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Spam Subject of the Day

" If you had a gold fish, you would ask for a bigger instrument."

Okay, you lost me on that one.



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Spam Subject of the Day

"A bigger stick will put a bigger smile on your lover's face"

You reckon that's the sort of stick Roosevelt was talking about?



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Bugs

Why seniors are not getting swine flu
Senior citizens appear to have dodged the bullet when it comes to swine flu.

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The medical director is not surprised, saying the fact that the elderly have lived longer, plays a key role.

"It's thought that they built up some immunity to past exposure," said Dr. Lisa Clark, medical director of Presbyterian Village.
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My sentiments exactly.

Try as you might, you just can't avoid every single bug out there. You can wash your hands and apply sanitizer every time you take your rubber gloves off, and like it or not you will still be exposed to some cooties.

Granted, those precautions cut down on contracting a lot of bugs on various surfaces, but there are also critters floating around in the air.
Germ-o-phobes would do well on occasion to let themselves be exposed to more cooties, so their immune system could do its job and build up its strength to protect you down the line.

I get a chuckle out of some people I see. They commence to wiping down doorknobs, keyboards, armrests on chairs, telephones, ... everything people touch. If there's a plague of sort going around the office and Jane sneezes on her keyboard just before she's called me for some tech support, then yes. I have a tendency to wash my hands right after I touch it. But good gawd. You just can't shelter yourself from everything all the time.

Back in the old days when I was a coal miner, we had no running water. Well, we did, but it was pumped from a stagnant pond of water that had already circulated through the machinery and the mine. It was definitely not fit for culinary usage. You didn't want to use it to wash your hands. And hand sanitizer wasn't something that anyone used back in the 70's or 80's, so there was none of that around.

Your hands would usually be covered in coal dust, rock dust, hydraulic oil, WD-40 and so on. If you had to take a shit during your shift you wiped your ass, then rubbed your hands with some rock dust (pulverized limestone) to 'clean' them.

So come lunch time, whatever you ate with your fingers would end up having smudges of the days work on it. But you know what? You didn't give a shit. You were hungry, and you ate your lunch. Grit, grime and all.

I very rarely get sick. And I firmly believe that a part of that is due to not taking antibiotics any more than I have to, and not trying to sequester myself from all the world's ills. If I feel some sort of bug trying to get the better of me I'll down some zinc to help out the immune system, but going to the doctor is a last resort.

We have all sorts of new or mutated bugs on this planet mostly because people have tried to overprotect themselves or their kids, and the shit is catching up with us.


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A Funny

Via email:

A Husband and wife are out shopping in their local big box store. The husband picks up a case of Budweiser and puts it in their cart.

'What do you think you're doing?' asks the wife.

'They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans,' he replies.

'Put them back, we can't afford them,' demands the wife, and so they carry on shopping.

A few aisles further on along the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and puts it in the basket.

'What do you think you're doing?' asks the husband.

'Its my face cream. It makes me look beautiful,' replies the wife.

Her husband retorts: 'So does 24 cans of Budweiser and it's half the price.'

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Frigidaire Is T3h Sux0rz - Cont... Again...

As an update to the update I did in yesterday's post, I have a shiny new dishwasher installed now.

This time I went with Kenmore. They had good reviews, and I've generally had good luck with Sears products. I've purchased other appliances there, and I've also purchased several tools - large and small, and have had good luck with those too.
On top of that there's a Sears about a block from the house.

I did however, buy an extended warranty to be safe. Fuck it. It's a racket and I hate, hate, hate buying 'consumer protection', since I believe that what they're saying up front is that even though they're selling a high dollar product, they don't think it will last more than a year. Even if they don't get what they want up front, they'll get it with repairs or a warranty.

But, with any luck, this one will last longer than the other three I've replaced.

Oh, and by the way, Frigidaire fucking sucks.

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Spam Subject of the Day

"Best Software You Could Ever Find."

You must be talking about the software I write.



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Frigidaire Is T3h Sux0rz - Cont...

Originally posted 8/24/05:

Don't buy Frigidaire appliances.

We remodeled our kitchen last year, and in the process purchased a new refrigerator, dishwasher, range and microwave. There was a deal going on if you bought the set, so we did.
They were in place less than a month when the water filter on the fridge started leaking and the ice maker quit working.
The fridge has a one year warranty, but the icemaker only had a 30 day warranty. What quality equipment. 30 fucking days? Yeah, that's confidence.
So I immediately purchased the extended warranty, something I usually don't do. But since the thing broke already, I figgered I had better buy it, then let them know it broke.
I went to the Frigidaire web site to find out who could come and fix the thing. There were a few local folks that would, but the soonest would be two weeks. Two effing weeks.
Well they finally got it fixed.

Now the oven don't work.
Again, the appliances have only been in place since April. I get to find someone to come fix the shit again.
Who'd-a thought. Ranges usually last years. This one broke within six months.

DON'T BUY FRIGIDAIRE SHIT!!!!


Update: They're coming to fix the shit saturday September 3rd. Nothing like prompt service.
It's a good thing I don't use the oven that often.

Now to the continued part...

So about a year after this post, the microwave quit. Dead as hell.
With all the bad reviews and high cost of fixing shit, I just replaced it. The new one has been working fine for the most part.

But Sunday evening, the dishwasher - yes, the FUCKING dishwasher decides to quit now too. Frigidaire is SHIT!!!
After perusing the web to see if I could find clues on how to fix it, the only things I found were bad reviews and various curses. Nothing on where to troubleshoot.
In fact, I found two threads where people said their Frigidaire dishwasher had caught fire and the people were glad they were home at the time or their house could have burned to the ground.
So that settled it. The dishwasher isn't even going to get checked into. It is going out to the curb. Fuck that. Even if I did fix it, I don't need the piece of shit catching the house on fire.

Oh, and one more time for the search engines:

Frigidaire Sucks!
Frigidaire is shit!
Frigidaire can kiss my ass!
Frigidaire can get fucked!
Frigidaire can go to hell!

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Spam Subject of the Day

"Clinton's diary!"

Whose? Bill's or Hitlary's?
Meh, not interested in either.


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Spam Subject of the Day

"How do it look now?"

Oh, it do look goodly.



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I Am ShitMan!

Cops: Feces-covered nude man jumps into man's pool

Wed Sep 30, 9:25 pm ET

STUART, Fla. - A Florida man is facing charges after authorities said he was naked and covered in feces when he broke into a resident's backyard and jumped into the pool.
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What's the problem? With all that shit on him he probably just wanted a bath. Give the dud a break, would you?

Without even reading the story, I'm guessing alcohol was involved.

Good gawd. That must have been a sight.

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Fucking Nannies

Eating Candy in Childhood Linked to Adult Crime

Time.com – Fri Oct 2, 4:50 am ET Sent 904 times

A British study suggests a curious association between eating candy as a kid and committing violent crimes in adulthood Full Story »

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Give me a fucking break. Who as a kid doesn't eat candy?

You dumb asses can link adult crime to any fucking childhood behavior if you try hard enough. It's like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon, or blaming global warming on the belly-button lint growing on fat women with goatees. If you twist it around enough, you'll find a connection.

Get a life already.

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Spam Subject of the Day

"We met once"

Once was probably enough.



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Quote of the Day

I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself

Damn good idea.

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I Guess This Makes Me A Conservative

Via email:

The Difference Between “Us” And “Them”

If a conservative doesn’t like guns, they don’t buy one. If a liberal doesn’t like guns, then no one should have one.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, they don’t eat meat. If a liberal is, they want to ban all meat products for everyone.

If a conservative sees a foreign threat, they think about how to defeat the enemy. A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.

If a conservative is homosexual, they quietly enjoy their life. If a liberal is homosexual, they loudly demand legislated respect.

If a black or Hispanic is conservative, they see themselves as independently successful. Liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.

If a conservative is down-and-out, they think about how to better their situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of them.

If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, they switch channels. Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, they don’t go to church. A liberal wants all churches to be silenced.

If a conservative decides they need health care, they go about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. A liberal demands that their neighbors pay for it.

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Have They Lost Their Friggin' Mind?

Empire State Building lit for China, drawing ire

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Journalist and blogger Marc Masferrer questioned legitimizing a government that continues to repress its citizens' freedoms, including their access to media and the Internet.

The only thing worse than lighting the fucker up to celebrate one of the most cruel governments in the world, would be to light it up in celebration of Kim Jong Il and his oppressive regime over the people of North Korea. Or maybe for Osama Bin Laden with him and his Taliban's control over the people of Afghanistan.

It really rubs my fur the wrong way to think that the owners of that building have even thought twice about pulling such a stupid fucking stunt.

Update: I snagged this 'toon from Protein Wisdom:




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Spam Subject of the Day

"Please, wash your car!"

Well, it does need a good douching.



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Teh Epic Fail

What the fuck. I thought that since I don't have any real ideas of anything to write about, I'd just perform a bit of a test. Taking a cue from C & S, , I would see how many hits I could score in a day from a bullshit post about nothing.

At first I didn't have any real ideas of how I would go about it, let alone any sort of methodology in my manner. But then, I thought what the fuck. I'll just write shit. So good luck to whatever sap finds this post from a search engine.

The first thought I came up with was Chuck Norris and his search for open source Apple or maybe Mac OS software. This will be done while having bacon with Sarah Palin.

"What?" You say? Well, don't you think that Sarah Palin enjoys the occasional hunk of bacon in lieu of the other animals she likes to hunt?
And who knows? She may just enjoy some with Chuck Norris, and maybe even with that fucking Joker, Obama.
Which reminds me, I really need to print out at least an 8 1/2" X 11" picture of that Obama Joker Poster. I need a new picture for the dartboard. The cute puppy pic I had on there got all worn out.

What? You can't handle a little sarcasm or cynicism? Your loss. You must be into cutting or anorexia or some shit. You're probably just some fat, overweight piece of shit with too many feelings. Yeah, as in feeling sorry for yourself you fucking loser.

If not, if you're living in your mother's basement looking for midget porn, you're not going to find satisfaction here either. In fact, your band is never going anywhere, I don't have open source software here, Chuck Norris is a burned out has-been, bacon makes you fat, and your Facebook page as well as your MySpace page suck ass. Your twitter bullshit - well, no one cares. You should go cut yourself. Go jump off the bridge. Something.

So, there you have it. A shit filled post.


Update:
Well, there you have it. More hits. I guess it worked!



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Good Gawd

What's next, monitoring with cameras?

Oh, wait. That would be a pay-per-view thing:

Boston-area college bans sex with roommate around

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This semester, the school has a new policy banning sexual activity while a roommate is in the same room. Kim Thurler, a Tufts University spokeswoman, said the school issued the new rule after a dozen or so complaints in the past three years.
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But what if the roommate wants to join in?

First they want to ban drinking. Now no screwing? What's a college student to do?

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Spam Subject of the Day

"I filmed you :-)"

Damn. I thought I had the shades drawn.



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