# Thanks for Nothin'! November Mini-Rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 1, 2023, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417 "2023-11-01T13:42:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/241 "2023-11-10T17:08:42Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Gout sucks! This is my first bout and I hate it. I remember my first attack very clearly. Incredible pain will do that. It kept coming back. After years of mild attacks my Doc prescribed allopurinol. One pill a day. Not had any problem since. Not so much as a hint of pain from gout. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/242 "2023-11-10T17:13:04Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > _Maybe_ he was just trying to appease you and hope you would just go away. Or he’s an idiot. He certainly is the last, the first may be the result of the last. Damn, how could the shower head drip without water coming up to it. Don’t let the guy touch anything electric. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/243 "2023-11-10T17:19:52Z")
> [@Mikkel](#): > > Don’t let the guy touch anything electric. I had an “electrician” doing some wiring at work. I just happened to be walking by when he got zapped, falling to the ground. He jumped right up, told me he was fine, and went back to work. I asked him if he’d ever had that happen before. He told me it was one of the things that happen maybe once every month or two. I told my gf’s dad (a retired electrician) about this and he was shocked. He told me he’d never fucked up at work. His proof was that he was alive (he worked in the mill with freaky high voltages). ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/244 "2023-11-10T17:23:19Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > and he was shocked. Saw whatcha did there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/245 "2023-11-10T17:26:07Z")
So they ended up as those green squares? Note To Self: Avoid the seasonal Hershey’s ‘mint chocolate’ bars… ( Sorry; it’s just that for a 70s Sci-Fi movie, that movie ages way too well. ) ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/246 "2023-11-10T17:30:41Z")
> [@Mikkel](#): > > Damn, how could the shower head drip without water coming up to it. Maybe he thinks the shower head contains a magic valve that’s supposed to close when it somehow senses, using the plumbing equivalent of telepathy, that the tap has been shut off. To be fair, his solution would work if he replaced the shower head with a screw-on cap! I can’t fathom the thought process beyond the idea that whatever you see exhibiting a problem, that thing _ **is** _ the problem. Thus, if this maintenance guy ever has water dripping from his ceiling during a heavy rainstorm, his solution would be to replace the ceiling. Sounds like a handy guy to have around! 🤪 > [@kayaker](#): > > I told my gf’s dad (a retired electrician) about this and he was shocked. I understand that happens to electricians a lot! 😀 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/247 "2023-11-10T17:30:49Z")
I had an uncle who was a “contractor” and he wired an outlet (in my late grandma’s house) over a wall-mount oven with zip-cord. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/248 "2023-11-10T17:53:15Z")
It’s just so stupid and random. I can be resting and barely notice it and then BAM. Intense pain. Reminds me of shingles in a way. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/249 "2023-11-10T17:58:50Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I understand that happens to electricians a lot! 😀 That’s revolting…! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/250 "2023-11-10T18:08:44Z")
Benny must’ve stolen that from Thomas Hood’s 19th century poem “No!”. Excerpt: _No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member— No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!_ Allen Lacy in “The Garden in Autumn” used that and at least one other poem in a similar vein to describe the difference in outlook on fall between English and Americans. The Brits, with a higher incidence of dank, cold and gloomy autumn weather tended to be depressed; Americans with more favorable fall climate were often energized. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/251 "2023-11-10T18:20:34Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > It’s just so stupid and random. I can be resting and barely notice it and then BAM. Intense pain. > > Reminds me of shingles in a way. I woke up one morning and wondered how in the hell I broke my big toe in the middle of the night and not notice it. Was very, very confusing. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/252 "2023-11-10T18:23:46Z")
> [@luvrbcs](#): > > my car radio doesn’t tune that high Mine either. Unfortunately I only listen to music while driving. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/253 "2023-11-10T19:21:28Z")
The old adage is “There are old electricians and there are careless electricians, but there are no old, careless electricians.” I worked the trade for a lot of years, and while I took a couple of minor hits, I was very careful about my work. I had one fool sneer at me because I refused to work 220v live. Go right ahead, moron; I’ll notify your next of kin. Now, I’ve worked live circuits when there was no other choice. It requires extreme care and a second person to knock you loose if it grabs you. > [@enipla](#): > > You don’t have to be a plumber to understand that. Guy is in over his head, In many ways. _Maybe_ he was just trying to appease you and hope you would just go away. Or he’s an idiot. Well, sometimes a brain fart gets in the way of good thinking, but twice in a row? He may have been hoping for a quick fix, because he’ll have to shut off water to the apartment in order to work on it, or will have to call in a plumber, which management has to pay for. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/254 "2023-11-10T19:23:44Z")
I just tried logging in to the rent payment site of my old apartment. It said it couldn’t find my account. I hope this means that they shut it down and will stop trying to charge me further rent. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/255 "2023-11-10T20:00:15Z")
Are you _insinuating_ Benny Hill stole that poem? Because you can just come right out and say it; everyone knows he lifted material [patting you on top of your bald head]. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/256 "2023-11-10T20:51:11Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I had an uncle who was a “contractor” and he wired an outlet (in my late grandma’s house) over a wall-mount oven with zip-cord. “Zip cord”, aka “lamp cord”, intended for things like table lamps and not permitted for permanent wiring. My weird electrical-work story was done by a “professional” electrician when I was doing some renovations in the old former house. Not sure if it violated code but it probably did. I asked to have an outlet installed in the bathroom, and specified that it should be GFCI. It wasn’t, and the contractor brushed it off by saying that the electrician just didn’t happen to have a GFCI outlet with him (not bloody likely!). Years later, when I was replacing the light switch in the adjacent bedroom with a dimmer, I discovered what the electrician had done. Rather than properly running wiring for the outlet, he jury-rigged it to the wall switch which was conveniently on the wall directly opposite. I’m pretty sure the reason no GFCI was installed was because it wouldn’t have worked. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/257 "2023-11-10T20:51:11Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I was very careful about my work. I had one fool sneer at me because I refused to work 220v live. Yeah 110v. Been hit by that a few times. 220v… Umm no. Power to entire house shut down when working on that. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/258 "2023-11-10T21:01:57Z")
That chronic toxo infection acting up again, burpo? 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/259 "2023-11-10T21:02:00Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Still dripping, of course. I really don’t understand his thinking. This is a common sense problem. Water only flows if a valve is turned on, or if the valve is not seating properly. I’m not a plumber, but this is basic trouble-shooting. Why he keeps fucking with the shower head makes no sense. So I’ve reported it _again_, and I hope I’m here when he shows up, so we can have a friendly conversation about this, as he’s wasting his time and mine. Well, this is good to know, and makes me feel kinda dumb. I have no experience with plumbing but I do have a leaky shower head. It doesn’t drip the whole time, just for a few minutes after use, and the part that drips is the bolt around the snake part that connects to the shower head. It leaks at that connection. I was hoping YouTube could help me. ---
**Author:** ![luvrbcs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@luvrbcs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luvrbcs)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417/260 "2023-11-10T21:21:05Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > > [@luvrbcs](#): > > > > my car radio doesn’t tune that high > > Mine either. Unfortunately I only listen to music while driving. Not the only complaints: > **[SiriusXM Messed With Their Classic Rock Channel. Boomer Listeners Aren't Happy](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/siriusxm-moves-deep-tracks-channel-angry-fans-1234872807/)** > > SiriusXM listeners are angry over the satellite radio service moving its classic-rock rarities channel Deep Tracks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-nothin-november-mini-rants/992417.md?page=14)