# 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:** 9
**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:** [January 13, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/161 "2011-01-13T16:23:59Z")
- beeeeep \* ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/162 "2011-01-13T16:25:27Z")
One hour, 40 minutes to get home last night. Two hours to get to work this morning. I have a headache. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/163 "2011-01-13T16:37:57Z")
- 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 13, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/164 "2011-01-13T16:49:34Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > - beeeeep \* > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > - beeeep \* _ **gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!** _ ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyMac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@JohnnyMac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyMac)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/165 "2011-01-13T16:59:20Z")
God damn speaker systems on the tube! Why do you give the drivers the ability to set the volume? That’s the only reason I can think of for why - on about half your trains - your speakers try to burst my goddamn eardrums. Shut the fuck up! I turn my music off and put my hands over my ears and they still fucking _hurt_ because of how loud your system is! And then you just won’t shut up! I know the doors are closing, dammit, they fucking beep! Just shut up and drive the train already, or better yet, TURN THE SPEAKERS DOWN. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/166 "2011-01-13T21:22:19Z")
I have a low-grade fever and generally feel like crap. In addition, I’m on my period, which makes me have to crap like six times a day. Just sucks. ---
**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 13, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/167 "2011-01-13T21:47:28Z")
Ah yes, “period shits.” How well we all know and love them. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/168 "2011-01-13T22:00:29Z")
- 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 13, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/169 "2011-01-13T22:01:30Z")
:sobbing softly: ---
**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:** [January 13, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/170 "2011-01-13T23:09:27Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Ah yes, “period shits.” How well we all know and love them. You know what? I’d like to pit every health teacher I had from grade 5 through high school graduation, for not telling me JACK FUCKING SHIT besides “blood comes out your vagina, here’s a Midol.” It’s bad enough that the weren’t really explaining the whole “it’s the lining sloughing off” part - fine, those are technical details - but you’d think some sympathetic woman, at some point, would have maybe mentioned how there are _other_ side effects besides cramps. I was far, far out of school before I learned the connection between the two things. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/171 "2011-01-14T00:23:51Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > You know what? I’d like to pit every health teacher I had from grade 5 through high school graduation, for not telling me JACK FUCKING SHIT besides “blood comes out your vagina, here’s a Midol.” It’s bad enough that the weren’t really explaining the whole “it’s the lining sloughing off” part - fine, those are technical details - but you’d think some sympathetic woman, at some point, would have maybe mentioned how there are _other_ side effects besides cramps. I was far, far out of school before I learned the connection between the two things. Perhaps they didn’t know - I never had the “period shits” myself. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_Doubt)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/172 "2011-01-14T04:45:39Z")
> [@anya\_marie](#): > > For the love of cupcakes will you stop fiddling with the thermostat and stop obsessing because the furnace doesn’t run constantly! For crying out loud, no i don’t knwo how old the furnace and thermostat are just that we had them serviced in November 2010 and i have no idea how to relight the pilot on the furnace. > > I can relight the water heater but that is because the reapairman showed me how when we had a problem with it last month. Shut the fuck up and stop asking me the same question every few minutes. Ahh, another household taken in the Great Thermostat Wars. I’m a current combatant. Up, down, up down. Sometimes, though, I think the damn thing really doesn’t flick on when often enough and I get stressed out, and I’m the partner in the relationship that “runs hot”. Speaking of up and down, that’s what you’re doing to my eyeballs, Internet Commentors with Random Capitalization Syndrome. I usually Love to read Articles and blogs and Their accompanying Comments, until I come Upon your Strangely formatted Paragraphs. Why oh Why? Are you German and recently Learned English? (that I can forgive). Do you just like to make people Feel Seasick? ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/173 "2011-01-14T14:30:47Z")
Emily Dickinson Appreciation Society members. Death came to My Blog and left its ISP and it Said I was never going to leave Amherst without a decent Browser. ---
**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 14, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/174 "2011-01-14T16:35:54Z")
Psh, that meter’s totally wrong for Dickinson. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/175 "2011-01-14T16:44:01Z")
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. ---
**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 14, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/176 "2011-01-14T17:18:17Z")
There ya go. On the downside, I now have “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” running through my head and probably will all morning. ---
**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 14, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/177 "2011-01-14T19:18:12Z")
> [@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. 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…_ ---
**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 14, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/178 "2011-01-14T21:27:50Z")
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.** _ ---
**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, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/179 "2011-01-15T05:24:42Z")
Heh heh heh. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2011, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389/180 "2011-01-15T06:14:31Z")
Oh, yours just goes _beeeeeep_? We got a new plotter at work this week. Whenever it has an issue, it emits an incredibly loud and shrill _ **BEEEEEPBEEEEEEPBEEEEEP** _. Since this plotter is located next to the department manager’s office, however, I don’t think this will last very long. (He got the Xerox rep to disable every single audible alarm and alert on the new copier – even the gentle _blip_ it made in response to touchscreen input.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-paper-towel-filler-person-or-non-christmas-mini-rants/565389.md?page=10)