# Seethe You in September... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 1, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619 "2015-09-01T16:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/81 "2015-09-08T18:42:10Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Dear Barclay’s Bank; > > You’ve been sending me 2-3 credit card offers _per week_ since my bankruptcy five years ago. You can stop now. > > If you haven’t figured it out, I am completely uninterested in your card. In fact, at this point I’m so fucking annoyed at your carpet bombing me with offers that, should Bill Gates, Warren Buffet AND Carlos Slim all leave me their billions tomorrow, I would go through each and every corporation they owned and ensure that NONE OF THEM WOULD EVER DO BUSINESS WITH YOU AGAIN. > > I hope your fucking bank fails. Me and my SO get State Farm. We’ve been with Geico forever and are content, yet every week, we get another letter. This gets pitched into the garbage unopened. Once I sent them back their letter with a nice note. “Please stop sending me your mail.” I got another one next week. Then I sent back another letter. “Stop sending me your mail. You have sent so many to this address I will never, ever go to State Farm.” I got another one next week. Then I gave up, but not before stuffing all my junk mail into their prestamped envelope and sending it back. I got another one next week. it had no envelope in it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/82 "2015-09-08T18:56:07Z")
It’s September so that means the stinkbugs are getting into my car and my house. Hope you all like the watery grave I’m sending you to! ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/83 "2015-09-08T19:28:32Z")
Dear Mexican spammers, Please take me off your damned e-mail lists. The fact that I occasionally e-mail customers in Mexico does not mean I’m interested in getting e-mails advertizing office supplies, clothing, and other random crap from you. I live in Michigan, which if you’ll check a map is really quite far from Mexico, so I almost certainly will not be stopping by your stores to do any of my shopping. Also, I have never once sent an e-mail in Spanish, so why you think I’m interested in receiving them in Spanish is beyond me. This a business e-mail address, so I really don’t want _any_ spam from anyone, much less spam I can’t read. While you’re deleting my name from your lists, could you please let me know which numbnuts sold my e-mail address to you, so I can call the army base down the street and arrange a drone strike on his company? ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/84 "2015-09-09T03:32:56Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Perhaps a small aquarium? That is what Psycho Kitty drinks out of, a little 2.5 gallon tank with a Betta in it. Who sometimes comes up to the surface and nibbles on her tongue. She got her feral his own kitten, didn’t she, or am I misremembering? If so, well, what’s a betta tank or two in the grand scheme of things? ---
**Author:** ![keturah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@keturah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keturah)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/85 "2015-09-09T03:34:59Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Thank you, that is very attractive. My BB is the only one who had problems with the drinkewlls and that’s because he’s an engineer who doesn’t look at the big picture when trying to solve a small problem. > > (OK, he does look at the big picture when he’s solving big problems, but small ones? Its a good thing that he’s almost as cute as BC.) > > In other news, I failed my cooking class today. Again. Teacher was standing behind me, telling me what to do step-by-step. Somehow, my oven caught fire and I didn’t do anything wrong!!! Everyone else was pulling delightful smelling stuff from their ovens and then the water started pouring down from the ceiling. > > Some people are NOT meant to be in the kitchen, and I’m one of them. Wow, that is really unbelievable! ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/86 "2015-09-09T04:15:38Z")
> [@llcoolbj77](#): > > I feel you on this today. Seriously. I’m currently trying to decide if I should get my husband to take me to the doctor. Knowing that it is probably anxiety. Like 95% likely. But you never know. I shouldn’t be getting dizzy every time I stand up with bursts of adrenaline. ☹ Presumably the situation has resolved one way or the other by now. However, in my experience doctors and ERs would much rather have you show up with “only” anxiety than to have you show up with a real heart attack or other emergency too late for them to help you. IMHO you should definitely discuss this issue with your doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/87 "2015-09-09T05:05:35Z")
Dear cafe with punch cards, Your card states “buy 10 get one free”. When I buy two drinks at one time, I’m expecting two punches, not one. This card was your idea, not mine. I’m not going to argue with you or give my daughter cash to buy her drink and get another card punched. Why bother? Your boba tea is just like anyone else’s. I’m just going to go down the street to your competitor. Sincerely, Babs ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Why\_Bother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@Doctor\_Why\_Bother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Why_Bother)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/88 "2015-09-09T09:56:09Z")
N/m ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/89 "2015-09-09T09:57:58Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > I went with “Please, I’m dizzy” the first two times, and when they kept yapping held up my hand in a “stop” gesture and said “I’m trying not to faint”. Then put your head down on a desk, or your knees, and when you’re with it enough again, just handwave it off as low blood pressure. That’s actually genius! I’m totally going to use that next time 🙂 > [@llcoolbj77](#): > > I feel you on this today. Seriously. I’m currently trying to decide if I should get my husband to take me to the doctor. Knowing that it is probably anxiety. Like 95% likely. But you never know. I shouldn’t be getting dizzy every time I stand up with bursts of adrenaline. It’s horrible, isn’t it. I hope you’re feeling better, and I second what MLS said. If you’re in doubt, get it checked out. Doctors would much rather see you about anxiety than not see you about a more dangerous condition. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/90 "2015-09-09T14:11:03Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Three day in a row of ninety degree weather. Go home September, you’re drunk and high. Preach it! It’s going to be 95, with a RealFeem[sup]TM[/sup] of 105 where i work today. At least i’m inside all day. And while i’m here, fuck Amazon. I got a notice from them a couple of weeks back telling me that the app for streaming Amazon Video through my LG blu-ray player would not be available after September 14. Apparently the loss of functionality is a product of the fact that Amazon “continually seek to improve our service.” :rolleyes: By that, we mean “screw over people with functioning equipment so that they will buy something new.” This player is less than four years old. How hard can it be for a company the size of Amazon to maintain the app. It’s not like an app for channeling video from their server through my player is particularly complicated, by the standards of computer programs. The last night came the cherry on top. I got a final reminder that there’s less than a week before my app expires, along with an offer to buy an Amazon Fire TV stick (_quelle surprise!!!_) at a small discount. Fuck off. I’ll use my little HTPC. If i didn’t have one, i’d buy a Roku or something first, and i would go out of my way NOT to buy it from Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/91 "2015-09-09T15:29:45Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Me and my SO get State Farm. We’ve been with Geico forever and are content, yet every week, we get another letter. This gets pitched into the garbage unopened. For me, it’s Comcast Xfinity. Which is apparently scientific notation for how many advertisements they’re willing to send out to get your business back. I usually get one or two a week. And I suppose I’d be tempted by the promise of $250 gift cards, tablets, and a year of cheap cable if a) I didn’t know that they were going to jack up the rates at the end of that year and, more importantly, b) Comcast hasn’t earned its place on the list of the most hated corporation in American for nothing these past few years. Verizon isn’t cheap, but their quality is fine and their service has been quite good. So I just bin the Xfinity solicitations knowing that every time I do so, that there goes another dollar that could have been trimmed off some Comcast subscriber’s monthly bill. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/92 "2015-09-09T15:55:49Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > This player is less than four years old. How hard can it be for a company the size of Amazon to maintain the app. It’s not like an app for channeling video from their server through my player is particularly complicated, by the standards of computer programs. My scanner is old. It’s also perfectly functioning so long as I keep the netbook (that’s simpler than installing virtual Windows XP in a different computer). Because, you see, Canon doesn’t make drivers for anything newer than XP. I’m not buying a new scanner just because Canon wants to sell me one, and if I ever buy a new scanner I’ll go through the catalog of every other company on Earth before I look at Canon models, damnit. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/93 "2015-09-09T16:06:57Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Comcast hasn’t earned its place on the list of the most hated corporation in American for nothing these past few years. Verizon isn’t cheap, but their quality is fine and their service has been quite good. You’re lucky that you actually have a choice of provider and can make a decision like this. Like a huge percentage of Americans, i have basically one choice when it comes to internet service. Luckily for me, Cox has actually been very good over the past seven years in terms of network reliability and downtime, but if they sucked there would be basically nothing i could do about it, and i also have no choice but to bend over and take their periodic price increases. I can’t threaten to go somewhere else, because there’s nowhere to go, and they know it. Sure AT&T periodically advertises in my area, but their DSL speeds are a joke. In my neighborhood—a densely-populated urban area in San Diego (the 8th largest city, in the 17th largest metro area in the United States)—the best that AT&T can do is 1.5Mbps. In today’s internet world, that might as well be dial-up. Time-Warner Cable operates in San Diego County, but rather than actually compete, Cox and TWC basically decided, with the cooperation of local authorities, to split up the county between them. Here’s a map of the [city](http://hendo.smugmug.com/photos/i-MBsXW22/0/O/i-MBsXW22.jpg), and here’s one of the [county](http://hendo.smugmug.com/photos/i-VpFFvxH/0/O/i-VpFFvxH.jpg), showing how it works. As you can see, there are a few small areas where the two providers overlap, but most people have to just take one or the other and be happy with whatever level of pricing and service they offer. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/94 "2015-09-09T17:02:14Z")
And just how does such an arrangement not violate anti-trust laws? I’ve wondered about that where I live, where what cable/internet you can get depends on what part of town you’re in. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/95 "2015-09-09T20:11:33Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > You’re lucky that you actually have a choice of provider and can make a decision like this. Like a huge percentage of Americans, i have basically one choice when it comes to internet service. Yeah, we were one of the first markets for FIOS, which is probably why Comcast is so desperate to have me return. Although, to be fair, Verizon has steadily increased their rates and thrown in bullshit extra fees quite regularly over the past few years and I _was_ sorely tempted to kick them to the curb this past year. Instead, I called and bitched them out and, at the cost of locking in service for another two years, did get the latest fee increase reduced to an only moderately irritating $5.00 extra/month. Really, if it wasn’t for the actual quality difference between copper and fiber, I probably would have gone ahead and switched back. (The two year lock-in is another hilarious reason why Comcast is pissing away their advertising dollars.) Note to Verizon if you guys are listening – this is why I still haven’t gotten a smart phone. I’ve seen what you do to customers once you’ve gaffed them, and there’s only so many regulatory adjustment we-don’t-count-these-when-quoting-our-prices fees I want to fork over to my local phone company. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/96 "2015-09-09T22:51:13Z")
> [@Doctor\_Why\_Bother](#): > > N/m That was a hilarious username/non-post combo. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/97 "2015-09-10T11:16:00Z")
I interviewed with you twelve fucking times for two different positions. That’s over 36 hours of interviewing for a well-paying, but definitely not CEO-level paying job. Both times I received stellar feedback. So when my recruiter called yesterday, I started cleaning out my current desk in my mind, only to be told that one job’s requisition was lost (because you interviewed over three months to fill it and the budget fell through) and the other was 'being changed to meet an internal candidate’s skill set. Eff you all! I told the recruiter that I would never interview with this Nazi bank again and to ensure that they knew it. Same thing happened last year, so at this point, I’d have to be in foreclosure before I’d even consider an interview with them. Oh and the position? “Operational Efficiency and Risk Policy Writer” . ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/98 "2015-09-10T20:02:33Z")
Time for a tepid rant with lots of swearing: My nephew is a brat. He’s right around 3. I’ve had two kids. I get it - that’s prime brat time. But holy fuck, **overlysister and BIL** , the solution to your kid throwing a tantrum in public because he wants to eat all his one-year-old brother’s cheerios is not to give him the cheerios he’s shrieking about or to turn on your phone so he can watch a movie, it’s to take him the fuck out of the restaurant until he stops throwing a tantrum. Granted, my kids are a few years older (though not yet even in double digits), so maybe I’m making this shit up, but delivering, “Oh, sweetie! Don’t spit on your cousins!” in a sing-songy voice just doesn’t prevent your kid from spitting on his cousins. Cuddling him and saying, “I know you’re sad that your cousins don’t want to play with you,” does NOT change the fact that his cousins do not want to play with him because he just kicked one of them three times. UGH, lady - I know you don’t like the idea of your children being sad, but that one is going to be a hell of a lot sadder when his friends won’t hang out with him anymore because he kicks them and spits on them when they won’t do his bidding. ---
**Author:** ![llcoolbj77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@llcoolbj77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llcoolbj77)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/99 "2015-09-10T20:07:13Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > Presumably the situation has resolved one way or the other by now. However, in my experience doctors and ERs would much rather have you show up with “only” anxiety than to have you show up with a real heart attack or other emergency too late for them to help you. IMHO you should definitely discuss this issue with your doctor. Thanks **MLS** , I did. I have a week long murder trial in two months. I expect a lot of fun anxiety symptoms between now and then. But I am having my thyroid nodes re-inspected as well. Just in case. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619/100 "2015-09-10T20:30:26Z")
> [@llcoolbj77](#): > > Thanks **MLS** , I did. I have a week long murder trial in two months. I expect a lot of fun anxiety symptoms between now and then. But I am having my thyroid nodes re-inspected as well. Just in case. ☹ But I’m sure you’ll be found innocent… Apologies, but it was too good to let go. Hope your anxiety symptoms leave you be. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seethe-you-in-september/729619.md?page=6)