# 2020 is hindsight, lets rant about 2021 (January minirants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 2, 2021, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-is-hindsight-lets-rant-about-2021-january-minirants/929499 "2021-01-02T05:45:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-is-hindsight-lets-rant-about-2021-january-minirants/929499/221 "2021-01-31T05:10:04Z")
I was trying to not assume that someone as smart as you would be in a relationship with someone as stupid as that…but then I remember some of the guys I posted about and yeah, I get it. I hope she fucks like a house on fire!!! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-is-hindsight-lets-rant-about-2021-january-minirants/929499/222 "2021-01-31T05:25:09Z")
Eh, to be fair: 1. She has smarts about other things, but the world of movies is not one of them 2. It’s very difficult to date _new_ people during a pandemic. So you do what you do. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-is-hindsight-lets-rant-about-2021-january-minirants/929499/223 "2021-01-31T14:01:15Z")
Why is it so many people feel the need, especially online, when you ask a question, to answer an vaguely similar or even entirely different question? (This is not triggered by anything on this board, to be clear). Say you ask on a group: I’ve just moved to the area- does anyone know of a nice place for a countryside walk near X town? Preferably about 2-3 miles, and not crazy muddy! You appear to get: There’s a footpath in the city centre/local industrial estate. Countryside- I did use the word, right? It’s not changed meaning lately, has it? I prefer swimming- there’s a great swimming pool at X! The heck? It’s exercise I suppose, but wha? Ooh yeah, swimming’s great! I second the X swimming pool Oh great, this is where we’re going now, is it Best pool in the area! Not as good as Y pool used to be tho- sucks that it closed Yes, yes, it is. I shall go for a countryside walk in a swimming pool. Yeah, Y pool was great. I don’t bother with X pool lol Much like I’m not bothering to read any more of this hijack There used to be a nice footpath near Y village, but there’s a housing estate there now Well isn’t that nice? When I build my time machine, I shall be sure to visit! I don’t go for walks since I broke my ankle ☹ And I don’t reply to every damn comment on the internet, how about giving that a shot? Aw, that sucks? How’s your ankle now? \*bangs head on wall \* et cetera. Why is it so damn hard for people to either reply to the question asked, start a new post if they want to just chat about stuff tangentially related, or just _not post_ if they don’t know jack? I mean, I know I don’t own any forum, I know I’m asking people for kind of a favour by posting an info request. No-one has to reply, and that’s fine; but people seem to genuinely believe that wittering their irrelevant twaddle is actually what’s requested, and if you come back and comment that you have 20 replies and not one of them even _attempts_ to answer the question actually asked, well, you’re just an ungrateful asshole. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-is-hindsight-lets-rant-about-2021-january-minirants/929499/224 "2021-01-31T15:29:59Z")
Have you tried swimming in the City Centre Plaza fountain? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-is-hindsight-lets-rant-about-2021-january-minirants/929499/225 "2021-01-31T21:50:03Z")
I found out a couple weeks ago that someone fraudulently filed an unemployment claim in my name with the state. So I spent a big chunk of the day doing all the things you’re supposed to do… alert the state DOL of the fraudulent claim, check my bank and credit card statements, put freezes and alerts on all my credit reports, set up accounts with [IdentityTheft.gov](http://IdentityTheft.gov), social security, IRS, etc. Yesterday I get an email from [IdentityTheft.gov](http://IdentityTheft.gov) saying “You haven’t signed into your account in a while. If you don’t log in in the next two weeks we will delete your account.” Jeezus, I just created it two weeks ago! WTF? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-is-hindsight-lets-rant-about-2021-january-minirants/929499/226 "2021-02-01T06:39:08Z")
Last month I had to cancel my credit card because some asshole made three identical large charges at a Home Depot nowhere near our home. The charges were canceled and I got a new card. Now there’s another identical charge at the same Home Depot on my NEW CARD NUMBER. Someone is out to get me! ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-is-hindsight-lets-rant-about-2021-january-minirants/929499/227 "2021-02-03T02:11:34Z")
Snowmen Today, I went out in the snow to build a snowman using a set of my late Uncle Max’s dentures and a glass eye I bought at a Jewelry store (I’ll post a pic later if people want to see it). I saw that some of the neighborhood kids had built a more traditional snow man with button eyes and a red yarn smile. Later, I went out to buy some groceries. Somebody had destroyed both snowmen. I also found a scooter that usually sits in the grass next to a corner of one of the buildings in my complex had been moved to be directly behind an SUV. It had been deliberately placed in harm’s way. I can’t quite wrap my head around this. It seems like anger and cruelty directed at the world in general. I’d like to quote from the comic Preacher- One Man’s War “I know this is a rather naive thought for a minister of state- but why can’t people just be nice?” ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-is-hindsight-lets-rant-about-2021-january-minirants/929499/228 "2021-02-03T02:33:59Z")
Our new Dyson vacuum cleaner (to help with my dust mite allergy) was delivered this evening. We had assumed it would be left on the front step, so we could easily bring it inside. But no, UPS decided to wheel it all the way back into the garage. Now it sits there in the sub-freezing cold all night, until we can go out tomorrow and schlep it through the snow and ice, into the back door. Very inconvenient. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-is-hindsight-lets-rant-about-2021-january-minirants/929499/229 "2021-02-03T05:52:17Z")
I settled into a particular brand of food product because it was one of the relative few that hadn’t been shrinkflated. Guess what just happened to it. Guess who didn’t read all the blurbs about it being “tastier” and having more of a certain ingredient, which would have tipped him off, and remained ignorant all the way home until he put it right next to the not quite finished pre-shrinkflated container. Bah humbug. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-is-hindsight-lets-rant-about-2021-january-minirants/929499/230 "2021-02-03T07:26:25Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Snowmen > > Today, I went out in the snow to build a snowman using a set of my late Uncle Max’s dentures and a glass eye I bought at a Jewelry store (I’ll post a pic later if people want to see it). What do you mean, “_IF_?” ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-is-hindsight-lets-rant-about-2021-january-minirants/929499/231 "2021-02-03T20:28:38Z")
It’s a first attempt. I made many mistakes. > **[Photobucket | The safer way to store your photos](https://app.photobucket.com/u/doccathode/a/ae2ac40b-498e-445d-b593-b1577ba936b6/p/4d9ffb64-4968-4d5e-8835-1f9641b96517)** > > The safer way to store your photos ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-is-hindsight-lets-rant-about-2021-january-minirants/929499/232 "2021-02-03T23:07:48Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > My little minirant: As mentioned in another thread, I was very excited to buy a rare old book that I remembered from my early childhood. It’s coming from a small town in Iowa, and I’m currently watching on USPS tracking as it travels from one distribution center to another, and then, step by step, in reverse direction and finally back to the same small town. I’m currently watching it begin its second cycle through the exact same locations. Perhaps it will cycle back and forth forever, like some dystopic sci-fi scenario. Yay!!! After spending nine fucking days going back and forth from town to town through Iowa cornfields, my book has finally left Iowa and is now being processed in Chicago! Thank you, USPS. I guess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-is-hindsight-lets-rant-about-2021-january-minirants/929499.md?page=11)