# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/21 "2014-11-03T00:26:37Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > From the tail end of the October rants… Could somebody out this retailer? I’d like to avoid them if I can. I don’t know if they do it anymore, but Target at least used to a couple years ago. ---
**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, 2014, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/22 "2014-11-03T00:44:31Z")
I knew someone who was a cashier at a local Maxi (supermarket) and she said she was timed. ---
**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 3, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/23 "2014-11-03T01:57:20Z")
Gosh, if I could only see more reruns of these political ads before Tuesday, surely my mind would be changed, said nobody ever. Fucking hell, people. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/24 "2014-11-03T02:07:00Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Gosh, if I could only see more reruns of these political ads before Tuesday, surely my mind would be changed, said nobody ever. Fucking hell, people. I am looking forward to the end of my mailbox being stuffed with political mailers. All I do it sort them straight into the trash. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/25 "2014-11-03T02:40:58Z")
I have one candidate for the state Assembly who mails us a flyer every single day. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/26 "2014-11-03T04:23:34Z")
The candidates aren’t very good this year. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/27 "2014-11-03T05:33:18Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I am looking forward to the end of my mailbox being stuffed with political mailers. All I do it sort them straight into the trash. Wood stove season is starting … more firestarting goodies 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/28 "2014-11-03T06:20:31Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I should just be a lesbian. I don’t know, PMS times two and if you have similar sizes and tastes in clothes it’s “have you seen my blouse?” and if you don’t there is a risk of one trying to “improve” the other one’s style… ---
**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 3, 2014, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/29 "2014-11-03T06:36:43Z")
Also a drawback to polygynous households that include men, IMO. The “synchronized PMS” alone would probably scare most men. 😃 ---
**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 3, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/30 "2014-11-03T13:26:42Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > From the tail end of the October rants… Could somebody out this retailer? I’d like to avoid them if I can. It’s Aldi, but I don’t know if the US branches do it. Otherwise it seems like a decent place to work, if such a thing exists in the retail world. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/31 "2014-11-03T14:09:52Z")
It’s time to start rating TV nature shows for violent content. Last night I watched part of a program about shrews (the small rodenty animal). First they showed a mother vole and its litter of tiny naked babies. Mama vole goes out to forage for food, gets attacked by a rattlesnake and dies, twitching and hemorrhaging internally. The announcer intones about how the litter of babies is now doomed to die a slow death without food. But wait! Here comes the shrew. Will it adopt the litter of voles and raise them as its own? Nope, it’s going to eat the babies (it is shown grabbing them in its jaws and hauling them away for a potluck supper). Sheesh. It’s a far cry from Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, where predators never quite caught their prey and everything lived in happy harmony. It’d be less traumatic for the kiddies to tune into _Real Sex_ (as a bonus, it’d sufficiently gross them out to promote abstemious behavior for many years to come). ---
**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, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/32 "2014-11-03T14:30:18Z")
I went to the drugstore today and there was hardly any discounted Halloween candy left! Nothing worth buying anyway. (Yeah, lamest rant ever, especially considering how much leftover Halloween candy I still have at home!) ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/33 "2014-11-03T15:21:21Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Also a drawback to polygynous households that include men, IMO. The “synchronized PMS” alone would probably scare most men. 😃 My mother started Teacher’s School in Saragossa, which happens to also house the Spanish Army College. Since the teachers were all ladies and the cadets were all gents, the two schools were a frequent source of appropriate guests at parties hosted by each other or by their personnel. She says that one of the Moroccan guest cadets told her “you guys are SO lucky that men here can only marry once! My father’s wives all hate each other’s children, just because they are each other’s :(” He said that he and his half-siblings were never expected to view each other as siblings, always as rivals. I’m sure there were other families which weren’t so bad, but damn. ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/34 "2014-11-03T15:44:49Z")
“I’m staying home from school today because I can’t find my shoes!” “You’re _going_ to school, put on nicer socks.” And the shoes were found! ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/35 "2014-11-03T16:51:17Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > She says that one of the Moroccan guest cadets told her “you guys are SO lucky that men here can only marry once! My father’s wives all hate each other’s children, just because they are each other’s :(” He said that he and his half-siblings were never expected to view each other as siblings, always as rivals. I’m sure there were other families which weren’t so bad, but damn. If you read histories of the Ottoman Empire it got down to killing off one’s siblings, wives plotting and murdering against other wives … the harem was a _dangerous_ place for everybody [at least wives and sons, not much was written about daughters. I would assume daughters were used for dynastic marriages.] [URL=“[http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/](http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/)”] ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/36 "2014-11-03T16:58:44Z")
Me: “Hey coworkers, here’s my opinion about this project.” Coworkers/boss: “No, we don’t want to do that. That’s not a good idea. That’s not a priority.” Consultants/vendors: “Here’s my opinion about this project.” (happens to be the same as mine) Coworkers/boss: “That makes so much sense! Of course we’ll do that. Thanks for your expertise.” **sigh** ---
**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 3, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/37 "2014-11-03T17:04:30Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > From the tail end of the October rants… Could somebody out this retailer? I’d like to avoid them if I can. > > ETA: new guy is in a snitty mood and I think we might be about to have a stupid fight over nothing. He just got a new job, starts tomorrow (yay!) and I know he’s got some anxiety over that, but sheesh. He’s in a funk, overreacting, being irrational. I should just be a lesbian. Impending fight was over small petty bullshit nitpicking. (To be fair, on both our sides.) He left to go hang with some neighbor buddies and I went about my afternoon as if I was single and carefree and unattached (I mean, as in doing which errand I pleased at whatever rate I chose, not as in, I hit the bars and boinked the first thing that didn’t run away fast enough) and decided: small petty bullshit nitpicking is, well, bullshit. We cool. 🙂 > [@Chefguy](#): > > Gosh, if I could only see more reruns of these political ads before Tuesday, surely my mind would be changed, said nobody ever. Fucking hell, people. One of the silver linings of being too poor to afford cable and pulling the plug recently. I woke up one morning and my first coherent thought, apropos of absolutely nothing, was in all seriousness, “Hey. I haven’t seen one of those annoying political ads. 🙂 I wonder why? … oh. right. Too poor. ☹ Still, whhhheeeeeeeeeeee no ads!” > [@Dunkelheit](#): > > It’s Aldi, but I don’t know if the US branches do it. Otherwise it seems like a decent place to work, if such a thing exists in the retail world. I dunno. At the Aldi’s that I’ve been to around here, the employees all have that soul-deadened thousand-yard stare I’ve only ever seen otherwise on war veterans and Wal-Mart employees. > [@Jackmannii](#): > > It’s time to start rating TV nature shows for violent content. > > Last night I watched part of a program about shrews (the small rodenty animal). First they showed a mother vole and its litter of tiny naked babies. Mama vole goes out to forage for food, gets attacked by a rattlesnake and dies, twitching and hemorrhaging internally. The announcer intones about how the litter of babies is now doomed to die a slow death without food. But wait! Here comes the shrew. Will it adopt the litter of voles and raise them as its own? Nope, it’s going to eat the babies (it is shown grabbing them in its jaws and hauling them away for a potluck supper). > > Sheesh. > > It’s a far cry from Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, where predators never quite caught their prey and everything lived in happy harmony. > > It’d be less traumatic for the kiddies to tune into _Real Sex_ (as a bonus, it’d sufficiently gross them out to promote abstemious behavior for many years to come). Nature red in tooth and claw. Frankly, I detest the sanitized nature documentaries; predators gotta eat, too. Otherwise, they too are “doomed to die a slow death without food.” > [@EmilyG](#): > > I went to the drugstore today and there was hardly any discounted Halloween candy left! Nothing worth buying anyway. (Yeah, lamest rant ever, especially considering how much leftover Halloween candy I still have at home!) My local grocery store had some sale-priced candy, but 2/3 of it was that nasty candy corn crap. Still, I found out that Cadbury eggs came out with a Halloween version (the “yolk” is green instead of yellow; no more waiting for yearly Easter candy for me!!) and got one for me and one for New Guy’s little boy. ETA: oh, year, mini rant. I made a chicken pot pie for the three of us for dinner Saturday night. It was dee-fucking-licious, but when I added chopped veggies to the heat to briefly soften they spit-spattered like a mofo and I have an interesting pattern of burn marks on my forearm, plus I burnt the tip of my tongue taste-testing. (I actually heard my saliva sizzle. :eek: ) ---
**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, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/38 "2014-11-03T17:31:28Z")
Ah yes. Cadbury Screme Eggs. My rant was that I didn’t get the chance to buy any this year. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/39 "2014-11-03T17:59:25Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > The “synchronized PMS” alone would probably scare most men. 😃 PMS alone scares most men. “Synchronized PMS” is a full blown sharknado. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304/40 "2014-11-03T18:11:17Z")
> [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](#): > > “I’m staying home from school today because I can’t find my shoes!” > > “You’re _going_ to school, put on nicer socks.” > > And the shoes were found! I’m just going to file this away for later use. My boy is 18 months so I have a while until the made up BS starts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novembrants/703304.md?page=3)