# Motherfucking minirants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 14, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motherfucking-minirants/422637 "2007-10-14T02:35:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motherfucking-minirants/422637/141 "2007-10-20T13:47:43Z")
[QUOTE=Captain\_C] Why the fuck are there no adventure opportunities for young hard-working men who want to see the world without signing their life away?! [/QUOTE] [French Foreign Legion, Le Recrutement](http://www.legion-recrute.com/en/) ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motherfucking-minirants/422637/142 "2007-10-20T16:33:23Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] Backpack. Passport. Easy-going attitude. Ticket to Europe. Go! Grab some work along the way- a couple of days in a pub, helping out somewhere, whatever. [/QUOTE] This, speaking as someone who did it. IF you want something of a support net, check out [these guys](http://www.bunac.org) to get started in the UK. ON an unrelated note, I’m considering replacing my soap with pure moisturizing lotion. It’s not even winter and I’m already considering swapping hygiene for my skin not being irritatingly dry. Goddamn desert. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motherfucking-minirants/422637/143 "2007-10-20T21:14:03Z")
It’s 0638. It’s already 29 deg C outside. The hottest part of the day won’t come until sometime around two to three pm. I think it’s going to be a bit warm today. ---
**Author:** ![boxorox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@boxorox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boxorox)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motherfucking-minirants/422637/144 "2007-10-21T00:44:56Z")
[QUOTE=El\_Kabong] Word. My car right now is in for repairs to the front bumper after one of the above left-turning idiots bounced off it last Wednesday. Fuck Centerpoint Energy for turning off my gas while I was away for two weeks, for no apparent reason, without so much as a note or mailed notice. Also, Centerpoint customer “service” person, if you want to go on living, do not give as your sole explanation, “We must have made a mistake on the address”, then in the next breath, tell me it’ll be about five days until you get around to turning it back on again. [/QUOTE] Last time someone tried that on me, i kindly reminded them the whole gas line runs through my yard, and i could stop it easily from getting on down the line. They promptly returned my service. ---
**Author:** ![boxorox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@boxorox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boxorox)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motherfucking-minirants/422637/145 "2007-10-21T01:36:42Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] In spite of their name, to do some real damage, you need a better implement than a Sharpie. That felt tip really isn’t going to do what you need it to do. I’d say ballpoint or nice sharp pencil would both be better options. Maybe a letter opener. (I got the job!!! Yay! Mini-rants really do work! Fingers crossed that I don’t have to come back and rant about threats of legal suits!) [/QUOTE] I actually did that to my grade school principle once. I wonder how he is doing now. ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motherfucking-minirants/422637/146 "2007-10-21T02:34:39Z")
When you’re turning right on red, and see a woman with two babies in a double-stroller, clutching another kid by the hand, trying to cross a six-lane road, STOP and let her cross. Don’t clip the stroller because you’re in a hurry, and don’t honk your horn because it takes 5 extra seconds to haul three kids that far. That mom isn’t wasting gas for a 2-block trip, and she’s getting some fresh air and exercise. Good for the environment, good for the mom and kids. Cool yer jets, and wait a few seconds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motherfucking-minirants/422637.md?page=7)