Ranting and Raving

OK first of all this thread is pruely been designed by me (tomcat) to Rant and Rave about what ever I feel like I need to.

Ok to start off. humm lets think.

Ah, I noticed the other day a small chip in the windscreen of the car, not a big deal but being just after pay day all my money was gone and I thought it could wait until next payday. Fair enough assumption right? Wrong, planned my next pay for all my bills, payed them all and spent the rest of my money as I do. Day after I spent my money was the day the windscreen guys were coming to fix my screen, and what happens? The next morning I look at the screen and it is no longer a chip, oh no, but a crack theat strected over the length of the car due to tempertaure changes. So since my money was gone I had to choice but to go into savings, I HATE THAT.

Oh feel free to add your own Rant and Rave about what ever you feel like, it makes you feel better

 

You know what else annoys me, CARPARKS I HATE them HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE

OK i'm done

 

Poor Tomcat, seems like you had a bad day! I hope your windscreen is fine for another ten years now.

 

Whenever I do something really important (So not very often then) on my computer, then I accedently pull the plug out, which then creates a power surge through the machine, and the next time I boot up it has gone back to factory settings.
Not only have I lost the work, but also the program I created it on. And, lets face it folks, who remembers where they put the MS office disk?



Oh and Tomcat, instead of delving into your savings for the new windscreen, why not walk everywhere until your next payday? Or go on a bicycle perhaps?

 

Luckily when I have a power failure on my computer or need to reboot, the settings are saved, at least the programes.

 

One close to me: cancer sucks!!!

 

Yeah well, after mine crashed the first time I got a restore thingy set up so I'm safe now.

Oh and another thing I hate, and I'm sure may other here share it...






















Windows Vista

 

Hey Tomcat, get yourself a credit card and just charge everything ! It's the American way of life !

My rant is the price of fuel. Oil companies make record profits and buy off polticians and our leaders do nothing to start the use of alternative energy before the last drop of oil is produced on the planet !

How much is a gallon of regular gas down under ? Here it is $3.26 and going up by the week.

 

I have 3 tiny starbursts on my windshield. Each time I saw the rock falling off a dump truck,bounce a few times and smack into my window. None of them have turned into cracks
and I have'nt had problems during car inspections.

My rant for the moment: TV commercials!!! Both the quantity and the quality. I don't care about erectile dysfunction treatments, pimple cream or miracle weight-loss potions.

 

The only rant I can think of is the over-abundance of Geico commercials.

 

Huh, try this on for size................:fuse:

YouTube - HEADON! Apply directly to the forehead!

 

ok here goes,

THE TRUCK I DRIVE WIEGHS ABOUT A BAZILLION TIMES MORE THAN YOUR STUPID SUV!! IF YOU PULL IN FRONT OF ME I CAN'T STOP AS FAST AS YOU SO I WILL RUN OVER THE TOP OF YOU AND THEY WILL SUCKING UP WHAT IS LEFT OF YOU WITH A FREAKING SPONGE!! IS IT REALLY THAT IMPORTANT THAT YOU GET TO THE FREAKING WAL MART BEFORE THE NEXT MORON! IS IT REALLY WORTH YOUR LIFE!

ok, i'm done, this just bugs me a bit

 

Hey bigfun, I've spoken with a woman who complained to me that truck drivers are the worst drivers in the world. Her proof for this was..."How many times have you heard on the news about a "jack-knifed" big-rig blocking traffic? I tried to explain to her that people cutting them off is the most likely cause of that, because of the nature of their vehicles design & braking system, and they will do that in an emergency stop/slow-down. She disagreed and kept on with her ludicrous rant as I walked away from that chimpanzee.

My Rant..............Medical Care

U.S. Health Care Most Expensive & Most Error Prone

how much it costs & what you get for it. I see why it's called a practice, and I know who the guinea pigs are.

 

Ahahahahahah! I live in Arizona. My last truck had 16 hits on the windshield including one that was a circle about 3" in diameter and two large cracks before I changed it. The current one has 9 hits on it. Of course, smartly, Arizona doesn't have vehicle inspections and windshields are optional (you do have to wear eye protection if you don't have one)...
Out here it is just a part of life in a desert that you will take hits on the windshield

 

It varies from state to state. But last I checked NSW was around $1.40AU and here in QLD it was around $1.31.

which if I use Google to calculate the difference.

Google says

1 US Galleon = 3.79 Litres

so its around $4.50 US Gallons

 

Ok a New Rant just because it is payday.

Here in Australia the majority of people are payed by their work on a Thursday because they put it in the bank on monday and it makes its way to your account buy thursday.

Now the Fuel Companies know this and on Wednesday hike up the price of fuel. For eg. Wednesday morning it was around $1.20AU and by Wednesday afternoon\Thursday morning it goes up around $1.40, thats a big jump for all because it is payday. They hold those prices across the weekend (when most people go out) thendrop it down by Monday again.

THe annoying thing is that the Government cant do much about it except name the compainies that do that, why? Because the freedom to sell something at what price you want it, you don't want to spend the money, then dont buy it.

I hate that.

 

"Windshields are optional".....LOL. Never heard of that. But, no inspections? Scary. Worn out tires, brakes and steering parts and still on the road?

 

Hi Ike, that one too is a great example. Also, there are tow local commericals that I absolutely hate. Both of these come in 15 second spots instead of the more norm 30 second spots. The first one is a guy selling cars for Ed Hicks Nissan-and the ad-man is Jan Wolters. I especially hate his signature line: "You come and see us." And what is really irritating about this ad-man and his Ed Hicks Car Commercails is that he does a 15 second spot, then you go to 2-3 30 second commercials and then a 2nd 15 second spot comes on and he usually starts out with a VERY annoying: "An-hanhandddd another thing... :fuse:

The other annoying local commercial is a guy who works for Susannes Custom Jewelers by the name of Denny Bales :fuse: :fuse:

Other than that, ads don't irritate me. I have a good friend who can't stand that commerical advertising some drug-which shows a person split in two and then finally comes back together to form one person.

 

Junk mail really is getting bad for me even when I send it back to them with very sarcastic remarks they don't get it and send me even more. For example one particular company got on my nerves so using there own pre-paid envelope with there address on I burnt there junk and sent the ashes back to them, result was they kept sending me there junk again.

 

I'm sick to the back bloody teeth of tv adverts trying to give me a guilt trip about Africa. A large proportion of British GDP is given to the UN to fight poverty- I think I'm right in saying it was a condition of us joining- so what kind of sad MoFo thinks I need to donate even more of my hard-earned cash?
I remember a teller at my local bank who chucked it in '84 to go to Ethiopia; she came back a year later and spent her time showing everyone pictures of her cuddling Ethiopian babies a la Princess Diana. That wasn't about helping the poor, it was an ego boost for her.
If the population of Africa stopped killing each other with (mostly) Russian weaponry, they would be able to feed themselves. And THAT particular problem was caused by the Loony Left in Britain and other places who seem to work on the 'Black good, White bad' principle; it wasn't so long ago idiots were publicly stating that only whites could be racist! They're so obsessed with guilt about a British Empire that most of us aren't old enough to remember, they're oblivious to everything else going on in the Continent. Where were all the anti-apartheid saps when Mugabe was ethnically-cleansing white owned farms? Or genocide erupted in Rwanda? Does it only effing well work one way or summat?
Make your OWN country paradise on earth before you start worrying about anywhere else.