# The Rants Came Marching One By One (March minirants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588 "2014-03-01T13:23:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/361 "2014-03-22T19:38:39Z")
Finally finished my fuckin’ taxes. I’m never moving to New York again! Their boxes and descriptions for apportioning deductions are completely incomprehensible. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/362 "2014-03-23T01:29:01Z")
Fucking bunion:(:mad: ---
**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:** [March 23, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/363 "2014-03-23T13:09:24Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > We took proactive steps to get healthy. I’ve almost quit smoking. I dropped 15lbs in the past few months, completely changing my diet. The change of diet is what has exacerbated the kidney failure. I’ve been taking in too much phosphorus, and my kidneys are no longer processing it. I now know why my nails are breaking left and right - calcium is being leeched. Ironic. I’m curious what increased the phosphorus intake in your diet? Good luck with the dialysis, I hope for the best possible outcome for you. That leads to a rant of my own: I’m currently losing one of my clients, a very nice and interesting man, to end-stage renal failure. I suppose with a project that focuses specifically on the elderly, particularly the infirm elderly, this sort of thing is inevitable, but it’s still sad and I feel for his family. This is the fourth client I’ll have lost since December. I have over 100 client households (some with couples, so well over 100 individual clients), and I have to actively try not to become too attached to them or I’ll go mad with grief. With some it’s easy to maintain an emotional distance, but with others it’s too easy to become fond of them. This couple is one of the latter. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/364 "2014-03-23T13:52:15Z")
> [@Dunkelheit](#): > > I’m curious what increased the phosphorus intake in your diet? In our quest to get healthy, we got rid of white bread, replaced it with yummy nutty, chewy whole grain bread. Bad move. Breakfast of yogurt and granola? Bad move. Nosh on almonds and a cheese stick? Bad move. Essentially, everything I did was wrong. I had remembered to watch the potassium, forgot about the phosphorus. I have a new med that blocks phosphorus, kind of like those fat blocker diet meds. I’ll take one with every meal. Whee. On the plus side, bagels and cream cheese are back on the menu! ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/365 "2014-03-23T14:45:25Z")
Mini-rant: I am training for a half marathon and have a long run scheduled for today. It’s -20 with the wind and there is no way in hell I’m going out there. Stupid Spring-tember. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/366 "2014-03-23T15:19:34Z")
I have no idea what happened, but I tweaked my upper back last night while I was rolling over in bed. I can sit slightly hunched over and be fairly comfortable, but trying to sit/stand/lay with my back straight is painful. So is raising my arms much above my shoulders, and turning my head to the right. Did I mention that my husband is gone all day and I have three boys at home? Ouch ouch ouch! ---
**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:** [March 23, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/367 "2014-03-23T15:34:24Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > Mini-rant: I am training for a half marathon and have a long run scheduled for today. It’s -20 with the wind and there is no way in hell I’m going out there. Stupid\*\* Spring-tember\*\*. :mad: I’m adding Spring-tember to my list of names to call inappropriately cold springs. T’s worthy of being ranked with “Lousy Smarch weather.” ---
**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:** [March 23, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/368 "2014-03-23T15:48:10Z")
Another example of how modern “correctness” has replaced the color and verisimilitude of the past: A reminiscence in today’s paper about the devastating spring flood of 1913 in central Ohio refers to people taking refuge in “the Ohio Asylum for the Education of Idiotic and Imbecile Youth\*, now called the Ohio Developmental Center”. \*brings to mind Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/369 "2014-03-23T18:26:16Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > Mini-rant: I am training for a half marathon and have a long run scheduled for today. It’s -20 with the wind and there is no way in hell I’m going out there. Stupid Spring-tember. :mad: Maybe you could do laps in Cross Iron Mills mall - we often mallwalk there. 😃 > [@Avarie537](#): > > I have no idea what happened, but I tweaked my upper back last night while I was rolling over in bed. I can sit slightly hunched over and be fairly comfortable, but trying to sit/stand/lay with my back straight is painful. So is raising my arms much above my shoulders, and turning my head to the right. Did I mention that my husband is gone all day and I have three boys at home? Ouch ouch ouch! Getting old is the best! You can hurt yourself sleeping! ---
**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:** [March 23, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/370 "2014-03-23T21:36:30Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > … > > \*brings to mind Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus. My dad says those two should become a couple. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/371 "2014-03-23T22:08:42Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > My dad says those two [Bieber and Cyrus] should become a couple. Aren’t they the same person? ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/372 "2014-03-23T22:31:18Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Getting old is the best! You can hurt yourself sleeping! Goddammit I’m only 33! ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/373 "2014-03-23T23:04:00Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Maybe you could do laps in Cross Iron Mills mall - we often mallwalk there. 😃 Wonder how many security guards I would attract, running around the mall like that?! I ended up going for a short run this afternoon now that it’s sunny out. Very slickery out there. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/374 "2014-03-23T23:53:35Z")
Buttercup was sleeping under the stair case and Lucky was trying to climb up the bottom of it and fell on Buttercup. She bit him. Not hard, it was more of a startled snap than anything, but kitty skin is fragile. Lucky got stitches and stuff and poor Buttercup is moping around his cage and looking sad. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/375 "2014-03-24T03:02:51Z")
I’m really sorry about your kidney problems, MissTake. I hope you find a donor soon. A friend of mine had a kidney transplant a decade ago. She’s still doing fine. This sounds horribly whiny after that but this is the pit and I have a miserably itchy infection in a very tender female place. I am hoping the meds will work soon. I also suspect I have some sort of serious anxiety disorder. My bp is too high and it may be from that. At least that’s what my doctor is suggesting. I do feel very anxious a lot. My mom was the most anxious person I have ever met so it’s probably inherited. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2014, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/376 "2014-03-24T11:22:24Z")
I was supposed to get some sheet music long before today and I only got it today and it’s in the WRONG FUCKING FORMAT (a format used by a computer program I don’t fucking have) and so I can’t fucking print it out for tonight’s rehearsal. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/377 "2014-03-24T13:06:28Z")
Who does this sort of thing??? Spam I just received: -=-=- Dear [email address removed] We have been sent a sample of your blood analysis for further research. During the complete blood count (CBC) we have revealed that white blood cells is very low, and unfortunately we have a suspicion of a cancer. Wite Blood cells 1200 Low Hemoglobin 12 Normal Platelets 19000 Low We suggest you to print out your CBC test results and interpretations in attachment below and visit your family doctor as soon as possible Sincerely, Dr. Avery Ernie National Institute for Health and Care Excellence -=-=-= And, of course, the “To” line shows a whole string of names at the same ISP. Obviously it’s spam (if nothing else, I haven’t had any blood drawn for many months) but what in the world does whoever does this sort of thing get out of it? Instills some amount of fear in a unknown subset of unknown to him/her people? I see no one who can profit from it except possibly some underemployed primary care doctors. 😕 ---
**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:** [March 24, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/378 "2014-03-24T13:10:16Z")
Wow, that’s a pretty blatant HIPAA violation too, since now you know that everybody in the “To” line also has cancer. ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/379 "2014-03-24T13:27:39Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > Goddammit I’m only 33! When I first started my job (11 years ago) I worked with people in their late twenties who always mocked me for stretching before I loaded equipment. I just smiled and said “You wait”. Well guess what? They all stretch now. And yeah, I’ve hurt myself sleeping a couple of times.😕 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/380 "2014-03-24T13:56:17Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Obviously it’s spam (if nothing else, I haven’t had any blood drawn for many months) but what in the world does whoever does this sort of thing get out of it? Instills some amount of fear in a unknown subset of unknown to him/her people? I see no one who can profit from it except possibly some underemployed primary care doctors. 😕 “Thanks for contacting us again so swiftly. We can confirm that you DO have cancer, but luckily, there has recently come on the market this amazing life-saving herbal treatment. Learn more by clicking here.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588.md?page=20)