# Too Damn Hot or Not Hot Enough: July Minirants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516 "2011-07-01T15:43:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**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:** [July 18, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/361 "2011-07-18T22:11:44Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I wash my clothes and then hang them on a clothesline. It is amazing how quickly they dry. Bwuh? šŸ˜• ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/362 "2011-07-18T22:30:05Z")
I donā€™t think itā€™s necessary to declaw a cat, Shot From Guns, and it is not anything to be taken lightly. Zoe is the only declawed cat iā€™ve lived with and the last time she got out, i got her back in at half past 1 in the morning. Itā€™s just that there are a lot of stray cats round and i donā€™t want my cat getting hurt in a fight with a stray. I know there are long ugly pit threads about declawed cats. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/363 "2011-07-18T22:38:00Z")
Iā€™m so anti-declawing that I had my catā€™s claws tipped with carbon-tungsten blades! Bwahaha! Wait. Why are you looking at me like that, cat?. I gave you catnip and fishy food just an hour ago. I cleaned your box. _I swear!_ No wait, donā€™t jump up on me. I promise Iā€™ll get you that new bed you want. And the new litter. You can sleep on my bed and Iā€™ll sleep on the floor. Please, dear god, noā€¦ donā€™t jump up on me! AAAAIIIEEE(gurgle) thud. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/364 "2011-07-19T00:09:30Z")
Why is it that all doctors that tell arthritic folks that the best thing they can do is exercise all look like theyā€™ve never had anything resembling pain in their lives? ---
**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/365 "2011-07-19T00:29:23Z")
My parents are replacing their roof right now, and have decided to do it themselves rather than hire someone professional to save money. But thatā€™s a lot of work, much more so than my dad can really handle, in July heat, especially as an out of shape guy in his 50s. So my mom has offered me a whole _hunnerd dollars_ :smack: per day if I want to do roofing work. And the offer stands through next summer, since theyā€™ll probably only finish the worst parts of the roof this time. And I happen to live halfway across the country from them. Iā€™m working a real job with decent pay for the rest of the summer, then Iā€™m starting grad school. She seems to think that a few hunnerd dollars is an awfully generous thing to give to a broke grad student, and itā€™s just kindness to give me something to do on all of my months off I must be getting :rolleyes:. Now Iā€™m trying to explain that while money is going to be tight, Iā€™m not going to be _that_ broke, and Iā€™m sure as hell not going to fly home on my rare vacations just to spend the entire time doing physical labor that probably wonā€™t even pay for my plane ticket. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/366 "2011-07-19T01:28:42Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > This is TMI, but.. I think Iā€™m constipated. Yes. Constipated. Itā€™s making my abdomen, lower back and legs ache. Iā€™ve been eating like crap the past few days and now Iā€™m paying the price. The five pounds Iā€™ve gained thanks to all the sodium really arenā€™t helping, either. Iā€™m chugging water to help move things along and itā€™s working, but I also now have to get up to pee every 5 minutes. Which I guess is ok because Iā€™m also forcing my ass out of my chair to walk around every once in a while. I hate this. I know better, but the junk tasted so good. But not this good. Dammit. That was completely not worth it. My penance on the treadmill isnā€™t going to be pleasant this evening. Stupid lack of willpower. > > Carrying around both kids at the same time this morning probably didnā€™t help anything. Combined they weigh about 80 pounds. > > Itā€™s all fun and games until mommy throws her back out and/or has to take a poop. Fuck. They say that no food tastes as good as being thin feels. Having eaten barbecued ribs, I find this difficult to believe. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/367 "2011-07-19T02:50:30Z")
My dad is being a fucking idiot. You let the cat play in the (unused) fireplace for years, then one day thereā€™s a nest of birds on top of the damper and you suddenly change the rules and tell her she canā€™t go inside it (without physically blocking it off), and then you get pissed and start yelling at her when she does it anyway? With the birds tweeting incessantly? Block the fucking fireplace off. Sheā€™s a fucking cat and itā€™s a fucking bird, 1+1=2 no matter how much you want to pretend that you can defy nature just by glaring at her. ---
**Author:** ![slalexan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@slalexan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slalexan)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/368 "2011-07-19T12:22:12Z")
Ok, I have three things 1. To whoever wrote this technical manual - Why didnā€™t you make it word searchable? I donā€™t want to look at all 56 pages when Iā€™m looking for exactly one sentence in the whole manual. And why does clicking on the document take me back to the top of it? That has to be one of the most annoying things Iā€™ve ever encountered! 2. To my lovely kittens - I love you so much, my tiny cats, but you gotta stop laying on my face when I am trying to sleep. Your fur does not feel good in my nose and mouth and your claws really donā€™t feel good on my cheeks. Iā€™m starting to look like some kind of industrial accident. 3. To me - Why do you keep walking on your hurty foot? It isnā€™t broken but you should probably quit walking on it. You really need to start taking care of yourself instead of just ignoring all the little problems. Remember when you had bronchitis for forever because you just ignored it? Yeah, letā€™s stop doing that. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/369 "2011-07-19T12:51:38Z")
You know, if my desk looks like an explosion in a public library and I have headphones on, it probably means that I am working on something right now, and so _maybe_ this isnā€™t the best possible time to ā€œdrop inā€ and ā€œvisit for a whileā€ and ā€œjust shoot the shit.ā€ No, really. I am trying to block out the sound of your clucking so I can get this damn report finished. I donā€™t want to talk to you people _anyway_, but today is _definitely_ not a good day. Could you come back the first week in September, when Iā€™m on vacation? No, I am not being ā€œrude.ā€ I am WORKING, dumbass. You should try it sometime. GO AWAY. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/370 "2011-07-19T14:39:27Z")
> [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > They say that no food tastes as good as being thin feels. Having eaten barbecued ribs, I find this difficult to believe. I agree with you there, unless Iā€™ve been eating grease all weekend. Then Iā€™ve got issues. But whatā€™s really scaring me is that, since I ate at the same place the guy in my office got typhoid and it has an incubation period of 10-20 days with constipation as an initial symptom, what if itā€™s that instead? If I get a fever, Iā€™m going to the doctor immediately. Who wouldā€™ve thought Iā€™d have to worry about typhoid in the midwest? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/371 "2011-07-19T15:11:15Z")
I turned off my desktop for the first time in weeks (I usually just restart it occasionally just to clear out the temp files, or if needed for a new install or upgrade) and when I tried to start it up again it gave me a ā€œWindows did not shut down properlyā€ message and then would not even let me go into safe mode. A little online research led me to checking my RAM, and apparently I have a defective RAM card, since it started fine after I pulled one of them. So now Iā€™m running on only 1.5G RAM. Although I suppose thatā€™s better than having to go out and buy a new computer. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/372 "2011-07-19T15:49:12Z")
Dammit, milk, when the expiration date is July 28th, and itā€™s July 19th, I have a reasonable expectation that youā€™re not bad when I pour a big bowl of cereal for breakfast! On to Breakfast, Part II - Toast. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/373 "2011-07-19T16:03:17Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I was advised one time that to convert Celsius into Fahrenheit, I should double the Celsius number and add 30. It wouldnā€™t be exact, but within a degree or two. Well, yeah, but I like precision. And given that the granularity of Celsius is larger than what the human body can detect (i.e., thereā€™s a noticeable difference for most people between X.0 degrees C and X.9 degrees C), for me at least itā€™s kind of relevant. > [@anya\_marie](#): > > I donā€™t think itā€™s necessary to declaw a cat, Shot From Guns, and it is not anything to be taken lightly. Sorry, **anya** , it was a joke about the fact that itā€™s one of those hot-button issues on this forum. It wasnā€™t directed at you, personally. > [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > They say that no food tastes as good as being thin feels. Iā€™d say theyā€™re two distinct and equally enjoyable feelings. Pretty sure the only correct solution is to binge and purge, so you can have both! > [@LurkMeister](#): > > So now Iā€™m running on only 1.5G RAM. That works? Wow. This horrible work laptop has 2 gigs and barely limps along. > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > On to Breakfast, Part II - Toast. You really should have made an instant powdered chocolate beverage. Then it could have been Breakfast 2: The Quickening. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/374 "2011-07-19T16:19:26Z")
Sooooā€¦ I canā€™t find a job for the life of me even though Iā€™ve been looking since the beginning of summer (i.e. the last two months). Because of this, someone else (my boyfriend) has to pay for all my food and share of the rent. I appreciate his help immensely, but I feel terrible that I canā€™t find a way to support myself. I feel completely useless most days. I got kicked out of the school that I moved 1500 miles to go to because my grades werenā€™t good enough, so I donā€™t even have a degree to strive towards any more. I donā€™t have a car to go anywhere enjoyable, and no money to spend even if I could go places other than my apartment. Itā€™s hot as hell and I end up drenched in sweat after 5 minutes of being outside. I miss my friends and family from home, and it seems like they donā€™t bother trying to communicate with me most of the time, which makes me believe they donā€™t give two shits about me being gone. I am just becoming increasingly filled with frustration at myself and everything around me. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/375 "2011-07-19T18:47:44Z")
Get out and volunteer? ---
**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:** [July 19, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/376 "2011-07-19T19:24:37Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > \ > You really should have made an instant powdered chocolate beverage. Then it could have been Breakfast 2: The Quickening. Groan. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/377 "2011-07-19T19:36:27Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > So now Iā€™m running on only 1.5G RAM. > [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > That works? Wow. This horrible work laptop has 2 gigs and barely limps along. Well, itā€™s a five year old Emachine running XP, and it originally came with only 512M, which I had only increased to 2.5G a year or so ago, but it does seem a bit slower today. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/378 "2011-07-19T20:02:13Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Pretty close, really. The exact method is multiply by 9, divide by 5 (in other words, multiply by 1.8), then add 32. So doubling will overshoot the 1.8, but adding only 30 will make up for it. And thatā€™s good enough for ballparking. An even more accurate and much easier to do mentally is to go ahead and double the Celsius reading and then subtract 10% from that (to get the 9/5C) and then add 32. 40C = 2(40) - .1(2(40)) + 32 = 80 - 8 + 32 = 104F ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/379 "2011-07-19T20:52:31Z")
**Cat** : You know you love me. **Yeti** : Iā€™m so glad Iā€™m not the only person who does practical math in weird steps like that. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/380 "2011-07-19T20:59:59Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > An even more accurate and much easier to do mentally is to go ahead and double the Celsius reading and then subtract 10% from that (to get the 9/5C) and then add 32. > > 40C = 2(40) - .1(2(40)) + 32 = 80 - 8 + 32 = 104F Damn, I should have thought of that. I work with monetary figures in the same way, I just donā€™t generally have a need to switch between C and F. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516.md?page=20)