# 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:** 16
**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 10, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/301 "2009-11-10T03:19:35Z")
He’s you yesterday. You just don’t remember. And, checking the schedule, I see that I’m you tomorrow. Which credit card has the most left on it, again? ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/302 "2009-11-10T04:50:26Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > My day: > Get up at 0515 to get ready to get out on the road by 0615. > Drive about 7 miles to hospital taking 45 minutes(traffic and round abouts) > Go to reception told to go to admitting told to sit and wait told to go to cashier have people but up in front because there is only two cashiers and 20 people trying to pay. Get receipt go back to admitting asked to wait again. Shown to my room.)800 Told to wait for doctor. Associate docter comes in at 1000 says my surgery MIGHT get posponed until next week because a VIP might book all the operating suites. Told to wait. Wait wait wait wait. Finally at 1200 I talk to one surgeon he tells me to wait for the lead surgeon…wait wait 1430 I hear him outside, comes in goes over what happening, then says ALMOST the surgery might be held tomorrow, come back at 2200 to spend the night in the hospital. > > Okay…I know what it’s like to be in the Middle East but WTF!!! To add to my misery..went back to hospital to spend the night, no food or liquids for 16 hours(yes I was on an IV) then was told at 1300 that the surgery has been posponed until next week!! The resident(Eygptian) said to me..welcome to the Middle East!! Sputter We’ve lived in the ME since 1993!! ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/303 "2009-11-10T14:14:05Z")
It’s November. Why the fuck did the area strip malls put up their Christmas decorations last week?? And don’t call them “holiday decorations.” Green tinsely garlands represent only one holiday. Plus, among the Abrahamic religions, only one has a major holiday in December. And it’s not mine, so stop forcing your religion in my face! ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/304 "2009-11-10T15:24:18Z")
Pfft, I was buying miscellanea around Halloween time, and there was a frickin’ Christmas tree in CVS. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/305 "2009-11-10T18:28:12Z")
The local news did a “teaser” last night toward the end of the 6pm broadcast. “…Which county has the H1N1 vaccine… tune in at 10pm to find out…” This is necessary information for a portion of the population. How dare they try to increase viewership this way. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/306 "2009-11-10T21:10:49Z")
Co-worker, each time you ask me to “do you a flavor”, you flirt with your own demise. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/307 "2009-11-11T15:18:13Z")
I really don’t want to go to work because I fucking _hate_ this fucking job. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/308 "2009-11-11T17:34:10Z")
This is a tiny thing and maybe it’s just me, but it’s overwhelmingly annoying. Message board at IMDB. Someone asks about Cuddy and a peripheral character from last season. Someone else replies with a diatribe about Cuddy’s low cut blouse from the Hospital Administrator Slutwear Collection. And so it goes, endlessly, back and forth sniping about Cuddy’s wardrobe, by total idiots. What about PC from last season??? Hello??? ---
**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:** [November 12, 2009, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/309 "2009-11-12T07:36:37Z")
Fuck those crybabies. Cuddy is great and her clothes are made of win. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/310 "2009-11-12T14:03:24Z")
I am so sick of people using “erstwhile” when they mean something like “intrepid.” ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/311 "2009-11-12T17:04:16Z")
Goddammit! I’m currently unemployed, and a wonderful person recommended me for a job opening that sounded just about perfect: two miles from my house in a fantastic company that’s actually growing, in my field, using the job skills I most love to use, etc. etc. The lady looking to fill the position said she’d email me a proper job description after she hammered it out with her co-workers. Got the description today. Far from being the editing job I was told about, the job is mostly MARKETING. Marketing! I fucking hate marketing. I suck at marketing. Plus, today I’m feeling the “body aches” I was promised would eventually come along due to my first chemo treatment two days ago. My eyeballs hurt. Ow. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/312 "2009-11-12T17:52:44Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > It’s November. Why the fuck did the area strip malls put up their Christmas decorations last week?? > > And don’t call them “holiday decorations.” Green tinsely garlands represent only one holiday. Plus, among the Abrahamic religions, only one has a major holiday in December. And it’s not mine, so stop forcing your religion in my face! So much this. It annoys the living hell out of me when my friends tell me, “Well, enjoy it because you have a holiday too!” Grrrr. Just steams me. But what I came in here for… Friend, I dearly care about you, but if you even once more play the ‘I’m going to wait to see if I get a better offer’ trick on a weekend again, I will personally remove your internal organs with a vacuum cleaner that only works periodically, in order to draw out the ordeal… Thus letting you know how annoying it is to put _my_ life on hold to see if _you_ get more interresting plans. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/313 "2009-11-12T18:29:57Z")
Using the word “methinks” makes you look like a douchebag. Also, learn how to use apostrophes, English-speaking humans of earth. ---
**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 12, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/314 "2009-11-12T19:18:16Z")
Whatcha got against apostrophe’s? TruTV is diving deep into a pile of festering slop in its plans to air _Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura_. Yes, the former Navy SEAL, pro wrestler and governor of a state full of belatedly embarassed Minnesotans is going to give us the low down on things They Don’t Want You To Know. _“9/11: Giant Beavers Brought Down The Twin Towers” “Vaccines - Life-Saving Intervention or Curse of the Microchipping Satan Spawn?” “The Kennedy Assassination - Could Dwarfs Have Sneaked Under The Radar?”_ Bring it on, Jesse! ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/315 "2009-11-12T19:29:04Z")
The main online research site I use has been down only once over the past month. But it went back to its Glass Joe impression today just as our institution’s president needed some information. Yay. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/316 "2009-11-12T19:36:23Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Using the word “methinks” makes you look like a douchebag. > > Also, learn how to use apostrophes, English-speaking humans of earth. Wearing sunglasses inside the bar makes you look like more of a douchebag than you already are. Asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/317 "2009-11-12T21:33:33Z")
Girly bits, what do you have against me? My last regular period was in May of 2007. Since then, I’ve had the baby and had ZERO periods before I went on the mini-pill after his birth. I even take it continuosly - no placebo week for me - because the hormone shifts mess me up somethin’ fierece. So why is it that my uterus has decided to bleed three times in the last four weeks?? I’ve got a call into my GYN, but since I did’nt hear back from them today, it’s probably going to be Tuesday before I can even talk to someone about making an appointment. GRR. ---
**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 13, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/318 "2009-11-13T21:48:43Z")
**Ooo, looky what I did for you!** Why does my anti-popup ad software find it necessary to take up space in a window to inform me that it has blocked a popup ad, and that I can see it if I want? If I went to the trouble to activate the no popups option, it’s a really really good bet that I don’t want to see ads popping up. And surveys have shown there is very little incidence of popup-blocking remorse. “Omigod, that might have been something I desperately want! Can I get my popup ad back, _please???_”. Stop behaving like a puppy dog that thinks it deserves a treat for bringing me something I don’t want. You don’t have to advertise that you did your job, just do it - invisibly. By the way, it would be highly appreciated if some software developer would discover a way to display and implement the following message when you ask your computer to shut down: “You have updates to important stuff that can be downloaded. Would you like to download them and then have the computer shut off automatically?” Such a development would warrant the Nobel Prize (as opposed to the current annoyance of trying to get something done and being interrupted with messages advertising updates).\* \*in its current state of devaluation. ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/319 "2009-11-14T16:31:07Z")
Ok, seller, we both want this deal to go through. We are supposed to close in 10 days. If you don’t get a roofer out there and either assure me that roof will be good for 5 years or that it will be replaced, we will not be closing. I am totalling willing to walk away at closing if my issues have not been resolved. The HVAC better be fixed, too. I know it “works” but being able to install and change a filter is a necessity and you should be on the installer’s ass about this anyway! Moving in December is going to suck. I just hope it doesn’t snow until Christmas, when I should already be in the house. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955/320 "2009-11-14T19:08:55Z")
Okay, body (specifically girl bits), I am well and truly sick you messing with me. I now have to cancel the colposcopy for the second time because you decided to start things out too early…a-fucking-gain! Look, I just want to know that my “abnormal cells” aren’t cancerous. Can’t you just let the doc take a peak in there to determine that all is good, and then we can move on? We’ve been trying to get this done since September; enough is enough already!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-we-need-a-mini-rants-thread/512955.md?page=17)