I’m so sad to hear that, Soylent.
Oh geez Soylent…that’s terrible. 
I’ve been looking for a place to complain about that damn song. Next up: Kroger and their soulless “buy gift cards use like cash save on fuel”, made even worse by the fact that I’m pretty sure they’re trying to imitate the vocal stylings of last year’s Hyundai commercials.
Do any of your Facebook friends insist on calling it CHRISTmas every time they post? Makes me want to go join a coven or something just for the bragging rights.
At least they aren’t bringing up that “In God we Trust” dollar coin thing from 2009, like my friends are. I’d been crazy free for so long, that I’d forgotten what it was like.
I’ve gotten a few FB posts to that effect as well. If you want to say ‘Merry Christmas’ be my guest, doesn’t bother me. Hell, I’m happy you’re in a festive mood. Just don’t go into a flagellating fit if I say ‘Happy Holidays.’ There are after all a few holidays coming up, and whatever your affiliation or affliction may be, I really do hope you enjoy them all.
If it really bothers you that much, just remember that just over a week ago most of us were giving thanks. You should give thanks that you live in a society where generally, the people that want to punch you in the head probably won’t.
You may think it looks cool but no one cares or wants to see your lame-ass thirty second to two minute long intro to your YouTube video. Especially when the rest of the video is one minute long. Just get to the fucking content already, lamer!
Where do you live that anyone was giving thanks? As far as I could tell, here in the US, it’s “Black Friday Races”. The attitude seems to be “What do you mean, give thanks for what we have? Gotta have MORE!!! What do you mean, spend time with family and friends? Gotta be first in line for the STUFF!!!”
Every year, I get more disgusted and discouraged by how Christmas is turning more and more into Greedmas.
Thanks. 
I got off lightly, all things considered. I think between the plumber-plumber, the fire suppression plumber, and the security system technician, it still came in under $300. It could have been so much worse. What if that leak had sprung over my bookshelves???
Oh, not just Walgreens. Western civilization as we know it will collapse if those cards are messed with. It’s a long, complicated chain of dominoes, but I promise you, if enough of those cards are messed with, by December 21, teh woooooorld will come to an end! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Look, old guy on bicycle. I’m sorry my car popped up in front of you so suddenly but goddamnit, you aren’t supposed to be on the sidewalk! Riding against traffic!!
I thought about doing that and then driving, but I’ll be spending the Wednesday night at a hotel. I wouldn’t be comfortable leaving them in the car, and well…I think that people wouldn’t be comfortable watching me making multiple trips to carry guns into my room. The place I’m going to be on Wednesday has a parking lot that will allow me to back the truck to a brick wall.
The movers said they couldn’t take them, so it wouldn’t be smart to try to trick them into taking them. What if an accident happened and the movers didn’t know that they needed to secure my guns?
I know I sound paranoid, but as a responsible gun owner, its my responsibility to keep them safe.
Thanks you guys Nothing is going to happen. Its going to be a long and beautiful drive until I hit the city. Then its going to be really scary because I’ll be driving a rented truck and won’t be able to go faster than 70, if I’m lucky. At least I’ll have a heavy moving truck between all those people who are driving at least 110 in a 55 zone.
Lynn, I hope I do Texas proud. Bill only has one gun and I have cough several. At least I’ll be raising the average in one household.
We watched an episode of Judge Judy tonight where I thought she really got it wrong - a cyclist cycled across a crosswalk and hit a car - Judge Judy said the car driver was in the wrong. I totally disagree with that - cyclists come out of nowhere at a high rate of speed and fly across a crosswalk, and drivers really have no chance to see them and react when they come out of places where you don’t expect them (and where they’re not supposed to be), at such high speeds.
I’m having trouble coming up with a scenario where the driver could be considered even slightly in the wrong and all I’ve got is the car had stopped for a red light and ended up in the crosswalk. Even then, the bike shouldn’t have been in the crosswalk!
I guess we’re old fashioned. I somehow managed to tune out the commercial hysteria Christmas has become and concentrate on the good that still does happen: toy drives, filling up the food banks, that cop that bought the homeless guy shoes, etc. I knowI’m getting away from the rantiness…
FWIW: I hope the guy who stole **Gesturing Mildly’s **bike finds his nuts going ‘twap, thwap, thwap’ in some wheel spokes like the jack of hearts used to do in my old ten speed.
I like your approach to Christmas. Sad to say it’s getting rarer every year, it seems.
I agree with your wishes for the bike thief.
It’s the USPS’s 100th anniversary of “Operation Santa Claus!” Please consider stopping by one of the few regional post offices that are collecting letters from needy families and helping out.
Oh yeah, the rant. Last year at my husband’s post office, in one of the richer suburbs of Chicago, a very finely-dressed woman from that suburb, who lives in a huge house, drives an expensive car, and has a very well-employed husband, was incensed that her child did not receive a present via the program. The explanation that these were donations from the public for poor kids who would not otherwise receive presents didn’t change her opinion; she seemed to think hers was more deserving. :smack:
If your mall has a Salvation Army Angel Tree go pick up one or two. I don’t support the Salvation Army much but this project is wonderful. My DH and I don’t “do” Christmas; we give money to some charities and tell friends and family that we will be donating not giving gifts. We had so much fun shopping for the 9 year old and the newborn we got from the Angel Tree (sorry for the icky name but it’s a great project). Oh, this is supposed to be rants; well then my rant is that when we were at the mall there were still a TON of angels on that tree. So go get one or three, dammit!
I don’t have a TV. I don’t care that you watch it. I do feel like a visitor from another planet sometimes when my co-workers ask me if I saw that show/newscast/commercial last night. Y’all know I don’t have a TV. Why do you keep asking me?
Heh. I once had four doctors run into the room when a nurse at Duke Pediatrics heard my on-again/off-again heart murmur for the first time. My mom just laughed and said, “She’s had that her whole life.” The same thing happened when someone at the same hospital saw the mole on my side that would have all the indicators of being precancerous if it hadn’t been like that from the day I was born.
That’s what I thought, too - how can you be in the right when you’re doing something illegal?
Heeyuge sense of entitlement - check!
I just returned from the eye doctor after visiting for the 9th time in the last two months (the first 5 were a different eye doctor. I gave up and found a new one.) I’ve been having ridiculous headaches and blurred vision. The new guy delivered the unfortunate news: I can no longer wear contact lenses. So after, uh, 17 years of wearing contacts, I just went and picked up my new glasses.
I hate wearing glasses, so I am not exactly thrilled about this turn of events. I picked up a fairly chunky pair, because why the hell not? I am a nerd, I might as well embrace it. Now I feel 12 again, all self-conscious and insecure. What if the other kids make fun of meeeee?
On the other hand, I can see. So, there’s that.
Dear lord, somebody on my Facebook feed posted an urban legend I’d never heard before - that cut onions will somehow absorb all the flu virus out of a room. Also, since onions are so good at absorbing viruses and bacteria, you should never eat a cut onion more than a couple of hours old - they’re now POISONOUS and will make you sick!
Apparently this one predates germ theory, so I can fathom people putting their faith in it, say, 200 years ago, and old habits die hard.
But Jesus fuck, knowing today how germs actually work, it doesn’t even make any SENSE. How anyone could believe such nonsense and pass it on without taking the .5 seconds to think about it and say to themselves “you know, I’m not sure how having a cut onion in the room is supposed to soak up all the VIRUSES AND BACTERIA FROM THE AIR AND DOORKNOBS AND COUNTERTOPS AND ALL SORTS OF THINGS IT’S NOT EVEN TOUCHING so maybe this email is shall we say not entirely truthful.” This is a college educated person who posted this. I posted back that it’s an urban legend and to please don’t depend on onions to keep you safe from the flu; I don’t know what kind of response I’m going to get, but I tried to keep it gentle while rolling my eyes HARD…
I don’t know what’s going on as my 160 is a French language public affairs channel. I wonder if it depends on if you have Sirius, XM or SiriusXM. I’ve yet to figure all that out.