# September's shot already (mini-rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 2, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577 "2019-09-02T02:18:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/141 "2019-09-27T18:05:44Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Have you noticed that you can’t get a half gallon of ice cream anymore? They look the same size on the outside, but they’ve raised the bottom of the container up so that it’s actually 1.5 quarts. Same price, though. Blue Bell has not done this and in fact states on the carton that it’s still a half gallon. ---
**Author:** ![Jynxster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jynxster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jynxster)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/142 "2019-09-27T18:18:06Z")
Red Alert! General Quarters! Jynxster Parental Unit’s detected at the Jynxster Residence! All cats on deck! Secure the wine and the scotch! Prepare for incoming unnecessary comments about the cleanliness of the house and or general size, weight or appearance of Jynxster! Raise grey rock shields! Prepare the bean dip! This is not a drill! Repeat. This is not a drill! Awoooogah! Enter at your own risk. \*\*Red Alert will remain in effect for the next 48 hours. Extra rations of wine are authorized for Captain Jynxster only! All others will be given half rations, especially the parents. Any personnel engaging in Political/racist/homophobic talk of any kind will be made to walk the plank or exit the residence at sword point immediately. An aftermath report will be given on Monday if there be any survivors remaining. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/143 "2019-09-27T18:25:10Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Have you noticed that you can’t get a half gallon of ice cream anymore? They look the same size on the outside, but they’ve raised the bottom of the container up so that it’s actually 1.5 quarts. Same price, though. I’ve been ranting on this for at least [thirteen years.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7108674&postcount=58) So, welcome to the club. Ya know, what with Boris Johnson’s prorogue being declared illegal, FOX News apologizing to Greta Thunberg, and an impeachment inquiry being opened, it’s beginning to look like the storming of Area 51 might have unleashed _something_. Maybe a correction of the ice cream thing is in the offing… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/144 "2019-09-27T18:38:42Z")
> [@Jynxster](#): > > Red Alert! General Quarters! Jynxster Parental Unit’s detected at the Jynxster Residence! All cats on deck! Secure the wine and the scotch! Prepare for incoming unnecessary comments about the cleanliness of the house and or general size, weight or appearance of Jynxster! Raise grey rock shields! Prepare the bean dip! This is not a drill! Repeat. This is not a drill! Awoooogah! Enter at your own risk. Last time I was with Navamom she asked “do you not wear earrings any more?” “sometimes I do” “oh”. Just not where Navamom is around, because the last time she said something positive about what I was wearing, I hadn’t been baptized yet\*. - Catholic. I got baptized at 3 days of age. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/145 "2019-09-27T18:44:19Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I had to put my seventeen-year-old cat down last night. I took him to the vet because he’d been losing weight and not grooming himself lately, but I pretty much knew how it was going to go. Bruno was a brave and beautiful cat who deserves his own thread with pictures and a great eulogy, but I just can’t do it. He was my friend. > Not a good week for animals around here… I’m so sorry, **Dung Beetle**. It’s so hard, even when you know it’s time. Jedi Hugs if you want them. ☹ ---
**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:** [September 27, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/146 "2019-09-27T18:58:18Z")
Jedi hugs gratefully accepted, **DR**. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/147 "2019-09-27T21:03:01Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Blue Bell has not done this and in fact states on the carton that it’s still a half gallon. If only they made my (most of the time) favorite flavor, then! For the record, that is Friendly’s Butter Crunch (nothing like the same-named Blue Bell’s Butter Crunch). Followed closely by the High’s brand of Pecan Praline Parfait, but I think there is no such thing as High’s anymore. Not sure if anyone else makes the Pecan Praline Parfait. I \*know \*no one else makes Butter Crunch, though. ETA: Also, there don’t appear to be any places selling it in PA. I could be wrong though; it’s not what I look for in the grocery store. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/148 "2019-09-27T23:29:19Z")
Due to an office reshuffle, a new person moved into an office directly across from me. Her iPhone has a ringtone which is the recordation of a baby’s giggling. When she’s away from her desk, the repetitive baby’s giggle goes on and on. Now I know what it reminds me of! Leonard Hofstadter’s “cackling Joker” ringtone. I didn’t realize that an insane Joker and babies sounded so similar. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/149 "2019-09-28T00:01:43Z")
I’m sorry to hear that, **Dung Beetle**. ☹ There must be a lot of security cameras where **teela brown** works, because otherwise you would think someone would have smashed that thing to bits by now. My mini-rant: several neighborhoods are getting together next week to collect donations for hurricane victims. How sweet! In reading the email, I noticed the name of the person who has oh-so-generously volunteered to drive all the donations over to the collection point – the neighborhood drunk who had the police show up at his house so often for noise complaints that he had to start partying at neighbors’ homes to avoid the threat of further fines. He ultimately moved to another house in the neighborhood. This upstanding citizen also called my mother to curse her out after she asked his wife to remove their dog’s poo from our yard. 😑 Yeah, I think I’ll sit this one out. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/150 "2019-09-28T00:46:46Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Blue Bell has not done this and in fact states on the carton that it’s still a half gallon. Stewart’s has done this too—advertises a full half gallon. Of course, this doesn’t help unless you live in NE New York or a small space of Western New England, where the chain hangs its hat. But if you do, like me, it’s great! ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/151 "2019-09-28T00:47:55Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > **Ulf** , sorry you are going through that, but your comment about keying in π made my day, and my wife’s day, too! Glad you liked it! 😊 thanks for saying so. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/152 "2019-09-28T17:02:16Z")
Just heard my 1984-era celebrity crush Mary Lou Retton do an ad for something menopause related, and in unrelated news, everything sucks and you can all go to hell. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/153 "2019-09-28T22:55:22Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I had to put my seventeen-year-old cat down last night. I took him to the vet because he’d been losing weight and not grooming himself lately, but I pretty much knew how it was going to go. Bruno was a brave and beautiful cat who deserves his own thread with pictures and a great eulogy, but I just can’t do it. He was my friend. > Not a good week for animals around here… I’m so sorry. OTOH, I just spent 7k on my 17 yr. old tabby. Because I am an idiot. He’s fine, I’m broke as fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/154 "2019-09-29T07:24:18Z")
Memo to self: when using a stovetop coffee maker, remember to put water in it, otherwise you set the fire alarm off, melt the handle off the pot and you don’t even get any coffee :smack: It’s the age old problem of having the brainpower to make coffee before having any coffee… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/155 "2019-09-29T14:19:20Z")
Ad for a very-early-morning radio program I heard today: Man: God I need my coffee… Woman: I hear you, I’m not human before I’ve had my coffee. (Pause) Woman: Do you think this might count as a caffeine addiction? Man: Yep. [Name and times for the program] I think those two may be from your clan, Filbert. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/156 "2019-09-29T15:57:27Z")
I worked night shift in a coffee shop for about 2 years; their plan to retain staff was basically to give everyone such a crippling caffeine addiction that they couldn’t afford to leave and still feed it. I’ve managed to get it down to one cup a day now, but I get an all-day headache if I skip that one. ---
**Author:** ![AlienVessels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@AlienVessels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlienVessels)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/157 "2019-09-30T04:09:23Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > I’m so sorry. > OTOH, I just spent 7k on my 17 yr. old tabby. Because I am an idiot. He’s fine, I’m broke as fuck. I think you spent 7k to find out you’d do just about anything for someone you care about. I think that’s a good thing to learn about oneself. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/158 "2019-09-30T05:07:30Z")
Damn Taiwanese and their complete inability to comprehend that somehow the sound blaring from their smart phone doesn’t magically only fill their ears without bothering the fuck out of everyone else around. People watch videos in restaurants without using earphones. What annoyes me the most is when they insist on screaming into their phone on speaker mode with poor connections so the other person’s voice crackles in and out. There are tables in the convience stores where people can sit. It’s not a library, so you don’t expect complete silence, but good god, why can’t people just stop being the center of the fucking universe for one minute? It would be OK if a gentle request would work just they just ignore you. When I was working freelance teaching, I would carry around a speaker for my music. Eurotechno beat is a fun reminder to people to shut the fuck up. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2019, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/159 "2019-09-30T12:25:37Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > I’m sorry to hear that, **Dung Beetle**. ☹ Thank you. I’m doing okay (until I drive up to the house and he doesn’t come out to meet me, or I see a shadow in the kitchen out of the corner of my eye, and then I start bawling). But it’s what we all have to do someday, when we love a cat. > [@DummyGladHands](#): > > I’m so sorry. > OTOH, I just spent 7k on my 17 yr. old tabby. Because I am an idiot. He’s fine, I’m broke as fuck. That made me laugh. I should hope your kitty got a few more lives out of that 7K! ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577/160 "2019-09-30T17:41:14Z")
> [@slalexan](#): > > Waiting for the blood test results to come back is really, really hard. I’m trying to be patient. I’m trying to not cry at work in front of everyone (I thought work would be a good distraction). I wish we could just know now and I could just get the feelings over with. Do I need to mourn or can I celebrate? Do I need medicine or surgery? Gosh, I just want to make a plan. **slalexan** , if you have any updates you would care to share, I would be happy to listen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/septembers-shot-already-mini-rants/839577.md?page=9)