# Twenty-nine days hath September (or at least that's how long we get to mini-rant this month.) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 2, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624 "2020-09-02T19:18:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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 23, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/181 "2020-09-23T02:39:43Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > just answer the questions _at the end of the questions_ You could say _“Please listen attentively to all the symptoms, as our choices may have changed…”_ ---
**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 23, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/182 "2020-09-23T02:44:13Z")
Speaking of crappy phone etiquette, my callers have several tricks to drive me nuts: Carrying on conversations with people near you (bonus points if you’re screaming at your kids or fighting with your partner) while conducting a business phone call Having the TV so loud I can hear the dialogue more clearly than I can hear YOU Refusing to even fully open your mouth when speaking (if you’re too lazy to speak clearly when communicating for business purposes, please don’t bother “trying”), and getting pissy when the person who’s trying to help you has to keep asking you to repeat your mumbles because s/he could NOT understand what you mumbled (bonus points here if you’re also on speaker and refuse to do otherwise) ---
**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 23, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/183 "2020-09-23T03:06:39Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Speaking of crappy phone etiquette, my callers have several tricks to drive me nuts: > > Having the TV so loud I can hear the dialogue more clearly than I can hear YOU That’s an easy one. Just say, “I LOVE that show!” and start spoilering the episode (even if it’s with B/S). ---
**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 23, 2020, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/184 "2020-09-23T10:51:47Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Speaking of crappy phone etiquette, my callers have several tricks to drive me nuts: Yes!! I _hate_ conversing on the phone, so I’ve made it difficult to arrange to speak with me directly. The minute I detect I do not have someone’s totally undivided attention, that’s when the call ends. “I cannot compete with (whatever specific thing is going on), so if you want to handle that, then call back, we can reschedule our conversation.” And I hang up, even if the other person is pleading. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/185 "2020-09-23T12:28:05Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > The way we all get through this is for you to just answer the questions _at the end of the questions_ with a simple yes or no and then we can all move on with our lives. It saves time and aggravation and Lord knows we all need less aggravation right now. Do you tell them that before you start reading the list? Otherwise, I would answer each individual one also. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/186 "2020-09-23T14:20:22Z")
I pit chickens and crappy weather. We were in the outer bands of Hurricane Teddy last night. This, apparently, is the cue for our younger flock members to, instead of putting themselves to bed in the coop like they normally do, hunker down under a bush. A very wet and windy bush. And to then race around the yard at high speed and stuff themselves into any available inaccessible spot while my husband and I race after them in our wellies and raincoats with a large net. I do wish we’d had a third person available to video. We could have become YouTube phenomenon. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/187 "2020-09-23T15:06:24Z")
Oxaliplatin. Makes on horribly cold sensitive, to the point of popping hives [and yes it may do it inside ones throat.] Room temperature foods and beverages [which we define as 60-65 fahrenheit, we don’t have the heater turned on yet] can feel like eating or drinking something right out of a freezer. So I am stuck drinking hot beverages like decaf coffee, tea or lemonade. All I fucking want is a nice big glass of ice water. Warm beverages are simply not quenching thirst for me right now. I am borderline going to dehydrate from the bathroom visits [almost time the pee breaks at 2 to 2.5 hours … I really don’t want to end up hospitalized from dehydration again so I am drinking something constantly] or so it feels, but know that I am drinking enough to balance out the bathroom visits. It is just I associate ice water with quenching thirst, not warm beverages. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/188 "2020-09-23T18:23:21Z")
I bought some “ice cream” called Rebel Ice Cream Peanut Butter Fudge. In big letters on the front label, it says 7 grams of carbs per pint. But if you read the nutrition label, it says that there are four servings in the pint, each serving having 11 grams of carbs. So their big lettering on the label is a flat out lie. And I ate a little bit last night, and didn’t particularly care for it, there was very little flavor. But man, it sure affected me. It apparently contains an artificial sweetener called Erythritol, which I never heard of before, but I know that I can’t eat Sorbitol, because, just like this stuff, it gives me bad gas and diarrhea. Never buying this product again. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/189 "2020-09-23T19:01:39Z")
Did it say 7 grams of carbs, or 7 grams of **net** carbs? There’s this dieting trick where you subtract out the fiber and erythritol, because they don’t “count” when you’re carb-counting. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/190 "2020-09-23T19:18:45Z")
It said net carbs, but so did the nutrition label. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/191 "2020-09-23T23:06:13Z")
I would assume the fact that I’m not pausing between symptoms would be enough of a hint but many people are bad at reading social cues. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/192 "2020-09-23T23:20:39Z")
Please try to take this the right way. I re-read your post. I’m a nurse, I ask patients the same kind of questions. It is not the patients. You are not good at _giving_ social cues in how you say you ask it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/193 "2020-09-24T16:35:25Z")
Some asswipe stole my _hand-made_ lawn signs. Yesterday: [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4nzTcRLJhApGuSJinsPRvbhcYToENB4_e7It805eiizWbSXw3_7QH3U1ObeaJQmptwNj9EkBsM3-fQqb-36qzlKfkIiQb8B2cPTXoJMjxv-CtJUdJW8tPnXMseLgd-KujJbsD8ATtg=w600-h315-p-k "New item by John Thornton") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/5H5RmH8kZiBWVo3dA) Today: [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/lRkeCqUY_ZhIUmp1eV2yuCGQXNIrVuB7fVbJuX0HDdTh_GtscICTvGJ9xOmNhTw_MBAoD7x17pD8en7v14GjWHFaLSomyJ2Zfao_iCK23DndiQIpsashwtCyDtKc9wUtoiyQ9_Ht-w=w600-h315-p-k "New item by John Thornton") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/4p5oBKB1yZyTybzz5) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/194 "2020-09-24T16:39:11Z")
But they left the Biden/Harris one. That’s weird. I’m sorry people are jerks. ---
**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 24, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/195 "2020-09-24T16:53:20Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Some asswipe stole my _hand-made_ lawn signs. Damn! Nice signs. ---
**Author:** ![PackerMan2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/packerman2/32/2894_2.png) [@PackerMan2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PackerMan2)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/196 "2020-09-24T16:59:26Z")
When I had to do an in-person appointment I got the line of questioning about symptoms, including diarrhea. I really wanted to say “Lady, I take Metformin twice a day. I haven’t had a solid shit in 5 years”. But I knew she is just doing her job and they are looking for new symptoms, not ongoing. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/197 "2020-09-24T18:20:14Z")
Kind of how I feel whenever a new therapist screens for bipolar. “Ever had feelings of euphoria and grandiosity?” Hahahahaha no. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/198 "2020-09-25T23:04:26Z")
And just how is this supposed to make us feel _better_? > **[WWIZ Youngstown Begins Christmas Music Season - RadioInsight](https://radioinsight.com/headlines/198517/wwiz-youngstown-begins-christmas-music-season/)** > > Cumulus Media Oldies “Z104” 103.9 WWIZ Middlesex PA/Youngstown OH has become the first station in the country to go all-Christmas for the 2020 season. WWIZ mad the move today at 12:25pm, rebranding as “Christmas 104“, exactly one month earlier than... ---
**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 26, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/199 "2020-09-26T01:50:59Z")
They have GOT to be kidding. They’re going to have a lot of audience tuning out either out of boredom or sheer annoyance well before that three months is up. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/200 "2020-09-26T13:04:49Z")
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