# It's time for June mini rants. Be the second... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 1, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953 "2011-06-01T13:37:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/321 "2011-06-26T14:22:40Z")
Snotty little bitch at the outdoor concert last night: We grabbed a table two hours ago in order to have a seat in order to listen to the music and wait for Curtis Salgado to perform his set. The place was jammed by the time he took the stage. You and your boyfriend stroll in at the last minute and stand in front of us, blocking the stage from view. When my wife asked you to move, you gave her a big :rolleyes: and then complained to people around you: “There’s no place to sit; what are we supposed to do?” My response was “Get here earlier or move to the back”, to which people snickered. Your boyfriend gave me a stinkeye, and I gave back the ‘bring it, cheesedick’ look. Fuck you, you self-important, entitled twat. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/322 "2011-06-26T15:42:45Z")
Person number 1: Please stop sending me stupid emails about allegedly overinflated public worker pensions. My husband works for the government and I’m sick of it. You’re a moron who works part-time at Walmart while sponging off your parents. You don’t pay federal taxes so you’re not even funding the damn pensions. The truth is you couldn’t qualify for a single federal, state or city job because you have no skills and no education. If you want his job then go get yourself a chemical engineering degree. You can’t. So STFU. Person number 2: You didn’t poke me about vaccines. I got tired of attempting to crack the brick wall that is your head so I went off and did other things. Please take your medical marijuana for your supposed vaccine injury and bring it here. By all means go on and on about how vaccines cause autism and hepatitis b isn’t so bad. I’d love to see this board make a complete fool of you again. You’re a paranoid halfwit who needs a better hobby. Person number 3: If you’re not going to neuter the poor kitty at least keep him inside. The three am meowfest last night was not pleasant. Person number 4: Your daughter is a 23 year old unemployed single smoker. She doesn’t need a baby or fertility pills if she can’t make one. She needs to find a job, quit smoking and act like an adult. If you want a baby to cuddle open a daycare. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/323 "2011-06-26T15:50:13Z")
Wow **LavenderBlue** , you are pissed off at 4 people? Well done! ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/324 "2011-06-26T16:04:43Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Wow **LavenderBlue** , you are pissed off at 4 people? Well done! lol More like mildly annoyed. I’ve been dealing with nine weeks of fussy baby so far. I need to be calm most of the time or **LavenderBabe** will be even fussier. She seems to take her cues from me. When I’m relaxed she’s relaxed. So I only let it out once in a while. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/325 "2011-06-26T22:43:45Z")
Shit. The automated cat repellent we use to keep my cat from scratching at the bedroom door all night has run out. The kind we’re using has been discontinued, and the other version is frigging expensive. We can buy it for about 50% off online, and pay $28 shipping, a savings of a whopping couple of bucks in the end. Shit. Looks like kitty is going to be sleeping in the basement from now on. And l can’t take back the refill I bought that I thought would fit but didn’t, because it has a bunch of the whatever liquid used up now because it was pouring out because it didn’t fit. Shit. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/326 "2011-06-27T02:46:06Z")
Update (cause I know you were all waiting): I thought of a solution! We have an air freshener that sprays automatically at intervals, and I think that might do the trick to scare the cat out of there. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/327 "2011-06-27T05:14:25Z")
Its hot. According to the weather guessers its now monsoon season. Back in the day (2 years ago), monsoon season happened when the dew point was low for 3 days in a row. Now its just a day on the calendar. It bites that we are in the middle of the monsoon season and there isn’t a cloud in the sky. Its just flipping hot. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/328 "2011-06-27T06:01:24Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Update (cause I know you were all waiting): I thought of a solution! We have an air freshener that sprays automatically at intervals, and I think that might do the trick to scare the cat out of there. What about [Ssscat](http://www.amazon.com/Innotek-SSSCAT-Cat-Training-Aid/dp/B000RIA95G)? It only goes off when motion is detected. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/329 "2011-06-27T06:04:35Z")
The orthopaedic surgeon seems to take it as a given that I will more than likely need surgery on my wrist. However given the issues I’ve been having with my ulnar nerve and accompanying paresthesia in my little and ring fingers, he wants me to have a nerve induction test to see if there’s any potential constriction or movement in my ulnar nerve and if there is, he’d like to do the wrist and the elbow at the same time, so it’s all healing together. Okay, that’s not the minirant. The minirant is that the doctor he referred me to for the induction test is going on holiday until the beginning of August, so it’s a month and a bit before I can get in to see him. Then I’ve got to go back to the ortho, to see what the results are and if he definitely wants to go ahead with surgery and THEN I can get booked in for surgery. Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/330 "2011-06-27T06:18:52Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Is it at an angle where you can give it a nice sharp slap? > > No seriously. This is the best way I’ve found to deal with mosquito bites, other than topical analgesics. > > Less effective but also better than scratching is the method where you firmly press an “x” into the bite using a nail (pressing down hard but not scratching). heheh, slapping my own ass might make my roommate think I’m… odd. But seriously, I use a modified X-method (because I bite my nails) using the end of an allen wrench. I figure my mosquito bite doesn’t care whether it’s a cross or a hexagon. It has stopped itching by now, though, thankfully. > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Update (cause I know you were all waiting): I thought of a solution! We have an air freshener that sprays automatically at intervals, and I think that might do the trick to scare the cat out of there. And your kitty will smell like bakery fresh cinnamon rolls. Everybody wins! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/331 "2011-06-27T15:00:41Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > What about [Ssscat](http://www.amazon.com/Innotek-SSSCAT-Cat-Training-Aid/dp/B000RIA95G)? It only goes off when motion is detected. Loved this one-star review of this product: > [@](#): > > I assembled and set this item up on my kitchen counter. I wanted to train my cat to believe that the universe would punish him for intruding upon the place where food comes from. My wife and I hid around the corner, and got ready for some laughs. The cat jumped on the counter, and went about his business knocking down food items for the other cat, who I suspect is the actual brains of the operation. The SSSCAT sat silently, implicitly advocating the intrusion through inaction; like the Vatican during the Holocaust. > > Finally, I grabbed my coffee can full of pennies, and did what had to be done. The SSSCAT responded by spraying me with air, from about 10 feet away. > > And that’s the SSSCAT for you. It has deterred the cat approximately zero times for every dozen times it sprays a human. We don’t go near the counters anymore. Conversely, our cat has doubled his countergoing efforts; possibly to mock our attempts to curtail the incursions, for he knows good and well that the SSSCAT is on his side. > > I predict at this point that the SSSCAT will eventually deplete itself and end up in the trash. I certainly don’t plan to buy any refills. > > And maybe someday down the road, my wife and I will re-learn how to approach the kitchen counter without fear. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/332 "2011-06-27T15:31:52Z")
Huh. Well, **Chefguy** , all I can tell you is it worked fine for me. I guess it’s one of those YMMV products. (And yeah, some of the reviews on Amazon are fun, aren’t they?) ETA: Err, to clarify, I mean it worked to teach my problem kitty that the mantelpiece and the table and counters were scary, scary places. I have no trouble approaching them. _twitch_ ---
**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:** [June 27, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/333 "2011-06-27T15:42:12Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > What about [Ssscat](http://www.amazon.com/Innotek-SSSCAT-Cat-Training-Aid/dp/B000RIA95G)? It only goes off when motion is detected. Sorry, I should have put names in there - the one we were using was the Garden Ghost, and the one that is very similar (but not similar enough to have the same refills) and is frigging expensive is the Ssscat system. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/334 "2011-06-27T16:08:31Z")
Forgot a mini-rant; we played [Betrayal at the House on the Hill](http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10547/betrayal-at-house-on-the-hill) this weekend, and the Traitor read his instructions wrong, so he made it so that the Heroes couldn’t possibly win (which, no surprise, we didn’t). It’s a very fun game, but I guess that is a flaw in it; only the Traitor sees his instructions, and if he gets them wrong, it kind of sucks. ETA: We had an extra person who was acting as Gamesmaster, and _he_ read them wrong, too. Double dang it! ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/335 "2011-06-27T16:12:45Z")
LOVE the Ssscat thingies! Works great to keep rotten kitties from spraying the sliding glass door, and also worked great to keep the horses away from the shed entrance while I got the gate replaced 😛 You haven’t seen a spook n’ spin on a horse 'til you watch Mr Cocky walk up all “Ooh! Grain bin! No people! Cool!” and have this loud hiss and spray come at him from out of nowhere LOL Fat Boy did a really impressive cartoon move - levitate, wheels spinning, 180 turn, dust cloud 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/336 "2011-06-27T16:45:04Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Forgot a mini-rant; we played [Betrayal at the House on the Hill](http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10547/betrayal-at-house-on-the-hill) this weekend, and the Traitor read his instructions wrong, so he made it so that the Heroes couldn’t possibly win (which, no surprise, we didn’t). It’s a very fun game, but I guess that is a flaw in it; only the Traitor sees his instructions, and if he gets them wrong, it kind of sucks. > > ETA: We had an extra person who was acting as Gamesmaster, and _he_ read them wrong, too. Double dang it! Damnit, all my board-gaming peoples have moved away, and I haven’t played Betrayal at the House on the Hill or Arkham Horror in over a year. Triple dang it! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/337 "2011-06-27T17:30:48Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Huh. Well, **Chefguy** , all I can tell you is it worked fine for me. I guess it’s one of those YMMV products. (And yeah, some of the reviews on Amazon are fun, aren’t they?) > > ETA: Err, to clarify, I mean it worked to teach my problem kitty that the mantelpiece and the table and counters were scary, scary places. I have no trouble approaching them. _twitch_ Positive reviews outweigh negatives for the product. I always go straight to the one-star reviews to see what problems people are having with a product, since it’s known that there are shills that provide positive reviews at times. ---
**Author:** ![Koldanar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@Koldanar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koldanar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/338 "2011-06-27T18:29:54Z")
A truly mini rant : I miss my cat! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/339 "2011-06-27T19:14:33Z")
> [@Koldanar](#): > > A truly mini rant : > > I miss my cat! ☹ That’s not mini, at all. ((( **Koldanar** ))) Zeriel, have you tried [Meetup](http://www.meetup.com/)? Search for board games. They should list gaming groups local to you. BoardGameGeek also has a [forum](http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/82/boardgamegeek/game-groups)for finding gaming groups. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953/340 "2011-06-27T19:16:57Z")
> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#): > > The orthopaedic surgeon seems to take it as a given that I will more than likely need surgery on my wrist. However given the issues I’ve been having with my ulnar nerve and accompanying paresthesia in my little and ring fingers, he wants me to have a nerve induction test to see if there’s any potential constriction or movement in my ulnar nerve and if there is, he’d like to do the wrist and the elbow at the same time, so it’s all healing together. > > Okay, that’s not the minirant. > > The minirant is that the doctor he referred me to for the induction test is going on holiday until the beginning of August, so it’s a month and a bit before I can get in to see him. Then I’ve got to go back to the ortho, to see what the results are and if he definitely wants to go ahead with surgery and THEN I can get booked in for surgery. Bastards. What’s the likelihood that you might benefit from discussing this issue with your surgeon and indicating that you’re interested in a shorter time frame? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-june-mini-rants-be-the-second/583953.md?page=18)