# Do you remember the mini-est rant of September? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 1, 2014, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117 "2014-09-01T06:04:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**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:** [September 29, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/381 "2014-09-29T23:11:26Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I too have noticed and am annoyed by this trend. > > And I usually only buy three bananas at a time too. > > Of course, last month I was at the register doing so and the guy behind me sniffs and says “I’ve never seen anyone buy ONLY 3 bananas”. Apparently he doesn’t get out much. Shoulda told him _“I ate the other five while I shopped. Be careful over in Aisle Five. ;)”_ ---
**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:** [September 29, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/382 "2014-09-29T23:14:14Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > To **kaylasmom** : Just some friendly advice from an internet stranger…you might consider changing your recipes. I know that you cook yummy, nutritious food that your family loves, but **kaylasdad** would benefit from eating more Omega 3, vitamin C, B3 and B5 than he is now. Canned salmon isn’t that much more expensive than tuna, so use it in his sandwiches. If he’s anything like my cats, he will winge and moan if you do it right away, so start mixing it in slowly. Give him fruit salads for desert and cut some fruit up for him to munch on at work. He needs to eat a rainbow of food every day. Also, I could be wrong, but I don’t think that you can overdose a human with glucosamine. Sprinkle some on his sandwiches as well, the salmon will cover the taste. > > My BB has been having knee pain for the same reason your hubby is…worn out joints. I’m probably the worse cook in the world, but I’m a pro at cutting things up, opening cans and mixing stuff together. I’ve learned that if I pack whole fruit in his lunch, he doesn’t eat them, but if it is cut up, he does. Personally, I think that salmon salad on 7 grain bread is about the yummiest thing ever, but it took a while for my BB to get used to them. Men are often like cats…don’t change their food too fast or they will not eat it. Do it slowly and they will get used to it. > > Good luck! > > PS I just found a [link](http://www.arthritis-treatment-and-relief.com/foods-or-vitamins-that-help-with-joint-pain.html) that explains it much better than I did. I never mentioned that **kaylasmom** is blind from birth, and I do the cooking? Huh. ETA: Your ideas are sound, though, and I’ll see if I can find some way of incorporating them into our lifestyle. Thanks! 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 29, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/383 "2014-09-29T23:21:04Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I read online (WebMD?) that apparently, really heavy, really painful periods are a cause for medical concern. Really? I wish I could ask my doctor about that, but I doubt doctors are very happy when their patients start a conversation with them beginning with, “Hey, I read on the internet…” :rolleyes: It’s nice being able to talk to a doctor about cramps at all! I didn’t find a doctor who would listen until I was in college…up until then, the (female!) ones I encountered would pretty much just pat me on the head and tell me to go buy some Midol and a heating pad. > [@aruvqan](#): > > Clots, cramps, the shits, the o’erflowing bladder, the cramps, the crazed munchies, the cramps, the clots, the emotional rollercoaster, the cramps … > [URL=“[http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/](http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/)”] And the insane bloating/water retention! I have a few pairs of pants that just don’t fit right when I’m expecting The Visitor, and even my fingers get just puffy enough to keep me from wearing certain rings. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/384 "2014-09-29T23:45:21Z")
Thanks for the hugs, y’all. The counselor sent me a list of therapists and other resources, and Girl 2.0 and I talked when she got home. Apparently, the cutting has been going on since February, but only occasionally - perhaps between 10 and 15 episodes. AIUI, this is still early, so I’m confident that we can work on the issues before things get really bad. I’m not really beating myself up - I know that adolescence is an absolute hellhole for most normal-ish kids, and there’s a history of major depressive illness in my family. I think, if anything, I’m relieved that we’re catching the symptoms so early so that we can seek help. Part of the conversation with G2, however, made me really, really sad: Of her little clique of five friends, there’s a former cutter who moved on to having an eating disorder, two who currently cut themselves, a gay kid who’s afraid to come out to his father, and a girl who came out to her parents last year and has since taken to “borrowing” medication from her grandmother - her parents are trying to “pray the gay away.” These are good kids - smart, good grades, middle class with loving families - but they’re so young and so sad. I want to start having the whole gang over every week for tea and sympathy and a little unconditional love and acceptance of who they are. Poor babies… ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/385 "2014-09-30T01:48:06Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I never mentioned that **kaylasmom** is blind from birth, and I do the cooking? :smack: That’s what I get for assuming, and I do know better than that. :smack: I’m sure you have mentioned it in the past, but while I will admit to semi-stalking you because I love your responses…I never went further than that. She must be a very special person to have such a wonderful person as you love her as much as you do. If it will help any, sprinkling some lemon juice on the fruit salad will stop things from turning brown…if you make enough for a couple of days. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/386 "2014-09-30T02:20:50Z")
Good thinking. Now that we’re empty-nesters, making fruit salad might turn out to not be a waste of time and food. Although being a night shift worker for the past six years has resulted in my getting into lazy food-preparation habits. OTOH, I did buy some bananas for the first time in several years this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/387 "2014-09-30T03:39:30Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > “Adonis’ dimples?” Is this something I’m going to have to go to urbandictionary to find out about? They’re those two dimples above the butt that some people have. Another method for keeping the fruits in fruit salad from oxydizing: make sure they’re covered by the liquid. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/388 "2014-09-30T04:09:33Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > I want to start having the whole gang over every week for tea and sympathy and a little unconditional love and acceptance of who they are. Poor babies… Being a teenager now sucks. I made a point to all TheKid’s friends that they were welcome here anytime, no judgement. They could come under the influence, but no drugs or alcohol were allowed on my property. They also knew I’m a mandatory reporter and would do what I felt necessary for them to be safe. I’ve been told by a few of the kids that knowing they had welcoming home kept them okay. Just stock up on Kool-Ade, pizza rolls, and (weirdly) butter crackers. Today I have a sad instead of a rant. TheKid quit a job today. She knew her primary job is going away (new ownership - soon to be new boss is a dick) so she took a second job at a chain pharmacy. Not her thing. She is meant to work in a kitchen. So, she quit. She’s spent all night thinking she’s a failure. She’s 20, this was her second job ever, she’s been at her first job for over two years, she doesn’t have a mortgage, no car payment, and a very decent savings account - enough to cover her other bills for a long time. She is okay, but she cannot see it. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/389 "2014-09-30T04:45:27Z")
Not to diminish other, more serious issues being discussed in here, but… > [@Helena330](#): > > I always figured the tape around the organic bananas was to differentiate them from regular ones. They’re so much more expensive, at least around here. No doubt people would try to pull a switcheroo. > > That doesn’t explain why they can’t bundle smaller numbers together, though. Around here they don’t just put the ribbon of tape around the bunch, they also put a cap of clear tape over the top of the bunch to make it that much harder to break it up. The fact that it is plain ol’ clear tape makes the motive crystal-clear. It isn’t like this issue is driving me… I don’t know, _bananas_ or anything, but it sure is annoying and Somebody has to rant about it. I am not a banana eating machine, and neither are most people. Give me the freedom to buy just a couple of bananas fer cryin’ out loud. Last week I had a pocket knife on me, and I used it to cut the tape so I could buy just 3 bananas. I was observed doing this by a cute young female co-shopper, so I leaned in conspiratorially and said, “Don’t tell anyone.” She looked at me like I was crazy and said she wouldn’t. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/390 "2014-09-30T05:06:04Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > I need a drink. Except, not really. Just got a phone call from my eighth grade daughter’s school counselor. My daughter has been cutting herself. I could just cry, and kick myself for not noticing, and cry some more. The counselor told me that Girl 2.0 didn’t want me to know, because I already have too much to worry about. My poor little girl… If it helps at all…and it almost certainly won’t - but I used to be a cutter. Sometimes the pain and confusion would get so big that hurting myself in a small, controllable way would help release it - I thought of it as a pressure valve. If this tiny thing hurts, some of the big stuff recedes. The part that I hope does help is that therapy did help. Having a virtual stranger listen and hear what I was saying - even if it sounded stupid in my own head - helped. It gave me a different release valve, one that didn’t bleed. I stopped cutting, and it did not turn into something worse. I learned coping mechanisms. I believe that Girl 2.0 will learn to process her pain better, especially with such a loving mom. And yes, I was brilliant at hiding it, so no guilt on that front, please? Its not your fault. (((((hugs)))) to you and yours. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/391 "2014-09-30T05:36:09Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > If it helps at all…and it almost certainly won’t - but I used to be a cutter. Sometimes the pain and confusion would get so big that hurting myself in a small, controllable way would help release it - I thought of it as a pressure valve. If this tiny thing hurts, some of the big stuff recedes. The part that I hope does help is that therapy did help. Having a virtual stranger listen and hear what I was saying - even if it sounded stupid in my own head - helped. It gave me a different release valve, one that didn’t bleed. I stopped cutting, and it did not turn into something worse. I learned coping mechanisms. I believe that Girl 2.0 will learn to process her pain better, especially with such a loving mom. > > And yes, I was brilliant at hiding it, so no guilt on that front, please? Its not your fault. (((((hugs)))) to you and yours. And feel free to PM me if you want to know more about my cutting, or just to vent to someone. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/392 "2014-09-30T06:06:09Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > BTheKid quit a job today… She’s spent all night thinking she’s a failure. Leaving a job for the first time is terribly hard. My father never did; at one point he was subject for several years to an extremely hostile work environment (his employers wanted him to quit so they wouldn’t have to compensate him), but he just couldn’t conceive of leaving. For me it was a PhD-track course of study/job which I left because my advisor was stealing my research (and that of other students) and his superiors were either in cahoots with him or worse (I also made sure that the school would get on the case). There was every reason under the sun to leave, I still felt like it was me who had failed. Everybody I know who’s left jobs says the same: the first time was enormously hard, sometimes absurdly so. I hope she gets a good cooking job soon. One where she stays for so long that eventually her younger coworkers will think she was born in that kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/393 "2014-09-30T06:12:06Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Good thinking. Now that we’re empty-nesters, making fruit salad might turn out to not be a waste of time and food. > > Although being a night shift worker for the past six years has resulted in my getting into lazy food-preparation habits. OTOH, I did buy some bananas for the first time in several years this morning. Bananas, ick. But a good source of potassium and probably very good for you. Plan for leftovers. On Sunday, I made salmon omelets with cream cheese and chopped chives. Yeah, that did involve using the stove, but only one pan. I mixed the left over salmon and chives up into a lunch spread for yummy samwiches. (buy the omega rich fake mayo, its pretty good) I also wacked up a bunch of fruit for breakfast and then was able to mix with yogurt and whole grain for him to take for breakfast today. You can buy pre-cut veggies. They are more expensive, but if you are pressed for time, its a lot easier to just dump something out of a bag than it is to cut it up. Seriously…eat a rainbow every day. Fresh fruit and veggies are better than canned, but if that’s all you have time for, eat the canned stuff. > [@Nava](#): > > Another method for keeping the fruits in fruit salad from oxydizing: make sure they’re covered by the liquid. Yes, and that is a very good method, but then you have to deal with the liquid while putting lunches together while your eyes are still closed. Me is the laziest person on the earth…I know this stuff 🙂 My rant for today is other gray hound owners. Our Buttercup isn’t fat. If I buy her a treat after she goes to the vet, don’t feel her up and then bitch at me. She’s fine, she’s happy, the vet says she’s fine and I think she’s fine. Its not like she’s going to go back to her old career, she’s retired and can have a treat now and then if I want to give her one. I swear to gawd, I’ve never seen that sort of judgmental dog breed idiots before. I sure wish I could properly channel **Lynn Bodini.** She would have known just what to say. ---
**Author:** ![Dunkelheit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dunkelheit/32/248_2.png) [@Dunkelheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunkelheit)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/394 "2014-09-30T06:27:36Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: _faints_ Indeed. At least the doctor said that was the most likely cause of that particular pain and sensation, but cutting me open to find out and try to fix it would just cause more raw bits that could get stuck to something. At least it’s stretched since then, so it’s not quite as pully as it used to be. > [@SpazCat](#): > > I hate vacuum cleaners. Mine jumped up and bit me yesterday while I was using it. One of the U-shaped hose-holder thingies on the back is broken off and I ran into it and managed to give myself a deep cut on the back of my calf. It’s surrounded by a nice bruise halo this morning and it _hurts_. Somehow I didn’t rip my pants at the same time, so that was a nice bonus. But my leg still hurts. Owie owie ow fuck ow. ---
**Author:** ![Dunkelheit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dunkelheit/32/248_2.png) [@Dunkelheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunkelheit)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/395 "2014-09-30T06:31:16Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > i wish the medical community would get their heads out of their asses and allow elective hysterectomies. If men went through the same shit on a monthly basis, you bet your ass hysterectomies would be elective, and a way to turn the menstrual cycle off until it was needed for reproduction would have been discovered.:mad: > [url=“[http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/](http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/)”] yes please ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/396 "2014-09-30T14:19:21Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > They’re those two dimples above the butt that some people have. > > Another method for keeping the fruits in fruit salad from oxydizing: make sure they’re covered by the liquid. Do I have to tell BF that that’s what they are called? I didn’t know and I always comment on how cute they are. It would swell his head. {{{Lacunae & G1}}} teenage years are hard even when good parents. I hope you both get through it relatively unscathed. I’m heading into tween years myself, and I just hope that I can do better than my parents. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/397 "2014-09-30T14:24:51Z")
Stupid phone, double post. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/398 "2014-09-30T16:06:05Z")
**raventhief** , thank you. It does help me to hear your experience, and to know that I can PM you if I have questions. I’ve made the decision, for now, to not broadcast what the Girl is going through - my mom has a horrible talent for saying exactly the wrong thing, at the wrong moment, and making sure that the whole freaking ZIP code is kept abreast of any development in her family’s private life; and Tony’s mom is a worrier without equal. For right now, I’m not even discussing this with G2’s dad - he thinks that “just snap out of it” is effective treatment for any illness that can’t be imaged or cultured. So it helps to have someone I can discuss things with, even if I just need to vent because I’m frustrated, or to help me understand. (I never cut. I drank - oh God did I drink. I coped in other unhealthy ways. I think I have a glimmer of comprehension, but part of me still wants to try to apply logic to a profoundly illogical problem.) ---
**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:** [September 30, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/399 "2014-09-30T22:15:43Z")
I used to follow this guy on Twitter. I followed him because he’s a local Montreal media guy and I figured he’d be a good news source. But his informative posts usually had to include some snark, and it began to annoy me. I don’t usually mind snark, but having mostly snarky posts most of the time just got tiring. Add to that the time he reported that there was a terrible fire in our city, and simply commented “Ruh-roh” on it, and you’ve earned yourself an “unfollow,” buddy. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-mini-est-rant-of-september/697117/400 "2014-10-01T04:39:43Z")
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