# Failpril (Monthly Mini-Rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** monthly-mini-rant\ **Created:** [April 1, 2026, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failpril-monthly-mini-rants/1028931 "2026-04-01T12:32:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failpril-monthly-mini-rants/1028931/6 "2026-04-01T16:24:16Z")
A carry over from last night/month: > [@March Nemesis (Monthly Mini-Rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-nemesis-monthly-mini-rants/1028100/311): > > Good thinking! A fuckload of Mayflowers (the colonists’ ship) might be handy to rescue all the people who’re gonna be flooded out. Nope, too deep a draft. We have; however, driven a (non-Zodiac branded) inflatable into the lobby of a hotel & over to the stairs so that the people we were evacuating in the hurricane-related flooding didn’t have to get wet. Not sure where they went because presumably most of them drove there which means their car was going to be totaled once they called insurance because they weren’t driving a certain white [Lotus Esprit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeBqf6bYZak&t=19s) In case that wasn’t clear, the water was deep enough for the boat _& motor_ to take into the lobby (wide, double sliding doors at the entrance) of a hotel! > [@BobLibDem](#): > > Fuck that shit, I am not going to clutter up my phone with an app that I might use once a year. I hear you on that, apps are for _my_ convenience, not some merchant or government authority. I’m not going to download & delete it, I’m just not going to download it at all. Kohl’s was the first store that I was ever in that had electronic LCD price displays. I presumed this could allow them to change the price at any time, including scheduled in advance, from the office. I wonder if their system does any pings to make sure a digital price tag is still there & working. I wonder how long their batteries last. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/failpril-monthly-mini-rants/1028931)._