# May the rant be with you (May 2012 rant thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 1, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483 "2012-05-01T05:07:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/141 "2012-05-05T01:52:14Z")
That sucks, **Jenaroph** ; I’m glad you’re OK. Well, our asshole redneck neighbors-in-the-back-two-lots-down, have finished the project they’ve been working on all week with a backhoe and dump trailer. It’s a goddamned dirt bike track and they are going full guns on it with not only a dirt bike, there’s a 4-wheel ATV and a small dune buggy too. :mad: Noise and dust everywhere, and I do _not_ live out in the country! This is a residential neighborhood you mouth-breathing morons! They’re drinking and not wearing helmets. I can only hope for a Darwin award contender. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/142 "2012-05-05T02:10:00Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s a goddamned dirt bike track and they are going full guns on it with not only a dirt bike, there’s a 4-wheel ATV and a small dune buggy too. :mad: Noise and dust everywhere, and I do _not_ live out in the country! That sounds like a zoning violation to me. If you’re sure it’s completely finished, and there’s no question about its purpose, it’s time to notify your city zoning commission. I say to make sure it’s finished so that they’ve sunk the maximum amount of money into it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/143 "2012-05-05T02:15:22Z")
I live in the county; they’re pretty lax about stuff like this. When these rocket scientists lit their illegal firework pile off on the Fourth of July last year, the cops got _pissed_ that they got called out for something so inconsequential. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/144 "2012-05-05T02:16:40Z")
I can hear angry shouting right now. I think someone complained. 😉 ---
**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:** [May 5, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/145 "2012-05-05T02:47:53Z")
> [@living\_in\_hell](#): > > If asked you’ll deny it! 😉 > > Me too–and I even made an edgy version of your name when I started. ☹ CW is a good example of forgiveness. \ Forgiveness, or can’t remember stuff very well. Tomayto, potahto. 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 5, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/146 "2012-05-05T02:51:02Z")
> [@Cheez\_Whia](#): > > \and I do _not_ live out in the country! \ > [@Cheez\_Whia](#): > > I live in the county; they’re pretty lax about stuff like this. \ Assuming you mean country, which is it? Are you out in the country or not? ---
**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:** [May 5, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/147 "2012-05-05T03:09:27Z")
I’m interpreting it as meaning he is not in a rural area, but he is in **county** territory that is not incorporated into any particular city or town, where zoning regulations might be better enforced. I’m guessing you don’t do “counties” up in the Great White North. What do you do to divide your provinces into smaller political subdivisions, shires? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/148 "2012-05-05T03:09:55Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Assuming you mean country, which is it? Are you out in the country or not? “Out in the country” means rural…farms/woods/prairie/etc. “Out in the county” means outside the city limits, but usually still in a suburb. It does here in SE PA, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/149 "2012-05-05T03:11:36Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Fuck you Apple, I’m sick of your shit when it comes to MPEG-2. About 4 years ago I got a camcorder that stores files on a memory card as MPEGs. Little did I know at the time that my old Apple laptop (pre Intel processor) couldn’t go a damned thing with those files, I had to convert everything into Quicktime format, on my work computer then send it over to the home computer. > > Fast forward to today, I came into ownership of a more modern iMac, and am running Snow Leopard. Stupid iMovie 11 won’t let me import the MPEGs I have stored on my external hard drive\*. I also can’t play them in Quicktime unless I spend $20 on software. Stupid Shit. > > \*Turns out, you can import MPEGs, but you have to phony up a “camera archive” hard drive path and put all the MPEGs into one folder, then the program suddenly realizes they’re movie files, when the regular import function throws up all over them. WTF? Huh. My iMovie 9 doesn’t have any trouble with MPEGs at all. Tho I have a MacBook so I don’t know if that makes any difference. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/150 "2012-05-05T03:17:59Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I’m interpreting it as meaning he is not in a rural area, but he is in **county** territory that is not incorporated into any particular city or town, where zoning regulations might be better enforced. > > I’m guessing you don’t do “counties” up in the Great White North. What do you do to divide your provinces into smaller political subdivisions, shires? Cities, towns, villages, farms, and places in between other places. 🙂 > [@jayjay](#): > > “Out in the country” means rural…farms/woods/prairie/etc. > > “Out in the county” means outside the city limits, but usually still in a suburb. > > It does here in SE PA, anyway. “I live in the county” is actually a thing in the US? Huh. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/151 "2012-05-05T03:43:09Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > “I live in the county” is actually a thing in the US? Huh. It depends on where you live, of course. I can only really speak for this region (SE Pennsylvania) but I recognized the phrase and understood it instantly because we actually do say that here. (Well, I don’t…we actually live in the city.) ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/152 "2012-05-05T04:51:11Z")
Are you fucking kidding me? Get a life you dumb whore. And take your ugly dog and its ugly painted toenails with you. And take your buddy and her stupid laugh and nasty greasy hair, too. And what the hell take the other ones while you’re at it. No one will miss them…I promise. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/153 "2012-05-05T05:11:33Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I’m guessing you don’t do “counties” up in the Great White North. What do you do to divide your provinces into smaller political subdivisions, shires? I live in California, but I’m officially calling anything outside of city limits “shires” from now on. Sort of like how I call the tiny room off of my living room The Conservatory (caps and all). . . oh, and my living room is The Great Hall. I like to be fancy. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/154 "2012-05-05T05:28:51Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Jaw. Floor. Did I miss this earlier? She lets her kids kick kittens? What kind of mother lets her kids abuse baby animals? I don’t know what she allows in her house, but I’ve seen the kids try to kick the teenaged cats when they try to drink out of the bird bath. I’m taking one to the vet tomorrow. He’s intact, and there is something wrong with his mouth. I think he got kicked in the face, Spike looked looked like that before I had his jaw rebroke and wired. > [@](#): > > Probably a regional thing - not everyone lives in the desert. 😉 Butbutbut… Honestly, I understand that us desert dwellers are worried about water. It just surprises me that people don’t keep water on hand in case something happens. **living\_in\_hell** we really do need more details 🙂 You are a terrible tease. We don’t live in the country out here. We live in the sticks. Now for my rant…Bill’s cat tried to kill me last night. I don’t turn the lights on when I wake up to pee in the night. I don’t even bother to open my eyes, I just shamble into the bathroom and do my business. After I had flushed, I turned the water on and suddenly got hit in the boobs by a screaming wet cat. Scared me to death, and I tripped and hit the wall so hard that I saw stars, then ended up with bare butt on the cold floor. I didn’t die from a heart attack, I survived the head injury and didn’t freeze to death by AC. I staggered back to bed, went back to sleep and woke up an hour later because I couldn’t breathe because said killer cat was sleeping on my face. ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/155 "2012-05-05T05:51:54Z")
Until I master the ability to differentiate between elaboration and hijacking I ain’t saying shit! 😃 ETA: who is Bill and who is this cat? (unless telling me will run the risk of hijacking…don’t tell me anything!) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/156 "2012-05-05T10:08:51Z")
> [@jlzania](#): > > Oh shit , **saje**. I feel your pain. I had to have our two oldest dogs euthanised in March. It sucks. To tell you the truth, my biggest regret was that I delayed for so long. I really had a hard time letting go. > > And now my rant. After a really good winter, we’ve again run into a mystery illness with our chickens. The poultry experts have a name for it-RSS (runting/stunting/syndrome)- but no one has a clue as to what causes it or how to treat it. I’ve been checking around and it is prevalent both locally and across the nation right now. > We first experienced it at exactly the same time last year. Thankfully, it disappears as quickly as it arrives. However, not going to the farmers market for several weeks will drain us financially. I’ve been saving up to do a number of projects and now everything is on hold again. > Sucks to be me right now. Thanks JLZ, he’s pretty happy right now, but it’s tearing my heart out to see him stagger so. The RSS thing really sucks. What awful timing - though I guess there’s really never a good time for such things. What happens to the birds? Is there anything on them worth eating, or can you sell them as zoo food or something? I hope you can salvage a bit out of it 😕 ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/157 "2012-05-05T10:13:43Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > I know about Soddy Daisy. One of my favorite town names, it is. Hee! 😃 When we were looking around down here prior to moving, I saw this weird town name and laughed. Then realized that with my luck, I’d end up with it as my address. Sigh. That was 10 (!) years ago. I’m surprised actually at how many strangers across the country recognize it, it ain’t a big place ---
**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:** [May 5, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/158 "2012-05-05T10:20:16Z")
> [@saje](#): > > Hee! 😃 When we were looking around down here prior to moving, I saw this weird town name and laughed. Then realized that with my luck, I’d end up with it as my address. Sigh. That was 10 (!) years ago. I’m surprised actually at how many strangers across the country recognize it, it ain’t a big place One of the goals in my life was to find Lizard Lick, NC. I found it by accident one day when I pulled off Highway 264 to get some gas on my way from Raleigh to Greenville. Now there’s a redneck show filmed there. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2012, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/159 "2012-05-05T11:57:49Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > It depends on where you live, of course. I can only really speak for this region (SE Pennsylvania) but I recognized the phrase and understood it instantly because we actually do say that here. (Well, I don’t…we actually live in the city.) I can’t think of how I’d say the same phrase, here in the Chicago suburbs. Probably the wordy version that we do use, referring to “living in an unincorporated area/in unincorporated (next door town name)” - those areas technically “belong” to certain towns but only with regards to a few matters (like school districts, water, etc), and stuff like that post is more likely to happen there. When I grew up in Wisconsin, those areas were called “townships,” I think, and though I lived in “the Town of (name)” we used the neighboring city as the mailing address. If I had to explain it back then I’d probably say I lived in the Town of (name) or “outside the city limits.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483/160 "2012-05-05T13:48:22Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > suddenly got hit in the boobs by a screaming wet cat. **flatlined** , we need to talk about that new keyboard you owe me… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-rant-be-with-you-may-2012-rant-thread/620483.md?page=9)