# Let the holiday mini rants begin **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 22, 2009, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501 "2009-11-22T05:08:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/141 "2009-11-28T04:02:12Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Aww, man. I saw **Carol Stream** was the last poster to this thread, and was looking forward to a mini rant, but there was none. ☹ Well, no, I suppose there was one of sorts. Great, I’m confused now. I think **Carol** just loves these threads sooooo much that she contributes to keep them alive! What a giving soul. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/142 "2009-11-28T04:06:06Z")
We should bake her a cake! ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/143 "2009-11-28T04:12:27Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > I think **Carol** just loves these threads sooooo much that she contributes to keep them alive! What a giving soul. 😃 Yes, I know. I really shouldn’t. Drives me nuts, though. You’ve been around a long time–Do you know who lives in Spain, and whose husband works in a prison? ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/144 "2009-11-28T04:13:55Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > We should bake her a cake! No, it’s “Let them eat cake”. Her Majesty is one of my heroes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/145 "2009-11-28T05:55:41Z")
> [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > Girlfriend, people who live in the real world don’t bitch in a Fantasyland called the BBQ Pit. I thought the purpose of the Pit was to give people a place to bitch about things? What am I misunderstanding here? ---
**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:** [November 28, 2009, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/146 "2009-11-28T06:06:46Z")
Whoo-ee, somebody’s turkey tryptophan has worn off! I know that Nava is from Spain, but I don’t know whose husband works in a prison. I know Qadgop himself works in a prison, though. Do some more! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/147 "2009-11-28T06:18:34Z")
> [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > Pony up a few bucks, for what? Do tell. The Administration said they didn’t want us to pay. Or can’t you pay attention, what with all those useless 15,000 posts going on? Not currently, but since 2006? There’s been plenty of time not to be a cheapskate freeloader. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/148 "2009-11-28T08:11:48Z")
Can someone tell me where the holiday mini rants thread is? Usually there’s one around here at this time of year. I thought maybe I’d find it here but this is a thread all about **Carol Stream** , apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/149 "2009-11-28T08:18:18Z")
Anyway, my addition to the mini-rants thread is this… Christmas carolers who only know one carol. Seriously, one CAROL?! How does this happen? Did they not go to caroling school? Here they sing outside my door, right passed the bushes and next to the fucking STREAM, an they can’t sing anything but Jingle Bells. Uh, what? Can any one tell me why the hell this IS? How can this be? How can carolers be called carolers if they only know -A- carol? It’s like I want to go out there and kick em all in the CUNT. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/150 "2009-11-28T08:37:44Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > I get around the holidays with one film: Bad Santa uncut version. 😃 I Love You. Oh yes, best movie evah! Bertha, who’s on the _private_ dole.😉 ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/151 "2009-11-28T09:58:03Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Can someone tell me where the holiday mini rants thread is? Usually there’s one around here at this time of year. I thought maybe I’d find it here but this is a thread all about **Carol Stream** , apparently. Apparently someone tried to invoke the spirit of Christmas Past, when the stores didn’t start their sales and decorating until after Thanksgiving, but used the wrong incantation and mistakenly raised the Christmas Troll. We can only hope that no one sacrifices a goat and eventually the Troll will go off hungry, in search of more fertile fields. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/152 "2009-11-28T13:03:32Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > And let me lodge a complaint about anybody who gets upset because somebody does, or does not, wish them a Merry Christmas. When people know full well that Christmas isn’t my holiday yet wish me a Merry Christmas snidely, I do get upset, because it’s a passive-aggressive smack at my religious choice. I don’t wish people who I know are Christian Chanukah sameach, or tell Buddhists to have a blessed Ramadan. I’m not talking about strangers, I’m specifically irritated by people who know me and know better but think that they’re being cute by making jabs at what’s important to me. It’s also fairly clueless to be wished a Merry Christmas by a store clerk when wearing a Star of David necklace and buying Chanukah gift wrap, Chanukah gelt and Chanukah cards (this has actually happened to me) but at least that’s just _dumb_ and not a willful insult. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/153 "2009-11-28T13:05:19Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > I thought the purpose of the Pit was to give people a place to bitch about things? What am I misunderstanding here? Only **Carol Stream** is permitted to bitch - no one else. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/154 "2009-11-28T15:54:53Z")
> [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > Why can’t this go in the existing mini-rants thread, or preferably, in MPSIMS? > [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > In other words, trolling. Happy fucking Kwannza to you too. > [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > What do you think, **Polycarp**? Is it trolling to deliberately set out to piss off another member? > [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > Are you from Spain? Does your husband work in a prison? > > Same shit, different day. **Carol** , we’ve talked about your junior-modding and threadshitting in the Pit before. You didn’t listen. Let me be clear. Don’t threadshit or junior moderate in my forum. As a memory aid and an early Christmas gift to the rest of the Pit posters I banish you from the Pit for two weeks. You may not post in the Pit until noon Eastern Standard Time on Saturday, December 12, 2009. If you do: 1. I’ll remove the posts; and 2. Your posting privileges here at the Dope may be terminated or suspended. **Gfactor** Pit Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/155 "2009-11-28T15:56:19Z")
Thank you, Santa Claus! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/156 "2009-11-28T16:07:45Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > Thank you, Santa Claus! There _is_ a Sanity Clause!😉 :D:)🆒 ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/157 "2009-11-28T17:20:15Z")
:sends Gfactor a Christmas… er, HOLIDAY SEASON present: ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/158 "2009-11-28T19:07:26Z")
Wow, Gfactor, you rock! ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/159 "2009-11-28T19:20:27Z")
You know, now I don’t feel ranty at all! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501/160 "2009-11-28T19:34:37Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Anyway, my addition to the mini-rants thread is this.. Christmas carolers who only know one carol. Seriously, one CAROL?! How does this happen? Did they not go to caroling school? Here they sing outside my door, right passed the bushes and next to the fucking STREAM, an they can’t sing anything but Jingle Bells. Uh, what? Can any one tell me why the hell this IS? How can this be? How can carolers be called carolers if they only know -A- carol? It’s like I want to go out there and kick em all in the CUNT. [Moderating] Very clever, but still an attempt to circumvent the rules. Let’s not do this sort of thing again. No warning issued. [/Moderating] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-holiday-mini-rants-begin/518501.md?page=9)