# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/41 "2015-05-02T13:50:54Z")
While we’re on the topic of idiotic school decisions, our local school busybody is at it again. She used to be on the school board until people got sick of her grandstanding at meetings and voted her off. Now she’s trying to get her name in the paper by throwing a hissy fit over the fact that high school sophomores were reading\* The Kite Runner\* instead of _All Quiet on the Western Front_. The high schools promptly replaced their spines with cooked spaghetti and yanked \*Kite \*for _All Quiet_. Heaven forbid that high school students read something that reflects the world today! They must be sheltered into thinking that the outside world hasn’t changed since 1950! Who cares what they’re exposed to outside of school, we shouldn’t give them a safe place to discuss issues that have happened in this century at all! ---
**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:** [May 2, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/42 "2015-05-02T17:01:48Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > 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. Normally, yeah. Given the context (i.e. this wasn’t a whine but a mutter, at a staff meeting), I’d withhold judgment. It seems draconian to fire someone over a single sarcastic question muttered at a staff meeting. And I can imagine contexts where the teacher might have said this, not out of racism but out of frustration with some nonsense the school was pushing. On the other hand, this may well have been not just an isolated incident but the straw that broke the camel’s back. If this person really were displaying racism in ways that were visible to the children or that affected her teaching, that’s not someone you want working with children. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/43 "2015-05-02T20:46:40Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Normally, yeah. Given the context (i.e. this wasn’t a whine but a mutter, at a staff meeting), I’d withhold judgment. It seems draconian to fire someone over a single sarcastic question muttered at a staff meeting. And I can imagine contexts where the teacher might have said this, not out of racism but out of frustration with some nonsense the school was pushing. > > On the other hand, this may well have been not just an isolated incident but the straw that broke the camel’s back. If this person really were displaying racism in ways that were visible to the children or that affected her teaching, that’s not someone you want working with children. Look! Some intelligent and considered thought on the subject! Thank you. ---
**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, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/44 "2015-05-02T20:56:04Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Normally, yeah. Given the context (i.e. this wasn’t a whine but a mutter, at a staff meeting), I’d withhold judgment. It seems draconian to fire someone over a single sarcastic question muttered at a staff meeting. And I can imagine contexts where the teacher might have said this, not out of racism but out of frustration with some nonsense the school was pushing. > > On the other hand, this may well have been not just an isolated incident but the straw that broke the camel’s back. If this person really were displaying racism in ways that were visible to the children or that affected her teaching, that’s not someone you want working with children. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Look! Some intelligent and considered thought on the subject! Thank you. Yeah. Not to be a junior Mod, but in the Pit ONLY, that’s not permitted. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![grayhairedmomma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/47e85d/32.png) [@grayhairedmomma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grayhairedmomma)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/45 "2015-05-02T21:32:55Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Normally, yeah. Given the context (i.e. this wasn’t a whine but a mutter, at a staff meeting), I’d withhold judgment. It seems draconian to fire someone over a single sarcastic question muttered at a staff meeting. And I can imagine contexts where the teacher might have said this, not out of racism but out of frustration with some nonsense the school was pushing. I’m quite curious to know in what context this would have been an understandable comment? ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/46 "2015-05-02T22:50:06Z")
Where the fuck is my May damn it? It was in the low fifties this week. Then it’s going to be in the low eighties next week. Where the heck is spring? Cold, cold, cold, slightly less cold, a bit less warmer and then AIR CONDITIONING is not acceptable unless you voluntarily inhabit the great plains. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/47 "2015-05-03T01:02:28Z")
That’s it. I’m never moving again. Or I might be willing to move again, but there’s no way I’m opening up the majority of these boxes unless I decide to re-up the lease in six months. I’ve managed to get down to the kitchen, which shouldn’t be too bad, and a bunch of miscellaneous crap I have no idea how to pack, so at this point I’m just randomly throwing things that fit. into boxes. ---
**Author:** ![Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nikki_Tikki_Tavi)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/48 "2015-05-03T01:31:07Z")
You selfish asshole. If you didn’t want to keep our appointment (that was on the calendar for a MONTH and that I called to confirm FOUR DAYS ahead of time) then take two seconds out of your important, busy life and shoot me a motherfucking text saying so. Hiding in your house while I knock on your door (oh yes, I saw your car in the driveway) and not answering your phone is a DICK MOVE when I drove an hour to get to you in addition to blocking out time on a beautiful afternoon to meet with you. I could have booked another appointment, I could have planned to run errands, clean my house, make a dentist appointment, have lunch with a friend, BITE MY TOENAILS AND STARE AT THE WALL, anything but drive an hour to stand on your porch for 10 minutes knocking and calling, if you’d only taken the time to call, email, or text me. A pox on you, a pox on you and your stupid, thoughtless face for derailing my carefully planned day and taking the appointment fee I was counting on out of my pocket. I hate you and I hope you rot. ---
**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 3, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/49 "2015-05-03T02:53:26Z")
Hey, WAYZ! You owe me gas money. Arden Hills is not West St Paul. Stupid app. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/50 "2015-05-03T03:03:08Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > 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. I had one today, too. It’s been more than half my life since I’ve been able to say “Mom” and mean it. Oh, she was a crazy, toxic, dysfunctional drunk (understatement) but that doesn’t mean I don’t miss her every once in a while. ---
**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 3, 2015, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/51 "2015-05-03T07:48:13Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Normally, yeah. Given the context (i.e. this wasn’t a whine but a mutter, at a staff meeting), I’d withhold judgment. It seems draconian to fire someone over a single sarcastic question muttered at a staff meeting. And I can imagine contexts where the teacher might have said this, not out of racism but out of frustration with some nonsense the school was pushing. > > On the other hand, this may well have been not just an isolated incident but the straw that broke the camel’s back. If this person really were displaying racism in ways that were visible to the children or that affected her teaching, that’s not someone you want working with children. I can only go by the information the poster was giving. That said, I am hard pressed to think of any situation where uttering this was justified. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/52 "2015-05-03T14:29:32Z")
Fecking horny woodpecker hammering on the flashing of the chimney at 5:30 am. Been doing it for a week now . It is getting very tedious, surely you can’t be that bad at getting a date with a female woodpecker,. Hell just start a thread here on the dope about not understanding woodpecker dating but please stop hammering on the flashing. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/53 "2015-05-03T15:07:09Z")
Hey, sanctimonious bitch on the hiking trail: before you lecture people about what is or isn’t illegal, you might want to make sure your dog is on a leash. [QUOTE=Blue Ridge Parkway FAQ] Dogs and other pets are allowed on the Parkway but must be on a leash (not to exceed six feet) or otherwise under your physical control. [/QUOTE] People like you are the reason why I carry pepper spray when I’m hiking. It’s not for the bears or phantom attackers, it’s off-lead, ill-mannered “oh, he’s really friendly!” dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/54 "2015-05-04T03:11:29Z")
Remember the old fashioned baseball rain check? if you had a ticket to a game that was rained out, you could exchange it for any available ticket of equal or lesser value for the rest of the season. No more. Now your only option is to take a ticket to the make-up date that the team assigns. So you may buy tickets to a weekend game in April, because you can go to a game on a weekend, and after the game gets rained out be forced to accept a ticket to a weekday afternoon makeup game in July. Yeah right, like I’m going to take off work to watch the shitty White Sox. Then they wonder why nobody comes to the games. ---
**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 4, 2015, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/55 "2015-05-04T05:08:33Z")
Moron rednecks troll Muslims, get exactly what they wanted: > **[Gunmen Dead After Attack At Muhammad Art Exhibit And Cartoon Contest In Texas](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiakoerner/shootings-reported-at-muhammad-art-exhibit-and-cartoon-conte)** > > The two gunmen were identified by the FBI Monday as roommates from Phoenix, according to NBC News. The men injured a security officer at the Garland, Texas, event and were then killed by police. I get free speech, but theres ONE thing Muslims ask everyone else to do, and that is to not clown Mohammed. Black people ask white people the ONE thing to not do, is use the N— word. But just to prove a point, white Christian idiots go out of their way to do both then get outraged when their actions provoke anger. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/56 "2015-05-04T05:56:29Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > Fecking horny woodpecker hammering on the flashing of the chimney at 5:30 am. Been doing it for a week now . It is getting very tedious, surely you can’t be that bad at getting a date with a female woodpecker,. Hell just start a thread here on the dope about not understanding woodpecker dating but please stop hammering on the flashing. We have blue jays who try to crack nuts on the metal roof of our carport. At all hours of the day. My own rant: No, you may not have your husband stand in line in front of me at the supermarket checkout and then show up with a full cart. You may go back to the end of the line. And no, I will not be quiet about it. You can act the bitch all you want, but I WILL NOT let you cut in front of me. Live with it. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/57 "2015-05-04T12:34:57Z")
Fucking slugs eating my herbs. It’s time to get some diatomaceous earth and slice the hell out of the bastards. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/58 "2015-05-04T14:05:22Z")
Dearest Husband, I’m so impressed over the progress you’ve made on our basement floor. And I totally understand why we had the original ripped out. After all, once you know you have asbestos in the flooring, you need to disclose it if you ever sell or having professionally removed, which is fucking expensive. BUT, if you’ll recall, our deal was that after we paid to have it removed last July, if we hadn’t laid the new floor by October, we would have someone else finish it off. In October, we pushed it out until January. Then we pushed it out more. It is now May and we have been without a basement for almost a year. That’s over half of our living space. You can’t complain about how messy the house is if a) we are short half our house and b) you leave shit all over the place and c) will not throw anything out or donate. Now that our son’s door frame has cracked upstairs and even the threshold had to be taken out, I’m calling someone, dammit. Yes, I know you _can_ do it. I know it’s easy. Much easier than a whole floor. But easy does not equal done and I’m tired of living in a pig sty. Your loving wife (who just called for a quote), overly P.S. The kitchen crap we have around that you said you think we should donate but when I put it in a box to take to Goodwill, you pull it out (even though you do not cook and it’s mine)? It’s donated. I’m tired of working around it. Because this is what happens when I have a day off to myself. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/59 "2015-05-04T14:49:38Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > I get free speech, but theres ONE thing Muslims ask everyone else to do, and that is to not clown Mohammed. They don’t _ask_ it, they _demand_ it under penalty of death. I get pissed when people tell me, “You can’t say that or I’ll kill you.” Fuck them and their Precious Widdle Prophet. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/60 "2015-05-04T14:51:13Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > Moron rednecks troll Muslims, get exactly what they wanted: > > [Gunmen Dead After Attack At Muhammad Art Exhibit And Cartoon Contest In Texas](http://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/shootings-reported-at-muhammad-art-exhibit-and-cartoon-conte#.qtED8KP0K) > > I get free speech, but theres ONE thing Muslims ask everyone else to do, and that is to not clown Mohammed. Black people ask white people the ONE thing to not do, is use the N— word. > > But just to prove a point, white Christian idiots go out of their way to do both then get outraged when their actions provoke anger. Islam is a religion not a race. Disliking someone because they happen to have darker skin is hardly the same thing as disliking someone because voluntarily they have a certain belief system. I reserve the right mock to Mohammed just as I reserve the right to mock Jesus or yahweh and the flying spaghetti monster. Tough shit on Muslims or Christians or Jews or followers of the flying spaghetti monster. And anti-vaxers, homeopaths, flat earthers and truthers for that matter. Muslim idiots engaged in physical violence because someone called their sixth century founder some names are just as disgusting as Evangelical assholes demanding we take evolution out of textbooks and bombing abortion clinics. Muslims do not have the right to declare their particular ideology labeled off limits from mockery. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983.md?page=4)