# You Beat your Dogs 2 Months Ago Because You’re Frustrated with Them, so You Adopt Another Dog **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 3, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-beat-your-dogs-2-months-ago-because-you-re-frustrated-with-them-so-you-adopt-another-dog/549041 "2010-08-03T19:39:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-beat-your-dogs-2-months-ago-because-you-re-frustrated-with-them-so-you-adopt-another-dog/549041/341 "2010-08-15T20:01:57Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > You do realize that a lot of people were never taught to cook, right? But luckily, the local library has literally thousands of cookbooks just waiting to teach you! But **Zsofia** , nobody can learn something that their parents didn’t teach them when they were a little kid! And obviously teaching anyone to cook is a waste of food, because you clearly can’t _eat_ what they make. Jeez. > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > hi5 **Meyer** Ummm…thanks? I think? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-beat-your-dogs-2-months-ago-because-you-re-frustrated-with-them-so-you-adopt-another-dog/549041/342 "2010-08-16T00:44:56Z")
Well, I did just throw away a dinner failure. Rare, though. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-beat-your-dogs-2-months-ago-because-you-re-frustrated-with-them-so-you-adopt-another-dog/549041/343 "2010-08-16T01:37:10Z")
> [@Meyer6](#): > > But **Zsofia** , nobody can learn something that their parents didn’t teach them when they were a little kid! And obviously teaching anyone to cook is a waste of food, because you clearly can’t _eat_ what they make. Jeez. Gah! I know this is sarcasm but just the thought of it makes my skin crawl. My mother never met a piece of meat she couldn’t turn into shoe leather or a vegetable she couldn’t turn into mush. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-beat-your-dogs-2-months-ago-because-you-re-frustrated-with-them-so-you-adopt-another-dog/549041/344 "2010-08-16T02:38:56Z")
When I was a little kid, I thought my mother was a terrific cook, for I was into explosions and fires. My parents told me of their first home-cooked meal together. Baked beans. Unfortunately, my mother did not open the can before baking. When my father arrived home, he carefully removed the can from the oven and tossed it outside onto the walk, where of course it exploded. Never a dull moment since then. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-beat-your-dogs-2-months-ago-because-you-re-frustrated-with-them-so-you-adopt-another-dog/549041/345 "2010-08-16T03:15:05Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Whether pre-teen or teen, it comes down to you having stolen condiments to use on the dog. Huh? > [@Zsofia](#): > > You do realize that a lot of people were never taught to cook, right? But luckily, the local library has literally thousands of cookbooks just waiting to teach you! Don’t need to know now. My husband loves to cook, but since I don’t really have much interest in “fancy” food, it tends to go to waste. > [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > I was raised by my mother & grandmother–both widows who had jobs. But neither one worked 24/7. My first cooking lesson was scrambled eggs. Which were not wasted–we ate them. My cooking education continued after I was a “little kid”–through helping Mom & Grandma, observing them & reading cookbooks. That’s nice. So? > [@](#): > > You don’t need to cook now? Does your husband cook for you? Yes. Or I use the nuker. > [@](#): > > Since “illegals” are one of the groups you hate, I have not said that. Intelligent people don’t tend to accept third party information as fact. ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-beat-your-dogs-2-months-ago-because-you-re-frustrated-with-them-so-you-adopt-another-dog/549041/346 "2010-08-16T03:37:42Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Okay, will somebody link to the napkin sandwiches thing? Because I love making fun of curlcoat and I’d hate to think I missed an opportunity. Damn! First belly laugh of the day. ---
**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, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-beat-your-dogs-2-months-ago-because-you-re-frustrated-with-them-so-you-adopt-another-dog/549041/347 "2010-08-16T16:30:49Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > The issue for me isn’t the napkin sandwiches. I mean. They’re funny. Really funny. > > OK, really really funny. > > But what’s not so funny are the circumstances that surrounded it. Curlcoat obviously grew up in such abject poverty that she couldn’t even come up with a rational way to attempt to survive. She ate those condiments because “Calories wasn’t something we really thought about then, it was more what would fill our stomachs the most and keep us from getting hungry the longest.” > Either basic things like soup kitchens weren’t available to her or weren’t providing enough to even get by on. With no support network and no hope from the government or society, she got by any way that she could. > > And then she grew up into the woman she is today. A woman that rails against the poor for daring to want basic health care to make a go of it in this world. A woman that feels the government has no need and no right to help the less fortunate. A woman who, if she could, would shut down the very services that she so desperately needed when she was growing up. And she does it all while sitting at her computer collecting monthly checks from the government through a social service she’d probably be against too if it weren’t currently funding her lifestyle. > > The cognitive dissonance would be enough to power the Large Hadron Collider. Quoted. For. Fucking. Truth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-beat-your-dogs-2-months-ago-because-you-re-frustrated-with-them-so-you-adopt-another-dog/549041.md?page=17)