# Happy New Rants!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 1, 2018, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683 "2018-01-01T11:12:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/281 "2018-01-18T17:11:08Z")
> **[Road salt is polluting our water. Here's how to stop it](https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/12/06/road-salt-water-pollution)** > > Minnesota dumps some 730 million pounds of salt on roadways each winter, and it's posing a major risk to the environment. > **[MnDOT cutting back on road salt use](https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/03/31/mndot-cutting-back-road-salt)** > > The effort is aimed at saving not only money, but the environment. The chloride in road salt is causing serious and permanent pollution in Minnesota lakes, rivers and streams. “All that excess salt is accumulating in lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands. Nearly 40 water bodies in the Twin Cities already have more chloride than water quality standards allow, said Trevor Russell, water program director for Friends of the Mississippi River. Another 40 or so will soon become impaired, meaning they don’t fully support aquatic life due to high salt levels.” ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/282 "2018-01-18T17:16:34Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > [Road salt is polluting our water. Here's how we can fix it | MPR News](https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/12/06/road-salt-water-pollution) > > [MnDOT cuts back road salt use to save money, protect water | MPR News](https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/03/31/mndot-cutting-back-road-salt) > > “All that excess salt is accumulating in lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands. Nearly 40 water bodies in the Twin Cities already have more chloride than water quality standards allow, said Trevor Russell, water program director for Friends of the Mississippi River. Another 40 or so will soon become impaired, meaning they don’t fully support aquatic life due to high salt levels.” That seems like more of a serious problem than simply a rant. I’ve never even thought about effects like that. ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/283 "2018-01-18T18:31:45Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Sadly, we may be coming to the end of salting roads and applying other chemicals. > > We’re already noticing in Minnesota how saline this is making our lakes and rivers and may need to stop before they become uninhabitable to freshwater species. The chemicals often used are no better and in some cases worse. Some places are using what amounts to fertilizer. Enjoy your algae blooms! ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/284 "2018-01-18T18:32:27Z")
We use beet juice on ours partially to combat the salt problem. > **[Canada Turns To Beet Juice To Keep Roads Ice-Free](https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/beet-juice-is-helping-keep-canadian-municipalities-ice-free_n_14060390)** > > Yes, really. Mmmmm! Beets! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/285 "2018-01-18T18:37:56Z")
I am 34 years old. Yesterday I attended a Tai Chi class with a 23 year old friend. Not one, but two little old ladies asked me if I was her mother. So… what’s the next step here? Midlife crisis? I can arrange that if necessary. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/286 "2018-01-18T18:45:47Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Not one, but two little old ladies asked me if I was her mother. Encourage them to join the 'Dope, where you can have your way with them. ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/287 "2018-01-18T19:17:35Z")
I couldn’t find the thread on bad translations, so I’ll post this one here, because WTF? This is on a little globe with helicopter blades that will apparently just hover. Here it is with all the included spacing/punctuation, etc. More Interesting: Can Let The Aircraft Automatically Induced By The Suspension In The Child’swith Both Hands Above, Interesting. More Secure: The screw is all software, and it can make sure that the childrenSecurity 😕 ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/288 "2018-01-18T20:21:59Z")
Dammit, why did you bother asking how I want my steak, if the chef can’t be bothered to cook it that way? Just because my sister wants hers medium, doesn’t mean mine should be too. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/289 "2018-01-18T20:22:02Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Not one, but two little old ladies asked me if I was her mother. “No, I’m her grandmother! But thanks for saying I look young!” Then insist that you’re 73 years old and see how long they buy it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/290 "2018-01-18T21:26:35Z")
> [@Kelevra](#): > > I couldn’t find the thread on bad translations, so I’ll post this one here, because WTF? > This is on a little globe with helicopter blades that will apparently just hover. > Here it is with all the included spacing/punctuation, etc. > > More Interesting: Can Let The Aircraft Automatically > Induced By The Suspension In The Child’swith > Both Hands Above, Interesting. > More Secure: The screw is all software, and it can > make sure that the childrenSecurity > > 😕 Okay. That was just weird. My internal translator rendered that as Lewis Carroll’s [Jabberwocky](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky) ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/291 "2018-01-19T00:48:33Z")
Monday my Internet connection went out. This was eventually traced by my ISP’s tech support to a problem with the modem, so they sent me a replacement, which I received today and which is working just fine. In the course of catching up on three days worth of e-mail (and Trumpery), I get a popup from Outlook asking me to enter the password for my main e-mail account. I did, and a few minutes later it asks the same thing again. I had changed the password a couple of weeks earlier, so I thought that I might have misremembered the new password and made an error updating the account info in Outlook. I went to my account on the ISP site, opened e-mail management, and found that my main e-mail address was now showing as a random number string. Eight hours and two escalations later, ISP tech support is still trying to figure out what happened and how they can fix it. ---
**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 19, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/292 "2018-01-19T00:55:14Z")
> [@gregorio](#): > > We use beet juice on ours partially to combat the salt problem. > > [http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/01/10/beet-juice-roads-canada\_n\_14060390.html](http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/01/10/beet-juice-roads-canada_n_14060390.html) > > Mmmmm! Beets! There’s a use for beets? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/293 "2018-01-19T01:02:43Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Encourage them to join the 'Dope, where you can have your way with them. I… don’t think that means what you think it does. > [@Catamount](#): > > There’s a use for beets? :eek: Of course not. Except maybe in a nice compost. I’ve always wanted a wormery (true story.) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/294 "2018-01-19T01:35:27Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I… don’t think that means what you think it does. You can mess with them. Give them warnings for grammatical errors. Shove their posts of to other forums. Revenge is a dish best served to confused old ladies. ---
**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 19, 2018, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/295 "2018-01-19T02:06:31Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Of course not. Except maybe in a nice compost. I’ve always wanted a wormery (true story.) They’re [easy to make](http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/compost/easywormbin.htm). I have one. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/296 "2018-01-19T05:16:34Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > There’s a use for beets? :eek: [Horse food](http://stories.endurance.net/1998/01/beet-pulp-hazards-susan-garlinghouse.html). Or maybe squirrel food, if you’re an urban squirrel. WARNING: Do not have anything in your mouth when reading this story. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/297 "2018-01-19T06:49:55Z")
Spice, maybe your 23yr old friend looks like a kid. And, as far as I am concerned go ahead with the mid-life crisis. I am personally working up to early on-set dementia. I can see getting out of alot of junk crap-jobs I have to do. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/298 "2018-01-19T12:33:17Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Wait, what? > > She would rather throw stuff away than donate to needy people? Apparently. You know, because “I paid good money for that.” ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/299 "2018-01-19T13:31:29Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > Apparently. You know, because “I paid good money for that.” :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack: ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683/300 "2018-01-19T13:58:56Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > [Horse food](http://stories.endurance.net/1998/01/beet-pulp-hazards-susan-garlinghouse.html). Or maybe squirrel food, if you’re an urban squirrel. > > WARNING: Do not have anything in your mouth when reading this story. An oldie but a goodie! 😃 Its even better when you know just how MUCH those compressed pellets expand! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-rants/805683.md?page=16)