# Aw, Gus 'tis full of rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 1, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043 "2013-08-01T01:34:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 28
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/541 "2013-08-23T10:36:04Z")
> [@anya\_marie](#): > > For the worthless failure assclown who steals my trash cans, > > I wish I could give you the asskicking you deserved. I would gladly beat the stupid out of you while cursing your grandparents for eternity. I would whoop your mothers ass once for raising you and another for letting your sperm donor convince her that having his fuckwit brainless spawn would be a good thing. YOU are a cretin whose existence makes the gods facepalm. Eat shit fifty-five times and then die slowly, in tremendous agony that your cousin’s stolen Fentanyl can’t diminish. > > I hope that you run into someone meaner than I am who makes you wish that you had been aborted, who really fucks you up. I hope that your stolen goods spontaneously combust and takes you out with them. Have a shitty life you pathetic hoarding garbagehead halfwit useless motherfucker. Who the hell steals trashcans? Why steal a trashcan? Where I’m at we keep our cans, but the bears come around and take the trash out. I wouldn’t mind if they took the trash with them, but they like to strew it around the street and lawn. And apparently there’s one in my neighborhood now because I nearly drove over a few scattered trash bags yesterday morning (not in front of my house, thank goodness). ---
**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:** [August 23, 2013, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/542 "2013-08-23T11:21:37Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > Who the hell steals trashcans? Why steal a trashcan? > > Where I’m at we keep our cans, but the bears come around and take the trash out. I wouldn’t mind if they took the trash with them, but they like to strew it around the street and lawn. And apparently there’s one in my neighborhood now because I nearly drove over a few scattered trash bags yesterday morning (not in front of my house, thank goodness). Sometimes squirrels and crows get into our trash here. Many years ago we had a cat who’d always get into the garbage if we made the mistake of letting him out on garbage day. He’d even rip up bags of clothes that we were donating to charity, because they looked like garbage bags to him. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2013, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/543 "2013-08-23T12:19:18Z")
When I moved to Wake Forest, the trash and recycle cans issued by the town came with serial numbers stamped into the plastic, along with a paper instructing you to record the numbers so the cans could be replaced in the event of theft. It was a big “wtf” moment for me. ---
**Author:** ![baileygrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@baileygrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baileygrrrl)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/544 "2013-08-23T13:37:16Z")
My husband and I have rented a cottage for our only vacation this year. We leave tomorrow for a week. We’ve been looking forward to this for ages. My husband recently lost his job but we decided to go ahead with the rental because we really need this time away with our family. Yesterday husband wakes up with a cold. Today he feels like hell. I wake up today and I seriously ache EVERYWHERE. I’m not sure I will last the day at work. FUCKING HELL. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/545 "2013-08-23T14:08:23Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > Seriously, Harris Teeter? > > On August 20, two whole weeks before school even starts, you take down the back-to-school stuff from the seasonal aisle and replace it with HALLOWEEN CANDY?? > > In AUGUST?? > > And I suppose you’re going to remove all the Halloween merchandise on October 15 and put up the Christmas decorations. > > Christ on a pony. That’s sick. > [@Dunkelheit](#): > > I think the point was: who refers to THEMSELVES by any name at all, as opposed to personal pronouns? How would she do so in the course of a natural conversation? “Hill and Stace are going to get coffee now” instead of “Stacy and I are going to get coffee now”? No. I just hate being called Stace. I’m a grown woman. It’s either Stacy or Mrs. H. It crosses boundaries I don’t think should be crossed between a supervisor and an employee. You want to weep for humanity? Go read the comments here: > **[Should anti-vaccine parents be held liable if their child spreads an illness?...](https://laist.com/shows/airtalk/should-anti-vaccine-parents-be-held-liable-if-their-child-spreads-an-illness-poll)** > > If an unvaccinated child passes a disease onto a baby who’s too young to be vaccinated, should its parents be able to sue the infected child’s parents for negligence? Nothing but a cesspool of anti-vax idiocy. None of these fuckers should be allowed access to the net ever again. Over nine hundred comments and most of them by utter morons. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/546 "2013-08-23T15:07:45Z")
Wild fire smoke has settled in:( coughing, sneezing all night and this morning. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/547 "2013-08-23T15:09:33Z")
Dammit. More bored teens. [CNN Link](http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/us/world-war-vet-beating-death/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/548 "2013-08-23T15:33:19Z")
Facebook: The Great Public Therapist. I don’t need to know about my friend’s marital problems. It’s fucking heartbreaking AND none of my business. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/549 "2013-08-23T15:36:32Z")
> [@baileygrrrl](#): > > My husband and I have rented a cottage for our only vacation this year. We leave tomorrow for a week. We’ve been looking forward to this for ages. My husband recently lost his job but we decided to go ahead with the rental because we really need this time away with our family. > > Yesterday husband wakes up with a cold. Today he feels like hell. > I wake up today and I seriously ache EVERYWHERE. I’m not sure I will last the day at work. > > FUCKING HELL. That sucks, I’m sorry. ☹ Are you flying or driving? \*\* chicken soup \*\* ETA: sucks about the being sick AND about the lost job… ---
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/550 "2013-08-23T16:23:51Z")
My son had surgery yesterday in a sensitive area and I can’t convince him to use the bathroom. It’s going to come down to him just wetting his pants. ☹ My doc is leaving the network (contract wasn’t renewed) on August 30th and I’m due a few days after. I was hoping he would induce before he left, but it doesn’t look like that will be possible. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/551 "2013-08-23T16:38:32Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > My temporary supervisor today was calling herself Hill and me Stace. We’re not six or bffs, you nitwit. Your name is Hillary and my name is Stacy. Jesus Christ this is why so many women simply don’t get taken seriously in the workplace. [That’s Not My Name.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1c2OfAzDTI) 🙂 > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Yabbut now I really want a bag of Skittles… Hee. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/552 "2013-08-23T17:12:47Z")
Because it’s Friday, pictures of my cat! [Feather on a book on my bed.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Family/HPIM7987_zps410f28d9.jpg) Why sit on a book on an unmade bed? Why not? [Feather by the back door, doing what she does every afternoon.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Family/HPIM7981_zps5d77dd23.jpg) She could go out into our cat-proofed back yard, but what she really likes is to lay in the sun by her cat flap. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/553 "2013-08-23T17:17:46Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Because it’s Friday, pictures of my cat! > > [Feather on a book on my bed.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Family/HPIM7987_zps410f28d9.jpg) Why sit on a book on an unmade bed? Why not? > > [Feather by the back door, doing what she does every afternoon.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Family/HPIM7981_zps5d77dd23.jpg) She could go out into our cat-proofed back yard, but what she really likes is to lay in the sun by her cat flap. She looks so soft. I want to pet her furry little head. I have a Maine Coon. Lucy’s fur is like a bunny’s. When I bring her to the vet, they all pretty much squeal with delight and walk over to stroke her. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/554 "2013-08-23T17:18:48Z")
> [@FrancisCastle](#): > > My son had surgery yesterday in a sensitive area and I can’t convince him to use the bathroom. It’s going to come down to him just wetting his pants. ☹ I’ve heard that sitting in a bathtub of warm water will ease the pain when going. Better than wetting his pants, anyway. > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Because it’s Friday, pictures of my cat! > > [Feather on a book on my bed.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Family/HPIM7987_zps410f28d9.jpg) Why sit on a book on an unmade bed? Why not? > > [Feather by the back door, doing what she does every afternoon.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Family/HPIM7981_zps5d77dd23.jpg) She could go out into our cat-proofed back yard, but what she really likes is to lay in the sun by her cat flap. And just WHY is that book closed? Hmmmm? Books need to be open, for maximum feline enjoyment. My cats haven’t figured out my nook yet, but they’re pissed about it. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/555 "2013-08-23T17:28:21Z")
As long as we’re doing more cat pic [Maggie with some strange guy who can’t possibly be me](http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a562/ChimeraPic/Maggie_zps93606dc7.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/556 "2013-08-23T17:46:58Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > Who the hell steals trashcans? Why steal a trashcan? > > Where I’m at we keep our cans, but the bears come around and take the trash out. I wouldn’t mind if they took the trash with them, but they like to strew it around the street and lawn. And apparently there’s one in my neighborhood now because I nearly drove over a few scattered trash bags yesterday morning (not in front of my house, thank goodness). You would not believe what goes on behind the garbage industry, I used to work for a waste management company and I had an issue on Hawaii where there was a garbage company that was notorious for stealing the dumpsters and cans from other companies and repainting them and sending them out to their clients. Or how people would steal the bales of cardboard that were set out to be picked up by the recycling company [one Rite-Aid manager watched some guy singlehandedly load a bale into the back of a pickup truck using a winch and long pole of some sort but decided the guy deserved it for the amazing amount of work he put into it. Most times it was some guy with a flatbed and portable forklift doing it at the commercial level.] ---
**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:** [August 23, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/557 "2013-08-23T18:12:48Z")
Thanks all for the cat pix. Thanks **Cat Whisperer** for the Ting Tings - awesome. And **anya marie** , just when I start to think dopers have forgotten how to do a proper pitting, you come along! Nicely done indeed. How can I be ranty with all this awesomeness? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/558 "2013-08-23T18:55:45Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Sounds like SOMEbody has some good war stories to share with us! Eh, mostly the same old, same old with apartment hunting. Obvious scam Craigslist postings I have to weed through, apartments that the landlord somehow got to look ten times nicer and bigger in the pictures, outright lies, etc… One of the things I hate most is how hard it actually is to search Craigslist. I want a one bedroom. Can Craigslist just give me a list of all the one bedrooms in my area? Nope. It will only search 1+ bedrooms. I don’t understand why their site looks and functionality is stuck in 1998. And since that’s where 90% of the listings are, I am forced to use it. On top of that, because I live in a small state (VT,) literally the _entire state_ is one Craigslist “area,” so I also get a bunch of listings in towns hours away. And there’s no effective way to filter those out, either, since I can’t just search for apartments in the town I live in, because I might want to live in one of the neighboring towns…just not a town 3 hours away. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/559 "2013-08-23T19:04:46Z")
Have never understood why anyone uses Craigslist for anything. It’s the Mos Eisley of websites. The dark alley in Anhk-Morpork. That dank building at the end of Diagon Alley. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043/560 "2013-08-23T19:30:41Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Have never understood why anyone uses Craigslist for anything. Because it’s free. Why pay several dollars for a newspaper classified that fewer people are going to see? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-gus-tis-full-of-rants/665043.md?page=29)