# Febrantary (February Minirants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 1, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286 "2014-02-01T17:24:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/341 "2014-02-19T05:18:17Z")
> [@Kelevra](#): > > Last week I listened to a talk by the National Weather Service about climate change. At the end he mentioned that the weather we are experiencing here in the Ohio River Valley will likely be the norm for the next 10-20 years. Remember the blizzards in the mid-late 70’s? That will be the norm. Well, mrAru and I had already been discussing the weather shift back to what we had growing up [70s] and are more or less OK with it. It just means he has decided he needs to get in more than 2 cords of wood in the spring to cure - he is figuring if it is another winter like this one, more like 5 to 6 cords. On the plus side, he knows a guy who clearcuts timber and is willing to sell us the logs at 10 feet long and just haul them here and dump them at a real savings from precut into smaller bits. mrAru has a lovely chainsaw and splitting maul. Snow doesn’t really bother us, we can simply park up by the house instead of down near the barn. Lot less shoveling. ---
**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 19, 2014, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/342 "2014-02-19T07:55:02Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > That’s the reason the inventors of the electronic bagpipes (a piper and an engineer) went and invented them: with an electronic pipe, the piper can practice with headphones, zero sound for the rest of the world. That makes close to NO sense at all; how can a piper know he’s mastering his instrument without people begging him to stop? ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/343 "2014-02-19T08:11:09Z")
Arghhhhhh! I am going insane. In fucking sane. 1. Saw shrink last friday. I had been trying to see him since july. He agreed I have seritonin syndrome and holey fuck do I need my meds changed. So fuck doctors who poison you. 2. One of my friends in off her tree and has started harassing me. Apparently this is something she ends up doing with all her friends. Thanks guys for waiting until it happened to fill me in on that one. Fuck 3. Med changes fukin suck. 4. I have 14ft ceilings - my fucking smoke alarm outside my bedroom is randomly making a high pitched squark every now and then. I cant do anything until tomorrow and i am already on sleep deficit coz of med changes. Ok got that out now back to distracting my self ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/344 "2014-02-19T08:43:14Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > Arghhhhhh! I am going insane. In fucking sane. > > 1. Saw shrink last friday. I had been trying to see him since july. He agreed I have seritonin syndrome and holey fuck do I need my meds changed. > So fuck doctors who poison you. > 2. One of my friends in off her tree and has started harassing me. Apparently this is something she ends up doing with all her friends. Thanks guys for waiting until it happened to fill me in on that one. Fuck > 3. Med changes fukin suck. > 4. I have 14ft ceilings - my fucking smoke alarm outside my bedroom is randomly making a high pitched squark every now and then. I cant do anything until tomorrow and i am already on sleep deficit coz of med changes. > Ok got that out now back to distracting my self Down for a walk down the river **madrabbitwoman**. I believe you have the majestic Murrumbidgee somewhere within your region? Get thee down there…NOW…go listen to the cockies gossiping amongst themselves…go hear the frogs and the froglets making magic music in the dusk…cover yourself in Aeroguard of course, but please…you’re OK. You’re friends might be mad, but you’re not! ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/345 "2014-02-19T09:21:08Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Down for a walk down the river **madrabbitwoman**. I believe you have the majestic Murrumbidgee somewhere within your region? Get thee down there…NOW…go listen to the cockies gossiping amongst themselves…go hear the frogs and the froglets making magic music in the dusk…cover yourself in Aeroguard of course, but please…you’re OK. You’re friends might be mad, but you’re not! Round here we have the Edward river - an anabranch of the Murray. I am lucky that i can hear pretty much all of that from my front garden so i spend a lot of time out there. Unfortunately I have to sleep here tonight - with that stoopid tweeep noise. Maybe I should try to go above and beyond tomorrow and get the kayak out for a slow drift… Thanks mate… ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/346 "2014-02-19T11:46:39Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > Maybe I should try to go above and beyond tomorrow and get the kayak out for a slow drift… Thanks mate… That sounds wonderful! I can remember taking out my sunfish as a kayak [just don’t put up the mast and tie the tiller down :p] at some seriously late hour like 1 am and floating out in the middle of[Silver](http://www.silverlakecastilecampground.com/location.html) Lake and enjoying the almost perfect dark and quiet. \ ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/347 "2014-02-19T13:44:27Z")
It is ever so much fun to wake up in pain, a half hour before your alarm should go off. Been 4-5 years since I’ve been to my previous Chiropractor’s office. It didn’t end well. I was asked to come back the next week when I was in serious pain. It was in the middle of my bankruptcy and I couldn’t afford it, so I said so. The doctor said he wouldn’t charge me. After the appointment, his staff tried to charge me and he stopped them and said no. However, three weeks later I got a bill for it with a letter from his admin saying that they would not work with me any more unless I paid it. ☹ I didn’t have the money. Was pretty hurt and humiliated by it. I paid it off $5-10 at a time over the course of a year, because that was the best I could do at the time. But I’m going to walk in there at 8:30am this morning and see if he can see me, because I’m tired of my back hurting like this. Then I will explain why I haven’t been back in 4 years. If they won’t see me, then I at least made the effort. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/348 "2014-02-19T13:45:36Z")
Well, let’s see how much I can fail today. First, I made what’s probably the best pot of chili I’ve ever made last night. Grilled the meat, roasted peppers. Awesome. Made it in preparation for the annual chili cookoff at work today. Forgot to put it in the fridge. Left it out overnight. Trash. The boy has show and tell today at preschool. It’s beach week (they are going to the aquarium tomorrow) so I got some shells he found at the beach and put them in his backpack to take. Exciting right? I forgot his backpack at home. I hope he’s not too upset. He still has his beach hat and shoes with sharks on them. ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/349 "2014-02-19T15:45:57Z")
My husband lost his job yesterday. It’s not the end of the world, but it’s pretty damn inconvenient. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/350 "2014-02-19T15:48:28Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > He still has his beach hat and shoes with sharks on them. Do the sharks have laser beams attached to their heads? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/351 "2014-02-19T16:36:23Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > But I’m going to walk in there at 8:30am this morning and see if he can see me, because I’m tired of my back hurting like this. Then I will explain why I haven’t been back in 4 years. > > If they won’t see me, then I at least made the effort. Turned out he retired about a year ago and moved to Washington and they just haven’t gotten to updating all the websites. Saw one of his apprentices who (with another) has taken over the practice. He did a really good job. Saw my other doctor too. Goddamned Soy sensitivities is what apparently did me in, made me feel beat up and led to all the other problems. Fucking Vegans and their intolerable insistence that Soy Replace Everything! :mad: You bastards are going to kill me! (;)) You know, I had planned that, since I was home, I would stop at the Chinese place down the street for lunch. Obviously that would be a bad idea at this time. Pulled out the package of Enchiladas from the freezer. Soy oil, soy lecithin… Ok, so not those today either. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/352 "2014-02-19T18:32:36Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That makes close to NO sense at all; how can a piper know he’s mastering his instrument without people begging him to stop? 😃 > [@BetsQ](#): > > My husband lost his job yesterday. It’s not the end of the world, but it’s pretty damn inconvenient. My husband lost his job in mid-November - we’re using it as an opportunity to make some pretty big life changes. Sorry about the job loss, though. ☹ > [@Chimera](#): > > \ > Saw my other doctor too. Goddamned Soy sensitivities\ Wow - that would be a tough one! Soy really is in everything! ---
**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 19, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/353 "2014-02-19T19:39:11Z")
Special hugs for **madrabbitwoman** , soy-lecithin-free chocolates all around, my sympathies to the newly-widowed neighbor of **overlyverbose** and the newly-unemployed **Mr. BetsQ** , and an extra helping of “I haz a sad” for the dearly departed chili that **Sicks Ate** made and forgot. (I’ve done that too! Always sucks.) And, what the hell: double-extra chocolates for everyone. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/354 "2014-02-19T19:46:59Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > And, what the hell: double-extra chocolates for everyone. Thanks! No big crisis over here, just a lot of little things adding up on me. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/355 "2014-02-19T21:52:12Z")
I know someone who’s learning the bagpipes. I like bagpipes, but I don’t know if my friend’s neighbours do. And I’ll take some of those chocolates. I don’t really have a rant to post, but I’ll hog some anyway (and the rest of you can rant about me hogging some. 😛 ) ---
**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 19, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/356 "2014-02-19T22:08:40Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I know someone who’s learning the bagpipes. I like bagpipes, but I don’t know if my friend’s neighbours do. They don’t anymore, I bet. > [@EmilyG](#): > > And I’ll take some of those chocolates. I don’t really have a rant to post, but I’ll hog some anyway (and the rest of you can rant about me hogging some. 😛 ) Done. What a hog! ( 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/357 "2014-02-19T22:33:03Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I am trying to catch dialogue in movies an TV. And the goram characters keep whispering and mumbling. the background music and incidental sounds are loud but the dialogue… > > I get it. The ‘character’ mumbles of says shit under his breath…but I can’t hear it!! Speak the fuck up so that I can follow the fucking story!!! > [@digs](#): > > I went to the audiologist last month, and when they asked “And what is your complaint?” I said “My complaint is that my wife is mumbling more and more these days. So, I figured I’d get my hearing checked.” > > ps: she’s not the one with the problem… A man goes to his doctor and complains, “I think there’s something wrong with my hearing. Everybody sounds like they’re mumbling.” The doctor says, “What are the symptoms?” The man replies, “They’re a yellow cartoon family in Springfield. What does that have to do with my hearing?” ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/358 "2014-02-19T22:36:56Z")
(Dial number) Hi, this is Emtar, my number is (xxx)xxx-xxxx. I’m calling about a bike for sale on craigslist. Call me back at (xxx)xxx-xxxx. Again, that’s Emtar (xxx)xxx-xxxx. Thanks. (Ten minutes later) Hello? Yes, this is Emtar. Thanks for calling back. You have a clear title, notarized and ready to go? No accidents? The bike starts, runs, rides, shifts gears, and I can ride it home? Okay, great, where are you located? Can I come and take a look? Oh, okay, when would be a good time? You might have fifteen minutes after 9pm next Thursday? No, that doesn’t work for me. 2:45 on the 23rd? No, I guess a thought that posting it for sale at 11:30am on a Wednesday was an indication that you would be available to make the sale some time this afternoon. Oh, you’re not in a hurry to sell? I can tell. Best of luck with that. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/359 "2014-02-19T23:01:12Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > And, what the hell: double-extra chocolates for everyone. OK, now they’ve gone TOO far! I’m pissed off at… hey, where’d these double-extra chocolates come from? Mmmm… now, what was I upset about? ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286/360 "2014-02-19T23:45:57Z")
Damit skin, stop messing me around… Oh well, there’s chocolate at least _nom_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febrantary-february-minirants/680286.md?page=19)