010-06-13T09:38:39Z")
I managed to fix my computer today. 🙂 ---
**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:** [June 13, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/34 "2010-06-13T16:50:16Z")
It’s actually going to be HOT today! Woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/35 "2010-06-13T18:19:27Z")
I finally managed to convince my boyfriend that sometimes canceling a cell phone plan is a good thing. For a measly $75 cancellation fee for his phone, he gets: 1. away from AT&T 2. 2 phones for free 3. no activation fees 4. no shipping costs 5. to throw away his piece of shit phone 6. $100 credit either the first or second bill (So, basically, Sprint is paying him $25 to leave AT&T) 7. Off his parent’s cell phone plan which costs him $30 per month. And I get: 1. To get off my sister’s cell phone plan which costs me $80 per month. 2. To stop having to listen to him bitch about his piece of shit phone or AT&T. The new plan will cost us $100 per month instead of the $110 we were paying. Life is good. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/36 "2010-06-15T06:58:48Z")
I just stepped in cat barf AGAIN, only this time it wasn’t barf, it was poop, and I wasn’t wearing socks. Luckily, it was just one toe. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2010, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/37 "2010-06-15T08:05:16Z")
My house is wildlife central. We live in city limits, in a suburb of Savannah, Georgia, but our house is surrounded on three sides by old-growth woods\*, so we get lots of 2-, 4-, 6-, 8-, and no-legged visitors. Since moving into it in December, I have encountered the following critters inside: Frogs (tree frogs and the lumpy, generic “regular” frogs) A slug Two birds (one wren, and one quail - they flew in at different times) Gi-normous spiders (harmless, except for one that my husband killed. It had babies on its back, and the hubby nearly hurt himself trying to kill all of the dozens of itsy bitsy spiders that exploded all over the office. This is why I refer to extra-large bugs as “aerosol-sized.” That is, “large enough that I will reach for the nearest spray can/bottle and use that to kill it, 'cause I don’t want to see that many bug guts.” I have hair-sprayed, air-freshened, and furniture-polished many bugs into oblivion.) A couple of earthworms Various wasps, bees, and other stinging insects A couple of butterflies Palmetto bugs (not so unusual where I live, but still… eeewww!) A couple of lizards, who lived in the laundry room until springtime. (I didn’t have the heart to put them out when the weather was cold.) On my carport/porches: A possum A raccoon A rabbit A fledgeling owl, who spent the day under the carport during one of its test flights A pair of Carolina wrens, along with their nest of three babies are currently living under the carport, in the cabinet that I took out of the kitchen. A bobcat A couple of rat snakes A hawk Any number of squirrels A luna moth A skink \*Actually, some of the trees are so large/old that I realized the other day that General Sherman’s troops probably pissed on some of our trees on their way to Savannah. ---
**Author:** ![Acantha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@Acantha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acantha)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/38 "2010-06-15T08:21:58Z")
My poor dog has been sick for 5 days. Today we are puke-free. Yay for antibiotics and bags of fluid to pump into him. I’ve never seen this before. They didn’t use an IV, they just had us stick a needle behind his neck and pump it under the skin so he could absorb it. Of course, by _us_ I mean \*my husband \* the strong stomached one. I did night watch and clean up, he did the needles. (shudder) ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/39 "2010-06-15T09:23:04Z")
I caught a cold. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565/40 "2010-06-15T15:43:16Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I always wondered why they don’t have a “Pessimist’s Club”. I’d love to join! Or “Pissed Off Brat” Meals for the little snots who don’t deserve “Happy”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-stuff-i-must-share/542565.md?page=3)