# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/121 "2010-04-29T17:53:44Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > I need a counsellor and also think that we need some marital and family help. Our relationship has been on hold since the birth of our daughter and we’re both starting to crack. Plus, my husband has been increasingly critical of our four-year-old son, which I think is part of the reason he’s not meeting my husband’s high expectations. That and some of the things my husband is demanding are not developmentally reasonable (yeah, the foundations for addition and subtraction are there, but expecting our kid to be able to read and do math I think are unreasonable). And I’ve been getting ridiculously emotional lately because when my husband gets pissed (which is several times daily now), he dumps both children on me and checks out mentally. > > We’re going out on a dinner date tomorrow to talk - kids are going to be at home with a babysitter Hopefully that’ll help, at least in the short term. This sucks. Oh, wow, that’s gotta be rough on you. Hope the dinner date helps! No advice, just hugs. (And feel free to PM me when it gets to be too much. I can’t be much help, but I can listen.) ---
**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:** [April 29, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/122 "2010-04-29T18:44:29Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > I’m mad that Trader Joe’s no longer sells frozen mango and sticky rice. Wait, is this one product or two? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/123 "2010-04-29T18:53:31Z")
McDonald’s, what the fuck good is one pickle on any sandwich? Niggard, please. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/124 "2010-04-29T19:00:05Z")
> [@Gfactor](#): > > Done. And now, of course, I am filled with rage. Okay, I’m always filled with rage, but this time I’m going to release thousands of radioactive bees on Gfactor. Okay, I’m always filled with rage and threatending to release hordes of radioactive bees on people, but this time I mean it. What was I talking about again? ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/125 "2010-04-29T19:18:17Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > What was I talking about again? Bees. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/126 "2010-04-29T19:19:44Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Oh, wow, that’s gotta be rough on you. Hope the dinner date helps! No advice, just hugs. (And feel free to PM me when it gets to be too much. I can’t be much help, but I can listen.) Thank you so much! I hope dinner helps, too. At least maybe it can give us a break from the kids and remind us why we married each other in the first place. We had similar problems when our first was born (minus the expectations); hopefully our current issues will be similarly fleeting, or at least something we can work through. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/127 "2010-04-29T19:20:32Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Wait, is this one product or two? It was one product. A generous slice of mango laid on a bed of sticky rice doused in coconut milk. Purchased frozen, but after 5 minutes in the microwave, pure yumminess. And it’s gone, all gone! ---
**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:** [April 29, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/128 "2010-04-29T19:26:23Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > And now, of course, I am filled with rage. > > Okay, I’m always filled with rage, but this time I’m going to release thousands of radioactive bees on Gfactor. > > Okay, I’m always filled with rage and threatending to release hordes of radioactive bees on people, but this time I mean it. > > What was I talking about again? {Points finger and laughs}HA ha - you’re it! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/129 "2010-04-29T19:57:12Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > McDonald’s, what the fuck good is one pickle on any sandwich? Niggard, please. That pisses me off too so I always order extra pickles on every hamburger and fish filet sandwiches from any hamburger fast food joint. ---
**Author:** ![Dolly\_Madison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Dolly\_Madison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dolly_Madison)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/130 "2010-04-29T19:57:20Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > Married people on the Dope who do the following behavior, I’m mini-pitting you. > > Look, I know that when you become married, you become one with your spouse and they might constantly be on your brain or something. That’s a real nice phenomenon, honestly. But every since the board acquired the polling function, I’ve noticed that almost without fail, at least one married person will post to a thread about dating preferences seemingly for the sole purpose of declaring that they didn’t vote in the poll because the question doesn’t apply to them. And what is the reason that they give? Because they are _married_, silly. And married people don’t date! The poll doesn’t apply to them! And they are going to tell us about it whether we care or not! > > Nevermind the fact that simply because you’re married, it doesn’t mean you can’t have opinions about dating preferences and deal-breakers or whatever the subject is. I mean, I’m not even currently dating anyone, but surely if I can step outside the confines of this particular reality and respond to the poll as if I were, married posters can too. But that’s besides the mf’ing point. > > Posting in a thread about dating \*for the sole purpose of stating that you’re married \*is just plain obnoxious. Equally annoying would be strolling into a thread in which the OP asks “Which are better, tampons and pads?” just to announce that you don’t know because you’re a man. Bonus points if you throw in an invisible “ha ha!” for effect, because surely this is the funniest thing in the universe. We all smile when someone does this, the same way we smile while passing kidney stones in a flooded latrine. > > “But **you with the face** ”, you’re probably thinking to yourself. “You’re only saying this because you’re a single woman in her 30’s and all bitter about it.” No, I’m not just saying this because I’m single. Trust me. I have nothing to be bitter about. Just politely asking you to spare us self-serving posts that waste bandwidth. Either answer the poll _as if_ it applies to you, or don’t answer it all. Save the exposition about being married for a thread that asks about marriage. > > So glad I got that off my chest! I feel the same way when there is a serious thread about some gender-related topic (usually female) and some male poster sticks his head in for the sole purpose of reminding us that he is male and therefore (in case we didn’t know) doesn’t mensutate/need a bra/lactate/give birth/get hit on by construction workers or frat boys as he walks by, etc. and that this topic doesn’t concern him. The best would be the bra/breast threads that I can set my watch to—the moment the thread is started to the moment a male poster offers his own bra-fitting/mammography/mouth-as-a-breast-pump service appears to be about 5 posts. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/131 "2010-04-29T20:11:10Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > McDonald’s, what the fuck good is one pickle on any sandwich? Niggard, please. Be honest: you made up the rant as an excuse to use the line at the end. > [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Bees. And rage. Bees and rage. \*Radioactive \*bees and rage. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/132 "2010-04-29T20:17:00Z")
Our bees are probably all dead from the snow and sub-zero temperatures and high winds. ETA: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/133 "2010-04-29T20:26:32Z")
It’s not really pissing me off, but it does make me feel a little better. I went to my GP this morning to get some blood drawn for my psychiatrist. Basically, I’m trying to get around my insurance and their stupid rules. I explain this to my GP and she tells me her tale of woe regarding insurance bullshit, both personal and professional. One time her patient got screwed because of the order she listed his complaints in. The nurse who takes my blood told me tales of woe, too. I wonder if people who work for BCBS have to deal with BCBS bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/134 "2010-04-29T20:30:15Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > That pisses me off too so I always order extra pickles on every hamburger and fish filet sandwiches from any hamburger fast food joint. > [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Be honest: you made up the rant as an excuse to use the line at the end. Not at all. I’ll admit I did see someone use it in the last couple of days here and borrowed it because it fits perfectly here. Parsiminous picklage is the latest rage at McD’s, which I’ve noticed in the few times I eat there a year. I can go to Wendy’s or even Subways and get (almost) as many of my beloved pickles as I want. I really like them on burgers, other sandwiches and the fish filet, especially with mustard accompanying (the burger). Here, in NYC, they try charge you .05 cents for each extra pickle. Fudge that. Cheap bastidges. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/135 "2010-04-29T20:42:40Z")
Wait, they charge you $0.05 or 0.05 _cents_? There’s a pretty big difference in those prices. (Like, two factors of ten.) ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/136 "2010-04-29T20:43:54Z")
Fuck. Now I AM pissed off. I’m trying to find a new place to live, and at my price point all I see is shit-hole after shit-hole. Finally, I get an appointment to see a (on the face of it) great little duplex in a great neighborhood. Am totally looking forward to heading there after work. Yay! Away from my freak neighbors! A neighborhood I can walk in! A washer and a dryer of my very own! Nope. Just got a call. It’s rented. FUCK. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/137 "2010-04-29T20:47:48Z")
I think my building might have some openings. It’s definitely a neighborhood you can walk in, and you get your own washer and dryer. However, (a) it’s an apartment building, not a duplex, and (b) you’ll have to trade freak neighbors for yuppie scum neighbors. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/138 "2010-04-29T20:55:46Z")
Dear weather gods: A breeze is nice. A bit of brisk wind can even be nice. Windy days are acceptable. Over twenty-four hours of winds at fifty miles per hour, gusting at up to _seventy-five miles per fucking hour_ is not okay. The cats are terrified to go outside and I’m sure as hell not going to go for my usual run on hilly dirt roads in fifty miles per hour wind. Why? Because if nothing else, my skin will dry out so fast it’ll just fall off like I’m a snake, only without the new skin underneath, and I’d really prefer not to sandblast my eyeballs. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/139 "2010-04-29T21:10:22Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > I think my building might have some openings. It’s definitely a neighborhood you can walk in, and you get your own washer and dryer. However, (a) it’s an apartment building, not a duplex, and (b) you’ll have to trade freak neighbors for yuppie scum neighbors. Don’t tease me. I can’t take it in my fragile condition! 😛 (I have another appointment set up this afternoon with a craigslist listing that was just put up today. I think the guy was a little suprised at my… sense of urgency. “Can you show it today? I can leave work anytime!”) ---
**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:** [April 29, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/140 "2010-04-29T21:24:53Z")
I want to check the webmail on our dsl server, and [dslextreme.com](http://dslextreme.com) is down. :mad: [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=6) [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=8)