# Hollow Halloween (Mini-)Ranting **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 1, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395 "2016-10-01T19:03:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [October 3, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/21 "2016-10-03T20:42:34Z")
> [@Runestar](#): > > Opened up our mailbox today to find not mail, but that it was swarming with ants and their ant eggs. > > Not sure why the ants thought the mailbox was a good place to stash their eggs, but a good shot of Raid and some paper towels cleared them out. Looked on the ground around the post but no signs of any anthill/nest there, and no sign of any ants climbing up and down the mailbox post. > > Guess they just wanted a penthouse. Last summer we had wasps in our mail box. Building a nest. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/22 "2016-10-03T21:23:53Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Does anyone not get this? me ---
**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:** [October 3, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/23 "2016-10-03T22:17:25Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Does anyone not get this? It’s a trope on the “Pink Panther” theme song. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/24 "2016-10-03T23:17:20Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > For maybe the fourth time this month I had some asshole pull in front of me and not evince the least amount of effort to reach the posted speed limit. Today, a car full of teenage cunts did the same, but when I tried overtake them they sped up so I couldn’t merge back into the proper lane. Had to go nearly 90 in a 55 zone before that fucking bitch let me pass. They also had the audacity to flip me off, too. > > They should be thankful I don’t believe in carrying firearms. > > :mad::mad::mad:::mad: Sounds to me like you should lay off of the caffeine. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/25 "2016-10-03T23:30:01Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Got a phone message on Friday apparently from the Canada Revenue Agency informing me that I was guilty of “tax evasion and tax fraud”, and that I had better call the provided number real quick or else they would see me in “tax court”.\ > Of course I never called these fuckers back, but from what I’ve read, if you do, it turns out that the Government of Canada will cheerfully accept iTunes gift cards or just about any other gift cards as a form of settlement for your taxes. Which I think is very magnanimous of them. > > Listen you fuckers in Bangladesh or China or wherever the fuck you’re hiding under a rock, you need to step up your game a little so it’s at least a bit of a challenge even for the mentally deficient. I got a call from “Revenue Canada” today saying that there is a lawsuit being filed against us, and if I don’t call them back at this 1-855 number, we will have warrants taken out for our arrest. You know that’s a scam, and I know that’s a scam, but can you imagine some 85 year old lady getting that message?!? She hears “lawsuit” and “arrest warrants,” and you know she’s going to go directly into panic mode. All these phone scammers need to FROADIAF. We have more than enough people on this planet; I’m willing to vote for the death penalty for scammers. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Last summer we had wasps in our mail box. Building a nest. I got my very first wasp bite this summer - oh my fucking god, I did not know they hurt like that. If I got more than a couple at one time, I think you’d have to put me in a medically induced coma. And the abominable itching - wow! If I never get another wasp bite, it will be too soon. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/26 "2016-10-04T00:00:27Z")
God fucking dammit Microsoft, what did you do to your Outlook servers this weekend??? Is it because I still use a Hotmail address??? :mad: I had to remove and re-add the account on my desktop version of Outlook to make it synchronize properly, and I still can’t figure out how to delete messages off the server of the Roadrunner account I connected to the Hotmail account. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/27 "2016-10-04T18:35:50Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I got my very first wasp bite this summer - oh my fucking god, I did not know they hurt like that. If I got more than a couple at one time, I think you’d have to put me in a medically induced coma. And the abominable itching - wow! If I never get another wasp bite, it will be too soon. Good thing it didn’t sting you. That would have REALLY hurt… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/28 "2016-10-04T18:56:58Z")
My computer went FUBAR this weekend and is in a state of perpetual rebooting. One of my friends who is in IT offered to have me over yesterday to fix it, but I told him I wanted to take a crack at it first, as I’d Googled potential solutions while at work. Well, of course, now I think I only made it worse - can’t even get into the Windows “diagnostic” screen. Where it was probably salvageable before, I’m now not quite so sure there’s anything that can be done. (It told me to partition a drive, and various other things, and now I have no idea how to undo all that. The laptop was a gift / payment from a friend, so I didn’t necessarily get a state-of-the-art one, and so it makes searching for a solution more difficult.) Meanwhile, I’ve probably increased the amount of work this friend anticipated, that he generously offered. Ugh. Sometimes, I know just enough to be dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/29 "2016-10-04T21:41:22Z")
Agent: the problem with this book is that there isn’t enough history to be historical fiction, and there isn’t enough sex to be historical romance. So which do you want it to be? Me: I can add more sex. That’s easy. Clearly it’s historical romance. Agent: TOO BAD, HOMESKILLET, this ain’t no potboiler romance! We’re writing historical fiction here! Now go do more research! Me: Yes, mistress, may I have some more? ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/30 "2016-10-04T23:49:13Z")
I woke at 3 in the morning because of a nightmare involving undead turtles and sheep. I tried to run, but the undead sheep kept up with me, groaning and looking at me with their gray, dead eyes. I have no explanation for this. I don’t usually have nightmares and I haven’t had contact with an animal in years and years. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/31 "2016-10-05T01:57:43Z")
Surely you were able to outrun the undead turtles though, right? ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/32 "2016-10-05T02:20:05Z")
As I recall, the undead turtles weren’t really chasing me. They just stood still and glared at me as I ran past. Weirdest nightmare I’ve ever had. It took me hours to accept that it was all just a dream. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/33 "2016-10-05T02:42:34Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > It took me hours to accept that it was all just a dream. Well, then the real problem is that your real life is clearly surreal. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/34 "2016-10-05T13:16:00Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > As I recall, the undead turtles weren’t really chasing me. They just stood still and glared at me as I ran past. > > Weirdest nightmare I’ve ever had. It took me hours to accept that it was all just a dream. Maybe they’re the turtles from a dream I had once. I came out of it with the thought; “While the turtles remain committed to the project, they are, of course, turtles, and do not demonstrate any enthusiasm for it.” I’m unclear as to what the project goals even were, or why turtles should have even been involved. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/35 "2016-10-05T13:50:55Z")
No, you’re _not_ actually going to leave the country if (_presidential candidate_) wins. you just love telling people how you’re going to. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/36 "2016-10-05T16:27:46Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > I woke at 3 in the morning because of a nightmare involving undead turtles and sheep. I tried to run, but the undead sheep kept up with me, groaning and looking at me with their gray, dead eyes. > > I have no explanation for this. I don’t usually have nightmares and I haven’t had contact with an animal in years and years. So you were Count Dracula’ing sheep? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/37 "2016-10-05T16:36:25Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > No, you’re _not_ actually going to leave the country if (_presidential candidate_) wins. you just love telling people how you’re going to. The cunts that do this are really just stupid fucking cunts IRL. Also they’re training their children to be little stupid fucking cunts as well and that’s why we have this whole new generation of SJW cunts. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/38 "2016-10-05T18:08:47Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > No, you’re _not_ actually going to leave the country if (_presidential candidate_) wins. you just love telling people how you’re going to. It annoys the shit out of me when people say this. I don’t care which candidate it is. I always say I plan to stay and work towards making my country _better_. I’m already active in local government. I know it sounds smug. Don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/39 "2016-10-05T18:25:43Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > The cunts that do this are really just stupid fucking cunts IRL. Also they’re training their children to be little stupid fucking cunts as well and that’s why we have this whole new generation of SJW cunts. I love the way you assume it is just liberals saying this. Because this is literally a case of “Both sides do it.” I’ve heard plenty of conservatives saying it about Hillary and hard it back in 12 before Obama got reelected. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395/40 "2016-10-05T18:51:36Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > The cunts that do this are really just stupid fucking cunts IRL. Also they’re training their children to be little stupid fucking cunts as well and that’s why we have this whole new generation of SJW cunts. Do people who use the offensive term SJW hate social justice? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollow-halloween-mini-ranting/767395.md?page=3)