# July mini rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887 "2016-07-01T20:38:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/421 "2016-07-31T18:37:20Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I binge watch Netflix. > > Any time I think I’m having problems with Netflix, it’s actually my internet connection at fault. Just saying. Last night Netflix wouldn’t work for me from a browser, but it did work from my Wii. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/422 "2016-07-31T19:19:06Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I binge watch Netflix. > > Any time I think I’m having problems with Netflix, it’s actually my internet connection at fault. Just saying. This morning the actual Netflix webpage was saying “we’re down, working on it”. I doubt that’s Jazztel’s fault. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/423 "2016-07-31T21:41:23Z")
No, I do not want to go shopping. After forty years part of me still clings to a hope that you had figured out that I hate shopping, given clues like “I fucking hate shopping,” given every last fucking time you suggest it. You shopped yesterday while I sat in the car for four hours, but you forgot to buy a scale. Big whoop. It’s not worth my time and discomfort to spend another four or five hours waiting while you pore over every detail of a new one. I’ll grab one on my way home tomorrow on my way home. ---
**Author:** ![cg16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/424 "2016-07-31T21:45:17Z")
TV on sunday afternoons are awful, so glad football is back next sunday:mad: ---
**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:** [July 31, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/425 "2016-07-31T23:01:47Z")
I don’t know, **cg16** , what it is about you. Everywhere I go there you are, passing judgment on other people and things. Is there anything in the whole world that you like? Because all this negativity makes me sad for you. Also sad for me, since everywhere I go on the Dope, there you are. ---
**Author:** ![cg16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/426 "2016-07-31T23:04:01Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > I don’t know, **cg16** , what it is about you. Everywhere I go there you are, passing judgment on other people and things. Is there anything in the whole world that you like? Because all this negativity makes me sad for you. Also sad for me, since everywhere I go on the Dope, there you are. Isn’t this a rant thread??? So what is the problem? ---
**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:** [July 31, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/427 "2016-07-31T23:08:02Z")
If it were just this thread I doubt I would have noticed. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/428 "2016-08-01T00:02:59Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > I don’t know, **cg16** , what it is about you. Everywhere I go there you are, passing judgment on other people and things. Is there anything in the whole world that you like? Because all this negativity makes me sad for you. Also sad for me, since everywhere I go on the Dope, there you are. > [@cg16](#): > > Isn’t this a rant thread??? So what is the problem? Well, to begin with, _rants_ tend to be a bit more meaty than _“Gosh, I sure am glad football starts soon.”_ There’s also the fact that football straight-up _sucks_. ---
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/429 "2016-08-01T00:05:12Z")
> [@Kelevra](#): > > I don’t care what they do, I just want to be able to sleep at night. Rolling onto a painful shoulder wakes me up 4 times a night. Best advice I was ever given in my life was to sleep cuddling something when my shoulder misbehaves, it took some experimentation to find the right sized object, I tried pillows and cushions and so on before finally finding the right thing for me. Sure I feel like an idiot sleeping with a toy penguin in my 50s but he’s just the right size and shape for the job. I have severe COPD, I control it mostly through exercise and avoiding humanity but somehow a cold has snuck in and I am so angry via low oxygen I am depressing myself. I hate feeling anger, particularly when I know the object of it doesn’t really deserve it, give me back my filters you bastard bug before I screw up all my relationships. I have had to deactivate facebook to avoid blowing everyone up. ---
**Author:** ![cg16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/430 "2016-08-01T00:24:04Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Well, to begin with, _rants_ tend to be a bit more meaty than _“Gosh, I sure am glad football starts soon.”_ > > There’s also the fact that football straight-up _sucks_. Well I didn’t think I needed to post a rant story just a few sentences. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/431 "2016-08-01T00:34:41Z")
> [@cg16](#): > > Well I didn’t think I needed to post a rant story just a few sentences. Nah, that’s ok. As far as I’m concerned, you don’t need to post anything at all. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cg16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/432 "2016-08-01T00:41:53Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Nah, that’s ok. As far as I’m concerned, you don’t need to post anything at all. 😃 Well don’t read and post in another thread. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/433 "2016-08-01T01:09:17Z")
**cg16** if you can’t comprehend why people are objecting to your rants, try reading all the other rants and consider what is qualitatively different (i.e. I am referring to more than just length) between your rants and the typical rants. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/434 "2016-08-01T01:10:03Z")
Goddammit fashion designers. SLEEVES! Some of us would like to have dresses with SLEEVES! I do not want to have to show off my prednisone stretch marks to the world! ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/435 "2016-08-01T01:37:40Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > Goddammit fashion designers. SLEEVES! Some of us would like to have dresses with SLEEVES! I do not want to have to show off my prednisone stretch marks to the world! I, personally, would like dress pants that don’t feel like they’re cutting me in two AND pants with POCKETS in them. Working pockets. Pockets big enough to put your hands in without feeling like you’re about to rip the front out of the pants. Pockets, designers, do you hear me? Women need pockets too! ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/436 "2016-08-01T03:44:06Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > No, I do not want to go shopping. After forty years part of me still clings to a hope that you had figured out that I hate shopping, given clues like “I fucking hate shopping,” given every last fucking time you suggest it. You shopped yesterday while I sat in the car for four hours, but you forgot to buy a scale. Big whoop. It’s not worth my time and discomfort to spend another four or five hours waiting while you pore over every detail of a new one. I’ll grab one on my way home tomorrow on my way home. Exactly what Amazon Prime is for. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/437 "2016-08-01T05:03:06Z")
Close the thread. Happy August! ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/438 "2016-08-01T11:39:16Z")
Is there a new thread? Link? ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887/439 "2016-08-01T12:24:15Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Is there a new thread? Link? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=799995](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=799995) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-mini-rants/758887.md?page=21)