# Time To Dismember (Rants of September){OLD} **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 1, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475 "2023-09-01T19:48:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [September 2, 2023, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/21 "2023-09-02T12:05:29Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > Credit Unions are quite popular here in the Twin Cities. You only have to live in the county to belong to one. I haven’t had a bank in years and years. Trying to find one that doesn’t get abysmal ratings is the problem. I was going to try TruStone, but they have ratings of 2/5 routinely. I’ve been using credit unions exclusively for the last 50 years without problems up until the last couple of years with my CU in Alaska. My CU in Oregon is still giving good service, but it’s in, you know, Oregon so physically accessing it is a problem. We went into US Bank when we first got here and it was like waking up zombies in there. Then the guy couldn’t get his computer to boot; not a good sign. When I asked about CD rates, he looked sheepish and muttered something about “they really suck”. Oh, well sign me up, pardner! ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/22 "2023-09-02T12:19:15Z")
Under “Amusing coincidences”: When I was reading **StarvingButStrong** ’s post about the rude customer I was listening to a YouTube video about Entitled People (there’s a channel called RedWheel where someone reads reddit posts - one of my guilty pleasures). ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/23 "2023-09-02T12:33:23Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Well, since your avatar suggests that you are a seagull, why don’t you seagull the kitty? Please don’t [seagull](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Seagulling) the kitty. If you are easily offended or squeamish don’t click the link. Once while watching Law and Order SVU with the family, Detective Benson talked about a victim being seagulled. We looked it up. We wished we hadn’t. We were left with more questions than answers. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/24 "2023-09-02T13:04:44Z")
Last night I ran into a couple I haven’t seen in 15 or so years. It was really cool seeing them and catching up, but they looked _so old_! Of course fifteen years has past. This has happened several times recently and it always surprises me that people have aged. I expect them to look exactly like they did when we last ran into each other. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2023, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/25 "2023-09-02T13:19:54Z")
For some reason, the above post reminds me of the title of an Alexander King book, _Mine Enemy Grows Older_. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/26 "2023-09-02T13:48:11Z")
I’m having an existential crisis and this is the only place I feel safe stating it. Jimmy Buffett died. Twitter is full of tributes and puns and pictures and videos and songs and quips and funny stories about Jimmy Buffett. Here’s the thing … I couldn’t stand Jimmy Buffett. I’m trying to be decorous on Twitter but every goddamned, “he was a gift,” post, I want to respond with, “he was alcoholic buffoon, who’s songs all sound the same!” but so far I have resisted. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/27 "2023-09-02T13:56:19Z")
Try to remember, the times of September… Oh, the Wells Fargo wagon is a-coming down the street… Damned earworms! ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/28 "2023-09-02T14:28:19Z")
What isn’t their name. 🙂 THINK about what would be a good name for a credit union that was started for IBM employees. If you try hard enough you’ll THINK of the answer. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/29 "2023-09-02T14:36:21Z")
And yet it made him a billionaire. Not that I’m disagreeing with you. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/30 "2023-09-02T16:25:53Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Trying to find one that doesn’t get abysmal ratings is the problem. Yeah, I understand that. I was going to suggest you check out Wings, but their nearest location to you would be downtown. My brother thinks Wings rocks. I belong to one that was connected to an employer and I just never left the C.U. They are merging with another local CU shortly so they will be able to offer more than two locations. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/31 "2023-09-02T16:31:07Z")
I suggest the name hortense instead of Karen. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/32 "2023-09-02T16:32:00Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > “he was alcoholic buffoon, who’s songs all sound the same!” Whew, I’m not alone in this. But still I’m sad that his death made my friends sad. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/33 "2023-09-02T16:38:16Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > I was going to suggest you check out Wings, but their nearest location to you would be downtown. We actually live near the downtown area (Lowry Hill). I may check it out. ---
**Author:** ![Beesnest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@Beesnest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beesnest)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/34 "2023-09-02T17:05:31Z")
I just switched my house title to be held in name of my living trust. I didn’t get any notification from the county-well my lawyer did in the form of a new deed of trust, mailed to a random person in a random town 15 miles away. I have had no less then 3 scammy companies send out mail “invoices” for protection money from other scammers. There has to be a better way then the current one to lock down the ownership of real property. ---
**Author:** ![vbob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vbob/32/4439_2.png) [@vbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vbob)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/35 "2023-09-02T17:12:07Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Grumble: I’m eating some chicken, one of my cats would very much like some too, and he’s being quite the demanding pain in the tail about it. We have a firm house rule about sharing chicken: the cat can’t have more than half, and he has to eat off HIS side of the plate. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/36 "2023-09-02T17:20:22Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > “he was alcoholic buffoon, who’s songs all sound the same!” You have every right to dislike his music, but what evidence is there that he was either an alcoholic or a buffoon? He made a lot of people happy with his music, and seems like he had himself a pretty nice life. At least, in his songs and writings, he generally knew when to properly use articles of speech and apostrophes 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/37 "2023-09-02T17:29:27Z")
The avatar is actually our dove. 🙂 The cat did figure out that his odds of getting some chicken improved a lot when his manners did. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/38 "2023-09-02T18:14:44Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I want to respond with, “he was alcoholic buffoon, who’s songs all sound the same!” “Whose”, not “who’s”. And you’re wrong about Buffett, too. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/39 "2023-09-02T18:46:43Z")
Fine. I’ll be wrong if you want me to be, but to me his concerts were the equivalent of Freddie Spaghetti singing _If You’re Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands_, but with tequila for grown ups. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475/40 "2023-09-02T19:20:50Z")
On August 20, I ordered a shelving unit from Container Store. A drawer frame, wheels, drawers, and a top. The frame and wheels arrived on the 26th. There’s an email saying the other package is running late - its ready for pickup but the carrier has not come. That was on the 24th. As of today - 9 days later - it is still waiting for pickup. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-dismember-rants-of-september-old/989475.md?page=3)