# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/141 "2015-05-08T17:25:52Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > See, I disagree. No one’s religious faith should be “mocked”. The Amish are simply _wrong_ for not going for higher education. And, no Jew actually _forces_ women to move, hell, that’s not even part of the Talmud. Etc, etc. > > “Mocking” serves no purpose. Explaining why they are wrong (except about their actual faith) firmly and quietly- it was is needed. I’m not in business to explain anything to religious people. In fact, one of this things I dislike most about religious people is that they keep trying to explain things to me. I mock because it makes me happy. I wasn’t trying to “serve a purpose”. I was trying to mock. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/142 "2015-05-08T19:19:27Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > You should be able to take it somewhere to get the scratches fixed. Or there are plenty of replacement screens on eBay. ---
**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 8, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/143 "2015-05-08T20:19:30Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I will probably never like rap music – I’m the wrong demographic – but I’d be a lot more tolerant if they removed the requirement that you _have_ to play it in the car at 110 decibels with the windows rolled down so that the entire world can know what a fucking badass you are because of your musical choices. I read David Byrne’s book about music, “How Music Works,” and a theory he put forth in that book was that certain genres of music were designed to be played in certain venues/environments. Classical music was designed to be played in concert halls, for example. And he claims most modern hip-hop was meant to sound best played in cars. I’m not trying to apologize for annoying idiots who blast rap music in cars, as it annoys me too. I’m just explaining one person’s theory as to one reason why it might happen. Of course, there are many who argue rap music doesn’t sound good in any environment. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/144 "2015-05-08T20:33:26Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > . > > Of course, there are many who argue rap music doesn’t sound good in any environment. 😉 Even tho some might call me a “Old Fogey” i actually enjoy some “Old School” Rap aka HipHop, where violence, cursewords and a antipathy to “bitches” were uncommon. “Rapper’s Delight” “Rapture” and so forth. ---
**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 8, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/145 "2015-05-08T21:26:26Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > You know what MY sacred idea is? That ALL religious belief – even Islamic religious believe is up for mockery. As an American I firmly believe that I have the right to tell the Amish they are being morons for denying their kids access to high school, that Jews who force women to move on airplanes are dipshits who should be firmly told off, that Evangelicals who screech about abortion while denying people access to food stamps and birth control pills are fetus worshiping nitwits, that the pope is a sexist schmuck who should go have sex and that yes Mohammed is not someone I have much respect for. There’s religious beliefs and there’s being an asshole. Religious beliefs are the existence of a deity, the rituals for connecting with that deity, and the such. Being an asshole is what you describe in the quoted paragraph. Assholery should be mocked. Religion should be kept between oneself and one’s deity. And people need to treat each other nicely, like they asked us to in kindergarten. ---
**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 8, 2015, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/146 "2015-05-08T21:28:41Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Even tho some might call me a “Old Fogey” i actually enjoy some “Old School” Rap aka HipHop, where violence, cursewords and a antipathy to “bitches” were uncommon. > “Rapper’s Delight” “Rapture” and so forth. I strongly object to “Rapture” being described as rap music. It is at best C rap. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/147 "2015-05-08T23:02:35Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > There’s religious beliefs and there’s being an asshole. > > Religious beliefs are the existence of a deity, the rituals for connecting with that deity, and the such. > > Being an asshole is what you describe in the quoted paragraph. > > Assholery should be mocked. Religion should be kept between oneself and one’s deity. And people need to treat each other nicely, like they asked us to in kindergarten. Much of religion is assholery. It deserves to be mocked. I feel the Muslim woman in my local mall dressed head to toe in black on a hot summer day while the idiot man next to her struts in shorts showing off his hairy legs is just giving into sexist bullshit. I reserve the right to mock her and her dumb fuck spouse who should also dress the same way as his wife. Same thing with the idiot Hebrew school principal of my youth who sent me home for wearing pants under my skirt on a freezing winter day. Mockery of religion is an age old tradition, one with very long roots in the world. Protestants mocked Catholics who in turn mocked them. Hindus mocked the belief system of Muslims who also mocked them back. And everyone mocked the Jews. I had hoped we were long past justifying violence as a response to such mockery. You know what is asshole mockery in my opinion? [Muslims holding a holocaust denial contest.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Holocaust_Cartoon_Competition) This offends me personally in ways I cannot begin to express. It is disgusting. They are mocking the murder of a million Jewish kids just like my little girls. I am so offended by this that a part of me wants to take the people who had anything to do with this and slam them against a fucking wall and smack them around for being brainless, tasteless, anti-Semitic assholes who are promoting hatred of Jews and historical lies that make Nazi scum look like decent human beings. Yet I won’t. Because that would be wrong. Even more wrong than holocaust denial which I find beyond repulsive. We once had a world where people were burned at the stake for refusing to take communion or holding a secret mass with a priest in their own house. My own relatives fled Christians who tried to drag them into church and engaged in physical assault against them because they did not believe in the idea that a wafer was the body of some Jew who lived two thousand years ago or that this Jew was the son of god. Let’s not let anyone bring that world back. That’s why they fled here. So that Pamela Geller, however repulsive and tasteless she is, could have the right to be in the public square without the threat of violence. This is not Saudi Arabia. It is not the Ireland of my husband’s relatives where women are shamelessly allowed to die from septic miscarriage. It is the United States of America where Geller can hurl nasty names at Mohammed, I can insult the pope and someone may even hold a holocaust denial contest all without being the target of violence. If that’s not a worthy belief system, I fall to know what is. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/148 "2015-05-09T18:55:14Z")
Husband, you are really, really pushing it. You got an email from the manager of the department of the brilliant company you temped at for a few months last year. In it, the manager is practically offering you a one year contract to work there again, but he also asked for an explanation of something as well. He quoted something as though copying and pasting from an email to another manager at this company. Apparently when you left that previous position you shot off a bridge-burning insult about the company to someone, and that someone forwarded it to your manager. I can’t believe you’d do something that incredibly stupid. No, wait, that’s exactly like you. You just can’t wait to deliver a nasty, negative opinion, even if it means shooting yourself in the foot. You deleted the email exchange discussing all this from our in-box, but not before I got a look at it. God send that you get this job, because we desperately need it, but Jesus H. Christ I’m sick of you shooting off your mouth at your jobs. ---
**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 9, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/149 "2015-05-09T22:40:51Z")
Call center lady, I know you meant well but in the future please don’t end a conversation with “I hope you and your mother have a happy Mother’s Day.” 1. I do not nor shall I ever have children. 2. My mother–who I was very close to, by the way–died several years ago. It was not a good death. 3. Fuck you. I hate Mother’s Day. ---
**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 9, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/150 "2015-05-09T23:10:02Z")
**Catamount** , that reminds me of the time I made the mistake of walking into a Hallmark on the Saturday before Father’s Day to purchase an anniversary card. My father is dead, both grandfathers are long dead, and there are no male relatives or close friends who need to be acknowledged on that day. From the moment I walked into the store, I was bombarded with questions from their sales force demanding to know if I needed a Father’s Day card for a father, grandfather, new father, close friend, boss…I finally told them I just needed an anniversary card. “For your father or grandfather?” was the reply. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/151 "2015-05-09T23:55:15Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Do ya’all know those stupid looking bullet shot stickers that people put on cars? I really have no idea why they are a thing, but I bought some of them tonight. They are going on jerky driver’s truck tomorrow. (Me) Weren’t there any cars in your price range without bullet holes in them? (Friend) They’re just stickers, I bought it off some stupid kid, they peel off like… DUDE THERE IS AN ACTUAL BULLET HOLE UNDER THIS ONE WTF ---
**Author:** ![trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trapezoidal_jellyfish)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/152 "2015-05-10T01:33:03Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > Geeze Louise, **trapezoidal jellyfish** , what a horrible experience… What you describe is neglect on the psychiatrist’s part, and you can file a complaint against her for that… I hope you do… and also hope you find a better Doc soon _HUGS_ Sorry, somehow I missed this until now. Thank you! ---
**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:** [May 10, 2015, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/153 "2015-05-10T12:01:27Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > You deleted the email exchange discussing all this from our in-box, but not before I got a look at it. “Our” in-box? Is that a thing? I keep thinking about it and can’t imagine it working, for us at least. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/154 "2015-05-10T14:24:04Z")
I’ve seen plenty of “[jamesandsusan@aolknockoff.com](mailto:jamesandsusan@aolknockoff.com)” type of email addresses. ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/155 "2015-05-10T15:25:12Z")
Well, the worst we have expected has come to pass. My dad has cancer of the esophagus. Just a couple more days and I can head down to be with my parents as they go to the oncologist on Tuesday. My mom is a breast cancer survivor (17 years in remission) so we are not quite strangers to cancer in this family, but oh, Lord. Today is also my dad’s birthday. Everything is kind of unreal at this point. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/156 "2015-05-11T02:22:17Z")
I’m sorry he had to get that kind of news on his own birthday. ☹ Best of luck to you and your folks. ETA: The US Mothers Day is almost over and NOBODY wandered in to bitch about their crazy/self-centered/bitch mother? ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/157 "2015-05-11T02:59:25Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I’m sorry he had to get that kind of news on his own birthday. ☹ Best of luck to you and your folks. > ETA: The US Mothers Day is almost over and NOBODY wandered in to bitch about their crazy/self-centered/bitch mother? 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? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/158 "2015-05-11T03:45:00Z")
Goddammit, New England, we had our first 70 degree day less than a week ago. I saw _snow_ still on the ground last Monday. My tulips just barely bloomed and the lilacs are still just thinking about it. So why was it 90 degrees today? Is it too much to ask for a couple of weeks between “Sunovabitch, it’s cold” and “Oh, yeah, humidity, I forgot about that.” ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/159 "2015-05-11T12:29:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983/160 "2015-05-11T13:09:14Z")
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. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-may-be-time-to-rant-a-bit-minirants/718983.md?page=9)