# What's souring your Eggnog? (December Minirants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257 "2019-12-02T01:02:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/21 "2019-12-02T19:23:02Z")
> [@slalexan](#): > > I’m sorry, baby rhinos need baby blankets?!? Well, now I have a new project for my scraps. Project codename big warm babies is a go! > > When I was in college, I found extra credit wasn’t really a thing. Of course, I also went to engineering school, where I barely had time to wipe my own ass, let alone do extra credit work. > > The cold is progressing. I’m losing my voice and I’m just generally miserable. Baby rhinos & elephants sunburn. These blankets go to orphans whose mothers have been killed by motherkillingfuckering pieces of shit waste of skin asshole poachers for their horns or tusks. , ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/22 "2019-12-02T19:54:29Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > My mini-rant is about one of my coworkers (soon to be former b/c she’s mercifully switching teams). She’s ok on a personal level, but on a professional level she is a hot damn mess. Her biggest issue is that everything she says she says in really obnoxious corporate speak that sounds like utter bullshit. It’s so bad someone called me about it after being copied on the below email (some items changed to protect the witless). > > Hi, overly, > We are still discussioning the architect solution for X with our innovation counterparts to identify optimized times for solutioning. In the meantime, relative to this initiative, would you please correspond with your agreement with respect to moving the needle on this critical moonshot project in advance of EOW? > > Employee > > The first sentence alone is jaw-dropping, which is ironic coming from someone with my handle. I’m still trying to figure out how long that would take to write or if it’s possible that someone thinks in those terms. You should reply with the famous quote by Samuel L. Jackson, “English, Motherfucker! Do you speak it?” ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/23 "2019-12-03T01:41:43Z")
[https://www.blanketsforbabyrhinos.org/beneficiaries-of-blankets-for-baby-rhinos/](https://www.blanketsforbabyrhinos.org/beneficiaries-of-blankets-for-baby-rhinos/) If anyone is interested ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/24 "2019-12-03T01:52:43Z")
I’d like to take the person who came up with the meme of the hysterical pointing women and the smart ass white cat and slap them silly. I haven’t seen a funny one of them yet and they’ve jumped the shark long long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/25 "2019-12-03T02:08:08Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > You should reply with the famous quote by Samuel L. Jackson, “English, Motherfucker! Do you speak it?” I agree that the needle should be moved? Backwards? ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/26 "2019-12-03T02:24:45Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I’d like to take the person who came up with the meme of the hysterical pointing women and the smart ass white cat and slap them silly. I haven’t seen a funny one of them yet and they’ve jumped the shark long long ago. Omg yes, and yes again. Not remotely funny. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2019, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/27 "2019-12-03T05:46:08Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I’d like to take the person who came up with the meme of the hysterical pointing women and the smart ass white cat and slap them silly. I haven’t seen a funny one of them yet and they’ve jumped the shark long long ago. I’m on board with this. I got over watching that shrieking drunken bimbo after about the second viewing. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2019, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/28 "2019-12-03T06:21:43Z")
OTOH, it might be nice to see it once, just so I can know wtf you’re talking about… ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/29 "2019-12-03T12:02:59Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Looking out the window at a typically dreary, cold, drizzly early December day… You sound like Paul Simon: _“A winters day In a deep and dark December; I am alone, Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. I am a rock, I am an island.”_ ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/30 "2019-12-03T12:51:29Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > OTOH, it might be nice to see it once, just so I can know wtf you’re talking about… If you haven’t seen the meme, [here are some.](https://www.google.com/search?q=meme+drunk+girl+cat&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=0gyAyW-GGAgkSM%253A%252C2_tvJrhirbegCM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kTa04LE1Gy1pE_7CuXsybBhAhjUPQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjBtKODwpnmAhUHXK0KHSC5CIYQ9QEwAHoECAkQBg#imgdii=7EHPoUT0VnwwaM:&imgrc=ON-u1EOenGlI_M:&vet=1) ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/31 "2019-12-03T20:17:43Z")
Can’t say I’ve ever seen the white cat meme. My sour is that my Ursala Kitteh had dental surgery to the tune of over $400. She’s fine now and I had the money but I didn’t like the thought of her going under. Also, the bronchitis that has been in my lungs since November is starting to really annoy me. I’m getting better after a trip to ED at 1:30 on a Sunday morning, breathing treatments every 4-6 hours, 15 days of Prednisone, 8 days off work. The gunk is starting to come up so I’m coughing phlegm. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/32 "2019-12-03T21:32:43Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > Can’t say I’ve ever seen the white cat meme. My sour is that my Ursala Kitteh had dental surgery to the tune of over $400. She’s fine now and I had the money but I didn’t like the thought of her going under. Also, the bronchitis that has been in my lungs since November is starting to really annoy me. I’m getting better after a trip to ED at 1:30 on a Sunday morning, breathing treatments every 4-6 hours, 15 days of Prednisone, 8 days off work. The gunk is starting to come up so I’m coughing phlegm. That should also be guck coming up from smoking. It’s going to take some time to get all that gone too. If you think its bad NOW, just think how much worse it could have been… Keep on getting better! ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/33 "2019-12-03T23:07:52Z")
This week’s sign of the apocalypse: Sure, you like your airpods but they fall out sometimes; why not get a [holder](https://www.spigen.com/products/airpod-strap) for them…or just buy a pair that is already connected for about ½ the cost. Went to the grocery store yesterday. Put the cold stuff away in the basement freezer but somehow put down the bag for the kitchen fridge & got distracted. I will _not_ be having steak tonight (which has been sitting out for 24+ hrs). :smack: ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/34 "2019-12-03T23:14:30Z")
> [@Dancer\_Flight](#): > > My mechanic local didn’t tell my my winter tires were shot when he pulled them off this spring so when I went to have them mounted remounted, (at a different shop, the place across from work), I’m told I’m in for new ones. They’ll be in on Wednesday - so unexpected expense, yay! Also the first snow of the season is falling so I might not get to limp into work tomorrow. > > Also working on a new fireplace surround. Did the shaping of the mantel piece and set up the mounting system. The wood was being finished today. Of course having wrestled the 8’ hunk of fir beam up and down the stairs eleventy times yesterday and boring giant holes partway through and so forth, my no-longer twenty year old back decided to register its protests today with the occasional spasm and twinge. > > So what’s chapping your hide this month? My ongoing dental issues with the VA. I should point out that the VA says you can go to a non-VA emergency room, but when I did that in May, the ER couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me, so the VA turned around and said, “Non emergent. Give us $6700.00.” So I’ve been dealing with dentists. Broke part of a tooth off a while ago, but then three weeks and six days ago the rest of it broke off at the gumline. Today, I talked to another dentist. “Well, the VA says we have to spell out exactly what we need to do to get pre-authorization. They won’t pay for anything unless it’s ore-authorized.” “Okay?” “But we can’t tell what we need to do without an exam first.” “So------?” “The VA won’t pay for an exam.” Catch-22. Fuck every last one of these goddamned assholes. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/35 "2019-12-04T03:19:01Z")
Heard back about a job application late in the week before Thanksgiving, replied with my availability for a phone interview the following week. {crickets} Sent a polite nudge the Tuesday before T-Day along the lines of “Heeeyyy, if the holiday threw your schedule around, I have roughly similar availability next week too. Holla at me, bitches!” Okay, not that last part; not explicitly. More crickets, until early today … advising me of a timeblock tomorrow morning that’s earlier than what I specified. Wrote back asking if the hiring manager has availability later in the day tomorrow; still no reply. So, with my luck, if I make myself available early tomorrow morning anyway, I won’t hear from 'em … but if I continue with my planned schedule, they’ll call & miss me and I’ll never get this particular freelance gig tied down. I kinda liked it too, based on the trial assignment I completed for them as an application step. HARRUMPH job hunting sucks donkey balls. > [@overlyverbose](#): > > … > Hi, overly, > We are still discussioning the architect solution for X with our innovation counterparts to identify optimized times for solutioning. In the meantime, relative to this initiative, would you please correspond with your agreement with respect to moving the needle on this critical moonshot project in advance of EOW? > > Employee… “ **Discussioning** ” really?!? Discussing crossed with … negotiating? Or is that a typo? Dear god, are people applying the Brangelina Principle to everything now? ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/36 "2019-12-04T03:42:50Z")
FML. The water heater shut itself off for a “Thermostat temperature limit was exceeded.” condition. According to the manual I found online, that means the gas control valve/thermostat needs to be replaced. No hot water until it is. It’s just a damn good thing I was washing dishes late, or I wouldn’t have known the heater had turned itself off. The manual is _VERY CLEAR_ about saying that when this happens you have to turn the gas off at the control box \*\*AND \*\*the gas line. Or maybe boom. Or carbon monoxide. Or something equally dire. Additionally glad that I have a carbon monoxide detector about 8 feet away from the water heater. So I’m working from home again and with luck someone will be able to come fix it tomorrow, or I shall be very stinky very soon. I’m too old for cold water showers. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/37 "2019-12-04T04:19:18Z")
Anyone who thinks cats don’t fart, has never spent a night with my two gassy devils. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/38 "2019-12-04T04:30:01Z")
Went to the movies yesterday but didn’t go in as the time was different from that posted in their website that same morning. I thought maybe I’d misread. Turns out they change their times. The times shown for today today are also different from the ones which were posted for today yesterday. I do not approve. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/39 "2019-12-04T04:48:50Z")
and the plumper the cat the stinker the fart and box … ---
**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:** [December 4, 2019, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257/40 "2019-12-04T05:16:33Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > If you haven’t seen the meme, [here are some.](https://www.google.com/search?q=meme+drunk+girl+cat&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=0gyAyW-GGAgkSM%253A%252C2_tvJrhirbegCM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kTa04LE1Gy1pE_7CuXsybBhAhjUPQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjBtKODwpnmAhUHXK0KHSC5CIYQ9QEwAHoECAkQBg#imgdii=7EHPoUT0VnwwaM:&imgrc=ON-u1EOenGlI_M:&vet=1) I saw one of those of FB the other day. The woman was saying “Theater!” The cat was saying “theatre.” Had no idea it was a meme. That’s the only one I’ve seen. Seems about as pointless as “Okay boomer.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-souring-your-eggnog-december-minirants/844257.md?page=3)