# Decemberrants: Yule post'em here, plz **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 1, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207 "2013-12-01T14:01:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/361 "2013-12-14T20:21:14Z")
I post a thread and it sinks like a stone. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/362 "2013-12-14T20:34:02Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I post a thread and it sinks like a stone. ☹ Dude, maybe it’s because the content of your thread OP, so far from being a pit, is the very epitome of MPSIMS. 😉 My rant is somewhat seasonal. I feel like I’m stuck at home because if I go anywhere on a Saturday afternoon in mid-December I will become stuck, immured if you will, in the stinking bog that is Christmas shopping. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/363 "2013-12-14T22:10:18Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I had to go back and read more closely - yup, you did indeed say, “Dog park.” I have a great method for parents to not get their toddlers run over by dogs - stay out of the friggin’ dog parks. Crazy bastards. This sort of idiocy really isn’t that rare. At adoptions, we are always having to tell people that they can’t put their toddler in the puppy pen. Puppies have sharp teeth and claws and haven’t learned manners yet. The child has beautiful, new, unworn skin. It never works out well. > [@Chimera](#): > > I post a thread and it sinks like a stone. ☹ I thought that your Lovecraft references were very good, but being one of the distaff sex…one of those who dust in worship of the elder god of entropy…I’ll try to thing of a good pithy response. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/364 "2013-12-15T01:57:12Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > The Calgary Parking Authority are either liars or completely incompetent - my money is on both. Every time I call in a derelict/abandoned vehicle, I have to call it in twice because the first time they say the vehicle is “gone on arrival.” What that means is they went to the wrong address and the abandoned vehicle wasn’t there (big surprise). When I call them for the second time, I get attitude from the person answering the phone; “I can’t say what the officer did or didn’t do, _ma’am_.” I don’t know why they make this so hard - people are breaking the law (vehicles on the street must be moved every 72 hours according to our bylaws), I’m reporting people breaking the law as they request us to do, and they make it much more difficult than it should be. > > ETA:It also doubles their efforts when they have to go to every call twice. > [@Chimera](#): > > My response would be; > > “I honestly don’t give a shit what the officer did or didn’t do. I’m telling you the vehicle is still here. That’s what I care about.” Try telling the dispatcher it’s the second time you’ve called it in (and their incoming call log must be faulty to not be showing the first). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/365 "2013-12-15T02:03:48Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > The Calgary Parking Authority are either liars or completely incompetent - my money is on both. Every time I call in a derelict/abandoned vehicle, I have to call it in twice because the first time they say the vehicle is “gone on arrival.” What that means is they went to the wrong address and the abandoned vehicle wasn’t there (big surprise). Either that or they aren’t going at all. My money is on the latter. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/366 "2013-12-15T14:47:07Z")
We had four inches of snow yesterday. So naturally I get awakened by stupid fucking assholes who run snow blowers at 7 in the morning on a Sunday. What the fucking fuckity fuck is it with some people? Sleep in, assholes. If it’s not snowblowers it’s leaf blowers. The season changes but the same fucking assholish behavior continues. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/367 "2013-12-15T17:05:19Z")
If only there was some moderately light weight, easily available substance under which you could bury the bodies… 😉 ---
**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:** [December 15, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/368 "2013-12-15T17:58:25Z")
My cats are shitting on clothes and elsewhere now because the litter boxes are full because I didn’t have time to clean them and I’m the only one who cleans them because everyone else is too lazy and always makes excuses not to clean them and/or throws a fit when asked. And now if I clean them today, I’ll have to do it with my sliced-open, bandaged-up finger. Damn me. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/369 "2013-12-15T19:05:55Z")
It is not classy to take up a laundry cart when you don’t need it. It is even less classy to do so when the laundromat is especially busy. Take your hamper/bags/whatever you lugged your clothes in with out of the cart and leave it for people who need them to move their wet clothes to the dryer or their dry clothes to the folding table. You’re lucky I’m classy and won’t dump all your shit on the floor like I should, you cart hog. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/370 "2013-12-15T19:29:34Z")
Fuck eczema. Again. It was going- my skin was back to looking like skin again, and had stopped hurting almost everywhere… then it flared up again last night. No idea why, I’ve never had an attack of it like this before. ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/371 "2013-12-15T20:36:17Z")
Watching the X-Factor final online while knitting…someone needs to tell Katy Perry that she.cannot.sing. Holy crap. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/372 "2013-12-15T20:43:33Z")
> [@kbear](#): > > Watching the X-Factor final online while knitting…someone needs to tell Katy Perry that she.cannot.sing. Holy crap. She was the opening act for the Grammys, I think it was - she wasn’t _bad_, she just wasn’t particularly _good_. She was nowhere near “opening act for the Grammys” good. Checked on the derelict car yesterday - still there, still not ticketed. I spent about half an hour on hold to the Parking Authority and gave up. If it doesn’t get ticketed today, I AM going to be nasty tweeting! ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/373 "2013-12-15T22:08:41Z")
Anti-rant, but not worth its own thread in MPS. There is a kitty tree in my comp room. Its in the corner between 2 windows. The windows have blinds that I closed because I was killing monsters. The light was streaming up the wall, an as usual there was a at in the crow’s nest. It just happened to be our simple cat. When he sat up to give his face a wash, he caused a shadow to move on the wall. Being an alpha predator, he sat there with his paw in the air while he figured it out. Then he realized that he should kill the shadow and pounced the wall. After he spent several minutes pawing the wall and looking for the shadow, he sat down and started to wash his face again. Oh, shadow!!! I just spent 20 happy minutes watching him. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/374 "2013-12-15T22:27:35Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > She was the opening act for the Grammys, I think it was - she wasn’t _bad_, she just wasn’t particularly _good_. She was nowhere near “opening act for the Grammys” good. > > Checked on the derelict car yesterday - still there, still not ticketed. I spent about half an hour on hold to the Parking Authority and gave up. If it doesn’t get ticketed today, I AM going to be nasty tweeting! I would start being nasty with it - get the largest can of international distress orange you can get, and go to town on it. Paint a huge ‘This Is It!!!’ on the drivers side, big stars and 'x’s all over the rest. Then call the police and report it again. Point out that some kids or whomever has been doing graffiti all over it so it should be plain which one you are reporting. I would even go and get one of the cheap burn phones and use that to report it and when setting up the sim card, use the address the car is at and that way when it pops on the caller ID with the police, it populates the form field with the right address. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/375 "2013-12-15T22:41:30Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > If only there was some moderately light weight, easily available substance under which you could bury the bodies… 😉 I really like the way you think. 😃 > [@EmilyG](#): > > My cats are shitting on clothes and elsewhere now because the litter boxes are full because I didn’t have time to clean them and I’m the only one who cleans them because everyone else is too lazy and always makes excuses not to clean them and/or throws a fit when asked. And now if I clean them today, I’ll have to do it with my sliced-open, bandaged-up finger. Damn me. Hey Em, My girls got your cards and the little notebooks. The eldest was thrilled to get mail all the way from Canada. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/376 "2013-12-15T23:08:53Z")
I would really like temps to get above freezing. We’ve only gotten a little snow and ice and only need a day’s worth of temps in the 40’s to see it disappear but while it’s above freezing now, things dip to sub-freezing again tomorrow and barely break that mark again on Tuesday. Yeah, I know, that’s why it’s called ‘Winter.’ Except that technically doesn’t start for another week. Plus the weather service said that this year we had a 50-50 shot of things being above or below normal - typical meteorologist weasel speak if you ask me. It’s really because there are no overarching weather patterns this year so they don’t have an advantage for seasonal predictions, but come on. At least make some shit up. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/377 "2013-12-15T23:13:48Z")
Oh, thanks for the good news, **LavenderBlue.** 😃 Glad your daughters liked the cards and notebooks. 😃 ---
**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:** [December 15, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/378 "2013-12-15T23:18:22Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I would start being nasty with it - get the largest can of international distress orange you can get, and go to town on it. Paint a huge ‘This Is It!!!’ on the drivers side, big stars and 'x’s all over the rest. Then call the police and report it again. Point out that some kids or whomever has been doing graffiti all over it so it should be plain which one you are reporting. I would even go and get one of the cheap burn phones and use that to report it and when setting up the sim card, use the address the car is at and that way when it pops on the caller ID with the police, it populates the form field with the right address. I like the way _you_ think! 😃 This is the tweet I just sent - > [@](#): > > This is the derelict truck that was reported to @CalgaryParking twice last week.Still there. @nenshi @seanchucalgary (copy sent to my mayor and my alderman as well) - complete with picture I just took of the truck (which has no plates now - now it’s REALLY illegal to be on the street!). I think I should take some of your advice - put a big sign on any derelict cars I report in the future saying, “YOOHOO! CALGARY PARKING AUTHORITY! THIS IS IT! THIS IS THE DERELICT CAR!”, because God knows, my previous method of giving them the description, plate number, and address of the vehicle isn’t working. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/379 "2013-12-16T15:52:11Z")
psst! It’s Councillor now. Oh, you got Sean Chu? This is the pit, right? That fucker! After it was pointed out that the 7th AVE cycle track is making trips easier and quicker for both cars and bicycles that asshole calls plans for a second track “madness”. Uh, okay dipshit. Oh, he’s a former police officer. I’m sure he’s doing the best he can to clean up your streets, **Cat**. Witness his efforts with your derelict vehicles. Yes, I commute by bicycle. Not downtown, but still. And, fuck snow! ---
**Author:** ![Jesse\_Pinkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jesse\_Pinkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesse_Pinkman)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/380 "2013-12-16T16:00:54Z")
Dear Greyhound: Up yours. $40 for a bus from Boston to Portland, ME is insane. I can go to NYC for $13 and that trip is over twice as long. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207.md?page=20)