# 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:** 27
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/521 "2011-07-26T23:36:34Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I simmered up some chicken carcasses for stock/broth over the weekend. (Yes, there’s a difference … I use meaty bones so it’s kinda halfway.) Anyway, I was taking a nap while it was cooling so Mr. Horseshoe was nice enough to strain, jar, and refrigerate it. > > “Thanks, sweetie! Did you taste it? Was it seasoned enough?” > “You never salt things enough, you know that.” > “Yeah, yeah.” > “I fixed it for you - added a little salt. It’s perfect now.” > > I took some to work with me today: > > _sluuuurp_ > \*\* cough \*\* > > Good lord, sweetie. Next time, can I have some broth to go with that bowlful of soy sauce? (Side rant: I hate when\*\* he uses soy sauce to salt something\*\* like this. I want it to have a clear, clean flavor. You want the extra soy goodness, add it to the final dish. This was supposed to be an ingredient, dammit.) That’s bizarre! I sure as hell wouldn’t want my chicken noodle soup to taste like soy sauce. My mini rant today is about the ants! The friggin never-ending ant infestation is driving me crazy! Apparently their nest is somewhere behind the dishwasher, so I can’t stick a trap back there or anything. My husband says he’ll re-treat the outside of the house, but I’m not sure how that will help with the ones that are already inside. ---
**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 27, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/522 "2011-07-27T00:19:34Z")
> [@rivulus](#): > > Cars driving slowly in the furthest left lane should be vaporized from orbit. > > That is all. If it makes you feel better at all, I mis-read that as, “Cats driving slowly in the furthest left lane should be vaporized from orbit.” Yeah, damned driving cats! ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/523 "2011-07-27T00:36:40Z")
Meow! Pfffffffffzttttttttttttt POOF! ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/524 "2011-07-27T00:39:59Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > My mini rant today is about the ants! The friggin never-ending ant infestation is driving me crazy! Apparently their nest is somewhere behind the dishwasher, so I can’t stick a trap back there or anything. My husband says he’ll re-treat the outside of the house, but I’m not sure how that will help with the ones that are already inside. Take some borax and mix it in a bit of apple jelly (strawberry jelly/jam also works), put it on a few small pieces of cardboard and slide them under the dishwasher. I would maybe also put some under the sink - I’m guessing they can get in there also. They like the sweet, obviously, and the borax kills them. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/525 "2011-07-27T02:15:49Z")
> [@chizzuk](#): > > So apparently my cheek is SUPPOSED to have a painful, stinging piece of skin flapping from it. OK, whatever you say, doctor. Fortunately the other side feels completely normal, so I’ll just chew over there for now. I had my first tortilla chips in a week yesterday and it was ecstasy. I’ve been following your ordeal, I feel your pain! I had my wisdom teeth out last year, and I never had a flap of skin, but I did have some stitches that rubbed the inside of my cheek raw. I craved tortilla chips too… I think I ate most of the bag when I was finally able to have them again. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/526 "2011-07-27T07:32:57Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > That’s an odd mattress size difference. What are the standard sizes in Spain? Or do you just tend to have a wide range of variation in 10cm increments? The standard size for what would be closest to a twin used to be 1.80m(6ft)_80cm(2ft8in), conversions approx. But as the average height for males got closer and closer to those 6ft, it became 1.90_90 (6t4in\*3ft). Oh, and the reason for the pails? In one toilet, the mechanism had come unhooked. In the other one… the valve in the water pipe was closed :smack: Given that one of the flatmates had been alone for about half a year, and the toilet with the closed pipe was the one he doesn’t use, it may well have been closed for over a year _and neither of the two women who used it thought of saying anything or investigating_. Can I take a monkey wrench to them? ---
**Author:** ![velveeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/13edae/32.png) [@velveeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velveeta)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/527 "2011-07-27T14:17:47Z")
Topamax. Fuck. I’d love to rant about it, but it makes my head so damn fuzzy I can barely think. So just fuck it. > [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I know where you live. Just remember that. > > I wouldn’t actually kill you, I’d just bring over 10 pounds of Velveeta and make you eat it. I’d love to think up a clever comment for this, but Topamax won’t let me. It make me dum. ---
**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 27, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/528 "2011-07-27T14:21:20Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > If it makes you feel better at all, I mis-read that as, “Cats driving slowly in the furthest left lane should be vaporized from orbit.” Yeah, damned driving cats! I dunno, Bjork’s boyfriend struck me as a pretty responsible driver. > [@Nava](#): > > it may well have been closed for over a year _and neither of the two women who used it thought of saying anything or investigating_. Can I take a monkey wrench to them? Only if I can help. Of course, they did kind of make their own penance by shitting and pissing in buckets for six months. (Or were they filling the buckets with water and using that to “flush” the toilets, which would be also obnoxious but not nearly as gross?) ---
**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 27, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/529 "2011-07-27T15:11:23Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > Take some borax and mix it in a bit of apple jelly (strawberry jelly/jam also works), put it on a few small pieces of cardboard and slide them under the dishwasher. I would maybe also put some under the sink - I’m guessing they can get in there also. They like the sweet, obviously, and the borax kills them. I learned almost this exact same treatment, except that it’s less messy (and also more kid- and pet-safe) to slip a little of the mixture into coupla-inch-long sections of a drinking straw using a toothpick. Then you can tape the straw sections along the ant’s trails, or just where you want them to be out of the way. Also, I learned specifically to use mint jelly, that it’s more attracting to them. Dunno the validity of that part. Hell, mint jelly is mostly apple jelly anyway (read the ingredients). ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/530 "2011-07-27T15:13:02Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > (Or were they filling the buckets with water and using that to “flush” the toilets, which would be also obnoxious but not nearly as gross?) This, woman! The other thing wouldn’t be a bucket, it would be a gazunder\* - I know other names for it, but I like that one and the explanation which came with it. It’s a gazunder 'cos it goes under the bed. ---
**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 27, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/531 "2011-07-27T15:43:35Z")
Terry Pratchett? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/532 "2011-07-27T16:04:27Z")
Getting so that every time I hear a blues guitar riff I expect it to be an erectile dysfunction commercial. You’ve reached an age when you can drive around in a zippy sports car and look all hot with your silver hair and listen to generic blues music and take Viagra. But with age comes responsibility: Ask your doctor if you’re healthy enough to go to a B.B. King concert. Seek help for a standing ovation lasting more than four minutes. Maybe B.B. King is not for you. ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/533 "2011-07-27T16:26:14Z")
I pit whatever douchenozzle initiated the latest [DDoS attack on LiveJournal.](http://status.livejournal.org/) I also pit LiveJournal for not seeing fit to _tell_ us that a DDoS attack was the reason the site has been nearly unusable for the past three friggin’ days. (Oh, and anyone who replies to this with “LOL people still use LiveJournal??” can go stand barefoot on a Lego brick.) ---
**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 27, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/534 "2011-07-27T16:26:32Z")
**Sigma** , I can’t stop laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/535 "2011-07-27T16:28:21Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#): > > (Oh, and anyone who replies to this with “LOL people still use LiveJournal??” can go stand barefoot on a Lego brick.) Heh, I was going to ask if anyone knew anything, but I was afraid I’d get that reaction. ---
**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 27, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/536 "2011-07-27T16:40:51Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Getting so that every time I hear a blues guitar riff I expect it to be an erectile dysfunction commercial. > > You’ve reached an age when you can drive around in a zippy sports car and look all hot with your silver hair and listen to generic blues music and take Viagra. But with age comes responsibility: Ask your doctor if you’re healthy enough to go to a B.B. King concert. Seek help for a standing ovation lasting more than four minutes. Maybe B.B. King is not for you. I’ve also noticed that taking erectile dysfunction medication also makes you a douchebag who doesn’t fulfill his commitments to other people, then smirks about it. ---
**Author:** ![velveeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/13edae/32.png) [@velveeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velveeta)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/537 "2011-07-27T16:52:20Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Getting so that every time I hear a blues guitar riff I expect it to be an erectile dysfunction commercial. > > You’ve reached an age when you can drive around in a zippy sports car and look all hot with your silver hair and listen to generic blues music and take Viagra. But with age comes responsibility: Ask your doctor if you’re healthy enough to go to a B.B. King concert. Seek help for a standing ovation lasting more than four minutes. Maybe B.B. King is not for you. I’m laughing my ass off, but at the same time feel like I should pit you for getting that damn song stuck in my head. Thanks.a.lot. A WOOO WHOOOO! _strum strum_ ---
**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/538 "2011-07-27T17:04:34Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Getting so that every time I hear a blues guitar riff I expect it to be an erectile dysfunction commercial. > > You’ve reached an age when you can drive around in a zippy sports car and look all hot with your silver hair and listen to generic blues music and take Viagra. But with age comes responsibility: Ask your doctor if you’re healthy enough to go to a B.B. King concert. Seek help for a standing ovation lasting more than four minutes. Maybe B.B. King is not for you. [B.B. King] “The thill is gone, it’s gone awaaaaaay…” [/B.B. King] If your thrill has gone, try the little blue pill. Bri2k ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/539 "2011-07-27T17:04:32Z")
For some reason, my husband has decided that, to clean the toilet in the master bathroom properly, it is necessary to turn off the water to the toilet and get rid of all the water in it. While I appreciate his dedication to thorough cleaning, the damn toilet has been unusable since Sunday! He insists he needs a full 45 minutes to an hour to clean it. It’s not that dirty! Just dump some toilet bowl cleaner in it, scrub, flush and wipe down the rim and seats. Done. But, no, that isn’t nearly thorough enough. So if I wake in the middle of the night, I have to trek downstairs to our basement, blinding myself with the basement lights (it’s dark as pitch down there), then turn them off, blinding myself once more and haul my sorry, tired butt back to bed. Yes, I realize there was a time when people didn’t even have toilets in the home, but dammit, there’s a perfectly fine one connected to our damn bedroom. I love my husband and usually his cleaning quirks are amusing, but this is driving me nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/540 "2011-07-27T20:29:51Z")
> [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > Yes, but I don’t have a particular date in mind. I want to have the entire sasquatch storyline drawn and in the can before I put up any more strips… If I start it up again and then drop out before the arc is finished, my two remaining fans would surely kill me until I was dead. I’ll make a post in MPSIMS when I do. No, I think I’d continue killing you after you were dead, just to make sure. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516.md?page=28)