# 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:** 61
**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:** [December 14, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1201 "2010-12-14T11:26:06Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > If we make it with **MeanOldLady** , I bet we’ll make two brazilian each. > > **Cat Whisperer** , what’s Killz? [Link to Kilz website](http://www.masterchem.com/masterchem/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=62de90033f9ff110VgnVCM1000008a05d103RCRD). It’s a hardcore primer, used for stuff like blocking old odors like smoking, painting over mold/mildew staining, even priming over wallpaper. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1202 "2010-12-14T13:28:11Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > What the hell’s a “f\*tard?” A fotard? A futard? A fetard? Okay, I like that one. A futard is a really retarded futon. Either that, or Mr. T is mixing up “fool” and “retard” into one word. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1203 "2010-12-14T13:52:04Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Either that, or Mr. T is mixing up “fool” and “retard” into one word. I like it! From now on I’ll get no PC grief when I refer to people as foo-tards! ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1204 "2010-12-14T14:44:50Z")
This fucking head cold is killing me. I’ve been taking dayquil to keep the sinuses cleared, so that the symptoms don’t overwhelm me, and its almost like the shit goes into my brain, finds the switch that actually controls higher brain function and shuts it off. I feel like my head is stuffed with cotton, and now I’m making stupid mistakes all over the fucking place. ☹ ---
**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 14, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1205 "2010-12-14T14:50:22Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > A futard is a really retarded futon. > > Either that, or Mr. T is mixing up “fool” and “retard” into one word. No way! My Mr. T. is Old School!. He don’t have no truck with alla that Gen-Z jibber-jabber! Must be the Mr. T guy from 2010’s version of _The “A” Team_. ---
**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 14, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1206 "2010-12-14T14:52:45Z")
> [@otternell](#): > > This fucking head cold is killing me. I’ve been taking dayquil to keep the sinuses cleared, so that the symptoms don’t overwhelm me, and its almost like the shit goes into my brain, finds the switch that actually controls higher brain function and shuts it off. > > I feel like my head is stuffed with cotton, and now I’m making stupid mistakes all over the fucking place. ☹ So stop making your own decisions until this thing passes. Let someone else make them for you for a bit. Here’s one: Go home and get some rest. Seriously, I hope you get better soon. 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 14, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1207 "2010-12-14T14:57:23Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Ohhhh! The mind boggles! Don’t get too excited. After you poke me, I will make this face, so that you feel bad: :(. > [@Chimera](#): > > No, I’m not going to ask. And now, I make this face: :rolleyes:. You know what’s part of terrible communication? Sulking like a petulant child instead of just asking for information you want and need. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Go take a nap, crankypants. And drink a juice box while you’re at it. 😉 I would have loved both a nap and a juicebox yesterday, but alas, my work provides neither of those things. Hell, I could go for a nap and a juicebox right now. \*Ten \*juiceboxes. > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > What the hell’s a “f\*tard?” A fotard? A futard? A fetard? Okay, I like that one. Fwtard. It’s Welsh. > [@lindsaybluth](#): > > If we make it with **MeanOldLady** , I bet we’ll make two brazilian each. I think you have hit upon a way to make us all independently wealthy for life. To the webcam! > [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > I like it! From now on I’ll get no PC grief when I refer to people as foo-tards! Somehow, I do not think they will be fooled. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1208 "2010-12-15T00:25:50Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > You know what’s part of terrible communication? Sulking like a petulant child instead of just asking for information you want and need. If it was a friend, I would assume that the reason no one is telling me is that I wasn’t invited. Part of the job of Host is inviting people, not making them guess or ask you when they should show up. As it stands, I just 2 minutes ago finally saw the email telling me to meet at the restaurant in 5 minutes from now. As I just sat down with my dinner and have only been home 15 minutes, I’m not going to rush out to be there. ---
**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 15, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1209 "2010-12-15T01:45:43Z")
Did you respond to the email with a question about why you’re only just now being invited? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1210 "2010-12-15T02:19:15Z")
I responded saying that I got home late and only just saw the email at that moment, as I sat down with dinner, so I would not be there. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1211 "2010-12-15T04:38:33Z")
Does google driving directions only not work properly for NH, or does it give everyone fucked up directions? I’ve used it four times, for four different towns, in the last six weeks and it was only accurate once. Today, for example, it told me that I needed to drive 1/10 of the actual distance down a specific road, and then make a U-turn to access the road my destination was on. Besides being very wrong about how far you needed to drive, the road was simply on the right, not the left as a U-turn would suggest (and no, it wasn’t a loop road that came out somewhere else. It was a dead end road). When I needed to go to a furniture store the weekend after Thanksgiving, the directions were wrong too, though at least it gave me the correct side of the road. And the event I went to the day before Halloween? Forget it, I’d have been better off guessing than using google’s directions. Does it work in urban places? Or, you know, anywhere?? I’m through with it, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1212 "2010-12-15T04:47:12Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Does google driving directions only not work properly for NH, or does it give everyone fucked up directions? I’ve used it four times, for four different towns, in the last six weeks and it was only accurate once. > > Today, for example, it told me that I needed to drive 1/10 of the actual distance down a specific road, and then make a U-turn to access the road my destination was on. Besides being very wrong about how far you needed to drive, the road was simply on the right, not the left as a U-turn would suggest (and no, it wasn’t a loop road that came out somewhere else. It was a dead end road). When I needed to go to a furniture store the weekend after Thanksgiving, the directions were wrong too, though at least it gave me the correct side of the road. And the event I went to the day before Halloween? Forget it, I’d have been better off guessing than using google’s directions. > > Does it work in urban places? Or, you know, anywhere?? I’m through with it, anyway. I’ve had very good luck with the directions that come on my Droid phone map app, which might be Google directions, both in urban and non-urban areas. The only place it crapped out was so far out in the boonies that I couldn’t get a GPS signal. Mapquest, on the other hand, routinely tells me to take two illegal turns near my house to get onto a freeway entrance that doesn’t exist. Roddy ---
**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:** [December 15, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1213 "2010-12-15T05:23:08Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > [Link to Kilz website](http://www.masterchem.com/masterchem/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=62de90033f9ff110VgnVCM1000008a05d103RCRD). It’s a hardcore primer, used for stuff like blocking old odors like smoking, painting over mold/mildew staining, even priming over wallpaper. Oops - I always spell that wrong. > [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > I like it! From now on I’ll get no PC grief when I refer to people as foo-tards! “I pity the foo who’s such a retard!” Oh oh, back in un-PC land again. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1214 "2010-12-15T09:05:30Z")
What is it with all these door to door meat salesmen lately? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1215 "2010-12-15T13:25:48Z")
> [@anya\_marie](#): > > What is it with all these door to door meat salesmen lately? Missing any neighbors? Don’t invite them in. You’ll be next. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1216 "2010-12-15T15:29:13Z")
I know it’s pointless to get so mad, but after three years I am sick to fucking DEATH of taking collections calls for Rudy Gonzalez at my job. I am sick to DEATH of telling them that they are breaking the law by continuing to call here after I’ve told them they have the wrong number. I’m sick to death of telling them that, actually yes, you do have to tell me the name of your organization and that you actually CAN be fined by the FTC. Breeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeathe… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1217 "2010-12-15T15:33:24Z")
SPAMMERS DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW that their bullshit conspiracy theories are designed to sell you crap remedies that don’t work and/or are hazardous to your health. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1218 "2010-12-15T17:19:17Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > If it was a friend, I would assume that the reason no one is telling me is that I wasn’t invited. Part of the job of Host is inviting people, not making them guess or ask you when they should show up. As it stands, I just 2 minutes ago finally saw the email telling me to meet at the restaurant in 5 minutes from now. As I just sat down with my dinner and have only been home 15 minutes, I’m not going to rush out to be there. Like I said: petulant child. Your family is terrible at communicating. You know this. Get over it. Either start reaching out to people for information on get-togethers (or help coordinate them yourself), or just stop going if you don’t care to be there. But if you want to attend and just weren’t informed? Come on. You’re a grown man, not a toddler. > [@elfkin477](#): > > Does google driving directions only not work properly for NH, or does it give everyone fucked up directions? Google Maps works great for Milwaukee. The one time I noticed a weird issue (it was treating a single block of Wisconsin Avenue downtown as one-way, which it’s not), I reported it and it was fixed. > [@anya\_marie](#): > > What is it with all these door to door meat salesmen lately? _Chika-wow-chika-bow-wow._ ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1219 "2010-12-15T17:26:39Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Does it work in urban places? Or, you know, anywhere?? I’m through with it, anyway. According to mapquest, google, and my garmin, I actually live in the middle of a creek about three miles from where I thought I was living. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833/1220 "2010-12-15T18:33:21Z")
It’s been one of those days: First of all Mom, congrats on learning how to send a voicemail without the chance of talking to me. Kind of annoying that you figured it out 3 days after my uncle passed away and 5 hours before the funeral. At least I had time to send a donation to the Cancer Society and a condolence message to my Aunt but there was no way I could have made it from work to home and drive the 3 hours to the funeral home in time for the service. For our business “expert” in the new application. The next time you raise a priority one issue because the application isn’t working please check your spelling. It’s really annoying to ditch an important meeting to come and see what the issue with your environment is and find the error is that you can’t spell your own name. Your own FOUR LETTER NAME. PS. The every extra !!! and ??? in your email slows my response time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833.md?page=60) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winters-a-coming-season-of-death-mini-rants/554833.md?page=62)