# Extra, Extra (day of) Rants all about it (Feb mini-rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 1, 2024, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943 "2024-02-01T05:22:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/41 "2024-02-05T04:22:17Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Shit I’m sorry, that’s awful. [Happens to us all, sorry to say…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HummHAlKTeY) ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/42 "2024-02-05T04:23:57Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > But I’m a guy so take that with a grain of salt, I don’t know shit about women’s fashion. Hell, I’m a guy and I don’t know anything about _mens_ fashion! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/43 "2024-02-05T06:59:15Z")
> [@Dogginit](#): > > Hell, I’m a guy and I don’t know anything about _mens_ fashion! Honestly that’s probably true about me too. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/44 "2024-02-05T13:12:38Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@Dogginit](#): > > > > Hell, I’m a guy and I don’t know anything about _mens_ fashion! > > Honestly that’s probably true about me too. 😕   I, OTOH, am extremely fashionable and dress accordingly. My standard fashionable apparel is blue jeans with a hole in one knee due to where I tripped on a curb two years ago while returning a cardiac halter monitor to my doctor (thanks, doc!), a T-shirt from Mentour Pilot that shows a primary flight display with the aircraft apparently upside down and the legend “this is how I roll”, and a baseball cap with the legend “Real Time with Bill Maher”. I suspect the only reason I’ve not yet appeared on the cover of GQ is that I haven’t been discovered yet. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/45 "2024-02-05T15:58:45Z")
My sister and BIL (who has Parkinson’s) moved to Gulf Shores, AL in autumn 2023. I am here visiting them from no. Illinois. I love seeing my sister, but what a waste of time and money. My sister hasn’t felt good and my BIL does nothing except sit in his chair and watch Fox News at decibel level 1,000 and make rambling comments in a voice louder than the tv. He is fully mobile but has chosen to do nothing. My sister kowtows to him. Fortunately my niece also lives her and the only fun times I’ve had are with her. My sister lives about 8 miles from the beach in a completely white bread cookie cutter subdivision. IF I come here again I will rent something ON the beach. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/46 "2024-02-05T17:40:56Z")
Uhh, I just looked at the happy couple’s wedding registry. The bridal shower provided registry information on the back. Am I supposed to get a thing for the bridal shower _and_ for the wedding? It’s all household stuff. Then there’s a confusing message at the bottom of the registry, that says, “Please refrain from wrapping gifts, as they will be displayed. Instead, kindly include a card indicating who the gift is from.” Does that mean I’m supposed to show up with something physical? But the registry they directed me to ships to them. What am I doing? Help. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/47 "2024-02-05T18:06:00Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > What am I doing? Help. I suppose faking your own death is out of the question… ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/48 "2024-02-05T19:44:00Z")
I don’t usually post in the Pit, but I need to complain about coworkers overusing “Reply All”. My manager sent out an email to the entire team to ask which features of a certain piece of software software everyone is using, so they can budget for how many licenses they need to buy for this year. Now my inbox is getting flooded with everyone’s responses, as everyone (except me) is using Reply All to respond. Guys, _I_ don’t need to know what features you are using. Our manager is the only person who requires that information. This happens pretty much every time a team-wide email goes out. Last week there was one that went “Hey everyone, check to make sure you can access this Sharepoint page”, and I was flooded with a dozen “Yes, I can access it” replies as everyone used Reply All to respond. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/49 "2024-02-05T20:08:48Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I don’t usually post in the Pit, but I need to complain about coworkers overusing “Reply All”. Fuck yes. Drives me bananas. I remember an incident almost 20 years ago (holy shit time flies) where I was working at a massive worldwide corporation, and someone sent an inspirational PowerPoint presentation 1MB in size called “good luck”, but it was sent to the entire company. Keep in mind, that was over 40,000 recipients because it was a huge company. And that was bad enough, but multiple people hit “reply all” asking the original sender not to send something like that. The result? Our mail server was so overloaded that it was inoperable for a day and a half. The entire, massive company had crippled communications. I can’t even imagine how much lost revenue was involved. After that incident some new policies were put into place restricting how many people could be emailed at once, and only a few specific people who were designated as communications folks could do mass emails. This is why my mass emails I send at work (which I do on occasion as the IT guy) are _always_ sent with everyone in the BCC. That way the “reply all” just goes to me. There is no exception. I’ve found it works so much better. If I’m sending a message to more than a half dozen people, that is what I do. I wish everyone else did that, but at least I’m not contributing to the problem. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/50 "2024-02-05T20:21:44Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > The bridal shower provided registry information on the back. Am I supposed to get a thing for the bridal shower _and_ for the wedding? Yes, both, although if you don’t attend the shower you may not need to get a shower gift - I’m not sure on that one. Usually the shower gift is smaller/less expensive than the wedding gift. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/51 "2024-02-05T20:26:55Z")
I think they just meant don’t have Amazon gift-wrap the gift. That’s what I think. So I got them two things, with the gift card included, and maybe they’ll get another gift later. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/52 "2024-02-05T20:56:25Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > > ETA: waitaminute, _cousins_ plural? I might have to rethink whether this is an actual Bridezilla thing. > > I should clarify. Our cousins, plural, were bitching about our cousin, singular, who requested black attire at his wedding. I am not the only one annoyed. > > So apparently all of this is on their wedding website, which is why I didn’t hear about it (I’m not on Facebook and we haven’t received the formal invitations yet.) > > It’s “black tie optional” - which is more relaxed than his brother did, so cool. > > But here’s the rub: > > “All guests are encouraged to wear black. Men, black tuxedo with a white dress shirt or black suit with white or black dress shirt. Women- black floor length or midi dress, black pant suit or black jump suit.” > > So by “encouraged,” no I won’t be thrown out if I show up in the burgundy dress I already bought, but this is a delicate situation and I have significant social anxiety about pissing people off, especially in my husband’s family. I’ve never seen the TV show _Succession_ but I imagine it would give you an idea of the family I married into. Or for the comic twist, _Arrested Development_. > > I heard a story today that my husband’s grandmother persuaded all the women attending her son’s first wedding to wear white, just to fuck with her new daughter in law. Diabolical. (Haha, and he just remarried that woman so I guess he stuck it to Mom all over again.) It could have been way worse. This is either the most insane thing I’ve ever seen or a great piece of creative writing. [https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/16f2zs0/bridezilla\_with\_a\_crazy\_weightbased\_dress\_code/](https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/16f2zs0/bridezilla_with_a_crazy_weightbased_dress_code/) ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/53 "2024-02-05T20:58:45Z")
I just spent the weekend at a science fiction convention, and was sick most of the time. I managed to make it to a few panels, but it was a struggle to stay awake for them. Fortunately whatever was bothering me went away on Sunday, so I’m fine now, but I had been looking forward to doing a lot more over the weekend. I didn’t even get to party! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/54 "2024-02-05T22:21:31Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > It could have been way worse. This is either the most insane thing I’ve ever seen or a great piece of creative writing. LOL, this part: > **WOMEN (160 LBS +)** > > - All BLACK sweater and pants. Any material. > - BLACK heels > > **MEN (200 LBS+)** > > - All CAMOFLAGE > - BLACK sneakers “Hey fatties, I know we need to include you, so just wear clothes that will make you invisible.” (Note that I’d definitely be in the fat group if I went to a wedding like that.) ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/55 "2024-02-05T22:25:03Z")
If I got that invitation, I’d probably make sure I put on weight —— just so I didn’t have to buy and wear ugly green velvet sweater, suede pants and an $800 pair of shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/56 "2024-02-05T22:26:06Z")
I’m pretty sure it was a hoax due to the follow-up “snitch party” where they will figure out the snitch using a “real polygraph test for $99 on Amazon”, that’s too much. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/57 "2024-02-05T22:49:21Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > It could have been way worse. This is either the most insane thing I’ve ever seen or a great piece of creative writing. I especially like that people keep leaking her stuff after the rat has been identified. I so desperately want it to be real. I believe it could be real. People really are that vapid and narcissistic. ASK ME HOW I KNOW. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/58 "2024-02-06T04:45:59Z")
I kinda feel like if it IS a hoax, the hoaxer(s) would attempt to further increase circulation by putting a review of the polygraph kit on Amazon. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/59 "2024-02-06T05:14:01Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Keep in mind, that was over 40,000 recipients because it was a huge company. And that was bad enough, but multiple people hit “reply all” asking the original sender not to send something like that. I’ve long been in favor of “reply-all” either charging $0.05 apiece, or $0.01 per recipient. To be taken directly, immediately, out of your paycheck, or else it won’t be sent. Oh, was it _actually_ ferrealz workplace-appropriate to email 5,524 people? Please submit your reimbursement to corporate. But before you hit “send” you have to accept the charges. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943/60 "2024-02-06T06:30:17Z")
Actually, I’m surprised Bill Gates hasn’t tasked his Outlook coders with developing a few lines that absolutely prevent “Reply All” from being an option (unless the sender is forced to input some PITA keystrokes to make them actually _think_ about whether “Reply All” is what they really want). That functionality would vastly improve the value of the application, Bill. You could make _millions_! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-day-of-rants-all-about-it-feb-mini-rants/996943.md?page=4)