# It's a new year - time for fresh new mini-rants! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 4, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629 "2010-01-04T16:26:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/641 "2010-03-17T11:28:49Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > I see they’ve finally started putting “do not microwave” labels on those cheap-ass plastic bottles they sell honey in anymore. > I suppose one exploded and and the honey cartel got sued for 3rd degree pain and suffering over 90% of some poor bastards body, but great holy Jesus, would it have killed you fuckers to have checked out the thermal properties of your jars _before_ you marketed them, instead of several years later? Thanks for posting this. I noticed that my honey had crystallized, and I was wondering if I could nuke it or if I needed to warm it in a warm water bath. I don’t eat that much honey (it’s really just about pure liquid sugar) but if I’m gonna raise my blood sugar, honey is one of my favorite ways to raise it. > [@Jackmannii](#): > > Dear extended-cell-phone-family at the next table in the restaurant: the reason your two-year-old is yelling, screeching and banging the table is that you have been sitting amidst the wreckage of your long-ago finished dinner for easily 45 minutes, staring glazedly at your cellphones and occasionally engaging in incredibly dull chatter, ignoring your offspring who is up way way past what should be its bedtime. If looks from fellow diners could kill, you would be mere smoldering corpses, but your obliviousness serves as protection. > > Learn some considerateness for your child and for others around you. And in about two or three years, those parents are going to start getting notes from the PreK and kindergarten teachers, telling them that their child is unmanageable and generally has no social skills. And they’re going to wonder WHY. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/642 "2010-03-17T16:28:37Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Lara Bingle can fuck off. Huh?Did she kick your puppy? ETA: Whoa, that was quite a Google adventure ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/643 "2010-03-17T16:57:08Z")
I am honestly fucking tired of racist, small-minded people telling me I am stupid and have blinders on and can’t see the world for what it is because I’m against racism. Addditionally, if one more racist person tells me that because they once saw one picture of one Muslim carrying a anti-white racist sign that that proves all Muslims hate us, I think my head is going to explode. So, because the Klan exists that means that every single white person is a racist? Also, do you reaaaaally think that implying I’m a fool is going to make me listen to you? Do you really think that implying I’m a fool lends you _greater_ credibility? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/644 "2010-03-17T19:59:06Z")
> [@niblet\_head](#): > > So, because the Klan exists that means that every single white person is a racist? I’d refute that, but I’m too busy kicking a Mexican. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/645 "2010-03-17T20:33:30Z")
Not much of a challenge when they’re just lying around sucking off the public teat. \<–sarcasm ---
**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:** [March 17, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/646 "2010-03-17T23:35:44Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > And in about two or three years, those parents are going to start getting notes from the PreK and kindergarten teachers, telling them that their child is unmanageable and generally has no social skills. And they’re going to wonder WHY. Sadly, they’ll probably just blame the teachers. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/647 "2010-03-19T10:05:09Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Lara Bingle can fuck off. Michael Clarke broke the golden rule “Don’t stick your dick in the crazy”. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/648 "2010-03-19T10:16:50Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Michael Clarke broke the golden rule “Don’t stick your dick in the crazy”. I don’t care, it’s not News, it’s gossip, and worse it’s a part of their private lives that we have no right to even know about, and yet it’s constant headline news every fucking day for the past three weeks. Only the Media cares about this so called scandal, but they are behaving like the public want to know, and I think it’s clear they don’t give a shit. I don’t even know who those people are, let alone care about what they do to each other behind closed doors. Even her naked picture was boring. ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/649 "2010-03-19T14:45:53Z")
Hey asshole - guess what - I’m right and you’re wrong. And no matter how large the font is and how many exclamation points you use, I’m still fucking right, and you are just a fucking moron. If you can’t come up with logic, then say it louder, that always works. :rolleyes: Fuckhole. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/650 "2010-03-19T14:56:11Z")
A note to my co-workers (that will never be actually posted in the appropriate place): This office does not have ice service. We do not subscribe to a company who sends ice elves to refill our ice trays automatically. If you empty an ice tray, please FILL an ice tray. The sink is six feet away. That’s approximately 2 1/2 paces. It’s not across the building. Also, and I’m only starting to notice this lately, if you bring a frozen ice tray to your desk to fill your cup, please return the ice tray (preferably filled, to the freezer). We’re now missing about four ice trays, over the space of a month. I don’t know where they’re going or what is being done to them, but it would be nice to have the full complement back. Especially seeing as how there are about three people in this entire office that will bother to refill them. ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/651 "2010-03-19T14:57:26Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > A note to my co-workers (that will never be actually posted in the appropriate place): > > This office does not have ice service. We do not subscribe to a company who sends ice elves to refill our ice trays automatically. If you empty an ice tray, please FILL an ice tray. The sink is six feet away. That’s approximately 2 1/2 paces. It’s not across the building. > > Also, and I’m only starting to notice this lately, if you bring a frozen ice tray to your desk to fill your cup, please return the ice tray (preferably filled, to the freezer). We’re now missing about four ice trays, over the space of a month. I don’t know where they’re going or what is being done to them, but it would be nice to have the full complement back. Especially seeing as how there are about three people in this entire office that will bother to refill them. I should post this note in my office too! Also - if you use the sponge at the sink: wring it out and place it on the ledge, don’t just leave it all wet and nasty laying in the sink. Nasty ass people. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/652 "2010-03-19T15:22:05Z")
> [@otternell](#): > > Also - if you use the sponge at the sink: wring it out and place it on the ledge, don’t just leave it all wet and nasty laying in the sink. Nasty ass people. I don’t even want to start on sink issues. Our lunch room sink has some funky plumbing that requires an active pump to get what goes down the drain to the actual sewer line, rather than gravity, like every other sink in the entire world uses. The problem with this is that even very fine pieces of solid matter will eventually clog up the pump, causing it to shut down and therefore preventing the sink from draining into the sewer. There have been signs on this sink from the day it was installed explicitly forbidding the dumping of anything but clear liquids (water, coffee, broth, etc) into the drain. But every couple of months, without fail, we’ll arrive in the morning to the stench of stagnant water with significant organic particulates that has been sitting in the sink or the pipe the entire weekend. And then the office has to call the plumber out to deal with it. There is a SIGN over the sink! There has been a sign over the sink since the sink was installed after the renovation. My co-workers are, ostensibly, an educated bunch (the majority are caseworkers, which requires at least a bachelor’s degree). They are not illiterate. Yet I walk in this morning to see a field of green shreds (looks like spinach) sprinkled over the bottom of the sink. And the pump’s not running, by the (lack of) sound of it. Idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/653 "2010-03-19T15:48:16Z")
Newsflash: Signs do not work. They never work. The only people who read and/or pay attention to the signs are the ones who don’t need them in the first place. Nobody ever thinks general statements apply to them, _ever_, in the _history of the world._ ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/654 "2010-03-19T15:56:21Z")
I tell you what would work - shove the nasty sponge in their mouth and then cram their worthless head into the drain at jayjay’s office. That’d fix 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/655 "2010-03-19T16:02:01Z")
I’ll subscribe to that. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/656 "2010-03-19T17:33:53Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Michael Clarke broke the golden rule “Don’t stick your dick in the crazy”. But don’t forget the caveat: “Unless she’s hot” ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/657 "2010-03-19T18:26:41Z")
> [@otternell](#): > > I tell you what would work - shove the nasty sponge in their mouth and then cram their worthless head into the drain at jayjay’s office. > > That’d fix 'em. Don’t mind me; just daydreaming about doing this to past co-workers. I don’t know what kind of upbringing you had to just dump all your lunch leavings in the office sink and walk away - even people who are used to having garburators in the sink know you have to actually use them, and not just leave your leftover oatmeal in the sink, right? And the dripping, nasty sponge - ubiquitous. As are the spilled dry goods all over the counters - coffee, sugar, whatever else people were into. Hey, guess what? You spilled it! You clean it! It is NOT the office cleaners’ jobs to wipe up coffee spills throughout the day. Hmm, you guys seem to have set me off a little bit. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/658 "2010-03-19T18:42:40Z")
Come on, Facebook. I have now marked “I don’t know this person”, what, three times? I have ignored her friend request at least four more times. I just now marked her as spam. Why won’t you hold up your end of the implied bargain and block her from making friend requests to me? Otherwise, why even have these options? I know, I know. The next time she tries to friend me, I’ll just have to bite the bullet and ask her who in the hell she is, but I shouldn’t have to do that IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/659 "2010-03-19T18:52:14Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Lara Bingle can fuck off. All Google tells me is she’s hot and fucks a lot of cricketers. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-new-year-time-for-fresh-new-mini-rants/523629/660 "2010-03-20T03:02:03Z")
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