# Winter's a-coming! Season of Death Mini-Rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 18, 2010, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833 "2010-09-18T09:03:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**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:** [October 22, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/641 "2010-10-22T16:46:42Z")
Fuck you, modem. Fuck you, asshole who put the S/N on a sticker in a place where it would get worn away, using ink that wears off, so there was no way to tell if it was eligible to be replaced for free. $80 might not be a big deal these days, but it’s still $80 I could have spent on something else. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Also, ow. I just split my lip. Feels like I got smacked in the face. One of my least favorite things about winter. Thanks for reminding me to be careful about smiling when I first wake up. Ugh. > [@elfkin477](#): > > So, if you insist on having shelves that are 6’ high so you can cram more stuff onto them, make sure someone who works for you is **regularly** tasked with the chore of pulling things on those shelves to the front so people can at least have the chance to knock them off and buy them. I’ll trade you reaching high shelves for being able to easily find clothes that fit off the rack or can be cut to do so. Better yet: team up to get shorter shelves and a Tall section for women’s clothing. > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > If I ever find a pair that have been scaled down for women’s hands, I’m buying five pairs. Scaled down for \*small \*hands, please, unless you’re implying that my hands belong to someone else. I’ve had no problems using shears like those, even as a teenager. > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Heh - are you channelling **Shot With Guns**? Hey, now, all of \*my \*suggestions are perfectly reasonable. \*\*Morella \*\*is just a fucking troll. (For evidence, see the “The Tea Party is not socially conservative my ass” thread, where she says that “gays should pay for their own AIDS,” Obama is not a citizen, all women used to love sexual harassment, calls Muslims “diaperheads,” and makes sequential claims to being of Middle Eastern descent and strictly European.) ---
**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:** [October 22, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/642 "2010-10-22T17:29:34Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I like Christmas music, despite being an atheist. Some of it is quite beautiful. However, I like it in SMALL DOSES, that is, play ONE Christmas song an hour or so. Because otherwise, someone is likely to go to the station and shoot the program director. Especially if they start this shit before Halloween. Well come _on_. Any Doper with even a rudimentary knowledge of mathematics has to recognize that 31[sub]OCT[/sub] = 25[sub]DEC[/sub]. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/643 "2010-10-22T17:32:13Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > Why don’t you buy a first-class ticket, or get your own plane? > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Heh - are you channelling **Shot With Guns**? 😃 Nah. **Carol Stream**. d & r ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/644 "2010-10-22T17:41:59Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > It’s funny how things trip you up in the world that were obviously made for men and haven’t been adjusted for women - as an avid gardener, I am always using [secaturs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruning_shears), and they are always too big for my hands to grasp both handles and close them (and I have big hands for a woman). If I ever find a pair that have been scaled down for women’s hands, I’m buying five pairs. Check the smaller size [here](http://www.leevalley.com/en/garden/page.aspx?p=45670&cat=2,42706,45668) and [here](http://www.leevalley.com/en/garden/page.aspx?p=57096&cat=2,42706,40718,57096). A search on “pruning shears” will turn up a number of other sizes if none of these is good for you. If you haven’t run across them before, Lee Valley is a marvellous source of gardening and woodworking tools, and there is a branch in Calgary. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/645 "2010-10-22T18:03:00Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > No, not interfering control freak. I just like to argue with people. I wasn’t calling you an interfering control freak; I was calling the guy I was talking about in the paragraph after my comment to you. But if the shoe fits…🙂 ---
**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:** [October 22, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/646 "2010-10-22T18:04:31Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > \ > Scaled down for \*small \*hands, please, unless you’re implying that my hands belong to someone else. I’ve had no problems using shears like those, even as a teenager.\ Okay, Man Hands. 😃 Seriously, you must have HUGE hands - my hands are large for a woman, and I can barely reach both arms of the secaturs I can find around here with one hand. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/647 "2010-10-22T18:50:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Okay, Man Hands. 😃 Seriously, you must have HUGE hands - my hands are large for a woman, and I can barely reach both arms of the secaturs I can find around here with one hand. Six feet tall, and all of me is scaled appropriately. (Including ego, natch.) From the base of my palm to the tip of my middle finger is just shy of 7.5", and if I spread my hand as far as it will go, it’s about 8.5" from tip of thumb to tip of pinkie. According to the ruler I just pulled out of my desk, anyway. P.S. Thanks for the new title! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/648 "2010-10-22T18:55:07Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Six feet tall, and all of me is scaled appropriately. (Including ego, natch.) From the base of my palm to the tip of my middle finger is just shy of 7.5", and if I spread my hand as far as it will go, it’s about 8.5" from tip of thumb to tip of pinkie. According to the ruler I just pulled out of my desk, anyway. > > P.S. Thanks for the new title! Pfft. Piker. Over 8" from base of palm to middle finger and over 9" from thumb to pinkie. I can never find women’s gloves with fingers that are nearly long enough. I have big feet, too, and am only 5’6". ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/649 "2010-10-22T19:11:11Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Okay, Man Hands. 😃 Seriously, you must have HUGE hands - my hands are large for a woman, and I can barely reach both arms of the secaturs I can find around here with one hand. They must sell some freakishly large pruners there in Calgary. I just tried all five sets we’ve got lying around here. My hands are smaller than both **'Guns** and **jsgoddess** , (7in from base of palm to tip of finger, and 7.5inches from pinkie to thumb with hand stretched wide) and I have no trouble one-handing any of my pruners. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/650 "2010-10-22T19:18:23Z")
Ugh, husband. No, YOU call the body shop to double check that the truck is ready to pick up this afternoon. YOU are the one picking it up and YOU are currently at home, not working. I am at work, busting my ass off to get ready for a big audit next week. I don’t have time to be your f\*cking secretary. Christ! ---
**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:** [October 22, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/651 "2010-10-22T19:53:15Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I can never find women’s gloves with fingers that are nearly long enough. Neither can I. What’s up with that? They make women’s shoes in a wide range of sizes, yet they seem to assume that our fingers can’t possibly be longer than, oh, two inches or so. > [@](#): > > I have big feet, too, and am only 5’6". Good god, woman! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/652 "2010-10-22T19:56:46Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Neither can I. What’s up with that? They make women’s shoes in a wide range of sizes, yet they seem to assume that our fingers can’t possibly be longer than, oh, two inches or so. > > Good god, woman! I knows it. I wear a size 11 shoe, sometimes 11 AA. But I have short, stubby, T-Rex arms. _sigh_ ---
**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:** [October 22, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/653 "2010-10-22T20:05:46Z")
I have the most fabulous mental image of you now. 😃 ---
**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:** [October 22, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/654 "2010-10-22T21:44:20Z")
Okay, you’ve got me all curious - my hands are 7" from base of palm to tip of middle finger, and 7 1/2" from pinkie to thumb. **jsgoddess** , I’m 5’6" with size 10+ feet too, but I have a long, lovely wingspan. I think my husband calls them “monkey arms.” I know he calls my feet skis - I’m not sure how he stays upright on those stubby little things of _his_. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/655 "2010-10-22T21:50:07Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Okay, you’ve got me all curious - my hands are 7" from base of palm to tip of middle finger, and 7 1/2" from pinkie to thumb. > > **jsgoddess** , I’m 5’6" with size 10+ feet too, but I have a long, lovely wingspan. I think my husband calls them “monkey arms.” I know he calls my feet skis - I’m not sure how he stays upright on those stubby little things of _his_. I envy the monkey-armed among us! 😃 Tell him what my mom always said when I was a kid: “It takes a better foundation for a church than a shed!” ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/656 "2010-10-22T22:33:43Z")
> [@Morella](#): > > Why don’t you buy a first-class ticket, or get your own plane? Son, you should probably not be sticking your forks in the outlets or banging your head against the wall so often. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/657 "2010-10-22T23:10:43Z")
> [@Monstera\_deliciosa](#): > > They must sell some freakishly large pruners there in Calgary. I just tried all five sets we’ve got lying around here. My hands are smaller than both **'Guns** and **jsgoddess** , (7in from base of palm to tip of finger, and 7.5inches from pinkie to thumb with hand stretched wide) and I have no trouble one-handing any of my pruners. I think they must, from the base of my palm to the tip of my middle finger doesn’t even measure a full 6" but I’ve never had any issues with using pruning sheers. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/658 "2010-10-23T04:25:20Z")
Huh, maybe the ones available here _are_ larger - I can get my fingers on both arms, but if I want to bear down with strength, it gets difficult. Maybe I just have weak hands (but I doubt it - all I do is garden and type). ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/659 "2010-10-24T03:59:32Z")
In three minutes we will be in hour _seven_ of non-stop screaming (screaming, not yelling or shouting) from across the street where I assume they are having a party for one of their kids. They set up a jumper in their driveway at 2 pm and the screams (not yell, not shouts) have not stopped since. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/660 "2010-10-24T04:03:17Z")
I wonder what would happen if you called 911 and reported a child screaming. I mean, someone could be hurt for all you know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833.md?page=34)