# 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:** 29
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/561 "2010-05-27T19:48:58Z")
I just found out that the insurance taken from my check each week at the university has been only half what it should have been. I now owe $900 in back payments, plus money for summer coverage. I didn’t do a thing to cause this; we have a system called Banner at my college that continually fucks up everything. So because of their fuckup, I have to pay. There isn’t a way to express how much rage I have in words. Let me just say I’m not a violent person, and thank goodness my frontal lobe is intact. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/562 "2010-05-27T21:22:15Z")
> [@statsman1982](#): > > we have a system called Banner at my college that continually fucks up everything. Oh god, not you, too! Or are you at a CC in Colorado? 'cause that’s the system that WE use, and it is a fucking NIGHTMARE. ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/563 "2010-05-27T21:28:50Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > Oh god, not you, too! Or are you at a CC in Colorado? 'cause that’s the system that WE use, and it is a fucking NIGHTMARE. No, Texas Tech. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/564 "2010-05-27T21:37:15Z")
> [@statsman1982](#): > > No, Texas Tech. Christ, that bitch is EVERYWHERE. I hate it with the heat and energy of a supernova. ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/565 "2010-05-27T21:56:44Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > Christ, that bitch is EVERYWHERE. I hate it with the heat and energy of a supernova. I’d like to put whoever designed the system along with whoever authorized its use into burlap sacks and beat them with claw hammers for two days straight. But, thankfully, my frontal lobe is at least functional enough to avoid acting on such foolish impulses. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/566 "2010-05-27T22:38:48Z")
It’s snowing. It’s May 27th, and it’s snowing. My plants will be spending the weekend nice and cosy in the kitchen - I don’t particularly wish them to turn into pretty little ice sculptures. ---
**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 27, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/567 "2010-05-27T23:45:29Z")
TV Ads for L’Oreal Youth Code ‘rejuvenating’ treatment. Tagline: “Inspired by the science of genes” But this isn’t some high-tech gene therapy, it’s a frigging moisturiser. Maybe it’s even a reasonably good moisturiser, but they just shouldn’t be allowed to imply that it has anything to do with genetics. ---
**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 28, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/568 "2010-05-28T00:11:20Z")
> [@emmaliminal](#): > > Good god, **Shot** , I laughed so hard I think the baby turned. Your check is in the mail. I also accept cookies. But nothing with the abomination some call… “raisins.” > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > As long as they’re not suggesting you burn tea leaves near your right nipple. That would be ridiculous. That’s so far out there, I’d call it rediculous: diculous all over again. > [@the\_Lady](#): > > It’s snowing. That’s what you get for living in the FROZEN TUNDRA of CANADIA. Honestly, what is wrong with you people? Milwaukee is bad enough; I can’t imagine being further north. > [@Mangetout](#): > > Maybe it’s even a reasonably good moisturiser, but they just shouldn’t be allowed to imply that it has anything to do with genetics. The people who \*invented \*it \*have \*genes. _ **DUH** _. ---
**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:** [May 28, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/569 "2010-05-28T01:18:42Z")
> [@the\_Lady](#): > > It’s snowing. It’s May 27th, and it’s snowing. > My plants will be spending the weekend nice and cosy in the kitchen - I don’t particularly wish them to turn into pretty little ice sculptures. Unfortunately I have already planted mine. I was complaining about it in my gardening thread - I might be out with every sheet I own, trying to save our brand-new hedge. > [@Mangetout](#): > > TV Ads for L’Oreal Youth Code ‘rejuvenating’ treatment. > > Tagline: “Inspired by the science of genes” > > But this isn’t some high-tech gene therapy, it’s a frigging moisturiser. Maybe it’s even a reasonably good moisturiser, but they just shouldn’t be allowed to imply that it has anything to do with genetics. Women’s beauty crap advertising is always using _faux_ science in embarrassing ways. “Contains Rejuvenol-A!” and shit. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/570 "2010-05-28T06:50:26Z")
People, when you are walking around with an open umbrella your personal space changes. Why do you have to walk into me almost poking my eyes out? ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/571 "2010-05-28T12:33:53Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Assuming the baby has been to the ER/doctor’s office, the situation has been reviewed by at least one, and probably a bunch of, medical personnel who are mandatory reporters of suspected child abuse. If those people weren’t able to come to an even reasonable suspicion that abuse had caused the break, I doubt that a phone call from someone who didn’t even see the accident happen would do much good. > > That’s not saying that I think the poster shouldn’t cut these people out of her life if s/he wants to, but I’ve seen a whole lot of situations in which abusive family members aren’t cut out of people’s lives. You wouldn’t believe how some people think you’re the scum of the earth if you don’t want to deal with some abusive jerk just because they’re family/your inlaws/whatever. Yeah.. pretty much. 'd catch more hell in the end if I did cut them out/I’ve got no proof that it -was- abuse, just heavy suspicion and knowing that the person’s has a helluva history of beating up on things smaller than her. It -could- have been an accident, I guess. Little kids hurt themselves all the time, and if sis’s anything like what I was in her age (clumsy as fluff) it actually wouldn’t be surprising. Guess 'm a pessimist to think the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/572 "2010-05-28T13:33:02Z")
Every time I play with the cat she farts. Not a normal one- one that comes from her toes and makes you wheeze. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/573 "2010-05-28T13:41:36Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > The people who \*invented \*it \*have \*genes. _ **DUH** _. Nah, it’s just that due to a fluke, the team working on the product happened to all be named Gene. ---
**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 28, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/574 "2010-05-28T14:54:19Z")
> [@Waxwinged](#): > > Yeah.. pretty much. 'd catch more hell in the end if I did cut them out/I’ve got no proof that it -was- abuse, just heavy suspicion and knowing that the person’s has a helluva history of beating up on things smaller than her. > > It -could- have been an accident, I guess. Little kids hurt themselves all the time, and if sis’s anything like what I was in her age (clumsy as fluff) it actually wouldn’t be surprising. > > Guess 'm a pessimist to think the worst. Or a realist. I wasn’t saying that obviously it wasn’t abuse if the medical professionals didn’t file a report. However, they decided from the circumstances that there didn’t seem to be any significant indications. That kind of situation is hard to go against when you weren’t there, which you point out. That being said, I’m glad you’re trying to look out for her, and if something more definite comes up in the future, any direct history that you have with the abuse is probably a useful piece of information for the authorities. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/575 "2010-05-28T15:01:15Z")
Oh my god SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP! You do not need to talk ALL THE TIME. Sometimes you can just BE SILENT. How many times can you turn to me and say “How’s your dog?” ARRRGH! And NOW you have somebody else to talk to who loves to yammer just as much as you do, so I won’t have a moment’s peace all day. I could strangle whoever invented the cube farm, I really could. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/576 "2010-05-28T15:14:01Z")
[THIS](http://www.mercyforanimals.org/ohdairy/) is pissing me off. I mean seriously, WTF?? Grown men (and I use the term loosely) brutalizing cows and newborn calfs?? I’m a full fledged meat eater, wear leather shoes, etc but this is over the top outrageous. WARNING: the video is EXTREMELY disturbing and graphic. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/577 "2010-05-28T17:28:31Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > Yo, noisy boy. > > We are having a company-wide conference call about the fate of the company. I’m shocked that you are not listening in on this since there’s a lot of big stuff about to go down. But the fact that you choose to stand in the hall and talk so loud that I can’t hear myself think, nor the speaker speak, is beyond rude. . . And you, the guy at the conference seminar who had to step away from the phone - next time just set the phone down. When you hit the hold button, we’re stuck listening to your company’s crappy hold music, which comes through louder than the seminar presenter can talk. Damn. > [@Mangetout](#): > > TV Ads for L’Oreal Youth Code ‘rejuvenating’ treatment. > > Tagline: “Inspired by the science of genes” > > But this isn’t some high-tech gene therapy, it’s a frigging moisturiser. Maybe it’s even a reasonably good moisturiser, but they just shouldn’t be allowed to imply that it has anything to do with genetics. Idea for geeky moisturizer - “all materials included were once expelled from the heart of an exploding star”. “Starstuff” For when you want to look really hot. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/578 "2010-05-28T18:01:42Z")
Fox News. SHUT UP. ---
**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 28, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/579 "2010-05-28T18:34:37Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > [THIS](http://www.mercyforanimals.org/ohdairy/) is pissing me off. I mean seriously, WTF?? Grown men (and I use the term loosely) brutalizing cows and newborn calfs?? > > I’m a full fledged meat eater, wear leather shoes, etc but this is over the top outrageous. > > WARNING: the video is EXTREMELY disturbing and graphic. And unfortunately, [that’s probably a misdemeanor at most](http://www.slate.com/id/2255116/) in that state. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/580 "2010-05-28T19:14:59Z")
I was washing dishes this morning and one of [Maggie](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Kitties/maggiebox2.jpg)’s plastic dishes managed to wedge itself into a pot. I tried EVERYTHING to get that sucker out – running it under hot water, cooking spray, a spatula with margarine – you name it, I tried it. It’s still stuck it in there. But the motherfucker doesn’t want to come out. Goddammit son of bitch! [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=28) [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=30)