# Seethe You in September... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 1, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619 "2015-09-01T16:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/141 "2015-09-15T02:59:29Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > You failed your cooking class because you set your oven on fire??? > > Honey…you got bigger problems. There is a good reason why I’m not allowed to cook in my own home. Now for another cat rant. All of our cats wear collars. The tags say “Lost Cat, Reward phone number.” Ok, they have our phone number but you get it. Steve the house feral wears one, it was put on him under meds. They are break free collars. Our rotten Bratly Catly not only took her collar off, she broke the prongs so I have to get her another one. At least I was able to find the broken collar so I won’t have to get a new tag made. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/142 "2015-09-15T05:06:40Z")
Pint Sized Pit to the dumb bitch who I waited for to pass in front of me so I could pull out and make a left turn. No turn signal, but she turns on my road anyway. OK, everyone makes mistakes—we all forget to use our indicator once in a while . . . . . . . except said dumb bitch was talking with her hand and head buried in the cell phone! AWWWWWWWW major violation, HONEY. Not only are you not hands free, but disregarding other drivers so much, but that its OK, we will WAIT for you to make your turn, because after all, how can we possibly ask you to hit your right turn signal with only one hand free? Same goes for the idiots who are slow to get on the elevator—because they are texting on their phone. Oh, no, thats OK, Ill hold the door open button while you finish picking out an emoji. EXcuuuuuuuse meet . . . I know you cant tell because you won’t look up from your fucking iPhone: BUT THE DOORS ARE OPEN. Me and the 5 other passengers are WAAAAITING!!! HURRY THE FUCK UP!!! I have a meeting at 8 am! People like this make me pray for a zombie apocalypse so I can decapitate them without guilt.:mad: ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/143 "2015-09-15T06:57:29Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > You can Hide someone without defriending them. I’ve had to do it more than once. I prefer “restricted” - that way they can’t see me on their feed either 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/144 "2015-09-15T17:51:39Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > In Spain, all the Holiday Inns block Gopher. The last two hotels that did that were in England and France. I don’t know what Gopher is but among other things they blocked Steam and UPlay. > [@Chimera](#): > > They don’t want their guests tying up their bandwidth with streaming, I would guess. How come they allow youtube then? I’m sorry, **MissTake** , and hope your daughter’s problem ends up being something benign. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/145 "2015-09-15T21:55:36Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I’ve learned not to speak about politics around a woman who thinks Ronald Reagan was one of our great Presidents. A considerable number of relatives on my mom’s side of the family think that we need another president like Saint Ronnie so that America can become a Christian nation. I haven’t been to a family reunion on that side since early college, in case you were wondering. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/146 "2015-09-15T23:47:43Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > … Steve the house feral wears one, it was put on him under meds. They are break free collars… Thanks for the LOL at the idea of waking slowly up, blinking groggily as the world comes back into focus— what the hell is that noise? And why is it coming from the vicinity of my own chin? 😃 ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/147 "2015-09-16T00:13:58Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > There is a good reason why I’m not allowed to cook in my own home. I just saw a picture on George Takei’s Facebook page that made me think \*instantly \*of you. I sure hope you can [see this](https://www.facebook.com/georgehtakei/photos/a.223098324386295.105971.205344452828349/1364305453598904/?type=1). ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/148 "2015-09-16T02:34:55Z")
Some computer rants: [ESPN.com](http://ESPN.com): Why the eff would you have a banner at the top for scores, but **not list them all**? I have to click on the “MLB” tile to enable “View All” - which was not very discoverable and at my resolution I could barely read the tiny font, plus mousing over it the pointer obscured the words. I’m **already** side scrolling in that space - why not just show all of them? Ugh. “Are you sure you want to Uninstall \? In the future, do not show me this message.” Oh really - in the future after I’ve uninstalled this program, and specifically, where that very setting is stored? FUCK YOU autoplaying ads that even fucking autoplay after I’ve gone into Chrome’s settings and enabled “Let me choose when to run plugin content.” How is it that that crap is still a thing? Make it STOP. Eat me stupid 3rd party Time sheet website that ONLY works in Internet Explorer so every single week I have to launch that tub of shit browser. Learn to trade stocks and bonds and $$$$$ for you like totally! Our Professional Sleazeballs will teach you to Maximize your Gains and Minimize and Limit and Reduce and Curtail and Diminish and Attenuate your Losses and Debits Credits Investments! The Government doesn’t WANT you to KNOW. Contact us: 800-EAT-SHIT [www.floridadaytradingscumbags.com](http://www.floridadaytradingscumbags.com) ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/149 "2015-09-16T04:46:10Z")
Dang! Scooped by **Morgyn**! I just stumbled across the same picture from George Takei, and immediately thought of our beloved **flatlined** , too! (I’ll cook - you embroider. Everyone will be happier, unless there are cute firefighters who might show up if flatlined cooks.) Also, I can’t get too very far up on my high horse - I was cooking dinner recently, had simmered a beautiful pasta sauce, and added it to the pasta for those last five crucial minutes, when _kablooie_! The tempered glass lid on the big stock pot exploded - glass shards everywhere. After sweeping up all of the glass, and ordering pizza, and having a glass of wine to calm my frazzled nerves, I threw away all of my tempered glass lids except for the one to the slow cooker. Tempered glass and I don’t seem to get along - ask me about the time I managed to break my mother’s dining room table. On Thanksgiving Day. An hour before dinner time. (I saved the pies.) Otherwise, things are actually looking up a little bit around here. I’m kind of forcing myself to accomplish something positive - no matter how small - every day. And Tony is making a noticeable effort to do something - no matter how small - every day. Between us, we’ll get to where we need to be. (And it helps that every day is one day closer to the houseguests moving out. Mama Houseguest had a physical the other day as part of her evaluation for SSDI - crossing fingers that she gets it on the first try! Plus, she applied for a reevaluation of child support - she literally has zero income right now, her ex husband makes six figures, and he has been paying $500 per month, zero health insurance. I can’t imagine that’s within state guidelines. And she has applied for subsidized housing. Fingers crossed that something positive happens on all of it.) ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/150 "2015-09-16T13:16:23Z")
I recently set my cast iron skillet on fire, not once, but twice. It was quite spectactular. It was too hot for the oil and it flashed, so I put a lid on it and took it off the burner. A few minutes later I took the lid off, but it flashed again! I put it on the deck to cool while TheElf ran around the house opening window and cussing the smoke. 🙂 I’m not usually that bad in the kitchen. (The pork chops I made in a different pan came out great, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/151 "2015-09-16T16:46:07Z")
My boss has no “boss” in her whatsoever. She doesn’t push anyone to do anything. She’s just so niiiiice. Which is so annoying! My coworker gets out of doing anything she doesn’t want to. Grr! Now it’s none of my business and mostly I don’t care but some things are important! tomorrow we have a directors meeting and she doesn’t want to go, so she’s not going. BUT, her event is next month and this is her only chance to go before the directors and pitch. Boss should say, no, you HAVE to go. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/152 "2015-09-16T17:03:33Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > (And it helps that every day is one day closer to the houseguests moving out.\*\* Mama Houseguest had a physical the other day as part of her evaluation for SSDI - crossing fingers that she gets it on the first try!\*\* Plus, she applied for a reevaluation of child support - she literally has zero income right now, her ex husband makes six figures, and he has been paying $500 per month, zero health insurance. I can’t imagine that’s within state guidelines. And she has applied for subsidized housing. Fingers crossed that something positive happens on all of it.) If you’d cut off one of her legs before she went in, you could have seriously improved her chances. Also, probably it would have been soothing to the soul to get some of your frustrations vented. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/153 "2015-09-16T21:33:36Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > If you’d cut off one of her legs before she went in, you could have seriously improved her chances. > > Also, probably it would have been soothing to the soul to get some of your frustrations vented. Yeah, seems a little horrible to do to a woman with lung cancer, a heart attack, and cataracts. Tempting, but horrible! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/154 "2015-09-16T21:58:03Z")
Good point. Cut off her worthless son’s leg. It may have little to no effect on the disability thing, but venting frustration is still useful. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/155 "2015-09-17T09:30:00Z")
Fuck you and your stupid ios9 update Apple. I heard about this exciting multi-tasking feature all summer, cant wait for it, download the update, and lo and behold I only have an iPad 3, you need an iPad Air 2 or Pro to make it work. For fuckssake I’ve only had this iPad for 2 years and its already obsolete??? Other than that the update is bullshit. Shove it up your ass, Apple!!! ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/156 "2015-09-17T13:48:35Z")
I pit Freecycle no-shows. You are getting stuff FREE. Good stuff – a punch bowl with 24 cups – that you said you wanted and needed. And we agreed, in an email exchange around 8:30 yesterday morning that you’d pick it up “right away, or at least by 11 a.m.”? So why are the boxes still sitting in my dining room??? And a perfunctory ‘Sorry, can we reschedule’ nearly 24 hours later is Not Good Enough. “One of my kids got hurt”, “My car wouldn’t start,” “The cat got out” – I’d accept almost any explanation, but you couldn’t even be bothered to think one up. So, no, you may NOT reschedule. I’ll smash the punch bowl into shards before I let you have it. (No, I won’t smash it, it’s lovely. And besides, six other people wanted it, too, so one of them will be happy. But that still doesn’t excuse your ditzy assishness.) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/157 "2015-09-17T15:33:01Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > Fuck you and your stupid ios9 update Apple. I heard about this exciting multi-tasking feature all summer, cant wait for it, download the update, and lo and behold I only have an iPad 3, you need an iPad Air 2 or Pro to make it work. For fuckssake I’ve only had this iPad for 2 years and its already obsolete??? Other than that the update is bullshit. > > Shove it up your ass, Apple!!! Congratulations, you’ve entered the world of computers and evolving technology. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/158 "2015-09-17T20:50:27Z")
Oh, was not on that same bus on Tuesday, but I was last night. The woman mentioned above jumped up and ran up, almost to the front again. Got to my row, saw me, and stood there waiting. Yeah, sit your ass down. You’ll still get off the bus. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/159 "2015-09-17T20:59:42Z")
Don’t your buses have rear exits? Why does she have to run up to the front? Or is she one of those privileged ladies who can’t be arsed to push open the door for themselves? ---
**Author:** ![DoggyDunnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@DoggyDunnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoggyDunnit)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/160 "2015-09-18T07:41:56Z")
Dear Internet Advertisers, I do not mind the banner ads on my favorite sites. I’m being completely honest here. I understand that the operators of these sites have to keep the lights on and the salaries paid. But please, in the name of keeping my dinner down, please find images other than nasty, slimy bugs/worms/leeches/snakes/other such things that should be killed with fire to showcase as I am humbly surfing the web. I really like the food I eat and would absolutely love not to hurl it back up. 😉 Thankies and sincerely, B.H. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619.md?page=9)