# Surrounded by fools in April? kvetch about it here. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 1, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508 "2013-04-01T05:52:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/361 "2013-04-22T00:44:54Z")
OMG, nobody is going to be able to guess what showed up on our doorstep today. Never in a million years would anyone figure this out. How the heck do I make a spoiler tag? I want to hear the guesses just to say NO! I don’t have a preggy stray cat 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 22, 2013, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/362 "2013-04-22T01:04:45Z")
Kitteh knows you’ll help her out! Pictures, please? 🙂 I know nothing of spoiler tags. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/363 "2013-04-22T01:18:55Z")
Not a kitteh this time, a very preggy little barky dog. We can feel the pups moving inside of her. Kinda creepy IMO. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/364 "2013-04-22T01:23:39Z")
Double post, sorry. sends a shot out for **Curlcoa** t and **SeaDrago** n. I think the bitch is going to have her in the next couple of days. ---
**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 22, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/365 "2013-04-22T03:12:40Z")
[spoiler]Spoilers go here.[/spoiler} Using square brackets, of course. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/366 "2013-04-22T14:39:11Z")
> [@MissSwitac](#): > > I didn’t want to make a whole thread about this, but it’s not really a mini rant either. (snip). I just wanted to say I know how you feel and you have my internet {{{{hugs}}}}. I go through these phases too. Good for you for having a clear view of your future though! So many people don’t have that. ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/367 "2013-04-22T15:35:14Z")
> [@TheFaerie](#): > > I just wanted to say I know how you feel and you have my internet {{{{hugs}}}}. I go through these phases too. Good for you for having a clear view of your future though! So many people don’t have that. Her post felt very much like my life sometimes. Find a buddy to go have some fun with. ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/368 "2013-04-22T20:37:25Z")
So I posted this link on Facebook: > **[BURN. THE LIBRARIES. DOWN! Kidz Can Learned stuff On There Oan.](https://www.upworthy.com/burn-the-libraries-down-kidz-can-learned-stuff-on-there-oan)** > > Before you comment on this, please WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO. So the local Tea Party decided enough was enough and decided to stop those evil libraries from enforcin' book learnin' on the community by stopping a .70% tax. Yea, that's right. A POINT SEVEN... and chuckled over how the Tea Party got beat at its own game. A conservative friend bitched about how _“I was praising a group that used duplicity to sway the public vote.”_ This coming from someone who supports the NRA and the Tea Party and has used Fox News as a source to back up political arguments. And who just today posted this link: [http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/22/beck-breaks-exclusive-information-on-saudi-national-allegedly-connected-to-boston-bombings/](http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/22/beck-breaks-exclusive-information-on-saudi-national-allegedly-connected-to-boston-bombings/) :rolleyes::smack: ---
**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:** [April 22, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/369 "2013-04-22T21:29:13Z")
> [@MissSwitac](#): > > …I feel like a crappy mother. … You might feel that way sometimes, but I doubt you actually are. At least, you don’t sound that way from your posts. > [@MissSwitac](#): > > …The only thing that keeps me going, is I am eligible for an early retirement program in 6 more years and thanks to my dearly departed father who taught me how to save money and spend wisely, I will have enough money to live without working again… Shit, that’s one helluvan incentive to keep plowing ahead! Good luck, hang in there, cry in a bubble bath every once in a while if it helps you blow off some steam, and I hope that the approaching light at the end of the tunnel helps keep you sane. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/370 "2013-04-22T21:50:02Z")
Dear Girl On The Bus, I assume that the reason you’re wearing those long fake eyelashes is to look pretty. However, the fact that you’re chewing gum with your mouth open and blowing bubbles with it makes you look hideous. Sincerely, me. ---
**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 23, 2013, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/371 "2013-04-23T00:59:37Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Dear Girl On The Bus, > > I assume that the reason you’re wearing those long fake eyelashes is to look pretty. However, the fact that you’re chewing gum with your mouth open and blowing bubbles with it makes you look hideous. > > Sincerely, > me. Did they make her look like a cow with bubblegum? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/372 "2013-04-23T01:28:40Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Not a kitteh this time, a very preggy little barky dog. We can feel the pups moving inside of her. Kinda creepy IMO. Pics when she pops, please! My mini rant is pregnancy related. I can understand getting heartburn after eating pizza and coke for dinner. But I had banana bread with peanut butter, scrambled eggs, milk, and hot tea for breakfast. WTF in there gave me heartburn??? ---
**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:** [April 23, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/373 "2013-04-23T02:01:07Z")
Either the peanut butter or the walnuts in the banana bread. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/374 "2013-04-23T02:11:07Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Either the peanut butter or the walnuts in the banana bread. But always, always, always the chocolate chips. And toast the walnuts if you choose them. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/375 "2013-04-23T03:47:47Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Double post, sorry. sends a shot out for **Curlcoa** t and **SeaDrago** n. I think the bitch is going to have her in the next couple of days. You’ve whelped (or whatever the word is for cats) kittens, right? Same thing. Tho probably messier. PM me if you need details! ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/376 "2013-04-23T05:08:26Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > Pics when she pops, please! > > My mini rant is pregnancy related. I can understand getting heartburn after eating pizza and coke for dinner. But I had banana bread with peanut butter, scrambled eggs, milk, and hot tea for breakfast. WTF in there gave me heartburn??? Crisis averted! I traded her for a litter of kittens who will be going to adoptions on Saturday. I’ve had pregnant friends and while I understand that bodies are in total upheaval, the food thing tended to quietly tick me off. Never at my friends, but because what they could eat tended to change on a daily or even hourly basis. So, now I’m quietly ticked off for you. > [@curlcoat](#): > > You’ve whelped (or whatever the word is for cats) kittens, right? Same thing. Tho probably messier. PM me if you need details! Thank you for the kind offer, I do appreciate it. I have only had one cat have kittens in front of me and I totally panicked when it happened. I was only keeping her for the night and feeling the kittens move around in her belly was really creepy. Waking up in the middle of the night to hear her making strange sounds to see her giving birth put me in panic mode. Imagine me running around wildly to find a box, towels that I don’t care about, thinking about boiling water (for what reason I don’t know, but its what everyone does on TV…maybe that was just to keep the people who were panicking and needing to do something busy.) NS for emotional preggy people. I have pregnant animals spayed. I know that this can be an unpopular choice, but I have to do triage. All rescue groups have limited amounts of money and foster homes. If a queen gives birth, that foster home will be filled for at least 8 weeks. If the queen is spayed first, she can go to adoptions the next day. That worked! Thanks so much, **Cat Whisperer** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![drew870mitchell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drew870mitchell/32/3946_2.png) [@drew870mitchell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drew870mitchell)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/377 "2013-04-23T07:20:35Z")
We had our first homebrew bottle bomb. We’re _extremely_ lucky to have made it this far without one. We did a good job cleaning up the detritus but I’m going to be paranoid for the rest of the night that every single grain of dirt on me is a glass shard. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/378 "2013-04-23T07:52:36Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Imagine me running around wildly to find a box, towels that I don’t care about, thinking about boiling water (for what reason I don’t know, but its what everyone does on TV…maybe that was just to keep the people who were panicking and needing to do something busy.) Both to sterilize (sort of) clothes and instruments, and to, as you guessed, get people off the midwife’s hair. Tell people “just sit down and shut up”, they keep saying “but I want to help!”; send them to boil water, they go away. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2013, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/379 "2013-04-23T13:20:04Z")
I always heard it was so the doctor could have a cup of tea when things are over. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/380 "2013-04-23T14:24:31Z")
The phone just rang, so I ran to it. I grabbed the phone. The receiver hung itself up. :mad: ANd I was expecting an important phone call, too. What the bloody fucking fuck am I going to do now? I guess I should just call back everyone who might have called. i hate talking on the phone. I hate phones in general. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508.md?page=20)