# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/141 "2020-09-19T15:01:23Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > For us North Carolinians, we have to be concerned because of the ongoing court battles regarding the [voter ID amendment](https://www.wral.com/nc-appeals-court-upholds-voter-id-tax-cap-amendments/19287208/). Although this ruling won’t impact the 2020 election, if the amendment is allowed to stand it will hurt people who don’t maintain some form of up-to-date state identification. > [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > For us North Carolinians, we have to be concerned because of the ongoing court battles regarding the [voter ID amendment](https://www.wral.com/nc-appeals-court-upholds-voter-id-tax-cap-amendments/19287208/). Although this ruling won’t impact the 2020 election, if the amendment is allowed to stand it will hurt people who don’t maintain some form of up-to-date state identification. I hate this Real ID nonsense. I’m going to try to live without it. I had to renew my license last year, and for the first time they’re doing renewals online. I was all excited until I realized that I would need to go stand in an hours-long line at the DMV to get the Real ID, but then I found out that I don’t have the documents I need for that so I renewed online. I can renew my passport, which is probably easier (and quicker) than going to the DMV. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/142 "2020-09-19T15:37:36Z")
I tripped I fell I hurt my knee the bruises are a mystery to me. From my ankle and now some toes the bruises encircle my lower leg and it shows a nasty lump over the patella, doctor said that’s one unhealthy fella! Maybe fractured could be bleeding, she took an X-ray and sent me home to wait But first the nurse must seal my fate now I’m squeezing my left arm from a shingrix vax it hurts too but what’s the harm. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/143 "2020-09-19T16:17:04Z")
Ouch… ---
**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 20, 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/919624/144 "2020-09-20T14:20:18Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Some utter jackass half a damn block away has had his boom car pounding away for over half an hour now, loudly enough to upset my pets and make sleep impossible (no, earplugs do not work on low bass, nor can I afford the risk of not hearing my alarm). I’m working on a headache, too. Must be lovely to have all that time to make life miserable for those of us who have JOBS and need SLEEP. I have two neighbours in particular that I’m trying not to wish death on because of their loud vehicles. One guy drives a truck that, I swear to God, sounds like the world’s loudest jackhammer when he roars through our quiet suburban streets. The other guy drives a car with the loudest sub-woofers I have ever heard (felt?) in my life. Like, I’m in my kitchen with the doors and windows closed, and my heart is rattling in my chest from his sub-woofers as he drives down the street. ---
**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 20, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/145 "2020-09-20T14:47:07Z")
I used expanding foam for the first time on Friday (to plug up some holes that wasps would dearly love to use to make a new nest). I didn’t know that if you get expanding foam on your hands and don’t clean it off ASAP, you will spend the rest of your life trying to pick it off your skin, even with many, many scrubbing sessions with acetone. Duly noted. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/146 "2020-09-20T22:38:36Z")
I just saw someone on facebook trying to say that banana republics are socialist and thus Biden… ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/147 "2020-09-21T01:13:02Z")
Someone stole my credit card number. Again. ::sigh:: ---
**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 21, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/148 "2020-09-21T01:16:35Z")
Happens to me at least twice a year. Fortunately it’s my work credit card, but still a royal ass-pain. ---
**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 21, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/149 "2020-09-21T01:30:36Z")
Attention-grabbing headline on the Fox News website: James White’s father dies in car crash, inactive for Patriots game vs. Seahawks But there’s a good chance he’ll be back from the dead in time for next week’s game? ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/150 "2020-09-21T01:35:16Z")
Hubs mentioned that he would like some of my pickled jalapenos. Being the dutiful wife\* that I am, I promptly got up and started slicing peppers and smooshing garlic (garlic needs to be smooshed for my recipe). Water, garlic, salt went into the pot and I reached into the pantry for the gallon bottle of white vinegar. After I poured a cup into the pot, I realized that a gallon bottle of 99% alcohol looks JUST like a gallon of white vinegar if you don’t bother to look at the labels. I’m really glad I didn’t have heat involved, garlic infused alcohol probably wouldn’t have made the best room freshener. \*Not as much as I would like to fool him into thinking. I’ve been picking pecks of peppers recently and was happy to get the suggestion.) ---
**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 21, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/151 "2020-09-21T01:56:58Z")
Omg. I’m glad you caught that. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/152 "2020-09-21T02:15:28Z")
I really doubt that I would have caught the pot on fire, the smell tipped me off as soon as I started stirring. Usually I have the pot heating while I’m gathering other stuff, so adding 99% alcohol to heated water and smooshed garlic would have ended up making a big stink, making us open the windows so we could smell the smoke instead. Please do notice that I did NOT bitch about hubs putting the bottle of alcohol in the pantry instead in the other closet where the cleaning supplies go. I am a nice person who doesn’t call my husband an idiot in public. ---
**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 21, 2020, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/153 "2020-09-21T02:57:45Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > Please do notice that I did NOT bitch about hubs putting the bottle of alcohol in the pantry instead in the other closet where the cleaning supplies go. I am a nice person who doesn’t call my husband an idiot in public. We’re not the public, we’re family. ---
**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 21, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/154 "2020-09-21T03:01:48Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > I just saw someone on facebook trying to say that banana republics are socialist and thus Biden… Yeah, yeah, and Ed Hardys are douche-alist and thus Republican. I haven’t figured out what Sunglasses Huts are yet. ---
**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 21, 2020, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/155 "2020-09-21T03:09:50Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > Hubs mentioned that he would like some of my pickled jalapenos. Being the dutiful wife\* that I am, I promptly got up and started slicing peppers and smooshing garlic (garlic needs to be smooshed for my recipe). Water, garlic, salt went into the pot and I reached into the pantry for the gallon bottle of white vinegar. After I poured a cup into the pot, I realized that a gallon bottle of 99% alcohol looks JUST like a gallon of white vinegar if you don’t bother to look at the labels. 😮 WHY do you have a bottle of 198-proof alcohol in your house, let alone in your pantry? That stuff should be in a flammable storage locker. ---
**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, 2020, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/156 "2020-09-21T03:15:50Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > After I poured a cup into the pot, I realized that a gallon bottle of 99% alcohol looks JUST like a gallon of white vinegar if you don’t bother to look at the labels. I’d reconsider putting non-edibles (especially toxic ones) in the pantry. Of course, this is coming from someone who can’t get her own husband to stop leaving a can of Lysol on the kitchen counter (he insists on using some on his hands when getting into the shredded cheese), no matter how many times I point out to him that a tired, distracted cook with dubious peripheral vision might well grab that can when trying to grab the cooking spray. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/157 "2020-09-21T03:16:29Z")
I’m sorry, I’m confused. I just grabbed the bottle and read the label. Its 99.9% pure isopropyl alcohol, which is now easily sourced again. Why would I want it in a storage locker? ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/158 "2020-09-21T03:29:05Z")
He sprays Lysol on his hands? And then reaches into a bag of shredded cheese? I’ve learned that many people have odd habits. Non-edibles are not supposed to be in the pantry. They belong in the cleaning supplies and random house fixing shit closet. The nice part of this is that hubs pulled all of the spices out of the cabinet to see if we had any dill seeds (as long as I’m messing around with pickles, why not?) and we were able to sort and toss stale spices. No dill, clean cabinet and the non-alcohol brine tasted good. ---
**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, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/159 "2020-09-21T03:31:52Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > He sprays Lysol on his hands? And then reaches into a bag of shredded cheese? I’ve learned that many people have odd habits. > > Non-edibles are not supposed to be in the pantry. They belong in the cleaning supplies and random house fixing shit closet. You will never hear me claim my DH is normal :). I agree that non-edibles should not be in the pantry or near food prep operations. My husband firmly believes the Lysol strategy will keep the cheese mold-free longer. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624/160 "2020-09-21T15:02:31Z")
The way to keep the cheese mold-free is to shake it out of the bag, instead of reaching in like some kind of animal. (And not to dump leftovers back in!) If he cannot be broken of the habit of reaching into the bag, buy him a box of nitrile gloves instead of letting him put his bare hands in the bag. I am a long way from being a clean freak, but that is disturbing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-nine-days-hath-september-or-at-least-thats-how-long-we-get-to-mini-rant-this-month/919624.md?page=9)