# New and improved: \*JULY\* mini rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581 "2009-07-01T14:50:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/61 "2009-07-05T05:53:10Z")
StarvingbutStrong, he was annoying, and i LOATHED the sound of his voice. I wouldn’t have bought anything from him and now he’s dead-I won’t make myself give a fuck. I’d prefer to save my sympathy and sorrow for someone i actually like. Michael Jackson is a little different because he had a godawful start, and while i never actually wished him ill; i think it’s safe to say that the odds were against his ever getting his shit together enough to live a relatively healthy life. I hope his mother Katherine can give his kids something resembling a healthy family relationship. Can’t do anything about the news coverage, unless i turn the tv off, and disconnect the cable modem. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/62 "2009-07-05T14:48:23Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Okay, I see the flaw in my logic. But the complaint still stands for Taco Bell. \*PepsiCo, Incorporated requests the honor of your presence at the assembly and sale of a **Bacon Cheesy Potato Burrito** on Monday, the Sixth of July Two Thousand Nine at two 'o clock in the afternoon at Taco Bell 5729 Melton Road Gary, Indiana Acute diarrhea to follow\* ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/63 "2009-07-05T15:35:30Z")
_Dr. Drake and Mr. Mallard regret that they are unable to accept PepsiCo., Incorporated’s kind invitation for Monday the sixth of July._ But it’s nice to see some class in fast food for once! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/64 "2009-07-05T17:43:00Z")
Dear Adobe, Could you please implement layer comps in Illustrator, as you have done for Photoshop? Named views just aren’t the same. Sorry. Sincerely, User #2349412 ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/65 "2009-07-05T19:30:51Z")
> [@5-4-Fighting](#): > > It is one of the most horrible pains… > I don’t know where your mom is in her timeline but the initial constant intense pain can be fatiguing – not only wearing you down in and of itself, but also causing you not to be able to get a good night’s sleep… > > I have some scarring but because I look otherwise “normal” they just didn’t/don’t understand how bad you’re feeling… I was also referred to a psychologist because, depending on the severity of the pain, counseling is a major part of treatment (it can lead to a heavy sense of despair, etc.). Thank you so much for the good information. You’re totally right, my poor mom is not happy. I am actually home at my parents’ house now and am staying overnight to set them up with some food and do some chores so they are cool for this week. As soon as I can I am going to come up and stay for the week, probably after this week. Thanks again! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/66 "2009-07-06T00:05:59Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > \*PepsiCo, Incorporated > requests the honor of your presence > at the assembly and sale of > a **Bacon Cheesy Potato Burrito** > on Monday, the Sixth of July > Two Thousand Nine > at two 'o clock in the afternoon > at Taco Bell > 5729 Melton Road > Gary, Indiana > > Acute diarrhea to follow\* Whenever I think you’ve lost your touch… Bravo, sir. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/67 "2009-07-06T08:03:59Z")
The name is spelled M-i-c-h- **a-e** -l. The singer who just died? His name was Mich **ae** l. A-E. Not Micheal. If you’re posting about him\*, you’ve probably also been reading about him. As such, you might have noticed that the name is spelled Mich **ae** l. I know it’s not **the** easiest name to spell, but if you can spell Jermaine, you can spell Michael. \*not just on SDMB, but anywhere on the net ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/68 "2009-07-06T12:45:14Z")
Products that just suck. I bought a pack of [strap locks](http://www.mommyshelperinc.com/appliancelok.htm) to secure a couple of drawers from my son. They work great, except for the fact that, at 12mo old, the kid learned how to unlock them. Seriously, he’s toddling around, is thrilled to stack up 3 blocks at once and can easily undo a supposedly child proof safety device. Watching him unlock it, I cannot imagine a (non developmentally disabled) 2 year old who would be unable to figure out how to unlock it in about 5 minutes. Useless, crappy product that encourages parents to rely upon it to protect their children from things like hot ovens. Of course, on the flipside is [this turd bomb](http://www.amazon.com/Safety-48386-pack-Cabinet-Slide/dp/B00192JIZQ) that I can barely manage to open when it’s just sitting on a table, much less when it’s strapped to a cabinet. They may as well sell it with a pair of bolt cutters. Does anyone even test their products before selling them? ---
**Author:** ![by-tor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/by-tor/32/266_2.png) [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/69 "2009-07-06T14:39:26Z")
Dizzy-Cam! I despise you! Every movie you are in, you make worse. You are not hip. You are not cool. Nausea is not artistic! Shaky closeups of actions scenes suck ass as well. Crawl back to the abyss of lame, overused, cinematography cliches Dizzy-cam! ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/70 "2009-07-06T17:38:01Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > The name is spelled M-i-c-h- **a-e** -l. The singer who just died? His name was Mich **ae** l. A-E. Not Micheal. If you’re posting about him\*, you’ve probably also been reading about him. As such, you might have noticed that the name is spelled Mich **ae** l. I know it’s not **the** easiest name to spell, but if you can spell Jermaine, you can spell Michael. > > \*not just on SDMB, but anywhere on the net This is annoying as hell! I have never seen Michael spelled any other way than -ael. So it’s pretty fucking easy to remember… a then e, stupid. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/71 "2009-07-06T18:52:48Z")
I pit Iowa Radiology for sending a statement (one that I didn’t even know was coming) **four months** after the date of service (they read a CT scan done at the local hospital). I pit the hospital for not telling me that Iowa Radiology would be sending a separate statement. I could have added it to the loan I had to take out to pay for my gall bladder surgery. In March. ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/72 "2009-07-06T19:02:39Z")
I (OW) miniPit my (OW) back and (OWIE) me for not (OW) stretching before I did the (OW) vacuuming (OW) last (OW) night. I’m not (OW) fucking old yet, dammit! OW! I’m only (OW OW OW) forty! whimper ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/73 "2009-07-06T19:49:01Z")
Fire ants. Especially fire ants that bite my big toe exactly where the strap of every shoe I can wear to work rests. Fuck it, tomorrow I’m wearing flip-flops. ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/74 "2009-07-06T22:10:00Z")
OK OK OK !! To which god should I dedicate this burnt offering in order that I might walk or site or lie or what the hell ever without shooting pains? _owie owie owie whimper_ Also, which god can I thank for the non-prescription-strength \*uisge beatha \*that is keeping me from crying right now? ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/75 "2009-07-07T05:38:27Z")
Half past one in the morning and I can’t get a six year old girl to go to BED. And my head hurts. Gah! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/76 "2009-07-07T10:52:21Z")
My crazy mom is on one of her annual guilt-trips. She sent me an email with a funny picture, and I didn’t respond and now she’s decided that I’m offended because the picture was racist (it wasn’t…it was just a goofy street scene in India that someone emailed to her) and she’s apparently decided that I hate her or something. No way it could be that I’m just a bad emailer and had nothing to say to that picture. WHO KNEW that I was supposed to respond to every dumb thing she forwards to me or it means I don’t love her anymore? Apparently this iteration of the guilt-trip is pretty bad because MY DAD emailed me asking me to email my mom because she thinks I hate her now. And my dad asks me why I email my mom more than I email him. Um, because he doesn’t send me guilt-trip emails if I don’t correspond with him constantly? Also, it took the tiffin place like five minutes to figure out how to give me change for a 100 rupee note at lunch today. Lunch was 30 rupees (about 80 cents)…and they don’t have 70 rupees (about $1.20) lying around? That was just weird and annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Casserole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b77776/32.png) [@Casserole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casserole)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/77 "2009-07-07T14:23:10Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Products that just suck. I bought a pack of [strap locks](http://www.mommyshelperinc.com/appliancelok.htm) to secure a couple of drawers from my son. They work great, except for the fact that, at 12mo old, the kid learned how to unlock them. Seriously, he’s toddling around, is thrilled to stack up 3 blocks at once and can easily undo a supposedly child proof safety device. > > Watching him unlock it, I cannot imagine a (non developmentally disabled) 2 year old who would be unable to figure out how to unlock it in about 5 minutes. The point, of course, is to design a child-proof safety device that _while_ limiting access to children, allows adults to open it with ease. I believe enough idiotic adults have problems with child safety devices. Sadly. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/78 "2009-07-07T20:39:44Z")
Dude, you just held up 20 cars in the passing lane for 5 minutes while you drove at the exact same speed as the large truck in the lane to your right. Now that you’ve finally passed and all of those left lane cars are forced to weave into the right lane to pass you because you won’t move to the right lane while driving 5 miles under the speed limit…maybe you could at least put the blackberry down for a few seconds. And enjoy all of the honking and gesturing that is being performed just for you. ---
**Author:** ![Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/79 "2009-07-07T23:49:46Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > This is annoying as hell! I have never seen Michael spelled any other way than -ael. So it’s pretty fucking easy to remember… a then e, stupid. Here’s some mnemonic help anyway: Isra-el Gabri-el Beth-el Dani-el Ezeki-el Samu-el Rapha-el Micha-el In Classical Hebrew, “el” means “god.” All of these are Hebrew names whose etymology involves the word “god.” ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581/80 "2009-07-08T01:29:19Z")
I would like nothing more than to bludgeon my roommate to death. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-july-mini-rants/501581.md?page=5)