# Silver Hells: December Minirants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468 "2018-12-02T23:29:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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:** [December 29, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/201 "2018-12-29T03:20:00Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I got a skirt steak for fajitas - found one that was mechanically tenderized (basically a pointy machine beats the hell outta it) and was looking forward to nice, tender meat. > > You know the silverskin? That tough, chewy, impossible-to-chew membrane that you strip off? > > They mechanized it INTO the meat. Pounded it into the surface. No way to remove it, just had to cook it as is and then work around it like any other gristle. > > Hmph. :smack: oysch! Personally, I’d have settled for Kraft Mac ‘n’ Cheese for tonight, and taken the product back to the store to trade it in for one that had been tenderized _sans_ silverskin. Where I live, skirt steak is too expensive to put up with that kind of incompetence. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/202 "2018-12-29T04:21:58Z")
Go to their Facebook page and bitch about the ‘bad’ steak you got, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/203 "2018-12-30T00:59:00Z")
Damn it ESPN, I bought a big tv so I could sit on my ass and watch other people exercise! They’ve split the screen into 4 sections so I might as well have a 19” tv! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/204 "2018-12-30T01:57:09Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Not from the yard. From a little table by the Christmas tree. > If you don’t wanna read the thread, BJ has been found, recovered a little worse for wear. He’s now packed up and put away to rise again another day. Sorry about the confusion.🙂 > [@digs](#): > > Bah with some Humbug. So sorry! > > Thanks much, I just read it; well-written! And intriguing… > _especially_ the part where you \*THINK \*he’s safely stashed in a box in the back corner of the basement… > > But have you looked in that box? Tonight? We’ll wait… > > Do start a thread when Our Miniature Savior disappears, and shows up under your pillow, but when you scream and everyone comes running… no Jesus. Sweet Zombie Jesus, preserve us! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/205 "2018-12-30T02:05:37Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Sweet Zombie Jesus, preserve us! I won’t start another thread about BJ, I promise. No worries.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/206 "2018-12-30T02:10:19Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I won’t start another thread about BJ, I promise. No worries.🙂 No problems. I just wanted to post a _Futurama_ reference because hey, _Futurama_! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/207 "2018-12-30T05:10:22Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I won’t start another thread about BJ, I promise. No worries.🙂 But… the rest of us never promised! Aha! Just you wait… ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/208 "2018-12-30T05:19:13Z")
“Holy fear in my heart, Batman”. Now I’m worried:) ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/209 "2018-12-30T08:20:25Z")
My wife buys me Red Dead Redemption 2 for Xbox One for Christmas. Last night, I finally find some time to play it and insert the disk. A message comes up: . . . . There is not enough room to download the fucking game. I am forced to delete 2-3 older video games, you know, ones that I only spent months of my life playing. BTW what is all this “download” shit? In my video game hey day, you didn’t have to download ANYTHING. You stuck the cassette or CD in and saved your progress when you were done. For ten bucks, you bought a memory card for multiple games. No big deal. After an HOUR, now I have to insert DISK TWO. The first two tries the disk doesn’t take because its “dirty”. A third try, I insert it, and am informed it will be ANOTHER 45 minutes to download. My wife paid $55 for this SHIT? Sorry, about to go to bed! Will try the next night, go FUCK YOURSELF. . . . . . . . Tonight? I turn on this piece of SHIT XBox and click on the game: ANOTHER 8 GB download. Its now 3:13 am and 24 FUCKING HOURS after I wanted to play this game, I’m still downloading the nuclear codes to NORAD on this fucking Xbox One! Whatever happened to just sticking the game in the console and playing to let go of some stress as the end of the day? When did setting up a stupid fucking videogame become more difficult than creating a 3 hour long Powerpoint presentation? HEY Microsoft and Rockstar: either this game is up and ready to play by 3:30 tonight, or BOTH of you motherfuckers can stick Red Dead Redemption 2 STRAIGHT UP YOUR FUCKING ASS!!! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/210 "2018-12-30T13:15:18Z")
Years ago, my mother’s best friend discovered that Mom had never thanked any of her children for anything, or said please, or any of that stuff. “Not even when she held the whole house together while you were in bed?” “Well, no!” “What?” “She was just doing her duty!” “WHAT? Woman, you start treating your children as if you thought they were people or by God this is the last time we talk to each other!” It took Mom two years to be able to make “thank you” sound natural. Conversation today. Mom: “oh, I never felt so [physically] bad around Christmas!” Me: “you have.” Mom: “well, that solves it then, I have. Can’t recall, though. When?” Me: “for starters, those seven years that you’d get into bed right after the Epiphany and not get out for days, then weeks, until that time you didn’t leave it for almost two years.” Mom: “oh”. Several minutes later: Mom: “how did you guys manage? 😕” Can I kill her? Both in my own name and Dad’s. Fuck’s sake… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/211 "2018-12-30T16:13:16Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Years ago, my mother’s best friend discovered that Mom had never thanked any of her children for anything, or said please, or any of that stuff. “Not even when she held the whole house together while you were in bed?” “Well, no!” “What?” “She was just doing her duty!” “WHAT? Woman, you start treating your children as if you thought they were people or by God this is the last time we talk to each other!” > > It took Mom two years to be able to make “thank you” sound natural. > > Conversation today. > > Mom: “oh, I never felt so [physically] bad around Christmas!” > Me: “you have.” > Mom: “well, that solves it then, I have. Can’t recall, though. When?” > Me: “for starters, those seven years that you’d get into bed right after the Epiphany and not get out for days, then weeks, until that time you didn’t leave it for almost two years.” > Mom: “oh”. > > Several minutes later: > Mom: “how did you guys manage? 😕” > > Can I kill her? Both in my own name and Dad’s. Fuck’s sake… **Nava** , remember they only find the bodies in the shallow graves. Word to the wise. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/212 "2018-12-30T23:44:46Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > fed ex aint any better …… believe me Yeah, no kidding… Their Memphis hub completely lost their shit just before Christmas, and I almost lost a perishable shipment as a result. That turned out fine though, as did the USPS package, which arrived the day after Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/213 "2018-12-31T02:51:06Z")
Look, I realize this is Albuquerque and the general plan for dealing with snow and ice is to wait a day or two until the highs get back to 40-50 and the stuff just melts away. But the snow came on Thursday, it’s been sub-freezing highs ever since, it’s probably going to snow even more on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, and the forecast doesn’t get back into the mid-40s until Friday. Put some damn salt on the north-facing parts of the parking lot so that there’s not a ton of ice between the building and the cars before some slips and sues. ---
**Author:** ![Dunkelheit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dunkelheit/32/248_2.png) [@Dunkelheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunkelheit)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/214 "2018-12-31T03:23:18Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Yesterday I was listening to Irish music (Solas, for those who care). Good stuff. Unfortunately, several of the speedier jigs decided to take up residence in my head and I was listening to it loop _all night long_. As in, I didn’t get any sleep at all because my brain decided to be a music box. I was supposed to take Monday off and be in the office today and tomorrow. Not happening now. I’m definitely not safe to drive (and still can’t get to sleep). This is gonna suck rocks trying to get my body to go back on a real wake sleep cycle before tomorrow. Aaaaand, now I have Solas stuck in my head and I didn’t even have to listen to them first. Thanks. 😉 Hope it lets you get to sleep. ☹ ---
**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:** [December 31, 2018, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/215 "2018-12-31T03:34:18Z")
> [@Dunkelheit](#): > > Aaaaand, now I have Solas stuck in my head and I didn’t even have to listen to them first. Thanks. 😉 Hope it lets you get to sleep. ☹ I was listening to Clannad and Solas all day yesterday, and what’s currently stuck in my head is a fragment of [Vanished Like the Snow](https://youtu.be/dKOyRz_AKx0). It is, at least, much calmer and more peaceful. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/216 "2018-12-31T04:14:26Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > My wife buys me Red Dead Redemption 2 for Xbox One for Christmas. > > Last night, I finally find some time to play it and insert the disk. A message comes up: > . > . > . > . > There is not enough room to download the fucking game. I am forced to delete 2-3 older video games, you know, ones that I only spent months of my life playing. > > BTW what is all this “download” shit? In my video game hey day, you didn’t have to download ANYTHING. You stuck the cassette or CD in and saved your progress when you were done. For ten bucks, you bought a memory card for multiple games. No big deal. > > After an HOUR, now I have to insert DISK TWO. The first two tries the disk doesn’t take because its “dirty”. A third try, I insert it, and am informed it will be ANOTHER 45 minutes to download. My wife paid $55 for this SHIT? > > Sorry, about to go to bed! Will try the next night, go FUCK YOURSELF. > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > > Tonight? I turn on this piece of SHIT XBox and click on the game: > > ANOTHER 8 GB download. Its now 3:13 am and 24 FUCKING HOURS after I wanted to play this game, I’m still downloading the nuclear codes to NORAD on this fucking Xbox One! > > Whatever happened to just sticking the game in the console and playing to let go of some stress as the end of the day? When did setting up a stupid fucking videogame become more difficult than creating a 3 hour long Powerpoint presentation? > > HEY Microsoft and Rockstar: either this game is up and ready to play by 3:30 tonight, or BOTH of you motherfuckers can stick Red Dead Redemption 2 STRAIGHT UP YOUR FUCKING ASS!!! WEll for starters they have you install the game pc style so it runs better and you don’t have to wait 10 minutes to move from point a to point b like playing gta on a ps2 …. Remember all those obnoxious glitches that people wished they could fix with a patch like on a pc? Well that’s download number two …. also addons and fixes for the online portion And it all depends on how stable/fast your internet is So we got what we asked for And as for the running out of space amazon sells the official 2-4 tb usb hard drives for 50-120$ ---
**Author:** ![JB99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JB99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JB99)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/217 "2018-12-31T05:12:28Z")
A Mini Rant Why do TV and movie characters never ask questions? I don’t know how many times I’ve seen some character make a vague and cryptic or provocative statement, which is obviously intended to be foreshadowing, and the other characters just let it go. ‘Lost’ was really terrible about this. Right now I’m binging horror movies, and they are sooo bad at it. Every single one seems to have a scene that goes like this… **Weird Creepy Person** : “You must never leave the mansion after dark, unless you are prepared to confront the most horrible truths. Do you understand what I mean?” **Protagonist** : “Yes. Absolutely. I have no follow-up questions at all.” **Weird Creepy Person** : “Okay. I’m getting the feeling that you’re not reading me here. There are terrible things lurking in the forest. You must follow my instructions exactly. Is there anything about this you don’t get?” **Protagonist** : “Yeah, sure whatever.” _Goes back to looking at their iPhone._ Some of these shows make me want to tear my hair out. Like a typical episode of Lost: **First Character** : “So we’re trapped on island where strange and inexplicable things keep happening. It’s obvious that our very lives depend on our ability to work together and survive. And you would not believe some of the strange and mysterious things I’ve discovered.” **Second Character** : “Chill out, man. We don’t need to compare notes or anything. I’m sure it will all work out. If we need to know, I’m sure you’ll tell us when it becomes important.” **Third Character** : “I agree. Even though we all have fragmentary information that could be critically important, I think it is best if we keep it to ourselves.” **Fourth Character** : “I see nothing wrong with this at all.” ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/218 "2018-12-31T05:38:40Z")
I have many issues with the writing for The Walking Dead and I think the constant lack of communication is the biggest. Was it the third season where Michonne mostly spent her screen time staring angrily? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/219 "2018-12-31T05:46:50Z")
Yeah, but it’s so boring on TWD when they have long discussions. And they still have to go out and kill zombies. Daryl said about 2 words last season. He shoulda won an Emmy. When he talks it just sounds stupid. Wonder when it’s coming back on? ---
**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:** [December 31, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468/220 "2018-12-31T11:05:22Z")
Mini-rant at myself for not reading the work schedule for the week (it’s been up since Wednesday). I came rushing into work two clicks late and was about to ring in when one of my coworkers said “You’ve got the night off, man.” On the bright side, I got to turn around and drive back home. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-hells-december-minirants/825468.md?page=12)