Posted by Masked D-Bag #8 on Mar 10, 2010 in
Angry Minute When I go to the ice cream parlor I stand before their display and gaze at the flavors that ballet before my eyes. Maybe I will stick with the standard chocolate or vanilla; but maybe I’ll spice up my day with some rainbow sherbet or even the strawberry kind that has the big chunks of real strawberries mixed within it. But ultimately the only person who can decide what flavor is best for me is myself. I can ask others their opinion on the matter, but when that cold treat touches my lips it will be because of the pros and cons I have weighed. Mmmmm I love ice cream!
Education is just like ice cream. We offer our children different areas of education (math, science, computers, art, etc) and ultimately they decide what flavor of education is best for them. Some become Math majors; some become English majors; and so on and so on.
The problem with education today is that we are not offering our kids the right flavors. We still have that oldschool mindset that our children only need to have the basic academic flavors (Math, Science, Social Studies, English). Our society has evolved, but our educational system and those who lead the educational system are still dusty dinosaurs who don’t see the changes that have occurred in our society.
So where is my anger coming from on this subject? My fans know that I have bitched and complained about the poor education process and how our children are our future… yet we are not preparing them to LEAD our future.
One of my Angry FANatics (that’s what I’m gonna call my fanbase, FANatics) sent me a message a few days ago. Let’s call her Redbird for privacy reasons. Redbird expressed her frustration and anger over the changes and budget cuts many schools are making. But she had backup, she had PROOF of their incompetence. And it all starts with this video here.
Redbird recommended I start watching the video around the 7.5 minute mark and see if the anger boiled within my soul. I’m good with instructions so I dialed it to that spot this morning as I prepared for work. What I heard confused and ANGERED me!
This school system (the Kenton City School System) has to trim some fat this year as they are over budget. Nothing new there as schools are always fighting the budget crunch. But the approach and ASSUMPTION of these board members are endangering the children that attend these schools.
At the 7.5 mark a lady name Patti comes up and speaks about a recent cut that she (and others like Redbird) don’t quite understand. You see the school board has elected to remove the computer arts program from their local middle school. This basically boils down that these children won’t get any education on computers until they reach high school, and even then (as you watch after Patti it’s revealed that keyboarding/typing has been removed entirely from the school curriculum) these kids aren’t even taught HOW to type.
Now I can bitch about a lot of things in this video, but as a 27 year old working in society I can say without a shadow of doubt that I use my computer and the skills I learned from my education about computers to get myself a great job and the ability to move up the corporate ladder. Computers and the ability to type are INSTRUMENTAL in today’s world and without those skills people find they are VERY VERY limited in where they can go and what they can do.
And the school board president’s response? He just figures that since computers are “everywhere” that kids should already know how to use them. WHAT BS! What an ASSSSSSSSSSHAT! Assuming makes an ass out of everyone, and that is EXACTLY what this school board president has done.
What about the poor kids who don’t own a computer? I know in today’s society a lot of us take for granted that WE have computers and internet and all that… but there are people (especially in Kenton where the median income of households is $29,065*) that are POOR and cannot afford FOOD let alone a computer with a monthly charge for internet access. It doesn’t help that Kenton jobs have decreased by 79% since July 2008*. And there are 15% of households in Kenton that make LESS than $10,000 A YEAR*! With more then HALF of their income going to rent (that is on average of $381 per month*) are these families going to RUN OUT and buy a $500 PC and then an additional $20 per month for crap dialup? That’s almost a $750 expense right there or, 7.5% of that family’s income!
So Mr. School Board President; to just ASSUME that kids should KNOW how computers work just because they are around us MAKES NO FRAKIN SENSE! That’s like saying that since I eat a fish that I know HOW to fish, or that since I see stars in the sky I should be good at astronomy. Just because it is AROUND us doesn’t mean we KNOW it. I drive a car, yet I know jackshit about how it works!
I work for a Help Desk for a very successful insurance company and I can easily tell you the workers that don’t last are those who don’t have the computer experience and education. Without the ability to type so many words per minute or even the ability to understand where in a computer they go to perform the simplest of actions, they are let go and forced into jobs that give lower wages. But that fits RIGHT IN with Kenton, as their biggest industries for hiring works are Catering Services, Food Service Contractors, Convenience Stores, Blood & Organ Banks, and Clinics & Outpatient Services*. Yeah I guess computer education isn’t that big of a deal when your town offers these as their “bread and butter” professions. It even looks stranger when you see that the most commonly listed Kenton jobs include territory sales manager jobs and assistant store manager jobs, both which would require computer knowledge and expertise (or one who would have these skills would have an edge over those who don’t).
Kenton is your typical “Varsity Blues” type of town. They push their children to be football superstars, but then when their football career is over the majority of them do not have the skills to progress into a real job that makes them real money to survive. Then these kids have no choice but to move back “home” to Kenton and live in their parent’s basement and work at one of the multitude of fast food restaurant or even the backbreaking warehouse labor in the area for the majority of their life with little compensation.
If the Kenton School Board, or any small town school board, truly cared for their children they would ensure that those kids would have the best in computer classes. Because without these skills they will end up working at a dead-end job in a dead-end city. But that fits right in with Kenton, now doesn’t it?
Tags: Angry Minute, Children, Class, Computer, Education, Employment, Failure, Kenton, Kenton City Schools, Keyboarding, Kids, Ohio, School Board, Subject, Typing
Posted by Masked D-Bag #8 on Mar 3, 2010 in
Angry Minute It seems we now live in a society that has forsaken common courtesy. I was raised to have respect and honor; but as I look around I see those who have nothing but selfish intentions. They only care how their actions affect their lives and care nothing for those around them.
One of the rudest activities I know of in this modern society is that of cellphone usage. Now don’t get me wrong, the cellphone is one of the greatest inventions of the past 20 years. Hell without cellphones our lives would be immensely different. But as one radioactive photographer once told me, “With great power comes great responsibility.”
People seem to not understand this; they think their cellphone is a RIGHT and not a privilege. So they talk on it NO MATTER WHAT. We’ve all been in line behind that douchebag who is talking away on his phone, and because his attention is diverted he doesn’t realize he is holding up the line in some way. Or how about when you are having a conversation with someone and their cellphone rings so they interrupt your conversation to answer it. How rude! And I find it especially rude when they answer that call just to tell the person on the other end that they will “call them back.” Why not let it go to VoiceMail? Why do you HAVE to interrupt the conversation?
I would just like people to learn how to use their cellphones responsibility. We should not live in a society where we are controlled by our own devices. If you call me and I don’t answer my phone it might be because I am in the midst of doing something and I will try to call or even text you back after. Don’t call me ten times within five minutes UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY! Pisses me off when a friend calls me multiple times and when I answer the call it isn’t an emergency! I saw you called me the FIRST time so just have some patience and get over yourself; you are NOT the center of the universe!
So how about when you get into your car you hang up the phone and try to DRIVE for a change? Or how about when you are in line at the store you SHUT YOUR FRAKIN PHONE OFF and stop being a jackass to the others in line? How about you turn your phone OFF in the movie theater (even using text in a movie is RUDE and you should be dragged out of the theater and beaten till you are crippled. There are people behind you that are being distracted by that light emanating from your hands JACKASS). Is this REALLY that hard? Is our society such technology addicts we have to be on the device every second of every day?
It pisses me off!
So what about cellphone or cellphone usage pisses you off? Let’s share our anger about these portable devices! For if we don’t change I fear we will be a society of drones attached to phones!!!
Tags: Angry Minute, Cellphone, Etiquette, Phone, Rude
Posted by Masked D-Bag #8 on Feb 24, 2010 in
Angry Minute What the FRAK is wrong with people these days? Can’t they put a wiener in their mouth without choking on it?
I guess not. I mean I’ve had several wieners in my mouth, some at the same time, and I’ve never choked on any of them.
Why are you laughing? Ohhhh… you are sick sick person! I’m talking hot dog wieners you pervert!!!
I just finished reading THIS ARTICLE and I’m speechless. Parents want to CHANGE HOTDOGS because kids are choking on them. The logic here baffles me. I understand that choking is a risk, but it is a risk we all take every day. But somehow we seem to get through the day without choking and dying. How do we do it? Well we CHEW OUT DAMN FOOD! How about you teach your kids to SHUT THEIR MOUTHS AND EAT?!?!? Oh no that would be PARENTING and we can’t have that now can we? It’s just easier to blame hotdogs then for parents to actually blame themselves.
So these crazies also want to put warning labels on ALL foods and candies that are choking hazards. So that amounts to almost EVERY FRAKIN THING WE PUT IN OUR MOUTHS!!!!!! And if you don’t know you can choke on an M&M then you should choke and DIE because you are not helping the human evolution, you are deterring it.
I’d like to know who these people are who have no idea you can choke on small food items. Do they think that magically their throat will digest these items so there is no fear of swallowing them whole? Just put that wiener in your mouth and see how far down your throat you can shove it till you gag. Just keep shoving it in there, what possibly could go wrong?
So let’s redesign the hotdog then since it is a menace to society. We could make it flat and put it on a bun… oh wait that’s called a hamburger. You see a hotdog is a hotdog because of its shape; to change that would be to change what that food is entirely. It makes no sense and it totally retarded.
I like how these crazies take the responsibility out of their own hands and place blame on the creators of these foods/candies. How about if you are afraid of choking on a wiener DON’T FRAKIN EAT WIENERS! Why do you need to ruin it for us who know how to chew our food? I understand young kids don’t understand chewing and are at risk for choking, but THE PARENTS should be responsible and cut up the child’s food into small parts so this doesn’t happen. Oh look what I did there, I MADE THE PARENTS RESPONSIBLE! Isn’t that a weird concept? Who would have EVER THOUGHT TO FRAKIN DO THAT?!?!?! Hell next they will ask to have grapes redesigned because people choke on them… oh wait THE ARTICLE DOES RECOMMEND THAT! WHAT THE FRAK?!?!?!?!
Darwin would be proud to know that stupid people are still stupid. At some point we have to say if you are dumb and don’t understand that you can choke on things that go into your mouth then maybe you are too dumb to be alive. Maybe the world is a better place without you.
I personally will always have a nice hot wiener in my mouth. I like the taste, I like the texture, and I love how it feels inside me.
I was talking about eating hot dogs! FSM you people are sick!
Tags: Angry Minute, Chew, Children, Choking, Hazard, Health, Hot Dog, Kids, Parental Responsibility, Parents, Swallow, Wiener
Posted by Masked D-Bag #8 on Feb 17, 2010 in
Angry Minute People who are NOT on a budget PISS ME OFF! But what PISSES ME OFF even more are those people who “say” they are on a budget but still spend their money all willy-nilly and cause their budgets to go into the red.
This is what is wrong with the place we call America! And it is America’s fault!
Just take out government for example. We are in BILLIONS of dollars in debt because of our outrageous spending. Why the hell do we need to spend so much money on things that are really not needed? I hit this topic briefly a few weeks ago when I condemned our government for donating millions of dollars in foreign aid to Haiti when we can’t even feed all of our own people! Maybe I’m crazy but I thought if I only have $10 that I can only SPEND $10… but I guess I’m wrong because people don’t get that concept at all!
This frivolous spending by our leaders is making for “bad parental guidance”. The people of America see this kind of spending and think, “Well if our government is doing it why can’t I?” Then they go buy all this shit they don’t really need, ON CREDIT, and can’t pay for it when the bill comes due. And who do they blame? Do they accept blame upon themselves? FRAK NO! They blame “society” because it’ could NEVER be their own fault! Makes me FRAKIN SICK!
I was raised to spend what I make and not a dime more. Now I’m not saying I don’t have credit cards BUT I am saying that those cards have been one of the BIGGEST MISTAKES of my life. They have caused me nothing but pain and suffering. As they have for millions of Americans. And I have taken steps and measures to relieve myself from the chains of these cards.
So why can’t people just get on a budget? Why can’t people take responsibility for their spending? I’m on a budget now, and though I don’t have tons of money to throw around I make ends meet without drastically affecting my level of living. Instead of buying pop I now drink Kool-Aid; instead of eating out at McDonalds every night I make dinner at home; instead of buying the latest and greatest video game I either play an old video game I own OR I trade in games I have so I don’t need to spend cash. Making small adjustments to your living can not only save you tons of cash, it will make you FEEL like a better person. When I cook I feel like I’m King of the Castle; but when I munch down a McDonalds McDouble I feel greasy and lazy.
I was also raised that if I fail then that failure is on me and no one else. Too many people are taking advantage of the good intentions of others. People on welfare and unemployment stay on those programs for years instead on months? How FRAKING ridiculous is that? People smoke cigs and get lung cancer only to beg for public assistance to fight the disease? Ummm YOU GAVE YOURSELF CANCER! Sure cigs can be addictive, but so can chocolate but I’m not suing Hershey for my fat ass! I take responsibility for my own actions, I don’t blame anyone for what happens in my life but me/myself/I!
The truth is that people in out society do NOT want to be held responsible for their own actions. “They” didn’t do it, but someone else made them do it. That is horseshit! Take responsibility for yourself and maybe, just maybe, you will feel respected by others. Because right now I have no FRAKIN respect for people who are out of control. So life didn’t turn out the way you wanted it to? Well go cry me a river you baby! Get over yourself, the world DOES NOT revolve around you!
Tags: Budget, Government, Money, Personal Responsibility, Spending
Posted by Masked D-Bag #8 on Feb 10, 2010 in
Angry Minute What is a hero? What is a villain? Once these terms were opposites, but in this crazy world we live in it seems that more and more these terms can mean the same. Our heroes are falling from grace, becoming villains before our eyes. And the ironic thing here is we are allowing them to still be heroes, even after showing their true colors. So I wanted to use today’s article to call out some of those who are heroes in the eyes of people, and then decide what they truly are inside.
THE LIST OF ANGER PRESENTS – HERO OR VILLAIN?!?!
1. Kobe Bryant: Basketball great, 4-time NBA Champion. He is a hero to many basketball fans (why people still watch basketball is beyond me, but whatever floats your boat). Yet it is in my view that a hero should be honorable, and Kobe Bryant is not. In 2003 Kobe was accused of raping a 19-year old hotel employee. Bryant denied that he raped the girl, but admitted to having an affair with her. The case was dropped later and the answer of “Is Kobe a Rapist?” still hasn’t been answered. But the answer to “Is Kobe a Scumbag?” was answered easily with a YES! Cheating on your wife, who just gave birth to your daughter the same year, makes Kobe a VILLAIN in my book. And maybe he DID rape that girl back in 2003, but with all his money there is no way we will ever know that truth from a covered up lie. People shouldn’t cheer him, he should be boo’ed!!!! “Oh he made a mistake?” BULLSHIT! He made a CHOICE and that choice was to be unfaithful. Out kids shouldn’t think that this behavior is acceptable!!!
2. John Edwards: 2008 Presidential Nominee. He only was having a affair, covered it up in hopes to be elected president (with allegations that campaign money was used to cover up the affair), denied allegations once they were brought to light, and then finally admitted to not only having an affair BUT also having a love child!!!!! Yet he still wants people to think of him as “one of the people” in hopes of still holding an elected office. We need to send a strong message to ALL politicians that there is a MORAL obligation on their parts to represent the people, and if that obligation is not met then they need to not only be removed from office but MADE AN EXAMPLE OUT OF! And to give Mr. Edwards the big VILLAIN stamp is easy, because his wife WHO HE CHEATED ON has cancer. Yah, cheating on you’re dying wife… what an ASSHOLE!
3. Jay Leno: He was the host of the Tonight Show, and then he went to his own crappy show and told Conan O’Brian that he could be the host of the Tonight Show. It was ONLY Conan’s childhood dream. But when Jay’s ratings didn’t pan out he LEAPED at the opportunity to overthrow Conan and take back the Tonight Show reigns. Personally I have never liked Jay Leno, he is a total douchebag and doesn’t deserve our time. Conan is funnier, smarter, and overall a better talk show host. But all these indiscretions don’t make Leno a villain. I mean his team does have to pay bills, his team does have to eat, and his team does need to work. So no Jay, you are not a villain… but I sure as hell aren’t gonna call you a hero! WE LOVE YOU COCO!!!!!!!
4. Mark McGwire: Yeah, if you read the AngryMinute last week you know what I think of Mark-ROIDS-McGwire! He cheated to become the homerun champ, and then just expects everyone to forgive him? Why the MLB even allows this guy to work for one of their teams is BEYOND me! VILLAIN!!!!
5. Tiger Woods: This one’s gonna hurt. I’m a Tiger fan. He is THE MAN when it comes to golf. I’ve seen the man tear apart his kneecap AND COMEBACK the very next day to win the PGA Championship. The dude is totally unreal when it comes to the sport. Yet even he has fallen from grace. He was easily a Hero before his sexual escapades occurred. He didn’t just cheat on his wife, he cheated on her with pretty much EVERYONE he could find. He’s a “sex addict” and just expects everyone to forgive him for his misdeeds. While it is honorable to admit your mistakes, I find it NONhonorable (or whatever word I should use) that he waited till he GOT CAUGHT! Heroes do the RIGHT thing even in the face of adversity. And while Tiger is THE MAN at golf, he is a VILLAIN in real life. He should be teaching kids good moral values, not the ability to FRAK everything under the sun and then straight face lie to his wife and children. Cheaters, in my book, are the lowest scum on Earth.
Soooo this is just a brief list of people I think shouldn’t be worshiped, though many in society do worship them. Weither it be sports, or politics, or entertainment: these people think they are bigger then the rest of us. They think that they can get away with whatever they want without repercussions. I say NO! Do NOT let your children idolize those who are morally wrong. Want to know what REALLY is wrong with our country? Our children’s “heroes” are nothing but villains in disguise. DISGUSTING!
Do you know of any celebrity “heroes” who are actually villains? List them in the comments and we’ll discuss if they should be cheered by the fans… or if they should be BOO’ed out of existence.
Tags: Affair, Angry Minute, Cheating, Hero, Heroes, Jay Leno, John Edwards, Kobe Bryant, Mark McGwire, Roids, Steroids, Tiger Woods, Villain, Villains
Posted by Masked D-Bag #8 on Feb 3, 2010 in
Angry Minute Baseball = A Joke
That’s how I feel about America’s EX-Pasttime. Can you blame me? Want an example? Sure, lets take a look at McGwire vs. Rose.
For those who may not know whom these two are I will break the walls down:
Mark McGwire: MLB career from August 22, 1986 – October 7, 2001. This First Baseman is most known for his “Homerun Race” against Sammy Sosa in 1998 where McGwire went on to surpass Roger Maris’ single season home run record (McGwire nailed 70 homeruns in that season). McGwire has won one World Series ring, three Silver Slugger Awards, one Gold Glove, the 1987 AL Rookie of the Year Award, has made 12 All-Star appearances, and was the winner of the 1992 Home Run Derby.
Pete Rose: MLB career from April 8, 1963 – August 17, 1986. Rose played a variety of positions during his career (OF, 3B, 2B, 1B, Mgr). Rose is the all-time Major League leader in hits (4,256), games played (3,562), at-bats (14,053), and outs (10,328). Rose has won three World Series rings, three batting titles, one MVP Award, two Gold Gloves, the 1963 NL Rookie of the Year Award, and has made 17 All-Star appearances at five different positions.
Even if you don’t know ANYTHING about baseball you can look at those stats and know that these two players have contributed a lot to the game. So what’s my beef with them? Well lets break down the walls even more:
Mark McGwire: Admitted in 2010 that he had used performance-enhancing drugs/steroids throughout his career (including his 1998 homerun record). McGwire never officially “denied” use of steroids when questions during the 1990s, but instead refused to discuss his involvement with or use of steroids until his admission in 2010.
Pete Rose: In 1989 became permanently ineligible for the MLB Hall of Fame due to sports bettings he made while coaching. Rose reportedly bet on 52 games in 1987, but was never proven to bet against his own team (though on multiple occasions he bet FOR his own team). Rose was only found to have gambled in this way from 1985 – 1987. Rose denied any involvement with gambling in this fashion until 1989.
So here is where I start getting pissed. Pete Rose, who bet on his OWN TEAM to win, became ineligible for the MLB Hall of Fame due to these gamblings. MLB says that Rose became ineligible because “that as a manager he could control games, make decisions that could enhance his chances of winning his bets, thus jeopardizing the integrity of the game.”
OK, sure. I guess I can buy that. I don’t think it makes him a horrid person to bet on his own team. If he would have bet AGAINST his own team I could understand. So if MLB takes this stance on Rose for betting on his OWN team then they sure as hell would take an even HARDER line on McGwire and his enhancements. Right?
Wrong!
Yeah, this is the world we live in. Not ONLY has McGwire not been punished for his indiscretions, but he HAS A FRAKING JOB WITH AN MLB TEAM!!! Mark “Roids” McGwire is the hitting coach for his old team, the team he used Roids on and cheated to win accolades and records!
WHAT A FRAKING WORLD!
You wanna know why I hate baseball? Because of shit like this! I would NEVER let my children watch or even be associated with this sport based on such actions. Any sport that PROMOTES the use of steroids is a horrible evil entity. Atleast Pete Rose bet on his OWN team! McGwire CHEATED, yet the big suits over at MLB think its “OK”?!?! Yeah, they probably do because McGwire made them TONS AND TONS OF CASH during his 1998 Homerun race! What about Sammy Sosa? A man who tried to win that title in 1998 under his own power, without the use of illegal steroids? Baseball could care less about all those teams McGwire cheated, lied to, and store from. What hypocrisy!
Baseball, you can go FRAK YOURSELF! You are all nothing more then hypocrites, liars, and cheaters! The MLB’s sense of “wrong vs right” is too messed up for me to ever respect them. When you think gambling on yourself is worse then cheating/lying/stealing then you have some messed up priorities.
As for Pete Rose; he gains my respect for being some humble in the face of adversity.
As for Mark McGwire; I hope he is beat down in a dark alleyway and left for the vultures. You make me sick!!!
Tags: Angry Minute, Baseball, Betting, Drugs, Gambling, Hall of Fame, Hypocrisy, Mark McGwire, MLB, Performance-Enhancing, Pete Rose, Roids, Steroids
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 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