# March Minirant Madness **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063 "2011-03-01T15:03:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/341 "2011-03-17T16:43:33Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > The word us “imporTant” not “impordent”! Why do you let people who can’t pronounce the word say it in a commercial? It makes me not want to buy your product/use your service. In fact, I’m not even sure what you’re selling because my brain screams “imporTant!” everytime I hear that commercial. But whatever you are selling, I’m pretty sure it isn’t actually important. It is or it us? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/342 "2011-03-17T17:26:38Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > It is or it us? 😃 Is, dammit! Stupid iPhone keyboard and letters too close together that form an actual word that autocorrect won’t detect! I spend so much time correcting tge’s that I miss other stuff. Autocorrect seems to think tge is an actual word and skips it everytime. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/343 "2011-03-17T17:39:16Z")
Oh for Pete’s sake! When I want to type “tge” it types the correct word. I give up. It would just be easier if everyone learns to read “us” as "is"unless I actually mean “us”. And the alternate spelling of “the” is “tge”. Can’t even get a good rant going on this thing. But I was ranting about pronunciation anyway, not spelling, so get off my back! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/344 "2011-03-17T18:19:35Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > The word us “imporTant” not “impordent”! Why do you let people who can’t pronounce the word say it in a commercial? It makes me not want to buy your product/use your service. In fact, I’m not even sure what you’re selling because my brain screams “imporTant!” everytime I hear that commercial. But whatever you are selling, I’m pretty sure it isn’t actually important. How about “impor-ant” with just a glottal pause where the dash is? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/345 "2011-03-17T18:27:49Z")
> [@Headrush042](#): > > How about “impor-ant” with just a glottal pause where the dash is? 😉 Yeah, that one bugs me too. I had even typed it but decided to limit it the pronunciation in the commercial I keep hearing. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/346 "2011-03-17T19:07:59Z")
All I want is a gawdamn pair of frickin’ pliers! Turn signal in my hoopdie died. I dismantled the whole light enclosure, only to discover the bulb was rusted stuck. Come inside to the whatsit drawer, where I usually keep what pathetic assembly of tools I own… and no damn pliers. Two hammers. A set of screwdrivers. Various allen wrenches. But no pliers. I know I had two pairs of pliers, but they are no where to be found. Side rant: The terrors were spayed yesterday. Whee! No more Mayme heowling all night long, trying to get anything that moves to be her special friend. Vet says “Keep them from jumping”. HA! Drugged out of their precious little gourds, they both tried jumping on the counter less than 10 minutes after we came home. “Keep them from licking their stitches”. HA! I can bitch at them not to lick themselves, but they’ve been bathing each other or Lucy “helps”. I can only imagine what the neighbors think when they hear me yell “Dot! Quit licking your sister there!” ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/347 "2011-03-17T19:15:54Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Hey, **curlcoat** , I’m happy for you and your childfree ways, and imma let you finish, but first I gotta rant about my cat, who is apparently gearing up for a pissing war with the ferals who live in our yard and occasionally taunt him through the windows. > > A literal pissing war. > > - sniff \* You smell something? Ewww. Here is a rant that has a 50% chance of not being picked apart - you are not “green” if you go buy a house that needs to be built! I just knew from the minute this episode of House Hunters started, when they focused on how “green” the couple was, that the first house they would look at would be a model home. And that doesn’t include the fact that they want to move because they don’t like S Cal, so they are doing the typical thing of moving to the country and then wanting to bulldoze trees for their new house. (And of course they want to reproduce but I’ve give up anyone seeing how that is definitely not “green”.) ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/348 "2011-03-17T19:17:10Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > “Keep them from licking their stitches”. HA! I can bitch at them not to lick themselves, but they’ve been bathing each other or Lucy “helps”. I can only imagine what the neighbors think when they hear me yell “Dot! Quit licking your sister there!” Bitter Apple is your friend! ---
**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:** [March 17, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/349 "2011-03-17T19:29:29Z")
Aw, crapple. Miniest of rants, but … I forgot my lunch at home. Ran home on my lunch break to take care of a few things - water seedlings, etc. - and had homemade chicken soup all ready to go. What’d I leave without … ? D’oh! I’ll have it once I get home, I guess, and that’s only a few hours away. Still… now: chained to my desk, bored, in a chilly office. (Perfect time for soup! Homemade friggin’ lovingly simmered stock!) Once I leave, I got stuff to do, places to go, people to see … Le sigh. Boxed crapola TV dinner stashed in the back of the breakroom freezer for me! ---
**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:** [March 17, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/350 "2011-03-17T19:52:10Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Bitter Apple is your friend! I’d rather not put bitter apple on them. I would think it wouldn’t be all that healthy. I did end up coneheading Dot for a few minutes - she and Lucy tried “playing”. For those two that means Lucy sits her 12# ass on Dots 6# body. I did put a little bit of PineSol on the kitchen cupboards, Mayme tried jumping up, got a whiff, and hissed at the counter. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/351 "2011-03-17T19:59:06Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > I can only imagine what the neighbors think when they hear me yell “Dot! Quit licking your sister there!” The kitties now owe me a new laptop. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/352 "2011-03-17T20:27:00Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Speaking of vapid twat, did you even read what I wrote? Do you know for a fact I’m not black? Why the hell would it matter? What are you, some kind of bigot? > [@curlcoat](#): > > The only response I have to usernames is there are a couple that I don’t generally bother to even read, due to their complete inability to understand and use logic. [Phil Sebben]Ha ha! _Irony_.[/PS] Here’s what you, as a social retard and/or troll, fail to understand, **curly** : the same words can have very different meanings coming from two different people. Words said as a joke are different from the same words said literally. > [@Nava](#): > > My father’s response was getting it on writing that whenever they called him while on vacation, he got a vacation day back. This is the best thing ever. > [@Wile\_E](#): > > The word us “imporTant” not “impordent”! I support your right to be pissed off by pronunciations that bother you. However, your dialect is not “right” and the other dialect is not “wrong.” If you think so, you’re ignorant.\* \*And, to be blunt, either classist and/or racist, because the \*only \*determining factors for which dialects are good/bad is who speaks them. “Good” dialects are spoken by middle- to upper-class, educated white people. “Bad” dialects are spoken by the poor, the undereducated, and minorities. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/353 "2011-03-17T21:40:12Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > I’d rather not put bitter apple on them. I would think it wouldn’t be all that healthy. 😕 Bitter Apple is made for situations like this - been using it for decades and have never had a bad reaction. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/354 "2011-03-17T21:51:47Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Ewww. > > Here is a rant that has a 50% chance of not being picked apart - you are not “green” if you go buy a house that needs to be built! I just knew from the minute this episode of House Hunters started, when they focused on how “green” the couple was, that the first house they would look at would be a model home. And that doesn’t include the fact that they want to move because they don’t like S Cal, so they are doing the typical thing of moving to the country and then wanting to bulldoze trees for their new house. (And of course they want to reproduce but I’ve give up anyone seeing how that is definitely not “green”.) Ha ha, my sister was just ranting to me about that one, too. I love it on these shows when people show how green they are by buying a house, ripping out the (perfectly adequate) kitchen, and replacing everything with sustainable materials. :rolleyes: If the episode you’re talking about is the same one my sister saw, the couple said they were green cause they recycle, ride the bus sometimes, and the husband skateboards. I truly admire their sacrifice. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/355 "2011-03-17T22:06:30Z")
> [@Sarahfeena](#): > > Ha ha, my sister was just ranting to me about that one, too. I love it on these shows when people show how green they are by buying a house, ripping out the (perfectly adequate) kitchen, and replacing everything with sustainable materials. :rolleyes: > > If the episode you’re talking about is the same one my sister saw, the couple said they were green cause they recycle, ride the bus sometimes, and the husband skateboards. I truly admire their sacrifice. Yup, that’s the one! They did end up buying an existing house, but right away they sent (perfectly good) carpet and wallpaper to the landfill, and plan to do that to the (just fine, just “outdated”) kitchen later. And now that they live in the country, they have to drive everywhere. BUT, they planted a veggie garden! And used environmentally friendly paint! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/356 "2011-03-17T22:08:08Z")
I’m not getting what’s so green about skateboarding. Does he ride the thing to work or something? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/357 "2011-03-17T22:16:42Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > … > I support your right to be pissed off by pronunciations that bother you. However, your dialect is not “right” and the other dialect is not “wrong.” If you think so, you’re ignorant.\* > > \*And, to be blunt, either classist and/or racist, because the \*only \*determining factors for which dialects are good/bad is who speaks them. “Good” dialects are spoken by middle- to upper-class, educated white people. “Bad” dialects are spoken by the poor, the undereducated, and minorities. The girl saying “impordent”" is white and probably upper class or upper middle because her daddy owns a furniture store and puts her in his commercials. So she should have gone to a nice school that would teach her how to properly pronounce words. Being white and middle class I can complain about her pronunciation without actually being an ignorant racist, but thank you very much for your opinion. I wouldn’t feel right posting a mini-rant without having SFG’s put me in my place about it. So sorry to interupt the curlcoat bashing. I think I’ll have another beer then. It’s impordent to me. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/358 "2011-03-17T22:21:33Z")
> [@Sarahfeena](#): > > I’m not getting what’s so green about skateboarding. Does he ride the thing to work or something? I’m not sure but the impression I had was that he rode it rather than drive his car. So perhaps to work, but OTOH it seems that the majority of folks down here don’t live close enough to work to do that. I never have figured out why anyone would willingly buy a house that means they sit on the freeway for three hours (or more!) a day. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/359 "2011-03-17T22:45:42Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > … I never have figured out why anyone would willingly buy a house that means they sit on the freeway for three hours (or more!) a day. Well, there’s one thing we can agree on, then. I’m with you 100% on this point! 🙂 ---
**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:** [March 17, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/360 "2011-03-17T22:45:42Z")
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