# Mayday! Mayday! (minirants!) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 1, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409 "2018-05-01T14:47:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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:** [May 17, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/221 "2018-05-17T02:43:12Z")
Google is being obstreperous. All I want is an adapter that will let me use my Sennheiser headset that has 2 2.5 mm plugs (one for earphones, one for the mike) with my new computer, which has a single 3.5 mm port. I’m finding plenty of dual 3.5 to single 3.5 adapters. I’ve even found a number of dual 3.5 to single 2.5 adapters. But for the life of me, I cannot find a dual 2.5 to single 3.5 adapter. Do these not exist? Would I be better off looking for a dual 2.5 to USB adapter? And on top of this, both my bluetooth headset and my wired earbuds that I use to listen to music from my phone have gone bad. The headset has a non-functioning left ear bud, and the wired earbuds are so old that the protective coating on the wires has started to break down and I have exposed wires. Ugh. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/222 "2018-05-17T03:07:55Z")
Lord, I’m tireder than I thought. I took a close look at the actual plugs on my headset, instead of the end that plugs into the phone. They’re 3.5 mm, so I don’t need the (probably mythical) dual 2.5 mm to single 3.5 mm adapter after all. However, the bluetooth headset and the wired earbuds are still busticated. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/223 "2018-05-17T03:32:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I think everyone has stories of showing up to help someone move and they aren’t even close to ready. I have such a story, which was irritating, but that wasn’t the funny bit. The _last_ time (ever) I and my friends ever showed up to help someone move, he (1) hadn’t started packing, (2) had the entire inventory of his comics shop that went under needing packed as well, and (3) had to leave to visit grandma for “a few hours.” We were super-pissed, and vengeful. And devious. We packed _everything_ for him. At random. Underwear + a few comics + the VCR remote + some of the dirty dishes. Labeled “books”. Then dirty laundry + a few comics + all the spoons + the TV remote. Labeled “books”. Look, we just labeled everything “books”. Except a few that someone labeled “kitchen”, which was just everything that was in the kitchen garbage, dumped into a box. When his younger relatives showed up for when the pizza arrived, we explained that _we_ were taking a break for pizza while _they_ loaded up the truck that had been waiting hours for them. Hurry up; pizza will be cold. Yes, he _does_ have a lot of books – careful, they’re heavy. We were long gone by the time he actually returned after midnight. And he probably still hasn’t found all the remotes. But the kitchen trash _did_ get sorted to the kitchen! Helpful! ---
**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:** [May 17, 2018, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/224 "2018-05-17T03:50:37Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > We packed _everything_ for him. At random. Underwear + a few comics + the VCR remote + some of the dirty dishes. Labeled “books”. Then dirty laundry + a few comics + all the spoons + the TV remote. Labeled “books”… Damn, I bow to the professional movers… and shakers! Honestly, this story made my day… no, fortnight. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/225 "2018-05-17T04:44:12Z")
I have a good news/bad news story here. The good news is that I am able to counter the popular rumor that nothing – absolutely nothing – every happens in London, Ontario. In fact, something did happen on garbage day on Tuesday: Police in London, Ont., say someone put a live First World War-era artillery shell out with the trash on Tuesday. The shell contained more than 10 kilograms of live explosives and had to be destroyed by bomb experts at Canadian Forces Base Borden. The vintage piece of ordnance was found by Danny Vellow after someone had placed it with the curbside trash for pickup in the city’s west end on Tuesday. > **[Somebody put a live WWI-era artillery shell out with the garbage in London,...](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-ontario-artillery-shell-garbage-1.4665802)** > > London police say someone put a live, First World War-era artillery shell out with the trash Tuesday. It contained more than 10 kilograms of live explosives and had to be destroyed by bomb experts at Canadian Forces Base Borden. The bad news, unfortunately – and I do say this with the deepest regret – is that the caricature of how Canadians supposedly talk, which I have long maintained is just a scurrilous fiction, appears to have been validated by this unfortunate comment from Mr. Vellow: “I almost stepped on the bomb. I was like, ‘Holy heck, eh?’” I’m just going to assume that he was misquoted, probably by an agent of American interests. They probably had to restrain themselves from fabricating some additional fiction like, “What hoser put this thing here, eh?” ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/226 "2018-05-17T04:57:59Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I have a good news/bad news story here. Every part of this post makes me smile. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/227 "2018-05-17T06:28:31Z")
When my brother and control-SiL moved, we helped them. SiL wanted to tell us how to pack, but not do it herself. We explained it was either “we do it our way” or “you do it your way”; “we do it your way, with you trying to give instructions to five people in six different rooms” wasn’t going to work, and not just because of the mismatch in numbers. She insisted. Alex and I sat down on the floor. Me, she might have been able to budge, but Alex is a 6’something truck mechanic, built to Mack specs. Us helpers got to do most of the packing, but at least she was complaining to the boxes she was filling herself rather than trying to ride us 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/228 "2018-05-17T12:44:28Z")
Had a fight with my husband last night. I still feel that he was in the wrong, but am ready to let this blow over. We are in the “cautious civility so life can proceed as usual” stage. These types of things make me sick to my stomach; I hate this aftermath feeling. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/229 "2018-05-17T14:34:33Z")
The people who constantly post things with, “If you agree, share”, drive me crazy. It’s ridiculous stuff, too. Stuff like: “The sun is beautiful and the source of all life! ‘Share’ if you want to see the sun rise tomorrow.” ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/230 "2018-05-17T14:40:16Z")
Life is Pain. Share if you agree. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/231 "2018-05-17T14:58:31Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > The people who constantly post things with, “If you agree, share”, drive me crazy. It’s ridiculous stuff, too. Stuff like: “The sun is beautiful and the source of all life! ‘Share’ if you want to see the sun rise tomorrow.” If I got that from most of my relatives I’d be answering “gee, when did you start liking being up at dawn?” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/232 "2018-05-17T18:51:36Z")
Am I supposed tom care about the Royal Wedding? From the new coverage, I get the impression that I am supposed to care. But you know what? I don’t. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/233 "2018-05-17T19:38:35Z")
Just this morning, I explained to a friend that since we “blüüdy colonists” don’t have royalty, we have to look elsewhere for meaningless pageantry. ETA: I think it’s harmless. Gives the People Magazine readers something to get all warm and fuzzy about. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/234 "2018-05-17T20:17:38Z")
Day eight, and we got a newspaper delivered today. Now I’m cynically waiting for the weekend, when there will be nobody in the offices to call. ---
**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 17, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/235 "2018-05-17T21:09:31Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > \ > The _last_ time (ever) I and my friends ever showed up to help someone move, he (1) hadn’t started packing, (2) had the entire inventory of his comics shop that went under needing packed as well, and (3) had to leave to visit grandma for “a few hours.” > > We were super-pissed, and vengeful. And devious. We packed _everything_ for him. At random. Underwear + a few comics + the VCR remote + some of the dirty dishes. Labeled “books”. Then dirty laundry + a few comics + all the spoons + the TV remote. Labeled “books”. > > Look, we just labeled everything “books”. Except a few that someone labeled “kitchen”, which was just everything that was in the kitchen garbage, dumped into a box. > > When his younger relatives showed up for when the pizza arrived, we explained that _we_ were taking a break for pizza while _they_ loaded up the truck that had been waiting hours for them. Hurry up; pizza will be cold. Yes, he _does_ have a lot of books – careful, they’re heavy. > > We were long gone by the time he actually returned after midnight. And he probably still hasn’t found all the remotes. But the kitchen trash _did_ get sorted to the kitchen! Helpful! Impressive! But completely appropriate for someone who doesn’t stick around for his own packing! We stopped helping anyone move about 10 years ago - we figured we were all about even, we all have enough money now to hire a moving company, and none of us are getting any younger. Not helping other people move is A Very Good Thing. 🙂 > [@wolfpup](#): > > The bad news, unfortunately – and I do say this with the deepest regret – is that the caricature of how Canadians supposedly talk, which I have long maintained is just a scurrilous fiction, appears to have been validated by this unfortunate comment from Mr. Vellow: > “I almost stepped on the bomb. I was like, ‘Holy heck, eh?’”\ Oh, jeeze. > [@Chimera](#): > > Life is Pain. > > Share if you agree. > > 😃 Yes, your Dread Pirateness. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/236 "2018-05-17T22:24:26Z")
Local radio station posts one of those phishing memes on their FB page. The ones with ‘your this name is a,b,c’, one of which was ‘first pet name’. :smack: I respond that this is a phishing meme designed to get people’s password hints. I get an immediate response from the station asking if I think they’re phishing. No, you’re just naive. ---
**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 17, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/237 "2018-05-17T23:42:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Day eight, and we got a newspaper delivered today. Now I’m cynically waiting for the weekend, when there will be nobody in the offices to call. What time does your newspaper get delivered (when it does)? ---
**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 17, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/238 "2018-05-17T23:45:44Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Life is Pain. > > Share if you agree. > > 😃 That sounds really Facebook-ish. Which raises a disturbing implication. Even people who _aren’t_ telling you any different are trying to sell you something! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/239 "2018-05-18T01:52:20Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > What time does your newspaper get delivered (when it does)? In the past, it’s been delivered as early as 1 AM. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409/240 "2018-05-18T02:16:57Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Life is Pain. > > Share if you agree. > > 😃 So how long have you been a Russian bot? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-minirants/813409.md?page=13)