# Ranters Play in the Pit -- I think it's for the Month of July **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2014, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072 "2014-07-01T05:16:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/261 "2014-07-26T14:37:44Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Okay. Once again. > > Friend of mine, I appreciate that you’re worried about the fighting in the Middle East. It worries me too. But if I see you post one more gory picture of a dead child on Facebook to make your point, I’m taking you out of my news feed forever. Which is too bad, because I do enjoy your posts when you’re not posting graphic photos of dead kids. I actually un-friended someone after one too many (supposed) aborted fetus posts. You know, the one where the embryo is barely the size of a quarter? We were waaaaaaay to far apart politically and our quasi-business relationship had come to an end (I used to be a Mary Kay lady). ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/262 "2014-07-26T18:44:52Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > Heavily snipped > I’m sure I’m not the only person to say it, but we like the "True love isn’t about flowery romance; it’s ‘Honey, can you look at this thing on my butt?’ " > > . I was listening to some program that mrAru was watching, and herd a description of an experiment run by some Doctor to prove that pellegra was not infectious, and he was persuasive enough to not just run it on himself, but an assortment of collegues and _his wife_ - it involved injecting blood from people with pellegra, smearing snot in their noses and taking capsules made of their scabs. Now _that_ is true love, screw popping zits… [URL=“[http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/](http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/)”] ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/263 "2014-07-26T21:19:31Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > I actually un-friended someone after one too many (supposed) aborted fetus posts. You know, the one where the embryo is barely the size of a quarter? We were waaaaaaay to far apart politically and our quasi-business relationship had come to an end (I used to be a Mary Kay lady). Huh…my relatives haven’t gotten that bad yet. They keep posting the one that shows a miniature baby figurine that is supposedly what an 8 week old fetus looks like, and the one showing a giant pair of hands reaching out into a black void while hundreds of babies whiz by. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/264 "2014-07-26T22:56:16Z")
I appear to have a case of tennis elbow and it’s killing me. I’ve already dropped and broken 3 things in the kitchen over the past couple of days because I can’t hold onto them. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/265 "2014-07-27T21:52:33Z")
I hope that gets resolved ASAP, **vivalostwages**. Joint pain is so bleeping inconvenient! Also? I really need to quit hosting my own little pity party this weekend. I hate these spells! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/266 "2014-07-28T00:56:06Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > I appear to have a case of tennis elbow and it’s killing me. I’ve already dropped and broken 3 things in the kitchen over the past couple of days because I can’t hold onto them. Make that 4 things. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/267 "2014-07-28T00:57:07Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > I hope that gets resolved ASAP, **vivalostwages**. Joint pain is so bleeping inconvenient! > > ! Thanks–Gonna see the ortho doc tomorrow. Sick of dropping and breaking crap. Oh, and the pain. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/268 "2014-07-28T01:21:57Z")
Yeah, I have to take Tony to the ortho tomorrow, and am seriously considering making an appointment for myself - for the past ten days or so, I’ve had random, debilitating pain in all of my large joints. Not constant, not predictable - one minute, I’m fine; the next, my ankle or my hip or my shoulder or my knee is just excruciatingly painful. (And this all started last Thursday, when I had two migraines in three days - after none for the past six months.) I’m actually looking up symptoms of dengue fever, wondering whether that’s even possible! ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/269 "2014-07-28T01:36:29Z")
I seem unable to wear shoes without socks. Three pretty summer pairs in three days and TEN fucking blisters. Ouch. I have a blister on my instep. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/270 "2014-07-28T05:55:21Z")
If you have to pay for gas with a credit card to have money in hand for the casino, you probably shouldn’t be going to the casino. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/271 "2014-07-28T11:56:22Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Yeah, I have to take Tony to the ortho tomorrow, and am seriously considering making an appointment for myself - for the past ten days or so, I’ve had random, debilitating pain in all of my large joints. Not constant, not predictable - one minute, I’m fine; the next, my ankle or my hip or my shoulder or my knee is just excruciatingly painful. (And this all started last Thursday, when I had two migraines in three days - after none for the past six months.) I’m actually looking up symptoms of dengue fever, wondering whether that’s even possible! Are you in a Lyme disease prone area? Lyme and erlichia and other tick-borne diseases can cause those sorts of things. Get checked out! ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/272 "2014-07-28T18:38:31Z")
> [@saje](#): > > Are you in a Lyme disease prone area? Lyme and erlichia and other tick-borne diseases can cause those sorts of things. Get checked out! I’m in SE Georgia, which isn’t a known area for Lyme disease, plus I’ve had no tick exposure in years, plus no rash, and I haven’t traveled this summer except for a quick trip to St. Augustine in early July. Lyme is highly unlikely. Erlichiosis is technically possible, but I’m missing a lot of symptoms. Turns out, though, that dengue has been reported in my area in the past three months: [CDC outbreak map](http://www.healthmap.org/dengue/en/). I had no idea, until I looked up “breakbone fever,” because my symptoms reminded me of having read that term at some point - I was sure that breakbone fever was a purely tropical illness, but I was curious as to its real name. West Nile is also a possibility, of course - again, no rash though. We’ve had a very wet summer, and a bumper crop of mosquitos. But I don’t even like to mention that illness here… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/273 "2014-07-28T23:09:50Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Yeah, I have to take Tony to the ortho tomorrow, and am seriously considering making an appointment for myself - for the past ten days or so, I’ve had random, debilitating pain in all of my large joints. Not constant, not predictable - one minute, I’m fine; the next, my ankle or my hip or my shoulder or my knee is just excruciatingly painful. (And this all started last Thursday, when I had two migraines in three days - after none for the past six months.) I’m actually looking up symptoms of dengue fever, wondering whether that’s even possible! That is horrendous! I hope you get some relief soon I got cortisone today–thank goodness he numbed the area with spray first–but it has not kicked in yet. Takes a day or so. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/274 "2014-07-28T23:34:19Z")
A week ago last Saturday, I had a flash of light in the corner of my left eye while I was driving. At first I thought that it was the sun reflecting off of something, but it kept glowing as I drove. Then the light went away, and there was a floater in my eye, that has been there ever since. Every time I move my eye, the floater flashes across the vision in my left eye, then settles in the left corner of my eye. I have a regularly scheduled appointment with my doctor tomorrow afternoon, but I’ll bet she’ll tell me to make an appointment with an eye doctor, which will probably not be available for two months. I am worried that my vision is going in my left eye and I really don’t want to wait that long. Well, I guess I’ll just wait till tomorrow to see what she says. I never realized how much my eyes flick around while I’m driving till I saw this thing floating across my vision every time I move my eye. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/275 "2014-07-29T00:57:00Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > I’m in SE Georgia, which isn’t a known area for Lyme disease, plus I’ve had no tick exposure in years, plus no rash, and I haven’t traveled this summer except for a quick trip to St. Augustine in early July. Lyme is highly unlikely. Erlichiosis is technically possible, but I’m missing a lot of symptoms. > > Turns out, though, that dengue has been reported in my area in the past three months: [CDC outbreak map](http://www.healthmap.org/dengue/en/). I had no idea, until I looked up “breakbone fever,” because my symptoms reminded me of having read that term at some point - I was sure that breakbone fever was a purely tropical illness, but I was curious as to its real name. West Nile is also a possibility, of course - again, no rash though. We’ve had a very wet summer, and a bumper crop of mosquitos. But I don’t even like to mention that illness here… ☹ there is also that new chikin something or other that has been spotted around the southern US. One of the symptons is extreme debilitating pain. chikungunya virus . i looked it up and it may be the break bone thing you mentioned already. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/276 "2014-07-29T00:58:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A week ago last Saturday, I had a flash of light in the corner of my left eye while I was driving. At first I thought that it was the sun reflecting off of something, but it kept glowing as I drove. Then the light went away, and there was a floater in my eye, that has been there ever since. Every time I move my eye, the floater flashes across the vision in my left eye, then settles in the left corner of my eye. I have a regularly scheduled appointment with my doctor tomorrow afternoon, but I’ll bet she’ll tell me to make an appointment with an eye doctor, which will probably not be available for two months. I am worried that my vision is going in my left eye and I really don’t want to wait that long. > > Well, I guess I’ll just wait till tomorrow to see what she says. > > I never realized how much my eyes flick around while I’m driving till I saw this thing floating across my vision every time I move my eye. if you tell them you may have a detached retina they will problebly see you sooner. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/277 "2014-07-29T01:09:39Z")
Thanks, **adhemar** , I’m worried that that might be what it is. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/278 "2014-07-29T01:22:05Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Thanks, **adhemar** , I’m worried that that might be what it is. Yes, just tell them what’s going in and they will get you right in, very possibly the same day! ---
**Author:** ![Boggette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/279 "2014-07-29T12:12:13Z")
Oh FFS! I have a hatchback. I park forward in spaces so I can get my groceries into the hatch. You decided to park 3 inches from my bumper (and 2 feet across the line) so I can’t even reach my hatch latch. The parking lot is nearly empty. Why? Jerk. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2014, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072/280 "2014-07-29T12:36:29Z")
Wait - you intentionally park such that you need 2 spaces to use (park and load) your car? Why don’t you just park nose-in and load from the back like everyone else? My assumption when I see nose-out parkers is that they hate backing out of spots. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ranters-play-in-the-pit-i-think-its-for-the-month-of-july/692072.md?page=15)