# 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:** 40
**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:** [December 31, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/781 "2013-12-31T02:10:41Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > The atrium house is nice, pity it is in Canada … Not a problem. We’ll rent a huge mega-RV in Chicago and lead a mega-convoy of dopers to the mega-party. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/782 "2013-12-31T03:08:36Z")
If you’re going to have a large dog in the city, get him neutered. If you’re going to have a large dog, unneutered, in the city, maybe make sure he’s not aggressive before letting him outside. Maybe also make sure you keep him on a leash, as unneutered dogs like to, you know, run off. If you’re going to have an unneutered, aggressive, unleashed dog in the city, maybe you shouldn’t put him in an elf outfit, which fools people into thinking he’s not an unneutered aggressive dog who is running up to their dog without a leash. Because if you do these things, and the person who owns the dog being approached by the unneutered, aggressive, off-leash, large dog in an elf costume, happens to be an off-duty cop, well your little elf that looks cute but tries to take a chunk out of the leashed dog’s neck, just might get shot. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/783 "2013-12-31T03:57:37Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I’m looking at house for sale ads online in preparation to making a change in a few months, and I found a [house that I want badly](http://beta.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?PropertyId=13493062)- it has a 1400 square foot atrium attached to it. I didn’t know I wanted a 1400 square foot atrium until I saw one - I don’t even know what I’d do with an atrium, but I still want it. > > (If you click on the first picture there, it will bring up a pop-up with larger pictures to view.) … a covered atrium… Bitch to heat up, I can tell you. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/784 "2013-12-31T04:15:26Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > I’d expect since customers do die on occasion they’d have a procedure on transferring liability. I seem to be mistaken since in 3 months none of these incompetent fuckers can manage to find or follow it. Gramps died in August of 2010. The electrical bill is in Grandma’s name: phone and gas are still in his. I don’t know about the water. Both the phone and gas wanted to cancel the old accounts and open new ones, in order to “transfer” them; for the phone, that would have meant changing a number that four generations have been required to recite by heart before being allowed to go to the park on our own. There have been minor changes to it due to phone system reorganizations but otherwise it’s been the same number since 1938. If I do end up getting that house, my nephews willl inherit it with that number still assigned :p. For the gas, it would have meant getting on the normal tariff and then going again through the process of demonstrating that the account holder is a person on minimal income. We figure we’ll update it when it’s for someone who isn’t on minimal income. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/785 "2013-12-31T04:38:46Z")
Nighttime cough meds don’t make me sleepy, but they apparently disable all the shields between my brain and my mouth. I can’t wait until unmedicated me gets to deal with the aftermath. Until then? Yeehaw, motherfuckers. Don’t ask my opinion unless you’re sure you want my opinion. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/786 "2013-12-31T05:03:54Z")
Why? What’d you say? ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/787 "2013-12-31T05:22:47Z")
Oh, my idiot cousin (late thirties, mother of four, never married, but currently engaged - to a guy who got out of prison on July 1, meth charges. Prior sentences were for car theft and burglary.) Anyway, D thinks that I’m her ally, because we both found ‘twue wuv’ a bit later in life. So she basically asked me whether I thought that she and her Boo are meant to be. As it turns out, I don’t know her Boo, but my husband has arrested him two or three times, and I mentioned that I really might overlook a single youthful theft, but meth? No. I wouldn’t have that person around my kids. But I sort of phrased it as “hell no. Et cetera.” ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/788 "2013-12-31T08:53:01Z")
Is your cousin’s taste as Ronduh-like as it seems? We really need more Ron tales. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/789 "2013-12-31T11:42:04Z")
TLDR version - \*\*RealOmegaMan \*\*and I got engaged at the weekend and I wish my family would just be happy about it. - ha, just got a text from my mum inviting us to NY Day dinner. Quickest resolution ever 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/790 "2013-12-31T11:47:12Z")
Congratulations, oh most **Impish** of brides-to-be! ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/791 "2013-12-31T11:54:34Z")
Thank you **Nava**! All our friends, colleagues and his family have been so happy for us. My family have been mostly noted by their silence. It’s just starting to send me into self-doubt[1] about whether I’m actually able to move out from my sister’s home and be an independant functional adult again (have been living under her roof since 2010, daughter was born here, have been fairly emotionally and financially dependendant on her since former-husband threw me out at 5 months pregnant). [1] Not doubting you, dearest lurker, just me. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/792 "2013-12-31T13:37:37Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > TLDR version - \*\*RealOmegaMan \*\*and I got engaged at the weekend and I wish my family would just be happy about it. Congratulations! Unless you’re **Lacunae Matata’s** cousin… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/793 "2013-12-31T14:05:39Z")
Two plane flights in the past two months, ended up sick as the proverbial dog after each of them. Clearly, from now on I need to travel by private jet to avoid all that disease being spread by the public. I’m sure the company I work for will understand. :o ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/794 "2013-12-31T14:15:04Z")
I’m no doubt _someone’s_ idiot cousin, but not that particular one. Not enough kids 😉 ---
**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 31, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/795 "2013-12-31T14:59:39Z")
Do we have a name for next month’s rant thread yet? ---
**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:** [December 31, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/796 "2013-12-31T15:12:17Z")
Ooooh! No, but we need one. Except I, ah, have no clever ideas. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/797 "2013-12-31T15:20:03Z")
I’m not sure if this is a rant or relief: part of my job involves managing issues related to new product implementations in Medicare. Benefits roll over tonight at 12:01 a.m., so monitoring begins at 11 and continues hourly, 24/7, for the next several weeks. What this means is that I’ll be working today (started at 7 a.m.) until possibly noon tomorrow, with the possibility of two to three hours’ sleep in between meetings. However, working 24-36 hours straight is not unheard of. But that isn’t what’s got me annoyed. The thing is, it’s about fucking time. This is what we prepare for all fucking year, sometimes years in advance. As we get closer and closer, people flip out more and more and more until finally, the lull comes. The few days before New Year’s when we’ve done all we can to prepare and now we’re just waiting for the bomb to drop (if it drops). Now I’m just jacking around, cleaning up my inbox, organizing my shit, calming people the fuck down and making sure my team understands what they need to do. And waiting. I fucking hate waiting. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/798 "2013-12-31T15:24:11Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Ooooh! No, but we need one. Except I, ah, have no clever ideas. Auld Rant Syne? ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/799 "2013-12-31T15:24:40Z")
Congrats Cinnamon Imp! My rant is that just in time for the new year I’m getting a cold. This one appears to be the start of a real cold and not allergies which I was mistaking for colds before. I wish it were, it’s easier to head it off at the pass. Velociraptor has been coughing for ages thanks to his asthma and now I may get to spend January doing the same thing. Yay. ---
**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 31, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/800 "2013-12-31T15:32:10Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Ooooh! No, but we need one. Except I, ah, have no clever ideas. Happy New Rants, Same As The Old Rants? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207.md?page=39) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207.md?page=41)