# March of the Mini-rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402 "2019-03-01T20:24:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/61 "2019-03-14T01:19:00Z")
I woke up with a headache (not horribly unusual for me), but there’s an icepick stabbing me at the lower right of my head, between my neck and my ear. I’ve taken tylenol twice, and excedrin once, and half a muscle relaxer. Then I slept an additional two hours (after coming home from work early. I’m almost positive it’s a combination of a too tight back creeping up my neck, and this new weather system on its way in, but either way, I want it to GO AWAY. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/62 "2019-03-14T02:23:19Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Ain’t nothing wrong with barefoot, so long as you shower at least weekly! > > Georgia, Georgian. Florida, Floridian. New York, New Yorker. Maryland. Marylander. Arkansas, Arkansaian or Arkansawyer. Don’t try to be special, it makes me mini-rant. 😛 But, what about Kansas? Huh? You didn’t explain that. Anythin’s better than ‘hillbilly’, been called that a-fore. I can mini-rant too, you know.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/63 "2019-03-14T09:49:43Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > My Mother. Bless her heart. > Her garage door is frozen shut, again. > Would you like me to come over with the ice chipper? No, there’s a lot of ice, and I did put ice melt down, but I’m out. Ok, would you like me to pick some up and bring it over after work? No… > BUT you can take a few hours off work tomorrow to run me around. > That’s not how this works. I mean, I WILL, since one of your errands is your doctor, but I’d rather resolve the problem tonight so I don’t have to take time off from work. [del]A few[/del]About ten years ago (my, how time flies) my mother started saying “you owe me!” any time she wanted whatever the hell it was. Eventually, each of us consulted a lawyer about the duties of adult children towards their parents. We found out one day we were all having lunch at her house, she said “you owe me!” and we all simultaneously said “no we don’t!.. … you two, too?” Yeah, we two, too, had consulted a lawyer and found out that our duties were limited to “the same care parents owe their minor children, minus education, and btw the national security network has taken up most of it so care responsibilities should use but not abuse said network.” While I’m sure laws in your location will be different, and what worked with my mother may or may not work for yours, perhaps pointing out that when it’s her who needs your help, she does not get to decide exactly how you provide it any more than you got to choose your school, your meals or your pediatrician when you were a child, might be worth considerin’. ---
**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 14, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/64 "2019-03-14T12:03:59Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > I woke up with a headache (not horribly unusual for me), but there’s an icepick stabbing me at the lower right of my head, between my neck and my ear. I’ve taken tylenol twice, and excedrin once, and half a muscle relaxer. Then I slept an additional two hours (after coming home from work early. I’m almost positive it’s a combination of a too tight back creeping up my neck, and this new weather system on its way in, but either way, I want it to GO AWAY. Have you tried removing the icepick 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:** [March 15, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/65 "2019-03-15T22:59:06Z")
God fucking dammit, I managed to grab the wrong credit card when I paid for my crowns…I should have grabbed my HSA card, but I was so out of it that I handed them my corporate card instead. That account has since been closed for completely unrelated reasons, so now I owe the company money, but no one knows who I should send the money to at corporate. \>.\< Just what I need, a $1000+ check floating around the company with no guarantee on when it will be cashed. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/66 "2019-03-16T02:00:59Z")
My message board name is Hatchie. My location is Boston - it says so under my join date. You may choose for whatever reason - including neglect - to not disclose your location. However, if you do decide to include it, may I suggest that your location is neither “Hey! I’m located! WOOOOW!”, nor “123 Fake Street”, nor " On your computer screen", nor “a van down by the river”, nor “Deep Space”, nor “Between pole and tropic”, nor “Betelgeuse vicinity”, nor “The Land of Smiles”, nor “The Land of Cleves”, nor “Displaced”, nor “the hypersphere”, nor “Dizzyland”, nor “Inside”, nor “Within”, nor “Right here”, nor “Lost In Space”, nor “America’s Wing”, nor “7-Eleven”, nor “a condo in hell 10th lvl”, nor “Behind you”, nor “on your last raw nerve”, nor “at the right hand of cool”, nor “Pork Roll/Taylor Ham”, nor “Challenger Deep”, nor “47°23’44.9"N,8°32’54.6"E”, nor “my Herkimer Battle Jitney”, nor “State of Hockey”, nor “scottie pippen’s pantry”, nor “Stalag 17”, nor “New Jersey”, nor “Back at 5,280”, nor “On the run with Kilroy”, nor “Further”, nor “Smack Dab in the Middle”, nor “Apple Core”, nor “Cloud Cuckoo Land”, nor “Betwixt My Ears”. I’m Hatchie from Boston, and I don’t like you. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2019, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/67 "2019-03-16T02:11:33Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > My message board name is Hatchie. My location is Boston - it says so under my join date. > > You may choose for whatever reason - including neglect - to not disclose your location. However, if you do decide to include it, may I suggest that your location is neither “Hey! I’m located! WOOOOW!”, nor “123 Fake Street”, nor " On your computer screen", nor “a van down by the river”, nor “Deep Space”, nor “Between pole and tropic”, nor “Betelgeuse vicinity”, nor “The Land of Smiles”, nor “The Land of Cleves”, nor “Displaced”, nor “the hypersphere”, nor “Dizzyland”, nor “Inside”, nor “Within”, nor “Right here”, nor “Lost In Space”, nor “America’s Wing”, nor “7-Eleven”, nor “a condo in hell 10th lvl”, nor “Behind you”, nor “on your last raw nerve”, nor “at the right hand of cool”, nor “Pork Roll/Taylor Ham”, nor “Challenger Deep”, nor “47°23’44.9"N,8°32’54.6"E”, nor “my Herkimer Battle Jitney”, nor “State of Hockey”, nor “scottie pippen’s pantry”, nor “Stalag 17”, nor “New Jersey”, nor “Back at 5,280”, nor “On the run with Kilroy”, nor “Further”, nor “Smack Dab in the Middle”, nor “Apple Core”, nor “Cloud Cuckoo Land”, nor “Betwixt My Ears”. > > I’m Hatchie from Boston, and I don’t like you. It doesn’t say so, 'cause you’re a guest, not a Member. And I’ll put what I like in my location. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/68 "2019-03-16T02:30:16Z")
Oh sure, of course “in the time stream” is not at all annoying. But are you serious - my location doesn’t appear under my join date? Because even though I’m **just** a guest, I can see everyone’s location (if present). I guess membership has its deficits. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/69 "2019-03-16T02:56:04Z")
We would have to go to your statistics page to see your location. Which isn’t hard to do. Why are you so upset about where people are? I may be in a WPP program or something. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2019, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/70 "2019-03-16T03:10:21Z")
People who think I need to adjust my behavior to make them happy can sod right off. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/71 "2019-03-16T03:18:27Z")
I’m confused now. Everyone’s location is right there in the upper right hand corner. Yours is “So. Ark ?”. No need to access stats. Anyone in Witness Protection has the option to leave it blank - or lie. My objection is to the not-as-clever-as-you-think fantasy locations. I say “oog”, and I shall always say “oog”. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/72 "2019-03-16T03:26:53Z")
Oh, I see. I can’t see anyones location. Maybe it’s the skin you’re using. I’m using the sultantheme thingy-ma-bob. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/73 "2019-03-16T03:31:17Z")
There are skins? What a woild, what a woild. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/74 "2019-03-16T03:37:00Z")
I know what you need to do. Go to your user CP and edit your details. It prompts you along. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/75 "2019-03-16T04:00:01Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > Oh sure, of course “in the time stream” is not at all annoying… No, not at all, until **Morgyn** posts “You would NOT believe the weather here! When we moved here, they promised gentle tropical breezes in March, but we went to bed with our windows open because it was too hot, and woke up to a foot of snow on our beds!” And you’re left wondering. For hours. You check the profile and it doesn’t help and you comb through old posts searching for clues and your wife is trying to get you to come to bed and you’re a wreck at work the next day which is okay because you’re not doing anything besides trying to find out where Morgyn lives and even the expensive private investigator you hire strikes out. And it’s been a week and you’re booking bus tickets to all the small towns that had a foot of snow come through the open windows, and work is calling you and you’re pretending to be in the middle of bypass surgery and your brother-in-law is pleading with you to abandon your obsession but it’s NOT an obsession it’s just TOTALLY ORDINARY curiosity, nothing weird or unhinged, really. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/76 "2019-03-16T04:53:20Z")
The self centered jackass of a coworker is being his typical self. There a math teacher at this little cram school I teach on Saturdays. It’s a small place and it’s only the two of us on Saturdays. He doesn’t speak English and my Chinese isn’t great. Mostly we would just nod to acknowledge either other’s presence. A while back, he was interrupting my class to talk to the students about things. It happened a couple of times then I finally got pissed when he had one of his students come in to verify something, and again she did it without checking with me first. Today the jackass was with some of the other students in a small classroom next to mine, watching videos at high volume. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/77 "2019-03-16T05:29:08Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > [del]A few[/del]About ten years ago (my, how time flies) my mother started saying “you owe me!” any time she wanted whatever the hell it was. Eventually, each of us consulted a lawyer about the duties of adult children towards their parents. We found out one day we were all having lunch at her house, she said “you owe me!” and we all simultaneously said “no we don’t!.. … you two, too?” Yeah, we two, too, had consulted a lawyer and found out that our duties were limited to “ **the same care parents owe their minor children, minus education,** and btw the national security network has taken up most of it so care responsibilities should use but not abuse said network.” > > While I’m sure laws in your location will be different, and what worked with my mother may or may not work for yours, perhaps pointing out that when it’s her who needs your help, she does not get to decide exactly how you provide it any more than you got to choose your school, your meals or your pediatrician when you were a child, might be worth considerin’. …and since you provided her that slice of unowed education, now SHE owes YOU, right? ---
**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, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/78 "2019-03-17T16:29:45Z")
Goddamn, I like the way you think. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/79 "2019-03-17T17:46:16Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > Oh sure, of course “in the time stream” is not at all annoying. > > But are you serious - my location doesn’t appear under my join date? Because even though I’m **just** a guest, I can see everyone’s location (if present). I guess membership has its deficits. Nope. Neither does mine because I’m a guest. Members can display their location and they can be seen by everybody. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402/80 "2019-03-17T18:06:09Z")
Well, fellow guest cochrane (Location: The Nekkid Pueblo), I don’t know where you got that notion. But Oog to you too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-mini-rants/830402.md?page=5)