# Auuuu au-AU-GUST, Rant she must **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 1, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435 "2016-08-01T03:32:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/181 "2016-08-16T01:17:55Z")
> [@cg16](#): > > Atleast Trader joes still has the big brown bag with the handle. Those are the absolute best ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/182 "2016-08-16T01:23:48Z")
> [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](#): > > Bud Light tastes like the year 2000. Um. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? > [@JohnT](#): > > Don’t want to threadshit elsewhere, not going to see if this has been mentioned earlier, but here goes: > > That fucking green they are using at the fucking Olympics is fucking horrible. > > Thank you. That green what? > [@Projammer](#): > > There’s a pizza buffet place here that does that. Not a place I would go on my own, but sometimes I have to be sociable and go with a group. All of the staff, not just one or two at the register. Every time the door opens. “WELCOME TO CARDBOARD PIZZA!” > > Also one of the sub sandwich shops and another one that I can’t remember right now. I don’t think I could go to places like that. ---
**Author:** ![cg16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/183 "2016-08-16T01:50:40Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Those are the absolute best I take that Trader Joes Bag to other markets and put that stuff in the Trader Joes Bag since it so much room.🙂 ---
**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:** [August 16, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/184 "2016-08-16T02:16:27Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > I think there’s a few supermarkets in the Boston, MA area where you pick up a scanner upon entering the store; scan your items as you take them off the shelves, load them into your cart and then pay according to your scanner when you’re finished. Seems sensible to just pack them directly into your bags or crates and skip about five loading/unloading steps. > I wish we could do that here. > > Better yet, skip the whole supermarket thing and buy your food from locals at your local market. Bring your own bags. 🙂 > > . Yup. The Stop & Shop chain for one. I love it – skipping all that extra loading/unloading is great (From shelf into reuseable bags in cart, then move bags to trunk) plus you get to do your own bagging. No more squashed bread or ice cream carton sitting on top of the hot rotisserie chicken. 🙂 I love it so much I do all my grocery shopping in that chain even though their prices are a bit on the high side. The convenience and time saving is way, way worth it to me. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/185 "2016-08-16T02:31:37Z")
> [@projammer](#): > > there’s a pizza buffet place here that does that. Not a place i would go on my own, but sometimes i have to be sociable and go with a group. All of the staff, not just one or two at the register. Every time the door opens. “welcome to cardboard pizza!” > > also one of the sub sandwich shops and another one that i can’t remember right now. WELCOME TO MOE’S! eta case stuff ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/186 "2016-08-16T02:36:41Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Plastic grocery store bags used to also be seen as a quick, cheap solution for people whose dogs like to drop a deuce while out for a walk. I can’t remember the last time I got a bag I would be comfortable using for this purpose…I think the bags are being made much thinner now, so they either have holes resulting from the manufacturing process, or develop holes/tears if you use them to hold anything heavier than a package of toilet paper. The bags I get from my grocery store still work for that purpose. My GirlDog likes to poop at least twice on a block-long circuit of the neighborhood. And then if we keep going, she seems to be done. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/187 "2016-08-16T03:16:30Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > The one for golf, or the one in the pool? Pool green, apparently. That’s the 6 minutes I watched. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/188 "2016-08-16T03:21:32Z")
They put in the wrong chemicals and it caused algae to bloom. It’s been fixed. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/189 "2016-08-16T04:45:58Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > Not really. > They have tiny little holes that lets the smelly litter fall out . . . I double-bag them, and haven’t had any problem. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/190 "2016-08-16T08:04:12Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > That’s a tradition at sushi restaurants. The sushi chefs yell greetings to you the minute you step foot in the door. Southern sushi? How does raw catfish taste? ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/191 "2016-08-16T11:18:05Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > They’re pretty handy to use when you clean out the litterbox, though. Not to mention they’re great for doggy poop pickup. And lining wastebaskets. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/192 "2016-08-16T11:45:20Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Southern sushi? How does raw catfish taste? Not bad, but the bones are a pain. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/193 "2016-08-16T11:53:59Z")
Speaking of doggie poop pick-up: I have a rant. WTF is with going to a pristine beach, picking up and wrapping your doggie’s poo in a plastic bag and then leaving it strategically and carefully placed on a piece of driftwood at the edge of the high tide line? FFS, just dig a hole in the sand and bury it! It’ll float out at the next high tide with all the fish poop and decompose. Instead, it floats out in a nice indestructible bag of shit and chokes some poor ocean creature. I hate people. ps. at least y’all are re-using the devil’s plastic bags - would still be better if they disappeared off the face of the earth. When I get my three wishes that might just be one. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/194 "2016-08-16T14:07:25Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > Speaking of doggie poop pick-up: I have a rant. > WTF is with going to a pristine beach, picking up and wrapping your doggie’s poo in a plastic bag and then leaving it strategically and carefully placed on a piece of driftwood at the edge of the high tide line? I see the same thing at our local park: _The trash can is RIGHT OVER THERE, FUCKWIT!_ Really, the laziness of some people just astounds me. I’ve also seen bags hanging in front yard bushes or in small ornamental trees in front of somebody’s house. Not a lot, mind you, but they’re there. There’s a bag that’s been resting in the crotch of a tree up the street since last winter. The homeowner refuses to remove it on principle. Can’t say I blame him. Yes, I know it can be a PITA to carry around a bag of poop while navigating a doggie or two. But that doesn’t give you the right to leave that bag wherever _you_ think nobody will notice it. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/195 "2016-08-16T16:45:18Z")
Okay, stand back everybody. I’m gonna rant like an old fart, and for no compelling reason at all. I was born in 1980, which puts me in “Gen Y” or “the Oregon Trail Generation.” Too young to be a Gen Xer, too old to be a Millennial. I feel closer to the Gen Xers, but my husband says that’s because I don’t understand them. He calls me a Millennial sometimes, and I take exception to it. Those kids are different. And I’ve found the perfect shibboleth to explain why: capsule wardrobes. Millennials are obsessed with being told how to do things “right,” and slavishly following those directions to success. All generations have their “life hacks” or “hints from Heloise,” but Millennials tend to see these things as moral obligations. You want to get into Stanford, get a tech job right out of college, and sell your startup for $500 million at age 32? Follow these instructions, and it will happen. Anyway: capsule wardrobes. That’s the epitome of Millenialness. They want to simplify. They want to be pared down and earthy, unencumbered by possessions. They want to be minimalist in material things so they can be maximalist in their work and ideas. _So they need to be taught how to have reasonably-sized wardrobes._ _Now_ I know how the Depression Generation feels about overeating. For Pete’s sakes, I was just raised that way. You layer. You coordinate with what you have _before_ you buy something new. You buy in neutral colors. You get yourself eight outfits for hot weather, eight outfits for cold weather, pajamas for both, a swimsuit, a gym outfit, a winter coat, and something dressy. End of wardrobe. One of these articles taught Millenials how to pare their wardrobe down to only 35 hangers. I went to my closet. I have 27 hangers. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/196 "2016-08-16T18:23:59Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > There’s a breakfast place in the south where _all_ the waitresses yell something (Good Morning?) every time somebody walks in the door. My first experience there freaked me out. > [@Projammer](#): > > There’s a pizza buffet place here that does that. Not a place I would go on my own, but sometimes I have to be sociable and go with a group. All of the staff, not just one or two at the register. Every time the door opens. “WELCOME TO CARDBOARD PIZZA!” > > Also one of the sub sandwich shops and another one that I can’t remember right now. They do that at the Smithfield’s locations in North Carolina, at least the one in Wilmington anyway. Not being used to it, it kind of freaks you out at first but then it’s kind of nice. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/197 "2016-08-16T18:34:43Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > I see the same thing at our local park: _The trash can is RIGHT OVER THERE, FUCKWIT!_ Really, the laziness of some people just astounds me. > > I’ve also seen bags hanging in front yard bushes or in small ornamental trees in front of somebody’s house. Not a lot, mind you, but they’re there. There’s a bag that’s been resting in the crotch of a tree up the street since last winter. The homeowner refuses to remove it on principle. Can’t say I blame him. > > Yes, I know it can be a PITA to carry around a bag of poop while navigating a doggie or two. But that doesn’t give you the right to leave that bag wherever _you_ think nobody will notice it. Preach it! I’d rather people leave the poop than the bag, since I almost always have a bag on me, and if I don’t, the poop at least will degrade and go away after being hit with the rainbirds a few times. Damn, people are self absorbed. > [@Sattua](#): > > One of these articles taught Millenials how to pare their wardrobe down to only 35 hangers. With a top and slacks on each one! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/198 "2016-08-16T18:37:50Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > I see the same thing at our local park: _The trash can is RIGHT OVER THERE, FUCKWIT!_ Really, the laziness of some people just astounds me. Like the people at the supermarket who can’t be bothered to push the empty cart to the cart corral just a few steps away. Instead, they leave them all over the lot, where they can take up parking spaces, blow in the wind till they crash into cars, and just generally get in the way. ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/199 "2016-08-16T18:45:26Z")
Know what I hate, CG16? I hate when I go with a coworker to a sit down restaurant for lunch with only 30 minutes to order and eat, and they don’t immediately ask what I’m eating. I want someone to act like my time matters. In other news my friends and family need to stop asking me for prayers. Most of them know I don’t believe it works. People’s cars get stolen, they lose their hamster, and they think only God can bring it back. With apologies to religious dopers: 1. Quit being ridiculous. Listen to yourself. 2. Do something about it. 3. Stop checking in to see if I changed my mind yet. Hasn’t happened in 35 years and probably never will in the next 35. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/200 "2016-08-16T19:27:46Z")
> [@tenacious\_j](#): > > In other news my friends and family need to stop asking me for prayers. Most of them know I don’t believe it works. People’s cars get stolen, they lose their hamster, and they think only God can bring it back. With apologies to religious dopers… Religious Doper here, with a news flash: most of us know your hamster ain’t comin’ back. The fact that it was in its little wheel in the back seat of your new Prius when it got stolen only makes it more frustrating for you. We really want to be able to do something to help. And we hate feeling helpless… oh, wait, hey, we can pray! Can’t hurt… unless we tell you all about it. Now if we’re smart, we’ll just commiserate. But some of us are oblivious (or just pricks), and we don’t realize how insensitive we’re being. Hmm, I think I’ll secretly pray for Annoying Posters… Dear Baby Jesus, please send more Singing Fast Food Workers into _someone_’s office lunchroom. Thanks in advance, hi to your dad, amen. Bwaaah-ha-ha! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435.md?page=11)