# The Minirants Thread Rides Again! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 6, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-minirants-thread-rides-again/440276 "2008-03-06T03:04:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-minirants-thread-rides-again/440276/321 "2008-04-25T02:22:22Z")
It is a “slash.” Not a “forward slash.” It IS forward, in it’s very nature. If a “back slash” is required, fine- identify it as a “back slash.” But there is no such thing as a “forward slash.” IT IS A FUCKING SLASH! 🙂 ---
**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 25, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-minirants-thread-rides-again/440276/322 "2008-04-25T23:09:58Z")
How bad is it to punch a pregnant woman who is a total, rampant in-your-face bitch? Just a little bad? Really bad? How about slashing her tires? Less bad? Frakkin’ bitch at work isn’t doing her job, got called on it, and then all of a sudden she starts making it MY problem at one minute after the time my shift was over. I said, and I quote, “Do whatever you want. Have a nice weekend, see you Monday, good bye.” Bitch. Big, fat, and getting fatter bitch. ---
**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 25, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-minirants-thread-rides-again/440276/323 "2008-04-25T23:22:18Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] How bad is it to punch a pregnant woman who is a total, rampant in-your-face bitch? [/QUOTE] Depends on where you’re punchin’. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-minirants-thread-rides-again/440276/324 "2008-04-26T16:41:35Z")
I don’t know where else to put this so, with a bit of a contortion, I can suppose this is a mini-rant. I was in midtown (NYC) yesterday around 6:30pm. Walking East to West on 50th Street, I notice a plume of black smoke close by. At Fifth Avenue and 50th, I looked toward 49th and discovered the source of the black smoke to be there. I couldn’t see because of the crowds and law enforcement/emergency vehicles, but I could hear talk that a car had exploded. I proceed and go inside 620 Fifth Avenue. In the lobby, the security guard confirmed that there had been an explosion – and that there had been another one block north involving a car last week. I was eventually able to go into a conference room that overlooked Fifth Avenue, with a clear view of the, uhm, leavings" of a car that had been burnt. For most of the evening and a little while today, I searched the 'net for some kind of reportage on this. None. Nada. Nothing. So, one (possibly two, I wasn’t there) car explosions take place at Rockefeller Center, Saks Fifth Avenue and, get this, **St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the first possibly during the Pope’s visit** and there is nothing in the news about it? Even I have to become a little more jaded or there is a massive coverup going on somewhere for some reson. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-minirants-thread-rides-again/440276/325 "2008-04-26T22:52:56Z")
NEW MEXICO IS PART OF THE UNITED STATES YOU IGNORANT JACKASS! Have you never seen a fucking map of your own fucking country? Look, right there, between Texas and Arizona? Just south of Colorado? _ **NEW** _ Mexico! Not Mexico! See the nice thick black line between Mexico and _ **NEW** _ Mexico? That indicates that _ **NEW** _ Mexico is IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NOT MEXICO! Christ, you’d think that someone with a job, any job, would have passed second-grade geography. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-minirants-thread-rides-again/440276/326 "2008-04-26T22:58:37Z")
I hear ya, **NinjaChick**. I’ve long thought that New Mexico should give up on “Land of Enchantment” as a slogan and change it to “Yes We Are A State”. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-minirants-thread-rides-again/440276/327 "2008-04-26T23:14:35Z")
New Mexico Magazine used to (and for all I know, maybe still does) have a regular column called “One Of Our Fifty Is Missing,” devoted to recounting incidents where people didn’t realize or refused to believe that New Mexico was one of the United States. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-minirants-thread-rides-again/440276.md?page=16)