Non-horror bitch session

[WL Paynecraft]

I'm starting a thread of random stuff that pisses me off.  I usually have about one a week, so I figured that justifies a thread.  Feel free to join in. 


I think that the term "blogger" needs abolished.  I think instead it should either be "random dude/girl" or "qualified journalist".  Blogger connotates some kind of expertise (at least to me), and it really shouldn't.  It's a little misleading.  It's like the food that is labelled "0 grams fat" on the front of the package, but then has 1,000 carbs.  Thanks for intentionally misleading me. 

[Splatterscribe]

I'm down with this. I agree Payne. Case in point: I stopped giving a crap about the RT Tomameter when I realized sixty percent of the "critics" whose scores are tabulated  are now bloggers with registered websites who are -based on the material they've published online- actually less qualified to determine what constitutes a good film than I am. One day I'm going to register a domain name and set up a site where I review the reviews of these bloggers . I'll have a "crapometer" and guide people to who they should actually read and who they should point and laugh at.

My rant is about the word "casted". What the fuck is with these people who refer to someone being given a role in a movie as being "casted". It's "cast". It is always "cast". In fact, this is one of the rare occasions in the English language where the word doesn't earn suffixes or prefixes based on it's various usage,with the exception of  the term "casting" - which describes the process in general and not the specific action or state of being cast - which should make employing it properly in a sentence a fairly simple task to navigate when communicating online. But, no, instead there's been this remarkable surge in the number of times I've cringed and felt my sack curl up as I had to read " I didn't like that guy they casted in the ANOES remake" or "Did you hear? Christian Bale was casted for the Fighter".  Holy tap dancing shit on a waffle, people. This isn't rocket science. Drop the cell phones, stop sending texts like "R U LOLING 4 the LULZ " , pick up a  dictionary and embrace the beauty of literacy for fuck's sake.

[GiveMeGore]

Drop the cell phones, stop sending texts like "R U LOLING 4 the LULZ " , pick up a  dictionary and embrace the beauty of literacy for fuck's sake.

Thank you. What really drives me nuts is on ESPN when they show atheletes "Tweets" or whatever you will.... and these millionaries can't spell or write fucking even remotely legible. Drives me nuts. Put a fucking capital on your god damn "I"s please. Clean it up. Morons.

[WL Paynecraft]

I totally agree.  ESPN also makes me mad by reading tweets to begin with.  Like I give a fuck about some random athlete's whimsical musings that, if the tweets have any bite at all, will undoubtedly be retracted as soon as they get publicized.  Is this journalism? It's the equivalent of the horn on a car.  Sure, you can act all tough and honk at me because you thought I cut you off.  However, when the rubber hits the road and I get out of my car to administer a beatdown, suddenly you're not so brave.  Totally hypothetical situation, by the way : ) Same deal though.  I tweet that Prime is a jackass.  He calls me out on it.  I retract or say I was joking.  Great transaction there. 

And if you want to follow some dude's every move.  Get a newletter or get on the mailing list or some shit.  I still am a little confused as to how Twitter even exists.  Isn't it basically just glorified Messenger? That would be like me inventing an X-Box with a cup holder.  Sure, it's slightly more convenient, but do I really deserve to get rich off of that shit?

I also agree about the English language.  Embrace it, learn it.  Spelling, math, geography, give it a shot. 

I also get annoyed at applications that require passwords with letters AND numbers.  95% of the world is just going to put a 1 at the end of their original password anyway.  How does this help? I forget that the password originally required numbers, so I forget to put the 1 on the end.  Then I have to type all the shit again and re-think whether I typed it accurately to begin with.  Rework.

[traumamama]

I would not join Twitter for a long time, I was against it.  I just didn't understand the point of it.  But a favorite comedian of mine was talking about it, and I started to understand what the fuss was about.  I don't follow all my friends, that would be boring.  I don't follow people who don't have something interesting to say.  I follow a bunch of comedians, and they are constantly updating with their funny takes on things that happen throughout the day.  I also follow some news people, like Anderson Cooper and The New York Times.  That way, I don't have to go to the news sites and skim through all the stuff I don't care about.  They tweet each big story with a link, and if the headline sounds interesting to me, I'll read it.  Basically, when I go on Twitter I read a bunch of amusing tidbits and some news.  I also follow Roger Ebert, who links to a lot of really interesting articles about movies.  There's a lot of very interesting stuff floating out there.  I totally understand an outsiders point of view, because it used to be my point of view.  And there's a lot of celebrities that post boring, illiterate crap.  When that happens, I stop following them.  But there's also some celebrities that are surprisingly intelligent, and actually have interesting things to say.

As for Rotten Tomatoes, I think metacritic.com is a better site.  They only include printed reviews, I believe.  And they rate each review for a percentage of how much they liked it, rather than just if they liked it or not.  Then they average all those percentages.  I always check there, and I feel like their scores are a lot more accurate than RT.

[FatalTragedy]

I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT!!!

[GeneralCinema]

I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT!!!

“It's anchorman, NOT anchor-woman!”

[Splatterscribe]

So I find out that the head of the POA (Property Owners Association, for those of you who are fortunate enough to not know what that means) that manages the community where I'm employed wants to remove the chair from the guardhouse where I serve as a security officer.

Okay, no shit folks- how uptight does a person have to be to arbitrarily come to this conclusion at 9pm while driving past the gate? Is he so bereft of better things to do with his time that he's required to occupy it by finding new and interesting ways to make our job even more miserable than it is? And that's the focus of my bitch session : POA's, HOA's..they all suck massive amounts of cock.

Who in the hell assigns any power to these people? What are the necessary qualifications to be on the board of a POA? Is there a check list of lousy  personality traits that they need to personify?  "Wanted: Middle aged former yuppies who drive Miata's to act as intrusive, unreasonable overlords while eliciting fines from the unsuspecting saps who have no idea that they've moved into the sixth level of hell. No Democrats,please."

The worst part is -aside from the stupid rules and ridiculous fines they delight in imposing upon hapless home owners who dropped half a million to live in the fucking community in the first place (I just know these people are sitting in a darkened room somewhere, black candles burning, the flames casting eerie shadows as they rub their hands and cackle with evil glee while denying tenant applications and having cars towed) - these people act as if their power carries over into real life. As if I or anyone else who has reached the age of reason  is honestly going to show them some sort of reverent display of servitude when we run into them in a supermarket or other public setting while off property.

Hey,POA ghouls, get a fucking clue already. Here's the cold water, alright? You're part of a POA. It means exactly and precisely  jack shit. Once we're out of the community, you have as much authority as a kitten trapped in a dog fight.

To quote Ford Prefect from Douglas Adams' novel Mostly Harmless: The finger to the lot of them.

[GiveMeGore]

so you gotta stand for 8+ hours at a clip? Uuuuufffffff........fuck that noise, man. I say come packing a stool or foldable chair or something. Tuck that bitch away from eyes sight. When these assclowns come rolling, just quickly stand up. Fuck em.

[GeneralCinema]

so you gotta stand for 8+ hours at a clip? Uuuuufffffff........fuck that noise, man. I say come packing a stool or foldable chair or something. Tuck that bitch away from eyes sight. When these assclowns come rolling, just quickly stand up. Fuck em.

It's actually a cold day in hell because I agree with GMG.  If I'm not mistaken, you work a shift that's longer than 8 hours.  Yeah, I'd be putting in resumes left and right and I'd bring a chair.  If it's THAT important to them that they don't pay for a CHAIR for their employees to sit on, they should have no problem if said employee bring in their own chair.

[Marshal Earp]

I agree 100% with that bastard face GMG. Screw them. Stand up for 8 hours straight??? WTF! The foldable chair idea is a winner BTW.....

The only thing in your rant I'll have to call you out on Splatt is the no democrats apply comment. Come on man, if he's driving a fucking Miata it's a 200% certainty he's a democrat.


#Edit- Anyone else reminded of that Seinfeld episode where George is outraged at the security guard not having a chair to sit in?

[WL Paynecraft]

I'm all about strolling in with a Captain's chair...

I heard about these jackholes on the news a couple months ago.  They were hitting people with random egregious fines.  If the people didn't pay or forgot to pay, they were fucking up their mortgages somehow, causing foreclosure.  I included a link as one example.  Unbelievable power trip, not unlike the fuckers from Directv hitting me with that $400 break-lease fee last year.  Where's the sense of right and wrong nowadays?


http://lincolnnewsmessenger.com/detail/114271.html

[Splatterscribe]

The only thing in your rant I'll have to call you out on Splatt is the no democrats apply comment. Come on man, if he's driving a fucking Miata it's a 200% certainty he's a democrat.

Not necessarily. The Miata is the Floridian wannabe Porsche. And I used the "no democrats" line because the people occupying the POA board are primarily wealthy white middle agers who have a real affinity for targeting anyone under their economic grade who is of a different ethnicity. They could write a brochure for the republican party.

To clarify-the guy wants the chair gone. It hasn't happened yet. If it does, I already have a folding chair on standby to bring with me. My issue is with the fact that this guy is so upright and controlling that he literally has nothing better to do at 9pm on a Monday than drive around looking for the next thing he can alter to make the job completely unpleasant. I don't know where they find these people.

[GeneralCinema]

I don't know where they find these people.

Probably under the same rock that DMV employees crawl out from under.

[gorific89]

Fucking DMV put wrong information on my license, they showed it to me and asked if there was anything wrong. For one she missed spelled my last name, and two she put me down as female, and she copied all this info from my old license so i have no idea how she made that mistake.

Anyway I tell her right there that they have false info, she apologizes and makes a call telling them to cancel that last fax and to print out a new one. And she tell me she'll send it in the mail and it should take no longer than a day.

It's been 2 weeks now. I check my mail yesterday and see a letter for Mr. Mendoza... who the fuck is that?

I guess its me... however you think they'd put ms. mendoza being they also had me down as female...fucking assholes....

So yeah aside from the coolness of a false alias to help get me outta a jame this pretty much sucks...