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Things that frustrate us all

Kraig said:
I have people from town dumping cats in the country near my place. I have a feral cat colony living in my barn. If anyone wants a cat, they are welcome to all they can catch. The cats have access to shelter, dry food and water here, as well as all the mice, rats, ground squirrels and gophers they can trap.
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I have been watching tons of animal rescue videos about rescuing domesticated animals and India has a huge problem with homeless/stray cats some near death. And cat colonies. There was this guy feeding at least 20 cats as if they were pigeons there, they look mostly healthy with this guy. I guess he was doing it regularly enough to keep them full and healthy. It's funny because it seems in the US that's mostly about dogs here with the rare cat. It's nice to know that their people that care about them too. :)
 
Aragorn said:
Someone stole a cat from a neighbor’s front yard. 🤬
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I saw some door cam quite addictive, and someone tried to steel someone's dog. I have no idea why they would do something like this. I am not naive in the slightest. But then I did see that vid recently of some hillbillies kicking the head in of a dear and them laughing and cheering. Guess they didn't have a gun that day.:rolleyes:
 
Aragorn said:
Someone stole a cat from a neighbor’s front yard. 🤬
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Do you know if the people knew it belonged to them? A lot of people will grab cats like that thinking they're strays.
I ended up setting off my corn allergy again. I thought I was well enough to go back to eating some corn, so I got my vegan ice cream which has dextrose in it, which I've been eating for months, but it seems my last reaction left me more hypersensitve so I'm back having all the pain and stuff I was having before.
We did figure out what originally set all this off, I had been a whole bunch of Cinnamon Toast Crunch over several days, and once all of this started I looked at the ingredients, and it turns out it has both dextrose and fructose fairly high in the list. I'm pretty sure they didn't use to be in there, I ate it because I had thought it was one of the only cereals I could find without any corn. So I will be staying very far away from it from now on. I really wish they would put a warning on the box somewhere when they change ingredients like that, so I know if I need to stop eating it.
 
auntiehill said:
Having about 22 fire ant bites on my legs and feet. Waaaay worse than mosquito bites.

Fucking hell. :scream:
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I can relate to something similar. Years ago, some boys in middle school were messing around with fire ant mounds. They grabbed some sticks off trees, and poked at the mounds.
One got a ton of the ants on his stick, and decided to yeet it toward me.
I was still itching the day after. Ouch. :confused:
 
I came home from my Germany vacation a week ago, so I've had time to reflect.

Would somebody care to tell me why a city as massive and beautiful and awesome as Munich, with an absolutely GINORMOUS international airport, has a customs arrival area that's about the size of two telephone booths?

Let's just say that you have to come up with VERY creative ways to get through the line (personally, I'm pleading the Fifth :alienblush: ). I've never seen a more chaotic mob in my life. I'm lucky I even made my connecting flight!

In contrast, when I came home, I went through customs in Chicago. Remember what I just said about ginormous. The customs area at O'Hare is larger than some entire airport terminals I've been in. Took me ten tiny minutes to get through. Now why can't an airport like MUC have that?

Edit: I've also never seen a mobile app that's more USELESS than Lufthansa's. :mad:
 
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JD said:
Do you know if the people knew it belonged to them? A lot of people will grab cats like that thinking they're strays.
I ended up setting off my corn allergy again. I thought I was well enough to go back to eating some corn, so I got my vegan ice cream which has dextrose in it, which I've been eating for months, but it seems my last reaction left me more hypersensitve so I'm back having all the pain and stuff I was having before.
We did figure out what originally set all this off, I had been a whole bunch of Cinnamon Toast Crunch over several days, and once all of this started I looked at the ingredients, and it turns out it has both dextrose and fructose fairly high in the list. I'm pretty sure they didn't use to be in there, I ate it because I had thought it was one of the only cereals I could find without any corn. So I will be staying very far away from it from now on. I really wish they would put a warning on the box somewhere when they change ingredients like that, so I know if I need to stop eating it.
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My son has an allergy to something in Pillsbury's Toaster Strudels, but we don't know what it is. All we know is that he broke out in itchy red spots when he ate them.
 
It can definitely be hard to figure out what's causing a reaction to something like that, there are just so many ingredients.
 
Velocity said:
My son has an allergy to something in Pillsbury's Toaster Strudels, but we don't know what it is. All we know is that he broke out in itchy red spots when he ate them.
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Has he had such a reaction before? My poor sister in law is going through the full gamut of allergy testing, and doing the skin scratch test to help her figure it out.
 
fireproof78 said:
Has he had such a reaction before? My poor sister in law is going through the full gamut of allergy testing, and doing the skin scratch test to help her figure it out.
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It happened twice while he was in grade school, before we decided what was happening. His principal took me aside and told me "he shouldn't have to suffer like that". Did he think I was causing it or just allowing it to happen? Aggravated me at the time. It was strange.
 
Velocity said:
It happened twice while he was in grade school, before we decided what was happening. His principal took me aside and told me "he shouldn't have to suffer like that". Did he think I was causing it or just allowing it to happen? Aggravated me at the time. It was strange.
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Well, that is a strange reaction.

Unfortunately, from what I've learned there's either doing the testing (time and money intensive) or dietary rule out (time intensive). Basically, look at the ingredients and introduce them one at a time, to see what causes a reaction.
 
Is there anything worse than talking about the covid vaccine?

I am recovering from the 3rd time I've had covid and it's just been really crap; never had it so bad. So at work, I blurted out: Next year, I don't care if you have to stick it in my eyeball, I'm getting a booster come August, (fyi - everyone has been getting sick everywhere around me...started when all the kids all went back to school).

OMG the onslaught of opinions about "vaccines" that came! I was hit with a tsunami of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and religion!

To be spiteful, I added: I'm also going to get the flu vaccine in the other eye and I'm going to like it!

...Admittedly a childish statement given that I don't care too much if you don't vaccinate or not + I do believe that ppl make decisions for themselves and their family with absolutely good intentions.

But whatever, #nofilter.
 
Whenever I think about covid, or vaccines in general, I have to laugh, because we all remember when vaccination cards were literally more precious than gold. You almost couldn't function in modern society if you didn't carry around your card wherever you went. You'd just as soon lose your left ARM than your card. And now...nobody gives a shit about the card anymore (the last couple of covid vaccines I've had, they never even looked at my card).

Weird, huh? :lol:
 
I do my research on vaccines.

I get the one I believe work and help, and the ones that I do not think the research supports it I pass on. I am not "pro-vaccine" or "anti-vaccine." I am pro "do your own fucking research."

I also laugh because the same freaking posters I saw about being sick still apply post COVID. I learned the following as a 5 year old:
Wash your hands.
Stay home when you're sick.
Cover your cough or sneeze and wash your hands.

Bam, been doing that since I could walk. I've gotten COVID once, I've gotten influenza a couple of times.

If a vaccine makes you feel safer go for it.
 
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