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Things that make you want to say What the F*CK?
Thursday, December 13, 2007 3:19 PM

Warning... VERY Politically Incorrect

This is one of the infinite reasons that I hate religious people (obviously a bit of an over-exaggeration):

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hr110-847

WHY THE FUCK DO WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE ANY FUCKING RELIGIONS AT ALL!!!!!!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHh

1) Don't our legistlators have more important things to do than to encroach on my religious freedom?   Here, let me name a few:
    - American currency is in the shitter
    - Iraq
    - Afghanistan
    - Border Security.
    - preventing Britney Spears from polluting the gene pool anymore

2) How much money is it costing the taxpayers so that these assholes can diddle themselves while talking about how much better their fairy tales are than everyone else's?  ("Jesus could beat up Muhammed".. "Oh yeah, Vishnu could kick all their asses!".. Let's just have an imaginary Royal Rumble with Jesus, Muhammed, Buddha, Jehovah, God, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Zues, Odin, Santa, and The Tooth Fairy and Mothra while we're at it... settle it all right now)

3) Poverty
4) Crime
5) Electoral Abuse
6) Corporations Controlling the country

God, I am so angry right now, I could kill a cute baby seal with my bare hands and eat its liver.

PLEASE PEOPLE.  Go Vote For Ron Paul!!!  Put Some Sanity back in the government!!

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Sunday, July 08, 2007 9:55 AM

Helpless

http://www.alternet.org/rights/55993

This stuff makes me ashamed of my country.  That we could ever let this happen is astonishing.  That it still continues is repulsive.  An innocent guy getting tortured for 5 years by the US.  We used to demonize other countries for doing these kinds of things.  I have a feeling the taxpayers will be paying for this in lawsuit settlements once people figure out how to do it in a court. 

I never thought I would say this, but: I think that John Kerry (*shudder*) would have made a better President.  Well, at least I don't think he would have done this.
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Friday, June 08, 2007 8:31 AM

At least we're not the only ones ruining our educational system...

Here in the US, we have people trying to teach Religion (Creationism/Intelligent Design) in our Biology classes.

Well, In the UK, we have people putting politics and soft, wishy-washy topics in their Physics classes...

WTF folks?  Physics is one of the coolest, nerdiest sciences there is.  Why the hell are they talking about Bio-fuels and renewable energy?  WTF does that have to do with Physics??  Even if you ignore the politics part of it, what are you measuring or observing when you talk about bio-fuels versus any other kind of fuel?  How much energy does it produce?  What's the rate of energy production?  Physics is all about numbers.  It sounds to me like a bunch of granola-crunching Al Gore-worshipping luddites took over the Physics curriculum. 

Way to go, idiots!
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Sunday, July 02, 2006 9:08 AM

Uhh... I thought "Bling Bling" was dead....

Some people have said that "Bling Bling" was dead as a saying as soon as white people like Kelly Ripa started saying it.  If there was ever a need to pulverize that horse into protoplasmic goo, well, Mattell has stepped up for us with  the Barbie "My Scene" "My Bling Bling" Barbie Doll

Basically, it's the "Materialistic Whore" Barbie, in my opinion.
posted by Tom with 3 Comments
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:24 AM

Miscellaneous


That's all for now. :)
posted by Tom (Comments Off)
Thursday, March 16, 2006 7:31 AM

Identity? What Identity?

I'm glad to see that Chase (JP Morgan Chase, actually) is doing so much to protect us from dumpster divers...

Asshats!
posted by Tom with 8 Comments
Monday, February 27, 2006 12:54 PM

those f-ing bastards!

This kind of shit pisses me off...

So, the early adopters of HDTV will NOT be able to watch HD-DVDs!?!?!?!?

WTF!?  We're the ones who bought your shit so that the technology actually succeeded!  Without us, there would not be HD TVs!!  We took it on the chin so that we could get the technology early.  Now, we're getting f*cked because we spent extra money in the beginning!?  What kind of shit is that!?

Man, I'm angry at this.
posted by Tom with 413 Comments
Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:16 PM

I'm not one to suggest people sue very often, but...

Some british government agency whose name I won't learn confiscated some software being sold when the didn't even know it was breaking any kind of license!  It turns out they were wrong!  WTF?  Let's just start arresting people because they acted like they could be doing something wrong!!   Assholes

You'd think that people in charge of things like this might have some f-ing idea about what they were doing!  What a bunch of friggin idiots! 

My reaction is so totally out of proportion, but this really pisses me off.

posted by Tom with 2 Comments
Friday, January 20, 2006 8:59 AM

Another sign of the apocalypse...

Jack Osborne seen making out with Kate Moss!

Is there no justice in the world!?!?!?
posted by Tom with 1 Comments
Friday, January 13, 2006 4:04 PM

miscellaneous update

Here's a bunch of random stuff that doesn't warrant its own posting..
Enjoy.
posted by Tom with 2 Comments
Friday, January 13, 2006 8:23 AM

Who are you?

I notice, when looking at the logs of my blog that there are more people reading my blog than I really know.  I would say I know maybe 4 people that read this, yet I continuously seem to get about 12+ hits to each blog posting. 

So:  Who are you? :)

Since nobody every seems to comment about anything, I'm left wondering.  Leave me a message (even an anonymous one).

T

P.S. This is in the WTF? category because I couldn't think of one that applied and didn't feel like making more
posted by Tom with 3 Comments
Friday, December 30, 2005 6:00 AM

Clearly there is something seriously wrong with people....

Out there, there are women who, as a result of some flawed genetics no doubt, want to wear $3000 hand bags.  These are not childhood playmates of the Hiltons'.  These are working women.  I used to work with one.  She actually purchased a $3000 Prada hand bag.  To belabor a point: She purchased a small 4x8 inch pouch made of cloth, not gold, that is used to hold Kleenex, lipstick, money and occasionally tampons for THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS!  She's putting tampons in a $3000 bag!

OK, for those women who still have the "I have to have the $3000 hand bag to go out somewhere" gene, but the "holy crap, I can't afford that so I'm not going to do it" gene is still in place, these people have come to your rescue.

So, you can go out with your tampons safely tucked into your $3000 (rented) bag for the night and be completely paranoid about losing it for a whole evening.  How enjoyable.

Idiots.

Please don't breed.
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Friday, November 18, 2005 8:20 AM

The audacity of Sony

The audacity of Sony in handling this "root kit" disaster of theirs leaves me nearly apoplectic...

Bruce Schneier writes a great article at Wired about the whole situation and points out some really great reasons to get really pissed off:  If you don't know of Bruce, he is a great resource for computer users' rights and is always fighting for the "right thing" when it comes to software.  Everything he writes is very cogent and on the mark; it really makes you think.

Anyway, here's a very small background on this issue:
  • In 2004, Sony decides that they want to watch what they do with the CDs that you BOUGHT from them on your computer.
  • Sony adds secret software to their CDs so that when you put them in your machine, it installs without your knowledge.  This software watches what you do with Sony's CDs and sends that information back to Sony!
  • In order to avoid detection, Sony installs what is called a "root kit" that allows them to hide the existence of this software.
  • This software can't be removed without crashing Windows.
  • Sony executives just act like a bunch of elitist pricks saying things like "Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
  • Sony issues a "fix" that removes the cloaking of the software, but doesn't remove the software itself!
  • It turns out that some included software in there might actually be violating other people's Copyright, which is exactly what they were supposedly trying to prevent!
  • People have now written viruses that take advantage of Sony's installed software to hide themselves from the rest of the machine (including anti-virus software as far as I know).
  • Sony has yet to actually issue a removal tool that actually removes.
  • The number of machines with this root kit installed on it number over 1/2 million and some of those are in the DoD... not good.
  • Your anti-virus software does NOT remove this....
Read the article for other details and reasons to get mad.

This makes me so mad that we bought a Sony TV the other day for my mother-in-law.  I will not buy Sony products anymore.  How about you?

To
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:55 PM

I pity the fool who gets lost!

So, according to this MSNBC article, you will soon be able to get your navigation system to give you directions using Mr. T's voice, amongst other things.  It is truly a sad day for Mr. T's finances when he stoops to saying “Mr. T gonna get you there in one piece … you gonna be there safely, or else!” (when are we going to start chastising our celebs for using horribly asinine grammar?).

I miss the Mr T that everyone feared, not the one that we ridicule and pity (no pun intended).

I wonder if this is the start of something new...

Things Mr. T might start doing for money next:
  • Mr. T on my car alarm or my microwave ("Yo food be done, fool!"). 
  • Rent him for a party and have him walk around saying catch phrases and growling. 
  • Drug him and put him on an airplane and have a good chuckle about it when we land. 
  • Rent him for kids to ride around the yard instead of a pony.
How embarassing...
posted by Tom with 449 Comments
Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:24 AM

Can we force a state to leave the Union?

Kan-fucking-ansas....

These asshats have voted to destroy the integrity of Science in their classrooms and to become the laughing stock of the entire world.

I mean, for Christ's sake, even the Vatican is saying that these people are dumb (my interpretation)!

I am now going to try to see if there's a hurricane generator somewhere I can send in the direction of the Kansas board of education...

Update: At least the people in Dover, PA got it right and booted every single member of the Board of Education that was up for re-election.

That just rocks!
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:02 PM

I like coffee but not this much...

I don't have time to make art with my coffee, do you?

Anyone need a new hobby?

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Thursday, September 01, 2005 7:51 AM

Religious nuts are ruining this country

If we don't stop this soon, we are going to be in a world of hurt.

This stuff really, really scares me.

Someone actually thought this was rational enough to file a lawsuit with a straight face:
A group representing religious schools in California is suing the University of California system. At issue, the question of whether creationist courses in high school are counted as science credit for college admissions.
THE CREATION STORY IS NOT SCIENCE!!!!

Hell, there are TWO creation stories in the Bible anyway!  You can only have one accepted theory of anything.  Nevermind that there are no scientific measurements or anything else in the Bible referring to Creation.  There is no supporting evidence OF ANY KIND for the Creation story.

This makes me so angry, I want to hurt these idiots.

Update: I wonder what they think about this story.  Faked results?  God's just not very inventive and reuses the same patterns over and over again?

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Monday, August 29, 2005 12:43 PM

Oh my GOD Magnum!

OK, this has nothing to do with Magnum, P.I. That's just what went through my head when I read this:

They're now allowing kids to swear in school!
And this from the Brits!

Sure, kids swear, but actually being allowed to say the "f word" in class??

That's just ri-effing-diculous!
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005 5:01 PM

Earth Girls Are Easy

Or at least the ones that go to this high school in Ohio are.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:14 PM

Call me "Jitters"...

This guy is trying to visite every Starbucks in the World!

I like my coffee, but geez...

My favorite quote: "Every time I reach a Starbucks I feel like I've accomplished something, ...when actually I have accomplished nothing."
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Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:31 PM

The Police (in general) have completely lost their minds...

No, I'm not talking about Sting's old cronies...

I'm talking about the morons who, along with a district attorney, were charging an 11-year old girl with a felony for throwing a rock at boys who were pelting her with water baloons...

Umm... sounds like pretty normal kid's behavior to me.  Well, except the rock was a little bigger than normal.
Still, "During her five days in detention, Maribel was reportedly granted one 30-minute visit by her parents."

An 11-year old girl was denied access to her parents for FIVE DAYS?  WTF is wrong with these people?

It's not like she shot these kids... they were riding by on bicycles hitting her with water balloons...  It was a normal response.  I might even do the same thing and I'm 33! 

Anyway, this kind of stuff is ridiculous.
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:16 AM

This is just so shameful

Sometimes, I try to make up funny things to say about news headlines and things, but, frankly, this is almost as horrifying to me as the Enron (et.al) scandals.

Sony to Pay $1.5M Over Fake Movie Critic (AP)

Some MADE UP a film critic in order to make up their own reviews for their movies.  That is frankly appalling.  There are SOOO many critics, how could they not find any that said what they wanted?  So ridiculous.  And they only have to pay $1.5 million.

T
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Friday, July 29, 2005 10:33 AM

Do you remember when.....

...NASA was the place that all little kids thought was filled with geniuses?

Now, they're a bunch of buffoons pissing away all our tax money.

Come on... 2 1/2 YEARS and > $1 BILLION dollars and they still don't have this crap fixed yet??  WTF?

Idiots!

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Thursday, July 21, 2005 4:29 PM

Un-Mother-F-ing Believable!

First, they want to stop using red ink while grading papers because it is so negative that it might hurt your whining little sissy of a child's feelings.

Now this:

Liz Beattie, a retired teacher, will call on the association's annual gathering in Buxton, Derbyshire, to "delete the word 'fail' from the educational vocabulary to be replaced with the concept of 'deferred success'".

DEFERRED SUCCESS?  WTF!?

Pretty soon kids will be pulled from one womb and dropped right in another womb and deprived of all contact with the outside world, because there might be something negative out there.

We need to take these little maggots out of this Nerf world we're making for them and introduce them to the world of:
  1. Pain (spank them, they deserve it)
  2. Suffering (don't give them everything they want)
  3. Ridicule (doesn't matter... everybody needs some)
  4. Derision
  5. Sharp corners on counter tops (stop running into things dumbass!)
  6. Completely accessible electrical sockets (stop sticking metal things in there dumbass!)
  7. Red ink and lots of it.
  8. Scissors with sharp edges that you have to run with in gym class.
  9. Last but not least: LAWN DARTS!

posted by Tom with 1 Comments
Saturday, July 16, 2005 9:04 AM

Girls will be boys...

I have always told people that, if I had children, I would want them to be girls until they are around 10 years old.  This way, you can have the cute little girls, but not have to deal with them dating, which is every father's nightmare in my mind. 

This was always said in jest and with a smile.  That is, until recently when someone told me that, if I want to I could go to the Dominican Republic and get a child just like that!  No, this isn't a lie.  Here is a story (NSFW) from the Urological Sciences Research Foundation about the "Guevedoces" (literally "penis at 12 years").  These are people that are "female" until puberty and then, mystically, grow penises!  There are explicit pictures at this site, so don't visit this from work.

That is crazy.

T

Update: Seems like this is spreading.  Apparently some 21 year old woman from Myanmar always dreamed of being a man.  Well, she got her wish: her breasts disappeared and she grew a penis overnight.  Here's the link
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:06 AM

Gee... think this guy's seen the Jackass Movie?

This just makes me say OUCH

Of course they actually inserted them, didn't just grip them...

Thanks to Dave Barry for my daily shudder...

T

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Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:11 PM

Ummm... Doesn't this guy know about the Internet?

I mean... if you want to watch women take dumps, there are plenty of places for that on the Net, I'm sure...
But, this guy decides it's a good idea to climb INSIDE AN OUTHOUSE TANK

*shudder*
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:39 PM

In case you wanted one carpet to cover your floor, walls and ceiling ... twice..

Check out the world's largest Persian rug...  Holy cow. (no.. it wasn't made in India!)

By the way, for those of you interested in Persian Rugs, Barry O'Connell's site is extremely informative.

T


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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:58 PM

It's JOHANN!!! (Someone at Yahoo needs to wake up.)

Check out this news headline 

That is really funny.  On a good note, it'll be interesting to see how this composition is accepted by Johann Sebastian Bach's fans.

I wonder if it was written by a protege or something...

We'll never know.

Thanks to Emily for showing me this in the first place
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 1:22 PM

As if Nike doesn't have enough money to come up with their own logos...

They have to steal one?

Look at this... on the left is Minor Threat's self-titled album... on the right is a new Nike advertisement...

umm....

What a bunch of asshats.

Thanks to GrapeJuicePlus for the original store and to Pitchfork for this article
posted by Tom with 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 28, 2005 1:00 PM

Yeah, but wait until they start killing us all...

Doctors are making zombie dogs by reviving them hours after death
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Sunday, June 26, 2005 12:21 PM

Welcome to my blog's new home..

This is the new home of my blog.

Thank you for following me here.

I apologize, but the comments did not make it over with the porting of the archives (it was just too much effort).

I hope this works a little better for all you readers out there (*cough*).

Tom

P.S. Anyone that's interested can also check out my MythTV blog (very geeky topic though)
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Sunday, June 19, 2005 4:30 PM

This is like something out of a bizarre mafia movie...

One of the jurors in the Michael Jackson molestation trial turned up at a fete celebrating his acquittal...

WTF?
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Friday, June 17, 2005 4:29 PM

This guy is the reason torture should be legal in the US...

If ever there were a reason to look the other way while inmates are violating and brutalizing someone, this is it:

Wired News: "Man May Have Molested Thousands"
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 4:28 PM

Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Alright... which asshat voted for "Origin of the Species" as a harmful book? Jesus I hate these religious fuckers!
(hehe... I just re-read that sentence... "Jesus", "religious" and "fuckers" all in the same sentence!)

Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 4:27 PM

Next thing you know, they'll ban sports because fat, uncoordinated kids go to school there...

Edmonton school may ban sale of milk
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Monday, March 07, 2005 4:23 PM

Study Slams Milk's Healthy Bones Reputation

Maybe this will make people stop consuming nourishment that was meant for the infants of another species... Never mind all those hormones in it and all the negative reactions lots of people have to consuming dairy products.

Study Slams Milk's Healthy Bones Reputation
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Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:22 PM

In the "Life Imitating Art" category...

Remember that Seinfeld episode where Newman kept a bunch of mail in his apartment because he didn't want to deliver it (it was cold out or something)?

Well, some slacker decided to try that out in real life. And apparently, "it's not uncommon..." !
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:21 PM

States Mull Taxing Drivers By Mile...

I'm sure there won't be any "big brother"-style abuse of this... naaaahhh.. never!

States Mull Taxing Drivers By Mile
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Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:21 PM

The Australian: Kite-flying event claims 13 lives [February 07, 2005]

The title pretty much says it all...
Kite Flying? Man... tell me Darwinism's not looming large in this one.

The Australian: Kite-flying event claims 13 lives [February 07, 2005]
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:20 PM

Hey man... your head looks just like... my tires??

Pistons' Hamilton heads up tire ad - 02/01/05

Weird.
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Thursday, January 27, 2005 4:14 PM

...used his own blood to write a note on a seat bottom. Using the heart symbol, he wrote "I love my kids" and "I love Leslie."

This guy should be kept alive in Federal Pound Me In the Ass Prison as the resident prison ***. No suicide out for this guy.

Hey... if you want to kill yourself, you selfish ***, eat a shotgun... don't try to take other people with you!
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Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:10 PM

'Giant' 17-pound baby born in Brazil

Can you say "ouch" ?

'Giant' 17-pound baby born in Brazil
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Friday, January 07, 2005 3:41 PM

US sees growth in CD sales market

The BBC is reporting that
CD sales have increased 2.4% in the US in 2004.


Boy... it's amazing how their sales went down due to "piracy" at the SAME EXACT time as the economy was taking it in the poop-chute. And now, as the economy is recovering (hear me Democrats?), the CD sales are rising. Kinda strange, since "piracy" is supposedly continuing to increase.


By the way, I call it "piracy" in quotes because the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) likens downloading music to raping and pillaging when it is not even really theft. In order for something to be theft, you have to be depriving the rightful owner of that thing. Downloading music is a copyright violation. Not nearly as insidious as the RIAA wants you to think.
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Thursday, January 06, 2005 3:41 PM

I'd put up a shrine to Satan in my yard SO FAST...

Don't worry... that title will make sense in a second...
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Thursday, January 06, 2005 3:40 PM

All kids are treated equally in our schools...

...but we let the cripples burn if there's a fire.

Un-freaking-believable!
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