Posted by Masked D-Bag #8 on Jan 27, 2010 in
Angry Minute It’s a beautiful January day here in Ohio (which means it is 29F with Scattered Flurries) and before venturing towards work today I decided to stop off and let the old automobile grab a nice cold drink. We’ve all been there before, you swipe your card at the gas pump, push the 400 keys to insist it truly is gas you wish to purchase, and just before you can start making your sale an advertisement pops up on the screen asking if you’d like a car wash with your gas.
A car wash? Really? In the middle of FARKING winter?!? Really? REALLY!
This doesn’t make sense to me at all, and is just down right annoying. Why is it annoying? Let’s go to the LIST OF ANGER to discuss!
LIST OF ANGER GAS STATION CAR WASH EDITION:
1. Paying At The Pump – Maybe they great gas Gods think it is just more convenient to pay for my car wash at the gas pump. Why this makes any sense is beyond me, because even if I buy a car wash at the gas pump I still have to travel over to the car wash area, wait in line, and then when I’m next I need to punch in a code so the car wash knows I already paid. So why in the BLUE HELL don’t I just pay for the car wash… AT THE FRAKING CAR WASH?!?!? If anything this popup at the pump COSTS me time because typically I don’t need to wash my car EVERY FRAKING TIME I pump gas!
2. Oh The Weather Outside Is Frightful – Did I mention that it’s winter? Maybe I could tolerate these advertisements (because that is really what they are) if it was a beautiful summer day. The idea of having my shitmobile sparkling in the sunlight is a majestic thought, but the truth is there is snow in the sky and a car wash is the last thing on my mind. Instead they want to waste my time at the pump instead of letting me do my business. Frakin jerks.
3. If At First You Don’t Succeed – Plain and simple these “suggestions” for a car wash at the pump is just another form of advertisements, and I think it needs to stop. Doesn’t it piss you off when you are trying to buy something and the seller pipes up, “Would you like to buy a bag of Doritos for $1.29? How about one of out Energy Drinks, 2 for $3.49?” Maybe if I was getting a deal or even some savings I can understand, but I’m not. They are just trying to sell me a car wash, no discount or anything. Well FRAK them.
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POSTANGER:
I guess this is more of an annoyance then anything, but this is very annoying to me and when something annoys me for long enough it starts to piss me off… and that ANGERS ME!
Stop shoving you’re shit down my throat! If I WANTED to buy your product I would have PURCHASED your product!
Let me do the business I want to do and let me get on my way. I am too busy to deal with your product placement. If anything when I’m asked this question it makes me NOT want to buy a car wash from you! So STOP IF MOTHER FRAKERS!
Tags: Advertisement, Angry Minute, Car Wash, Gas Pump, Gas Station
Posted by Masked D-Bag #8 on Jan 20, 2010 in
Angry Minute I don’t understand our government or the people who stand by and agree with some of the most inept policies I have ever seen. And I know this article may paint me as a badguy (or a douchebag) yet I still will write it because it is what I believe.
I first want to start off by saying I feel for all those affected by the tragic 7.0 earthquake that rocked the island of Haiti last week. Thousands have died, are homeless, and have suffered severely from this tragedy. I pray to the FSM for their safety and hope that they may rebuild and move on past this horror.
But why in the BLUE HELL is our government handing out dollars like we print them (this is suppose to be an ironic statement as our government does print the money)? Where the FRAK are we getting all this money?
The government is meant to RUN THE FRAKING COUNTRY! You know, the one called USA?!?! The USA who has thousands starving on its own shores?!?! The USA who is throwing people out of there homes, forcing them onto the streets?!?! The USA that is Trillions (that’s with a T) of dollars in debt?!?! Yeah, that USA!
It sounds heartless but I have always been raised to take care of myself, and the United States of American is NOT even doing that! No, instead our government feels like it can save the world. Like it needs to protect everyone.
We are NOT the world’s protectors.
Now I’m all for private donors (like Wyclef and Sandra Bullock) donating relief to the island, but the USA does not have the money to go out and bail out another country. This is totally irresponsible!
Haiti is its own country, if it wanted our help they would be part of the United States of America and they would pay taxes and contribute to the melting pot called USA. Our government should only be helping AMERICANS, if others want or need our help I’m sure we can come to an agreement on a loan OR private donors can donate. The government should NOT be a private donor because WE ARE NOT PRIVATE! We need to stop bailing people out and let people learn to help themselves.
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POSTANGER:
American can take care of everyone else’s problems once we take care of our own. When we don’t have starving children within our own borders, when we don’t have homeless, when we become the great country we are suppose to be… then and ONLY then will I say we can help other I need. What will happen when we are in need? Oh wait… we ARE in need of help. Trillions of Dollars in need! Somebody help!!!!!!
US Government needs to learn its role. Leave private donations to the private donors.
Tags: Angry Minute, Debt, Disaster, Donations, Donors, Earthquake, Government, Haiti, Haitian, Relief, US Government
Posted by Masked D-Bag #8 on Jan 14, 2010 in
AngryReview 
IT PISSED ME OFF: Horrid game. The story was boring, resulting in myself getting lost alot. The CODEWORD system they use to make conversation engaging makes me vomit and requires you to talk to EVERYONE multiple times in hopes they are the one who needs the CODE, and if they aren’t then you have to backtrack to all the other towns and search for either a new CODEWORD or the precise person who needs said CODEWORD. The experience system levels up via what you use, which would be great if it wasn’t such a slow and daunting process that causes you to level grind for hours. Overall this is the worst Final Fantasy I’ve played and I was only happy when it was over because I was done with it. Don’t play, skip from 1 to 3 and save yourself the pain. (please note this is for the NES version of Final Fantasy, as Final Fantasy II on the SNES is actually Final Fantasy IV and that game is SUPER AWESOME and not a bag of dog poop)
Tags: AngryReview, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy II, Japan, NES, Nintendo, Video Games
Posted by Masked D-Bag #8 on Jan 13, 2010 in
Angry Minute I like taking pictures; some would say it’s a hobby of mine. And when I want to print those pictures I take them to a Photo Center and have them created into reality. Typically in the past I have done this at K-Mart, but with K-mart slowly dying and WalMart everywhere I decided in my last two print adventures to travel to WalMart for my printing. But my experience at WalMart was nothing short of insulting.
The last time I went was just insulting. I took in a few pictures and set them to print, came back an hour later to get those prints. Yet it seems everytime I go get pictures from WalMart I’m being subpoenaed by some douche behind the counter accusing me like I’m a criminal.
WalMart has this rule about printing copyrighted pictures, but the problem is there is no real way to tell who owns the copyright of a picture. So when I take a picture that looks “too good” they start throwing a fit.
This last time was particularly angering to me. The lady told me she wouldn’t give me a picture because it looked “too professional” in her eyes and that I couldn’t possibly own the copyright to it. I informed her I took that picture so the copyright was owned by me… and then she asked me the stupidest most retarded thing ever: she asked me to PROVE that I took the picture! Now how in the BLUE HELL am I suppose to prove that?!? I asked her, and she stuttered and couldn’t give me an answer to save her life, her only “advice” was that I need to take crappier pictures. That’s right, WalMart (the store who SELLS high end cameras to take PROFESSIONAL STYLE PICTURES) tells me to take shitty pictures! What a Chris CROCKer of shit!
I told that photo lab bitch off! Frak her! Also, I read online that WalMart is supposed to make you sign a waver for pictures that they find to be “too professional”. I want to state that on every occasion I have NOT been given this form, only told that I could not print the picture because there is no way a guy like me could take such a great picture. That is insulting to me as a person, I’d say it was racist even!
Frak you WalMart! You own the copyright of being assholes! I WILL take my business elsewhere, you assmasters!
Tags: Copyright, Photo, Photo Center, Picture, Printing, Wal-Mart, WalMart
Posted by Masked D-Bag #8 on Jan 6, 2010 in
Angry Minute First off let’s take a moment to thank the great FSM that the Holiday season is over. It was fun, but way to busy!
One of the things I did during my Holiday break was visit family. And on the whole my family don’t piss me off (sure we yell and scream but that’s just how my family does things. We are Douchebags after all). It was during one of these family gatherings that ANGER snuck itself into the fray.
It was Christmas Eve, and though I do not celebrate Christmas myself (Pastafarians like me celebrate the season of Holiday instead) I know my family does. So my love and I made the journey to Grandmother’s house, to enjoy a feast of dead animals and the unwrapping of gifts. I got a new wallet, a Mr. Potato Head, and a bracelet engraved with my initials. All was amazing, and anger looked to not be home for Christmas.
Then it started, just like a small snowflake starting to roll off the top of a mountain. For Xmas Grandma got the Sex in the City Season One on DVD. THE HORROR!!!!! Actually I could care less about Sex in the City (unless I’m the one getting the sex) so this was not the angry moment. Grandma doesn’t have a DVD Player. Well that’s no big deal either as I had a spare, so I brought it as an additional gift so she could enjoy her DVDs. Ain’t I just the best?
Now being the “tech geek” it is by law that I must hook up any and all electronic devices for others to play. DVDs are no exception. So off to the bedroom I go to hook the DVD Player up. Grandma has one of them old TVs that only has Coax, but she pays a large sum of money each month to Time Warner to have this big box in her room so she can DVR her shows. Below is an image of a TW Cable Box, very similar to the one Grandma has in her room.
Well if there are no AV Hookups on the TV thank the FSM that TW was nice enough to have them on their boxes. Actually I found 3 AV Hookups on the TW Box, 2 on the back and the ones on the front. Don’t know what an AV Hookup is? I went ahead and highlighted them below.
So I hooked up the DVD Player, turned it on, and pressed the input button on the remote. Nothing. Hmmmmm maybe I hooked it up wrong. So I use the AV Hookups in the back of the box. Try to switch the input again… nothing. The remote is responding, and I see a symbol on the box flash when I try to change the input of the device yet nothing happens. So I go into full troubleshooting mode, checking the cables and all of that… but everything is correct and should be working without issue.
So I swallow my pride and call Time Warner’s Tech Support line. There must be a reason I can’t switch the input, I just can’t understand what it is. So I get somebody on Christmas Eve in Time Warner’s Tech Support building. She seems nice but had a hint of “I don’t want to be at work” in her voice. I kindly let her know what I was doing, and without a skip she responded, “You can’t do that. We disable AV Inputs on our devices.”
Ummm, excuse me? My natural reaction to her response was a simple “Why?”. Why would you disable AV Inputs? Her response, “We disable them as they are not our boxes”.
That’s right, she told me that Time Warner, who SENT the box to Grandma and even HOOKED THE FRAKER UP, wasn’t “their responsibility”. Sure they charge her a monthly fee to have the box, but since Time Warner didn’t create the device they disable functions of the AV Inputs on the device.
This PISSES ME OFF! I understand you not supporting something, but when you SEND a device that ON THE FRONT has these ports you are being what we call in the business a DICKTEASE! Why even send a box with these ports on them if you aren’t going to even let your customers use them? Its total bullshit and I let her know that. But all she could tell me is whatever her script tells her. She couldn’t even give me information on who to complain to. What a WHORE!
I even went onto TW’s website to try and see what the manuals say for these boxes… but the “cartoon” images of these boxes don’t even SHOW the AV inputs on the front of the device. They conveniently REMOVED them from their manuals as if they aren’t really there! These are not the AV Inputs you are looking for… what a Chris CROCKer OF SHIT!
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POSTANGER:
So Grandma didn’t get to watch her DVDs because Time Warner (the Nazi’s of the Cable community) wouldn’t let her plug in a DVD player to her Time Warner Cable Box. I thought we lived in the land of the free, but I guess we live in the “hey we’ll give you a product with all the bells and whistles and then not even let you use these bells and whistles.” If you don’t want me to use something DON’T OFFER IT ON YOUR DEVICES! And don’t give me that BS that Time Warner didn’t make these boxes; TW has a contract with Scientific Atlantic for these boxes so they either should have a cover over the ports or had the ports entirely removed. This is just another instance of Time Warner being total dicks and not giving a damn about anyonje but their bottom line. And then they wonder why people download TV from the interwebs instead of buying Cable… what idiots! VIA REVOLUTION!!!!!
Tags: Angry Minute, Audio Video, AV, Cable, Christmas, DVD, DVR, Grandma, Holiday, Television, Time Warner, Xmas