# Surrounded by fools in April? kvetch about it here. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 1, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508 "2013-04-01T05:52:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/281 "2013-04-16T18:06:59Z")
> [@SerafinaPekala](#): > > nmd ? I just meant you can pull down the bottoms instead of having to take the whole suit off (in the case of a one-piece). ---
**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:** [April 16, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/282 "2013-04-16T20:59:17Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > [Here’s another one.](http://www.mostlytruestuff.com/2012/06/jenny-mccarthy-causes-autism.html) But it won’t do any good. > > Cousin Idiot sent me the following email: > > When I attempted to point out that pro-vaccine equals fact not opinion and that vaccines are manufactured not for drug company profits but SO THAT PEOPLE DON’T FUCKING DIE said idiot cousin wrote back, “Too foolish, immature and narrow-minded to waste my time with. You really don’t know as much as you think you do.” > > I am related to an anti-vaxxer. I’d rather be related to an ax murderer. Or a Limbaugh. Can I slap your idiot cousin? With a board with a rusty nail in it? A rusty nail covered in tetanus? ---
**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:** [April 16, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/283 "2013-04-16T21:39:46Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Time to find another Dentist. My thoughts exactly. They’re not exactly scarce, at least, not around here. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/284 "2013-04-16T22:53:10Z")
Ugh. Had a terrible incident at one of my favourite restaurants. First, someone butted in front of me in line. I got mad. When another customer called me out, AND called me “monsieur” (French for “mister” or “sir”,) I blew up. I know I shouldn’t’ve done that. But I \*hate \*being called “monsieur.” People keep calling me that, and it drives me nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/285 "2013-04-16T23:47:50Z")
What the fuck is it with this “We keep selling out of X, so let’s stop selling it” crap I keep running into of late? _This is tremendously fucking stupid from a business standpoint._ Last year my local Walmart kept selling out of Kemps no added sugar juice bars. The Strawberry, Whateverberry, Tangerine packs. So they stopped stocking them just before the hottest months of the year. They only stocked them once since then and then stopped trying altogether. I have to go a bit farther to Target to buy them now or pay well over $1 more for them at the regular grocery store. Vending machine on our floor kept selling out of skittles and jalapeno chips. So he gave up altogether and stopped putting them in our machine. Same asshole stocks the one on the 4th floor and that machine still has skittles. No jalapeno chips. Ok, so if you still have skittles, why the motherfuckinghell would you stop putting them in the one machine that regularly sells out of them? Chinese restaurant a couple of blocks from work has/had Chicken in Garlic Sauce that I would go for about once a week. They sell a lot of it, their most popular dish. Walk past a closer place that (ugh) puts tons of sugar in their stuff so that when it is fried it is crispy (and sickly sweet). Does roaring business, but as a diabetic, I’m not interested in sugared Chinese food. So I always went to the slightly farther place. Last week I ask for the GiCS. As he’s putting it in the container, I notice it doesn’t look right. Sign says “Chicken and Broccoli in brown sauce”. WHAT. THE. FUCK. Ate it and hated it. Bland. Yesterday I walk by and they have it in garlic sauce again, but there are 14 people in line ahead of me and they’re moving slow, so I go elsewhere. Today there are only 8 people in line, so I stand in line. In the course of 6-7 minutes, they only manage to help 2 people. Because Nargles. So I step up to make sure it is Chicken in Garlic Sauce. Nope, the brown sauce shit again. Went elsewhere. Seriously, why are you messing with me? You sell tons of Chicken in Garlic Sauce every fucking day. Why would it even occur to anyone to replace it with bland brown sauce shit??? ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/286 "2013-04-17T02:05:00Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > We don’t get scarlet fever because it’s a bad case of strep. The strep gets treated before it progresses that far. Unless you are an idiot like me and don’t take all of the antibiotics. Fortunately, I only got erythema nodosum instead of scarlet fever but the dr did make sure to impress on me that I could have easily had that. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Aw, shit. **hangs head in shame** My bad - thanks for the correction. That’s what I get for spouting off opinions off the top of my head, huh? 🙂 The only reason I knew is because above. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/287 "2013-04-17T04:05:39Z")
Our house in Arizona hasn’t sold yet. We knew that the housing market in BFArizona is slow, so we priced it a little under market value. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, garage and 3 storage sheds. All on the side of a mountain with a half acre yard. We are asking 85,000. People have looked, but the market is really slow. Its been up for sale since November, so we took it out of the market and thought about renting it out. Mostly what we did was just ignore the problem and pay Tony to take care of it. I guess we forgot to take all of the listings down because today, we got the first offer. 40,000 and we need to put carpets on my wonderful laminate floors. I am so insulted that I can’t reply. If Lolli was still alive, we would just give it to her and take the write off on our taxes. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/288 "2013-04-17T05:09:20Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > What the fuck is it with this “We keep selling out of X, so let’s stop selling it” crap I keep running into of late? _This is tremendously fucking stupid from a business standpoint._ Or “gee, this item gets taken off our hands before we can even put it on the shelves, so let’s NOT start ordering larger amounts.” In some cases this one is the maker’s or distributor’s fault (“kit sets”, like say the supermarket can’t buy cases of strawberry ice cream, it’s got to be cases of strawberry ice cream plus chocolate ice cream plus vanilla ice cream), but… when it’s a whole product line, such as one brand of milk vs any other, howzabout buying more cases of that particular brand? In fact, howzabout you start ordering them by the truckload? **flatlined** , you are So Married that you already said “our house” 🙂 All weddings are supposed to be just a matter of putting the paperwork bow on an already-existing marriage; yours sure seems to meet that definition. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/289 "2013-04-17T05:14:58Z")
Could you donate it to the rescue? Maybe they could do a raffle or something; you could maybe write it off taxes at market value? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/290 "2013-04-17T06:40:41Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > . . . Ok, so if you still have skittles, why the motherfuckinghell would you stop putting them in the one machine that regularly sells out of them? . . . No fooling. As our restock guy learned which ones ran out quickly, he started stocking double lines of the popular things. The one exception was M&Ms. For those he added a different variety. I think there are four kinds of M&M in that machine, now. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/291 "2013-04-17T06:57:41Z")
> [@](#): > > What the fuck is it with this “We keep selling out of X, so let’s stop selling it” crap I keep running into of late? _This is tremendously fucking stupid from a business standpoint._ If they put X in, they have to keep ordering and stocking it, but the people who do the ordering and stocking don’t get the profits from it. If they stock Y, which moves only every other month, it’s not as much work for them. Or, alternatively, X and Y can be sold at one zorkmid per unit, but X costs .75 ZM and Y costs .50 ZM, so the vending machine owner wants people to by Y because his profit margin is higher on the individual units sold, so the owner wants his customers to choose Y over X…but he’s neglecting the fact that many customers, if faced with Y but no X, will choose to simply forgo buying anything. Sometimes, though, it’s a shrinkage problem. I used to work in a convenience store, and of course we sold a variety of candy. Certain types of candy would get stocked, and the slot would empty all by itself, but we never really sold all that much of that particular candy, so we discontinued it. When one of the worst shoplifters asked why we were out of it, I looked her straight in the eye and said it was because we never sold the candy, it kept getting stolen, and the owner was tired of providing free candy. Apparently she had never thought that her stealing was noticed. We never caught her red-handed, but we’d notice that the candy was there before she was in the store, and then not there after she’d left. Of course, this doesn’t apply to vending machine stock. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/292 "2013-04-17T16:16:57Z")
Awwwwe **SHIT** One of my profs just called me. The pneumonia isn’t pneumonia. At least they caught it early. Told my prof anything they need, just ask. Damm, Damm, **DAMM** ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/293 "2013-04-17T22:58:01Z")
Dear journalists and headline writers: Stop saying stuff like “Senate rejects expanded gun background checks” and “Gun-Control Compromise Fails in Senate”. The vote was 54-46 _in favor_. The headline should say “Expanded gun background checks filibustered in Senate”. Note: This mini-rant is not about guns or gun control, it’s about the damned filibuster. I don’t care _what_ the bill is, if it gets 54 “aye” votes in the U.S. Senate but still dies there, then we need to say the bill was filibustered, not imply it was actually voted down. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/294 "2013-04-18T01:33:34Z")
Why do I need three quart bottles of coffee creamer when I only live with two other people, one of whom doesn’t’ even DRINK coffee. Why is it such a pain in the ass to look for information to decide which desktop computer to buy? Why did the check engine light in my car decide to shut off and do I still need to go to the mechanic? I had another complaint but I forgot what it was. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/295 "2013-04-18T03:36:40Z")
I had the first part of my root canal done today, and the local anesthetic just wore off. I DO NOT enjoy dental procedures. Good news is that the dentist thinks that I probably won’t need a crown. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/296 "2013-04-18T05:24:04Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I had the first part of my root canal done today, and the local anesthetic just wore off. I DO NOT enjoy dental procedures. Good news is that the dentist thinks that I probably won’t need a crown. Yay for that, at least. You probably know this already, but I find ibuprofen to be the most effective pain reliever for dental pain. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/297 "2013-04-18T05:40:38Z")
Hey, Grocery Store lady. I don’t know what kind of freaks you encounter, I mean that sincerely. However, when I ask “do you have yeast?” in a grocery store you should probably assume I’m making bread not randomly asking if you have a yeast infection (seriously?). Then, after you feel all embarrassed after I explain (which, again, I shouldn’t have to do) and bring me there you should probably continue to assume that further questions are related to this “bread making” thing we recently discussed. My question “thank you, and where do you keep the honey?” Is neither me asking about your nether regions, hitting on you, nor accusing the store of being a brothel (she seriously posited all of these as possible interpretations). It **definitely** didn’t deserve a literal, honest to god slap in the face. I don’t know if you’re crazy or just encountered a real perv like 5 minutes ago. Or hey, maybe you’re just a troll. Regardless, that was really strange, and completely unacceptable. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/298 "2013-04-18T10:09:50Z")
You went to a manager, right? ---
**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:** [April 18, 2013, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/299 "2013-04-18T10:36:21Z")
> [@anya\_marie](#): > > Why did the check engine light in my car decide to shut off and do I still need to go to the mechanic? I would, just to get the codes read. I have an O2 sensor going out (I think–based on the codes I was getting) and my check engine light goes on and off randomly. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508/300 "2013-04-18T12:00:45Z")
I hate storms right now. We had a 4 hour power outage last night, then woke up to water pouring into the basement through what was probably a not-properly-capped-off old water pipe that leads into the outer wall and probably into the ground outside. Dammit. It’s apparently gravity-fed but coming in at 6 gallons every 10 minutes. (I have a couple 6-gallon buckets. Ask me how I know the rate of flow…) I mean, I don’t want the drought we had last summer - we need water for the crops! - but does the rain have to all come at once and so heavily over nearly a week? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surrounded-by-fools-in-april-kvetch-about-it-here/654508.md?page=16)