# I'm ranting at you, July! (July mini-rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2024, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552 "2024-07-01T04:24:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/241 "2024-07-19T12:59:15Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I am always using the dish washer. Generally I will scrub and rinse off the dishes before running them through the wash. If I put dishes in there with crud on them, it often won’t remove it all, and having ancient baked cheese on a dish in the cupboard is not great. Here’s a 30-minute video on how to probably make your dishwasher work better without much if any pre-washing. I like the guy’s wink-and-a-nod, semi-self-deprecating style, but it may not be for you (and you may not want to spend 30 minutes on your dishwasher when you’ve got a method that works for you). Broken link because I apparently can’t embed Youtube videos? https ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHP942Livy0 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/242 "2024-07-19T13:21:54Z")
Thanks to the Microsoft thing I have no telephone service at work. I could have stayed home. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/243 "2024-07-19T13:33:40Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Broken link because I apparently can’t embed Youtube videos? See [here.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/170) ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/244 "2024-07-19T14:49:05Z")
> [@digs](#): > > “Well, whoops, I guess I looked across the page and read the results of the person after you on the list. So you’re fine!” Ugh!! At least you didn’t go from “you’re fine” to “sucks to be you”, that would be much harder (I think). Definitely send some kind of complaint somewhere. Likely not a HIPAA violation, unless the caller said “Whoops, I read George Smith’s results not yours!”. How do they look for those plaques? MRI or something? And is that a routine thing, or were they doing whatever the scan was for another concern? ---
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/245 "2024-07-19T17:32:15Z")
It was a complicated approach, as part of a study. I got into the study because of my dad. He deteriorated quickly, though he was clever at masking the symptoms (So I wasn’t sure how to answer questions like “And when did your father begin exhibiting Alzheimer’s?” “Well, when did Ronald Reagan?” Months, or maybe even a year, after he’d started being impaired…). ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/246 "2024-07-19T21:31:43Z")
I bought a new teapot. It was advertised online as 1000ml. Technically, it does contain that volume, if you fill it to the brim and omit the strainer and tea leaves. I’m torn between being mad and impressed. It’s a cute teapot though! I probably don’t need to drink a litre of tea most mornings… probably… ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/247 "2024-07-20T07:52:35Z")
First world problem: My wife and I are on vacation in Alberta, Canada, and the hotel in Jasper we checked into on Wednesday told us the Internet (not their Wifi) was out on this whole end of town. Cell service in this area is also weak, at least in this room of the hotel. Annoyingly, a few blocks away there was a strong 5G signal. Just not where we spent most of our time. I assumed that with a problem of that scale, someone would be on it and get it fixed pretty quick. Nope. I checked several times each day since then and it only just came on after midnight early Saturday morning. Two full days without fast, reliable internet!!1! Oh, the horror! I had to read a book I had already downloaded to the Kindle app. But while I’m ranting about hotels, why in Og’s name don’t all hotels put night lights in the bathrooms? You get up to pee in the middle of the night in a strange room, and if you switch on the full bathroom light you’re blinded. If you don’t, you stumble around trying to find the door, then the toilet. I travel with my own, but more than once I’ve forgotten to take it with me when I left. This hotel had a new wrinkle that stymied me: the outlet in the bathroom, into which I’d normally plug my night light, was controlled by the light switch. So the night light was useless! 😡 ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/248 "2024-07-20T12:08:31Z")
Due to the Microsoft outage I am stuck in an airport on a 3.5 hour delay. It’s a spillover effect…all the mess yesterday screwed up all the schedules and, though there is a plane, there are no pilots available. I am just hoping that we don’t get pushed back again. Every time I fly out of LSL it turns into an ordeal. I know this one isn’t the airport’s or the airline’s fault specifically but that’s little comfort.I am really starting to hate this airport. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/249 "2024-07-20T12:33:24Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > This hotel had a new wrinkle that stymied me: the outlet in the bathroom, into which I’d normally plug my night light, was controlled by the light switch. So the night light was useless! 😡 That’s a pretty stupid setup as one of the common uses of those outlets is charging appliances like shavers! What were they thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/250 "2024-07-20T13:54:49Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > But while I’m ranting about hotels, why in Og’s name don’t all hotels put night lights in the bathrooms? You get up to pee in the middle of the night in a strange room, and if you switch on the full bathroom light you’re blinded. If you don’t, you stumble around trying to find the door, then the toilet. And similar to that, hotels that have the bathroom light switch _outside_ of the bathroom, so it can only be turned on/off with the door open and the light comes into the whole bedroom at night. Why is this a thing!? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/251 "2024-07-20T14:59:33Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Every time I fly out of LSL it turns into an ordeal What might LSL be in your parlance? Officially, that’s > **[Los Chiles Airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Chiles_Airport)** > > Los Chiles Airport (IATA: LSL , ICAO: MRLC) is an airport serving the town of Los Chiles in Alajuela Province, Costa Rica. The runway is on the east side of the town, and is 3 kilometres (2 mi) southeast of the Nicaraguan border. > The Liberia VOR-DME (Ident: LIB) is located 56.2 nautical miles (104 km) west-southwest of the airport. The Los Chiles non-directional beacon (Ident: CHI) is located on the field. > > This article about a Central American airport is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expa... which is a mostly-general aviation airport in rural Costa Rica. I bet that’s not the one you mean. So which one do you mean? > [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > hotels that have the bathroom light switch _outside_ of the bathroom, so it can only be turned on/off with the door open and the light comes into the whole bedroom at night. Why is this a thing!? Near as I can figure, in some countries light switches on the outside are normal or maybe even required by code. As a way of keeping the dangerous electricity outside of the wet room. This seemed to have been prevalent in e.g. the USA in stuff built in the 1940s and 1950s, when electrical appliances and bathrooms really didn’t mix. Before hair dryers, before curling irons, before rechargeable anything, etc. So bathrooms were built with no electrical outlets at all. When I encounter the light switch outside the bathroom in a country where that’s not the norm and the place was built or renovated after the 1950s I’m as baffled as you are. A new trend in fashionable hotel bedroom / bathroom design has the clear glass-walled shower looking directly out into the bedroom. Usually with some kind of motorized roll-down privacy shutter, but the assumption is the shower & sink area is directly visible from the bed and vice versa. Typically in these rooms the toilet is in a separate closet off the main bathroom area. Traveling alone for a living, that design never bothered me. But it’s sure not good for light control for your roommate. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/252 "2024-07-20T15:10:57Z")
As the years go on, I get more and more sick and tired of the fact that _every single_ privately-owned public space in the whole fucking country just has to blast LOUD, shitty pop music non-stop! Supermarkets, stores, malls, restaurants, bars, movie theaters, even outdoor plazas in some cases. They just have to keep shoveling that shit into your ears like it’s a fucking legal requirement! And it’s usually loud enough to stomp all over any music that you’re listening to through earphones!! Are most people so aesthetically impoverished that they actually enjoy a steady diet of this stuff? It’s getting so I dread shopping nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/253 "2024-07-20T15:17:13Z")
I SO endorse this pitting! It gets even more awful when October rolls around and they start with the cheesy Christmas music. My only consolation is that with my developing deafness I can’t really hear anything over the general ambient noise that seems to be everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/254 "2024-07-20T15:21:36Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > What might LSL be in your parlance? Lambert St. Louis. Still sitting here. 5.5 hours now. Need a drink and it’s just after 10 am!! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/255 "2024-07-20T15:24:36Z")
Ahh yes: good old STL. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/256 "2024-07-20T15:25:54Z")
The plane is still there. Apparently we just need pilots. You aren’t in the area anywhere, are you?😁 ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/257 "2024-07-20T18:00:25Z")
Yes, I long for the days when stores played “elevator music” at a _background_ level of volume - the days I still think of as “when the grownups were in charge.” Edit: On my way to work I have to walk past a Silver Diner. Going home in the afternoon, they always have music blaring into the parking lot. And it’s always **the same few songs.** _Living on a Prayer, Eye of the Tiger, Crocodile Rock, Jailhouse Rock, Heartbreaker_. (Never _Hit Me With Your Best Shot_, only _Heartbreaker_.) And the Brady Bunch theme for some Christless reason. Either they have some severely restricted form of ASCAP/BMI license or the manager/franchise owner thinks every customer and employee needs to hear his personal mixtape all day, every day. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/258 "2024-07-20T18:39:46Z")
I worked for 2 1/2 years at Toys R Us, day after day listening to the same music over and over and over all day long. Nearly 30 years later I still get triggered when I hear some of those songs. And guess what, back then grumpy old people would routinely complain that it was loud. I think the volume is the same now as it has always been, what’s changed is you all. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/259 "2024-07-20T19:15:41Z")
Trump is in town today 🤢 And some random aging dude in the grocery store parking lot expressed his pov that I should be wearing shorts. He asked me why aren’t you wearing shorts? Wtf! Maybe it was a nod to the beautiful summer weather. But dude that was fucking weird. Then he goes, imma be up at Ludington park today. JFC keepnitntonuourself in no mood to small talk it up with some rando bald head big truck beer gut sweat hog. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/260 "2024-07-20T20:35:27Z")
> [@chela](#): > > And some random aging dude in the grocery store parking lot expressed his pov that I should be wearing shorts. He asked me why aren’t you wearing shorts? Wtf! Maybe it was a nod to the beautiful summer weather. But dude that was fucking weird. Of course these assholes never harass other men. Somehow women get to be their universal target. I’m surprised he didn’t tell you to smile. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552.md?page=14)