Bmwolf21

My first complaint: Spam text messages. I'd like to find the person sending them out and beat them with a tire iron. Spam email in my free webmail accounts is one thing - but these I have to pay for on a per-message basis. Azzholes.

Bingo. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: My wife has complained about the same thing. Her in-home business line keeps getting those same calls (high CC balances, factory warranty and calls about who makes the decisions to buy such-and-such for her company) and no matter how many times she complains to AT&T they insist that her number is not being sold to B2B telemarketers and is left off those directories.

I hate bad jokes that get the "dead horse" treatment. Somewhat funny once, but use it 10 more times? Yawn.

Stupid people in general. Bad drivers. Oh, and while I don't want to bitch about high gas prices, watching the prices yo-yo back and forth is getting real old real fast. One day it's $1.65, the next it's $1.79, then back down to $1.66, then a 30-cent jump to $1.95 - and those prices have fallen and risen in the last few days. I cannot remember the last time gas prices were so volatile and inconsistent. It's like playing roulette with your gas tank -- "I need gas - will it be higher or lower tomorrow?"

Really should have. Ice fishing on a 60-degree day? Sounds like the perfect day for it to me. :rolleyes:

Those morons blamed the Coast Guard for their situation. Go ahead. Blame the shifting winds, the glaring sun, the lake effect. Blame global warming and Mother Nature. Heck, go ahead and blame the walleye. Blame everything under the sun and the sun. Just don't blame the Coast Guard. That's what some ice fishermen are doing. The Coast Guard and local fire departments rescued some 130 fishermen stranded on a floating island of ice in Lake Erie on Saturday. The rescuers plucked stranded anglers from the ice floe by lowering baskets from helicopters and by sending air boats to reach them. There's a lot of blame to go around, but none of it should be dumped on the Coast Guard. They should be cheered as heroes in this drama. Some fishermen blame a Coast Guard cutter for causing the ice to break away. The Coast Guard says the water in that area was too shallow for the cutter. Some fishermen blame the Coast Guard for not putting up warning signs. "The sun was out and it was 60 degrees -- that is your sign," Petty Officer William Mitchell told a reporter. http://www.cleveland.com/brett/blog/index....on_a_60deg.html

"Tech support" people who don't listen to or read the details of the problem you're having, and instead send you a generic cut-and-paste reply that includes "remedies" that you've already tried (which did not work).

Shiv the mofo.

Why is it these people manage to jump on the roads every time there's a snowstorm and/or bad roads? WTF are they thinking?

Perhaps... :thumbsup:

You're dead to me.

Tyler Perry. Can someone explain to me how this hack keeps getting TV series and movie deals? (I know he has his own studio, it's a rhetorical question.) He's not funny at all, his shows are stereotypical, unfunny garbage (this Madea crap is BRU-TAL) but TBS keeps cranking out new Tyler Perry crap every six months. Dane Cook gets a lot of flack (and probably deserves most of it) but how does Tyler Perry keep getting work?

There's been some rumblings that this was the case. I just couldn't believe that the CEO of the school system would go in front of a camera and toss out such a blatant pile of horseschitt as an explanation - "our people said it would stop snowing at 8 or 9" that everyone knew was nowhere close to the truth.

Rod Blagojevich. Just STFU and go to jail already. No one believes the BS coming out of your mouth. Yeah, we get it - everything you said and everything that has been said about you has been taken out of context. Right. Seniors who flood the grocery stores to stock up for a snowstorm, then rush back out on the streets five minutes after the snow stops falling, only to drive 5 MPH and not stay in a lane. People who clear nothing but a 6" space on their windshield and then hit the roads, unable to see anyone else and blinding everyone with the snow flying off their car. The Cleveland Public Schools CEO who defended his decision to keep the schools open yesterday by saying "we had people tell us the snow was going to end at 8 or 9 am and the streets we could clean up then." Keep in mind it had been snowing since about midnight, this was a storm that stretched across 12 states and we had winter storm warnings in effect saying it would snow until 4-5 PM. So then they reverse ground and decide to close the schools early, further inconveniencing parents who had to come back in the middle of the day. None of this really affected me, but I can't understand how someone in that position of authority has so little common sense.

One more - comments sections under online news articles. Areas populated by anonymous, know-it-all jackasses who are quick to blast the writer and story for what seems to be no good reason. It seems the old George Burns line about "Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair" should now include "posting on Internet news sites."

How hard is it to read a sign and follow it? Seriously. The mall entrances around here have signs that say "Incoming traffic - Keep Moving" for incoming traffic, while the other two sides of the intersections have stop signs and a sign that says "Incoming Traffic Does Not Stop." So why do people stop at the stop sign and then start going, all the while staring at me like "why didn't you stop?" Morons. :censored:

Yeah, it has been...as of yesterday we were 15" over our normal snowfall for January, and they said we've only had something like 5 days without some form of precip since the beginning of December. Not to mention these brutally cold temps. I don't mind the warnings if you're going to come close and are not inflating your numbers. Just be somewhat accurate. BTW, the guy who made the 4-9" prediction is supposed to be "Cleveland's only lake effect snow-trained meteorologist" (whatever that is). He's also from Buffalo and his first gig was at R-News in Rochester.

How about last week here in the Cleveland area? We have four local stations - for Saturday, three had forecast 1-3", mostly in the snow belt; the fourth, the sensationalist "Action News" forecasts 4-9, no distinction between the snow belt and the rest of the viewing area. We got 1" here, the most anyone got from that "storm" was...wait for it....wait for it....around 3", in the snow belt.

Life sucks, and so does this thread. Deal with it. ;)

I'm completely fed up with the snow, ice and frigid temps. I'm really tired of people making more work for me because they don't want to do their jobs or don't know how. I really hate when you ask for basic advice or recommendations on something computer-related and someone has to come in with an uber-technical response on how to build your own computer, router and OS. I guess that's three complaints but I don't really care.

Pretty sure that is the first (and likely last) time I have ever seen the phrases "a great American" and "Sean Hannity" in the same sentence. Unless those two phrases were flipped and separated by the words "is not"...

I really love how bad weather creates bad roads, which for some strange reason serves as a beacon for every crappy driver to jump in their car and drive like an idiot the whole way. I really, really love when the roads are bad and people are being advised to avoid unnecessary travel, but I see them coming into the YMCA to work out -- and then they say things like "man, the roads are really bad today!" Yeah I know, it's really shocking. <_<

It's ironic - I woke up in a bad mood today, and that foul mood has really festered for much of the day - but I have little to complain about here. Except winter. I really, really hate winter lately.

Same here. I hate having to run to an ATM every three days. I rarely carry more than $20 in cash. My apartment complex is in the middle of two big hills, and our parking lot is on a slight incline. We had some ice over the last two days, and yesterday I got a call from the apartment office asking me to "move my truck into a spot so they can plow." I had no idea what they were talking about, until I went down to check my truck and found the area where I had parked was one big sheet of ice (at the top of the slight incline) which let my truck slide backwards out of its spot and into the middle of the aisle.

PA, I don't want to speak for him and don't know if he can help, but you could try PM'ing my brother (MarkAF43) with any questions you might have about the insurance. He does work for a major health insurance co. and might know some ins and outs or tricks that may help. Hopefully he doesn't get too ticked I suggested you contact him... ;)