| Discrimination FAQ |
[14 Aug 2008|03:43am] |
Q: Why are the sales staff in your store 100% one gender?
A: Because the company does not want to hire more than one sales person
for budgetary reasons and no hermaphrodites applied last time the
company did hiring.
:-D
Just my odd thought of the day. ^_-
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| Dumb dumb dumb dumb! |
[10 Aug 2008|01:26am] |
For anyone who doubts my claims to having witnessed the dumbing down
of McDonald's here's proof of just how dumb the Mcpeople are getting:
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051009/NEWS01/510090392
Extrapolating the dumbing down over the time since I've left assuming
the same rate of dumbing per year that I witnessed I can easily see
this happening.
When I read that the "maintenance guy" (the job I used to do) was the
one who figured out something was wrong I chuckled then when I read
that he was a 9th grade drop out I was laughed so hard! Somehow it's so
often the drop outs who are the smart ones! :-D
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| A crappy acronym... |
[21 May 2008|11:53pm] |
Yesterday I was reading a message board and saw the "Price Of Oil"
refered to as "POO". :-D (Took me a few minutes to figure out what
they were talking about. ^_-)
Just thought you'ld all find that slightly amusing. :-)
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| Happy New Year! |
[01 Jan 2008|12:28am] |
For your entertainment pleasure I'll start out the year with some
statistics I made up! :-D (O.K., they are all derived from a small
grain of reality, some estimation and a twisted interpretation. ^_-)
#1: 97% of women over 50 who have a family member that works for
a bank are paranoid that they'll be kidnapped and held for
ransom because of it.
#2: 25% of American men do not know that they are men!
#3: Every year a growing percentage the population lives to be older
than the number of year they know how to count up to.
#4: Missouri is the most popular retirement destination for former
rock band members and jack hammer operators.
#5: 5 out of 7 women ages 50 to 75 enjoy diarrhea.
#6: 20% of Americans will be disappointed when you phone them if you
don't try to sell them something.
#7: No 2 people in Toronto speak the same language as each other
#8: 15% of Americans still keep slaves despite the 13th amendment
to the constitution.
#9: The most popular use of slaves in the U.S. during 2006 was to
fill in for a broken answering machine.
#10: 75% of Children play their Ipods too loud.
#11: The average male has a 10 second attention span.
#12: 2% of females 18-65 years of age are embarrassed about how often
they watch situation comedies
Explanations can be read if you click on comments. ^_^
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| This story is so gay...but funny! :-D |
[13 Dec 2007|01:17am] |
"Oh, Murphy... I love you. Give me some kisses. You're such a bad girl..."
In 1994, an infamous CIA memo – the "Murphy" memo – made its way around Capitol Hill. The report claimed graphic evidence (a recording) proving that the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, Marilyn McAfee, was a lesbian. We can only imagine what the tape must have contained...
According to the CIA, McAfee was having an illicit affair with her secretary, Carol Murphy. The information must have come as quite a shock to McAfee's husband.
A reasonable reader of such a memo might have rightfully wondered why the CIA was bugging the bedroom of an ambassador of the United States? And why Ambassador McAfee's personal life was an issue of national security?
According to Tim Weiner's new book, Legacy of Ashes, the reason for bugging the ambassador was to protect a Guatemalan colonel... who'd participated in the murder of two well-connected Americans. Senior Guatemalan military officers can be embarrassing friends. Keeping order in that part of the world (and keeping the locals in line for United Fruit Co.) sometimes meant knocking heads... and sometimes it meant knocking heads off.
According to U.N. estimates, close to 200,000 civilians had been killed in the years following the 1954 CIA-led coup – nearly all of them by the ruling junta. No one much cared what happened in Guatemala as long as Americans stayed out of the fighting. But in 1994, the Guatemalans knocked off two of the good guys, and there was going to be hell to pay.
In an attempt to save himself, the colonel bugged the ambassador. He gave the tape to the CIA's station chief in Guatemala... who sent it around Capitol Hill in an effort to discredit the ambassador and take the heat off the implicated colonel... who was, incidentally, his agent.
The plan might have worked (as it undoubtedly has many times before and since) except for one small fact: The ambassador wasn't, in fact, a lesbian. Nor was she having an affair of any kind. The tape accurately and correctly depicted the ambassador's fondness for her two-year-old, black standard poodle – Murphy.
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| Off the shelf, built in obsolesance... *_* |
[10 Sep 2007|04:58am] |
After seriously examining the case design of Carlene's Compaq computer
I would like to comment the case is made of green Jew plastic and Jew
screws...
Stupid brand name proprietary crap! *_* These off-the-shelf
computers all have at least one design flaw that will trip up
future attempts to upgrade, sometimes several flaws. I mean
adding an extra hard drive or replacing a hard drive with a
bigger one is normally a pretty common and upgrade and an easy
one on any computer assembled in a small local shop or by do
it yourself'ers, or even in name brand-ish computers that are
old enough.
Reminds me of the old Jewlett-Packard I used to own, only 3 power
connectors coming out of the power supply. I mean even the cheap
ass off brand cases have 4! (If you are a bit more discriminating
when first buying, 6 connectors on the power supply is relatively
easy to come by.) It's better to have too many than too few, you
never know what you are going to want to add down the road!
Her Compaq has enough connectors to put in an extra hard drive and
even an empty space but instead of a standard case design where we
can just secure the hard drive in place with standard screws that
could be stripped from her old computer we need special Compaq
Jew-screws on each side to side the drive in from the front after
taking off the whole front. Even to learn that much I had to go
to the (slightly incomplete) website, the computer came with _no_
documentation about the case! As opposed to my build from parts
computer where _everything_ for every part is fully documented
in the manuals that came with each part.
The problem was finaly resolved by picking up an Acomdata external
USB hard drive enclosure like the one I use for backups. Though for
something that's intended to be left on all the time it's a lot less
elegant and $40 more expensive than if we could have just easily put
the additional hard drive in the case to begin with... -_- (If you
ever buy one of these there is actually a small design flaw whereby
you can put in the hard drive 2 pins over but it fits and this isn't
documented on the Acomdata web site or the manual, so ask me about
it before putting it together, otherwise a good product. ^_-)
The Centurion 534 from Cooler Master is the best case I've had on
a computer yet! 6 connectors on the power supply, 5 5 1/4 inch bays
on the front available, a 3 1/2 inch bay on the front for the floppy
drive (if you use one), several extra places inside to put extra hard
drives if you need them, lots of elbow room in general so stuff isn't
getting in the way of other stuff. And every feature of the case is
documented in the book that comes with it. (The last thing you want
to have to do is go look stuff up on the internet while your computer
is disassembled. *_*) This is the case I wish every Brand name
assembler of computers used! I've got plenty of room to move if I
want to change something.
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[02 Sep 2007|06:01am] |
I've never considered myself rich but...
Apparently I'm part of the "rich man's anarchy". ^_-
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[02 Sep 2007|05:45am] |
Apparently what I looked up as a result of having done the test changes
the results though...
Urban Dictionary has apparently made me a little less black than I
was before. ^_-
I'm curious what Iain's results would be, after all I've said
before that he's rumoured to be part black... :-D
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| You wouldn't believe what I saw downtown this week! |
[06 Aug 2007|12:07am] |
I saw this cop writing a motorist a ticket and he was bent down
to the window of the car and this guy in a delivery truck was
unloading stuff nearby and the delivery truck guy threw a bag
of salt over his shoulders to carry it. Then when the delivery
guy was walking past the cop the bag bust open and leaked salt
onto the cop and the cop got really mad because some of the salt
went down the back of his pants.
So the cop arrests the guy, and do you know what he charged him
with?
( The charge... )
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| Funny... ^_^ |
[30 Jul 2007|03:11am] |
Found on a website about soldering & related matters:
If you don't own wire strippers, it's a good idea to be careful with your choice of words when you go to purchase one. "Hey honey, I'm going out to get a stripper," might cause undue strife in your home.
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| Hey buddy, can you lend me a nickel... |
[08 Jun 2007|02:04am] |
Mr. Short: Hey buddy, can you lend me a nickel?
Mr. Long: Uh, like no!
Mr. Short: Why not?
Mr. Long: Cause it's my nickel and I don't think you'll ever be able
to pay it back, you have a bad habit of promising things
you don't have.
Mr. Short: Well, I make the rules and I just changed them so now you
_have_ to lend me a nickel!
Mr. Long: WTF?
Well, it's not "a nickel" but instead it's many tonnes of the metal in
LME approved warehouses. Read:
http://silverstockreport.com/2007/LME_nickel_theft.html
That is just absolutely outrageous! *_* Now I know why the metal just
took a dump of a buck and a half a pound, it's being manipulated down
by well connected people that shorted it and are now trying to get out
of the corner they backed themselves backed into! Definitely a WTF
moment! *_*
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