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Dear Verizon
Number of Comments » 5I passed by one of your billboard advertisements the other night. I suggest you fire your ad agency for this one.
“A bare-knuckled bucket of does”? Seriously? That’s the dumbest billboard being displayed in the Capital District right now. First of all, I don’t think you’ll be able to find a bucket big enough to hold [...]
What Gives You the Right?
Number of Comments » 2What gives you the right to tell me who I can and can’t marry? What gives you the right to tell anyone who they can and can’t marry?
Fifty years ago, people would have been up in arms (or worse) if I had voiced the notion that I wanted to marry an African American man. Seventy-five [...]
Sometimes I Delete Comments
Comments OffNaBloPoMo Day 28
Well, actually I mark them as spam so Akismet knows to shut the door in your face next time.
Listen, if you have something to say that pertains to the post, that’s cool. It does need to be written in fairly coherent English, but I’m not going to hold you to the same standards [...]
Yo. Microsoft.
Comments OffNaBloPoMo Day 24
You put this Windows Defender thing on my computer without my permission. And you update it every other frackin’ day. You’re really bugging me, Microsoft.
Why do you think you know better than I do? Huh? Why? I have an anti-virus/anti-spyware program already. It’s a program I really like, and I trust its ability [...]
People Who Should be Committed
Comments OffNaBloPoMo Day 21
There are certain people who do inappropriate things in and to cars who ought to be locked up in a mental health facility because they are a danger to themselves and others:
The person who drives 20 (or more) miles per hour below the speed limit… someday, someone driving a Hummer is going to [...]
Dear Website Designers
Comments OffNaBloPoMo Day 18
I would like to share with you some of the things you do that piss me off.
First, you autoplay a video or some music when I go to your site. Don’t do that. What if I’m surfing the web at Oh-Dark-Thirty? I don’t need your noisy website to wake up the rest of [...]
Three Cheers for Annoying Things Rolling Around in the Car
Comments OffNaBloPoMo Day 17
Yesterday morning, I spent about 15 seconds grabbing an empty can that had been rolling around in the back of my car for several days and tossing it in one of the recycling bins in the garage. Had I not done that, the SUV that sped though the red light at the intersection [...]
Happy Holidays and Bah Humbug
Number of Comments » 4NaBloPoMo Day 13
So, I understand that there is Christianist group boycotting the Gap and Old Navy and Banana Republic because they won’t say “Christmas” in their ads. Excuse me while I try to stop laughing…
There are a couple of reasons why this is just insane. And funny. First of all, the number of people who [...]
Advertising
Number of Comments » 2NaBloPoMo Day 10
Know what I hate? I hate ads that pop up and cover my entire screen. Even more, I hate ads that pop up and cover my entire screen while making noise. I do not like the people who make these things up, and believe they are sadists. During the Middle Ages, they would [...]
Working at the Grocery Store
Number of Comments » 2NaBloPoMo Day 4
I don’t work in a grocery store. I never have. Undoubtedly, I am too sensible and incredibly overqualified. But I shop a lot, and I’ve noticed that the people who work in grocery stores don’t get very good training. It’s possible they’re shown how to use the scanner/cash register. Ok, I’d say it’s [...]
