# 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:** 43
**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 16, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/841 "2010-08-16T16:37:00Z")
> [@niblet\_head](#): > > Well, now I’m not sure anymore! > > Oh, yeah. Add water in the basement to the list! Now I’m scared… ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/842 "2010-08-16T16:56:58Z")
I hate when people who I consider otherwise rational, intelligent people post obnoxious political claptrap on their Facebook. A friend posted an article last week about Obama & the mosque “at” Ground Zero, with the comment “Not unexpected…really”. I ignored it. I have ignored previous comments, too. I feel it’s good not to only have people with the same views as I on Facebook. Keeps me practiced. Today, however, I get to read the wall post “\ wonders if, in 1936 in Germany, there weren’t some Jews who were labeled “Conspiracy Theorists”. If so, she’s in good company.” Whether it’s true or not, it’s damned stupid & offensive with the 20/20 lens of history. I don’t WANT to ignore you, but I might. Dammit. She Godwinized my Facebook!!! ---
**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 16, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/843 "2010-08-16T16:57:13Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Drop dead Verizon! [snip] You too, google! I heartily endorse this rant. > [@Rilchiam](#): > > I wonder if a tailor could do anything…but then I’d be spending more on the alteration than I did on the jeans. Just for trimming the extra fabric off the bottoms and re-hemming them? Doubtful, unless you got your pants for a dollar at a thrift store. Don’t go to a fancy-ass tailor–look for a dry cleaner that also does alterations. You may also want to try online stores to see if they would have a better fit–personally, I buy all my jeans these days from [Alloy.com](http://Alloy.com) like some kind of teenage girl, 'cause they actually carry pants in 35" and 37" inseams. ---
**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 16, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/844 "2010-08-16T16:58:14Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > I ignored it. I have ignored previous comments, too. Why? You can have friends with opposing viewpoints and still call them on ridiculously stupid and/or racist bullshit. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/845 "2010-08-16T17:18:45Z")
We have this stupid zone AC/Heating system at my office building. Right now it is freeeeeeezing in my little office. Which means someone somewhere else on this floor likely blocked their AC vent because it was fucking cold in their office, too, driving up the temp in their office but throwing off the temp for the whole floor (betting the little thermostat is in their office). So the zone system doesn’t read the temp correctly and blasts everyone with even colder air. I’m sitting on my hands or putting them in my armpits because it is so mutha fuckin’ cold in here. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/846 "2010-08-16T18:12:22Z")
I got a couple fillings in my back teeth last year and the not-very-good dentist (not _exactly_ incompetent, but there’s no question he’s not a very good dentist.) filled them weirdly so that they have REALLY sharp bits. Well, I bit my tongue with those sharp teeth yesterday and it swelled and now the inflamed part of my tongue is rubbing up against the sharp teeth. Which hurts a LOT. I really wish I could put a band-aid or something on my tongue just to protect it from those evil little teeth ---
**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 16, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/847 "2010-08-16T18:31:54Z")
When I had braces, I was ofen given these little cases of wax to put over any pointy bits of wire. Could you find some of that wax to stick on your teeth until your tongue heals and/or the dentist can fit you in to fixed the fucked up sharp fillings? ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/848 "2010-08-16T18:55:19Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > > [@Indyellen](#): > > > > I ignored it. I have ignored previous comments, too. > > Why? You can have friends with opposing viewpoints and still call them on ridiculously stupid and/or racist bullshit. Well, I may very well call her on this one. Usually I don’t respond because I consider it the same as responding to certain posters here: like talking to a brick wall. ---
**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 16, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/849 "2010-08-16T19:12:45Z")
Yeah, but there’s a difference between a friend (or at least a FB friend) and some random person who happens to post to the same message board as you. Now, YMMV 'cause I’m a pretty confrontational person, but I literally \*could not \*see that kind of disgusting shit on a “friend’s” wall and \*not \*comment on it. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/850 "2010-08-16T20:38:26Z")
So far my general response to bullshit on friend’s walls is to post counterpoints on my own wall with zero reference to other people’s posts. Like when the wife of an acquaintence/FB friend started going on and on about how we didn’t need, or how destructive the heathcare reform bill would be, I posted [this link](http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1914020220100319) on my wall with the comment “I dare anyone to tell me this will destroy America”. Not that I necessarily agree with every aspect of HCR, but the lies were getting out of hand. I’ve posted the John Cleese Extremism vid, links to Daily Show mockings of extreme right wing(nut) claims, etc. Not often, overall only about once every 6-8 weeks, but enough to show that I’m not impressed with political lies, extremism and ignorance. The one thing I absolutely will NOT tolerate, and thankfully have not had to deal with as yet, would be someone spouting their bullshit on MY wall. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/851 "2010-08-16T22:39:48Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > > [@Rilchiam](#): > > > > I wonder if a tailor could do anything…but then I’d be spending more on the alteration than I did on the jeans. > > Just for trimming the extra fabric off the bottoms and re-hemming them? Doubtful, unless you got your pants for a dollar at a thrift store. Don’t go to a fancy-ass tailor–look for a dry cleaner that also does alterations. You may also want to try online stores to see if they would have a better fit–personally, I buy all my jeans these days from [Alloy.com](http://Alloy.com) like some kind of teenage girl, 'cause they actually carry pants in 35" and 37" inseams. Yeah, but would they fix it so they still flare? And I paid $10 from a clearance rack. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/852 "2010-08-16T22:52:32Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Yeah, but there’s a difference between a friend (or at least a FB friend) and some random person who happens to post to the same message board as you. Now, YMMV 'cause I’m a pretty confrontational person, but I literally \*could not \*see that kind of disgusting shit on a “friend’s” wall and \*not \*comment on it. Well, I posted a comment, making clear that I am in favor of everyone being able to speak their mind, and that I am not particularly PC or easily offended. I also posted it in such a way as to give the benefit of the doubt that she might not realize how offensive it is. (I also suggested she Google Godwin’s Law. That might have been slightly snarky.) BTW, this person is not a close friend, more an aquaintance. We’re in the same local SCA group together, so our usual interaction prior to Facebook didn’t bring up anything more complicated than Baronial or Kingdom politics. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/853 "2010-08-17T03:15:26Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Drop dead Verizon! > > Net neutrality forever! > > The lousy fucking phone company does not get to decide who is and is not allowed on the goddamned internet. Go play North Korea somewhere else you arrogant assholes. It’s bad enough you fuck up my phone service. Leave the internet alone you shitheads. > > You too, google! > > > [@](#): > > > > [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/opinion/14sat1.html?ref=opinion](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/opinion/14sat1.html?ref=opinion) > > > > The Google/Verizon proposal gives broadband providers lots of leeway to offer preferential treatment to some and to choke off others. Most important, the two companies propose to exempt wireless communication from most government regulation — a serious error. The Canadian Radio-Television Commission, which functions somewhat like the FCC in the US to regulate both broadcasters and cable and internet providers, recently made a comment about the tentative bandwidth shaping proposals of some big communications/ISP companies, to the effect that they would consider such a move as changing the company’s status to “broadcaster”, and it would then be subject to the much stricter broadcast regulations. 🙂 ---
**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 17, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/854 "2010-08-17T15:02:19Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Yeah, but would they fix it so they still flare? And I paid $10 from a clearance rack. 1.) I would assume that the pants would do whatever they’re doing at the height they’d be cut off at. If you wanted more flare, the person doing the alteration could easily split the pants along the seam and insert more fabric. 2.) Okay, so if you only paid $10, the alteration would probably come to a more significant percentage of your purchase price. Worth at least getting an estimate, though–and would you rather have $10 pants that flop all over, or $15-35\* pants that stop where they should? \*Most realistic cost would probably be about $10. I would only expect it to get as high as $25 if you wanted them to keep the original hem. ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/855 "2010-08-17T19:11:57Z")
I’ve been feeling kinda “meh” lately, and I just can’t shake it. I don’t really enjoy talking with friends any more, and actually avoid their calls if I can. (I don’t want to completely lose the friendship, so I’ll have to take her calls tonite, since I already blew her off last night. Others don’t call as often, so I don’t have to avoid them.) Basically everyone is annoying the fuck outta me. Everyone. Family has always annoyed the hell out of me, but this year its much worse. Husband is annoying, but its a low-level constant, so I can ignore it. I try to get myself all worked up with RO and that really doesn’t get me anywhere either. I’m not even sure why I’m bothering to type this up - someone will give some advice and I’ll just get annoyed with that too. People suck. And so do I. ---
**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 17, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/856 "2010-08-17T19:21:51Z")
Go get drunk and punch a baby. You’ll feel better. ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/857 "2010-08-17T19:26:53Z")
I knew you’d be the next poster SFG - and your advice actually made me smile. I don’t have any babies nearby (I’m allergic), so I’ll just have to punch the husband. a few times. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/858 "2010-08-17T19:49:18Z")
> [@otternell](#): > > I knew you’d be the next poster SFG - and your advice actually made me smile. I don’t have any babies nearby (I’m allergic), so I’ll just have to punch the husband. a few times. If he cries when you punch him, that’s close enough. ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/859 "2010-08-17T19:51:58Z")
Usually he just whines, but I might not be hitting hard enough. I’ll try to do better. ---
**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 17, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/860 "2010-08-17T20:05:33Z")
Husband is an acceptable alternative, especially if he’s attempting to appease you with baked goods while you beat him mercilessly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239.md?page=42) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239.md?page=44)