# June (Rants) is Busting Out All Over **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 1, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331 "2015-06-01T13:21:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**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:** [June 18, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/301 "2015-06-18T12:39:59Z")
You know what I don’t like? When I’m in the theatre, and an actor is on stage, and is delivering a line slowly, for dramatic effect, and delaying the last words of their spoken line… and an audience member guesses the last words of the line and whispers it to their neighbour before the actor has a chance to finish the line. Is there a way to punish such annoying audience members? ---
**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:** [June 18, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/302 "2015-06-18T12:47:07Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Is there a way to punish such annoying audience members? In my perfect world, each theater seat would have a small touchscreen. You could single out a seat and push “shock” on the screen. One or two people doing this would have no effect, but if a significant number of people pushed “shock”, the offender would get one or two seconds of voltage. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/303 "2015-06-18T13:37:07Z")
I prefer a tube method. Same set-up, but if a fair number of people in the theater push the button, you descend rapidly in a tube and are dropped outside in the parking lot. If we can cover them with Nickelodeon Goo on the way out, that’d be even better. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/304 "2015-06-18T15:11:36Z")
Nah, let’s cover 'em with homeopathic butt lube, instead. (Scroll up/back a page if you’re all 😕 right now.) That was beautifully written, **LavenderBlue**. Congratulations on raising such a fine addition to our planet. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Angry\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@The\_Angry\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Angry_Badger)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/305 "2015-06-18T15:50:07Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Is there a way to punish such annoying audience members? Relevant: [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/movie\_theater\_layout](http://theoatmeal.com/comics/movie_theater_layout) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/306 "2015-06-18T16:00:52Z")
In case you weren’t aware of it, this is [Homeopathy Awareness Week](http://www.britishhomeopathic.org/homeopathy-awareness-week/) ([at least in the U.K.](https://www.homeopathyawarenessweek.org/)), so please try to spend an infinitesimally tiny amount of your time laughing uproariously. Thank you. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/307 "2015-06-18T17:12:15Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > In case you weren’t aware of it, this is [Homeopathy Awareness Week](http://www.britishhomeopathic.org/homeopathy-awareness-week/) ([at least in the U.K.](https://www.homeopathyawarenessweek.org/)), so please try to spend an infinitesimally tiny amount of your time laughing uproariously. > > Thank you. This makes me want a non-homeopathic cure for nausea. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/308 "2015-06-18T17:30:06Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > “We prefer to rent everything rather than buying because we don’t want to be caught actually owning anything and get screwed the way our parents did.” That doesn’t even make good nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/309 "2015-06-18T17:53:16Z")
Sounds like their parents made poor decisions and they learned the wrong lessons from it. ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/310 "2015-06-18T18:23:29Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > In what context? Electronics/furniture/cars/housing? > > If you mean housing, here in the UK it’s cheaper to buy and pay a mortgage that works out at half of what your rent for that property would be (assuming you can get a mortgage, not taking into account repairs you’ll be liable for). So, yes, definitely! Depends where you are in the bubble cycle and how much you really understand about the mortgage. If you buy a $500K house that was really more than you could afford, but the slick banker talked you into an ARM, then two years later the bubble burst and the house is now worth $200K while the interest rate gets jacked up, then you may have been better off renting. Now, rationally, that doesn’t mean renting is better than buying in a sane way, but I can understand where the emotion might come from. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/311 "2015-06-18T19:34:18Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > This couple, who have no use for modern medicine, [just let their 18-month old child die for lack of an antibiotic shot](http://www.rocket-courier.com/news/2015-06-11/Front_Page/More_Details_Arise_on_Parents_Charged_with_Homicid.html). Instead, they used homeopathy and basically watched her die over about a 3-week period. > [@](#): > > [The infant] had never seen a medical doctor, nor did she receive any vaccinations. She said her views against modern medicine stem from her childhood as she was raised without taking pills or receiving shots. > > She told police she has done her own research on vaccinations and found they can be related to death, SIDS, autistic disorders, immune disorders and **shaken baby syndrome**. Just when you thought it was possible for anti-vaxers to be too stupid to communicate in complete sentences, someone takes another flying leap. ---
**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 18, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/312 "2015-06-18T20:11:29Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Just when you thought it was possible for anti-vaxers to be too stupid to communicate in complete sentences, someone takes another flying leap. And when the hospital staff were doing their best to save the child, she complained about (and probably protested against but no one wanted to say that) what they were doing. Her dislike for modern medicine and belief in homeopathy was \*literally \*worth more to her than the life of her child. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/313 "2015-06-18T20:20:05Z")
I was referring to the segment I had bolded. Her ‘research’ led her to believe that vaccines can cause shaken baby syndrome. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/314 "2015-06-19T00:38:30Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I was referring to the segment I had bolded. Her ‘research’ led her to believe that vaccines can cause shaken baby syndrome. Very glad I just took some painkillers for my sore foot. This should also help the pain in my head from trying to comprehend the “reasoning” here. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/315 "2015-06-19T00:40:48Z")
Truck broke down, dammit. In my driveway, at least, but still. I know what it is (starter) and if my dad was still around, it would be fixed in a jiffy. Alas, instead I had to pay for a tow and lord only knows how much the shop will charge me to get her running again. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/316 "2015-06-19T15:52:59Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I was referring to the segment I had bolded. Her ‘research’ led her to believe that vaccines can cause shaken baby syndrome. Them’s some right powerful vaccines. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Angry\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@The\_Angry\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Angry_Badger)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/317 "2015-06-19T16:04:41Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I was referring to the segment I had bolded. Her ‘research’ led her to believe that vaccines can cause shaken baby syndrome. That makes perfect sense to me. Vaccines are a lower dosage, less harmful, version of whatever they’re vaccinating against. So, it’s ‘like for like’, administering a very small dose of something to cure the original ailment. In other words, vaccines are homeopathy. Now as we all know, homeopathy requires succussion (ie smacking the solution around a bit) to work properly. I would assume\* that with vaccines, you have to do the succussion after the vaccine has been administered - in other words, to get vaccines to work properly you have to smack the baby around a bit. In certain circumstances, that breaks the baby\*\*. That’s how vaccines work, right? Right? 😕 - I may not know much about vaccines. \*\* Or babies. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/318 "2015-06-19T16:17:13Z")
> [@The\_Angry\_Badger](#): > > That’s how vaccines work, right? I honestly have no doubt that your reasoning is just as sound as her train of thought on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/319 "2015-06-19T16:37:11Z")
> [@The\_Angry\_Badger](#): > > That’s how vaccines work, right? > > Right? 😕 > > - I may not know much about vaccines. > \*\* Or babies. Sounds legit. My only rant for today is that it’s Friday and my (very dull) workday isn’t over yet. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331/320 "2015-06-19T16:51:39Z")
Had one hell of a lightning strike near my house last night…lost my corded phone (with answering machine) and some component of my satellite system. At least the receivers seen to be fine; I can still watch my recorded shows. But I’m sick of stuff breaking (or getting broken) around here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants-is-busting-out-all-over/721331.md?page=17)