# UTIs and other crap - August Minirants! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 1, 2011, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020 "2011-08-01T09:10:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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:** [August 11, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/221 "2011-08-11T21:46:41Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I just realized we’re five whole pages into a mini-rants thread, and there’s not one single multi-quoted snark post from **Shot From Guns**. I feel … a disturbance in the force. She last posted on the SDMB on her birthday. It must have been one hell of a party she had. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/222 "2011-08-11T21:56:16Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Anybody doing this to me had better be prepared for a solid beating. Does that include pets? I don’t think I’ve ever had an animal that didn’t wake me early at least some of the time. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I just realized we’re five whole pages into a mini-rants thread, and there’s not one single multi-quoted snark post from **Shot From Guns**. I feel … a disturbance in the force. I did this just for you! Not that I can take her place but maybe this will help. > [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > She last posted on the SDMB on her birthday. It must have been one hell of a party she had. Until she recovers from her very excellent birthday.\* \*I presume. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/223 "2011-08-11T23:35:12Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Does that include pets? I don’t think I’ve ever had an animal that didn’t wake me early at least some of the time.\ Oh yes, I beat my cats regularly (before anyone starts Pitting me, when I say “beat,” I mean paddling them on the bum in a way they love). I suspect I need to Pit all the people who live south of me who list hardiness zones for plants - it seems like they just put the lowest zone as the one they live in, not the lowest zone that the plant will thrive in. I live in Zone 3; it is very important to me that the hardiness zone is accurate; it’s great that it will survive in zone 5, but if it will also survive in zone 3, I need to know that. ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/224 "2011-08-12T01:54:25Z")
I wonder why it seems that nothing work right. I have been keeping a dog for a friend who has move to Hawaii. To keep her from having to be in 120 day quaranteen while her rabis antibiodies testing was completed. So I have tickets to fly to Hawaii w/her at end of month so I am making sure everything is ok for her to go. I look up the test results and find she has failed. Dagnabbit. My friend and I are frantically calling the vet the did the blood draw and sent it to the lab and the lab and my vet to find out what we can do. This wouldn’t be such a problem cause doggie can just stay with me a few more months while we get more tests, but doggie is my friends 5 yo daughter’s dog. I see crying happening. Daggnabit. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/225 "2011-08-12T02:41:59Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Seconded. **phouka** there’s a lot of guilt and self-torture in your post. I feel for you - please stop beating yourself up over something you can’t control. Well, that’s the problem isn’t it? It’s depression, and it sucks. Logic doesn’t work. The self-torture doesn’t cause the pain; the pain causes the self-torture. I actually now understand why some people self-harm. The physical pain of cutting is less than the emotional pain of depression, and the brain can only deal with one of them at a time. Depression really, really, _really_ sucks. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/226 "2011-08-12T15:09:00Z")
**YOU KNOW YOU MISSED ME.** > [@Too Damn Hot or Not Hot Enough: July Minirants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/578): > > And damn it Gmail. How many times must I flag their Geek Squad and Best Buys as spam before you get the hint and put them in my spam box, where they harmlessly wait the trash man? I dunno, how much time are you going to spend flagging every single email from them before you just make your own filter? > [@Too Damn Hot or Not Hot Enough: July Minirants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/591): > > 1991 […] 20 years I pit you for pointing out that 1991 was two decades ago. > [@Too Damn Hot or Not Hot Enough: July Minirants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-damn-hot-or-not-hot-enough-july-minirants/587516/600): > > Beef tenderloins are not meant to be cut up and cooked like steaks. I almost cried when I saw what you did to the tenderloin I carefully chose for the family dinner. Why would you chose a cut of meat that should be prepared in a certain way without ensuring that the person knows how to cook it and then get pissed off when they don’t meet your standards? If it matters to you, cook the meat your own damned self. > [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > But I still feel like an idiot for basically presenting him with one of my Hot Buttons and then getting hurt when he pushed it. He installed that button – of course he would push it. Why haven’t I learned this lesson yet? Because we want to think that our parents will eventually grow up. (Spoiler alert: Mostly they don’t.) > [@kiz](#): > > The next time my dogs decide to dump 50 lbs. of fur apiece on my newly-vacuumed carpet I just might shave 'em. My exboyfriend swore by the [Furminator](http://www.furminator.com/) for his cats. > [@cwthree](#): > > Don’t imagine for a moment that I’m fooled by that “We Care” envelope that you used to send the partial remains back to us. Ugh, this is the thing that pisses me off the most. No, a mass-produced, pre-printed, shitty and cheap plastic bag isn’t going to make me feel any better about the fact that you fucked up. In fact, it just makes me more angry. > [@congodwarf](#): > > [Mr. Buggy](http://s862.photobucket.com/albums/ab183/spike1380/?action=view¤t=005.jpg) Awwwww, he’s adorable! > [@Indygrrl](#): > > And to you UTI sufferers, damn I’m sorry, those are nature’s punishment for enjoying sex, I swear they are! I thought that was yeast infections. > [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > A muff would be easier to sew. Not to mention more thematically appropriate for something you’re making out of a pussy. > [@WhyNot](#): > > This is like a little microminirant, but…why the fuck does the individual pack of lube need scissors to open?! If you need lube, why are you buying it in individual packets? > [@JohnT](#): > > I appreciate the move to casual as much as the next person, but Jesus bloody Christ, one shouldn’t dress like a whore or a gangsta when going to church. You’ve… Um… You’ve actually \*read \*the New Testament, right? > [@perfectparanoia](#): > > Me: Actually, you should wait until I’ve completed the request before you say thank you. > […] (And, yes, I am anal.) No, you’re not anal, you’re a dick. Critiquing the way someone is being polite to you is a dick move. 100%. > [@Mince](#): > > Ooooooh. When’s Rape Month? \*Every \*month is Rape Month at the SDMB. > [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > The newspaper delivery lady saw fit to deposit my paper yesterday in the deep, muddy puddle at the end of my driveway. (When it is raining or has been raining, she _always_ throws it into the middle of the saturated yard.) There should be a number just inside the front page of the paper (find a dry copy in your recycling) that you can call for delivery issues. > [@tumbleddown](#): > > I agreed to do a website, gratis, for a local charity organization that a friend is running. […] I have a feeling that I’m not going to be able to persuade them as to the error of their ways on this one easily, too. Easy solution–they don’t get to look a gift horse in the mouth. Tell them that either they take your recommendations about best practices, or they can find someone who doesn’t mind turning out a steaming turd for free. > [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I gotta say, whether it’s bad practice or not, as a user I generally prefer this. Sometimes I want to switch back and forth between pages. Not tabs, pages. I’m aware that I can rightclick and choose “Open link in a new window”, but I prefer it to be automatic. “So there’s this thing I like that most other people hate. And when the default is the way I don’t like, I know that I can still do it my way, while when the default is my way, the other people can’t do it their way. But I still want it my way.” :rolleyes: > [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Leave the cats on a diet and continue making them miserable or let them off the diet and risk unhealthy cats? They basically walk around the house all day long mewing for food every half an hour. Can you feed them small amounts scattered through the day instead of fewer, larger feedings? > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > The ten dollar bill was NOT counterfeit - it was just an older style that I guess the punk-ass kids at the Dairy Queen counter were not familiar with. Wait, was it just the old, smaller portraits? If so, that’s hilarious. > [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > That’s why I cringe when I see cashiers relying on those detector pens. Those things are [a big fucking scam](http://calladus.blogspot.com/2006/09/testing-counterfeit-money-detector-pen.html). > [@phouka](#): > > I’ve got the whacked out hormones (for which I can no longer take any hormonal birth control because I’m now contraindicated) HIGH-FIVE. I miss my fucking Ortho Tri-Cyclen _so much_. > [@vivalostwages](#): > > Not only are we seeing more remedial and pre-literate students of all ages coming into college, but some of them have actually held management and supervisory positions. How in the blue bloody hell do they get hired, and how do they maintain their positions? Because once you get one incompetent person in a position of authority (usually by nepotism or some other sort of favoritism), that person isn’t going to want to promote anyone who’s more competent than them. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I just realized we’re five whole pages into a mini-rants thread, and there’s not one single multi-quoted snark post from **Shot From Guns**. **TOLD YOU YOU MISSED ME.** Actually, it was just a combination of vacation time off work, sick time off work, and then being busy with a few client projects. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/227 "2011-08-12T15:29:05Z")
Dear American Chewing Gum industry: Fuck You. So I’m considering quitting smoking because, frankly, I just can’t afford it anymore (for the 357th time). I make a quick perusal of the sugar-free gum aisle (because I’m diabetic) at the convenience store this morning, figuring 1 stick of gum=1 cigarette=great way to step off the coughy-smelly bus. Doesn’t every damn brand of sugar-free gum have sugar alcohols instead? So my choices are lung cancer, missing body parts or explosive diarrhea. Why doesn’t anyone make a chewing gum with sucralose or some other artificial sweetener that’s not a \*-tol? Jeez… ---
**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:** [August 12, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/228 "2011-08-12T16:31:04Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > \ > Wait, was it just the old, smaller portraits? If so, that’s hilarious.\ It was an old-style bill without the braille dots or the shiny foil strip and without the ghost Sir John A. Macdonald that you can see by holding up to the light. I don’t think I’ll accept any old-style bills in the future, even if they are legal tender - too much hassle. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/229 "2011-08-12T19:35:41Z")
Dear nice sweet co-worker/suitemate: If we’re having an IM conversation while suitemate #2 is on the phone, and I make a little IM joke, and I hear you laugh at it, it really isn’t necessary to then IM me “lol.” I heard you actually and ferreals laugh out loud. In meatspace. No need to add it to the transcript. (She really is nice and sweet, and I should be grateful that’s about the worst thing I can bitch about her, but it’s been a crappy day and I’m cranky and whiny.) ---
**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:** [August 12, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/230 "2011-08-12T21:25:51Z")
To be fair, it isn’t always clear what someone is laughing at. I’ve had a coworker think I just laughed at something she typed and vice versa, when actually we were laughing at something else we were reading at the time. Such is the joy of text-based communication. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/231 "2011-08-12T21:50:20Z")
Yeah, but I’m cranky and whiny and I don_wanna_ be fair. _pout, stomp_ ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/232 "2011-08-12T23:56:54Z")
I’m sick of the damned bathroom at work. Seriously. At my workstation, there’s way too much noise, talking, humming and other crap. When I go into the bathroom… total silence. It’s like being in an anechoic chamber. It’s so quiet you can hear a sphincter stretch. I’m not given to shyness in the bathroom but this tomb-like silence is off-putting when there are other “guests” in the stalls. Couldn’t we just have a fan or something? ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/233 "2011-08-13T00:47:28Z")
I just had to explain to my six year old autistic child that her daddy (who she also says is her best friend) isn’t coming home and\* then\* I had to take her to the jail to see him one last time before he goes to the deportation facility. I am thisclose to losing it. My anxieties are at an all time high and my little girl is asking why I can’t bring her daddy home. She thinks it’s my fault, that I could do it but I must not want to. I have tried my best to explain but she doesn’t get it, and I don’t know what else I can say to make her stop being so sad. Time I guess, time and distractions. My heart is just breaking for her. I’m sticking this here although it’s not exactly a “mini” rant, but it seems to be the least judgmental of the pit and I really don’t want to hear about how I’m a bad mother and it’s all my fault for getting involved with an EElegal. I just needed to get this out. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/234 "2011-08-13T01:17:08Z")
I hate this shopping thing. _My body is not work appropriate._ Today I went in pursuit of a couple of layering tanks to go under a lot of my work-friendly clothes. 1. I’m long-waisted. 2. I’m busty. 3. I have shoulders like a linebacker. 4. I’m in that “could be plus size, could be regular” no man’s land. In trying to find a few tops that cover my cleavage, reach down to cover my torso comfortably, and don’t make me look weird, I failed completely. I am, however, going to try tomorrow, as it’s tax free weekend in Florida and I should stock up anyway. Before I do, though, I need to weed out the handful of things in my wardrobe that I know I will never wear to work or casual events. ---
**Author:** ![OneMissedPost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@OneMissedPost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneMissedPost)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/235 "2011-08-13T01:33:30Z")
-I pit people who always use Wikipedia as their cite. -I pit people who always ask “cite?” ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpine/32/17813_2.png) [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/236 "2011-08-13T02:54:05Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > Depression really, really, _really_ sucks. It really, really does. I’m sure there are things that suck worse, but for me, it’s the kicker. You just get so… tired of fighting. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/237 "2011-08-13T03:43:49Z")
> [@Alpine](#): > > It really, really does. I’m sure there are things that suck worse, but for me, it’s the kicker. > > You just get so… tired of fighting. Yes, and thank you. Better today. I swear to Og, if any of you other Dopers _ever_ see me eating something that might _possibly_ contain wheat, you are to smack it out of my hand first and ask questions later. Just because I’m not getting the physical symptoms of gluten intolerance anymore doesn’t mean I don’t get the mental symptoms. Believe me, the mental symptoms are much, much worse. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/238 "2011-08-13T11:12:26Z")
A Facebook rant so be prepared! XXX status “is going for a nice lay down”. Is that so interesting that you need the fucking world to know? I may post that “Cicero is going for a nice shit”. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/239 "2011-08-13T12:12:32Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > Start with just one thing. Exercise. Then choose the next thing. Don’t try to change you entire life at once. Just go for a walk tonight. Yes, exercise is indeed good for what ails ya. I try hard to walk everyday and it’s good for me both mentally and physically, so in keeping to the rant theme here. Dog owners, please keep your dogs behind your closed gate. I don’t mind being barked at. That’s what my I-pod is for, but being chased and nipped at, which happened three fucking times this week, is going too damn far. You are messing with my ability to do the only exercise I don’t absolutely hate. So yeah, close the fucking gate please. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020/240 "2011-08-13T13:04:28Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > A Facebook rant so be prepared! > XXX status “is going for a nice lay down”. > > Is that so interesting that you need the fucking world to know? I may post that “Cicero is going for a nice shit”. I have a friend who checks in via FB/Foursquare upon getting to work, and at his house about half the time he comes home anywhere. Seriously. He has his place tagged as the “(Lastname) Manor” and checks in upon arrival. He also does random things like check in at convenience stores. I’m fine with people who do a lot of checking in at stuff on special nights out/vacations/whatever (hell, I do that on vacation myself), especially because I can look at whatever special restaurant/museum/etc they’re going to and see if I might want to go there in the future. But really, I don’t need to know via FB when anyone gets to work, when they’ve gone to the convenience store, when they get home. If I could specifically block all Foursquare reports from this one particular guy, I’d be happy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020.md?page=13)