# The \*REAL\* start of the year! September mini-rants

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 1, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847 "2011-09-01T15:24:32Z")\
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**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:** [September 2, 2011, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/41 "2011-09-02T06:14:10Z")

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**Chimera** - just don’t do what I did to remove flies. I have a serious fear of flies. Some freak at spiders? With me, it’s flies. I know the origin, and that’s not important. What _IS_ important is that you never use an older vaccuum to suck all the little bastards up, then go to bed, forgetting to unplug said vaccuum. Because in the middle of the night the vaccuum will explode, sending burnt rubber and itty bitty fly carcasses all over your living room. You will then have to clean it all up, sans vaccuum (of course), between alternating fits of gagging and barfing.

Good times, good times.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/42 "2011-09-02T06:57:54Z")

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> [@Bri2k](#):
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> PennDOT is having their semi-annual You Can’t Get There From Here festival …
> 
> They’re building a $980,000 completely unnecessary round-about on the main highway on-ramp I use…
> 
> You know, I thought the U.S. was headed down the tubes because of the economy. But when I see they can spend almost a million bucks on a round-about we don’t need, I think we must still be a rich country.

> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#):
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> In two weeks, half the train line between the city and the terminus will be shut down for an upgrade.

In Spain we say “Pharaoh’s public works” to refer to things which are either unnecessary, low priority or even against the interest of the people who’ll use that area, but which have been approved because they’re expected to “incentivate the local economy”. Bonus points when the companies doing the work are from not-around-here.

> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> Attention, skin. You belong to a 30-mumble-year-old woman. Stop doing teenager-y things. :mad:

Ah, so you’re one of those whose “juvenile acne” will go away with her periods, too? Well, Mom’s did, I’m hoping mine will… 43 here

_ducks whatever equinefootwear has thrown at her_

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**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/43 "2011-09-02T14:18:02Z")

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> [@Dr.Drake](#):
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> Yeah, I was in Safeway at 6 o’clock this morning and they had a special Halloween display all ready to go. And in this country, there’s a long weekend (Labour Day) and Thanksgiving between now and Halloween.
> 
> My mini-rant: Dear Big TV Company, when my partner submits an invoice to the appropriate party, it shouldn’t take seven weeks to find out that the appropriate party has gone on an extended leave of absence. Maybe when a key person is out for two months, you should consider placing an “out of office” on his email & voicemail, or even have somebody else check it?
> 
> And don’t think we’re paying our cable bill until you pay our invoice. We billed you a full month before you billed us.

But labor day and thanksgiving day decorations are so boring compared to halloween!!! Who can blame them for putting Halloween up early. Hell… let’s get Christmas started!

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**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/44 "2011-09-02T14:32:32Z")

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Signing up for my oldest last year of rec basketball. He really wants to play and finish out his time … but if the same shit starts happening this year… that happened last year i won’t quietly sit down and take it. Last year he got called for a disproportionate number of fouls and pretty much was unable to really enjoy himself and play…  
Only after the last game a female ref tells me that some of the other refs felt that he was bigger and better than the other kids and it wasn’t fair… Thanks… Thanks… nice to see ADULTS get together and collectively stick their heads in their asses.

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**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/45 "2011-09-02T14:34:40Z")

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Fuck you, brother-in-law, and fuck you too, sister-in-law. I’m one of the responsible ones, and now I get to pay for your mistakes too. I’m already doing it on a macro scale thanks to the housing bubble and the horrific economy, now I get to do it on a micro scale too.

You two: go eat a bag of dicks.

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**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:** [September 2, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/46 "2011-09-02T15:07:59Z")

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> [@Dr.Drake](#):
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> Yeah, I was in Safeway at 6 o’clock this morning and they had a special Halloween display all ready to go. And in this country, there’s a long weekend (Labour Day) and Thanksgiving between now and Halloween…

Thanksgiving … falls BETWEEN now and Halloween? 😕 OK, I give up: where ARE you?

> [@MissTake](#):
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> **Chimera** - just don’t do what I did to remove flies. I have a serious fear of flies. Some freak at spiders? With me, it’s flies. I know the origin, and that’s not important. What _IS_ important is that you never use an older vaccuum to suck all the little bastards up, then go to bed, forgetting to unplug said vaccuum. Because in the middle of the night the vaccuum will explode, sending burnt rubber and itty bitty fly carcasses all over your living room. You will then have to clean it all up, sans vaccuum (of course), between alternating fits of gagging and barfing.
> 
> Good times, good times.

Now, my morbid curiosity reeeeally wants to know the “origin” of your fly-phobia. Feel like sharing?

> [@Nava](#):
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> …Ah, so you’re one of those whose “juvenile acne” will go away with her periods, too? Well, Mom’s did, I’m hoping mine will… 43 here
> 
> _ducks whatever equinefootwear has thrown at her_

Actually, they come _with_ my period, thankyouverymuch. So I threw a tampon at you. A clean one, since I’m feeling generous. Pity you didn’t duck fast enough - check your hair in the mirror.

> [@drewtwo99](#):
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> But labor day and thanksgiving day decorations are so boring compared to halloween!!! Who can blame them for putting Halloween up early. Hell… let’s get Christmas started!

Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

> [@Snickers](#):
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> Fuck you, brother-in-law, and fuck you too, sister-in-law. I’m one of the responsible ones, and now I get to pay for your mistakes too. I’m already doing it on a macro scale thanks to the housing bubble and the horrific economy, now I get to do it on a micro scale too.
> 
> You two: go eat a bag of dicks.

Huh. I’d always heard it as “… eat a bowl of dick.” Singular, too, for some reason, but that’s the phrase I learned. Regionalism? 🙂

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled multi-quote courtesy of **ShotFromGuns.**

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**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/47 "2011-09-02T15:12:20Z")

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> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> Thanksgiving … falls BETWEEN now and Halloween? 😕 OK, I give up: where ARE you?

Canada. The clue was the U in “Labour Day.” 🙂

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**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/48 "2011-09-02T15:18:19Z")

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> [@Rilchiam](#):
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> Look, bitch. I didn’t take for granted that you could change a hundred; I just gave it a shot and asked. All you had to say was “I can’t change a hundred.” I’ve worked retail too; I know how it goes. Your high-strung tirade was not necessary.

Details of high-strung tirade?

> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> Just watching the news with all the back-to-school bullshit, and one mother stands out. She was complaining that her kid has to bus 90 minutes to school - she’ll be on the bus so long, and it leaves so early, and her kid will miss out on sleep, yadda yadda yadda. Then we find out that the mother CHOSE to send her kid to a special school that is so far away - shut your entitled piehole, woman! No complaining about things you chose for yourself!

Grrr - I saw this ho. I wanted to punch her right in the tit. Look bitch, if your daughter is so special that she needs to go the montessori school, get up and drive her yourself you lazy entiteld twat.

Now, to my very mini rant. Back two minirant threads ago I groused about my suspicious mole. So, I went in, dude looked at it, said it looked OK but lets cut it out just in case.

So great, right? Mole gone, looks OK to expert, no worries! Except the hole where the mole used to be is healing really slowly, is right on the back of my leg and hurts like a mutherfucker everytime I sit down. Fricken, frackin, frick!:mad:

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/49 "2011-09-02T15:21:54Z")

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> [@Bri2k](#):
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> Oh and the air show is coming next week. This will mean more road closures while the flight display teams practice.

What the hell kind of tards do you live around that you need road closures for air show practices? I’m imagining people crashing their cars because LOOK MAW FLYIN’ MACHINES!!!

> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> Attention, skin. You belong to a 30-mumble-year-old woman. Stop doing teenager-y things. :mad:

_YES._ SKIN, I AM NOT NOW NOR HAVE I EVER BEEN A 14-YEAR-OLD BOY. **FIGURE THAT SHIT OUT.**

> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#):
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> People at the end of the line will get an express bus to the transfer point, but any fucker who lives anywhere between the two points has to get a “Hey, we’ll stop at ERRY STOP” bus.

That’s really retarded. There should be three levels of bus: Express, Semi-Express, and Local. Local serves every stop; Express serves a small number of major stops; and Semi-Express is somewhere in between. That way, people only have to ride the every-stop bus as far as the nearest Semi-Express or Express stop.

This idea shamelessly stolen from the trains I rode every day when I was going to school in Tokyo.

> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> No complaining about things you chose for yourself!

Welp, there go 90% of the things in this thread.

> [@flatlined](#):
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> My wireless mouse died and now I’m using an old one with a tail and a track ball. I play hack and slash games, the tail keeps getting me killed!

Sooooo you know that all really hardcore gamers use corded mouses, right? Better response than you get off a wireless. 😃 Also, if the cord on your mouse is getting in your way… ur doin it worng.

> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> Huh. I’d always heard it as “… eat a bowl of dick.”

“Bag of dicks,” here.

> [@](#):
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> We now return you to your regularly-scheduled multi-quote courtesy of **ShotFromGuns.**

UNCANNY TIMING.

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**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/50 "2011-09-02T15:57:10Z")

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> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> Thanksgiving … falls BETWEEN now and Halloween? 😕 OK, I give up: where ARE you?

Ultimately, I blame Christmas. Thanksgiving isn’t a great marketing holiday; what do you decorate with? Turkeys, cornucopias, and pilgrim hats. Booorrring. It can be ignored by marketing departments because everyone who wants a nice cornucopia already has one. But Christmas, now THERE’s a decoration extravaganza! Santa, angels, presents, trees, snowmen, creches; you name it, you can design one for Christmas as long as it’s red and green and covered with glitter. And the homemade projects! The sales have to begin by September so that all the crafty cathies can finish crocheting that 6x9 tapestry of a little church in a field with a star above it and Peace on Earth emblazoned across the sky (which isn’t all that different from the one they made 15 years ago but they can’t put that one up because it looks dated: the pinks are kinda peachy and the pine trees are too teal-ish; it was the one they made to replace the one their moms made 35 years ago, where the yellows were too mustard-y and the greens were too avocado-y. But, you know, the lovely chocolate browns and drop shadow effect on this one will NEVER go out of style!)

But then there’s Halloween. Another potential marketing monster, with witches and ghosts and mummies and haunted houses and spiders (and, lately, space aliens. WTF do space aliens have to do with Halloween and the supernatural?) so it cannot be sidelined by Christmas sales. And customers had started to complain loudly. “Christmas sales?? Why, it’s not even Halloween yet! What about Halloween?” It was too late; the Christmas season had already been established, so the only solution is to start Halloween sales in July and August. And it’s a winner; the traditional Halloween colors have been expanded from the black and orange I knew when I was a kid to include green, at first, and now purple. And oddly, glitter. Lots of glitter. And so it starts, “Halloween? It’s not even Labor Day yet!” I envision a near future in which stores carry displays of red and pink and yellow and indigo blue glittery items decorated with hearts and people gripe, “Valentine’s Day? WTF it’s not even Christmas yet!” and we all come full circle.

> [@](#):
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> Huh. I’d always heard it as “… eat a bowl of dick.” Singular, too, for some reason, but that’s the phrase I learned. Regionalism? 🙂

I read it first here, myself. Some poster a couple of years ago capped off an otherwise good but run-of-the-mill rant a couple years ago with the signoff “Eat a bag of dicks” (the way **Shodan** uses “Regards”) and it received deserved praise and still pops up in use occasionally.

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**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:** [September 2, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/51 "2011-09-02T16:40:41Z")

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> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> Now, my morbid curiosity reeeeally wants to know the “origin” of your fly-phobia. Feel like sharing?

When I was around 6 years old, my family drove to a relative’s farm. I had fallen asleep in the car, and my parents did not want to wake me up. When I did wake up, I was all alone in a very strange place (had never been on a farm). I got out of the car, did that sleep stumble up to the black farm door.

Only it wasn’t a black farm door.

It was a farm door covered in flies.

Yeah.

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**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:** [September 2, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/52 "2011-09-02T16:49:11Z")

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> [@Jenaroph](#):
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> … the traditional Halloween colors have been expanded from the black and orange I knew when I was a kid to include green, at first, and now purple.

Holy shit. I hadn’t even noticed it, consciously, but you’re right!

> [@Jenaroph](#):
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> … I envision a near future in which stores carry displays of red and pink and yellow and indigo blue glittery items decorated with hearts and people gripe, “Valentine’s Day? WTF it’s not even Christmas yet!” and we all come full circle…

I wept.  
Confidential to the lady in the stall next to me:  
My God, woman. Those sounds - and smell - are not natural. What did you eat and/or what medication are you on, so I can avoid it/them?

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**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:** [September 2, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/53 "2011-09-02T16:49:41Z")

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> [@flatlined](#):
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> My wireless mouse died and now I’m using an old one with a tail and a track ball. I play hack and slash games, the tail keeps getting me killed! (that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it)
> 
> The wireless one was only 6 months old. I tried changing batteries, resetting it, everything. I’d complain about Logitech, but I think its more because if I forget to put it in my drawer when I’m at work, I find it on the floor. I should probably be ranting at myself, because my purrfect, innocent cats wouldn’t play on my desk while I’m gone :dubious:
> 
> yeah, I know this is a very lame 1st world problem, but I got killed 4 times in Hellgate, gosh darnit!!!

Solution: Bring it to work, and leave it on your desk while you’re at lunch. When you return, accuse Shredder Guy of busting it, and make him buy you a new one.

I know, I know; fat chance.

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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/54 "2011-09-02T16:53:52Z")

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I distinctly remember my fly-phobia. I was like 6 or 7 when we went to visit some cousins I had never seen before (and haven’t seen since) in the country. Their entire house was infested with flies. We sat down to dinner at the table and they were all over everything. I complained bitterly and was told to shut up so as not to insult them. :rolleyes:

Years after that, I lived on a farm. I would entertain myself when I was seriously bored by going out to the horse barn with a flyswatter. My dad would tell me that I wasn’t going to make a dent in their numbers, but I totally did.

Hell, I still do some of that. I had a fruit fly infestation in my apartment last week. I hunted and killed over 200 of them in 3 days and now I have like one or two random ones here and there.

Best way to take out that many fruit flies? Wet your hands. Then lather with liquid soap. Snatch the fruitflies out of the air - they’ll get stuck in the soap on your hands. Smushie shooshie, just to be sure. The soap dries out in about 5 minutes, just have a tap drizzling a bit waiting so you can wash off the dead flies and replenish the wet and the soap.

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/55 "2011-09-02T16:58:26Z")

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> [@MissTake](#):
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> Only it wasn’t a black farm door. It was a farm door covered in flies.

:eek:

I was expecting this to be something like “a fly killed my parents hurr hurr.” Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnope.

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**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:** [September 2, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/56 "2011-09-02T17:03:31Z")

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Someday soon, **Chimera** , I’ll have occasion to try out your tip. I anticipate thanking my anonymous internet friend(s) yet again, while Mr. Horseshoe looks on with a bemused expression.

Thanking you in advance,  
**purplehorseshoe**

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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/57 "2011-09-02T17:17:55Z")

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I went to the cardiologist’s office to see if I ought to have a treadmill test because of chest pains I’ve been having. I was informed to bring with me all medications I take, which I did. An intern sat down with me and looked carefully at each med and entered its name and dosage into my computer chart, which took awhile because she was being careful and attentive to detail.

It turns out I do need a treadmill test, and the test takes place right there in the same cardiologist’s office. In the printout of prep instructions, they request me to _bring a list of all meds I take_. I called them and asked:

“Is this really necessary? Your intern worked hard to accurately list them all in my chart so you have it already.”

The snotty receptionist said

“Well, the techs who do the test are different people from us.”

Me: “The treadmill room is three steps from your desk. Could you please print out the list from my chart and I’ll hand it to them?”

Her: “ **moan**** sigh** oookaaay.”

Stoopid bint. Last I checked, computers were there to save the unnecessary duplication of work.

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/58 "2011-09-02T17:27:04Z")

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> [@teela\_brown](#):
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> Last I checked, computers were there to save the unnecessary duplication of work.

_ **HAW.** _ hidden text wot wot wot

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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/59 "2011-09-02T17:32:45Z")

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> [@teela\_brown](#):
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> “Is this really necessary? Your intern worked hard to accurately list them all in my chart so you have it already.”
> 
> The snotty receptionist said
> 
> “Well, the techs who do the test are different people from us.”
> 
> Me: “The treadmill room is three steps from your desk. Could you please print out the list from my chart and I’ll hand it to them?”
> 
> Her: “ **moan**** sigh** oookaaay.”
> 
> Stoopid bint. Last I checked, computers were there to save the unnecessary duplication of work.

“Well… Maybe I should reconsider working with your office. You are obviously not competent enough to do your basic job functions since I have already provided that information and you seem to be either incapable of retrieving it from your computer, or uninterested in doing it.”

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-start-of-the-year-september-mini-rants/594847/60 "2011-09-02T17:43:47Z")

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Rant the first: when the hell is TXDOT, or whoever is responsible, going to finish the repaving work on the Beltway 8 Feeder between Imperial Valley and West Hardy? They ripped it all up a couple years ago, started laying concrete, and than sometime in late 2010, just stopped. I haven’t seen anyone working on it in months, and meanwhile the place is a parking lot in the mornings due to lane restrictions, not to mention the temporary pavement that one has to travel on is turning into a moonscape of potholes.

Rant the second: Tropical Depression 13, you tease. You’re going to dump a foot of rain on New Orleans but can’t spare an inch or two for Houston? Bitch.

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