# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 226
**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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utis-and-other-crap-august-minirants/591020)._