# Novembrants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 1, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304 "2014-11-01T21:59:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/301 "2014-11-26T14:16:38Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Your autobilling goes to the card itself, rather than to a bank account to which the card is linked? Genuinely surprised because I’ve never seen such a setup, but hey, figured I’d ask because I’m sure I’ll end up running into it elsewhere at some point. Autobilling goes to my credit card as well. That way I take advantage of the 1% rebate I get with the card. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/302 "2014-11-26T15:09:15Z")
OK, just wanted to confirm. I have some places where the information I have for payment is a CC or DC, but it’s not for autobilling - my autobilling can’t even go to a card, it’s IBAN or nothing. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/303 "2014-11-26T16:01:31Z")
There are 2 ways you can set up automatic payments. If you set it up for your bank to “push” the payments to your creditors, it will always come from the bank account. If you go to the creditor’s web site and set it up to “pull” from your account, you can use debit/credit cards, or sometimes the account info. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/304 "2014-11-26T20:38:16Z")
My MIL just decided she wants to take us to Universal Studios the day after Christmas (we all live in Florida.) I know I should be all grateful and everything, but my only thought is, ''Why are you ruining Christmas?" ☹ I don’t understand people and their compelling need to _do_ things. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/305 "2014-11-26T20:46:39Z")
Not feeling especially thankful today. Tony is a grumpy-butt, and I get it - something has aggravated his back, it’s getting worse, he’s tired of hurting. But he’s also “ired” of hurting, and snapping at me every time I open my mouth. On the brighter side, my FIL called yesterday to tell us that he and my step-mother-in-law are too sick for Turkey Day, so I don’t have to load up too many kids and dogs and drive all the way to the farm and spend a few hours trying to gauge the perfect moment to say “Oops, would you look at the time! Gotta go!” And I did buy a turkey and fixings, so I get to eat my own food, and the houseguests have been invited elsewhere so we can have a day _en famille_. But the phone and internet and TV service are spotty right now. And the tech won’t be out until the first. Or the second. I suspect that someone nicked a buried cable while installing the new traffic light a few hundred yards down the road, because the service gets stupid when the ground gets wet… Whee! ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/306 "2014-11-27T02:10:00Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Mine are about 50/50. Half of mine are directly linked to my debit card and half are ACH withholding from my checking account. My card was set to expire this month, so the bank sent me a new card with an expiration further in the future. I had to update the accounts on my card with the new expiration. The ones that come from my checking account I didn’t have to worry about. (Even though funds for my debit card come from my checking account, there’s a difference in how the billers handle the transaction. My debit card is treated like a credit card for those transactions in which it’s used.) This is my problem. I have about half my auto-billing linked to my CC and half linked directly to my bank account, and I have to comb through all my statements for both to remember which has which. Fortunately, it appears so far that I was at least marginally smart enough to link the really important ones (like car insurance and student loan auto-debit) to my checking account. ---
**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 27, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/307 "2014-11-27T02:48:24Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > My MIL just decided she wants to take us to Universal Studios the day after Christmas (we all live in Florida.) > > I know I should be all grateful and everything, but my only thought is, ''Why are you ruining Christmas?" ☹ > > I don’t understand people and their compelling need to _do_ things. So, you’ve got about four weeks to learn how to convincingly fake the flu. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/308 "2014-11-27T02:55:50Z")
What flu, indigestion! ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/309 "2014-11-27T05:30:35Z")
> [@saje](#): > > That’s a great idea 🙂 A little sibling rivalry put to good use! I used that on her today. My husband suggested that I just give them kitty kibble…which they aren’t allowed to have because its so fattening for dogs. They both love it, though. Tonight, I tossed a couple of pieces of kibble at Buttercup, and all the cats came over to see what she was getting and then turned their noses up and walked away to do cat stuff. I offered Westley some kibble if she would come in the room and gave Buttercup some more and Westley actually came into a room with 4 cats who were doing such things as watching the birds outside or licking where their balls used to be. Thank you so much for the help. I think this is going to work 🙂 > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > The part I bolded – that was very elegantly phrased. Thank you. Sounds like you may be breaking up with your minion, soon. Thank you for the nice words, but really, sometimes totally wonderful people just don’t match up with you, no mater what. As it happens, my minion broke up with me. He didn’t even bother to come to work and tell me face to face, he just left a voice message. I guess that working with a godless heathen wasn’t working out for him. Funny part is that I have never talked about my personal beliefs and the Cluthlu fish was just a joke. Big sighs…now I have to go through the interview process again. > [@Tread](#): > > Inconceivable ! Since Westley doesn’t even believe ROUSs exists, and only a great fool would fear what he knows to not exist. I laughed 🙂 > [@BaldDudePeekskill](#): > > Give it time, I’ve been there several times. Things will improve. I suggest something weird that works for me… Take an absorbent dog toy and rub it on the cats face and have the cat sleep with it. Then introduce it to the dog. The dog will associate the scent with fun and will lose the fear with time. It really works! This is also a good idea, which I started as soon as I read your post. Westley loves to chase tennis balls. The cats like to bat tennis balls around so it won’t be a problem to get the cats to sleep with them. Our hounds don’t really don’t play other toys, although some dog has been eating the furry mousies. This worries me because I don’t want them getting blocked. In other news, I made deviled eggs tonight. I followed MIL’s instructions and it worked out great. Maybe I can learn to cook afterall!!! ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/310 "2014-11-27T05:39:41Z")
We have plenty of brooms. One for inside, and two for outside. So why in the fuck did he use the inside broom to sweep the wet, covered-with-dead-leaves deck? Then put it back in the (inside) utility closet, for me to start sweeping the kitchen before noticing it’s all wet and muddy? This is, of course, a broom only meant for inside, so now the bristles are all shredded. And I still can’t sweep the kitchen because although he cleaned it, it’s dripping wet. A small rant in the grand scheme of things, but I just can’t get over the stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/311 "2014-11-27T06:16:53Z")
So I peeled enough potatoes to feed an army today. And boiled them up. And drained them. Put them in the mixer bowl, once I dug out the mixer. All so my 88-year-old grandmother can press a button and say that she made the whipped potatoes. Okay. Only there’s no button pressing. Just one old lady complaining loudly that the potatoes weren’t peeled right and that I’ve made more work for her as she now has to dig out the eyes. The eyes I already dug out. I just let her play in her damn potatoes. Also, I really wish they didn’t try that ‘well they used to call us dirty Jews and we liked it’ bit with me when I take offence at them using racial slurs. They didn’t and you didn’t, not ever. ---
**Author:** ![Dunkelheit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dunkelheit/32/248_2.png) [@Dunkelheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunkelheit)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/312 "2014-11-27T08:35:31Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I pit depression. Go fuck off and die, depression. Go away. I don’t need you. I don’t need you at all. You hinder me in everything I try to accomplish. FUCK OFF Amen to that. Hoping your black dog runs away. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/313 "2014-11-27T11:49:29Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > I used that on her today. My husband suggested that I just give them kitty kibble…which they aren’t allowed to have because its so fattening for dogs. They both love it, though. Tonight, I tossed a couple of pieces of kibble at Buttercup, and all the cats came over to see what she was getting and then turned their noses up and walked away to do cat stuff. I offered Westley some kibble if she would come in the room and gave Buttercup some more and Westley actually came into a room with 4 cats who were doing such things as watching the birds outside or licking where their balls used to be. > > Thank you so much for the help. I think this is going to work 🙂 Oh yay! Some time and patience and she may even have have kitty-friends 🙂 And congrats on the deviled eggs, that’s a delicious start! ---
**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 27, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/314 "2014-11-27T19:25:19Z")
> [@Dunkelheit](#): > > Amen to that. Hoping your black dog runs away. Thanks. I’ve been doing a bit better in the past couple of days, so there is that. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/315 "2014-11-27T21:16:12Z")
Anyone else notice that men think holidays mean they can just sit around the house and rest, but have no trouble with the wimmin cleaning and baking and etc? And should the wimmin point out that they are doing all the work, they get the whine about how the menfolk work all week? What the hell does he think I do? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/316 "2014-11-27T21:17:00Z")
Our local paper (or what’s left of it) is just annoying me at this point. First they cut door delivery to four days a week and went to an online paper, which I don’t read. They didn’t cut the subscription cost, of course, which makes zero sense to me. Meanwhile, the delivery paper has become so thin that I now refer to it as “the daily pamphlet”. Recently, they announced that there would be a special Thanksgiving delivery with a huge section of ads for Black Friday, and that _they were going to charge $4 for it!_ What the everlovin’ FUCK? So all of these businesses are paying you to run these ads and you want to charge me to read them? Well, I thought: fuck that. We don’t do Christmas shopping, and haven’t done so for at least 15 years now. We called them and said “No, we don’t want that edition, so don’t charge us for it.” Of course, it showed up on the doorstep this morning. The pamphlet that accompanied the giant mound of ads that I won’t read contained even MORE ads inside. Almost every page had the top third as an actual article, and the bottom 2/3 as ads. I’m an inch away from cancelling this rag altogether. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/317 "2014-11-28T05:30:16Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > So, you’ve got about four weeks to learn how to convincingly fake the flu. Problem fixed, thanks to my genius husband! He proposed Cirque du Soleil (which we’ve been wanting to see forever.) ‘‘Oh, sorry, Mom, it’s sooo expensive to go the day after Christmas, why don’t we go in early December on a normal weekend day?’’ Christmas saved. 😃 ---
**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 28, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/318 "2014-11-28T05:36:05Z")
Well, okay, but how are the comics? I mean, shit, Chefguy, you gotta keep your priorities straight, man. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > So, you’ve got about four weeks to learn how to convincingly fake the flu. I truly love the way your mind works. > [@flatlined](#): > > … 4 cats who were doing such things as watching the birds outside or licking where their balls used to be… I keep re-reading this, and I keep giggling. Sorry 'bout your minion, but I’m glad you masted The Devilled Egg Challenge. While I reeeeeally wanted to use Cinammon’s “I got knocked up” idea, I wound up telling my parents that New Guy and I had broken up after Thanksgiving dinner was over. Their reactions? My mom gave me cold, hard cash to change my locks, and my dad had literal actual tears of joy in his eyes. Ick. ---
**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 28, 2014, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/319 "2014-11-28T05:40:57Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > While I reeeeeally wanted to use Cinammon’s “I got knocked up” idea, I wound up telling my parents that New Guy and I had broken up after Thanksgiving dinner was over. Their reactions? My mom gave me cold, hard cash to change my locks, and my dad had literal actual tears of joy in his eyes. > > Ick. I hope you take the cash your mom gave you and treat yourself to something really wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/320 "2014-11-28T06:56:21Z")
I was thinking the hairdresser. She meant those locks, aye? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304.md?page=17)