# February mini-rants thread... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095 "2011-02-04T00:24:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 4, 2011, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/21 "2011-02-04T05:58:47Z")
I hate it when _anyone_ does that - either we have plans, or we don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/22 "2011-02-04T06:03:38Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I hate it when _anyone_ does that - either we have plans, or we don’t. True, true. I don’t like flakes, unless they are frosted. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/23 "2011-02-04T08:29:56Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > I said I was sorry for everything I did and we could go to Italian tomorrow You have a restaurant named Italian? That’s awesome. What kind of food do they serve? In related notes, I would like to point out to various locals that we have 2 restaurants that serve Mexican food and 3 that serve Chinese food. We do not, however, have a restaurant named “Mexican” or “Chinese” and it is thus impossible for us to “go to Mexican” for lunch. Thank you, that is all. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/24 "2011-02-04T13:18:45Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I hate it when _anyone_ does that - either we have plans, or we don’t. Hey, years ago I had this woman chase me with hints and suggestions for two months, then play coy when I took the bait. Finally we had a date set up for the Friday a couple of days before my birthday. Fifteen minutes before I’m going to leave work, planning to go home, shower up and get ready, I get an e-mail - a fucking EMAIL, telling me “My brother asked me if I’d like to go flying with him, so I’m going, _because that will be more fun_.” :eek: I kinda wonder what would have happened if I’d have already left work and didn’t see that. Then she wondered why I was all pissed off and was no longer interested in her. :rolleyes: I freely admit that I’m socially retarded. Some people think they’re social dynamos and they’re really clueless flakes. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/25 "2011-02-04T14:17:48Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Dear Weather: > > Fuck you for being so cold!! We do not suffer through June, July, and August just to turn around and suffer right now- 36 DURING THE DAY??! Have you lost your mind?! Now get back to the 60’s, pronto!! I hope you’re not expecting any sympathy. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_of_the_Lake)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/26 "2011-02-04T15:54:49Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > I hate it when men do the following: Oh, yeah, I hate that. I’ve a friend who is ready to throw in the dating towel because of men doing crap like that. She also had a guy who fell off the radar and then suddenly sent an email out of the blue with ‘I love you so much! I can’t believe I had let you slip through my fingers! Let us rekindle our love’ etc… And then, mission apparently accomplished, he _never responded to her by phone or email again._ My rant would be: Friend (the same one above): stop blowing off our plans to go hang out with people you barely know, only to leave _long voice mails about how horrible it all was_ late at night. Of course it was horrible! You don’t know anyone there and you’ve ditched me for: 1. Bible study with ultra-fundies 2. A casual acquaintances house ‘party’ where you are coerced to buy candles or ridiculously priced clothing 3. Group events (at which you don’t know anyone) _except for the guy you’re in love with and his girlfriend of two years._ OF COURSE HE IS GOING TO HANG OUT WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND AND NOT YOU! A blind ferret would know that it was going to suck! ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/27 "2011-02-04T16:00:06Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > It is really, really hard to mistake the railroad tracks for a road and turn onto them. My WAG: It wasn’t a mistake. Had second thoughts about suicide. > [@Pullet](#): > > It seems like all of my peers came through school with less debt than me, despite me working several part-time jobs through school when many of them did not. […] If I continue to work 50-60 hours a week through this year, I may be close enough to reducing some of the $3000 I pay every month in credit card debt Well there’s your problem. Most people manage to come through college without somehow managing to rack up enough credit card debt on top of their student loans that their bill is _three grand a month_. > [@Autolycus](#): > > I realize I wasn’t entirely innocent either and my writing style in this post probably makes me sound like a total asshole, but god damn… No, it sounds like your girlfriend was being a passive-aggressive bitch. > [@BlackKnight](#): > > My floss keeps breaking. Right in the middle. No matter how long a piece I use, it will snap perfectly in the middle. Serrations may be referred to as “teeth,” but trust me on this: you really don’t need to be flossing your bread knife. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I hope you’re not expecting any sympathy. Quite. “Oh nooooooooes, my weather is above freeeeeziiiiiiing. Won’t someone please think of the children?!” ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_of_the_Lake)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/28 "2011-02-04T16:00:37Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Fifteen minutes before I’m going to leave work, planning to go home, shower up and get ready, I get an e-mail - a fucking EMAIL, telling me “My brother asked me if I’d like to go flying with him, so I’m going, _because that will be more fun_.” Wow, yeah, that takes a certain amount of self-absorbed douchebaggery. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/29 "2011-02-04T16:08:47Z")
Dear immune system, Work, damn you! Love, The rest of me. ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/30 "2011-02-04T16:13:00Z")
My 4yo has strep. She’s been home from daycare on and off for about three weeks with an upset stomach. No sore throat, no fever, just diagnosed today. Off to get some antibiotics and write off getting any work done today. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/31 "2011-02-04T16:14:02Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > My ta-tas have not been mini since 6th grade. Seventh grade was the most embarrasing year of my life. You really don’t want to be 12 and a c cup. Preach it. You also don’t want your eighth grade nickname to be “Sag” because by then you’re easily a D. ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/32 "2011-02-04T16:20:05Z")
Dear book, Yeah, I realize that we’ve been bed-fellows since last November, and occasional flirts for the past few years. Now PLEASE get the hell out of my head. I’m tired of thinking about you during 80% of my waking moments, and am pretty sure that hubby is not happy to talk about you with me on a daily basis. I’m also resentful towards you for stealing my time from artsing up things that might actually make some moneys. With deep loathsome love, Waxwinges ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/33 "2011-02-04T16:26:32Z")
Also, I am most likely going to have to move in July. My fabulous new pad has become a big pain in the ass. Six months in and: [ul] [li]it took three times out and two weeks to get a leak fixed that left a big puddle of water on the basement floor[/li][li]the faucet in the bathroom sink broke; and the stopper; and the towel rack[/li][li]despite my landlord’s claim that he shovels snow, I’ve been out there four times already; I’ve spent over $100 on ice melt alone so I can get into my garage from my deeply sloped driveway[/li][li]I’m paying for a garage that I frequently can’t use because the snow/ice isn’t cleared from the driveway[/li][li]over a month of furnance hell[/li][li]both drawers in the kitchen broken[/li][li]closet door in the bathroom broken[/li][/ul] Fuck. I hate moving. I love my neighborhood, but it’s becoming less and less worth putting up with all the petty annoyances. Also, my landlord went to Barbados for a month and didn’t have someone else set up to handle repair & maintenance requests. Seriously? ---
**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:** [February 4, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/34 "2011-02-04T16:29:48Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > My WAG: It wasn’t a mistake. Had second thoughts about suicide. Oh, that’s quite possible too, but from the ones that have happened around here, most of them seem to just walk onto the tracks for that, rather than stay in a car that might cushion the blow. And speaking as someone who’s previously had major depression with fleeting moments of suicidal ideation, fortunately being too amotivated by the depression to do anything - that’s a shitty move, to step in front of a train to die. I’ve seen a local short documentary on Metra train engineers who get insomnia, flashbacks, PTSD by being behind the controls of the train when it hits suicidal or inattentive people on the tracks, sometimes more than once in their career, and it takes an awful toll on them. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/35 "2011-02-04T16:37:56Z")
Yup. Some people are selfish assholes even in the \*way \*they kill themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/36 "2011-02-04T17:45:02Z")
Oh NOZ! Our precious snowflake saw “nice tits” on a candy heart and is scarred for life! Alert the networks! Warn other parents to hide their children from racy candy! There’s no way they would ever see anything as bad as that in real life! What if her tits don’t live up to that once they grow in? She’ll end up with a body dysmorphic disorder! Our daughter will need counseling now! Won’t someone think of the children? We should sue. ---
**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 4, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/37 "2011-02-04T18:34:51Z")
There was “nice tits” written on a candy heart? Part of me says, “Cool!” and part of me says, “Is that really necessary?” Unless, maybe, they were adult candy hearts, in which case how did Precious Snowflakes get their hands on them? Frig, I’m tired today. I have a house to clean and groceries to get and laundry to do and a walk to take, but I have about, oh, zero energy. ---
**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 4, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/38 "2011-02-04T19:16:52Z")
I DO NOT WANT TO GO TO OKLAHOMA FOR FIVE WEEKS BEGINNING IN MARCH! Frankly, I’ve had about enough of going to Oklahoma for the rest of my career. Couldn’t you at least wait, and send me in the summer, when **kayla** is out of school? Crap. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/39 "2011-02-04T19:21:57Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Frig, I’m tired today. I have a house to clean and groceries to get and laundry to do and a walk to take, but I have about, oh, zero energy. “Clean \*all \*the things? :(” ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095/40 "2011-02-04T19:23:14Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > There was “nice tits” written on a candy heart? Part of me says, “Cool!” and part of me says, “Is that really necessary?” Unless, maybe, they were adult candy hearts, in which case how did Precious Snowflakes get their hands on them? > > Frig, I’m tired today. I have a house to clean and groceries to get and laundry to do and a walk to take, but I have about, oh, zero energy. Well, the news blurred out the “its” but I figured that was the likely conclusion to “Nice T…” I’m guessing the company makes adult themed hearts and one of those managed to get into the “family friendly” bag. I just don’t think it’s news or panic-worthy and it invoked both. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-thread/570095.md?page=3)