# All Hallowed Rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 2, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781 "2017-10-02T01:01:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/61 "2017-10-08T16:24:23Z")
In the latest installment of dumb ways I’ve hurt myself… I jammed my thumb last week at work and it’s still sore. I somehow managed to hit the tip of my right thumb square on my desk. I heard a pop (loud enough that the guy at the next desk looked up to see what I had done to myself this time) and I developed a technicolor bruise around the base of my thumb. The bruise has mostly faded but my thumb still hurts. Trying to function without an opposable thumb has been challenging to say the least. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/62 "2017-10-08T19:26:35Z")
I have no idea why this annoys me so much, but there is a weird phenomenon regarding the English city I just moved out from, Bristol. In 1974 the city and surrounding counties were redesignated as being in the ceremonial county of Avon. This was rather unpopular, and 22 years later, in 1996, the area was rearranged again, the city was returned to being a city and county in its own right, as it has been since 1373, surrounding areas were split up between several other local counties, and the name ‘Avon’ was dropped. All of this happened long before I moved there. That is mere background for my rant. My rant is due to the fact that now, in 2017, half the times I have to fill in online forms that include my now former address, the county- Bristol- is not on the drop down list, but Avon, which hasn’t existed since the smegging '90s is there, and that’s the option I have to select. But it is no longer a county. It doesn’t exist any more. In one more year, it will be as long since the county was scrapped as it existed for in the first place. Why has this fossilised scrap of irrelevance been included in databases created long after its demise? Websites that were just a gleam in a nerd’s eye back in 1996, when Avon met its miserable end, nevertheless insist on honouring this 22 year blip of a failed county. I don’t understand why. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/63 "2017-10-08T20:26:42Z")
Because nerds are likely fans of Blakes 7? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/64 "2017-10-08T22:57:23Z")
Thanks, DrFidelius and digs, for making mole checks and removal sound boring. 🙂 I find dr’s appointments needlessly stressful but maybe I’ll be able to sleep tonight. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/65 "2017-10-08T23:04:09Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > If they are some kind of bite, then what kind and why am I the only one in the household with them? Because you are the sweetest member of your household? Seriously, I get mosquito bites all the time and my husband never gets any. In my whole life I’ve had one, ONE friend who was tastier to mosquitoes than me. I miss her. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/66 "2017-10-08T23:22:53Z")
I have been growing my hair out for several years. It grows painfully slow. It’s taken years, but it’s finally getting to a nice length. I just went to light a candle. When I struck the match, the sulfur tip ignited and flew off the end of the match into my hair on the right side. Stupid freak accident. I didn’t get hurt, but it burned up a chunk of my hair and now it will need to be cut. It’s now several inches shorter in the area than the rest of my hair. I’m just really, really sad about this. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/67 "2017-10-09T00:39:26Z")
Jeez, **Rhiannon8404** , that sucks. I’m glad you didn’t get burned as well but I’m sorry you lost some hair. Maybe you could go to a really good beautician to get it cut in a way that loses the least amount of length. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/68 "2017-10-09T01:46:12Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Jeez, **Rhiannon8404** , that sucks. I’m glad you didn’t get burned as well but I’m sorry you lost some hair. Maybe you could go to a really good beautician to get it cut in a way that loses the least amount of length. Yeah, I’m grateful I wasn’t burned and it definitely could have been worse. I’m going to call my girl and see what she can do. In the meantime, a ponytail pretty much hides it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/69 "2017-10-10T05:03:23Z")
The laundry detergent brand that permeates everything is ‘Gain’ or their dryer sheets or scents sprinkles. They are horrible! It is the most sickenly sweet smell ever invented. I hate it! ---
**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:** [October 10, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/70 "2017-10-10T08:12:31Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > The dogs got into my library this morning and tore up a couple of my Stephen King books beyond salvage. I’m lucky it was those, and not something irreplaceable, but I’m still not very happy about it. > > This would bring their grand total of destruction to 4 books, the blender lid, a remote control, a steak, a bar of soap, a T-shirt, various pieces of cardboard, some plastic water bottles, at least six partial loaves of bread… now, the onions, they just got scattered all round the house. > > Oh! Also some noodles. And they ate some cat turds. Let me guess. Labradors? Mine has done in five pairs of bifocals, close to ten pairs of shoes, the safety shroud on my weedwhacker, an outdoor extension cord, the power adapter for **kaylasmom** ’s Life Alert base unit, numerous wall warts, and a two-gallon night-blooming jasmine plant the day after I brought it home from the nursery. That’s for starters. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/71 "2017-10-10T09:13:03Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I hate \*hate \*\*\*\*hate \*\*\*overly scented products. The fakey smells are unpleasant at best and give me a headache at worst. Ergo, I buy unscented as much as is possible. > > My inlaws, on the other hand, use a dryer sheet (I don’t know which brand) which permeates fabric and won’t fade willingly. They live 800 miles away and normally it’s not an issue, but last week, my husband went to stay with them when his dad had surgery. His mother kindly did his laundry. And the clothes he took with him reek! I just loaded the washer with jeans, and the fakey “fresh scent” is overpowering. I’ll be hanging everything on the lines today and I hope it will de-stinkify the garments. > > My big concern is that on Oct 19, we leave for a 9-day cruise in a tiny interior cabin. Between now and then, I have to wash everything his mother washed or sniff his clothes as he packs them so I don’t have to deal with the stink in a small, enclosed space. > > Dear Product Manufacturers: > > That smell is NOT April Fresh. > > That smell is NOT Mountain Breeze. > > That smell is NOT Fresh Linen. > > Please stop! > > GAH - why must everything be scented? STOP IT!!! at least you don’t have the problem we do …apparently there’s a soap/fabric softener that’s sold in Hispanic countries and has been imported for a while through the ethnic supermarkets All the newer arrivals buy it because its what everyone at home uses and its dirt cheap …and it can be smelled from several feet away that’s not the problem What is the problem is the genius that decided that a dryer sheet with that brand and scent was needed… and since every group seems to do laundry on one specific day … we have that smell coming out of various dryer vents for hours every other day and it can be smelled through every window … When there was a sale on tide and everyone bought it we rejoiced … not that it smells bad just strong enough to upset my stomach ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/72 "2017-10-10T12:15:38Z")
We have a refinery in our area which makes various scents for various products. I stopped used fabric softener when it was revealed in our local paper that the refinery uses beef fat as the scent carrier. The fat is stored on the barges which dot the inlet where the refinery is. In the summertime the smell, according to the area residents, is godawful. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/73 "2017-10-10T12:24:53Z")
**kaylasdad99** : Dobes. The last one didn’t act like this! **adhemar** : What happened about your car? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/74 "2017-10-10T13:33:08Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > The laundry detergent brand that permeates everything is ‘Gain’ or their dryer sheets or scents sprinkles. They are horrible! It is the most sickenly sweet smell ever invented. I hate it! I think I previously complained about this in the Workplace Rants thread, but some asshat where I work thought it would be a great idea to stock the restrooms with cans of Gain air freshener. XP The quantity most people spray in one sitting is enough to set your sinuses on fire. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/75 "2017-10-10T15:33:22Z")
The scent that drives me nuts is antiperspirant. If my pits stay dry, there is no odor problem. So I want an effective antiperspirant, that is unscented. Why is that so hard to find? I do not want to smell like my antiperspirant. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/76 "2017-10-10T16:25:17Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > **kaylasdad99** : > **adhemar** : What happened about your car? I have an appointment next week to take it to their repair place so they can evaluate the damage. I have printed out the CarMax listings for the same make and model, year that shows the replacement cost and will contact the places that have done work on my car for the records. I plan, if they try to total out my car, to tell them since their client was at fault for the wreck they need to make my car back to where it was or give me the cost to replace it plus title change and taxes. Car Max is on the high end so it gives me a place to negotiate from. My stomach drops every time I look at my car. I just bought it a couple of years ago and I hate the process of looking for a new car that suits my needs and lifestyle. I spent two years looking last time before I finally decided to pull the trigger. won’t have the luxury this time to spend a lot of time looking. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/77 "2017-10-10T21:53:51Z")
Deodorants and antiperspirants are my pet peeve. (One if them)! Most perfume and cologne brands make a antiperspirant in their flavor. I usually find them too strong, though. My girls swear by them. If you have a signature scent you like, look for an antiperspirant in that brand, cosmetic counters and drug stores usually have the whole line. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/78 "2017-10-10T22:04:16Z")
I use Dove’s Sensitive Skin deodorant. They have a scentless version, which suits me right down to the ground. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/79 "2017-10-11T01:02:02Z")
Today, I almost wrote the phrase “… our increasingly global world.” I want your forgiveness. I deserve your scorn. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781/80 "2017-10-11T13:34:54Z")
Speedo discontinued their wonderful Sengar swim goggles a few years back. They were great: sturdy, comfortable but with a gasket that didn’t leak, and reasonably priced. When I found out they were being discontinued, I stockpiled (hoarded, really) a bunch. Because all their alternative models were crap (“popular” Vanquisher, especially so). But, alas, I’m down to my last pair. So I’ve been buying samples of available goggles, which are usually so crap (F\*ing Vanquisher) that it’s $12-18 for a couple swims. I’m now on to the _competition_-level models; the Speed Socket runs $18-25, so it had _better_ work out… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hallowed-rants/797781.md?page=5)