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Bad News / Poop All Over
FOUND by Jessie Altstatt
in Santa Barbara, California
Found by a friend on the community note board in his kitchen. I had a first-hand look -- the note pretty much says it all. Poops were, indeed, all over.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I like when people use "broom" as a verb.
Bad news indeed. Maybe it would be a good idea to HOUSEBREAK your RATS!
That's a very sudden rat infestation. MAYBE it would be a good idea to broom it?(broom it?) No, I think it's a good idea to call someone or get out.
Oh my god, I hate it when people say
"broom the floor" and
"itch my back"
it makes me wanna puke!
I don't mind verbing of nouns in general, it's just those two phrases that drive me crazy.
At first I thought it said "RAT POOB"!
Woops...I spilled my raisins last night and forgot to sweep them up. Sorry.
the spelling mistakes, for me, make this find all the better.
happy turkey day everyone!
i don't mean to be a downer, but sweeping ain't gonna get rid of rats - rat poobs, yes, rats, no. Also, i don't want to be around when the 'find enforcers' sign on - taking a note from a friend's kitchen community board?
So why couldn't the note-writer do the "brooming", or indeed sweep the floor themselves? I suppose, like many a neurotic complainer, they want EVERYone to see the mess (and then of course someone else has to do the cleanup.)Why not help instead of just criticising?
A little rat poison or a few humane traps would get you a lot farther than a broom in this situation, I must say. Wouldn't hurt to find out where they're coming in, either.
Spam Question: When it is written "what is 4 times four", does one respond in words or numerals?
And another thing...why does the writer feel free to use such an accusing tone, as if the arrival of rats were someone else's fault? Hasn't this person ever heard of the effects of winter on the rat population? They migrate indoors all by themselves!
yuck. drowning in poops.
i guess everyone's having thanskgiving, even the rats and their poops.
definately bad news. definately.
It DOES say poob!!
I have never heard the term "broom the kitchen" before, and honestly a mop with disinfectant would be much more effective. I HATE rats and would be hiding in a completely different building until the offending 'poobs' were gone along with the disgusting creatures that created them!
I abhor this noun-to-verb tendency - 'brooming' and 'gifting' = yuck. I for one will continue to give presents and sweep the floor.
Um, EW ! ! !
And I have NEVER heard "broom" used that way AT ALL.
That's just....well, weird.
This is more than bad news - this is just "AWFUL."
are all of yous teachers? i like to broom everything!
I also have never heard anyone say, "broom the kitchen." Or use 'broom' as a verb in any sentence!
Were the poops there yesterday or not?
I wonder if exterminators will clean up the poops for you.
Just in time for Thanksgiving Dinner!
Does that term "brooming" come from the peculiar Winter Olympic sport of brooming? Maybe these cats are UCSB students from Minnesota.
Angela, I'd definitely be doing some brooming (or at least scooping up with some cardboard from the recycle bin) (and I hate the word swiffering, but that'd work, too.) before mopping. Otherwise, those little poopie pellets could turn into muck when the water hits them (even with disinfectant in the water, that's pretty much YUCK.)
Baby Basil, I had to laugh about your options: Rat poison OR humane traps. I just can't decide whether I should just kill the little f*ckers or.. catch them humanely and release them into the neighbor's garage.
Alrighty then. Everyone have a wonderful weekend. I'm off to the ninth circle of hell. See you Monday.. if I survive. (dun dun duuuuunnnnnnn)
'Maybe it would be a good idea to...' -- a classic weaselly phrase for passiveaggresivenotes.com , along with ‘I hope you will do the not rotten thing’
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and ‘it’s not really that nice’
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Chromy, enjoy your trip (don't forget your little shampoo bottles, and some polish to keep you nice and shiny!)... )*j*(
Jonathan, isn't broom a british thing? You know, like hoover the rug. I enjoy (in a horrific, can't look away at an accident kind of way) the way people make nouns into verbs. My old boss used to like to tell us to template things. Made me cringe, actually.
If you get time, chromy, take a trip to the 10th circle, its even more fantastic.
Don't any of you garage your cars? Vacuum your rugs? Party all night? Condom your peckers? Footnote your research?
Nouns as verbs have a long history in spoken English. What makes some of them sound weird is just their unfamiliarity.
OMG! Infestation=calling the PEST CONTROL post haste!!!!
This breeds disease and who doesn't sweep and mop their floors on at least a weekly basis??
I mean , come on!! Clean up!!
Also, find out RIGHT AWAY where they're coming in from and FIX it!!
GRRR!!
HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!
Mona, I've never heard 'broom' as a verb (maybe because I don't sweep my carpet very often). To 'carpet' someone, yes (as in summon a wrongdoer to the boss's office for a b*ll*cking).
To b*ll*ck: there's another one.
How odd to have the note written in uppercase letters but the i in KiTCHEN, BELiEVE, and iT are all lowercase and dotted in different ways.
Believe has a nice circle dot, while Kitchen and it have angry looking dots, dash.
just to annoy everyone we meet, lets verbize all the nouns we can, today, ok?
i like that word, b*ll*cking, jonathan. I'm going to try to use it today. I'll let you know how it goes. )*j*( :-/
ooo rat poobs! better broom it quick! & then poison them...lol (hehe i'll have to start using brrom as a verb now)
reminds me of why i never eat black jellybeans at easter (besides the fact that they're nasty). thanks, dad, i'll watch out for the rabbit pellets in my basket o.O
**Happy Turkey Day**
**Hope Everyone gets...Stuffed**
*giggle*
at least he is aware that brooming the kitchen and cleaning it are two separate tasks....someone should tell my roommates that...
i'm not much of one for killing most creatures, but after catching a mouse IN my toaster oven, i threw out the humane traps and told the hubster to bring home the snap traps. within an hour, we had eliminated a DOZEN mice. ugh!!!
It seems to me that when underlining words for emphasis the author of this note either chose too many or too few words. If it was me I would have left out "idea to" and stuck with the rest.
Also, a response to "4 times four": 6teen.
Time to go fork some food. Cheers!
Ok, so this is dusgusting. I would move buildings if I found this note in my community kitchen. That's just unhygenic. There is rat poop all over the floor, never mind that there are RATS IN THE BUILDING. Super gross.
i'm cupping a coffee right now. Then i'm going to do some computering and maybe conversation a few people.
I love rats! The domesticated ones, anyway. I've had a bunch as pets, and they're actually a lot smarter than many would think. A couple of them would even come to me when I called them.
But damn, if you don't clean that rat cage at least weekly, it gets extra-naztay with the distinctive and pungent smell of rat poob.
Happy Thanksgiving, ya'll. :)
I'm assuming that this note was found in a group home. or something of that sort. written by a staff person who put it on the community bored, they are blaming the kids or whoever lives in the group home that if they were not slobs (and for example "broomed" everyonce in a while) they would not have rats in their home.
POOB!!
ha. what a marv. thanksgiving find. just what i want for Thanksgiving dinner: rat poob.
I love this find! I would certainly not like it though if there was rat poop...or rat poobs (scary) all over the place where I lived.
I hope someone decided to broom up and clean!
Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving! Let's get turkeyed!
Such an appetizing find for Thanksgiving. I'm going to go start a turkey now.. POOOOBS!
First of all, a live note swiped off a community board is not really a "find." Der.
Secondly - Jonathan - nothing is at passiveagressivenotes.com except for credit card ads. No such site really exists.
Thirdly, I think people get really confused about what "passive aggressive" really means. A note telling someone not to steal laundry is not passive aggressive. It is, in fact, right to the point. The note posted today does border on passive aggressive ("maybe it would be a good idea...") but I wouldn't really catergorize it as such. Again, it's actually too direct to be passive aggressive.
It's one of those psychobabble terms that was introduced by Sally Jesse or Phil Donahue or Oprah back in the '80s and people just really ran with it. At this point, it belongs in the junk heap of language along with "codependent" and "misjudge."
Ok, class, lets further clarify the characteristics of a passive-aggressive personality disorder. It is in the Diagnostic Manual, but only in an appendix, as the disorder is controversial, and requires further study to refine the characteristics.
Blaming others
Complaining
Does not express hostility or anger openly - (e.g., expresses it instead by leaving notes)
Fosters chaos
Resentment
Sarcasm
Stubborness
These are only a few of them. This personality disorder was not invented by Sally Jessy Raphael, or even Phil Donahue, but was actually coined much earlier than that, tho i'm sure it gained popularity then. Using these criteria, the person leaving the note does have passive aggressive tendencies, if not the full blown disorder.
All I have to say is broom the damn kitchen yourself. I swear I lived with this person...
i don't know what to stove for supper tonight.
I know someone just like this note writer. Lazy ass.
Thank you, Jonathan, for the passiveagressivenotes.com site. It DOES exist, but you have to google it and make sure you click on the "hit" that actually SAYS "passiveagressivenotes" not something else.
Jonathan, my friend--you have given me so many great sites to bookmark. I don't know if, like me, you live in a place where "Thanksgiving" goes by it's older, traditional name of "Thursday", but in case you are sitting down to a meal with friends or family, do enjoy it. I'm thankful for all the friends I've made on Found.
(Just exactly how sad AM I?)
it is poops.. both times.
everyone poops, i won't clean up any of it.
Time to get a cat.
Rat poob = rat needs brazilian wax
I think rat pubes would be worse than rat poop. Well... maybe equally gross.
We have rat poob in the kitchen!! However, I chose not to clean it up so everyone has a chance to see it, step in it, squash it with their shoes, socks or bare feet and track it all over the rest of the house. Then we (or better, you) can broom the whole damn place before we all die of bacteria poisoning of some sort. Thanks!
maybe the note writer has spent some time in Papua New Guinea
'broom the floor' is a common phrase among expatriates there - it's taken from the local pidgin English language, Tok Pisin
i stopped using it when i came back to oz - it sounded odd out of the PNG context
No, Mr One Hand, it's still there:
http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/
-- I just looked.
Happy Thursday, Orinoco, my friend. You on MySpace? Found a couple of Orinocos but I fear they were impostors.
(Whispered hint: see a few days ago -- find Chrome Toaster's page and you'll find the secret tunnel to mine. Seeya)
Happy Thanksgiving, Davy and Pete! Hope you guys are warm and well-fed. See you in Dallas in a couple of weeks!
Gobble-gobble to James, and all my Found friends! (You too, Orinoco! You're never sad when you're among friends!)
We're just about to sit down to watch "Ratatouille" with the family after Thanksgiving dinner. Really, this is true.
Also I had a friend once who had two pet rats. She used to walk around the house with them snuggled up under her clothing. She said they liked the warmth. When they ran around under there it caused funny little moving bumps, like stray breasts moving around under her blouse. Funny! They were pretty cute when they peeked out above her collar, though.
a few things...
1) style and word choice would both indicate that the author's first language is probably not English, so maybe we can cut him some slack (yeah, I do think it's a dude, though).
2) I'm beering a nice alaskan microbrew this very second!
3) Unfortunately, I've written more than a few general notes about the finding of poop in inappropriate places. Rat poop would have been preferable to the human poop, but... wish in one hand, sh*t in the other, see which one is heavier, right? The point is: I might have been willing to settle for shit pay for experience in the social work field, but I absolutely refuse to clean up anyone's poo, poop, poobs, etc. Ugh, the yuck factor (not to mention the disease factor) is unimaginable.
4) Oh, and I no longer work there, so that's nice. :-))
p.s. I'll myspace you guys!:-))
after i sauce up some cranberries (with LOTS of ginger).
Happy ratatouilling, clover!
My family and I also watched Ratatouille after dinner. I laughed out loud when they suggested it. I almost told them about the find, but they wouldn't understand. I thought it was ironic, anyway.
Time to pajama myself. Hope everyone had a good Turkey Day!
Oh Bad News, I have bad news! My version of Ratatouille is from a friend who got it in Morocco, and it must be pirated because the sound track is about 2 full seconds off from the audio track. Also when you try to change the language on the DVD, the little symbol says AR (Arabic?) but the choices are only English and French. Perhaps the French track is better aligned. Anyway, we gave up on that for tonight (the rest of my family does not understand French.)
I hate when poops are all over. it sucks.
I mean the audio track is 2 seconds off from the video track. Dang! Zut alors!
Poob in the Kitelten? That sound itchy.
Sarasara, 'wish in one hand, sh*t in the other, see which one is heavier' is brilliant, not heard that one before. Worthy of the great Rex Winsome. (Where's he gone, by the way??)
Hope you enjoyed gingering up your cranberries! Yum!
I await your MySpacing with trembling anticipation... You can WordPress me too if you like!
Clover, beware of pirated DVDs. I had great fun singing along to The Phantom of the Opera with Russian subtitles!!
write a note but don't clean up the poops - the nerve of some people LOL
plus it's written "POOPs" not poob
thanks jonathon,
i would wordpress but couldn't find the hidden link to chrome toaster from a few days back, how does one travel back to specific pages?
the cranberries were almost too gingered, by the way, and that is something I have NEVER said before. (gingerphile that I am)
I thought it said poob too, and the verbage of broom made me curious to see others' comments. I've never heard that before.... And you are all right, brooming the kitchen won't do much to help with the problem
the word poops makes me giggle.
Bad news - several roommates have contracted hantavirus. I believe rent is going to be a little short this month.
Nonsense. Someone simply spilled the finest nonpareil capers (imported from the south of France, of course) while preparing a delicious scalloppine or perhaps a homemade remoulade sauce. Don't be afraid to try new foods. Here, let me show you. Mmmmmm. Note the tangy lemony flav... the tangy.... I see. Why don't you get the broom while I clear my palate with this lovely flute of sparkling drain cleaner. We'll be back after these messages.
WAIT CRISIS!!! DON'T DRINK THAT...s.. not...wine...CALL911!!!!!!
Nightingale: Funny, that's what the sommelier said, too, but please don't worry. Ripple® is my wine of choice when it comes to rat turds.
Whew!
You silly people ((((hug))).
Reminds me of a weekend in a hotel in Suffolk (England) where we were served white wine from the local vineyard with dinner. All the guests tried to be polite but we couldn't drink it.
Then the hostess/landlady came in and said 'Oh, I'm terribly sorry, that bottle was cleaning fluid!'
So she brought the real thing, which was still pretty well undrinkable.
We need a bit more global warming before there's any really decent wine made in the UK.
(Cue for an irate UK winegrower to leap in and defend his/her product! ??)
I start giggling out loud every time someone says 'poobs' in their comment.
POOBS!!
I just love a girl who giggles.
The way to a girl's heart...
Dirk Awesomely in Everywhere is a wonderful, wonderful name.
My Ex used the word POOBS (sometimes poobers), referring to pubic hairs. So the thought of Rat Poobs just makes me giggle every time I think of it. (Hi, JRPH)
Baby Basil,
I suggest that maybe you answer the spam question as 6teen. Then you're covered either way, numbers and words.
People can be rats too. San Diego people are so full of themselves, for no good reason. While walking down Broadway in the middle of the day (different days) I've witnessed 2 men peeing like they were in INDIA! and another on C Street in plain sight of 3 office workers/ladies! Rats on two feet! Tijuana, Mexico is only 15-some miles from San Diego and I never see street peeing there (so called 3rd world nation)....Hey San Diego, GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE!! and while you're at it try building some more pub. restrooms!
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That's for you, Xby Xlor.
I love your comments that just come in from who knows what planet. Apropos of absolutely nada. Hee freekin larious!
Thanks Pee in G
Yeah, thanks for caring enough to reach out to me a fellow human being.
Rent this movie: LITTLE BIG MAN
Have you noticed, very few people add comments to these older FINDS, ONLY A Few dayS aftEr they come out?
Mex women are hot! They should marry white men!
Xby Xlor said:
"Have you noticed, very few people add comments to these older FINDS, ONLY A Few dayS aftEr they come out?"
[is that a secret message in the odd capitals, by the way?]
Oh yes we do.
And the Very Old Finds.
We never rest.
Stick with it!
Is Little Big Man that old movie with Dustin Hoffman in it? Did it come out before 1973? I can't watch any movies that came out before 1973. I break out in hives.
You know why the battlefield was all white and sticky at the end of the Battle of Little BigHorn, right?
What I would like to know is what a "kiretten" is. Also what is a "kitelten"? Whatever they are they are probably no good anymore since they have poob in them. Brooming will likely do no good. Darn poob!
the poobs'll be all up ons!
I visit this note like an old friend. Poops are all over.
Does the P.S. means the poops are now gone? It looks like an after thought. "P.S. Its ok, I broomed the floor, the poops are all over, nothing to see here...."
Also, I would worry about someone smart enough to get into college but not smart enough to spell kitchen. I read it as "kitten" the first time.