# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/121 "2016-01-09T15:25:05Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > 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. Why am I not surprised that someone with this attitude about Star Wars is the same person who picked such an abominable title for the monthly minirants thread. ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/122 "2016-01-09T16:00:54Z")
The guy looked at our kitchen ceiling and our roof, said ‘Hmmm,’ and told us he’ll come back next week and try to figure it out, and it probably won’t do any more raining in our kitchen before then because the wind is in a different direction. On the plus side, all you guys made me feel a lot better about it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/123 "2016-01-09T18:53:15Z")
I’m feeling SAD right now. I don’t want to leave my house except to go to work and it takes half a Xanax to go be social with people I love. blech. I just want to binge-watch Netflix and knit. But on a more positive note, I realized that I was self-medicating with alcohol so I am keeping a log of what I drink in a private note to myself on Facebook. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/124 "2016-01-09T20:37:46Z")
> [@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. Thanks! It’s times like this I really wish I’d paid attention in computer class. Oh wait; I did. He just didn’t teach us anything. Hopefully I can get some help with it anyway. ---
**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, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/125 "2016-01-09T21:26:11Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > Why am I not surprised that someone with this attitude about Star Wars is the same person who picked such an abominable title for the monthly minirants thread. I’m sorry if I offended you FatBaldGuy, you worthless piece of syphilitic puss. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/126 "2016-01-09T21:58:19Z")
> [@bobkitty](#): > > My sister is getting married next weekend (the second for both the bride and groom). I won’t be able to make it due to a combination of finances and lack of vacation time, but my other sister, niece, and mom will be in attendance. Other sister refused bride-sister’s request to do a reading at the wedding (because other sister ‘doesn’t read’), so bride-sister asked that she make a toast instead. > > Guess who’s been drafted into writing the toast? What kills me is other sister will probably have 5 or 6 drinks in her by the time the toast rolls around, so whatever I write will be pretty much a slurred mess anyway. Wedding is in about two hours. I’m STILL getting freaked out text messages from my toast-making sister, who insists that she won’t be able to get through the toast I wrote without crying. I’m looking forward to the video. In other news, we continue along on the path of trying to get our cats to get along. They are both on Prozac and we have them sequestered from each other at all times. Peeing cat is no longer peeing everywhere and has managed to come out from underneath the couch (she was spending so much time under there that she was getting pressure sores on her legs). Bully cat is spending every other day in a large multi-level cage, where she sings the song of her people. It’s essentially a stalemate at this point, which is better than pouncing and biting and screaming and hiding under couches. We’re still waiting for the behaviorist to call us with additional suggestions, but at least we haven’t had to make a trip to the shelter yet. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/127 "2016-01-09T22:48:27Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > Why am I not surprised that someone with this attitude about Star Wars is the same person who picked such an abominable title for the monthly minirants thread. It took me awhile to figure out this was the January rants thread. I thought the title was supposed to have an indication of the month and something resembling “rants”. I liked the movie, too! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/128 "2016-01-10T12:42:31Z")
Happy new year to me and my daughter- in addition to her being diagnosed with anxiety and depression a few months ago (around the time she started high school) she was also found to have mild OCD. She was given Prozac to help with the symptoms, and she has been doing better, at least in terms of having fewer nights of nearly crying herself to sleep. However, the psychiatrist who saw her told me, out of her earshot, that she showed signs of being on the autism spectrum. I had her evaluated earlier this week, and sure enough, the Princess inherited my Asperger’s. So now I have to make an appointment with her school counselor to get her an IEP. She’s been doing mostly OK in school, until this year, when her grades went down and her absences went up because of the days she could hardly get out of bed. She’s been trying to make light of the situation, but I can tell it still bothers her. A couple of nights ago, she turned to me and said, “Mom, am I still normal?” I said yes and hugged her. What else was I going to do? TL,DR: My kid has emotional problems and we just found out she’s on the autism spectrum, like me. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/129 "2016-01-10T13:13:33Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > I’m sorry if I offended you FatBaldGuy, you worthless piece of syphilitic puss. Pus, genius. Puss is a cat, like the one in boots. > [@Helena330](#): > > It took me awhile to figure out this was the January rants thread. I thought the title was supposed to have an indication of the month and something resembling “rants”. Yes, and yes. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/130 "2016-01-10T15:47:19Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > Pus, genius. Puss is a cat, like the one in boots. Also that word we’re not allowed to call another poster. Starts with a C and it’s quite appropriate to link it to syphilis. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/131 "2016-01-11T19:39:27Z")
Dear internet; If I purchased the item, why do you think it’s a good idea to continue to bombard me with ads for said item? ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/132 "2016-01-11T20:12:46Z")
That’s kind of like Amazon’s ‘Buy It Again’ button. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/133 "2016-01-11T20:37:14Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > That’s kind of like Amazon’s ‘Buy It Again’ button. I haven’t noticed that, but then I tend to block out everything but what I need to see. It is a button to buy another one of something you just bought? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/134 "2016-01-11T20:48:23Z")
For some items it makes sense, like for consumables, since after all you will eventually run out. For big ticket items and travel and hotel stays _at specific locations_ it doesn’t make sense since you have already purchased the item and are unlikely to do so again in the next few months. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/135 "2016-01-11T20:58:38Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > That’s kind of like Amazon’s ‘Buy It Again’ button. > [@curlcoat](#): > > I haven’t noticed that, but then I tend to block out everything but what I need to see. It is a button to buy another one of something you just bought? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/136 "2016-01-11T22:24:53Z")
Along those lines – I recently bought a new computer game. Each time when I quit after a session they show me an ad, about two minutes long, mostly cut together previews of a game. The thing is, it’s an ad for the exact same game I was playing! True marketing genius. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/137 "2016-01-11T23:30:50Z")
I have one for the annals of Strange Amazon Behavior. Last week I ordered a book. It came on Friday, as promised. I took it out of the mailbox and put it on my shelf where it is currently sitting. On Saturday I got an email from Amazon saying they were unable to deliver the book and I can pick it up at my local post office. Which apparently has moved to the bookshelf not five feet behind me. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/138 "2016-01-12T00:00:38Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Dear internet; > > If I purchased the item, why do you think it’s a good idea to continue to bombard me with ads for said item? I could say this about the car yard which sold me my most recent vehicle. OK, so it’s getting of for two years old now (not old to me but I know some people only keep a car for two years) but they’ve been sending me these emails since two months after I drove it out of the showroom. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/139 "2016-01-12T00:49:21Z")
Fucking hell, Blue Cross Blue Shield NC…poo-flinging chimps could not run a more poorly organized company than you people. My mother’s insurance plan is “grandfathered”…it’s supposed to just roll over each year with no changes (other than excessive premium increases…but I understand, your CEO’s paycheck needs to come from somewhere). This year, her dental plan showed up…but her credit card info got dropped, so she’s currently showing as PAST DUE on that account. But you asshats have yet to send her an invoice, and the link on your site states that the invoice is “unavailable at this time.” Oh, and would you be so kind as to explain what the “proper format” is for a two digit member number? Because your shitty little website keeps rejecting her medical insurance member number for just that reason. After nearly three hours on the phone today, she has no answers, other than confirming that both policies are active, and that your tech people are supposedly “aware” of the member number issue on the site. You’ve screwed over a lot of people this time – your Facebook page is overrun with complaints from people who weren’t notified about premium increases, or people having the wrong amounts deducted from their checking accounts, or who just can’t get your damn website to work. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891/140 "2016-01-12T10:54:58Z")
Here’s Kiz’s handy guide to customer service: 1. Treat me as a knowledgeable professional. I’ve been doing this for over 25 years. It’s obvious you know a _little_ about X, but no, that does not make you an expert and therefore have no right to throw down the gauntlet. 2. Respect me as a human being and I’ll respect you. 3. Disrespect me as a human being and I’ll ever-so-subtly disrespect you. I’ll be so subtle you won’t know what hit you until after you leave the premises. It works because I’ve done this to others and they’ve returned. Did they have an epiphany over our initial encounter? I have no idea, but I’d like to think so. 4. I cannot perform miracles because I am bound by what is available at my disposal. Re #2 – if you respect me, however, I’ll make an extra effort to attempt to perform said miracle. 5. I am bound by the rules set forth by my employer. I cannot change them. If you have issues with this please go up front and have them page the manager in charge. Oh, you don’t want to deal with the line up there? I’m sorry, I have other customers waiting behind you. 6. I’m sorry, but no, clamoring for help when there are OTHERS IN FRONT OF YOU will not endear you to me. That includes you who loudly tries to attempt conversation with me when it’s OBVIOUS I’m helping somebody else. 7. If I’m training a newbie and you’re a regular, please do not interrupt me with “well, they’ve always done it THIS way” when I’m out on the floor with said newbie. You don’t work here, I do. That’s all, have a great day! And mods, feel free to move this to the workplace rants thread which I can’t find ATM 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fucking-new-year-ya-bunch-of-turds-lets-hear-your-gripe-for-2016/741891.md?page=8)