# Season of the Kvetch (October mini-rants)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Tags:** monthly-mini-rant
**Created:** [October 1, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563 "2025-10-01T13:25:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 14
### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/261 "2025-10-23T14:44:04Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#):
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> I also hereby kvetch about the ads that support the mobile games I like to play. Putting aside the fact that most of them are scams (no, you’re not going to win hundreds of dollars per day playing Bubble Finger Blast, nor is that AI-generated puppy robot an actual puppy robot (these ads are designed to scam kids who don’t know any better)), there’s also the matter that they try to swindle me in other ways. The X to close out the ad will be obscured, or so tiny as to be impossible to close the ad; some ads won’t go away until I play a few seconds of the game; some imitate my home screen so that I think I’m closing the ad but I’m actually opening up its page on the App Store; etc. I really wish Apple would crack down on what ads it will allow companies to play, and what apps it allows on the app store.
Yeah, those ads are total shit and intentionally designed to make it as difficult as possible to get past them. I don’t quite understand the idea of pissing off someone enough to make them a customer.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/262 "2025-10-23T14:57:17Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#):
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> I hereby kvetch about how sports-related YouTube channels, to include the channels of the teams themselves, will title their videos in such a way that gives the score of the game (or at the very least, broadly hints at the outcome). Say I want to watch the highlight reel of the Chelsea v Sunderland match. Chelsea FC’s YouTube channel, or the EPL YouTube channel, or some other channel that hosts highlight reels, will title the video “Chelsea wins in stunning comeback” or “three-goal outing for Chelsea” or what have you, spoiling the outcome for me. I do wish they’d all come to an agreement so as to title their videos in such a way that the outcome isn’t spoiled before I hit “Play.”
Maybe it’s just me, but if you’re opting for a highlight reel, does it matter if you already know the outcome?
If you’re choosing to watch the whole match, I could see it.
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### Author:  [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/263 "2025-10-23T15:36:00Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Maybe it’s just me, but if you’re opting for a highlight reel, does it matter if you already know the outcome?
I understand where you’re coming from, but for me, watching the highlight reel is usually preferable to watching the game. I’m at work when the majority of EFL games are played (viz, mid morning Saturdays US Central Time), and when I get home I don’t have it in me to watch 90 minutes of football. More like 270 minutes since I support three teams over there. And I refuse to pay AppleTV their exorbitant price for MLS Season Pass for my local teams.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/264 "2025-10-23T16:06:08Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Maybe it’s just me, but if you’re opting for a highlight reel, does it matter if you already know the outcome?
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> If you’re choosing to watch the whole match, I could see it.
A quality highlight reel is an excellent thing in any sport. e.g. It takes 20 minutes to watch 100% of the action in an NFL game that broadcasts in just about 2 hours. All else is fluff. And advertising.
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/265 "2025-10-23T17:34:15Z")
> [@scudsucker](#):
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> internet supplier sucks dog cocks
I have GOT to stop making mental images. My mind immediately tackled the question of "How are those techs at his ISP managing to use their computers while pursuing their hobby? Great job multi-tasking, nerds!
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/266 "2025-10-23T17:40:10Z")
I’ve been waiting an hour and a half for the lunch I ordered for delivery. I’m a patient person about this sort of thing, but come on. I’m hungry!
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/267 "2025-10-23T17:40:52Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> I’ve been waiting an hour and a half for the lunch I ordered for delivery.
Look on the bright side… If it’s delayed long enough, you have dinner taken care of.
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### Author:  [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/268 "2025-10-23T17:42:14Z")
I apparently have reached the “grumpy old man” age.
I want to order delivery food, and delivery booze this evening, so I can binge on series.
But our local Uber delivery (is that a thing anywhere else in the world?) Cannot coordinate both foid and beer in the same trip. So I need to go outside and wait for either food or beer to show up, then wait for the straggler.
I mean, I am a software engineer. The problem is quite a hard one, due to complex algorithm necessary to work out the most effective route (nod towards the “travelling salesman”) but surely it is more efficient- and certainly more customer friendly- that the same delivery guy delivers both products at the same time?
Now, instead of relaxing on my bed with the dog, I need to be near the front door for some unspecified time.
#3rd world problems.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/269 "2025-10-23T17:46:13Z")
> [@scudsucker](#):
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> But our local Uber delivery (is that a thing anywhere else in the world?)
They call it [Uber Eats](https://www.ubereats.com/) here in the US.
> [@scudsucker](#):
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> #3rd world problems.
Indeed, when your biggest complaint is the inconvenience of waiting for the person bringing you food and alcohol, you’re probably having a pretty good day overall. 🙂
Not that your complaint is invalid.
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### Author:  [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/270 "2025-10-23T18:11:32Z")
Yeah, I know. I live in Cape Town, possibly THE most modern/urban space in Africa, so I am whining about the most trivial thing imaginable.
But I am hungry, dammit. Semi legal minimum wage delivery driver on a hired bike, with no license and no recourse to the law… hurry up, guy.
He actually delivered just a few minutes ago, he is a refugee from Rwanda. I love this country, you guys in the states do not understand cultural diversity. I wish you (well, “they”, your politicians) did.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/271 "2025-10-23T18:16:26Z")
Look, I’m right there with you! Someone stole my order so I had to order it again. I don’t know if I’m out $30 or what. But if it doesn’t get here soon I won’t have time to eat before I pick up my son.
Waste of my goddamn day.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/272 "2025-10-23T18:18:03Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> Someone stole my order so I had to order it again.
Now that sucks.
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### Author:  [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/273 "2025-10-23T19:44:28Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#):
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> But gods damn is the sports betting industry predatory.
I used to work in online gambling - not sports betting, which is the slightly less predatory vulture on the tree.
Never play online gambling. The payouts are good, but the pay-in is horrifyingly profitable. My casino had a payout rate of around 87%… and we still made insane profit. (I mean, not “my” casino, just the place I was employed)
It is fundamentally stupid to play at all.
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/274 "2025-10-23T20:21:15Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> A quality highlight reel is an excellent thing in any sport. e.g. It takes 20 minutes to watch 100% of the action in an NFL game that broadcasts in just about 2 hours. All else is fluff. And advertising.
Hockey is (possibly) even worse. Regular game time consists of three 20-minute periods, so 60 minutes of game time. With constant stoppage of play, breaks between periods, and endless commercials, the actual elapsed time for a typical NHL hockey game is usually close to 3 hours. When I was a wee pup watching hockey and I heard something like “five minutes left in the period”, I was always astonished at how long “five minutes” was!
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### Author:  [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/275 "2025-10-23T20:29:11Z")
> [@Spiderman](#):
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> Why, when you order something online & you get an (shipping) email update they can’t just give you the tracking # in that email? Why the heck to I need to log on to their site to get such secure & valuable information like a tracking # showing there a package coming from {somewhere} to my home address? I got an email from Etsy that my shipping date & estimated delivery date are both today. Hmmm??? Instead of giving me a tracking # so I can just go to the website of the chosen shipper & enter said tracking # I need to log on to their site to get that info first.
**Update:** the above minirant was from Tues 10/21, where it showed both shipped & expected delivery on the 21st. When I did get home & find my password (right where it should be in an offline password keeper; Etsy averages an order from me about every 2-3 years) & logged in their website stated it was _delivered_ on the 20th.
That’s some mighty impressive shipping to deliver it _before_ it’s been shipped!! I did go to the mailbox & the packaging is now in the trash & the purchase is stowed where it’ll live (at least for now) inside my house!
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/276 "2025-10-23T20:44:24Z")
I got nothing done today!
Thought everyone should know. My work network was down in the AM. I’m sick, and tired, and spent much of the day hungry because it took _two hours_ to get my lunch.
I am planning to submit a federal grant tomorrow. I made things harder on myself by not doing the budget today. I’m not totally fucked, but it’s gonna be a long day.
Also, I’m reading a book that I fucking hate. I’m too far in now to back out. But it’s fucking insufferable. I want to drop kick it through a window, but I can’t because it would break my Kindle. (Arguably an appeal of paper books is you can easily pitch them across a room.)
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/277 "2025-10-23T20:57:31Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> Also, I’m reading a book that I fucking hate. I’m too far in now to back out. But it’s fucking insufferable.
I don’t understand this attitude. I feel life is too short to waste on a book you’re not enjoying! I would just consider the invested time a sunk cost and move on! There are a number of books that I’ve abandoned (not many, but some) and am glad I did.
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### Author:  [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/278 "2025-10-23T21:17:32Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> I got nothing done today!
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> Thought everyone should know. My work network was down in the AM. I’m sick, and tired, and spent much of the day hungry because it took _two hours_ to get my lunch.
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> I am planning to submit a federal grant tomorrow. I made things harder on myself by not doing the budget today. I’m not totally fucked, but it’s gonna be a long day.
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> Also, I’m reading a book that I fucking hate. I’m too far in now to back out. But it’s fucking insufferable. I want to drop kick it through a window, but I can’t because it would break my Kindle. (Arguably an appeal of paper books is you can easily pitch them across a room)
I’m an avid reader. I think out of all the books I’ve purchased, I’ve only set down three because they were so bad and idiotic, that I didn’t want their author’s words in my head anymore.
I fully empathize with Joey putting the book in the freezer.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/279 "2025-10-23T21:37:15Z")
> [@wolfpup](#):
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> I don’t understand this attitude. I feel life is too short to waste on a book you’re not enjoying! I would just consider the invested time a sunk cost and move on! There are a number of books that I’ve abandoned (not many, but some) and am glad I did.
I have to balance the lack of enjoyment of the book with the enjoyment of hate-reading it. I’m composing my scathing review as I read it. 🔥
But yeah it’s easy for me to drop books that bore me, or are poorly written. This one has wormed its way under my skin. This is a _literary_ novel. It thinks it’s important. It was recommended by the _New York Times_.
No mercy.
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### Author:  [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-of-the-kvetch-october-mini-rants/1023563/280 "2025-10-23T21:44:47Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#):
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> Tomorrow afternoon I have an appointment with a urologist at the clinic to check on the catheter. I’m hoping it will be removed, as I have a Friday morning appointment with my hematologist, and I’m not looking forward to the possibility of having to change bags before my ride comes to pick me up at 8am.
The catheter has been removed, and I was sent home with instructions to go to the ER if I don’t resume urinating on a regular basis. So far since I’ve been home I don’t think that will be a problem.
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