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You know what I don't understand? Those people who think that they need to hack into your websites and completely mess them up just to let you know that they can do that. I fail to see the point of doing something like that. I just had one of my other sites hacked into and messed with and it took me 4 hours to find the problem and fix it and it really pisses me off. They should find something else to do with their time like play at a construction site or eat some rat poison.
I've had about enough of all of these people going around and doing this. It's not just them either, its the people who make the spyware crap and the worms and the virusus. Don't you have anything better to do with your time then to make us want to carve your kneecaps off with a dull butter knife? I think there needs to be a revolution striking out against these people and we must hunt them down and give them a virus or worms or something that would really suck for them. I guess what I am getting at here is I was really pissed off that someone took the time to hack into my little website and make life a lot harder for me for a time being and they didn't really even gain anything from it. All they gained was the satisfaction of knowing they did something that made the hatred I feel towards them burn with such fiery that I won't stop until I am throwing their frozen body parts through a wood chipper. |
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Well, It's been a while since my last rant but I have been busy so you'll have to give me a little slack. I guess that is my excuse for everything but apparently im always busy working on other sites or something. I decided to talk about random things that just make me mad or that just kind of make me uneasy. I'm sure everybody will be able to relate to these things as they tend to get on a lot of people's nerves.
The first thing that kind of makes me uneasy is when you sit down on a public toilet to do your business and the seat is warm. Now, you know that maybe someone will sit down after you and feel the same way but it just kind of makes you a little uneasy. You know some dude was on the seat before you and he just took a dump. You don't know if he had that borrito for lunch and it was a little messy either. That's just something that makes me a little uneasy. The next thing just makes me mad. When you are driving down a street and there are 87 kids in the road. Obviously kids are going to play in the road, I used to, but I also used to have a little respect for the cars that were driving by. Now kids look right at me, laugh, and ride their bikes right out in front of me. Or they just don't get out of the way at all. This is partly the parents fault though. They need to teach their kids a little respect for other cars or just not let their 4 year old play in the street. One thing that has always really ticked me off was when you go to an all you can eat buffet and the food isn't kept up with the people eating it. I was just at a pizza buffet like that and I got 3 slices of pizza then the buffet ran dry. Someone asked the people behind the counter and they said about 5 more minutes for another buffet pizza. I work at a pizza place, I know it isn't hard to keep pizza's comming out of an oven, if you have customers, there should always be an ample supply of food out there. That was their plan though wasn't it, they figured the people wouldn't wait for the next pizza if they take their time with the buffets. Well, I showed them, I waited them out and made freakin sure I ate more than my money's worth. |
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Well, Tuesday June 6, 2006 came and passed without any problems or any fire falling from the sky like some people believed would happen. Just another prime example of people taking some little superstition and running rampart with it. I knew nothing was going to happen and if anything did happen it would be the direct result of actions by those people afraid that something would happen. People just need to calm down and not make a big deal out of everything that they can think of. There was no point in getting worked up just because the June 6, 2006 made the number 666.
You know, there were people who delayed the births of their child just so they weren't born on June 6. I think that is freakin ridiculous. What is the point of doing that? I'm sure there were still several children born on Tuesday and I really doubt that any of them will be the son of Satan and spread the blood of the innocent just because they were born on June 6, 2006. They also say that they don't want their child to be made fun of in school. First of all, I don't think they would get made fun of and second of all, how many people's birthdays did you know when you were in school? It is just a date just like every other 364 days in this year, don't make a big deal out of it just so you can hear yourself talk about something. The re-release of The Oman on Tuesday didn't really help matters but in my opinion it shouldn't have made a difference. The only reason it did is because too many people like to think that just because a date corresponds with the number of the beast something bad is bound to happen. None of that matters now though since that date is passed and obviously nothing happened. By the way, Tuesday was my little brother's birthday and he didn't try to eat my face off or anything. No he wasn't born on June 6, 2006 but according to some people even if your birthday is on that day you are evil I guess. I am preaching the same thing with this as I did with The Da Vinci Code. Just chill out people, don't make such a big deal out of everything. |
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Well, I finished reading The Da Vinci Code so now I can give a complete opinion on it. It was a great book and if you have time I would suggest you read it. You won't want to put it down. Now we have to talk about how it is fiction. As you get into the book they start getting into some things that could make some people believe that the book is really telling you factual things about the Holy Grail or the Priory of Sion. These things are in fact fiction and one must remember that as they are reading.
I also went to The Da Vinci Code movie that has just recently came out. The movie is a little more politically correct than the book as they make more of a point to distinguish between the facts and the fictions. I would suggest reading the book before you go see the movie but if you have already seen the movie, it is still worth it to read the book as the endings are different. I am now reading The Da Vinci Deception so I can attempt to sort out what is true and what isn't about The Da Vinci Code. I also made a section on Strange Facts about The Da Vinci Code, Click Here to be taken to that page. If you still haven't seen The Da Vinci Code movie or read the book, I strongly encourage you to go see it. Just remember, like I said in my last rant, don't make it into something that it is not. |
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I'm sure that by now most of you if not all of you have heard about The Da Vinci Code. The movie will be released in the United States Friday and has already begun release in other parts of the world. The book is what I am going to talk about. If you haven't read The Da Vinci code I would suggest you do so as it is a good book. I am only about halfway through it so far so there will probably be another post up about it when I finish.
What I want to talk about, though, is people mistaking this great fictional book as non fiction. I am afraid that when the movie is released many people will mistake it as something that is fact when it is just a very good story. There are parts of The Da Vinci code that are fact and it tells you right in the front of the book and these facts do make you wonder and think "what if" but that is just what they were designed to do. The Da Vinci code was designed to be an entertaining story which is very much is so. It was not designed to be a reference book and a book that people should read into as fact. When The Da Vinci code movie is released I am afraid the situation will get bad. There are too many people out there who are waiting for something like this to latch on to and run with. I am not speaking out against the movie at all and I eagerly await its release but I am saying that I believe a few groups of people will take this and run with and make it into something it is not. If you haven't read The Da Vinci code yet, I would suggest that you do so. If you don't want to pay the $25.00 price tag for the hardcover book in the bookstore, Amazon sells the hardcover copys new for $15.00. Click Here  and you will be taken to a page with the book. I am toying with the idea of making a Da Vinci Code page on this site because there are some very interesting truths to the story. Read the book and go see the movie but just remember that it is a story and don't make it into something that it is not.
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Hey, guess what, more rants about the gas prices. Exxon made a profit of a mere $8.4 billion this first quarter of 2006. Boy that really shows that they are "just passing along the cost to the consumers." Remember what happened last time they posted such large profits, everyone complained and gas prices dropped quite a bit. Now we let the prices get back up to higher than they were before we started complaining. This shows that we can make a difference.
If they are going to keep posting profits like this then when do we get to see them invest in more refineries to give us a larger supply of oil. Where does that $8.4 billion go? We have already proved that we have the ability to regulate the gas prices so we just need to act on that. Forget about telling the news polls that you thing gas will go well over three bucks a gallon this summer. Do something to keep it from doing that. I'm just about done with being walked all over by the oil companies. I say we do something about this. Other than the suggestion in my last rant I am fresh out of ideas at the moment but if I come up with any you can be sure I will put them in here. Just yell and shout and let it be known that you are tired of being gouged and someone is bound to listen someday. It worked once, why wouldn't it work again. I added page with a text RPG that my friend and I are developing. This is a very crude and first version of the game so it will get way better. You can find it on the nav bar or you can click here. Any feedback on the game is appreciated. It will be improved greatly eventually and possibly turn into a 3d game rather than a text game. |
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Last week I talked about the raising gas prices in my rant. This week I will talk about a possible solution to this problem that I saw today. It is not one of those "don't buy gas on this day" things that we see all the time. Those only hurt us as we are not able to make a big enough impact and we have to make it hard on ourselves to try to punish a company who won't really feel anything from a day of lower gas sales.
This plan is different. We are going to start a gasoline war between the gas stations. Pit them against themselves and then reap the benefits of lower prices. This plan calls for you to pick one company, namely Mobil just because they are the biggest, and not buy gas from them. You do not have to change your routine in any way unless you always bought gas at that Mobil on the corner. If this is then case then just pick a different station and use that for a while. What this plan will do is force Mobil to lower their prices which will force the other stations to lower their prices. Keep doing this though. Don't stop the first time the prices lower. In fact, don't stop until we get the prices below $2.00 per gallon. Then we need to keep them down there. If this works we will know how to be the ones to control what we pay for gas. We will never have to pay $3.00+ per gallon again. Tell everyone you know to do this too. Just don't buy Mobil gas for a while and see what happens. When the gas war starts you will know that it is working. Remember, though, that you don't want to start buying Mobil again the first time the price drops. If we hold out long enough we can get gas under two bucks. Also remember that this does not make life any harder for you, all you have to do is go to a different station. |
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Why is it that there is always something that you need to spend money on? I can't seem to keep any money lately, I'm always broke. I am a college student and with that title comes no money but it is still rediculous. It's so bad that it has been diculous twice... making it rediculous. It's not like I don't have a half way decent job either. I get a weekly paycheck for an alright amoung but crap just cost too much money.
Gas is the main one. Im spending freakin half of my paycheck just on gas, and guess what, it's going to go up. You know why it is going to go up? Because there was a poll and 74% of the people who took the poll said they think gas would hit $3.00 a gallon by summer. I don't doubt that it will but for the love of god don't say that in a poll. I would have definately said it wasn't going to because now the oil companies have a free ticket to raise prices because everybody is expecting it. If 85% of the people said they didn't think gas would be 3 bucks a gallon then the oil companies would have been a little nervous, but now they are home free. I just saw on the news tonight about how "experts" say prices will be much higher this summer too. Here we go again with the free rides for the oil companies. It's just like the stock market, an "expert" says it will go down so it does because everybody sells. We can blame the oil companies all we want and I think those dirty bastards are gouging us and making a huge profit but we giving them as much help as we can. Next time there is a poll about gas prices don't say that you think they will go up even if you do, we don't want to give the oil companies any more help then they already have. I've also been freakin busy lately and have been slacking on the site a little. I've had school work and I've been trying to get another site off the ground but college lets out in this many days so then things should pick up greatly with the site. Yes I made a counter for the days left in college and yes I've had it since there were 244 days left. |
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WEll, last week I discussed my Chinese computer programming professor. It is starting to get rediculous. It is so bad that it has been diculous twice, making it rediculous. He does not understand the questions asked at all and he laughs at random things. It is beginning to become almost unbearable. I don't know if anybody is familiar with ratemyprofessors.com but in this rant I'll give you a few examples of what people had to say about him on that website.
Example 1: Does not understand your questions at all. It is almost pointless to ask a question and very hard to learn something new. This class requires someone to learn many basics of computer programming which is very hard to do with him. I will most likely re-take the class with a different prof so I am not lost in all of my other classes. Example 2: No one could understand what Dr. Lee was saying and he could not understand what we were asking. It was a zoo most of the time and it was hard to take seriously. Example 3: for being a computer teacher it would be a miracle if the guy could learn how to use a mic or how to even get through powerpoint! Example 4: This teacher is worthless. I took CPS501 as a Learning Package, and it was the biggest mistake I made. DO NOT TAKE FOR ANYTHING. Example 5: Possibly one of the worst CPS professors out there. Not only do his code examples not work, he cannot answer any questions in class and his clarity of provided material and examples are very weak. Example 6: can we say IDIOT? There were a few times I tried talking to the guy, and he starts telling me that he is not Dr. Hu. -- Trying to tell him that I know he is not the department chair was a completely different problem. Example 7: Didn't know material, probably teaching this class only due to lack of teachers. So now you can see what I have to deal with every Tuesday and Thursday. I am paying for a class that is a joke and I can't learn anything from. Judging by the rates on Rate My Professors, I'm not the only one either. This just goes to show you what kind of qualifications you need to become a college professor.... none. |
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So the other day in my computer programming class, which happens to have a chineese professor, things started to get complicated. I better start by telling you that I am in no way a racist but this man is incapible of understanding the English language. This I do not understand because he can talk in a way that is mildly understandable but he cannot understand English language at all.
Now, I don't pretend know all there is about computer programming, in fact, I know very little. My friend, however, is very good at it. We went to highschool together and us, along with our other friends, had some pretty good practical jokes. Needless to say we both were lost along with the class, which consists of roughly 20 people. My friend finally raises his hand and brings this to Mr. Lee's attention who of course does not understand what he means. His request was simple "Could we please see some code so we can better understand what you are trying to show us" which was met with something completely off base. So as the class drew on we were silently talking with each other trying to understand what he was teaching when I think he got angry. He called my friend out saying "Do you have something to say?" Well, my friend did have something to say. It wasn't disrespectful or snotty he just reasked his question. This time it was met with a 10 minute speech on respect and something about his kids talking about grades and some other very hard to follow and completely meaningless things. So we were to write a plan for this next program that we have. A program over the stuff that we are paying him to not teach us because he cannot understand our questions. The following is what I wrote. I may have gone a little too far with the big fancy words and the way I word the sentences but as I said in the title, he messed with the wrong people. THE PLAN THAT I TURNED IN: In commencing this programming assignment, I will first proceed to research a little further on the essentials of linked lists. My perception as to what they truly consist of is indeed mildly cloudy. There is a certain ambiguousness surrounding the meaning of the linked list that I aim to eradicate in its entirety. After the removal of the aforementioned ambiguousness, I will proceed to writing the program. As of this time I am inapt to provide you with an extremely analytical form of just how I will construct this program. My vindication for this indeed goes back to the ambiguousness that unfortunately surrounds the linked list. I will give you my most sincere assurance, however, that I will strive to eliminate this which will, in turn, allow me to eliminate the estrangement that I feel toward the linked list. The linked list is indeed rather perplexing to me. It seems that it could prove quite useful if I learn the proper ways to harness its power. As I previously stated, I apologize for seeming shallow and pedantic as I am really not. I assure you that I am giving this assignment utmost importance in my large agenda and when completed it will be a reflection of my hardest a most diligent work. If you didn't notice I used a bunch of really big words that make sense but he probably will not understand. It may be childish or deuche baggish of me to do that but it was fun and he is freakin making me mad. |
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So you walk into the men's bathroom and see three urinals. There is someone at the far left urinal, if you know the unwritten rule of the urinals you will know what to do. This rant is about people who do not know the unwritten rule. It is about people who, if there were a wall of 27 urinals and you were at the far end, they would come stand right next to you. In case you haven't figured it out, the unwritten rule is, if it is possible to leave a space in between, do it. If there are dividers between the urinals then that is a different story but we are talking about the situations where the dividers are not present.
I'm sure in their mind it is ok to come stand right next to someone else with their dong out, heck, they probably want to hold your hand while they pee. Well, I don't swing that way buddy. If you walk in and the two urinals on the end are taken and the third one in the middle is the only option, then it is acceptible, but not when their is the option of and empty end urinal. There is also responsibilty on the shoulders of the first to arrive at the urinals. They must keep in mind that if they take the middle of three urinals they compromise the whole unwritten rule. Now, they are not as much at fault as the "friendly pisser" as I like to call them but in compromising the situation they make it complicated to carry out the guidelines of the rule to the full extent. If you are not a friendly pisser then you must take it upon yourself to ensure that you do your part to prevent the practice of close quarters pissing in the bathroom. If we all work together we can stop the practice of close quarters pissing and eliminate the existance of friendly pissers. This will make for a much more comfortable situation in the bathroom. Next time you encounter a friendly pisser, just shake off on their leg, that should show them you mean business. If they are bigger than you just make sure you can run faster and you don't zip the twin's playpen up in you zipper. |
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You know what I don't understand? How people can just go to someones house and break in and steal something. What would make those ass clowns decide that they want to break into someone's home and steal their belongings. I think it is freaking stpid. You might have guessed I just had this happen to me and I am a little pissed about it. I can't begin to explain what I would do to those ass spelunckers if I found out who they were. They sure wouldn't ever want to steal from anyone again, even if they were capible of walking still.
I guess what I don't understand is why would they spend so much time and energy breaking into some place for a few hundred bucks. Especially they could go get a job and not be lazy butt deuches and probably make more money and not run the risk of becomming B.J. Butt Job's prison lover when they get caught. Then they get to feel what it is like to have something stolen from them, when B.J. steals their butthole's virginity. I know the chances of me finding the people who did this to me are very slim but I am still going to try. The whole time I will spread my message of how stupid people to break in and steal things from other people are. I will also remind them that B.J. is waiting and he thinks they have perty ears. Nitey nite, keep your butthole tight! Let this be a message to anyone who steals from other people. If you keep it up, you will get to meet B.J. and you will also be infected with bigdeuche disease. I believe I forgot to mention bigdeuche disease earlier. It can be a pretty nasty disease so you don't really want to get it. |
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So I was sitting in one of my college classes today and just happened to notice the overwhelming amount of goofy people in the class. Now, you can count on the general one or two goofy people in a class of 30 or so people but this was a class of about 20 and I counted 5. That is a 25% goofiness factor, that is through the roof. When one is put in a room with a 25% goofiness factor, it is hard to concentrate. Now, maybe I'm a goofy bastard too but if I am I sure don't know it so I'll just assume I'm not.
Lets take a look at number one. We have the ogre. This guy is about seven feet tall, weighs roughly 350 pounds, and has a full beard. He is definately the least goofy of them all which is why I started with him. Now number two is one of those people who has something to say about everything, though this is not what makes him goofy. What makes him goofy is the fact that he has a beard that makes him look like he should be on a viking ship. He also has a calculator watch with about 20 different buttons. Beam me up Scotty. Number three is your signiture high pitched voice kid. He is a somewhat large guy that has a voice higher than my four year old little brother. I can't even laugh when I hear it because I'm stuck in awe at how someone with a y chromosome could produce such a high pitched sound when they talked. The next one is the one everyone has seen, the nose picker. Big Red, as I call him due to his red hair, enjoys picking a winner and then chewing on the nail of the same finder he used to go gold mining. If boogers are part of a healthy diet he'll live to be 100. The final goofy champion of the class is Pat. If anyone has ever watched Saturday Night Live and saw Pat you will know what I am talking about. Pat is someone who they do not know if they are male or female. This guy is in fact a male but if he didn't talk, it could easily be questioned. He also has some very entertaining facial expressions throughout the course of the class that he makes at random times. He is by far the most goofy person in my class full of goofy bastards. So I threw up the video of "Cheney's Got a Gun" because I think it is hilarious. I am a republican and I don't bash Bush or anything but I think the video of "Cheney's Got a Gun" is freakin funny and deserves to be showed. It is a quick download even with dialup (about 15 mins) and it is well worth it. Tell your friends where you saw it too and remember to tell them not to forget the hyphen. |
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You know what I don't understand, why all of the holidays are becoming commercialized. Valentines Day is one of the big
ones. All of the sudden it isn't ok to get someone a box of chocolates and a card, you have to buy them a $500 diamond
necklace for a day that is supposed to be about love, not material items. Then they decide to invent Sweetest Day because
there is a lull in holidays and they need something to make some money around that time. This is getting ridiculous.
I do not see the need to spend even any more than $20 on someone for Valentines Day, not including maybe a romantic dinner or something. I really do not see then need to buy someone diamonds or gold or any kind of jewelry on Valentines Day. The worst part is, they play so many commercials about it around now that the women all want something like that. Which is just what the companies want to happen. Then the men get trapped into spending a lot of money on a day that wasn't meant to be expensive. This is just going to keep getting worse too. I doubt it was like this 40 years ago, which brings up the interesting question of what will it be like 40 years from now. Will we be expected to spend $2000 on Valentines Day? I wonder what other days they will invent to take our money. Oooh I know, how about worm day. You know, they day in early spring where we get a rain and there are worms all over the sidewalks. That basically signifies the start of spring, that’s important enough that we should celebrate it by buying each other expensive gifts. Why don't they just be blatant about it and make a "We invented this day to take more or you money" day. I'm sure if they hyped it up enough people would go for it and the companies could make a killing in profits. We are to blame for this too. The companies hype up these days but so to the consumers. If we didn't buy the stuff, they wouldn't put so much emphasis on these little holidays. We just need to quit spending so much on Valentines Days and Sweetest Days and St. Patrick Days, and just keep it cheap and meaningful, you will go a lot further that way. Why not give your loved one the link to Strange-Facts this for a present, there is enough laughs on here to make a great present. Oh yea, if you haven't noticed lately, I put up a |
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So I was walking around campus today and there was someone behind me who refused to pick up their feet when they walked. I guess I fail to understand what makes it so hard to lift your feet when you walk but this girl obviously had some problem with it. For 300 yards all I heard was "scuff scuff scuff," it was really annoying. I just wanted to turn around and yell "For the love of god, lift up your freakin feet when you walk."
They must go through 10 pairs of shoes a year wearing out the soles. I wonder if they realize how annoying and stupid it sounds to hear someone scraping their feet across the ground. It seems like it would take less effort to pick up your feet to walk becaust it would cut back on the friction. That's just my opinion though. You know what else I hate? People who go to an all you can eat buffet and pile thier plates full of food then waste half of it. They don't just do it once either, they do it every time they go up and get food. I don't understand their line of thinking when they do this. Do they think it is alright to waste that much food just because it is an all you can eat buffet. It's not like it is going to be gone when you go back up for seconds so there is no big press for it now. Then there is the people who say they limit themselves to one plate at a buffet and are proud of their self control. Except every time you come back to the table with another plate of food they want to try something off your plate. By the time the meal is done they have eaten another plate worth of food off other people's plates. They only went up once though so they are making strides to lose weight. Oh, and they also ask you to pick them up a piece of pie or cake when you go to the dessert table. So esentially they are being less healthy because not only are they eating more than they say but they aren't even moving around to go get their food. Thats just a short list of a few of the people who annoy me in this world. There are many more but I will save them for a rant some other time. Until then, keep comming back and remember, don't forget they hyphen! |
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Have you ever gone to the express checkout lane in a grocery store only to see someone in front of you with 25 items and the limit is 12? Doesn't that just make you want to slap them and say "Whats the matter, are you too much of a moron to count or do you just enjoy being a jackass?" It sure makes me want to do that. What makes them think that they are so important that they should be the exception to the 12 item limit rule? It is like they are saying that they are so much better than us that the rules do not apply to them. Well, it's time to let them know what happens to people like them.
Next time you see someone in the express check out lane tell them what you think. If they don't move, then just start throwing stuff out of their cart until they have 12 items. I'm do believe this is legal to do in the book of shopping etiquite. I actually do not know of such a book but if there was I'm sure it would be legal to "modify" someone's cart to only contain 12 items in the express lane. It is the very logical thing to do when faced with an "over 15 in a 12" situation. I say over 15 because sometimes you just have to get a couple more things and that is fine with me. Get over three, though, and you move from all right to get the hell outta this line you morphadyke. Yes, I said morphadyke and no, I have no idea what it means. If we are going to win the war with the express lane bandits it is time to take a stand. Let them know what you think of them encroaching into your speedy lane area with their non-speedy purchases. Maybe they will start to get the right idea, or maybe they will just get really pissed off. At any rate, it is worth a try. If they refuse to move, just tell them to go to strange-facts.com and not to forget the hyphen, they will be so curious I bet they will forget about their things and just run right home to come the the site. |
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You know what I don't understand? People who don't thank you when you do something nice for them. For example, say I hold the door for someone, it would be common procedure to thank me for doing so but no, that doesn't always happen. When you hold the door for someone and they don't even look at you as they walk through, doesn't it just make you want to go back and not hold the door open for them. Better yet, hold the door open the slam it right before they get there. For the love of god people, a simple thank you would make the effort I spent holding that door open for you worth it.
What about the people who have just a couple items and you allow them to go in front of you in the check out line. The nice ones will thank you for this but then there are the people who look at you like it was their right to be in front of you anyway and don't say a word to you. This makes me want to slip a bottle of crab shampoo in their basket to they have to try to explain it to the cashier. Or maybe slip a candy bar in their pocket and give a tip to the store security that I saw someone who may have been shoplifting. This is all ok though because they will get theirs. Maybe the person who didn't thank you for holding the door open for them will perish in a freak door accident. Or maybe the person you let cut in front of you at the grocery store who did not thank you for letting them do so will walk out and be hit by a plane crash landing in the parking lot that would have hit you had you decided not to let the person go ahead of you. |
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Well folks, I don't know if it has happened by you yet but around here the
gas prices have sure took quite the jump recently. I don't know about you
but I am interested to see what lame excuse they come up with this time.
You know what I think though? I think they won't even give us an excuse
because they know they can do it and we have to sit there and take it.
It is obvious that we scared them when they showed record profits for the year and were called out on it. Before the proof of the record profits, they said they were just "Passing their cost down to the consumers." When the record profits were posted and they were questioned, the gas prices fell. Now that the questioning has died off, up go the prices again. I guess my question is, why did we quit pressuring them. It appears that when confronted with evidence, the gas prices drop quite a bit. Now, I don't think it would take a geneous to know that this is a sign of quite a guilty consceince. If we ever want to see this gouging stop, we must keep questioning the oil companies. It is rediculous that the price of gas can rise 15 cents per gallon for no reason at all other than "The prices have been low lately, look for increases," as the news stations put it coincidentally right before the increase. I am not accusing the news stations of beinging involved with anything other than giving the oil companies an out to rise prices. I want to know who decided prices were too low and there was going to be a big jump. What was wrong with prices being where they were, other than the oil companies were only making 40% profit instead of 50%. What I am trying to get at is we need to push back against the oil companies. You may read this and think, "What can I do, I am only one person." Well, if you and another 5,000,000 one persons buy a couple gallons of gas less per week, that would make quite the diference. Roughly $10,800,000 less profit per week for the oil companies just to give you a figure. Keep looking for updates on the facts on the site. I should have a few more up soon and they should all be updated before January is over. I think I will add a few more sections to kill some time and make some laughs at. Until next time, Don't Forget the Hyphen! |
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What is it with people not wanting to work today. Is it just so easy to get on wellfare and sit on your but all day that it looks so appealing to everybody. It seems we are embracing it too. Like giving a credit card type method for food stamps rather than stamps so the people using them do not have to be embarassed. I know someone on wellfare who will only buy the best steaks from the store because they don't like the cheaper ones. There is something wrong there.
When did we decide to become useless. I don't understand what would possess someone to just one day decide that they do not want to contribute to society at all and never want to make anything of themselves. I don't enjoy paying for someone to go fishing all day while I work. Also, what kind of work ethic does that teach to their kids, oh yea, it teached no work ethic. What about the people who have jobs but don't care about them. So what if they are fifteen minutes late every time. If they never get punished, what is going to make them want to stop doing that. If they know they can get away with it why not try 20 then 25. Who cares, if they lose their job there will always be the other responsible working individuals to spoon feed them through life. If you can sense the agression in this article it is because I am getting sick of seeing this go on all around me. Where I work even people just don't care if they get there on time and they don't get punished for it. Instead they get raises. If I offended some people with this article I'm sorry but it is how I feel. If you just use wellfare for maybe a couple months until you find another job thats fine by me, just don't abuse it like so many people do. I'm not sure if you noticed or not but I did get the animal facts and percents and stats updated and I am working on all of the other facts. I will have them all updated by mid January with a new insect category added. Keep checking for the new facts and new videos and everything. Remember Don't Forget the Hyphen! |
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You know, I was under the impression that the holiday season was a time when
people were nice and respected everyones beliefs. I guess I was wrong.
I've recently been hearing of a few people who are offended at the term
christmas tree and how they see mangers and whatnot "littering" the streets.
They would like it to be called a holliday tree and instead of wishing
someone merry christmas they want to hear happy hollidays or seasons
greetings. What the crap? Has it really gotten so bad that a few people
need attention so bad that they have to complain because we use the term
christmas tree. I guess I fail to see how that is pressing religion upon
them. I seem to remember an episode of South Park that was very similar to
this when they wanted to put on a christmas play. Everyone kept complaining
and things were changed until the kids all danced around in black outfits
with werid non christmas music playing. It looks like we are headed in that
direction now.
I am beginning to get sick of these people who feel they need to complain that a religion is being pushed upon them by hearing christmas tree or by having under god in the pledge of alliegence when all they are doing is trying to push their non religious beliefs on me. I don't really give a crap if someone doesn't believe in god. All I care about is what I believe in, not what anyone else believes in. If a Jewish person wishes me happy hanukkah, I'll say "Thank you and merry chirstmas to you." I'm sure they will thank me and we will be on our way. I shouldn't have to go around scared to wish people merry christmas because they might try to sue me for pushing my religion on them but I don't think that step is very far off. Just take it easy people and enjoy the christmas season. Don't be a moron and try to make a big deal out of something like a christmas tree just because you are starved for attention. Find something better to do like help someone in need... or get a job. Well, christmas break is finally here so now you will see some changes in the site. I hope to pack a bunch of updates in this four week period before I start the second semester because then the updates will die down again. Just remember, don't forget the hyphen, and happy Christmahanukwanzikah!! |
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What is it with this time of year that suddenly turns people into big angry walking turd sandwiches. It's the Christmas season, people are supposed to be cheery and nice, not angry and yelling. You aren't supposed to get into a fist fight over some toy at the store because it is the last one of a toy that your kid will probably play with for a good 15 minutes then get bored of. You go to these crowded shopping malls and people push and shove past you and give you a look like they want to bury your body in a small unmarked grave in the woods if you politely ask them to move.
The drivers are even bigger turd sandwiches, only they are driving instead of walking, which I guess would put them in a whole other category that we cant compare to so I guess they aren't necessarily bigger.... oh well, forget it. Anyway, I get sick of the people cutting me off and pulling out in front of me. If I see this comming I go out of my way to make it hard for them to cut me off which makes them angry and flip me off like it's my fault they couldn't cut in front of me and cause me to careen off the road, hit a tree, have my car burst into flame, catch a forest on fire, and burn down a foster home full of needy children. I supposed that may be a worst case scenario but it could happen. So if any of you reading this are one of those turd sandwiches, take heed and realize that people notice you and you either need to get some holiday cheer or be flushed down the toilet, because we all know that people like that come from the ass of society and for some reason they are in the form of a sandwich, which makes me even angrier at them. Well, I have a little extra time tonight so I might get a chance to do some extra with the site, if you notice it or not will depend what I do. I may decide to work on the christmas break release which you won't see until late December, early January. Just remember to keep checking bach and Don't Forget the Hyphen! |
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Why is it that during the first snow of they year, everybody turns into a bunch of morons. I suppose this means nothing to anyone who lives where it doesn't snow but here in Michigan, people know what I am talking about. As soon as the roads get a little bit slippery, there are people sliding through stop signs, sliding into oncomming traffic, and spinning in circles everywhere. News flash, last year when it snowed the roads were slippery, simple intuition can tell us that according to historical events, it will be slippery when it snows this year.
It isn't that hard to start slowing down just a little bit more before a stop sign than you did in the dry days of summer. I don't really want to be t-boned by some moron who didn't realize that below freezing temperatures and water can mix to make a slippery subtance known as ice. It happens every year people, its not like its a big surprise. This brings me to the other side of the story. The people who over compenstate and drive only 20 miles per hour. This is ok when the road is an ice rink like I have seen it before but when there is a well salted road there is no need for this. It just causes the people behind you to become very irritated and wish you would plummet off a cliff and burst into a ball of hot flame and then be eaten by a herd of roaming wildabeasts who happened to be there because the truck hauling them slid off the road because the driver was driving too fast on the ice. My point is, use your head and drive slower when it snows, but don't be too extreme about it or you will look just as bad. Well, it seems all I'm having time for on the site lately is changing the picture every once and a while and updating the news. The exams with college are really gettin me right now but there is only 16 days until Christmas break. I'll have a month of nothing school related to do. Which means I can put some good time in on the site. Until then remember, Don't Forget they Hyphen!! |
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Why is it that everybody always waits until the last minute to buy a turkey for thanksgiving. They wait until the last minute and then get angry when the store is all out of turkey. Hmmm, it seems like common sense would tell you that a store might have the posibility of being out of turkey two days before thanksgiving. My girlfriend's dad works at a Meijer in the meat department and he was yelled at several times because they were out of turkey two days before thanksgiving. They accused Meijer of false advertising and everything.
Now, I've never cooked a turkey so I could be wrong but it seems like you are supposed to let them thaw out in your fridge a week before you cook them anyway. So this means that not only did they wait until the last minute to buy a turkey but they aren't going to be able to cook it right. If you are going to wait until the last minute to buy a turkey before thanksgiving, do us all a favor and don't yell at the employees of the store when they are all out of turkeys, its only common sense that they would be. Last minute shoppers for christmas presents is a bad one too but since I've only gotten three people presents so far, I won't rant about that. Well, christmas break is almost here so you will actually see a few significant changes in the site in about three weeks I hope. I'm still working on the big facts update and adding a few more pages of other funny, entertaining, and time wasting things. Remember, don't forget they Hyphen! |
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Well, there is a trend I keep noticing all of the sudden at college. Protest, Protest, Protest. There has been several protests in the last couple months and it seems people keep comming up with ideas for a new protest. Is it really that bad that we need to be complaining all of the time. I mean, sure everybody isn't going to disagree but what good is dozens of protest going to do besides annoy anybody opposed to the protest and perhaps cause them to protest right back. Maybe I should start an anti-protesting protest and see where it gets me.
My point is, yes it is good to be heard and make a statement but you do not need to make a statement about every freakin little thing that is wrong in this world. So Victoria's Secret prints quite a few thick catalogs each year and uses a lot of paper. I don't see that as a reason to make a protest. That is more of a letter to someone important type of thing, not a stand in front of the store and hold a sign thing. This happened by the way which is why I mentioned it. Why is it that people in college always feel they need to oppose something. I'm there and I'm just trying to go at it with a semi-layed back view and I don't really want to expel the effort to oppose something like a company using a lot of paper for catalogs. If I am going to protest, it would be for something like why did the oil companies show record profits with no explaination. Which, by the way, gas prices are going down after that incident, hmmm, something fishy about that. Just quit wasting your time protesting every little thing. This doesn't mean you have to accept everything gracefully, just don't go overboard with something that may not even effect you at all. Use your time for better things, like looking at this site. Now for the site side-note that I always do. Once again, sorry for the lack of updates (this is getting redundant). Just a couple more weeks until Christmas break and then there will be some big updates. Just keep checking, you never know when I might find time to do something on here. Remember, don't forget the hyphen! |
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As you may or may not know, I am a college student. Now, when at college, you run into all kinds of people. Namely all kinds of stupid people. The ones who get on my nerves the most are the ones on the bikes and roller blades. Don't get me wrong, not all people on bikes and roller blades are bad but its the stupid ones that make a bad name for them all.
Gripe number one. Why do you insist on going 957 miles per hour down the sidewalk. I walk and I still have enough time to make it to class, there is no need for excessive speed. This just causes a whole bunch of problems. The other day I watched some girl come flying down the sidewalk on roller blades, narrowly miss one person, smack into another, and then get acquainted with the ground. Now, I did not feel bad for her nor do I think I should have. The only thing she hurt was her pride and it was a result of her intense stupidness anyway. Gripe number two. Why is it that you expect me to get out of your way. You are a guest in my walking space and you yield to me, not the other way around. That said, I don't move for anybody on a bike, skateboard, or rollerblades. You're on a bike, you are top heavy, you'll go down a lot easier than me and look really stupid while doing it too. Finally, gripe number three. How about you just ride on the road whenever you can. I understand a busy road is unfeasable but not the very lightly traveled ones. I don't drive my car on the sidewalk. Maybe if they all ride in the road, the dumb ones will be removed anyway with the tire tread method. You get the idea, if you ride a bike, skateboard, or rollerblades where I am walking, remember you are the one in my way, im not in yours. About the site, sorry for the lack of updates, I've been really busy with college. Christmas break is almost here though, expect a big update around christmas. Keep checking back just to make sure and remember to tell your friends. Always remember, don't forget the hyphen! |
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I've had just about enough of the stupid people in the world today. What is with all of these stupid lawsuits lately. I just read that a group of people were going to sue the milk companies because it didn't say on the label that milk could be harmful to those who are lactose intolerant. Come on people! I don't understand how so much ignorance could be rolled up into one individual. If you don't know that milk could be harmful to you and you are lactose intolerant, then you have far worse problems to worry about. The saddest part is they will probably win too.
I would like to think of the famous McDonald's coffee incident as the one that started it all. So a lady spills coffee on herself and sues because there were no warning labels stating the coffee was hot. Suddenly people realized that they could sue for anything and everything that didn't have a warning, even if the danger was very obvious. Lawsuits are getting out of hand. I also know of a particular lady in a town by me who tries to get run over while she is on a bike so she can sue. This is part of what is wrong with America these days. Lets go out and sue the gun companies because the gun did what it was supposed to, shoot a bullet. Or how about we sue a rock band becuase it sounds like the words "do it" are in one of their songs and some kids tried to shoot themselves. Do what? What if "do it" ment bake a cake, not shoot yourself. Those kids were just messed up. Knock it off with the stupid senseless lawsuite people, it's just idiotic and lowers you to almost nothing. Of course, why would people stop when others keep winning them. That said, I realised I haven't updated the strange lawsuits section in a while. I suppose I should get on the when I have the time somewhere down the line. This is, of course, after I do the billion other things I have to do to the site that I don't have time for. Oh well, just keep checking back and remember, don't forget the hyphen! |
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My rant today is about people who don't tip. I work in a pizza place and though I don't get tips, it still makes me angry when a waitress gets screwed over with a tip. A certain even yesterday comes to mind. There was some cheerleading banquet being held at the pizza place. We moved all of the tables around and got everything set up for them ahead of time. We also gave them about $50 worth of pizza for $20. I would say that there was roughly 20 people out there and we have one waitress. She did a good job and made sure they always had full drinks and we had their food ready for them when they came in. She got a five dollar tip. Now, five dollars is usually a good amount and you may have figured it was 20% of thier bill but remember, they got $60 worth of food for $20. All of the sudden the tip becomes 8% of what their food should have cost. And isn't the etiquete for say a buffet where the waitress only keeps your drinks full about $1 per person. This wasn't even a buffet, it was full service and she got roughly 25 cents per person. Now that $5 doesn't look so good. Not to mention the mess they left.
Come on people. You go out, sit in a chair, have people make your food, get waited on hand a foot, and that's all you can give. Also, the people who think they are our only customers get on my nerve. I'm sorry if instead of 20 minutes your pizza took 25 minutes. You aren't the only people on the face of the Earth who ordered pizza at that time. What's my point you say? My point is if you go out to eat try to think about the waitress. If she is horrible and just acts like she has better things to do, then by all means leave an embarassing tip. But if she is good, and nice, be generous. I also know for a fact that if the delivery drivers get hosed, the remember. That delivery fee doesn't go to them, it goes for upkeep of the delivery car. They have to try to find someone's house that sometimes doesn't even have a number on it just because they didn't want to drive 3 miles to pick up a pizza. If the tip is bad or none at all, they will remember. The best tipping customers get their pizza's faster. If two deliveries come out and one came out 3 minutes before the second but the second tips more, he will take the second first. Why should he worry about the first one, they never tip anyway. There you have it, if the service is good, tip. This will ensure that it is always good. If the service is bad, don't, maybe they will realize why they don't get tips and figure out how to be a good employee. On a side note, the video page should be up today, meaning Wednesday just in case this article is up for a couple of days. I will also get to updating the picture archives so you can see the past 35 pictures that have been put up. I know, im a slacker, thats how it works these days. I have a few more updates up my sleve to make it even easier for you to waste your time here too so keep checking back. And remember, don't forget the hyphen! |
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I guess I will use these articles to post news about the site as well as complain about stuff in the world today. I plan on putting up a section with funny videos sometime really soon. This will be small at first but whenever I get time I will add a few more so it will eventually be big. I am also planning one more big update to the strange facts which will probably be the last update to them. Then the site will be mainly a new pic and news every day (or almost every day) and whatever else I find funny enough to put on here like videos, songs, whatever. So keep checking back and tell your friends so I have encouragement to keep updating. And remember, thats Strange-Facts, don't forget the hyphen.
This rant I bring you today is about the gas prices. Yes, they have been going back down lately but I just saw regular for $2.49 a gallon and thought "that's a good deal, I should fill up." Then I realized that six months ago that price would have really ticked me off, so they have us right where they want us. When $2.49 a gallon for regular looks good to us, you know that exactly what they wanted to happen, did happen. The companies say that they are just "Passing on their higher costs to their consumers." This insults me. Do they really believe that we are so dumb that we won't watch a stock channel at some point and notice that their profits are hitting record highs. If they were just passing on their higher costs to their consumers, why is it they are making 50% profit all of the sudden instead of 10% like they were before. I'm certainly not buying any more gas, are you? This is starting to get rediculous. They keep pushing it more and more trying to see what they can get away with and it seems new excuses keep rising every day in their favor. The best one was when people said if bush was re-elected, prices would rise. After that was said, of couse they were going to rise, it was like a golden ticket for the energy companies. Then there was the hurricanes and tsunamis and typhoons. Whats next "A large band of leprechauns have taken over our refineries, there is a predicted $2 per gallon price hike across the nation. Please, quit insulting our intelligence. Of you are going to gouge us so blaitantly, quit comming up with lame excuses as to why you are doing so. Just come right out and say "We are money hungry slobs who want to take advantage of you whenever we can." Of course that will never happen and until there is a mass produced alternate source of power, there will always be a high demand for gas. They have us right where they want us and there is nothing we can do about it. Oh well, maybe we can join up with that band of leprechauns who took over the refineries and wage a war against them. |
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This is the first of these articles that I am writing so I will try to explain them a little bit. I decided to write a rant article every now and then just about stuff that pisses me off in the world or about some of the weird strange stuff that I see happen all the time. As you might have noticed, I haven't been updating the pictures every day because of college so I'm not sure how often I will be able to post these articles but we'll see what happens. That said, now begins the very first rant...
So I am a freshmen in college at Central Michigan University and I see a lot if interesting things going on there. One that stands out lately is an anti-abortion protest that happened just a coulple of weeks ago. I was handed a little pamphlet with some pretty grizzly pictures of aborted babies in it but I wasn't offended or anything. Being a conservative, I just thought, "thats kind of sick" and didn't really put any other thought into it. Here is where the rant begins. Apparently there were some students so bothered that they were "forced" to view these images that they had to shut down some classes. I see that as rediculous. It has been all over about students saying the people had no right to be out there protesting with such gruesome pictures. The pictures were not false, it is what an abortion looks like. I'm not saying im a radical anti-abortionist but I'm saying I have no trouble accepting the truth. I couldn't help but wonder, had it been an anti-war protest and the pictures being handed out were of soldiers with their legs and arms and faces blown off, would classes have been shut down. I honestly believe they would not have and the protesters would have been credited as being pro-active and great people. It really sucks that there can't be a conservative protest without all hell breaking lose but liberal protests happen all the time without much head turning. Well, that was the first ever rant article for Strange Facts. I guess this article wasn't that funny but funny weird crap happens to me all the time so it shouldn't be long before I get some strange funny thing to put up. Keep checking back. Maybe I'll get some sort of thing for comments on the articles too, I'll see how much time I have. |
