# 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:** 59
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1161 "2010-09-15T21:52:36Z")
Look, this isn’t an argument, it’s just contradiction. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1162 "2010-09-15T21:54:54Z")
No it isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1163 "2010-09-15T21:58:16Z")
And scene. Be sure to tip your servers, ladies and gentlemen! ---
**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:** [September 15, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1164 "2010-09-15T22:00:47Z")
At least 15%, unless you’re a douche or the service was bad. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1165 "2010-09-15T22:01:30Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > > [@missred](#): > > > > I hear you! The golf / polo shirts that I found this year mostly had foofy ruffles or gathers at the bustline. WTF? These are shirts that are supposed to be fairly utilitarian. NOT uber foofoo. > > Check Old Navy’s online store. ISTR seeing normal polos there before, and they have a great selection of extended sizes, I’m pretty sure. (They carry women’s talls, anyway.) > > Side rant: What is up with this “foofoo” shit? The word is frou frou. **FROU FROU.** [Look, here’s the fucking definition.](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frou%20frou) Are you all a bunch of fucking retards who just keep repeating each other’s mistake? Being I’m seeing it fucking _everywhere_. Roll with the times, **SfG**. 😛 Language is fluid. Foofoo is a term that I’ve used for the last 20 years, so it’s been around for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1166 "2010-09-15T22:53:47Z")
You shouldn’t be foo-foo’ing people like that. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1167 "2010-09-15T23:02:21Z")
I hate to interupt the fun, but I thought I’d share an update for those of you sitting on the edge of your seats since my previous posting about the unreliable co-worker who asked dumb questions, went AWOL for a nap, etc. etc. Yeah. Today was her last day. I can hear your shock through the intertubes. (Although a Very-Higher-Up said she’d be getting a good recommendation/references etc. Bah to that, I say!) ---
**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:** [September 15, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1168 "2010-09-15T23:03:14Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > > [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > > > The fact that you recognize how stupid this shit is is Reason #1 that you should. > > Yeah, I recognize it **now** , but if I had kids, I might fall victim to this kind of stupidity. I’d be around other moms a lot and I’d start breathing in the helicopter-parent fumes. And I’d get on the email lists and get infected that way too. A lot of people think it won’t happen to them. Egg-zackly. I quit the weirdest freaking job today (after one day, so you know it was good!). It was supposed to be doing data entry at a home-run business - it got a little confusing as to what exactly I was supposed to be doing, which is a big, huge strike against a job for me. At one point there was someone crying in the kitchen and her partner comforting her, then later there was a baby. The cat never came out of the bedroom, but that I wouldn’t have minded. The topping on this layer cake of weirdness was the pay - half of my usual rates. You know what - you can’t afford me, and your whole company set-up is bizarre. There’s a reason most companies do things that aren’t so strange. On the plus side, I got a message from a temp agency when I got home - fingers crossed for a much less weird position! 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 15, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1169 "2010-09-15T23:39:06Z")
Oh, I forgot about the non-working toilet (the only one in the house) and the desk that was in danger of tipping over every time I brushed against it. ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1170 "2010-09-16T00:08:01Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Just to check, you’re using the type of can opener that “uncrimps” and not the kind that cuts, right? Because I’d think the cutting kind would leave you with potential sharp bits that would not play well with your griddle, should it have a nonstick coating. Nope, I am using the kind that cuts. However, on a proper can lid, this does not leave an exposed edge wehre it would contact the griddle, it leaves some exposed metal on the inside of the ring. All moot now, anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1171 "2010-09-16T01:29:10Z")
I nearly got run over by two idiots who should have had their licenses revoked for Driving While Blonde. Twit the First decided to take her half of the road out of the middle because she was busy smoking a cigarette. Twit the Second was driving downhill on the curvy narrow road I was driving uphill and we had a second-long Mexican standoff before she decided to back up. I couldn’t–I was pointing straight uphill and there was a sharp turn behind me. This situation could have been alleviated had the person in the house by the last wide spot on the road taken their five trash cans in yesterday after the garbage trucks went by or if the person in the house across the street had parked in the driveway instead of the road. The reason Twit the Second gets the blame instead of House Twits is because as I was driving by her she yells “Your WELcome!” out of her window in a really snotty tone. Really? _Really_? Bitch, could you not see that I couldn’t back up from my angle? Did you not take into account the width difference between an Outback and a Generic Silver Sedan? Do you, in fact, know that in the USA we drive on the right instead of halfway on the right/halfway in the center? Finally, I would like to ask the City of Hippy Hollow to either ban parking on the side of the Twisty Uphill Road or make it one-way to avoid this kind of thing. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1172 "2010-09-16T03:11:04Z")
There was news item last week about a two-car collision caused by the moron driver of one vehicle deciding to put on a sweater while her passenger steered. The vehicle crossed the median and hit another car head-on, killing the moron’s two back seat passengers and the other driver and seriously injuring the other driver’s husband. Both moron and her assistant moron passenger survived with little injury and are to be charged with criminal negligence causing death. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1173 "2010-09-16T07:34:06Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > So a child who walks four blocks to school is in horrible danger, and a child who doesn’t get immunized during a whooping cough epidemic is juuuust fine. Reason #487 why Mr. Rilch and I don’t have kids. I knoooowww! The other day, I updated on Facebook something to the effect that “Littlest Matata had a wonderful checkup today. She had three shots, took them like a trooper, and is doing fine.” (Basically, just to keep the grandmas up to date.) Since then, I’ve had umpteen dozen messages from a high school acquaintance telling me how horrible I am to give my baby poisons like DTaP and OPV, because those vaccines almost certainly caused HER baby to be autistic… I feel horrible that anyone has to deal with a disabled child, but honestly? One horribly flawed and discredited study, plus the public support of Tori-fucking-Spelling convinces you of a cause and effect relationship between vaccines and autism? Perhaps your child’s mental delays are more genetic than environmental… ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Time\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1174 "2010-09-16T14:45:12Z")
A coworker has been walking around all week looking like she’s been repeatedly punched in the stomach. Today she told me it’s because she received a typed letter in the mail from her mother basically saying “This is our last letter of contact. There will be no more visits, emails, calls, nothing. Bye forever.” Apparently it’s because her mom decided that being a Jehovah’s Witness was more important than having a relationship with her only daughter and granddaughter. Coworker is a really sweet person and told me this was really out of the blue - she thought she and her mom were really getting on well lately. She doesn’t know how to explain this to her 8-year-old. I hate people sometimes. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1175 "2010-09-16T15:45:17Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > > [@Rilchiam](#): > > > > So a child who walks four blocks to school is in horrible danger, and a child who doesn’t get immunized during a whooping cough epidemic is juuuust fine. Reason #487 why Mr. Rilch and I don’t have kids. > > I knoooowww! The other day, I updated on Facebook something to the effect that “Littlest Matata had a wonderful checkup today. She had three shots, took them like a trooper, and is doing fine.” (Basically, just to keep the grandmas up to date.) Since then, I’ve had umpteen dozen messages from a high school acquaintance telling me how horrible I am to give my baby poisons like DTaP and OPV, because those vaccines almost certainly caused HER baby to be autistic… > > I feel horrible that anyone has to deal with a disabled child, but honestly? One horribly flawed and discredited study, plus the public support of Tori-fucking-Spelling convinces you of a cause and effect relationship between vaccines and autism? Perhaps your child’s mental delays are more genetic than environmental… I did the research and summarized the childhood diseases that we vaccinate against in [this post from two years ago.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10125195&postcount=68) Feel free to copy it and send it to everyone you know who could use a little information on why we vaccinate. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1176 "2010-09-16T16:08:21Z")
> [@missred](#): > > Language is fluid. Foofoo is a term that I’ve used for the last 20 years, so it’s been around for awhile. And yet, while even things like [irregardless](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless) have made it into the dictionary, foo-foo **hasn’t**. Suck it up, admit that you were wrong, and fix your language error. For the record, too, I’m much more on the descriptivist side than proscriptivist. But anybody with a basic knowledge of linguistics, which you apparently lack, recognizes that it’s still possible for a native speaker to be **wrong**. I used to think that there was a word “derbis” because I misread \*debris \*as a child. When I figured out the error in sixth grade, I didn’t insist on continuing to use my mistaken version. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Today was her last day. WOOOOOOO! Congratulations. > [@Time\_Stranger](#): > > Apparently it’s because her mom decided that being a Jehovah’s Witness was more important than having a relationship with her only daughter and granddaughter. There’s a reason a lot of people consider them a cult. :\ Sucks for your coworker, but if her mom is sucked that far in, it’s probably best for her daughter not to have any contact with Grandma Batshit Crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1177 "2010-09-16T18:37:31Z")
So my machine blue-screens whenever I try to access any of the files I need to do my job. And it’s not just my machine; it’s happening to people all over the company. Guess I’m not getting any work done this afternoon. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1178 "2010-09-16T18:47:43Z")
Gee, I hate it when that happens. No, wait, I usually work as a temp and get paid by the hour! 😃 ---
**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:** [September 16, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1179 "2010-09-16T18:53:38Z")
Yeah, if you’re non-exempt, that’s potentially awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whew-its-hot-out-here-summer-mini-rants/544239/1180 "2010-09-16T19:25:31Z")
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