# Decembrants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 1, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652 "2012-12-01T05:34:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/461 "2012-12-19T04:04:14Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > My libertarian friend from both Facebook and real life needs to shut the fuck up about guns and schools. He’s a very sane guy but he’s gone completely off the rails on this one. I do not to read another stupid comment by him about the need to have guns around third graders. One of my uncles has done the same, except he’s slid right on past that into birther-ism. :smack: Christ, I can respect a belief that taking away guns won’t help, but once you start posting those photoshopped student IDs and that bullshit, I will not only ignore everything you say, but start associating it with nutjobbery just by association. (And I realize that isn’t fair, but it is human.) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/462 "2012-12-19T04:41:54Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I let them stay one night. I came home on 2nd night, and they were still there. GF said they will leaving today. > > If they are still there when I get home. I am packing a bag and re-evaluating my relationship status. Bums were still there. I packed a bag and left… ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/463 "2012-12-19T04:48:52Z")
Ouch. Sorry to hear it, **Typo**. ---
**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 19, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/464 "2012-12-19T05:04:41Z")
Yeah, man, let us know how it all goes. ---
**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 19, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/465 "2012-12-19T05:09:03Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Bums were still there. I packed a bag and left… I’m sorry to hear that, too. If your girlfriend knew how you felt about not only having son bums but also extra bums around and she didn’t kick them out, it kind of looks like she chose them over you. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/466 "2012-12-19T15:19:41Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > You know I was being sarcastic, right? 🙂 Good drivers are aware and concerned about everything going on around them, identifying and predicting and reacting to any situation that might come up. I knew:) I’m just amazed at how many people don’t think about what is going on around them. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/467 "2012-12-19T15:53:10Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Bums were still there. I packed a bag and left… Whoa. Note to self: Don’t mess with **Typo** , homie don’t play around! Hope it all works out. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/468 "2012-12-19T16:35:34Z")
Oh good googly moogly. I’m a member of a local moms’ group on Facebook, and being that I’m in The Middle Finger of the South (Indiana), we get some cray cray religious postings every now and then. Today someone posted a “poem” written by a “Cameo Smith” from PA about the Sandy Hook children. I won’t post the whole thing, but it starts like this: \*Twas’ 11 days before Christmas, around 9:38 when 20 beautiful children stormed through heaven’s gate. Their smiles were contagious, their laughter filled the air. They could hardly believe all the beauty they saw there. They were filled with such joy, they didn’t know what to say. They remembered nothing of what had happened earlier that day. “Where are we?” asked a little girl, as quiet as a mouse. “This is heaven.” declared a small boy. “We’re spending Christmas at God’s house.\*” And all of the comments ooh and aah over how wonderful and amazing and beautiful it is! Just … blech. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/469 "2012-12-19T23:14:34Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > Oh good googly moogly. I’m a member of a local moms’ group on Facebook, and being that I’m in The Middle Finger of the South (Indiana), we get some cray cray religious postings every now and then. Today someone posted a “poem” written by a “Cameo Smith” from PA about the Sandy Hook children. I won’t post the whole thing, but it starts like this: > > \*Twas’ 11 days before Christmas, around 9:38 > when 20 beautiful children stormed through heaven’s gate. > Their smiles were contagious, their laughter filled the air. > They could hardly believe all the beauty they saw there. > > They were filled with such joy, they didn’t know what to say. > They remembered nothing of what had happened earlier that day. > “Where are we?” asked a little girl, as quiet as a mouse. > “This is heaven.” declared a small boy. “We’re spending Christmas at God’s house.\*” > > And all of the comments ooh and aah over how wonderful and amazing and beautiful it is! Just … blech. If I get that piece of shit sent to me one more time I will, as they say, flip my nut. Have their families not suffered enough that someone has to write a shitty rhyme about it?? Some dumbass on Etsy will cross-stitch it, frame it and send it unbidden to a parent who simply wishes to be left the hell alone. ---
**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 19, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/470 "2012-12-19T23:18:57Z")
Yeah, that’s just … over the top saccharine. I was already pretty sad about the whole thing when the news broke, but when my slow-ass brain _finally_ put 2 and 2 together and realized all those families probably already had Christmas gifts for their children wrapped etc. that’s when it really hit home for me, emotionally. I can’t possibly imagine what those parents are going through, but I also can’t imagine that I’d be able to physically restrain myself if someone implied that my child was better off for having been shot in the head at school. Which is pretty much what that poem is saying. How wonderful! We get to spend Christmas at God’s house … instead of our own home. Blech, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/471 "2012-12-20T00:16:25Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > Oh good googly moogly. I’m a member of a local moms’ group on Facebook, and being that I’m in The Middle Finger of the South (Indiana), we get some cray cray religious postings every now and then. Today someone posted a “poem” written by a “Cameo Smith” from PA about the Sandy Hook children. I won’t post the whole thing, but it starts like this: > > \*Twas’ 11 days before Christmas, around 9:38 > when 20 beautiful children stormed through heaven’s gate. > Their smiles were contagious, their laughter filled the air. > They could hardly believe all the beauty they saw there. > > They were filled with such joy, they didn’t know what to say. > They remembered nothing of what had happened earlier that day. > “Where are we?” asked a little girl, as quiet as a mouse. > “This is heaven.” declared a small boy. “We’re spending Christmas at God’s house.\*” “Oh goody, Christmas at God’s house! Can Mom and Dad come? No? How about my friends? My dog? Uh, OK then…Ya know, it’s been nice, Mr. God, but I really think it’s time to go home now. I miss my family, and I have to go back to school and all…Can I go home now?” What a shitty excuse for a poem. There was a screencap of a Facebook post that made the rounds that had a similar message, that we shouldn’t grieve, that it was GOOD because all these beautiful children had gone to heaven. Psychotic stuff, almost, where if you tilt just a little more to the unbalanced side you start thinking maybe more people should send their kids to heaven, to spare them this life of suffering or some crap like that. The one reply under it fabulously tore it to shreds. ---
**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 20, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/472 "2012-12-20T02:20:05Z")
Everybody that’s making a comment about that poem, do you have to quote every word of it? It’s now up here three times. I’m trying to just scroll past it, but it’s still lurking there… I’m just going to avoid this thread for a while til everyone’s done quoting it. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/473 "2012-12-20T02:28:03Z")
Well, it was bound to happen: now that Amazon ships everything by UPS, they’ve gone and lost my package. As in they claim that it was delivered two days ago but no such thing has happened. Seriously, fuck UPS, and fuck Amazon for switching to them from convenient, reliable Canada Post. _They’ve ruined Christmas._ (okay, they haven’t, my brother will understand, but they’ve sure pissed me off) ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/474 "2012-12-20T02:35:39Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Psychotic stuff, almost, where if you tilt just a little more to the unbalanced side you start thinking maybe more people should send their kids to heaven, to spare them this life of suffering or some crap like that. The one reply under it fabulously tore it to shreds. We’ve had a couple of cases in Spain of some kid going off his rocker\* and killing his disabled sibling and any other relative within reach, following exactly that line of reasoning. “Better off dead” is one of those expressions which always give me the willies (I do believe in letting people die, but I also think that’s quite evidently a completely different case). - The actual diagnosis contains more polysyllabic terms. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/475 "2012-12-20T02:42:34Z")
I arrived home just now to find one of my apartment neighbors yelling and cursing at two LAPD officers. Something about an arrest warrant for a friend who’s out on parole, and being royally pissed that they weren’t simply taking his word for it that the guy wasn’t there. Sample exchange: Guy: You assholes are not fucking coming in here! I’m the only one here! I’m not lying! Cop: Sir, everybody tells us that. Guy: Yeah, but I’m not lying! Nice to know who around here I should avoid in the future. Though it was good entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/476 "2012-12-20T03:04:03Z")
Goddamned stupid people who quote the entire longer post to make shorter points. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/477 "2012-12-20T04:16:37Z")
I have booze in the Churlish Corner. I went to a PetStore to get catfood. The music was “I wish you a meowy Christmas” and then it moved on to that barking dogs song. The next song had cows. I bought the booze at a place that had a sign that said "No music. Ever. " ---
**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 20, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/478 "2012-12-20T04:58:18Z")
You’d think I’d have clued in by now, 46 years on this planet and counting, but every time I go shopping during the Christmas season I’m surprised and dismayed anew by crappy Christmas music everywhere. Bah. Humbug. Do you have peace and quiet in the Churlish Corner? Maybe some _good_ music? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/479 "2012-12-20T15:15:14Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > Today someone posted a “poem” written by a “Cameo Smith” from PA about the Sandy Hook children. My mom forwarded it to me and everyone she knows. All I can do is tell my kids not to start any debates with their grandma, it’s not polite. ---
**Author:** ![slalexan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@slalexan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slalexan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652/480 "2012-12-20T15:47:59Z")
I pit sweet baked goods and the people at my work that make them. They are all over the place today. I cannot escape the temptation and I am so weak when it comes to chocolate. I think I’ve gained 10 lbs today. (Disclaimer: I know I am responsible for what I eat and how heavy I am. I just wish all the deliciousness wasn’t all in my face today.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decembrants/642652.md?page=25)