# 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:** 14
**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, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/261 "2024-07-20T21:34:27Z")
Still sitting…11 hours now… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/262 "2024-07-21T00:27:26Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I think the volume is the same now as it has always been, what’s changed is you all. 😉 Yes and no—I’ve been complaining about loud music places since I was a teen, because I’m a sensistive bunny. But movies for sure have gotten louder. I also think there’s been a real cultural shift in consideration for others. It used to be less common to impose your noise on strangers. Now, people (other than me) seem more willing to tolerate being assaulted by noise, whether cacophonous or melodic. ---
**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 21, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/263 "2024-07-21T00:32:34Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > But movies for sure have gotten louder. This is true. Holy crap, even a kids movie I saw recently (Inside Out 2) was so freaking loud. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/264 "2024-07-21T01:06:59Z")
Agree. Since I have tinnitus I take earplugs pretty much everywhere I go anyway. I put those in before the previews even start. Apparently they want the next generation of old people to get deafer, sooner. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/265 "2024-07-21T13:46:59Z")
I rhink since this generation has been wearing earphones their whole lives they already have damaged hearing. They just don’t realize it. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/266 "2024-07-21T15:42:05Z")
> [@chela](#): > > 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. Any chance he’ll go jump in the lake…? ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/267 "2024-07-21T15:53:16Z")
These are [Not cordyceps](https://imgflip.com/i/8xqmuz). TIL- Dead Mans Fingers mushrooms are deadly. > **[From the Grave: Dead Man's Fingers - Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay](https://www.allianceforthebay.org/2019/10/from-the-grave-dead-mans-fingers/)** > > You’re walking through the woods on a crisp, late October afternoon, smelling the sharp scent of decaying leaves and listening to the dry rustle of beech leaves in the breeze. You decide to take a break, sit on an old stump, munch an apple and... ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/268 "2024-07-21T19:03:49Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > TIL- Dead Mans Fingers mushrooms are deadly. I hope you didn’t learn the hard way. Those are creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/269 "2024-07-21T20:00:36Z")
At first I thought it was an add for the next season of, “The Last of Us”. ---
**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 21, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/270 "2024-07-21T20:21:31Z")
Look at that weird shit growing out of the ground, like a zombie pulling itself out of the ground slowly. I bet it’s tasty! ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/271 "2024-07-22T01:10:09Z")
Dearest President Biden: ♫ I never thought the Presidency ♫ ♫ Would be a place without you (backed by me) ♫ ♫ But suddenly I begin to see ♫ ♫ A happier life meant for you to be…! ♫ ♫ 'Cause You’ve got a golden ticket ♫ ♫ You’ve got a golden twinkle ♫ ♫ In your eye… ♫ ♫ I never had a chance to shine ♫ ♫ Never a happy song to sing ♫ ♫ But clarity is suddenly mine ♫ ♫ What an amazing thing! ♫ ♫ 'Cause You’ve got a golden ticket ♫ ♫ You’ve got a golden twinkle ♫ ♫ In your eye… ♫ ♫ For you there’s a golden sun up in… the… sky…! ♫ ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/272 "2024-07-22T11:07:03Z")
I despise Cloudflare. Not only that, I hate the reason so many sites must use that or a similar service. Why can’t hosting sites use something for security that does not interfere with the user experience? Oh, that’s right. It’s because there are far too many shitheads who lives to fuck things up for other people. Damnit. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/273 "2024-07-22T11:50:25Z")
Encountered another “By far one on my favorites” comment. I see them in Amazon product reviews and Youtube video comments. They provoke a 100% wince rate. The latest was a YT comment: “The Chain is by far one of my favorite Fleetwood Mac songs.” Presumably they’re contrasting it to the FM songs that are barely one of their favorites. ---
**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 22, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/274 "2024-07-22T18:04:53Z")
I fail to see anything odd about that phraseology. Imagine you consider your e.g. top 8 songs by any artist to be your favorites of that artist’s work, and all the rest of their songs are not what you call “favorites”. Now within your personal 8 it’s a good bet there’s one or two that you think are extra super-special, one or two that not nearly as nice, but still up there, and then whatever else fits down below. People’s preferences _imply_ an ordering on the songs, but _don’t_ imply an equal-interval ordering. Having some subset of your “favorites” that are “extra special favorites” sounds as normal as human nature can be. ---
**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 23, 2024, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/275 "2024-07-23T01:34:27Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > Encountered another “By far one on my favorites” comment. Once you’ve read that in hundreds of online reviews, where it’s clearly a rehearsed line (often by paid shills), it sounds a bit … insincere. Haven’t you had a friend who says “It was treMENDous!” to everything? I do, and it’s a special kind of hell. (Y’know, if everything’s _treMENDous,_ nothing is.) ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/276 "2024-07-23T01:38:08Z")
Hi Lake St. Louis Guy, My annoyance with “far and away one of my favorites” might be a personal bugaboo. Maybe I’ll ask in the Polls Only thread. But to me favorites have to be closely ranked — 8.5 to a solid ten — and having room for a “far and away” within the grouping wounds the concept of favorites. I’m great with: Far and away my favorite Far and away my favorites One of my favorites One of my very favorites Two of my very favorites But “far away one of my favorites” is an unwise splicing. Someone just grabbed parts of ‘far and away my favorites” and ‘one of my favorites’ and jammed them together without thought. —————————— **Examples from popular culture** Small to medium group: My favorite Coen Brothers films are _Miller’s Crossing_ and _O Brother Where Art Thou?_. I also love _Fargo_, but there’s no room for a favorite that I like distinctly less, let alone Far and Away less. Large Group: I probably have 12 favorite Beatles songs, and three absolute favorites, but again, there’s no Far and Away in the groups. If a favorite is Far and Away from my absolute favorites then it’s not much of a favorite at all. And “barely a favorite” is damning with faint praise; it’s no way to talk about a favorite. FWIW, I’ve defended the usage “extremely unique”. I don’t strongly trust my preferences but Far and Away One Of My Favorites rubs wrong. ---
**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 23, 2024, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/277 "2024-07-23T01:47:55Z")
Cool. I see your point. The entire notion of “favorite” is highly idiosyncratic. Some folks insist there can be only 1. Some folks insist anything better than “meh” is a flavor of favorite. It’s certainly a slippery idea. When people ask me “what’s your favorite [whatever]?” my comment is always along the lines of > I don’t understand the idea of a single favorite. There are examples of [whatever] that I like more or less than others and even among the more favored, there are good and bad points to be traded off between each of them. So my “favorite” [whatever] shifts based on my mood and which features seem most salient right now for the situation we’re in. My short version response is “I don’t have favorite anythings, much less favorite [whatever]s.” So I’m possibly ill-qualified to comment on other’s use of the term “favorite”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/278 "2024-07-23T01:53:15Z")
Today, as I was riding my bicycle, someone in the car ahead of me threw a cigarette butt out of the window (passenger side). Leaving aside the issues of smoking at all and littering cigarette butts at all, it’s REALLY dry here and we are among the places that have fire problems (i.e. everywhere). Is it too much to ask that people confine their incendiary antisocial behaviour to the rainy season? ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/279 "2024-07-23T01:53:47Z")
Sadly, apparently so. ---
**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 23, 2024, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/280 "2024-07-23T04:26:38Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The entire notion of “favorite” is highly idiosyncratic. Some folks insist there can be only 1. Some folks insist anything better than “meh” is a flavor of favorite. It’s certainly a slippery idea. My daughter is turning 10. She has 3 favorite colors and I can’t keep track of all of her best friends. I mean WTF. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552.md?page=15)