# Aw, Dang! Syne: January Minirants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 1, 2013, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745 "2013-01-01T11:31:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![RealOmegaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/958977/32.png) [@RealOmegaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealOmegaMan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/101 "2013-01-05T00:41:17Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Glasgow? > > I take solice in the fact that I can read your words and understand them, but I’m quite sure I wouldn’t understand a fucking thing you ever said in person. 😛 I can only assure you that “broad weej” is not the dialect she doth speak 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/102 "2013-01-05T02:27:11Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Does it ask for ID? As well as Ego and Super-Ego. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/103 "2013-01-05T04:41:59Z")
Are people getting more superstitious and spreading around more b.s. than ever? Monster Energy Drink has “666” on its label! Pepsi is removing the words “Under God” from its cans! It’s not just beverage-related spew, of course, but it is really tiresome. ---
**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 5, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/104 "2013-01-05T15:45:09Z")
Dammit me, what the hell time is this to wake up, again?! I know you’re not busy at the moment, but sleeping in to mid afternoon is not going to help with anything- certainly not with getting a damn job- knock it off. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/105 "2013-01-05T15:48:46Z")
I had to smack my cat tonight- he was being such an arsehole. First time ever. I feel guilty- which he knows, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/106 "2013-01-05T18:13:35Z")
Took Roxie to the walk-in vet clinic today. The results are back from the pathologist: she has Blastomycosis, a fungal disease. It is rare in cats to start with, and we can’t for the life of us figure out how she got it, since she’s a strictly indoor cat. They’re concerned that she developed it because of a weakened immune system, so she’s being tested for FeLV and FIV. Now she’s having a bunch of tests run, and they’re going to clear out more fur around both lumps so we can dress the wounds without sticking tape to fur. The vet was honest; apparently the odds of successful treatment are 50-75%. We’re trying anyway, for now. We’re trying to pay off out debt, and we’re not sure how long we can afford to treat her, but we’re going to try. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/107 "2013-01-05T19:43:46Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I had to smack my cat tonight- he was being such an arsehole. First time ever. > > I feel guilty- which he knows, of course. Turns out, smacking doesn’t really teach cats much. Hiss and “scruff”, or spray with water bottle. ---
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/108 "2013-01-05T21:45:01Z")
I’m sick. Again. Two weeks ago it was the stomach flu and today it’s strep. My throat is so sore I can’t even talk. I guess it’s better than spending the day in the bathroom, though. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/109 "2013-01-05T22:30:30Z")
Some stupid asshole put a pamphlet under my car windshield wiper while I was away on vacation. Today when I pulled it out, it left a giant square of sticky white crap behind on my windshield, like when you pull off a sticker. Was there fucking \*adhesive \*on that thing? Is that really necessary? ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/110 "2013-01-05T22:51:05Z")
Today I was using a toilet in the mall. I hadn’t finished using it, when the stupid automatic flush thing went off, and sprayed my whole butt! I had to then wipe my entire backside. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/111 "2013-01-05T23:04:55Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Thank you **flatlined** , for you just made the quadruple smoosh my ladies got yesterday seem less painful. Mine is expected to eventually produce either a letter saying “everything is fine, we’ll call you back in a couple years” or a phone call saying “did you know you have cysts? Oh, actually you do, says here you told the tech. Anyway, we’d like you to come in for an ultrasound, when would it be a good time?” > > Ouch Dang about your cysts. One of my friends has them and she had to give up caffeine because it triggered pain. Sore boobs and no coffee would probably make me into a very not-nice person. > [@Kimballkid](#): > > How do you get away with never taking a driving test to get a license? Is that something unique to your old state or something? Nope, it was people signing things that they probably shouldn’t have. I joined the Air Force when I was 17. To this day, I don’t know how my recruiter got the woman who spawned me to sign the paperwork. I strongly suspect that she didn’t. So, after I got out of tech school, I bought a motorcycle. Thinking that my military ID would be enough to get it registered and me licensed, I went to the DMV and learned that I needed a parents signature because I was underage. Being the mature, responsible person I am, I burst into tears. Cue loud sobbing about how I was old enough to die for my country, but not old enough to drive to my duty station. A supervisor took me into his office, gave me tissues, graded my written test and signed stuff, so I left with a nice shiney new driver’s license. When I got out, CA didn’t require a driving test because I had a current license and was recently discharged. When I moved to AZ, they didn’t require a driving test because I had a current CA license. TX accepted my AZ license, so no driving test again. Its strange how proud I am of that small thing. I did have to take a shooting test to transfer my CCW permit to TX, but that was OK because I had to do that to get my AZ CCW permit. > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Taking some driving lessons would probably be a good idea; from watching the driving shows like “Canada’s Worst Driver,” one thing that almost always holds true is that people with more training are more confident and less nervous about driving. This is probably a very good idea. I like to think that I’m a good driver, but the local customs are very different and my confidence suffers because everything is so big and fast. > [@Indyellen](#): > > Took Roxie to the walk-in vet clinic today. The results are back from the pathologist: she has Blastomycosis, a fungal disease. It is rare in cats to start with, and we can’t for the life of us figure out how she got it, since she’s a strictly indoor cat. > > They’re concerned that she developed it because of a weakened immune system, so she’s being tested for FeLV and FIV. Now she’s having a bunch of tests run, and they’re going to clear out more fur around both lumps so we can dress the wounds without sticking tape to fur. > > The vet was honest; apparently the odds of successful treatment are 50-75%. We’re trying anyway, for now. We’re trying to pay off out debt, and we’re not sure how long we can afford to treat her, but we’re going to try. > > ☹ I just looked it up, poor kitty and poor you. The first thing the page said about treatment was that it was expensive, which is pretty scary. From what I understood from what I read, the spores can be airborn or tracked in on shoes. You might want to talk to your doctor about this, you and your family have probably been exposed as well. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for all of you. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/112 "2013-01-06T01:08:16Z")
**flatlined** , thanks. We’re going to call our family doc, just in case. I think the expensive part (besides all the diagnostics, which have already cost hundreds of dollars) is that the medication is given for a minimum of 3 months every 12 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/113 "2013-01-06T01:45:23Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Today I was using a toilet in the mall. I hadn’t finished using it, when the stupid automatic flush thing went off, and sprayed my whole butt! I had to then wipe my entire backside. :mad: Next time, don’t poop in the bidet. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/114 "2013-01-06T01:55:42Z")
_snort!_ ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/115 "2013-01-06T02:03:45Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > **flatlined** , thanks. We’re going to call our family doc, just in case. I think the expensive part (besides all the diagnostics, which have already cost hundreds of dollars) is that the medication is given for a minimum of 3 months every 12 hours. Check your PM, pls. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/116 "2013-01-06T04:42:36Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Pepsi is removing the words “Under God” from its cans! American Pepsi cans said “under God”? You people is weird, if so. And maybe Pepsi simply figured it was easier to have the same design everywhere. ---
**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 6, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/117 "2013-01-06T04:46:55Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > American Pepsi cans said “under God”? > > You people is weird, if so. And maybe Pepsi simply figured it was easier to have the same design everywhere. I was assuming _viva_ was parodying the email alarmist glurge that some people’s Inboxes attract. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/118 "2013-01-06T06:42:04Z")
That’s no parody. That actually went around. Yep. We IS weird. [Crazy jack holes up in this bitch.](http:// [Did Pepsi Omit 'Under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance? | Snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/undergod.asp)) ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/119 "2013-01-06T08:01:41Z")
> [@thursday\_next](#): > > **Curlcoat** , I’m curious, what do you mean about the HSUS wanting to eliminate pets in the home? I thought that was a PETA thing. PETA and the HSUS are essentially the same thing these days. The HSUS is more focused on pet animal issues and PETA is more about livestock, but the bottom line is the same - no animal should be living with humans, all animal should “be free” and “natural” and blah blah blah. > [@flatlined](#): > > I’m not speaking for **Curlcoat** , but I do know that HSUS is all about money making, not about saving pets. People tend to think that HSUS saves pets. That is not true in my experience. Money that goes to HSUS doesn’t trickle down to the people who are actually saving animals. It goes for advertising or something. > > A couple of years ago, my rescue group got a call from an executor, begging us to take an old cat because the owner had died. We did this all the time, but the reason this one sticks in my mind is because the owner had left everything to the HSUS, including her cat. > > HSUS wanted the house and property sold and was going to put the cat down because she “wasn’t adoptable”. > > Yeah, we took the cat and found her a home with another elderly lady. > > The HSUS didn’t even bother to pay for the vet check up for kitteh, and refused to give us kitteh’s stuff because it was all going to be sold in the estate sale. This. The HSUS is all about making money so they can further their agenda in the political forum. Their minions push spay/neuter laws, and breed specific laws, and “adopt a stray” campaigns and anything else that gets people to buy into the idea that well bred pure breeds with guarantees and a support system are evil. > [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > Some stupid asshole put a pamphlet under my car windshield wiper while I was away on vacation. Today when I pulled it out, it left a giant square of sticky white crap behind on my windshield, like when you pull off a sticker. Was there fucking \*adhesive \*on that thing? Is that really necessary? Someone put an election flyer under the wiper on my car this past November the evening before our sprinklers come on, and it left a smear of white on the windshield that didn’t come off easily. When I emailed the candidate to complain, they offered me a $5 coupon for a car wash. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745/120 "2013-01-06T13:27:29Z")
Just watched a movie, but messed up. The Blu-Ray disc was hidden behind all the stupid crappy inserts, on the inside-left of the case, so I accidentally have just watched the DVD version. Thought it looked a bit ordinary, but as it upscales at a decent quality it’s sometimes hard to tell. So: [ul] [li]Stupid fucking Double-Play bullshit strikes again. I do not need a second copy of the same movie, please provide a Single-Disc option for those who want it[/li][li]Put the Bluray on the main rear slot, instead of the inside-cover or the swingy bit[/li][li]No more spammy insert cards advertising bollocks I don’t care about[/li][li]Make disc art readable in the dark, and distinguish the DVD vs BluRay clearly[/li][li]Make text on DVD covers large enough so I can find the running time, and read the cast list[/li][/ul] Argh! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-dang-syne-january-minirants/645745.md?page=7)