# Mini-rant thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 31, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000 "2016-12-31T22:13:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/61 "2017-01-08T22:04:20Z")
My name doesn’t fit Facebook’s notions of what a name should be like, each cousin has come up with different ways to solve it. But I don’t use that account anyway, mostly because of a cousin who keeps hitting the whole family for money… the one I really use is for an alias. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/62 "2017-01-09T00:17:51Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > I don’t use my real name on Facebook and neither do several of my friends. We use something sort of close but not searchable to those who don’t know what to search for. Like Angelina Jolie would be Angel Inajo Lee. Nobody is checking. Some random person reported me, so I’ve been banned. Have to send FB my passport details even to have the opportunity to of telling them why I don’t use my real name and beg and plead to be be allowed to continue to do so, and I really don’t want to do that. I didn’t just not sign up out of fear of being kicked off (not sure why you assumed that), I actually did get kicked off. It’s happened to several people I know too; I’ve had this name for about five years, so just because it hasn’t happened to you yet doesn’t mean it won’t. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/63 "2017-01-09T03:55:29Z")
Facebook got into trouble for not allowing drag queens to use their drag names, even though those are the personas they’re known as in public. I THINK they finally backed down, but I’m not sure. One wonders if actors who use _noms de film_ are given flack for not using their birth names. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/64 "2017-01-09T07:25:18Z")
Michael Keaton would be kind of screwed if he had to use his birth name on FB. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/65 "2017-01-09T10:25:10Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Facebook got into trouble for not allowing drag queens to use their drag names, even though those are the personas they’re known as in public. I THINK they finally backed down, but I’m not sure. One wonders if actors who use _noms de film_ are given flack for not using their birth names. I think they would probably let me back on with a version of my real name that wasn’t my full real name, but sending them my passport details just feels wrong. A couple of the people I know who got let back on with their “fake” names had to go to ridiculous lengths to do so - one had to provide an affidavit from a lawyer! ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/66 "2017-01-09T15:09:32Z")
Driving to work today wondering how I managed to be so late - -Oh look a whole flock of geese in a perfect vee! -Shit I just ran a red light!:smack::smack: OK, got it. My brain isn’t working today. I’ll just sit quietly in a corner and avoid using power tools. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/67 "2017-01-09T20:19:52Z")
I was forced to upgrade to DISH’s Hopper. Okay, whatever. Except, we’re having problems with it. I record a program, go to watch it and it’s a black screen. This happened about 20% of the time. Called technical assistance, tried troubleshooting, no solution. Guy said it was probably defective, sent a new one. Hooked new one up, guess what? Called again today. Technical assistance had NO idea what could’ve happened. She said I should call when it is happening. Reminded her it happens when I go to watch a recorded program, so how am I supposed to know when it is happening? Oh, yeah. “Is there anything else I can help you with?” You haven’t helped me in the first place, sooo…no? To add to this, when I went to return the first “defective” Hopper, the person at the UPS store put the label on backwards, so it was returned to me instead of DISH. I had called last week to ask for a new label, no problem. Today, UPS delivered a huge massive empty box. Inside was a return label. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/68 "2017-01-09T21:37:40Z")
Fuck the electrical gremlins that decided to kill our aircon a day before the start of a week of mid-to-high 30C (86F+) temperatures - the forecast is for 38C (100F) in a few days. Because it’s a warranty job being done through our insurance company it’s going to take a few extra days to get it fixed. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/69 "2017-01-09T21:45:30Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > Today, UPS delivered a huge massive empty box. Inside was a return label. Classic. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/70 "2017-01-10T00:10:03Z")
You’ve spent the last several months loudly referring to me – and people like me – as “Killary cult members” and “libtards,” and now you’re spamming me with some crap on Facebook, expecting me to paste a heart on my timeline for some reason? Fuck off. ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/71 "2017-01-10T22:58:32Z")
Yeah, what is that heart thing all about? It has been randomly showing up the last couple of days. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/72 "2017-01-10T23:22:33Z")
Something about breast cancer awareness, but only women are allowed to do the heart thing, and a reminder to “check your boobies!” I got it as a private message. This kind of stuff is stupid. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/73 "2017-01-11T00:10:05Z")
It’s especially stupid considering the fact that men get breast cancer as well. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/74 "2017-01-11T02:04:34Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I woke up, (Yay! for Saturdays and sleeping in.) and put on some socks because it’s cold here and I noticed my right sock has a hole above the long toe, that’s the right toe of the big toe, and now I’m just like, “fuck you today.” Well it has happened. The Apocalypse has started. I did laundry yesterday and tonight I went and grabbed a couple of random socks and pulled the one out with the hole in it. My left foot is now being murdered by the cold breeze coming in through the window. All is lost. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/75 "2017-01-11T02:37:32Z")
I thought about starting a thread, but just a rant should do. Can you read stuff out loud, to someone else? I have a friend to reads me stuff from web pages. News stuff. So, he reads _every fucking word_. I mean, including all the quasi-parentheticals, where the story explains precisely who or what the particular subject is. And, of course, to get it all in, it has to be read rapidly, in a monotone. Fuck. I barely hear any of it anymore, because it is such dense verbiage. At least when I read stuff out, I look ahead and try to skip over stuff and or paraphrase, being exact mostly only for quotes. This is why I avoid video links, preferring to read the content myself, if possible. Especially those goddam political speeches. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/76 "2017-01-11T21:00:43Z")
[Flip or Flop star asks for spousal support](http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/tarek-el-moussa-requests-spousal-support-from-wife-christina-in-divorce-petition/ar-BBy8idt?li=BBnb7Kz) Tarek El Moussa is requesting spousal support from his estranged wife, Christina, ET confirms. Can someone help Tarek locate his testicles? Alimony has become a scourge on marriage and our American Society as a whole. Any able bodied man who asked seeks it should have his man card pulled. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/77 "2017-01-11T21:45:17Z")
Starbuck’s has a new cherry-flavored coffee drink out called cascara latte. I realize that cascara is the name of the species of the cherry tree, but people are pointing out that Cascara is also a laxative. Obviously, somebody didn’t think this through. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/78 "2017-01-12T01:17:32Z")
Yeah, but it could be an instance of truth in labeling. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/79 "2017-01-12T11:35:05Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > My cat has to eat prescription food because he has plumbing problems that cause his bladder to fill up with crystals unless he eats the expensive stuff. And the vet isn’t carrying it. I called Monday and it’s now Thursday afternoon, and they still don’t have it. What am I supposed to do if we run out of his food before they finally get it in? Just buy the cheapo stuff from the store for a day or two and hope he’ll eat it instead of turning up his nose at it because it isn’t his regular stuff, then cry because he’s hungry? Is it Royal Canin Urinary SO? You can get the canned stuff from Amazon; it’ll tide you over til the vet can supply you. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000/80 "2017-01-12T13:00:51Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Starbuck’s has a new cherry-flavored coffee drink out called cascara latte. I realize that cascara is the name of the species of the cherry tree, but people are pointing out that Cascara is also a laxative. Obviously, somebody didn’t think this through. 🙂 I have to admit, it’s actually pretty delicious. I noticed no laxative effects, but maybe I just need to drink a whole lot more of them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-rant-thread/776000.md?page=5)