# What's pissing you off today? \[Spring Mini-Rants Can Really Hang You Up The Most\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323 "2010-04-25T19:42:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/501 "2010-05-21T21:04:44Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > We have death panels? Yes, of course you do. You know, those ones that would have let Stephen Hawking die if he were British. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/502 "2010-05-21T21:05:57Z")
My rant of the day is on the subject of insomnia. I don’t know why, but my stupid brain hasn’t let me sleep through the night in months, with the exception of those few occasions on which I have thrown in the towel and taken sweet, sweet Ambien CR. But I really don’t like to depend on stuff like that, and my doctor warned me when writing the prescription that I should only take it in cases of desperation, lest I end up with even worse rebound insomnia. The sleep deprivation is making me insane, though. I can’t think straight because I am so foggy from lack of sleep, which means that I can’t crank out work like I usually do, which means I get more and more overloaded at work (we are shortstaffed at the moment), which makes me stressed, which makes the insomnia worse. If my upcoming vacation doesn’t help, I think I will have to give in and deal in some more in-depth way with trying to figure out what’s causing the insomia instead of just trying in a half-assed manner to treat the symptoms. But I have a sneaking suspicion that it’s just one of those things; both my parents have the same problem. AAAAARGH. Can I go to sleep yet? I went to bed at 9:30 last night and was probably asleep by 9:45, but was awake at midnight, and then again from 3 to 5, and then at 6, and the alarm went off at 6:30. Which wouldn’t be so horrible if it hadn’t been the same thing all week, leaving me in worse and worse sleep deficit. Last week one day it got to the point that I was literally dizzy and went home fom work early. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/503 "2010-05-21T21:09:20Z")
Ugh, that blows. Is there any way you could try to coordinate with your manager to see if you could get a more flexible schedule for a while? You’re not doing anybody any good if you come in at the normal time but can’t get shit done. Not having to wake up to an alarm and just staying later at work to compensate might be at least a bit of a stopgap. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/504 "2010-05-21T21:22:45Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Ugh, that blows. Is there any way you could try to coordinate with your manager to see if you could get a more flexible schedule for a while? You’re not doing anybody any good if you come in at the normal time but can’t get shit done. Not having to wake up to an alarm and just staying later at work to compensate might be at least a bit of a stopgap. I could ask, but a) for a variety of complicated reasons, I don’t think they’d let me, especially right now; and b) I don’t know that it would help anyway, because once I’m up, I’m up, and the alarm clock is also to wake my husband up. Which would be OK if I had somewhere to take a power nap when I crash, which is usually by early afternoon if not sooner. I should have been born in a country with siestas. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/505 "2010-05-21T21:26:00Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > I could ask, but a) for a variety of complicated reasons, I don’t think they’d let me, especially right now; and b) I don’t know that it would help anyway, because once I’m up, I’m up, and the alarm clock is also to wake my husband up. Husbands are inconvenient that way. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/506 "2010-05-21T21:36:00Z")
Well, clearly the only reasonable answer is to win the lottery so you can both quit your jobs and sleep in every morning. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/507 "2010-05-21T21:37:49Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Yes, of course you do. You know, those ones that would have let Stephen Hawking die if he were British. I thought death panels might be something like [poison sockets](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2gqThOfHu4) ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/508 "2010-05-21T21:38:30Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Well, clearly the only reasonable answer is to win the lottery so you can both quit your jobs and sleep in every morning. Sounds like a plan! Now if we’d only ever actually purchased a lottery ticket… Come to think of it, I had a batshit crazy 96-year-old great-aunt who died recently and left no direct descendants. I wonder where all her money went? (She had a habit in her relative youth of marrying filthy rich guys who were much odler than her, and then outlasting them.) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/509 "2010-05-22T00:49:28Z")
[QUOTE=Shot From Guns;12472319 I’m sick and tired of trying to deal with people who DON’T FUCKING UNDERSTAND LINGUISTICS. Your “correct” English is only more “proper” than what you quoted BECAUSE IT’S SPOKEN BY AFFLUENT WHITE PEOPLE. There is NO objective linguistic difference in terms of “rightness” between “What would you like” and “What you be wantin’ [sic] .” None. None, none, none, zip, zero, zilch. So please, do us all a favor and shut your fucking mouth until you have the five minutes to actually take a course in linguistics. [/QUOTE] Oh, nice. Just totally disregard all the rules of grammer, syntax and pronounciation, right? And why. Because you have spoken. How fucking stupid can you get? Would you like to try for even more than what your post showed? Affluent white people, my ass. What a total fucking bigoted thing to say. Let’s just pick a couple of folks at random. How about Bill Cosby, Walter E. Williams, or Barack Obama. They’re all affluent white people, right? How about you shut your fucking mouth until you get a brain in your skull to operate it with first? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/510 "2010-05-22T00:56:10Z")
Note to self: drink more water if you’re going to spend every break out in the sun, Stupid. The slight sunburn you got at lunch should have been the first clue you’d been outside too much already, but you went out at two, too! It did suck to feel dizzy and sick to my stomach, but I got some sympathy from [that guy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12399966#post12399966) at work, so maybe it wasn’t _all_ bad… ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/511 "2010-05-22T01:14:23Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Oh, nice. That was not a sentence. > [@](#): > > Just totally disregard all the rules of grammer, syntax and pronounciation, right? That was also not a sentence. > [@](#): > > And why. That also was not a sentence, and should end with a question mark. > [@](#): > > Because you have spoken. Congratulations, you have successfully written an entire paragraph consisting of nothing but sentence fragments. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/512 "2010-05-22T01:15:30Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > Sounds like a plan! Now if we’d only ever actually purchased a lottery ticket… > > Come to think of it, I had a batshit crazy 96-year-old great-aunt who died recently and left no direct descendants. I wonder where all her money went? There’s always the _Kind Hearts and Coronets_ approach to self-enrichment. ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/513 "2010-05-22T01:22:23Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Oh, nice. Just totally disregard all the rules of grammer, syntax and pronounciation, right? And why. Because you have spoken. > > How fucking stupid can you get? Would you like to try for even more than what your post showed? Affluent white people, my ass. What a total fucking bigoted thing to say. Let’s just pick a couple of folks at random. How about Bill Cosby, Walter E. Williams, or Barack Obama. They’re all affluent white people, right? > > How about you shut your fucking mouth until you get a brain in your skull to operate it with first? In all fairness, it ain’t \*\*SfG \*\*who dun thunk up this argument; it’s also easy (and potentially accurate) to say that the people you cite use the dominant linguistic paradigm to their advantage even though it mostly originates with affluent white people. Best look it up, y’all. There’s a metric shit-ton (or, if you prefer, a veritable plethora) of stuff wrote by smart folks on the subject who don’t agree with you. And BTW, if you’re into that sort of thing, it’s “grammar” (not “grammer”) and “pronunciation” (not “pronounciation”). Though you got “syntax” right. Yay you! ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/514 "2010-05-22T02:17:37Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Oh, nice. Just totally disregard all the rules of grammer, syntax and pronounciation, right? And why. Because you have spoken. Get some learnin’ in ya, boy. Nice kid, but he’s about as sharp as moldy cheese. ---
**Author:** ![moejoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@moejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejoe)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/515 "2010-05-22T02:55:13Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > The idea is kinda cute, but when you really get down to dancing vermin . . . :eek: > > By General Mills! > > I was taking both Imitrex pills and injection. The pills stopped working and now I take Maxalt, which work pretty well when I can take them early and keep them down, but also give me the tightness in the jaw and neck. I have some of the Imitrex that dissolve, which (as **emmaliminal** says) are great because you can’t really throw them up, but my insurance balks at paying for them. Never tried Zomig or Treximet. ooh I liked Maxalt a lot, but my insurance recently switched me to imitrex which I don’t like at all. I remember all those years ago with no insurance asking my doctor when the patent on Imitrex (at $20/dose) would time out so I could afford it and he said 20 years, which is probably why it’s now cheap enough for kaiser. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/516 "2010-05-22T03:05:57Z")
> [@howye](#): > > Imitrex is mostly effective for me, but can give me horrible shoulder and neck pain. Plus, sometimes it does not kill the head pain completely. The after-pain isn’t too bad for me, more like a muscle tightness. But it does make me drowsy for a relatively short time, maybe an hour or so. And that’s definitely the excuse I’ll give if anyone asks why it looks like I was dozing off during the talk that the nice lady from the FDA was giving. 😛 (To be fair, it really does make me sleepy. And I have it from a very good source that pretty much everyone else looked like they were falling asleep at that point too.) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/517 "2010-05-22T10:39:12Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Let’s just pick a couple of folks at random. How about Bill Cosby, Walter E. Williams, or Barack Obama. That doesn’t seem very random to me. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/518 "2010-05-22T20:30:50Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > That doesn’t seem very random to me. Why not? They were the first three names that popped into my mind concerning this topic. Then how about Bryant Gumbel or Al Roker? Are you objecting because they are nationally known figures? How about Khambrell Marshall or David Tillman? How about Richard Anderson or J. D. Olford? Obscure enough? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/519 "2010-05-24T15:34:33Z")
What kind of waste of fucking space puts gum on someone else’s car? It’s all over the window and driver’s side door, and I didn’t have time to clean it before work. That is not a task I’m looking forward to. Thanks a lot, you puddle of piss. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/520 "2010-05-24T16:12:35Z")
For the painted surfaces, WD-40 should work nicely…I’ve used it many times to remove gummy dealership labels from cars (test in a small area first just to be sure). Clean the area with some soapy water afterwards, of course. I came in to complain about the asshole who’s been stealing mechanical pencils in my office. I’ve lost two pencils to this creep; my officemate has lost one. They weren’t particularly nice pencils or anything, but the two that were stolen from me had lots of nice lead in them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323.md?page=27)