# Try to remember...(the month of September?) (Sept. minirants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 1, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394 "2012-09-01T22:26:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/281 "2012-09-21T00:01:30Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > StarvingButStrong, I come from a III family. I call us the “Typhoid Marys”. > > I’ve been wanting an [It’s It](http://www.itsiticecream.com/), which is the best ice cream sandwich _ever_. I had a plan to buy one tomorrow and eat it. But today I had to go to the dentist. $500 later, no ice cream for me. Soft foods and no cold things. ::cries:: Why is the universe so unkind? But, but, I can’t think of any soft food that isn’t ice cream! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/282 "2012-09-21T00:24:07Z")
I have to stop reading on-line comments. I have to stop reading on-line comments. I have to stop reading on-line comments. The average person commenting is so ignorant and hate filled that I end up wanting to cull the Human race, and I don’t want to feel that way or think those thoughts. I start wondering how we ever got past mud huts and spearing our neighbors in the back because they farted at the wrong time, and I start wondering if the ability of the average moron to comment on every little thing for the world to see is going to take us right back to that point. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/283 "2012-09-21T02:52:28Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > I dreamed a ballet version of Twilight- I’m not sure which is worse. If that’s what I dream tonight, I’m coming to your house. Just thought I’d give you a heads up. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/284 "2012-09-21T02:57:14Z")
I hate being sick. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/285 "2012-09-21T05:08:11Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > \ > > I’ve been wanting an [It’s It](http://www.itsiticecream.com/), which is the best ice cream sandwich _ever_. I had a plan to buy one tomorrow and eat it. But today I had to go to the dentist. $500 later, no ice cream for me. Soft foods and no cold things. ::cries:: Why is the universe so unkind? We had a similar thing in my childhood called a Snack and a Half - they are indeed the best ice cream sandwich ever! I didn’t have any ice cream today, but I did have some yummy snickerdoodles. ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/286 "2012-09-21T05:12:47Z")
bloodyhellgoddamit. I just tripped over the step to my kitchen. bloody knee (in the literal sense) carpet burns, bruising. I’m not seriously hurt I know but I haven’t had a fall in ages and was enjoying that fact. oh and OW ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/287 "2012-09-21T07:29:58Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > “IN” ?!?!? :eek: Having them on the inside of the lip is also fun! > [@kayT](#): > > But, but, I can’t think of any soft food that isn’t ice cream! Flan. Créme brulée (which is basically an upside-down flan with the caramel burned on). Pudding. Mashed potatoes. Coffee flan. Vanilla flan. Strawberry flan. ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/288 "2012-09-21T09:53:12Z")
Some more mini bitches A big fuck you to Amazon. I want to buy something but I live in the wrong bloody country - again. A big fuck you to myself. I just cooked a supermarket pizza. These pizzas com in a plastic package with a styrofoamy disc on the bottom… guess what was still on the bottom - Craptastic ---
**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 21, 2012, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/289 "2012-09-21T11:19:13Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > I’m sure I’ve told this before, but what the hey: According to a long ago read article, when it comes to minor illnesses you can divide people up on a 2X2 matrix, thusly: > > I: Want sympathy/don’t want to give in to the illness > II: Want sympathy/give in to the illness > III: Don’t want sympathy/don’t want to give in to the illness > IV: Don’t want sympathy/give in to the illness > Where “give in to the illness” means admitting you are sick and doing the reasonable things like bed rest, soup, whatever. > > Quadrant I types are nicknamed “The Martyrs.” They show up at work, but make sure everyone around them knows they have THE WORST COLD EVER. > > Quadrant II types are nicknamed “The Babies.” They take to their beds, and want the rest of the household, hell, the world, to cater to them and their need for special treats, back rubs, sympathy galore. > > Quadrant III types had a clever nickname, but I never can remember it and haven’t ever found the article again. Anyway, they carry on with life as best as they can and try to hide the fact that they’re ill from those around them. “Oh, it sounds like I’m coughing up a lung? No, I just got a spec of dust trapped in my throat, that’s all.” These sorts are dangerous: they’re spreading their germs about to people who may not even be aware of the risk. > > Quadrant IV types are nicknamed “The Dead Dogs.” They do the human equivalent of hiding under the porch. They want you to leave them alone until they recover or die. In many ways these are the easiest to deal with, unless you have strong Florence Nightengale traits and WANT to administer TLC, dammit. > > Sounds like you come from a Dead Dog family.🙂 Seems that way, except for me (I do want SOME attention when I don’t feel good, but try not to be a melodramatic martyr about it), and I do have some Florence Nightingale tendencies. This leads to a bit of a difficulty with my husband, since each of us tends to give the treatment he/she wants when ill, which is pretty much opposite of what the actual patient wants. 🙂 ---
**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 21, 2012, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/290 "2012-09-21T11:20:50Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > StarvingButStrong, I come from a III family. I call us the “Typhoid Marys”. Apparently, when I was a kid I had a habit of bringing colds and such home from school and passing them to my mother. She took to writing excuse notes referring to me as “Typhoid Mary”. The school staff thought it was hilarious (small town, and my mother has very distinctive handwriting, so they knew who the note was really for anyway). ---
**Author:** ![Shoujin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoujin/32/3884_2.png) [@Shoujin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoujin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/291 "2012-09-21T11:36:35Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > It was pouring rain yesterday and the mailman, instead of putting my mail in the box and shutting the lid, put it in sideways and left the lid open. My daughter sent me an actual postcard and I would have loved to read it but the fact that it was soaked and stuck to a flyer made that impossible ☹ Knowing postal gear as I do, it’s within the realm of possibility that the carrier was already soaked and your mail was already wet before it was placed in the box. That being said, tape a note to the box asking him/her to please close the box. It’s gonna rain today, and I’m SURE my overpriced cheaply constructed rain gear will hold up for my 6 hour walk. Not. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/292 "2012-09-21T14:40:05Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > Some more mini bitches > A big fuck you to Amazon. I want to buy something but I live in the wrong bloody country - again. > > A big fuck you to myself. I just cooked a supermarket pizza. These pizzas com in a plastic package with a styrofoamy disc on the bottom… guess what was still on the bottom - Craptastic Oooh, I’ve done that. I ate it anyway, but it tasted a bit weird. Now I’m very careful to check the bottom. I also hate being in the wrong country to get things on Amazon, though the UK version isn’t too bad. As long as I’m here, I’d like to throw the past just-over-two-years of unsuccessful job search hell into the pit. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/293 "2012-09-21T16:00:32Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Flan. Créme brulée (which is basically an upside-down flan with the caramel burned on). Pudding. Mashed potatoes. Coffee flan. Vanilla flan. Strawberry flan. \ I should like flan. It’s sweet and caramelly. But the texture just puts me off. I don’t like Jello or sweet puddings either. Maybe I’ll get some guacamole and eat it with a spoon. I suspect there’s some room-temperature yogurt in my future, and I’m not looking forward to it. \ ::sigh:: Perhaps I’ll go to the Asian market and get some smoked eel. I like that, and it hardly needs chewing at all. I really wanted toast for breakfast this moring. I’d even bought a tiny packet of Nutella earlier this week so I could have a Friday treat. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/294 "2012-09-21T17:20:50Z")
Maybe some rice pudding? ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Enn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dave_enn/32/426_2.png) [@Dave\_Enn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Enn)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/295 "2012-09-21T18:42:20Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > \ I should like flan. It’s sweet and caramelly. But the texture just puts me off. I don’t like Jello or sweet puddings either. Maybe I’ll get some guacamole and eat it with a spoon. I suspect there’s some room-temperature yogurt in my future, and I’m not looking forward to it. \ ::sigh:: Perhaps I’ll go to the Asian market and get some smoked eel. I like that, and it hardly needs chewing at all. > > I really wanted toast for breakfast this moring. I’d even bought a tiny packet of Nutella earlier this week so I could have a Friday treat. ☹ How 'bout hummus? Best. Stuff. Evuh. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/296 "2012-09-21T18:52:37Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > \ I should like flan. It’s sweet and caramelly. But the texture just puts me off. I don’t like Jello or sweet puddings either. Maybe I’ll get some guacamole and eat it with a spoon. I suspect there’s some room-temperature yogurt in my future, and I’m not looking forward to it. \ ::sigh:: Perhaps I’ll go to the Asian market and get some smoked eel. I like that, and it hardly needs chewing at all. > > I really wanted toast for breakfast this moring. I’d even bought a tiny packet of Nutella earlier this week so I could have a Friday treat. ☹ Check out the baby food section of your supermarket - the banana pie one is excellent. 🙂 ---
**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 21, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/297 "2012-09-21T20:07:19Z")
Peel and cube up some butternut squash and simmer that with some nice chicken broth and whatever seasonings you like - from rosemary to curry. It’ll have some fiber to help you feel full for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/298 "2012-09-21T20:21:02Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I can help you with that, at least - put a drop of dishwashing detergent on the grease spot, rub it in really well, then wash the shirt in warm water. The detergent should take out the grease. > > Is anyone else seeing a trend towards people driving really fast in parking lots? This kind of blows my mind - I can’t think of anywhere else that people drive where you need to drive _more_ carefully than a parking lot, and here all these idiots are, just blasting away through all the pedestrians and kids and people with shopping carts and people backing up… I can think of one other place - crosswalks. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/299 "2012-09-21T20:55:09Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > I’m sure I’ve told this before, but what the hey: According to a long ago read article, when it comes to minor illnesses you can divide people up on a 2X2 matrix… > Want sympathy/give in to the illness I just had knee surgery. Wife was working\*, so didn’t see me til she came home from work, and I was still groggy coming out of general anaesthetic. She said “Well, you look ok, I’m tired, see you day after tomorrow”. _“Don’t you want to hear about it…?”_ I whimpered. “Not unless you died. I’m going to bed.” And up the stairs she went. \*Works in a hospital. What I went through is 10% of what her patients do, so I was No Big Deal. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/try-to-remember-the-month-of-september-sept-minirants/633394/300 "2012-09-21T21:17:33Z")
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