# There's a lot of thunder going on outside **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2011, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908 "2011-07-31T07:26:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/1 "2011-07-31T07:26:08Z")
I thing God is pissed off at The Republican Party. I know he’s pissed off at the Tea Party idiots cause he told me so. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/2 "2011-07-31T14:53:14Z")
I’m sorry I wrote this stuff last night. I didn’t sleep much last night due to a lot of pain in my leg and a lot of really bad stuff about the debt stuff. My sister told me I wrote a lot pure insanity to her last night, mostly about a non-existent bowl of chile. If the moderators would just wipe this stuff out, or at least close it, I would be ever grateful. I can’t begin to explain it and honestly don’t remember doing it. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/3 "2011-07-31T15:12:50Z")
I was pretty much with you in post #1. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/4 "2011-07-31T15:18:44Z")
Mmm… chile. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/5 "2011-07-31T15:19:30Z")
I like the OP, but I can’t get behind the sentiments of the charlatan in the second post. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/6 "2011-07-31T16:01:13Z")
God has sent the Red States, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, drought, and country music, but they still don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/7 "2011-07-31T16:13:50Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Mmm… Chile. Wonderful wines, wonderful people. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/8 "2011-07-31T16:46:18Z")
> [@sh1bu1](#): > > God has sent the Red States, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, drought, and country music, but they still don’t get it. On the other hand though they do have great food. But the food appears to be cursed, at least if my waistline is any indication. Nearly a decade of southern living hasn’t been kind to it. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/9 "2011-07-31T16:48:58Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > On the other hand though they do have great food. But the food appears to be cursed, at least if my waistline is any indication. Nearly a decade of southern living hasn’t been kind to it. Is the Frogurt cursed? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/10 "2011-07-31T17:28:04Z")
Since this thread seems to be about God and wine, my favorite cutesy saying about the two is: _Wine is God’s way of telling us he loves us and wants to be happy._ ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/11 "2011-07-31T17:35:56Z")
> [@sh1bu1](#): > > God has sent the Red States, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, drought, and country music, but they still don’t get it. He did that so the Yankees won’t be jealous of our Sweet Tea, Grits, and SEC football. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/12 "2011-07-31T17:48:45Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > Is the Frogurt cursed? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/13 "2011-07-31T18:09:35Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Since this thread seems to be about God and wine, my favorite cutesy saying about the two is: > > _Wine is God’s way of telling us he loves us and wants to be happy._ The actual saying isn’t so cutesy: [QUOTE=Ben Franklin] Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/14 "2011-07-31T18:25:16Z")
I’m with Ben. By the same logic, God wants us to consume marijuana, coca, psilocybin, peyote, ayahuasca, and jimson weed. I’m not sure if He wants to see us happy, or is getting His pets stoned so he can laugh at them. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/15 "2011-07-31T18:35:20Z")
I tend towards the latter view. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/16 "2011-07-31T18:45:53Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I’m with Ben. By the same logic, God wants us to consume marijuana, coca, psilocybin, peyote, ayahuasca, and jimson weed. I’m not sure if He wants to see us happy, or is getting His pets stoned so he can laugh at them. Funny’uns are proof that the Lord loves us and wants us to be happy? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/17 "2011-07-31T19:08:26Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Since this thread seems to be about God and wine, my favorite cutesy saying about the two is: > > _Wine is God’s way of telling us he loves us and wants to be happy._ Of course that’s BS. IF God loved us, we’d all be able to turn water into wine like his kid did. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/18 "2011-07-31T19:11:48Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > Is the Frogurt cursed? It is. But you get your choice of free topping. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/19 "2011-07-31T19:14:07Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > It is. But you get your choice of free topping. That’s good! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908/20 "2011-07-31T19:43:02Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > Is the Frogurt cursed? Frog yogurt?? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-lot-of-thunder-going-on-outside/590908.md?page=2)