# 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:** 9
**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:** [July 7, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/161 "2011-07-07T01:09:10Z")
Fair enough, then. I presume he has no other access to your call center, with which he could present an argument that you are culpable. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/162 "2011-07-07T05:01:01Z")
spray sunscreen + bug spray = my skin turned orange, god dammit. My shirt too. What the fuck? Fortunately it comes off skin if you scrub hard enough. I don’t know if there was a chemical reaction, or they screwed up at the factory and put some spray tanner stuff in the sunscreen(does spray tanner go on clear, tough?), but I didn’t want to be orange!!!111!!111!eleventy!!! ---
**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 7, 2011, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/163 "2011-07-07T05:08:10Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > spray sunscreen + bug spray = my skin turned orange, god dammit. My shirt too. > > What the fuck? Fortunately it comes off skin if you scrub hard enough. I don’t know if there was a chemical reaction, or they screwed up at the factory and put some spray tanner stuff in the sunscreen(does spray tanner go on clear, tough?), but I didn’t want to be orange!!!111!!111!eleventy!!! Well, I didn’t turn orange (that’s good), but I do get grease spots on my shirt every time I spray my sunscreen and bug spray on. I hate walking around with a spotty shirt - it’s a clean shirt! I swear! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/164 "2011-07-07T12:27:52Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > spray sunscreen + bug spray = my skin turned orange, god dammit. My shirt too. Oompa Loompa dupitie dee, I have another product for thee. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/165 "2011-07-07T13:08:18Z")
I am going to stab the sun to death. Holy freaking cow it is hot out! It was 80 degrees this morning by 8 a.m.! [Weather.com](http://Weather.com) says that it isn’t supposed to get above 88 degrees out but I think this just proves they’re lying cock goblins. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/166 "2011-07-07T23:36:53Z")
Seriously, if you’re waiting to turn left out of the grocery store, and there is no one coming from the right hand side, and the only cars coming from your left are ALL in the designated right turn lane to turn into the grocery store… YOU CAN FUCKING TURN LEFT ALREADY! It is not necessary to wait through SEVERAL green lights at the intersection down the way on your left until there are no cars approaching from either direction. If you are too timid to make a turn until there ARE no cars on the road you are turning onto, you should not be driving. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/167 "2011-07-08T00:53:30Z")
Yesterday, it was clear and sunny, high 80s. Today is overcast and it might reach 70. It’s been sunny everyday in July until today. I like the overcast better being a true Oregon boy, but I thought summer had started. I just want summer to start so it will be over with sooner. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/168 "2011-07-08T13:07:53Z")
Dear MBTA, You know when would have been a good day for air conditioning? Yesterday. Remember yesterday, when it was sunny and 88 degrees? Today, it’s 70 and rainy. Perhaps the bus didn’t need to be quite so arctic today. Get it together, Diana Dear pretty much everyplace, Speaking of air conditioning, the point of it is to make the temperature _comfortable_. 60 degrees is not comfortable. I’m all for not drowning in my own sweat, but I do enjoy the “not fucking freezing” part of summer, and I don’t understand why places are so aggressively over air conditioned, down to temperatures that would be totally unacceptable in the winter. No love, from me or the sweater I’m wearing, Diana ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/169 "2011-07-08T13:39:49Z")
My Spanish class, which was supposed to start on Monday, was cancelled yesterday. I was able to juggle my schedule; moving a class from the fall to this Session and Spanish to the fall. But in order to do it, I had to drop the class I’ve been looking forward to ever since I decided to go back to college. Stupid degree requirements. ☹ I have spent the last year taking only the bare minimum of Humanities classes. I may be getting a Liberal Arts degree but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. I’ve filled my electives with science and math classes. Now, with the cancelling of 1 class, I suddenly find myself taking another Sociology class, 2 more English classes, and another History class. How the hell did this happen? It’s torture I tell ya. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Westrogothia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@Westrogothia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Westrogothia)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/170 "2011-07-08T14:31:48Z")
My dad is a real sweetheart. My dad wants me to come help him install his new computer. “And can i please not be in a fucking hurry as always. Its really annoying to him if I don’t give him all the time he needs.” And “Can you please bring the thingamajig.”, “What thingamajig?”, “The one I fucking payed for I really want to use it I don’t think I should have to answer fucking questions, Its my thing. SO stop being a smart ass and just bring it. Is that really to much to ask?” Turns out he means a grass trimmer he stores at my place. So mums best friend just died. She had to take a last minute flight, and literally arrived only to hold her hand while she passed away. So she’s considering staying for the burial (this is another country), which might take longer than she first anticipated. My dads response to this: “Does she realize that Im going on vacation next week? This will ruin everything, I might have wanted to do something.” ---
**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 8, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/171 "2011-07-08T14:36:31Z")
**West** , I do believe I’ve met your father. You’re right, he’s a real [del]ass[/del] sweetheart. Mine, and it’s TMI and therefore for the laaaaadies: Well, hello, period. I wouldn’t have worn these panties if I’d known you were showing up today. :mad: ---
**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 8, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/172 "2011-07-08T15:34:56Z")
> [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > And you just KNOW that person now thinks YOU made that mess, and you want to go up to them and say “I swear, I found the stall like that,” but you know it will only make you look even more guilty. Actually, I think most people assume that if they see you going into another stall that you found it that way. I agree with **ENugent** that the correct course is also to warn that person off. > [@overlyverbose](#): > > After getting just 1.5 hours of sleep last night thanks to a congested, clingy, whiny toddler who refused any and all of her daddy’s attempts to comfort her, I’m really not in the mood to take any shit. It’s probably going to get me in trouble since I’m scrapping our sales process and replacing it, but I really don’t give a rat’s ass. This whole thing combined in my brain into you saying htat you were planning to scrap and replace your toddler. Thumbs up! > [@](#): > > Again, take that biatches. And don’t fuck with me today. :slide-slap into fist bump: > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > It wouldn’t be any more accurate to characterize us as Christian than, say, Thomas Jefferson, Paramahansa Yogananda, the Dalai Lama, or Wayne Dyer. Ah, my mistake–I assumed based on the word “church.” > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Reading between the lines, I formed the impression that he’s not all that eager to associate with them anyway. Doesn’t matter. As long as \*his wife \*is going to continue to associate with _his family_, he needs to make it clear to them that she is not to be treated like an inconvenient accessory. > [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > But woo! Job interview! I was going to say good luck, but apparently you didn’t need it! Hope it works out awesomely. > [@DianaG](#): > > Speaking of air conditioning, the point of it is to make the temperature _comfortable_. 60 degrees is not comfortable. I’m all for not drowning in my own sweat, but I do enjoy the “not fucking freezing” part of summer, and I don’t understand why places are so aggressively over air conditioned, down to temperatures that would be totally unacceptable in the winter. IME, this sort of over-conditioning is a direct result of making muckety-mucks’ offices a comfortable temperature. The offices, which border the outside so they get windows, warm up a lot more, so they set the A/C higher, which makes the cube maze in the middle of the building freezing. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Mine, and it’s TMI and therefore for the laaaaadies: Boooooooooo. I hate it when they’re all unpredictable. I had a bit of a TMI rant myself that I contemplated sharing, but it’s very TMI and also kind of sneak-braggy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/173 "2011-07-09T00:30:39Z")
Ma’am, you are 80 years old, and technology obviously befuddles you. please do not try to use the self-checkout at the grocery store, making the lone attendant scan all of your items for you, bag your items, as well as put your money in the receptacle, and hand you your change and receipt, all the while four other people are waiting for the attendant. For the love of gord please just go to a regular checkout line. ---
**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 9, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/174 "2011-07-09T05:32:44Z")
Heh - I was zipping on through the self-checkout at Safeway today when one item came up as not found. I got the attendant’s attention (by telling her that it was saying not found), so she sent a bagboy off to get a price check for me. Five minutes later, he came back and told us the price. I said I knew the price, it just wasn’t coming up as found (like I told her, five minutes ago). She said, “Oh, you should have said that.” I bit my tongue. I also bit my tongue on telling them that the item was actually about a buck more expensive than he said (I wasn’t about to waste even more of my time because they can’t get their shit together). ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/175 "2011-07-09T23:34:46Z")
We’re in our monsoon season here in southern Arizona. Normally, the rain is a relief from the 100+ F. temperatures we have this time of year. But now we’re getting quarter-sized hail. WTF? Hail in the middle of the desert! I have about seven skylights in my ceiling and I’m afraid the hail is going to crack one of them and I’ll have all the rain pissing into the inside of my home. My dog has been walking around all bug-eyed and looking at me as if to say, “Daddy, please make it stop.” Normally thunderstorms don’t spook him, but when pieces of hail as big as a 25 cent piece start hitting all the skylights at 100 miles per hour, even I am scared shitless. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/176 "2011-07-10T02:52:42Z")
Today, my dad managed to completely forget to take his afternoon medications. And I forgot to check if he took him until an hour ago. Which means I or Mom will have to wake him up at 3 a.m. to give him his evening meds so his blood pressure doesn’t make his head explode. AND when I got back from dinner, I discovered he’d left a stove burner on. But, hey, at least this time, he didn’t leave a pot on top of it. Also, it’s too hot to take the puppy to the dog park, because she doesn’t know when to stop. She’s almost gotten heat exhaustion a couple of times. Also, I can’t get shit done because I’m stressed out for no good reason. ---
**Author:** ![JayRx1981](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71e660/32.png) [@JayRx1981](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayRx1981)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/177 "2011-07-10T03:09:44Z")
I pit Microsoft for their idiotic OS Upgrade choices. I owned two licenses for Win7 Professional. One, an upgrade copy, I purchased to go from a retail Vista computer to Win7, and the second, an OEM copy of Win7 when I built my gaming rig. Now, I decided I wanted to build a second box for my living room (so I can play PC games on the couch and still watch TV), but I can’t find the Vista disc to install. And does MS make it easy on you and let you just input the two CD-Keys for Vista and the upgrade for Win7? Oh no. You have to actually install Vista first. So now I have a defunct Win7 license I can’t use because I can’t find a Vista disc to install. I was tempted to download an illegal torrent of Win7 and say bleep it…but I caved to my guilt and went out and bought ANOTHER OEM copy of Win7. Fuck you Microsoft. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/178 "2011-07-10T03:16:31Z")
offers some hugs. has no idea why you are stressed:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/179 "2011-07-10T05:07:21Z")
Okay, assholes: enough, already. The 4th was five days ago and you’re still shooting off fireworks? Grow the fuck up, you fucking morons. God, I hate weekends. ---
**Author:** ![George\_Kaplin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@George\_Kaplin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/George_Kaplin)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/180 "2011-07-10T07:46:01Z")
Lost my cell phone. Fuck. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516.md?page=10)