# Happy Fucking New Year , Ya Bunch Of Turds. Let's hear your gripe for 2016. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 1, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891 "2016-01-01T08:09:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 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:** [January 7, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/101 "2016-01-07T19:42:15Z")
My car was supposed to go in for repairs today. The person who, last week, said he’d give me a ride forgot about it & wasn’t coming into office today. Plan B was to bike into work but at 21° this morning it was just too cold. I’ll ride to about 27°-28° but below that it’s painful to breathe the cold air. Now I need to wait another week to get it fixed. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/102 "2016-01-07T20:00:43Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > My car was supposed to go in for repairs today. The person who, last week, said he’d give me a ride forgot about it & wasn’t coming into office today. He forgot about it? What a royal shit head. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/103 "2016-01-07T20:03:45Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > Facebook just brought back the Neiman Marcus cookie UL. Wow. > [Dianne Hickman](https://www.facebook.com/knight.doyle/posts/10207144877118996?pnref=story) No, Facebook didn’t do that, some person on Facebook did that. > [@](#): > > Lastly, you might find it hard to believe, but some of your friends and family have political views that are 180 degrees from yours. (Although you might phrase it as 360 degrees apart). It’s fine to disagree, but when you post dishonest shit or outright lies to bolster your opinion, it does nothing but make you look like the moron that you are. And when you show them proof that their comment is wrong, they get mad at you. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/104 "2016-01-07T20:23:34Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > And when you show them proof that their comment is wrong, they get mad at you. Yup, unfriended the wife of my former foster brother last month for this shit. She posted this obviously ludicrously false crap about how we allegedly spend $900 billion per year on welfare for illegal aliens. When I posted the real numbers (Fed welfare budget less than half that, illegals don’t get welfare), she replied that if I didn’t like it, I didn’t have to read her posts. My response was that if this was the kind of person she was, I didn’t want to know her. And as I told others; if at any point she’d just have taken it down or admitted that it wasn’t entirely accurate, there’d have been no issue. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/105 "2016-01-07T23:30:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The cortisone injection I got in my shoulder last week has done absolutely no good. I’m still in as much pain as I was, and the ortho doctor told me to come back “in several months” if I’m still in pain and he’ll do an MRI. ☹ I stopped getting cortisone shots in my knee after the last one didn’t take. I’m 95% bone against bone but my ortho keeps says I’m “too young” for a replacement. I don’t know if I can hang on until Medicare kicks in (10 years from now). ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/106 "2016-01-07T23:46:18Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Balls. My laptop will no longer charge. > > I was planning on getting a new one shortly (basically as soon as I get round to cashing the cheque my parents gave me for Christmas), as my old one hasn’t been able to connect to the WiFi since my former housemate tried to “make it faster”, but still, there’s a bunch of stuff still on it that I need. > > This isn’t helped by the fact that the power cable is also kinda broken, so it only connects after I fiddle with it for half an hour trying to get it in juuuust the right position, but now the battery’s gone, as soon as I breathe and the power cable moves a nanometre, the connection breaks and the laptop dies. > > I am not buying a new power cable for a dying laptop, so this is going to be tricky. > > Oh, and I can’t find find the vouchers my aunt gave me for Christmas either; I was sure I put them in the drawer with the cheque, but apparently not. Spending those was today’s plan… **Filbert** , you might be able to pull the hard drive out of the old notebook, put it into an enclosure (something like [this](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392032&cm_re=2.5%22_hard_drive_enclosure-_-17-392-032-_-Product)), and then copy across the files you need to the new laptop. Hunt up the manual for your make and model of laptop; sometimes the internals are darn near inaccessible, sometimes all you have to do is unscrew a panel on the bottom, slide out the hard drive, and you’re golden. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/107 "2016-01-07T23:47:40Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > BUT the whole husband-acting-like-my-mother? THIS IS WHY I HAVE PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE ANGER ISSUES. Because god forbid I express any iota of displeasure. Because god forbid I express any kind of negative emotion. Because god forbid I’ve lived with and still live with hypersensitive people. Yeah, thank goodness you’re not _also_ hypersensitive. That would be mayhem. ---
**Author:** ![desertmonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@desertmonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desertmonk)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/108 "2016-01-07T23:57:32Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > My car was supposed to go in for repairs today. The person who, last week, said he’d give me a ride forgot about it & wasn’t coming into office today. Plan B was to bike into work but at 21° this morning it was just too cold. I’ll ride to about 27°-28° but below that it’s painful to breathe the cold air. Now I need to wait another week to get it fixed. I wear a balaclava that covers my mouth/nose. I’m always breathing warm air in winter cycling. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/109 "2016-01-08T01:37:35Z")
> [@desertmonk](#): > > I wear a balaclava that covers my mouth/nose. I’m always breathing warm air in winter cycling. Obviously a lot better than mine. Where’d you get yours? I find I can’t afford anything that gets repackaged as “For Serious Cycling!”, but I’d love to find a good basic face mask thing. ---
**Author:** ![desertmonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@desertmonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desertmonk)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/110 "2016-01-08T02:30:49Z")
They don’t make mine anymore but it’s like the Pearl Izumi Barrier Balaclava on Amazon for $21. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/111 "2016-01-08T03:35:24Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Obviously a lot better than mine. Where’d you get yours? I find I can’t afford anything that gets repackaged as “For Serious Cycling!”, but I’d love to find a good basic face mask thing. Cycle every day all year long. I wear a Smartwool balaclava when it’s chilly to keep my ears from getting too cold. When it’s really cold, I add a Seirus face mask and switch to insulated lobster gloves. And when it is ridiculously cold and my eyes water, I add ski goggles. Got all of the above at REI because I work there. [Smartwool balaclava](http://www.rei.com/product/784560/smartwool-balaclava) [Seirus face mask](http://www.rei.com/product/725712/seirus-neofleece-comfort-masque) > [@desertmonk](#): > > I wear a balaclava that covers my mouth/nose. I’m always breathing warm air in winter cycling. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/112 "2016-01-08T04:19:18Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > **Filbert** , you might be able to pull the hard drive out of the old notebook, put it into an enclosure (something like [this](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392032&cm_re=2.5%22_hard_drive_enclosure-_-17-392-032-_-Product)), and then copy across the files you need to the new laptop. Hunt up the manual for your make and model of laptop; sometimes the internals are darn near inaccessible, sometimes all you have to do is unscrew a panel on the bottom, slide out the hard drive, and you’re golden. Yeah, when my previous laptop died (fried GPU), the repair shop turned the old HD into an external HD. I didn’t even need to hunt down my backups. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/113 "2016-01-08T14:12:59Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > Cycle every day all year long. I wear a Smartwool balaclava when it’s chilly to keep my ears from getting too cold. When it’s really cold, I add a Seirus face mask and switch to insulated lobster gloves. And when it is ridiculously cold and my eyes water, I add ski goggles. Got all of the above at REI because I work there. > > [Smartwool balaclava](http://www.rei.com/product/784560/smartwool-balaclava) > > [Seirus face mask](http://www.rei.com/product/725712/seirus-neofleece-comfort-masque) Or you could go with something like this… [http://www.amazon.com/Cthulhu-Knitted-Ski-Mask-12031/dp/B009LPMDAK](http://www.amazon.com/Cthulhu-Knitted-Ski-Mask-12031/dp/B009LPMDAK) ---
**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:** [January 8, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/114 "2016-01-08T16:11:52Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > Cycle every day all year long. I wear a Smartwool balaclava when it’s chilly to keep my ears from getting too cold. When it’s really cold, I add a Seirus face mask and switch to insulated lobster gloves. And when it is ridiculously cold and my eyes water, I add ski goggles. Got all of the above at REI because I work there. > > [Smartwool balaclava](http://www.rei.com/product/784560/smartwool-balaclava) > > [Seirus face mask](http://www.rei.com/product/725712/seirus-neofleece-comfort-masque) I have the first one but use it more as a cheek/chin warmer as I typically ride with it below my mouth. The latter one is even worse; makes me feel like I’m suffocating. Went to Panera to bring breakfast into work; got a dozen bagels & a box of danish; the guy puts bags in bags (a large shopping bag with a handle). Get into work & go to unpack everything & find out he never gave me one bag, the one with the cream cheese & napkins. Bagels w/o cream cheese just doesn’t cut it. ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/115 "2016-01-08T16:49:31Z")
I would, just once, like to get something else published. Not submit things, wait six months and get a ‘wait, what? No. Lol.’ Ok, so I’m lying. I want to get published all the time, everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/116 "2016-01-08T19:18:19Z")
There is no purl side in a garter stitch shawl. There is a right side and a wrong side, but if everything is garter, calling one side the knit side and the other side the purl side is dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/117 "2016-01-08T19:26:24Z")
> [@Eureka](#): > > There is no purl side in a garter stitch shawl. There is a right side and a wrong side, but if everything is garter, calling one side the knit side and the other side the purl side is dumb. Boats have a starboard side and a port side, even when you’re nowhere near port. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/118 "2016-01-08T21:24:07Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Yeah, thank goodness you’re not _also_ hypersensitive. That would be mayhem. Well, yeah, let’s just say that I was more than a bit peeved when I posted that. I’m over it now 🙂 Note to self: Don’t post within a half hour of waking up, especially when you’ve had less than 5 hours of sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/119 "2016-01-09T02:39:00Z")
I just got home after seeing Star Wars: The Force Awakens. What a stinking piece of flying goat shit, a barf bag brimming with horse turds of a movie. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2016, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/120 "2016-01-09T05:48:05Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! > > NM should really have that recipe engraved on a gold tablet, and offer it for sale at $250… > > Or Hammacher Schlemmer. I just love the way you think. 😃 > [@Eureka](#): > > There is no purl side in a garter stitch shawl. There is a right side and a wrong side, but if everything is garter, calling one side the knit side and the other side the purl side is dumb. This rant is somehow a thing of pure beauty. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891.md?page=7)