# Whew it's hot out here! Summer Mini-Rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 23, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239 "2010-06-23T14:33:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/21 "2010-06-23T21:04:43Z")
Please stop saying “Golf” of Mexico. And in advance, don’t say Persian “Golf” either. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/22 "2010-06-23T21:22:10Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Is a Nobel Prize winner any less of one because he finds fart jokes funny? Shirley knot. But let’s get real: _everybody_ finds fart jokes funny. Only charlatans and self-hating homosexuals say “sammich”. MY POST IS MY CITE! Also, **Shot** , I agree there is nothing wrong with shiny objects. As long as they’re attached to boobs in some way. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/23 "2010-06-23T21:23:42Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Shirley knot. But let’s get real: _everybody_ finds fart jokes funny. Only charlatans and self-hating homosexuals say “sammich”. MY POST IS MY CITE! > > Also, **Shot** , I agree there is nothing wrong with shiny objects. As long as they’re attached to boobs in some way. I think we can all find common ground here. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/24 "2010-06-23T21:28:48Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Also, **Shot** , I agree there is nothing wrong with shiny objects. As long as they’re attached to boobs in some way. And as long as they’re not fish hooks. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/25 "2010-06-23T21:34:40Z")
Goddammit, **Vinyl Turnip** , quit trying to ruin boobs for me! Are you secretly my mother or something? Your plan will never succeed. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/26 "2010-06-23T21:42:56Z")
1. Wimbledon does not have T in it. And it sure as fuck isn’t “Wimpleton.” 2. Apple’s line of products are lowercase I followed by a capitalized first letter. iPhone. iPad. iMac. Not IMAC or IPhone or Ipad. This shit has been out for 13 years now. And while we’re on it, it’s Mac, not MAC. 3. What kind of asshole walks through a busy office area loudly whistling and bouncing a rubber ball on the floor? Oh. Your kind of asshole, got it. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/27 "2010-06-23T21:48:05Z")
> [@Geek\_Mecha](#): > > 1. Apple’s line of products are lowercase I followed by a capitalized first letter. iPhone. iPad. iMac. Not IMAC or IPhone or Ipad. This shit has been out for 13 years now. And while we’re on it, it’s Mac, not MAC. Well, i got it right in my previous post, but fuck Apple and their retarded corporate naming policy, and a hearty “Up yours” to the Jobs asslickers who insist on spelling the name of their overpriced crap with the stupid fucking lower-case i. This is just for you assholes (or, maybe, iAssholes): IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad IMAC IPhone MAC Ipad ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/28 "2010-06-23T21:54:06Z")
Don’t make me hurt you **mhendo**. It’s not that I particularly care about Apple, but I do care (for my job anyway) about making sure brand and company names are spelled/capitalized/punctuated correctly, and that post set off one hell of a tic. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/29 "2010-06-23T21:56:34Z")
**mhendo** , if you want to look like you’re taking the high road, just tell people you’re going to continue to capitalize the products that way until Mac stops manufacturing their iPods in hellish Chinese slave labor camps. That’ll shut 'em up. ETA: Just make sure your own iPod’s nowhere in sight when you say it. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/30 "2010-06-23T22:23:51Z")
Does ANYBODY know what **Standard** time means? This is this middle of summer in California and when you set up meetings and put in big CAPITAL letters that the meeting starts at 11:30am PACIFIC STANDARD TIME, what are we supposed to do? Think you are a moron who doesn’t know the difference between Standard and Daylight time, or think you are a moron and expect us to convert the 11:30am time into _actual_ Daylight time. Does _anyone_ ever say Pacific Daylight Time for _any_ reason? I’m going to start inviting people to meetings using Newfoundland Standard Time. Translate **that** , you morons. :mad: Also, why, if Google Calendar is going to translate all your meeting times according to your local time zone, do they not allow you to specify the time zone when creating a new calendar entry? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/31 "2010-06-23T22:30:22Z")
That’s why I refuse to mention Standard or Daylight in any times I give. I just say Pacific Time or Mountain Time or Arizona Time or whatever. Even for a date in the future, it’s not as if there’s two time systems in effect on November 24 or anything. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/32 "2010-06-23T22:45:11Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > And as long as they’re not fish hooks. “You fit into me Like a hook into an eye A fish hook An open eye.” - The ever-cheerful Margaret Atwood I’m on Mountain Time, baby! I don’t know nuthin’ bout no standard or daylight savings or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/33 "2010-06-23T23:09:51Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Dunno if I qualify as old (age 54), and I don’t have to stop when my pelvis hurts (although it does get pretty bad), but the last time I sought medical attention for it, the doctor’s medical treatment was to tell me to lose weight. At least you actually went to see a doctor though, even if he didn’t do what you wanted him to do. Which is my other complaint. People who go in thinking they already know the problem and the cure, and the doctor should just confirm it. My father-in-law apparently managed to cram a medical degree into his high school education somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/34 "2010-06-23T23:17:27Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > And as long as they’re not fish hooks. I hate you so much right now. I’ll be in the corner, rocking myself in the fetal position. But first - it’s going to be 101 tomorrow. The _temperature_. I shudder to think what the heat index will be. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/35 "2010-06-23T23:32:34Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Please stop saying “Golf” of Mexico. And in advance, don’t say Persian “Golf” either. Wha? Persians love golf! And hummus sammiches! > [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > I hate you so much right now. I’ll be in the corner, rocking myself in the fetal position. > > But first - it’s going to be 101 tomorrow. The _temperature_. I shudder to think what the heat index will be. Its 88 with a heat index of 96 here right now, and humid as hell. Its 7:30pm EST. Its too hot. Al Gore was right…the internet he invented is not only the source of global warming but evil incarnate! ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/36 "2010-06-23T23:35:23Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Well, i got it right in my previous post, but fuck Apple and their retarded corporate naming policy, and a hearty “Up yours” to the Jobs asslickers who insist on spelling the name of their overpriced crap with the stupid fucking lower-case i. I don’t like it either. But 1) I know that’s the name, and 2) I’m not going to mistype the name of stuff I talk about. It’d be just as bad as writing about “Hanalulu” or “gymnaztics.” All those posters who start threads bitching about “ITunes” or asking questions about their “Iphone”? I can’t take their posts seriously. If you can’t get the name right, why should I think you got anything else right? ---
**Author:** ![MsChilePepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MsChilePepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsChilePepper)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/37 "2010-06-23T23:37:22Z")
Dear bus-riding humanoids of the Greater Puget Sound area: Warm weather has FINALLY arrived, yay! This means that we all have to pay a little more attention to our grooming. In other words, a daily hygiene routine is NOT OPTIONAL. Wash your bodies and your hair with SOAP and/or SHAMPOO on a regular basis, i.e. at least three to four times per week (but preferably daily) as opposed to the NEVER that is clearly your current habit. Please also make friends with some antiperspirant/deodorant. Nobody wants to smell your rank-ass funk, especially in close quarters on public transportation WITH NO AIR-CONDITIONING! Also, when you’re done snacking on those cat turds of which you are clearly so fond, please brush your goddamn teeth, tongues, and the roofs of your mouths. Your breath could knock down a water buffalo at 50 paces. Ugh. Failure to comply with the above demands, which are eminently reasonable, will result in being hosed down with a stream of Febreze shot from a Super-Soaker. Yours etc. etc. La Chile ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/38 "2010-06-23T23:39:37Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > That’s why I refuse to mention Standard or Daylight in any times I give. I just say Pacific Time or Mountain Time or Arizona Time or whatever. Even for a date in the future, it’s not as if there’s two time systems in effect on November 24 or anything. As long as you’re not booking a meeting with anyone in Europe. There are 3 weeks of difference between when we change and when they do thanks to the latest date switch here in NA. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/39 "2010-06-24T01:12:23Z")
I don’t even really want to rant about this because it seems like my life is so focused on it right now and I hate it, but two things happened today that are upsetting. First, I call the fertility clinic I’ve been referred to to make sure they have my correct phone number and I asked how much longer I need to wait to get the consultation appointment call. They’ll call in December or January. Nice. Well, I guess another seven months of waiting doesn’t matter after two and a half years of trying. ☹ Secondly, my old clinic (who referred me to the fertility clinic) has allowed me to do a run of fertility medication for three months while I wait to get into the fertility clinic. I am to get blood work done on day 21 (today) to check my hormone levels/how strong my ovulation was. I went in with the lab requisition after work and my doctor hadn’t filled it out properly, so I couldn’t get it done. Now, normally I wouldn’t freak out, but this is just another in a long list of fuck ups that clinic has put me through since last fall. If I can’t get them to fax a new one tomorrow (they have a history of not returning calls), then I’m SOL for this month and if I’m not pregnant, then although we have medication for next month, any needed adjustments won’t be made. ☹ I’m just getting so tired of the waiting game. I wish I would just get knocked up already. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/40 "2010-06-24T01:56:08Z")
When my son comes in my office YET AGAIN to talk about Bionicles for twenty uninterrupted minutes YET AGAIN, it’s all I can do not to either start talking about Broadway musicals for twenty uninterrupted minutes or just look him in the eye and say, “Son, what in the world makes you think I will find this subject interesting? Have you NOT noticed me tuning you out and mumbling “mmm-hmmm” over and over again without so much as looking at you the last thirty times you’ve done this?” I mean, REALLY. You’re SIXTEEN. Start obsessing about GIRLS, for god’s sake – now THAT I’ll talk about for as long as you want! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239.md?page=3)