# 'No' Means November Rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 31, 2013, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729 "2013-10-31T07:36:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/101 "2013-11-03T22:33:51Z")
Goodamned stinking 30-second unskippable ads before YouTube videos! Stop wasting my time. And they’re usually ads for Cheerios. I fucking hate Cheerios. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/102 "2013-11-03T23:27:11Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > _joins the “i \<3 house spider” club_ > Can you move or re-home your personal Charlotte with the cup-and-paper method? I did. I put her in a jar while I cleaned. I didn’t clean underneath the side table where a good part of her web was. Then I put her back there. I just looked and I don’t see her at the moment. ☹ I hope she comes back. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/103 "2013-11-04T01:29:35Z")
Time for my annual winter rants: 1. I hate changing the clocks. I don’t see the need for it, and I don’t want to change them in spring or fall. 2. Clean your fucking sidewalks. We had all day today to clean sidewalks after our snowfall yesterday, and yet about half of them were still covered in snow and ice when I went for a walk today. 3. Clean your fucking car off. I hate driving behind SUVs and minivans that are creating their own personal snowstorm because they can’t be arsed to clean the snow off. Also, clean the snow off your fucking license plate. If I were a cop and I saw a truck that had had the snow cleaned off everywhere except the plate, I would ticket those assholes every damned time. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/104 "2013-11-04T01:35:40Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Goodamned stinking 30-second unskippable ads before YouTube videos! Stop wasting my time. And they’re usually ads for Cheerios. I fucking hate Cheerios. Adblock + Firefox = no more ads. I did not even know You Tube had ads until someone mentioned it in another thread. Dunno if that works if you’re watching on a phone or other non-actual-computer type device, though. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/105 "2013-11-04T02:16:47Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Time for my annual winter rants: > > 1. I hate changing the clocks. I don’t see the need for it, and I don’t want to change them in spring or fall.\ I really miss living in the land of “we don’t need no more stinking sunlight”. I used to get annoyed at people who changed their clocks because it was such a bother to remember what time they were on. Now I’m one of those idiots who change my clocks, and its even more of a bother. No snow here in the land of humidity and squeeters big enough to fly away with cats, but I did learn good snow manners from this board. I didn’t have a sidewalk to shovel, but I did totally brush my car off before driving. Which made me sad because I liked being a snowstorm. Lucky is sneezing a lot. He started sneezing on Friday, just a cute kitteh sneeze every once in a while. Tonight he’s sneezing constantly. It could be allergies, nobody else is sneezing. I tried to tell Lucky that if he kept sneezing, he would go to the vet and get his temp taken. He didn’t listen, so tomorrow he goes to the vet. Is this like an alien abduction thing…grabbed up, put in a locked cage, scarey motion until out of the homeworld and then anal probes? ---
**Author:** ![Ispolkom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47774/32.png) [@Ispolkom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ispolkom)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/106 "2013-11-04T02:30:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Time for my annual winter rants: > > 1. Clean your fucking sidewalks. We had all day today to clean sidewalks after our snowfall yesterday, and yet about half of them were still covered in snow and ice when I went for a walk today. > > 2. Clean your fucking car off. I hate driving behind SUVs and minivans that are creating their own personal snowstorm because they can’t be arsed to clean the snow off. Also, clean the snow off your fucking license plate. If I were a cop and I saw a truck that had had the snow cleaned off everywhere except the plate, I would ticket those assholes every damned time. For #2, I remember the[Litany of Winter.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=595808&highlight=shovel+fucking+sidewalk) Response: Fuck you. Shovel your sidewalk. As far as #3, I was always impressed by the idiot in the DC area who, on the rare occasions when it snowed, would leave an enormous snow cornice on the roof of his car. Inevitably it would slide off at highway speeds, blinding cars behind. How long does it take to turn on the car, and while it warms up, brush the snow off? 3 minutes? Of course, here in Minnesota the leaves haven’t even stopped falling, so that’s a future rant for me. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/107 "2013-11-04T03:44:55Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Adblock + Firefox = no more ads. I did not even know You Tube had ads until someone mentioned it in another thread. Dunno if that works if you’re watching on a phone or other non-actual-computer type device, though. Firefox Mobile does it on my Android. This isn’t the first time she’s whined about it. Hoping it’s the last. So trivial when it’s something that can be changed. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/108 "2013-11-04T03:58:26Z")
> [@Ispolkom](#): > > For #2, I remember the[Litany of Winter.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=595808&highlight=shovel+fucking+sidewalk) Response: Fuck you. Shovel your sidewalk. So on board with this. Better yet, shovel your walk in a timely fashion so it doesn’t turn into ice from people walking on it and become ten times more difficult so you _really_ don’t want to make an effort. > [@](#): > > As far as #3, I was always impressed by the idiot in the DC area who, on the rare occasions when it snowed, would leave an enormous snow cornice on the roof of his car. Inevitably it would slide off at highway speeds, blinding cars behind. How long does it take to turn on the car, and while it warms up, brush the snow off? 3 minutes? Of course, here in Minnesota the leaves haven’t even stopped falling, so that’s a future rant for me. Clearing off your car properly (not making a little peephole in the front and leaving the rest) is part of driving a car in places that get snow. It takes as long as it takes, and you leave a bit earlier so you can do it properly. And no, it doesn’t take that long - start up car, clean all the snow off, drive off. No problem. It’s just another symptom of our sick society - it doesn’t affect _me_, so I don’t care about the snow blowing on people behind me. (But I do laugh my ass off at the people who come to a stop and the whole assload of snow on top of their car slides forward across their front windshield. 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/109 "2013-11-04T04:22:23Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > Thirty-four dollars for a box of checks? THIRTY-FOUR DOLLARS FOR A FUCKING BOX OF FUCKING CHECKS?? > > Jesus, the banks aren’t even trying to hide how much they’re squeezing the common man. Wow. $34.00? Did you order them from your bank? You can order checks online from Wal-Mart for $8.00 a box. Even Disney characters if you want 'em. The banks will gouge you every time. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/110 "2013-11-04T06:45:44Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Time for my annual winter rants: > > 1. I hate changing the clocks. I don’t see the need for it, and I don’t want to change them in spring or fall. My stomach knows perfectly well when it’s Eating Time and it’s not when the clocks say, damnit :mad: Geographically speaking, most of Spain should be on the same timezone as Portugal and the UK, with the Canary Islands one hour behind; most of us are on CET, with the Canaries on the same time as Portugal and the UK. This was, horror of horrors, a decision from Franco which he justified as “to be on the same time zone as Germany”. Being from Franco, it’s evidently wrong despite putting us on the same time zone as [most of our neighbors](http://www.travel.com.hk/region/timezone.htm), so there have been some probes about moving back to UK time. Since the actual reason can’t officially be given, the one being bandied about is “that way we’d be doing things at the same clock-time as our French neighbors, not just at the same solar-time!” Uh, no… people won’t move their lunchtime one hour ahead just because someone decided to shuffle the clock, same as we don’t do it between “winter” and “summer” hours. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/111 "2013-11-04T07:03:36Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > My stomach knows perfectly well when it’s Eating Time and it’s not when the clocks say, damnit :mad: Yeah, my cat would agree with you on that, as she demonstrated this morning. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2013, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/112 "2013-11-04T09:01:46Z")
My sinuses are congested right now, and the inflammation is radiating downward into my maxillary bone, to the point where I want to grab a pliers and yank out all of my upper teeth. Ow. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/113 "2013-11-04T09:20:55Z")
Listening to the November complaints, I realize I have it good! No clock-changing where I live in the tropics. (The three seasons are easy to remember also: Hot, Very Hot and Fucking Hot. This is in contrast to Southern Thailand where the three Seasons are named Wet (from rain), Wet (from flood), Wet (from perspiration).) In other good news, my chronic fatigue has improved since I stopped taking beta blocker. (The beta blocker was to protect my heart from excitement, but excitement largely avoids me these days.) ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/114 "2013-11-04T12:54:28Z")
To our pediatrician- you don’t need to explain to us why Little Miss E needs to get all her vaccines. We both have degrees in biology (one of us has a PhD and works as a Geneticist). We want her to get ALL the vaccines. Everything she can get, even the optional ones. I only looked away and winced because I hate needles. I do that when they stick me, too. You give that baby all that magic science juice, dammit. To Little Miss E- you’ve spit up on three tops of mine this morning. You can’t possible still be hungry. If grandma saw what a little greedy guts you are, she would not at all be amazed at how you’ve put on a kilo in a month. Nor would she be telling me I need to give you formula to top up your meals. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/115 "2013-11-04T15:14:39Z")
Oh, those freaking arrogant greedy bastards! I just completed my insurance enrollment for 2014. Increasing my HSA contribution by $6.15 per paycheck. So what happens to my overall change in premiums and costs for all of my insurance benefits? The grand total (including that voluntary contribution) _ **goes up by a whopping $3.92 per paycheck! Madness! Outrage!** _ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/116 "2013-11-04T15:29:04Z")
_counts on fingers_ So the rest of what goes into your charge got lowered? OK, where’s the trap? ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/117 "2013-11-04T15:41:47Z")
> [@MickNickMaggies](#): > > … To Little Miss E- you’ve spit up on three tops of mine this morning. You can’t possible still be hungry. . . Of course she’s still hungry – she’s lost her meals to your shirts! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/118 "2013-11-04T15:47:01Z")
> [@MickNickMaggies](#): > > To our pediatrician- you don’t need to explain to us why Little Miss E needs to get all her vaccines. We both have degrees in biology (one of us has a PhD and works as a Geneticist). We want her to get ALL the vaccines. Everything she can get, even the optional ones. > > I only looked away and winced because I hate needles. I do that when they stick me, too. You give that baby all that magic science juice, dammit. > > To Little Miss E- you’ve spit up on three tops of mine this morning. You can’t possible still be hungry. If grandma saw what a little greedy guts you are, she would not at all be amazed at how you’ve put on a kilo in a month. Nor would she be telling me I need to give you formula to top up your meals. If you’re nursing try nursing her while she’s getting her vaccines. Studies show that breast milk helps reduce the pain from shots. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/119 "2013-11-04T16:50:22Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Oh, those freaking arrogant greedy bastards! > > I just completed my insurance enrollment for 2014. Increasing my HSA contribution by $6.15 per paycheck. So what happens to my overall change in premiums and costs for all of my insurance benefits? The grand total (including that voluntary contribution) _ **goes up by a whopping $3.92 per paycheck! Madness! Outrage!** _ > > 😛 THREE DOLLARS AND NINETY-TWO CENTS? Where’s my pitchfork? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729/120 "2013-11-04T16:57:17Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > _counts on fingers_ So the rest of what goes into your charge got lowered? OK, where’s the trap? The Health HSA premium went up 3%, but it’s still ludicrously low. As I said to a co-worker, they pay more than 5x the premium amount for my meds each month, so it’s an awesome deal for me. Dental went up by a whopping 11 cents. The big one was in my Long Term Disability insurance premium dropping by close to 50%. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-means-november-rants/672729.md?page=7)