# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/21 "2015-05-01T17:25:34Z")
> [@saje](#): > > My rant is more of a whine : > > Dearest husband, will you please try not to spend every dime we have coming in before we actually get it??? Is it a guitar? I bet it’s a guitar. Yeah. Guitar. Before you discuss it with him, I advise first to take some time and look at it. Admire the finish. See that flame? Look at how the grain picks up the light! And the inlays, they are so choice, the pearl just dances along the neck, so smooth, like it shares DNA with the rosewood. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/22 "2015-05-01T17:45:01Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > Yeah, I’m ok with the firing. I’ve never met someone who asked that question (non-ironically) who wasn’t a racist idiot. Why would you want them teaching in schools? Agreed. And if someone believes that and doesn’t have enough sense to not say it in public, s/he isn’t smart enough to teach school. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/23 "2015-05-01T17:52:15Z")
Dear Significant Other. I make X per year, x\12 per month. That is it. That’s all of it. If we blow through that and need more…IT AIN’T COMING!! You say ‘I need some money’ and I say ‘We don’t have any’…I’m not being a asshole, you are. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/24 "2015-05-01T18:04:33Z")
I’m confused. Is this not the May mini-rant thread? Or has it been designated as a ‘spouses and money’ rant thread instead? No complaints on that front - we don’t argue about money or much of anything else. But the sun… maybe it could make an effort to peek out just a teeny bit more soon? We still have snow on the ground and, although the weather persons are making noises that yes, we will get some warmth and sun, maybe even starting today, the sun showed itself for about 20 minutes this morning and now it’s back to cold and gray outside. Getting depressing. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/25 "2015-05-01T18:09:52Z")
I have a mini-sad. I’m still slightly bummed about life as a whole, tearing up very easily. I just got off the phone with a client who has a lovely accent. The same exact accent as my grandmother had. Said my name with the same funny little infliction. Now I really miss my Grandma. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/26 "2015-05-01T18:23:35Z")
I’m a little confused about the hostility towards the teacher and the assumption that she must be racist. Isn’t black history month racist? And wouldn’t asking when we can have an (anything else) month just be push back against the racism? Guess I’d need context to see why this is a firing offense. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/27 "2015-05-01T18:23:47Z")
6pm I had a couple glasses of wine with dinner, husband had a beer. Fast forward to 8 pm I made a side car. Husband said don’t guzzle that down I’m worried about you. (Insert drinking too much)😕 I say what are you talking about? This is one cocktail after dinner. Him, well sometimes you have more than one. Me, your point?? Geeze 30 years together and he’s now Carrie Nation??? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/28 "2015-05-01T19:12:30Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Isn’t black history month racist? No, it’s fucking well not, JAQoff. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/29 "2015-05-01T19:24:38Z")
> [@andros](#): > > No, it’s fucking well not, JAQoff. Why not? If wanting a white history month is racist, why isn’t having a black history month racist? And see if you can actually answer the question rather than just posting a knee jerk emotional response. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/30 "2015-05-01T19:49:10Z")
Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![Fiveroptic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiveroptic/32/8257_2.png) [@Fiveroptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveroptic)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/31 "2015-05-01T19:49:42Z")
It has been “White History Month” since the beginning of written history. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/32 "2015-05-01T19:58:41Z")
JAQing, are you allowed to refer to your ignore list and adding people to it? ETA Here in the pit, I mean ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/33 "2015-05-01T20:45:10Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Yes, Mr Superintendent, I get that the teacher muttered a racially insensitive phrase\* during a staff meeting. I get that the teacher is not tenured. But did you really need to can her ass with 7 weeks left in the year? This is my son’s third teacher this year who’s been replaced by a long term sub (1 pregnancy, 1 new job), I’m getting tired of explaining why adults just leave with little or no notice. > > I’m also wondering how the two upcoming play productions (the big project of the year for these K-2 kids) are going to proceed without a choreographer. Shit, don’t you have some kind of humiliating sensitivity training you can make her take, so she never says something stupid like this again? Or, just don’t renew her for next year? > > I feel like the kids (and some of her coworkers) are getting screwed over to account for one adult saying a stupid thing within earshot of another adult. > > The fireable phrase in question? When is white history month? Have to spoil it so nobody accidentally reads such filth. This is one reason why Tenure is a Good Thing. Another is “Didn’t donate or campaign for xxxx? You’re fired”. This actually used to happen. A Lot. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/34 "2015-05-01T20:49:58Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > I’m a little confused about the hostility towards the teacher and the assumption that she must be racist. Isn’t black history month racist? And wouldn’t asking when we can have an (anything else) month just be push back against the racism? > > Guess I’d need context to see why this is a firing offense. I agree. Mind you, in context with other behaviors that \*could \*mean he’s a racist. But he also could just be into sarcasm or dark irony. In any case- _one thing_, muttered under your breath? ---
**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:** [May 1, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/35 "2015-05-01T23:15:16Z")
God fucking dammit, I gave up on Crabtree & Evelyn restocking an item I needed for Mother’s Day, and bought it on Amazon. I happened to check the site today, and the item is back in stock. :mad: I had coupons, dammit!!! ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/36 "2015-05-02T05:15:25Z")
> [@Fiveroptic](#): > > It has been “White History Month” since the beginning of written history. You mean that there has been only ONE MONTH in all of recorded history??? :eek: ---
**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 2, 2015, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/37 "2015-05-02T06:25:50Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > JAQing, are you allowed to refer to your ignore list and adding people to it? > > ETA Here in the pit, I mean Not to be a junior Mod, but in the Pit ONLY, yes, it’s permitted. ---
**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 2, 2015, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/38 "2015-05-02T08:18:41Z")
Idiot #1. I called you back, and like you did, left you a voice mail. In that voice mail, which took about a minute of time, I answered every question you had on YOUR voice mail and promised to follow up with details in an email. There is no reason to call back 4 minutes later and ask me to repeat all the information because you didn’t bother to check said voice mail. If you have a question or need a clarification, fine. But thats not what you needed. Rather than taking down my information, which was clear, concise and to the point, you decided to waste ANOTHER 7 minutes of my time asking the same exact stupid questions you asked in YOUR voicemail, as well as taking up my valuable time with small talk, and clouding the topic with additional stupid questions. CHECK YOUR VOICE MAIL. That was why it was invented. This is not a midnight 800 chat line. Idiot #2. You can call me two, three four hundred times without leaving a voicemail, I WILL pick up the phone and take your call when I AM READY TO DO SO. I didnt pick up the phone the first time you called. Obviously, I was not in a position to do so. Constantly harassing me with call after call every 3 minutes then hanging up when I dont answer will not increase the urgency of whatever stupid thing that you need any more. Leave a voice mail or text. Idiot #3. “More can be accomplished with one phone call than with several emails” email signature. On . . an email. Um, no not always, GRANDAD. Imagine if Alexander Graham Bell called his friend, and his friend said, you know what Alex, instead of this 30 second phone call, why dont you sit, spend half an hour writing a letter, and Ill get it a month later via Pony Express? Look, I know you are in your 60s, and maybe technology has passed you by. But email can be quick, efficient, and in most, not all cases a great way to communicate. Theres no reason to respond to every fucking email I send to you with a phone call. You have a laptop. You have an iPad (which I am guessing still isn’t turned on) and you have a iPhone. Assuming you know how to use the English language and keyboard, you can easily respond to my quick email with another quick email. Theres no reason for you to call me every single fucking time I send you an email. Get with it, or retire. ---
**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 2, 2015, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/39 "2015-05-02T08:27:56Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > In this case, the teacher has skills that aren’t going to be replicated with a short term sub, and there’s a month and a half left in the school year. The kids who are taking dance class with her\* are screwed, it’s now a wasted course. The kids who were going to be working with her on their big production are screwed, there’s no choreographer anymore\*\*. There’s zero indication that her teaching was, in any way, impacted by race. > > I’m cool if the administration wants to part ways with her, but don’t fuck over the kids in the process. I think the kids are definitely getting screwed with the timing of this dismissal. > \*This K-2 school is unique in that the 1st and 2nd graders get to choose electives, each teacher does a few electives throughout the year, and this teacher is the only one with a significant (as in, is qualified to teach) dance background. So, if she said what she said in September, it would be OK? I wouldn’t want my kids being taught by this ignorant bitch, even if it meant their little dance recital would have it go down the tubes. Besides, the kiddies are 7 or 8, Im sure they’ll get over the colossal disappointment of their scary dance careers being torpedoed because the school didn’t want a passive-aggressive racist on their staff. > [@](#): > > \*\*I’m betting my wife (semi-retired theatre professional) is going to get roped into helping out, because she’s that sort of helpful person. Then she should. When it comes to education, principle overrules practicality, always, and that is the lesson that should be taught to kids. The same idiots who whine about there not being a white history month are the same dolts who cant understand why its not OK for white people to use the N-word. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/40 "2015-05-02T10:49:34Z")
Oh the horror, the horror! Children will have to proceed with their school play without the benefit of choreographer! OMG! Will no one think of the children? Isn’t it better they be exposed to a little, not terribly subtle, racism than have to forgo choreography ? Someone should sue! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983.md?page=3)