# Turning the minirants up to 11ber **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 2, 2018, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879 "2018-11-02T06:18:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/81 "2018-11-13T16:53:37Z")
Donations for fire victims. **DONATIONS!** Not ‘package up trash and take it to someone else’. We have been a part of food and clothing drives in CA for Santa Rosa, Lake County and Butte County fires. Mostly we do it for animals, but we help where we can. We meet a lot of people who willing to give, and give a LOT. They went to thrift and discount stores and bought jeans, socks, shirts, jackets… Its nice to be a part of that community. But often, when sorting through donations, we come across ‘donations’. Seriously, folks. These are displaced victims of tragedy. They are not crazy homeless people digging through dumpsters. And even the crazy homeless people digging through dumpsters have standards. They do not want your torn and dirty ‘clothes’ that have been rotting in the corner of your garage for a year. Christ on a cracker, even the rats have abandoned this shit. Some of the stuff…I had to get a stick. I couldn’t bring myself to touch it with my hands. A few months back, a couple brought buy a bunch of dog beds from their garage. As I went through them, I found that they were urine stained and stank to high heaven. I shudder to think what their house must be like. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/82 "2018-11-13T19:57:11Z")
I volunteered at a donation center in North Carolina after Hurricane Floyd, and I came away from that experience thoroughly convinced that a large number of people think “donations” means “place random garbage from your home here”. The bin with donated toys didn’t contain a single thing that wasn’t either incomplete or completely broken, and the only really decent clothes we received were overstock items from local companies that were covered in corporate branding. The most frightening item we found was a massive bra (I don’t remember the size, but the cups were the size of baseball caps) that had clearly never been washed. :smack: Yes, there is a need for undergarments of all sizes, but who in the hell thinks someone else wants to wear their crusty old bra? ---
**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:** [November 13, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/83 "2018-11-13T20:00:14Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > How does Progressive handle claims? There’s got to be a reason why they’re so much cheaper. I have Progressive, and in my experience, their claim handling was outstanding. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/84 "2018-11-13T20:53:38Z")
dear tv station I don’t give a rats ass of a tinkers damn what holiday your having 5 10 or 30 50 days of Only have it if your not going to show the same 5 or 10 damn movies everyday for the whole time………… ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/85 "2018-11-13T21:16:54Z")
I miss breathing air. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/86 "2018-11-13T22:05:10Z")
Apparently I may have had a silent heart attack. At some point. Or not. The machines are sensitive. I’m to “talk to my doctor”. Arg!!! ---
**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:** [November 14, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/87 "2018-11-14T04:56:10Z")
We have had four phone calls in the last two days when a woman’s voice says, “Richard?” And hopes you’ll say yes. It’s a scam where they try to claim you told them yes, you wanted to accept their offer for whatever it is. If I says “yes” (I did once, a long time ago before I knew better), she then says, “You’re harder to get a hold of than my teenager.” And then she goes on with her spiel. It’s a recording, no matter how much they try to pretend it isn’t. If I don’t say yes, she keeps saying, “Richard, are you there?” and then it goes silent. There’s no way to tell them to stop calling. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/88 "2018-11-14T05:30:51Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Once again I have encountered that (probably not uniquely) Midwestern phenomenon, the Aggressive Shit-Headed Samaritan. I can confirm those exist everywhere. The Spanish Road Code requires “assisting those who are trying to join the flow of traffic” (there has to be a shorter way to say that in English) “without disturbing said flow”. The coda wouldn’t be needed if people didn’t manage to be such enormous idiots about it. ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/89 "2018-11-14T14:09:18Z")
Dear Appliance Repairman, If you are not going to make the 4 hour window you scheduled me for, then give me a call! Thanks for wasting an entire day of my vacation time! Kelevra ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/90 "2018-11-14T15:44:53Z")
Workplace potluck lunches. With a one day notice. Fuck that shit. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/91 "2018-11-14T16:19:00Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Apparently I may have had a silent heart attack. At some point. Or not. The machines are sensitive. I’m to “talk to my doctor”. Arg!!! ((((Hugs))))) keep us posted! Sending good vibes toward your ticker. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/92 "2018-11-14T16:21:41Z")
Just came back from Orycon 40 and had a great time, except for one small hitch. We had ordered commemorative coffee cups to be sold, with the logo on one side and a drawing from the artist Guest of Honor on the other. They were supposed to be white cups with black printing, and they were supposed to arrive last Thursday right before the Con. They arrived this Monday morning after the Con. The cups were black on the outside and white on the inside. The cups had black printing-black on black. How the holy fuck can you not figure out, after reading the instructions and looking at the artist’s rendition of what the cup should look like, that the black-on-black thing you made was a major mistake and that maybe you should not go ahead and make two full cases without consulting someone first? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/93 "2018-11-14T16:22:14Z")
[https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/the-real-reason-sams-club-and-costco-check-your-receipts/ar-BBPFWGM?li=BBnb7Kx](https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/the-real-reason-sams-club-and-costco-check-your-receipts/ar-BBPFWGM?li=BBnb7Kx) **The Real Reason Sam’s Club and Costco Check Your Receipt** > [@](#): > > Contrary to popular belief, especially at wholesale retailers like Costco and Sam’s Club, the “Exit Greeter” (which is industry speak for the employee who will ask for your receipt) is actually there to help save you money. Mind blown, right? But the argument is this: The EG is checking your receipt for duplicate charges or for missed promotions, and if an error occurs, will help you get a refund as swiftly and smoothly as possible Horseshit! Hooey! Crap! Untrue! How do I know? Because if the ‘exit greeters’ were doing that, it would take _forever_! They are not looking closely enough or long enough to make any kind of determination. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/94 "2018-11-14T16:46:54Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > [MSN](https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/the-real-reason-sams-club-and-costco-check-your-receipts/ar-BBPFWGM?li=BBnb7Kx) > > **The Real Reason Sam’s Club and Costco Check Your Receipt** > > Horseshit! Hooey! Crap! Untrue! > > How do I know? Because if the ‘exit greeters’ were doing that, it would take _forever_! They are not looking closely enough or long enough to make any kind of determination. Someone read 1984 and took notes. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/95 "2018-11-14T18:38:15Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > [MSN](https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/the-real-reason-sams-club-and-costco-check-your-receipts/ar-BBPFWGM?li=BBnb7Kx) > > **The Real Reason Sam’s Club and Costco Check Your Receipt** > > Horseshit! Hooey! Crap! Untrue! > > How do I know? Because if the ‘exit greeters’ were doing that, it would take _forever_! They are not looking closely enough or long enough to make any kind of determination. To be fair, such a perfunctory, token inspection is also inadequate for determining if there are unpurchased items in the cart. ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/96 "2018-11-14T19:30:09Z")
Having to buy a new battery for a car when you only have a couple months on your lease, is akin to a cop being shot a week before his retirement. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/97 "2018-11-14T19:59:10Z")
Hey, we’re expecting to sell this house as a tear down within a year or two. Please, please let the furnace be repairable, and not _COSTLY_ repairable, because buying a new furnace at this point would really suck. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/98 "2018-11-14T20:08:31Z")
> [@Calatin](#): > > Having to buy a new battery for a car when you only have a couple months on your lease, is akin to a cop being shot a week before his retirement. Offer some one buying a battery five bucks more than the shop gives them to return an old battery. Buy one from a salvage yard. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/99 "2018-11-15T01:39:25Z")
Today I bought an electric kitty heating mat so hopefully I don’t have to keep throwing Mr. Butters out of my recliner every time I get up. Amazon helpfully offered the following suggestions “based on my order:” 1. A trampoline 2. Driving gloves 3. Wrist and ankle exercise weights 4. A wireless car phone charger 5. A box cutter/utility knife 6. 2 (count 'em!) Santa Hats 7. A magnetic screwdriver set 8. A set of “premium” makeup brushes 9. Plastic shower caps 10. An off brand of a dental water pic And several other items the cat had absolutely no interest in. And don’t even get me started on the “early black Friday deals” with 32 pages of the same old crap they haven’t been able to unload with their “deals of the day” they’ve been running for the last three years. But at least their website doesn’t suck quite as much as Walmart’s. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879/100 "2018-11-15T01:51:12Z")
P.S. - The heating mat is electric, not the kitty. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-the-minirants-up-to-11ber/823879.md?page=6)