# 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:** 21
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/401 "2011-03-18T20:20:04Z")
AT&T and your inability to give me cell phone reception in the middle of a major city? Get fucked! I’m on the 2nd floor of the office building, next to a window with no building higher for a few blocks. When I was on 3rd floor, there was little problem. Now? Nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/402 "2011-03-18T20:41:50Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Oh well, that’s yer problem right there! 😃 > > Isn’t Firefox written for Mac? I wasn’t aware it could be used on a PC. There are separate downloads of Firefox for Mac, PC, and Linux; there are also older versions available for some other operating systems. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/403 "2011-03-18T21:06:42Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > There are separate downloads of Firefox for Mac, PC, and Linux; there are also older versions available for some other operating systems. Ah! To see if I have a memory at all, did there used to be a browser that was written just for Mac? ---
**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:** [March 18, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/404 "2011-03-18T21:27:55Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > “I’ll be at home while I’m on vacation if you need me for anything” generally carries the unspoken request that the office should _not_ need me for anything. > > I had a 5-day weekend, much-needed vacation, and I’ve wound up working for 3 of those 5 days. Goddammit. I once took a vacation and told them I would be hiking caving in New Mexico in areas where there was no cell coverage. The next day they presented me with a satellite phone. > [@flatlined](#): > > Eat a vending machine bag of moldy trail mix and then spend the next 3 days puking. > > Oh. darnit:smack: > > I promise that I’ll get better in the pit. Go fuck yourself with a dildo you found in your neighbor’s trashcan. The one in the bag full of used kitty litter. moldy trail mix is fine. More points are awarded in the pit for originality than for use of bad language. > [@villa](#): > > A dissolution is an orderly process - actually much better for the employees. It also makes client changeover etc easier. And despite what people think of lawyers, we actually have incredibly strong ethical requirements concerning duty to clients - they ALWAYS come first. So lawyers have the same ethics as prostitutes?😃 > [@curlcoat](#): > > Ah! To see if I have a memory at all, did there used to be a browser that was written just for Mac? IIRC, Opera started out as a Mac only product. And my rant. Just how clueless an asshole do you have to be to get a piece of candy out of the dish and put the wrapper back in the dish when the fucking trashcan is literally three feet away? ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/405 "2011-03-18T21:32:41Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Ah! To see if I have a memory at all, did there used to be a browser that was written just for Mac? Maybe you’re thinking of Safari? ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/406 "2011-03-18T22:03:01Z")
I just paid for next day shipping. Please don’t send me a tracking notice that says my stuff shipped at 2pm on the 17th when it didn’t really leave until 10am on the 18th and wont be here until the 21st. That’s not next day shipping and I’d have been much happier if you just told me it shipped today because I understand you don’t deliver on weekends. Instead, I spent the whole day excited that my stuff was going to arrive today only to realize…disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/407 "2011-03-18T22:20:51Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > IIRC, Opera started out as a Mac only product. > [@ENugent](#): > > Maybe you’re thinking of Safari? Well, I hope that my brain glommed onto Safari, since I have used that one, and not Opera, which I haven’t! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/408 "2011-03-18T22:32:35Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Caller ID. I don’t know the number, fuck off. Earlier today I got a call which my Caller ID said from was DirecTV, which I answered because I stupidly thought my current provider of television service was calling me for some important reason. No, they were just calling to try to get me to sign up for Showtime; when I told the caller, politely, that I was not interested in Showtime she began asking me what time of shows I watched, as if I might not have been aware of what type of quality programming I was missing by not paying extra for that package. I (again politely) repeated that I was not interested in subscribing to Showtime, nor had I been interested when they had called me last month, and if for any reason I changed my mind on this subject I would let them know. When I finished I realized that while I had been talking the caller had hung up. Maybe next time I won’t bother being polite. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/409 "2011-03-18T23:11:40Z")
> [@mkecane](#): > > AT&T and your inability to give me cell phone reception in the middle of a major city? Get fucked! I’m on the 2nd floor of the office building, next to a window with no building higher for a few blocks. When I was on 3rd floor, there was little problem. Now? Nothing. [http://www.hulu.com/watch/4163/saturday-night-live-ernestine](http://www.hulu.com/watch/4163/saturday-night-live-ernestine) ---
**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:** [March 19, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/410 "2011-03-19T00:10:31Z")
Went for an eye exam yesterday…turns out that the drawing and heaviness I’ve been feeling is due to a significant change in the prescription for my right eye; my left eye was trying to compensate. I’m trying a more suitable prescription for the next couple of weeks (contacts at this level are only available in increments of 0.5), and then I go back. The contacts are disposable; they’re supposed to last two weeks with constant wear, but I can get them to last about a month by removing them at night. (The doctor has actually said this is fine; besides, the lenses are sort of flimsy and don’t last very long anyway.) I know the office will exchange the unopened boxes of the old prescription for the new, however…I ordered contacts a few times when I really didn’t need them, and now I have quite a stash…in two colors, no less. I’m just embarrassed to walk back in with so many boxes (at least they’re the tiny boxes…six lenses per box). ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/411 "2011-03-19T17:33:06Z")
Woke up this morning in more pain than I have ever experienced in my life, and that’s saying something. Ate the $50 co-pay to go to urgent care and get some pain meds. No argument at all on seeing me. Here you go, steroids and two kinds of pain meds. Go home and rest. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/412 "2011-03-20T02:13:11Z")
Trying to find an apartment in this city can suck a dick. Been trying to find a place with a friend of mine, but way too many places are all either too expensive (obviously what I consider too expensive others would consider cheap, so I’ll refrain from posting numbers,) are tiny, all-around shitty, in terrible locations, or some combination of the above. And of the few remaining places that are decent, none of those seem to allow dogs. Both of us need out of our living situations, but it’s been over two months of solid looking and nothing has panned out. Gah. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/413 "2011-03-20T02:39:22Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Trying to find an apartment in this city can suck a dick. So would you say they’re ‘gay friendly’? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/414 "2011-03-20T02:50:43Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Well, I hope that my brain glommed onto Safari, since I have used that one, and not Opera, which I haven’t! :smack: Safari is the Official Browser for Macs, made by Apple, but there’s a version for Windows as well. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/415 "2011-03-20T03:05:55Z")
Hey you. Yeah you, the person on the west coast [frantically buying iodine pills](http://health.usnews.com/health-news/managing-your-healthcare/cancer/articles/2011/03/17/rush-to-buy-iodine-pills-unnecessary-in-us-experts-say) and [Geiger counters](http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-radioactive-contamination-talkback-20110319,0,2923620.htmlstory) and generally freaking out over how you’re going to die from radiation from Japan’s damaged nuclear power plants. Are you aware that in the 1940s Japan had nuclear bombs dropped on them? Guess how many Americans got sick from radiation poisoning then. I’ll give you a minute. Get some fucking perspective, will you? ---
**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 20, 2011, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/416 "2011-03-20T05:31:33Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Hey you. Yeah you, the person on the west coast [frantically buying iodine pills](http://health.usnews.com/health-news/managing-your-healthcare/cancer/articles/2011/03/17/rush-to-buy-iodine-pills-unnecessary-in-us-experts-say) and [Geiger counters](http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-radioactive-contamination-talkback-20110319,0,2923620.htmlstory) and generally freaking out over how you’re going to die from radiation from Japan’s damaged nuclear power plants. Are you aware that in the 1940s Japan had nuclear bombs dropped on them? Guess how many Americans got sick from radiation poisoning then. I’ll give you a minute. Get some fucking perspective, will you? I blame the media. Anytime you get a major disaster like what’s happened in Japan all the local media have to start with the “could it happen here?” stories. Which just makes everyone panic. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2011, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/417 "2011-03-20T06:59:00Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Hey you. Yeah you, the person on the west coast [frantically buying iodine pills](http://health.usnews.com/health-news/managing-your-healthcare/cancer/articles/2011/03/17/rush-to-buy-iodine-pills-unnecessary-in-us-experts-say) and [Geiger counters](http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-radioactive-contamination-talkback-20110319,0,2923620.htmlstory) and generally freaking out over how you’re going to die from radiation from Japan’s damaged nuclear power plants. Are you aware that in the 1940s Japan had nuclear bombs dropped on them? Guess how many Americans got sick from radiation poisoning then. I’ll give you a minute. Get some fucking perspective, will you? According to a news story a few days ago, pharmacies in my town have run out of pottasium iodine (iodide?) pills. I live in North Carolina. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/418 "2011-03-20T12:51:25Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > According to a news story a few days ago, pharmacies in my town have run out of pottasium iodine (iodide?) pills. > > I live in North Carolina. > > :smack: Perspective. Perhaps they only had one or two bottles in each pharmacy? Nah, probably not. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/419 "2011-03-21T03:28:10Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Hey you. Yeah you, the person on the west coast [frantically buying iodine pills](http://health.usnews.com/health-news/managing-your-healthcare/cancer/articles/2011/03/17/rush-to-buy-iodine-pills-unnecessary-in-us-experts-say) and [Geiger counters](http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-radioactive-contamination-talkback-20110319,0,2923620.htmlstory) and generally freaking out over how you’re going to die from radiation from Japan’s damaged nuclear power plants. Are you aware that in the 1940s Japan had nuclear bombs dropped on them? Guess how many Americans got sick from radiation poisoning then. I’ll give you a minute. Get some fucking perspective, will you? At least those people were on a coast, not well-landlocked like the panic-buyers buying up the iodine pills here. :rolleyes: What the hell, dude? My husband and I were out for dinner, sitting in a pub, when an older couple came in and sat right next to us - he actually hit me with his jacket when he took it off, they were so close to us. There were about fifteen empty tables they could have sat at. That drives me absolutely nuts - get out of my personal space! Gah! ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063/420 "2011-03-21T03:43:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > What the hell, dude? My husband and I were out for dinner, sitting in a pub, when an older couple came in and sat right next to us - he actually hit me with his jacket when he took it off, they were so close to us. There were about fifteen empty tables they could have sat at. That drives me absolutely nuts - get out of my personal space! Gah! That makes me totally nutz as well. If the place is crowded, anything goes, but sitting next to my table when there are so many other places to sit makes me start to bite pieces of my straw off. Bonus points for crying babies who are ignored and everyone using their cell phones loudly. My mini rant is the idiot feral who lives under my porch. I’ve got 3 traps set for him now and he is getting really skinny. Idiot cat…just get in the trap and have your balls cut off. You will have food after its all done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-minirant-madness/573063.md?page=22)