# June Rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 1, 2014, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737 "2014-06-01T02:26:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/221 "2014-06-17T13:54:36Z")
Yeah, my kids asked for a do-nothing summer this year and the closer we get to the end of the school year, I warm to the idea more and more. They really \* should\* do french immersion this summer but it’s been a tough year for a variety of reasons, the worst of which was a pedophile teacher in their midst. So I say screw it. If they want to sit on the dock of the bay for 8 weeks, I’m all over it. ---
**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 17, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/222 "2014-06-17T14:28:59Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > If that didn’t make you go home, grab the New Guy and try for a baby right there then yeah, looks like there’s nothing that can change your mind 🙂 I’ll admit - under duress - that I very, \*\*\*very \*\*\*briefly considered this, as I was making my shaking-with-rage way back home. “Screw them, I’m \*\*so \*\*gonna … oh, wait, months of physical hell culminated by excruciating pain … dammit, never mind.” > [@curlcoat](#): > > … Did you tell them they weren’t going to get ANY grandchild?.. See, that’s what really gets me. This whole “I’m never having children” thing is not new. As my parents’ only child, I’m keenly aware of the fact that my decision to not have children robs them of any chance at grandbabies - I’m the only chance they had. So WTF is up with this now? Oh, right - irrational hysteria. I almost forgot. > [@curlcoat](#): > > …Unloading them sounds like a very good idea. It was the same way with my parents, especially my dad, so screw 'em. Been a peaceful past 20 years … Done, and done. Changed my locks, too, for good measure. (My parents had a key to my apt. Figured it was for the best. What if they let themselves in? “Who the heck are you?” _sticks out hand_ “Hiya, I’m the guy who’s banging your daughter; nice to meetcha.”) > [@kbear](#): > > Yeah, my kids asked for a do-nothing summer this year and the closer we get to the end of the school year, I warm to the idea more and more. They really \* should\* do french immersion this summer but it’s been a tough year for a variety of reasons, the worst of which was a pedophile teacher in their midst. So I say screw it. If they want to sit on the dock of the bay for 8 weeks, I’m all over it. Ahhhh … one of my favorite songs. {peaceful face} Wait. What’s all this about a pedophile teacher?!?!? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/223 "2014-06-17T14:57:26Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > In **purple** -news, my parents had somewhat of a delayed reaction and when I met them on Friday, they BROUGHT IT. On an unrelated note, guess who’s estranged from her parents? > > That sounded cavalier when I typed it out, but really, you don’t shit all over me without me shitting back. My mother quite literally said, very loudly\*\* “I don’t want to have a black grandchild! This is not on my agenda!” > > \*\* and without the decency to, yanno, look around first. Good for you!!! I hope your decision not to be a parent doesn’t stem from this wonderful example they’ve set. But then I see; > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > oh, wait, months of physical hell culminated by excruciating pain … It’s not, you know. Well, I suppose it can be for some, but that’s not the norm. Some of us actually fucking glow when we’re pregnant. That was a shock, lemme tell you! But honestly, until about the last month (when you feel whale size) I felt better than I ever had. Disgusting, I know. And the excruciating pain… well, there _are_ drugs for that 😃 Sadly, there are no drugs for the endless tedium of raising a rug-rat\*, only those brief moments of transcendent joy that also come with raising a rug-rat. Not trying to talk you into it, just wanting to give you a fair frame of reference. ps. Mixed race people/babies are by **far** the best looking. Seriously! \*well, there are, but they’re not recommended. ---
**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 17, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/224 "2014-06-17T15:16:34Z")
In high school, my vice principal was a pedophile. Apparently he’s re-offended numerous times too. What a fucking asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/225 "2014-06-17T15:56:11Z")
All you people who push elevator buttons that are already lit? Go get some therapy. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/226 "2014-06-17T16:50:25Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > All you people who push elevator buttons that are already lit? Go get some therapy. Oh yeah it slays me when they see it lit, look at you standing there and push it again:rolleyes:! ---
**Author:** ![hyden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@hyden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyden)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/227 "2014-06-17T17:10:59Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Oh yeah it slays me when they see it lit, look at you standing there and push it again:rolleyes:! This x42. On the topic of elevators, there is also the ‘guy who leaves elevator, but holds the door open with foot to finish his conversation with his buddy still on the elevator’. If the conversation was that important, stay on the elevator or get your buddy to step off with you. Dont hold up 5 other people with your bullshit. Makes m want to perform a ‘this is sparta’ kick and watch him land on his ass as the elevator doors close. ---
**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 17, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/228 "2014-06-17T18:39:41Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > My son has been cut from a hockey team he so wanted to be a part of. It was a travel team set to go to Ft. Wayne Indiana at the end of July to be in a tournament. > > Ok, I get that. But I’m mad at the coach for waiting 2 weeks to finally tell me and that’s only because I went and asked him. Yeah, he said he was busy but he could have taken the time to send an email. > > We turned down being a part of another team just so he could be on this one and I feel like shit for doing that because that coach has a heart of gold and tries so much for the kids. > > But you know, screw summer sports anyways. I’m tired of having to set our summers around their schedule of practices, games, and tournaments. I want my family to take a vacation when we want and not have the hassle of asking permission. Waitaminute. ICE hockey? How the HELL is frickin’ ICE hockey still going on in JUNE? ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/229 "2014-06-17T19:44:40Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Waitaminute. ICE hockey? > > How the HELL is frickin’ ICE hockey still going on in JUNE? Inside. At an ice arena I would presume. 😕 ---
**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 17, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/230 "2014-06-17T19:53:49Z")
No doubt. But what’s the matter with baseball? I was always under the impression that the pro athletes were just doing a somewhat more expensive version of what their kids were doing for fun at any given time. And ice hockey is for frozen ponds. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/231 "2014-06-17T20:01:24Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Done, and done. Changed my locks, too, for good measure. (My parents had a key to my apt. Figured it was for the best. What if they let themselves in? “Who the heck are you?” _sticks out hand_ “Hiya, I’m the guy who’s banging your daughter; nice to meetcha.”) ROFLMAO 😛 ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/232 "2014-06-17T20:21:09Z")
I don’t need another cat. I don’t need another cat. I don’t need another cat. Even if there is the most gorgeous long haired gray cat at the local pet store shelter and she’s so beautiful and incredibly friendly and even tolerates brushing and has the daintiest meow and the most gloriously delicate little kitty feet and the most elegant little purr and will even sit in your lap and let you pet her oh so soft kitty belly. I don’t need another cat. Right? Even though I really want the grey cat damn it. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/233 "2014-06-17T20:24:46Z")
Soft kitty, warm kitty, Little ball of fur. Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, Purr, purr, purr. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/234 "2014-06-17T20:24:54Z")
You don’t think anyone here is going to try and talk you out of another cat do you? ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/235 "2014-06-17T20:38:34Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Soft kitty, warm kitty, > Little ball of fur. > Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, > Purr, purr, purr. > > 😃 > [@kbear](#): > > You don’t think anyone here is going to try and talk you out of another cat do you? Oh my god this kitty is so cute. But my husband would freak if I brought her home. Because we already have two cats totaling about forty pounds between the two them. But I really want to bring her home because she’s so freaking cute and sweet. I mean we’re writing about a glorious long hair with fabulous green eyes who is about as friendly as your average Golden Retriever or first grader. Maybe I could hide her somewhere? Like in your houses? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/236 "2014-06-17T21:00:53Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Waitaminute. ICE hockey? > > How the HELL is frickin’ ICE hockey still going on in JUNE? Actually in summer they play inline. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/237 "2014-06-17T21:02:13Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > I don’t need another cat. I don’t need another cat. I don’t need another cat. > > Even if there is the most gorgeous long haired gray cat at the local pet store shelter and she’s so beautiful and incredibly friendly and even tolerates brushing and has the daintiest meow and the most gloriously delicate little kitty feet and the most elegant little purr and will even sit in your lap and let you pet her oh so soft kitty belly. > > I don’t need another cat. Right? Even though I really want the grey cat damn it. Why not let another family have it? They will love it as much as you do. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/238 "2014-06-17T21:03:55Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Good. There is too much forced organization of kids time now. They never seem to have time to just fart around being a kid because they have soccer/dance/little league whatever/playdate with some other kid they hate/enrichment classes/violin lessons. My brother and I used to leave after breakfast with instructions to be home when it got dark, and there was a mob of us running around and if we got hungry we could more or less stop for lunch or a snack at anybodies house that we were currently playing at or near. We never worried about perverts or kidnappers - and there were both perverts and kidnappers at the time, they just never got the whole damned recreational outrage shuffle for advertising and viewership garbage that goes on now. Well to be honest, that wouldnt work anymore. No wide open free places to play and few “free” kids to play with. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/239 "2014-06-17T21:07:31Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > few “free” kids to play with. Maybe you could rent some. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737/240 "2014-06-17T21:12:02Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > Good for you!!! > > ps. Mixed race people/babies are by **far** the best looking. Seriously! > > \*well, there are, but they’re not recommended. I agree. They have that permanent lite tan and thick curly hair. BTW, forgive me for saying this but maybe your parents arent such total idiots and actually have your best interest at heart? If you cant get thru to them maybe another relative? I know you want to be all independent and brave and all but they are the only parents you will ever have. Please think twice about totally shutting the door. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-rants/689737.md?page=13)