# Dear paper towel filler person....or non-Christmas mini-rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 25, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389 "2010-12-25T23:54:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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:** [January 15, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/181 "2011-01-15T18:58:25Z")
I just got another email from my local Freecycle group - I have yet to put anything on Freecycle because I’m afraid to. I tried to post that we were looking for a screen door years ago, and got a fairly snippy response - “You can’t ask for something first; you have to offer something first. If everyone just took, there’d be nothing left,” or something stupid like that. Uh, actually, if my math is right, you need as many takers as you need offerers if this is going to work. Since then, I periodically get peremptory emails from them commanding me about how the Rules of Freecycle work - “YOU SHALL…” “YOU SHALL NOT…” - the whole tone has turned me off, and I have never used them either to give or take. I don’t know if this is a Freecycle thing, or if it’s just a local Calgary chapter thing - that the people running it here have delusions of bossing everyone else around. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/182 "2011-01-15T19:05:06Z")
I’m sick. Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick. And whiny. That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/183 "2011-01-16T05:32:20Z")
**Cat Whisperer** , I never _got_ freecycle. Why not just use Craiglist and list it for free? Or is Craigslist not big in Calgary? I hate the hipster-holier-than-thou attitude. “If everyone just FOLLOWED OUR AUTHORITARIAN RULE, EVERYTHING WOULD WORK OUT FINE!!!” Really puts a bug up my ass. I got that at the Rachel Carson sustainable feast, when a dirty 40 year old hipster lectured me on which of four different garbage bags to use to dump my garbage. Listen, if it’s not instantly obvious (like at Whole Foods) I’m not going to spend 60 seconds of my life listening as to how to do it for a fucking one day event. And I paid $10 for the the food, not for the granola crunching condescension. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/184 "2011-01-16T05:46:36Z")
There is Craigslist here, but I think [Usedcalgary.com](http://Usedcalgary.com) is a lot more active. I’ve used them myself - no hassles about following their authoritarian (good word) rules. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/185 "2011-01-17T03:04:04Z")
As far as I am concerned- \*\*Angel of Doubt \*\* the thermostat is fine, and I do not need to fiddle with it, but i have heavy blankets on my bed and wear a sweater in the house. I get that it’s an older house, and on the corner room which i HAVE can be chilly, but I have no problem with it and i wear nothing to bed, so i don’t get what the problem is here. Changed the filters and it seems ok but i don’t know what to do when she asks every 15 minutes except want to scream shut the fuck up. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/186 "2011-01-17T14:15:13Z")
You know what’s incredibly frustrating? When someone tries to show initiative by disregarding simple instructions. For example, IF Item X costs less than $Y, THEN buy it on my behalf. There is a reason I said I didn’t want to buy it if it cost more than $Y, and that’s because I didn’t want to buy it if it cost more than $Y. ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/187 "2011-01-17T14:51:41Z")
Feel like crap today - got a cold - stayed home though, but still working. Right now waiting for the Theraflu (nasty tasting) drink to kick in and knock me back out. Discovered the utter worthlessness of some health insurance: friend’s hubby was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, and Mayo clinic is not “in network” for her insurance. The HR bitch had the nerve to say “don’t say that the treatment isn’t covered under your insurance”. What a fucking bitch. It could end up costing her $200k to save his life. What a fucked up mess. This is the kinda shit I want my insurance to cover - I could give a fuck about my annual exams - I want it to kick in when shit gets scary! Now she’s regretting not being affiliated with a church to get charity - that’s a pretty shitty system for paying for healthcare. ---
**Author:** ![Schrodinger\_s\_Platypus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Schrodinger\_s\_Platypus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schrodinger_s_Platypus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/188 "2011-01-17T15:05:13Z")
I have a sinus infection. Just like I get every winter. Urgh. ---
**Author:** ![Boggette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/189 "2011-01-17T18:32:36Z")
I’ll trade my stomach bug for someone’s cold. My belly song is no longer amusing to listen to. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/190 "2011-01-17T19:28:21Z")
> [@Schrodinger\_s\_Platypus](#): > > I have a sinus infection. Just like I get every winter. Urgh. Almost as bad. I went grocery shopping and while there, suddenly decided to make the fixin’s for a big pot of chili, and to eat it with some corn chips. Somehow, in eating it, a small piece of chili coated corn chip lodged in the back of my sinuses. Hurts like hell, keeps driving mucus creation to sooth it, and I can’t seem to dislodge it. Made sleeping hell. Teach me to inhale my food. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/191 "2011-01-17T20:10:15Z")
Goddammit people, **stop** putting spaces before question marks. You might need to do that in some other languages, but it’s not correct in English. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/192 "2011-01-17T20:53:06Z")
Stupid library - I don’t want to buy every book I read, I just want to read them; between my local library dumping all sci fi type paperback books together and not having many of the books I’m looking for, I’m having a really hard time getting books from them. If I want some sappy Oprah Book Club selection, they’d have a million copies, but when I want some post-apocalyptic fiction, sorry. They may or may not have any, and I may or may not be able to find them amongst Volumes 1 to 200 of Terry Pritchards’ Half-Naked Orc Epics and Volumes 1 to 300 of David Eddings’ Magic and Shit Epics. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/193 "2011-01-17T21:04:37Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > If I want some sappy Oprah Book Club selection, they’d have a million copies, but when I want some post-apocalyptic fiction, sorry. Have you looked into the interlibrary loan program at your library? You can often get a lot that way that you wouldn’t otherwise have access to. > [@](#): > > Volumes 1 to 300 of David Eddings’ Magic and Shit Epics. I read this as David Eddings’ _Magic and Epic Shits_. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/194 "2011-01-17T22:52:45Z")
So I heard today that several of my coworkers are planning to go on a total bender Friday night. We hold our annual company-wide meeting Friday morning. Shit. ☹ ---
**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:** [January 18, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/195 "2011-01-18T00:48:37Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Have you looked into the interlibrary loan program at your library? You can often get a lot that way that you wouldn’t otherwise have access to. I’m looking at the entire catalogue of the City of Calgary library - I don’t think the small towns around here would have a better selection. 🙂 > [@](#): > > I read this as David Eddings’ _Magic and Epic Shits_. That works too. 😃 ---
**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:** [January 18, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/196 "2011-01-18T01:42:23Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Psh, that meter’s totally wrong for Dickinson. > [@jsgoddess](#): > > Death came along and saw my Blog > And shook its Head–and Spoke– > That I would never leave–without > A Browser–that’s the Joke. > [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > There ya go. On the downside, I now have “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” running through my head and probably will all morning. > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > It could be worse - it could be [“Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fj2HVYlD_4) > _Let you put your hands on me > In my skin-tight jeans > Be your teenage dream tonight…_ > [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > The only reason I even know that song was because they used it on _Glee_. Thanks for reminding me about everything I loathe about bad pop music. _ **You horrid woman.** _ ere, let me fix it for you. Sing it to the tune of “_The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island_.” All better? Good. No charge. _beeeep_ ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/197 "2011-01-18T16:46:23Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > So I heard today that several of my coworkers are planning to go on a total bender Friday night. We hold our annual company-wide meeting Friday morning. > > Shit. You think they know something? > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I’m looking at the entire catalogue of the City of Calgary library - I don’t think the small towns around here would have a better selection. Actually, you’d be surprised. The Milwaukee Public Library system is linked to all of the burbs; more than once I requested an item that wasn’t available from the MPL and it showed up with a little slip reminding me that it was part of a different library system with different rules for due dates and overdraft fees. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > _beeeep_ We figured it out! Somebody pulled the dishwasher open in the middle of a cycle and then didn’t re-latch the door. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/198 "2011-01-18T16:59:30Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > You think they know something? They definitely know something. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/199 "2011-01-18T17:36:59Z")
Uh-oh. ☹ Good luck. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/200 "2011-01-18T20:29:31Z")
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