# It MAY be time to rant a bit... (Minirants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 1, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983 "2015-05-01T13:02:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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:** [May 12, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/181 "2015-05-12T16:07:12Z")
I’ve heard the claim that when they do that, they’re trying to teach you to hunt, like you’re a giant kitten they’re raising. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/182 "2015-05-12T16:40:13Z")
The Spam Women just can’t keep their virtual hands off me. First I got an e-mail invitation to “smell the body of adorable Alfy Pember”. Now I am informed that “Buffy L. Doidge will do anything for me”. It’s getting harder and harder to resist temptation. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/183 "2015-05-12T21:09:49Z")
Wow, some fuckhead on Facebook just called me “hateful” and said I “relish in the pain of others.” Why? Because I said that someone losing his job for shouting an abusive comment at a woman was the “best news I’ve heard all day.” Goddamn asshole. I reported the mean comment guy to Facebook authorities, but don’t know if they can do much. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/184 "2015-05-12T21:24:51Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Wow, some fuckhead on Facebook just called me “hateful” and said I “relish in the pain of others.” Why? Because I said that someone losing his job for shouting an abusive comment at a woman was the “best news I’ve heard all day.” Goddamn asshole. > > I reported the mean comment guy to Facebook authorities, but don’t know if they can do much. Well, yeah, your comment _was hateful. Pretty much when you enjoy_ someone else’s suffering, we call that “hateful”. Sure, sometimes the hate is deserved. But “best news I’ve heard all day” goes beyond a violator getting their just desserts, it goes into enjoying that punishment. ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/185 "2015-05-12T21:27:26Z")
Moron (after a while of incredibly frustrating and increasingly pointless argument): ‘This referendum has nothing to do with equality. It’s just about gay marriage, which has nothing to do with equality. If you were actually in favour of marriage equality, then you’d believe that adults should be able to marry four-year-olds! And you don’t! HA!’ Me: ‘Forget it. I’m not even going to argue with that one, because it’s several orders of magnitude too ridiculous to be worth it.’ Moron: ‘You’re not going to argue with it because YOU KNOW I’VE GOT YOU CORNERED YOU’RE JUST LYING ABOUT IT BEING RIDICULOUS TO GIVE YOURSELF A WAY OUT I WIN HAHAHAHA GOTCHA!!!’ You’d think I’d be pitting the moron, but actually I’m pitting myself. The moron was just being its utterly predictable self, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, amen. But me, I should have fucking known better than to waste any emotional energy there. I really fucking should. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/186 "2015-05-12T21:33:07Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Well, yeah, your comment _was hateful. Pretty much when you enjoy_ someone else’s suffering, we call that “hateful”. > > Sure, sometimes the hate is deserved. But “best news I’ve heard all day” goes beyond a violator getting their just desserts, it goes into enjoying that punishment. It was a very abusive comment that the guy who lost his job said to the woman, and I figured that he fully deserved to lose his job over it, so I was glad to hear he lost his job. Besides, I haven’t heard much good news today, and that news had indeed been the best news I’d heard all day - up until the time that the Facebook commenter guy decided to call me hateful. You can agree or not with the fact that the original guy should’ve lost his job, but that Facebook commenter was just mean. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/187 "2015-05-12T22:38:02Z")
Ok, what the fuck happened today? Full moon with Mars in retrograde? Asshole Toxin dumped into the Earth’s atmosphere? Unspeakable tension bubbling up as Cthulhu awakens to consume us all? People have been just total shits today. Far too many of them. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/188 "2015-05-13T00:15:53Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Well, yeah, your comment _was hateful. Pretty much when you enjoy_ someone else’s suffering, we call that “hateful”. > > Sure, sometimes the hate is deserved. But “best news I’ve heard all day” goes beyond a violator getting their just desserts, it goes into enjoying that punishment. Not necessarily. For someone dealing with chronic depression, it doesn’t take much to clear that bar. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/189 "2015-05-13T00:18:07Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > It was a very abusive comment that the guy who lost his job said to the woman, and I figured that he fully deserved to lose his job over it, so I was glad to hear he lost his job. Besides, I haven’t heard much good news today, and _that news had indeed been the best news I’d heard all day - **up until the time that the Facebook commenter guy decided to call me hateful.** _ 😕 That part was BETTER? ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/190 "2015-05-13T00:40:49Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > 😕 > > That part was BETTER? No, what I meant was it kind of took away some of whatever good feeling I had about the guy getting fired. (Apparently I wasn’t supposed to feel good about it.) ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/191 "2015-05-13T00:49:14Z")
Sigh. It’s That Time of the Month. Which lead to way too much time spent in the bathroom at work, swapping tampons or pooping. Not to mention time spent fretting about how I got blood on my KNEE (spoiler: not blood. chalk–off a box, don’t know why they put bright red chalk on the outside of a box) ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/192 "2015-05-13T01:31:23Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > She’s been dead for almost three years. I had to forgive her for my own sanity. No one, especially someone who isn’t even here anymore, should be allowed that much hold on another human being. Maybe we should have a separate Forgive Your Asshole Mother Day? Sign me up. A quick memory about forgiveness. When I was about 18 and had been living on my own for a couple of years, I remember saying to my mom, hey I forgive you for all the crap. She looked me dead in the eye and said the equivalent to " I never did anything wrong." We then devolved into an argument on how many times she sent me to the hospital. Good times. Never let anyone or any event define you. Don’t give anyone that power. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/193 "2015-05-13T03:03:42Z")
I’ve never done anything well in my life. I’m getting really fucking tired of sucking at _everything_. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/194 "2015-05-13T04:50:01Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Well, yeah, your comment _was hateful. Pretty much when you enjoy_ someone else’s suffering, **we** call that “hateful”. > > Sure, sometimes the hate is deserved. But “best news I’ve heard all day” goes beyond a violator getting their just desserts, it goes into enjoying that punishment. Emphasis added. WE don’t call that hateful. You might. I call it _Schadenfreude_. If it’s deserved, I don’t feel bad for feeling good about it. Sorry/Notsorry. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/195 "2015-05-13T04:54:30Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > It was a very abusive comment that the guy who lost his job said to the woman, and I figured that he fully deserved to lose his job over it, so I was glad to hear he lost his job. Besides, I haven’t heard much good news today, and that news had indeed been the best news I’d heard all day - up until the time that the Facebook commenter guy decided to call me hateful. > > You can agree or not with the fact that the original guy should’ve lost his job, but that Facebook commenter was just mean. Seriously, FUCK that guy. If you are dumb enough to make stupid, misogynistic comments on TV, screw you. Lose your job; I won’t feel bad about it. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/196 "2015-05-13T05:11:48Z")
> [@SurrenderDorothy](#): > > I brought a kitten home from work because she wasn’t thriving and I hoped to save her. She crashed out yesterday afternoon and I brought her back around. Same thing last night, but I couldn’t save her. > > Poor little thing. Now I’m waiting for work to be open so I can take her little body back there. And then I have to call the people who had her on hold and were waiting for her to grow and tell them their kitten died. > > I hate kittens. Horrible fragile little things. Puppies are much sturdier. Adults are even better. We foster kittens, lost one last year, and one we got adopted out died too. Sucks. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/197 "2015-05-13T05:14:03Z")
> [@Kelevra](#): > > Dropped my boy at daycare today and got an eyeful of the teacher’s ass crack. It seems to me that if you are going to be leaning over to pick up toddlers all day that you should wear pants that don’t show 6 inches of crack. Maybe this is where the “Mom Jeans” style started. I cant understand how anyone, male of female, could not know their ass crack is sticking out. Buy a fucking belt, its gross. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/198 "2015-05-13T05:26:52Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > No, what I meant was it kind of took away some of whatever good feeling I had about the guy getting fired. (Apparently I wasn’t supposed to feel good about it.) If it was the bit about the Hydro One guy in Toronto (I just saw something about that in another Pit thread), please go right back to feeling good about it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/199 "2015-05-13T12:10:30Z")
Yes, **kaylasdad99** , it was. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/200 "2015-05-13T14:18:23Z")
I’m dogsitting today and waiting for the chimney people. It’s gorgeous outside today and I’m stuck here waiting 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983.md?page=11)