# OMG, we need a mini-rants thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 7, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955 "2009-10-07T16:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/221 "2009-10-23T01:25:20Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > Every now and again in the last couple of days my eyes suddenly feel like I’m chopping onions, then it goes away. I don’t know what’s causing it, but it’s making me nuts. Starting a few months ago, most days at some mealtime, as I start to eat, my esophagus will constrict like it’s trying to kill my food before it reaches my stomach. The food is already gone, but it’s like God has reached into my neck and gripped just that one tube. Thank God I can breathe, because otherwise I’d be genuinely worried and probably panicked. I connect this somehow to the fact that for years, about every 4 months I would get violent hiccups as I started to eat a meal. Then it goes away after about 5-10 seconds. I can’t notice a pattern, but the fact that wheat is in so many things makes me wonder if that could be the cause. It’s almost impossible to tell. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/222 "2009-10-23T01:32:57Z")
Cardinal! Do you have acid reflux? See your doctor and ask to be tested for [Schatzki Ring](http://www.medicinenet.com/schatzki_ring/article.htm). My husband has this and it can be treated! If you don’t treat it, you’ll eventually have trouble swallowing food all together. Look into it! ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/223 "2009-10-23T02:07:33Z")
Wow. I do eat more antacids than anyone I know. I consider them essential have-arounds. I sometimes keep them at home, work, AND the glove box. Now I have to go to freakin doctor. Drat. Yeah, sometimes I have to come barely awake and swallow spit 4-5 times to go back asleep. Man, this board knows everything. That’s why I get evangelical about this place, despite all the Godless American-Hating Hippie Freaks. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/224 "2009-10-23T03:44:04Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > My 16 y.o. daughter just IM’d me from school (study hall) to let me know she almost got in a fight. Why? Because some guy called her a “stupid fucking slut”. > > I don’t blame her for wanting to kick his face in - I’d rather enjoy that myself - but now I have to be all motherly & shit and try to tell her “violence isn’t the answer”. > > Og, I hated high school and watching my daughter go through it isn’t any better. Dammit. I’m truly torn between telling a girl to drop him with a knee to the groin and ignoring people who are truly trash. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/225 "2009-10-23T07:05:24Z")
An update from my dumb ass- apparently, my settings on facebook have been messed up for months and nobody could actually see my status updates. People could see my farmville crap, apparently, but nothing I actually said. It was just some kind of glitch. I fixed it by blocking some people and then unblocking them. Then I posted a status asking people to respond if they could see it and voila! Now I feel like an idiot for being annoyed with my friends for nothing. I didn’t do anything about it (like act like a bitch and not tell them why I was mad) but I still feel like a moron. I now have two comments on my status (the one that says “If you can see this at all, please comment.”) which is two more than I had before. Which means hopefully soon I can be a normal person who really never thinks about getting comments on status updates. eta: I’m up to three! Someone “liked” it! wow, I’m popular! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/226 "2009-10-23T12:55:17Z")
> [@SurrenderDorothy](#): > > apparently, my settings on facebook have been messed up for months and nobody could actually see my status updates. Ack! I hate it when stuff like that happens, then I’m left wondering which is better, that I’m feeling that stupid or how I was feeling before I figured out what was going wrong. :smack: Glad to hear you’re… visible? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/227 "2009-10-23T13:49:02Z")
> [@Cardinal](#): > > Wow. I do eat more antacids than anyone I know. I consider them essential have-arounds. I sometimes keep them at home, work, AND the glove box. > > Now I have to go to freakin doctor. Drat. Yeah, sometimes I have to come barely awake and swallow spit 4-5 times to go back asleep. Man, this board knows everything. > > That’s why I get evangelical about this place, despite all the Godless American-Hating Hippie Freaks. > > 😉 Yay! And listen, do ask about the acid reflux. Protonix is one drug used to treat it — you may want to do some more research. Ellen Possibly a Hippie Freak ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/228 "2009-10-23T16:38:48Z")
Dammit. Someone threw out or ate the chicken I was going to put in my lunch. Now all I have is a small dish of roasted vegetables. Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/229 "2009-10-23T17:23:13Z")
> [@niblet\_head](#): > > Fuckers. I’m aggressively paying of my remaining credit card debt. I have under two grand on my AT&T card that I was on schedule to be done with very very soon. > > They’ve been sending me balance transfer offers relentlessly for months. I have a balance on another card that’s next in line to pay off, but the terms of the transfer weren’t good enough to justify moving the balance. > > Until the other card sent me notice they were boosting my APR by 3 percent. So, transfering that balance to my AT&T card made more sense. Plus, I don’t want to reward the other bank, who I’ve been with for a long time, for upping the APR on a good customer that they were already making money on. > > Today I got notice that AT&T is bumping my APR on the two grand by 15 points to **24.99** %. > > Those fuckers. I’m no expert, but I beleive you can refuse to accept the new terms. There should be something in the documetnation somewehre about how to do this. It will require you to not make any new purchases with the card, though. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/230 "2009-10-23T17:30:28Z")
True, but that means they’ll close my account. I’ve had it for years, and the length of credit is important to me and my FICO score. Believe me, I won’t be making any purchases on the account. On the one hand, I can see why they did it and why they want to get rid of me (I will soon make them no money at all, only cost them money by maintaining an unused account). I just thought since we’d been so goood together for so long… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/231 "2009-10-23T17:46:26Z")
> [@Cardinal](#): > > Wow. I do eat more antacids than anyone I know. I consider them essential have-arounds. I sometimes keep them at home, work, AND the glove box. > > Now I have to go to freakin doctor. Drat. Yeah, sometimes I have to come barely awake and swallow spit 4-5 times to go back asleep. Man, this board knows everything. > > That’s why I get evangelical about this place, despite all the Godless American-Hating Hippie Freaks. > > 😉 A few years back, a mini-rants thread clued me in that what I thought were gastric troubles were in fact migraines. Started treating them as such, and they eventually stopped happening. The BBQ Pit - People Helping People. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/232 "2009-10-23T17:53:25Z")
Fucking hell. I finished my course of antibiotics for my ear infection on Tuesday and I think it’s actually getting worse again now. I woke up in pain and it’s kind of throbbing a little right now. And that’s after I took a couple extra-strength Tylenols with my morning tea. WHY WON’T YOU JUST BE NORMAL, EAR? ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/233 "2009-10-23T17:56:38Z")
2 very mini rants: 1. sweaters and yarn with only 3% cashmere in them should not be allowed to have the word “cashmere” in their names. Especially when they other 97% of the fiber is acrylic. 2. when people post questions, and say “X TV show made me think of this!”, it’s not necessary to post “X is just a TV show, and is not real”. They know it’s just a TV show. Sometimes, these unrealistic TV shows make you wonder how subjects you’re not familiar with work in the real world. _ **They are not asking if the TV show is realistic, they are saying "I know this isn’t realistic, so how does it really work?"** _ Not as mini, but mini enough at the moment that I’m not doing a new thread for it: Uterus, or ovaries or whatever - just do your damn job! One of you lazy bitches is slacking off, and I WILL find out who. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/234 "2009-10-23T19:03:46Z")
I’m sick. I cannot afford to be sick. I can’t afford to not be at work right now. I have things to do this weekend. I was really hoping that this was just a minor case of the sniffles so I got up and went to work this morning. I feel crappy. My sinuses are a bit congested, but beyond that all I can say is I feel like crap. A little feverish. Very tired. A little achy, maybe. Work is dead slow so I decide to go home. I take my temperature, which is 100.5. Fuck. This is _not okay_, goddamnit. I cannot be sick! ---
**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:** [October 23, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/235 "2009-10-23T21:16:07Z")
> [@Cardinal](#): > > Starting a few months ago, most days at some mealtime, as I start to eat, my esophagus will constrict like it’s trying to kill my food before it reaches my stomach. The food is already gone, but it’s like God has reached into my neck and gripped just that one tube. Thank God I can breathe, because otherwise I’d be genuinely worried and probably panicked. I connect this somehow to the fact that for years, about every 4 months I would get violent hiccups as I started to eat a meal. > > Then it goes away after about 5-10 seconds. I can’t notice a pattern, but the fact that wheat is in so many things makes me wonder if that could be the cause. It’s almost impossible to tell. I see there have been a couple of other responses, but in my case it is [esophageal spasms](http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/esophageal-spasms/DS00763) caused by food allergies. Now that I’ve learned what foods trigger it I’ve adjusted my eating habits. I still eat the foods but I start off with smaller amounts until my esophagus settles down. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/236 "2009-10-23T21:18:56Z")
I bought Omeprazole thanks to the warnings in this thread. Why can’t I take it more than 14 days in a row? What happens when I’m not taking it? I’m beginning to suspect I’m not the real target market for this OTC stuff, and that when I’m off it, my reflux will start again. Man, I don’t want to get prodded and questioned by doctors. Whaaaahhhhhhh!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/237 "2009-10-23T23:21:42Z")
> [@Cardinal](#): > > I bought Omeprazole thanks to the warnings in this thread. Why can’t I take it more than 14 days in a row? What happens when I’m not taking it? I’m beginning to suspect I’m not the real target market for this OTC stuff, and that when I’m off it, my reflux will start again. Man, I don’t want to get prodded and questioned by doctors. > > Whaaaahhhhhhh!!! WAG: If it lasts more than that amount of time, you may have something serious that a doctor should be looking at. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/238 "2009-10-24T03:28:46Z")
I have this little tiny zit in my ear, the kind that HURTS, but because of where it is, I can’t pop it (it seems like it’s about to come to a head). Dammit! ---
**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:** [October 24, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/239 "2009-10-24T03:39:18Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > WAG: If it lasts more than that amount of time, you may have something serious that a doctor should be looking at. You should probably be able to figure out in this amount of time what it is you’re doing to yourself to cause this problem. Problem isn’t you? Ask your doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/240 "2009-10-24T10:19:59Z")
> [@Cardinal](#): > > I bought Omeprazole thanks to the warnings in this thread. Why can’t I take it more than 14 days in a row? What happens when I’m not taking it? I’m beginning to suspect I’m not the real target market for this OTC stuff, and that when I’m off it, my reflux will start again. Man, I don’t want to get prodded and questioned by doctors. > > Whaaaahhhhhhh!!! If it takes that long, see a doctor. I see someone who takes it daily, but her medical history has volume, chapter and verse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955.md?page=13)