# Happy Thanksbitching! November is here! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 1, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451 "2011-11-01T02:49:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**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:** [November 16, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/281 "2011-11-16T21:56:48Z")
> [@SnakesCatLady](#): > > Some of the people I went to high school with have gotten religion in a BIG way. Some people are using FaceBook to be publicly uber-religious. Much like certain Pharisees in certain parables. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/282 "2011-11-16T22:16:06Z")
> [@Norse](#): > > Yesterday I spent two hours in a plane with five (5!) 17-18-ish boys in the seat row before me. Normally, that’s not a problem, I have a certain amount of tolerance for elated kids. I can even smile sympathetically to parents wrestling with a writhing, screaming two-year-old. But I swear to Og, my kids were better behaved at the age of six that these idiots are in their upper teens! Jumping, poking each other, wrestling in the seats so bad that if I accept the stewardess’ offer of a cup of coffee it’ll end up in my lap b/c the baboon in front of me is so hyperactive that my table is literally jumping up & down. Holy crap, what kind of moronic, negligent shitstains failed to teach you how to behave in public? The noise even made it through my sound-canceling earbuds with the MP3 player at full volume! > > And FTR, kids, applauding when the stewardess steps into the aisle to give the safety demonstration or when the plane lands is moronic. Just sayin’. Meh. I’m not saying you don’t have the right to be annoyed, but it’s not so bad to enjoy life. There’s too much shit going on in the world to begrudge some kids the joy of not yet having soul-crushing responsibilities. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/283 "2011-11-16T23:56:54Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > We want Shredder Guy, mostly. Because we can point and laugh at him. Big sigh. I work my heart out for rescue. I do good works for humans. I give so much and my only claim to fame is SG. (thinks I should put a ☹ here but actaully, I’m 😃 ) PS, tell your hubby that my Sprint part collection is pretty impressive. The only thing I’m missing now is a carb. I am going to impress the heck out of people when I start riding a restored 30 year old dirt bike. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/284 "2011-11-17T00:52:01Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Number of comments praising God for his wondrous work in making sure son was not seriously hurt: 75 (and counting). > Number of comments commending the doctors for their work and the medical/scientific community for developing the tools used in diagnosing son: A big fat fucking zero. Another post today – he’s been out of work for over a year, and had a call-back interview today: “It is 100% in God’s hands.” Apparently the hiring manager has fuck-all to do with the process. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/285 "2011-11-17T00:54:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Big sigh. I work my heart out for rescue. I do good works for humans. I give so much and my only claim to fame is SG. (thinks I should put a ☹ here but actaully, I’m 😃 ) Well, personally, yeah, I’m impressed and glad that you do rescue work, and help humans. But I’m absolutely astounded that you really haven’t fed SG into the shredder. Feet first. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/286 "2011-11-17T01:23:12Z")
TMI… I had round 2 of interviews for a possible new job today, and I woke up with cramps like I haven’t had in a long time. Doubling over in pain kind of cramps. Being a girl sucks eggs sometimes. But I got invited back for round 3 of interviews, so I must have hid it well. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/287 "2011-11-17T05:07:22Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Another post today – he’s been out of work for over a year, and had a call-back interview today: “It is 100% in God’s hands.” > > Apparently the hiring manager has fuck-all to do with the process. My SIL posts things like this too, the most recent one being something about needing prayers for her upcoming eye surgery: “Pray that it will work this time.” And then she follows that up with, “He [God] is in control.” Well, if he’s in control, then what are the prayers for? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/288 "2011-11-17T05:18:56Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Well, if he’s in control, then what are the prayers for? Campaigning. It’s in his hands to help you…or not. You have to make sure he chooses in your favor. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/289 "2011-11-17T05:56:48Z")
If I were Christian and believed God listened personally to my prayers, I would be embarassed to ask for victory for a sports team. Just sayin’… ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/290 "2011-11-17T06:12:01Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Campaigning. It’s in his hands to help you…or not. You have to make sure he chooses in your favor. “Listen, I’m sorry. You’re just… Well there’s no easy way to say this. You’re just not polling very well in the 18-24 year old male x-treme sports fan group. And they’ve one of our biggest key demos. I guess what I’m trying to say here is… Well, you’re on your own for this one, big guy. The big G can’t be seen to be backing a loser. I’m sure you understand. Maybe if folks had prayed for you a bit harder…” ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/291 "2011-11-17T06:19:40Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > My SIL posts things like this too, the most recent one being something about needing prayers for her upcoming eye surgery: “Pray that it will work this time.” And then she follows that up with, “He [God] is in control.” > Well, if he’s in control, then what are the prayers for? I have an M.D. from Harvard. I am board certified in cardiothoracic medicine and trauma surgery. I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn’t miscarry or that their daughter doesn’t bleed to death or that their mother doesn’t suffer acute neural trauma from postoperative shock, who do you think they’re praying to? Now you go ahead and read your bible-Dennis. And you go to your church and with any luck you might even win the annual raffle. But if you’re looking for God, he was in operating room number two, on November 17th, and he doesn’t like being second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something: I am God. // Dr. Jed Hill ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/292 "2011-11-17T15:10:42Z")
> [@SnakesCatLady](#): > > If I were Christian and believed God listened personally to my prayers, I would be embarassed to ask for victory for a sports team. > > Just sayin’… Or even worse for myself in a reality show. There are two types of prayers during these things and only one really pisses me off. God give me the strength to climb this wall - Crazy but whatever floats your boat. God let me win against the heathen opposition - I will be waiting to celebrate your loss. (and possibly sputtering indignantly) ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/293 "2011-11-17T16:01:35Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > But my real rant for the day is being posted here, because, if I directed it at my husband, I would go overboard and make a bigger scene than I want: I’ve had a sinus headache for three days now, so bad that I want to throw up. But we had plans to go have a belated anniversary dinner tonight… just the two of us, for once. So I’d made childcare arrangements, started prepping dinner for the kids and the sitters, and got the baby down for her nap while my husband was out running a couple of errands. And I thought maybe a warm bath would help me feel better. Five minutes after I get in the tub, hubby comes storming into the bathroom and practically throws the baby at me. Seems she had awakened from her nap (at least 45 minutes earlier than usual, probably because the idiot dogs started barking when they heard the truck,) and removed her messy diaper. Not pleasant, but something that tots her age tend to do with alarming regularity. But he acts as though my five minutes in the tub are some horrible act of negligence! > > Instead of relaxing for a bit, I get out of the tub, put baby in, wash and dress her, clean the poopy mess, cook dinner, and call my niece to say thanks but we won’t need a sitter. Because now I have a stress headache, and my sinuses are even worse off because I flatly refuse to cry, because I do not want to make a scene (because right now, I can’t have this conversation in any rational way.) > > And then he’s all surprised that I just really don’t want to go have dinner. Or even eat the dinner I cooked. If my husband pulled that shit he’d be lucky to be alive and I certainly wouldn’t have cleaned up the mess (are his arms broken?) and made dinner. The kid was perfectly safe in a crib and you were in the bathroom for a few minutes? Seems more than reasonable to me. Stand firm! Cry if you need to! Fuck the idea that you shouldn’t ‘make a scene’ with your own husband. (It’s a damn good thing I don’t know where you live or he would get a stern talking-to.) ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/294 "2011-11-17T16:47:15Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > But my real rant for the day is being posted here, because, if I directed it at my husband, I would go overboard and make a bigger scene than I want: I’ve had a sinus headache for three days now, so bad that I want to throw up. But we had plans to go have a belated anniversary dinner tonight… just the two of us, for once. So I’d made childcare arrangements, started prepping dinner for the kids and the sitters, and got the baby down for her nap while my husband was out running a couple of errands. And I thought maybe a warm bath would help me feel better. Five minutes after I get in the tub, hubby comes storming into the bathroom and practically throws the baby at me. Seems she had awakened from her nap (at least 45 minutes earlier than usual, probably because the idiot dogs started barking when they heard the truck,) and removed her messy diaper. Not pleasant, but something that tots her age tend to do with alarming regularity. But he acts as though my five minutes in the tub are some horrible act of negligence! > > Instead of relaxing for a bit, I get out of the tub, put baby in, wash and dress her, clean the poopy mess, cook dinner, and call my niece to say thanks but we won’t need a sitter. Because now I have a stress headache, and my sinuses are even worse off because I flatly refuse to cry, because I do not want to make a scene (because right now, I can’t have this conversation in any rational way.) > > And then he’s all surprised that I just really don’t want to go have dinner. Or even eat the dinner I cooked. I don’t think a jury with any women on it would convict you of anything you did to him with this kind of provocation. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/295 "2011-11-17T17:56:34Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > I don’t think a jury with any women on it would convict you of anything you did to him with this kind of provocation. Hell, as a guy who’s been pulling diaper duty all morning while mom was at a doctor appointment, I’d pull his man card. Real men do the damn job and don’t bitch about it, even if that job involves soothing a child and cleaning up her diaper shenanigans. ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/296 "2011-11-17T18:14:59Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > Hell, as a guy who’s been pulling diaper duty all morning while mom was at a doctor appointment, I’d pull his man card. Real men do the damn job and don’t bitch about it, even if that job involves soothing a child and cleaning up her diaper shenanigans. Hear hear. He helped make the kid, right? He gets to help keep her clean & happy, period, and has no standing to get all judgey on you for (_gasp_) \*bathing \*while she’s (supposed to be, reasonably expected to be) napping. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/297 "2011-11-17T18:29:12Z")
Heh. Thanks for the moral support gang! And a follow-up: I’m still glad that I said nothing yesterday, because I wouldn’t have been reasonable. I was just too mad, and he’d have felt attacked instead of seeing my pov. So today, I brought up the subject, and got a sincere apology. I don’t know why, but his reaction on seeing her when he walked in is that I had just plopped her down with the dogs to babysit, and wandered off for a bubble bath. (She was in the thoroughly babyproofed den, not a crib, because she can readily climb out of both cribs.) I pointed out to Tony that I never just leave her awake and unattended, precisely because she is such a Houdini these days. And while we had this little confab? Yep! She thoroughly disrobed herself. I caught her before she made any messes this time! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/298 "2011-11-17T18:53:28Z")
My DVR receiver crapped out yesterday. I lost 250 hours of recorded TV and had no reception. I had to watch TV using the second DVR, which is mostly shows my daughter and her man watch. I had to watch live TV last night, including commercials. First world problems, but I am on vacation next week and I had fully planned to start watching Battlestar Gallatica. Dammit! ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/299 "2011-11-17T19:18:18Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > And while we had this little confab? Yep! She thoroughly disrobed herself. I caught her before she made any messes this time! 🙂 I think you may have given birth to me. (Good luck with that) My mother told me that as soon as I was physically able to get out of a diaper, they came off as soon as I pooped in them. Artistic demonstrations often followed. I was more of a Gypsy Rose Lee than a Houdini; I stripped all the time. The bright side to it was that she said I pretty much toilet trained myself. Do you have latches on your kitchen cabinets? If not, get them now. When I was less than three, Mom laid down with me for a nap. She went to sleep; I didn’t. I emptied everything I could reach - flour, milk, butter, eggs, sugar, syrup - into the kitchen floor and was having a grand old time playing in it. She called her best friend, said “do you love my daughter? Then come get her” and locked herself into the bedroom until I was gone. She said she was afraid she’d hurt me if she touched me right then. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451/300 "2011-11-17T21:07:34Z")
> [@](#): > > When I was less than three, Mom laid down with me for a nap. She went to sleep; I didn’t. I emptied everything I could reach - flour, milk, butter, eggs, sugar, syrup - into the kitchen floor and was having a grand old time playing in it. Hmmm. Sounds like you wanted to make pancakes, instead of mud pies. When my daughter was a toddler, and my husband was watching her, he’d frequently put her outside to play. And almost as frequently, she’d knock on the door and hand him whatever she had been wearing. No, she hadn’t pooped or peed, she just wanted to avoid those unsightly tan lines. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksbitching-november-is-here/601451.md?page=16)