Category : RANT

in RANT, Things That Are Suck

Smiting the stupid

Another Black Friday, another story of people being trampled. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people? It’s that fucking important to save $10? If I had been the guy on the floor while people LEAPT over me to get into the store, I would fucking lose my mind. If I were the manager of that store, I would make goddamn sure there were four employees out there at the opening of the door and anyone who pushed or shoved or JUMPED OVER SOMEONE ON THE FLOOR IN PAIN I would just make them go to the back of the fucking line. Goddamnit, people are shitheads. I’m so over most of humanity. UGH.

in Baseball, RANT, Things That Are Suck

Dating Tips: 9 Essentials for Single Women — Yahoo! Personals

Why does Yahoo! put this shit on the front page? This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read. It should be entitled, “How women externalize their desperate shallowness in order to make themselves feel less alone because they don’t understand that things like this don’t make people happy.”

I’m grumpy because the Dodgers squandered a 6-0 lead, and because, despite promising the lords of the universe that I would (middle) name my first born child for whichever batter hit that home run to send the game into extra innings, there were no takers. Hence, there will never be a Max Juan Pierre Burdette, a Max Matt Kemp Burdette, or a Max Casey Blake Burdette.

And that pisses me off too.

ARRRRGH.

in RANT

!*&#^@!!

So for about six months, the Toyota of Riverside people have been pestering me to replace my air cabin filter. This is really something that chaps my hide about having any car maintenance done – they always want to sell me something else. Several times, and always with the reproachful tongue-clucking which is meant to impart, “Okay, but now your car might explode!”

I looked it up – the cabin air filter does exactly what you’d think something with that name does – it filters the air in my cabin. I also looked up how much the part costs. For a genuine Toyota air filter, it’d be around $35.00 retail, or like $20.00 online. The price to replace it at the dealership? $60.00. So that’s like $35.00 for labor. And you know what it takes to put in the part? Just remove the glove box, take off the air filter cover, pop it in, and replace. I tried it this evening. It took me two minutes.

And you know what else? MY CAR DIDN’T EVEN COME WITH A CABIN AIR FILTER.

So they would be replacing…what, exactly? And charging me how much to replace something that the manufacturers didn’t even deem important enough to include standard?

FUCKERS.

My own fault for still going to the damn dealership to get my maintenance done. I hear Joe Pesci screaming, “They fuck you with the cell phones!”

Grrrrr.

in Games, Life of Giang, Movies, Music, RANT

Here’s what I did this weekend:

This is someone else’s video of X2. I actually went on this ride. Of course, this video was the first time I saw what was happening to me since I shut my eyes at about the 1:10 point and didn’t open them again until I knew for sure I wasn’t going to die.

Of course, Paula and Curt had a great time on all the scary rides, and I looked very much forward to my obligatory amusement park churro. It was a great time, though! Next time I have been promised a churro + stunt show. That’s my speed, baby. ;)

viper

Curt brought me flowers today, too. :) Besides being sweet, it gave me the chance to continue practicing with the macro lens my dad gave me a few weeks ago. Whee!

daisy

in RANT

Okay, this one’s a complaint!

One of modern life’s stupid inconveniences: anti-spam word recognition. I know there’s a formal name for them, but you know what I’m talking about. You know, those things where you type in what the jumbled words are in order to prove you’re human and not a spambot? Except, apparently, I am not human about 60% of the time. 40% is passing though, right?

Right?

in News, Politics, RANT

OMG THIS BLOOD VESSEL IS GOING TO BURST

HERE: http://cbs2.com/local/Obama.effigy.bloody.2.852550.html

“I am appalled by a man who is so close to being our president who won’t put his hand on the Bible, who won’t wear a flag pin.”

(For the record, Obama has sworn on the Bible and wears a flag pin.)

Oh my god, we’re all going to die. God forbid you vote for someone because of what he’ll do to fix the country, NO, it’s only important if he wears a flag and swears on the Bible!

GAHAHH, stupid cow! WHY ARE YOU ALLOWED TO VOTE!

Here’s another fun bit of trivia: Not only did the office building I work in once house a brothel (AND they were busted, cops and fleeing and the whole bit), but it also houses a mortgage broker and a US Representative’s satellite office.

Normally, the Congressman’s office is empty and devoid of activity. Over the last few weeks (during this fun period of life we all call “Election Season”), we’ve seen a steady stream of people show up there, one of them driving a Hummer. I have not spoken with any of them. However, I, and at least one other co-worker, can attest to the fact that the female half of that staff have atrocious bathroom manners.

I do not think that is coincidental.

in News, Politics, RANT

Dear u know who:

Hello, Alex. ;) It’s nice to hear from you. Thank you for pointing out my past hypocrisies. I make no apologies. I realize that at one time, I decried the fact that people were driving SUVs, and then my parents bought me an SUV and I drove it. That was terrible; I have since amended my ways and sworn off SUVs, although I do, from time to time, realize that my little car might need more space in it to carry all the stuff I like to lug around with me.

And while we’re dredging up past hypocrisies: remember when you were a Republican homophobe? ;)

In any case, I have already voted. I am an absentee voter. I did not vote for Obama; I did not vote for McCain. I voted for an unspecified third party, which means nothing in this state anyway. I think (although I hope I am wrong) that they are both liars and whoever gets into office and then get mired down by the same political bullshit that is drowning this country from the bottom up.

And by the way, Reuters: the fact that I am not voting for either McCain or Obama does not mean I don’t pay attention to the news, nor does it mean that I’m uneducated. It is because, frankly, I don’t trust either one of them. Their stances are tailor-made to polarize according to party lines. If I believed for a moment that either one of them had the balls to do what’s right, I would support him. I don’t see it. It is not my fault that I do not trust politicians. It’s their fault that they don’t deserve it.

Thank you.