Posts Tagged ‘Rant’

All hail the mighty Foamy in his infinite wisdom!!  This is why I worship him, he thinks so much like me, it’s like, he’s reading my mind.

Pay no attention to the woman in the window!

It absolutely amazes me that I actually will tolerate stupid people simply because it’s convenient to me.  Me, the owner of Dumasaphobia.com (inactive site).  {dŭm’ăs-ə-fō’bē-ə} The Fear of Stupid People.   Yet day after day I subject myself to the pain and agony that is Fast Food.

Everyone already knows that Fast Food isn’t good for your health based upon Nutrition Facts.  It’s also not healthy for your mentality when you have to deal with the stupidity thereof.

I can safely say that 85% or more of the visits I make to the local Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Arby’s or Taco Bell…. My food order will be either cold, incorrect or somehow mutated into something gross.  In a world where work is hard to find, you’d think our capable management of said establishments would be a bit more thorough in the interview process.  Apparently you only need reliable transportation to get the job these days.

Why do I go back time after time?  One word, convenience.  It’s much easier to grab a bite on the go rather than make it myself at 5 a.m.  Sad but true.  If only Fast Food managers would hire competent people, life would be good.

I may as well rip my radio out of my car, and toss it out of the window.  All the radio stations here have gone to crap.  In the past few years, most stations have changed their format, others shifted it.

Outside of the Hip-Hop, Country, Contemporary cry in my salad and talk/christian stations.  There are really no New Rock stations.  Alternative isn’t bad, but if Mike and Bob can’t stop talking just to hear themselves for more than 5 minutes.  Why is there an afternoon show?  Is this the morning show for slackers?  Wouldn’t mind so much if they would actually give decent content.  Guess that’s what Emo crybaby’s are into.

93.7 the Coast played decent music for the most part, now they are Bob FM, did we mention Bob FM?  Let us say it again, Bob FM and hey while we are at it, we are Bob FM…. for god sakes… shut up Bob.

94.9 has been steady but it’s really hard to rock to most of their music and are more of an office friendly station.  A.K.A. boring…  God don’t dare listen to their morning show!!

Chuck & Woo Woo are Hampton Roads leaders in all thing entertainment! Whether it’s Chuck entertaining listeners with his “sexy voice” or Woo Woo breaking the latest in Hollywood news…they’re funny, family friendly and local.

No, they are annoying and whiny.  If “Woo Woo”.. never mind the idiot nick name says enough…

96.1 the X is our alternative station…   See second paragraph…

106.9 the Fox – Well this is our resident Classic Rock station.  This is where the long hair, pot smoking 70’s generation hangs out.  Keep rockin!  Oh and could you not try to start that obnoxiously loud Harley Davidson before 6am please?  Honestly, why does any motorcycle need to be that effing loud…

100.5 Max FM – Hard New Rock!  Then one day… poof… they became Chinese All You Can Eat Buffet music.  Holy crap! What the hell happened?  That lasted 3 days, then…poof… Walt Disney took over it seems and now they play Hannah Montana teenie bopper music.

Then there is or was my all time favorite Hampton Roads station, hardly ever a reason to change the channel…

98.7 FM99 – They played the best Rock, mostly new, some old, some classic.  But about a year or so ago, they shifted the format.  Playing more Lynard Skynard, George Thorogood and more… Huh?  Isn’t that the crowd that the Fox goes for?  Now I have to listen to the same songs I’ve been hearing for 30 years now.  Ever since I was a kid listening to my parents listen to this old music.  Same music my uncle would sit around smoking pot listening too.  The long haired loser.  Every day, the same old repetitive songs….  Over and over and over…  did I end up in hell or something?

Then to make things worse, the only reason left for listening to FM99 was the morning show.  Tommy and Rumble.  These guys were by far the funniest guys ever.  Not only that, but they were a god send to the community in all their blood drives, Christmas events, summer golf tournaments, tractor races and the list goes on and on.  But all in all, they were the best.  I’ve listened to radio all over this country and these guys should have been syndicated.   Bob and Tom are syndicated on many classic rock stations all over the country.  They can’t hold a candle to Tommy and Rumble.  But… as of 3 days ago.  Tommy quit.  No heads up, nothing.  I understand (don’t quote me), it’s a contract issue.  It’s a sad issue.  I fear for the future of the FM99 morning show.  It’s the only hour of radio I get that’s worth listening too.  Granted, it’s not music, but it’s very entertaining.

So that’s it, there’s nothing left for me here in Hampton Roads in the music field.  I haven’t heard 1 new rock song in months cause every station in Hampton Roads now officially sucks when it comes to music and format that my generation would be interested in.  I’d listen to 102.1 in Richmond, but I’m not close enough to get a good signal.  If I had the money and know how, I’d start my own.  It though appears that I’m just boned in every direction…

Yes, having up-to-date software is important.  But it’s only absolutely vital in a few areas, mainly the Antivirus, Malware, Browser and maybe the Email and IM programs.  Yes any program that accesses the internet directly I understand.  Why must you have some idiot updater be in your face and running at all times for programs that aren’t essential?  Why can’t it check when you open the program once a week?

Instead you’ve got Java Updater, Apple Updater and Google Updater all checking 24/7 for updates and they don’t make any bones about telling you there is an update available.  You might be knee deep in a video game and POW!!! Drop you at your desktop and kill your character or your whole group (if you play online MMORPG’s).  Just to find out that Google Earth is updated.  Big effing deal.  Didn’t need to know that at the most inappropriate time.

Watching a movie via my sweet little home network/movie server and BAM!!  Apple tells me that there’s an update for Quicktime.  Who the flip cares?  I was enjoying a movie!!

It’s getting harder to deal with.  Having to remove Java Updater from the startup, uninstalling Apple Updater (even though I removed the check mark that says “don’t install updater” it installs anways…  Google is getting harder to find stand alone installers… Come on guys!!  Stop eating my PC’s resources with your useless crapware!!  If it’s not a security software, you don’t need to be all up in my face with your updates!  And I don’t want to install everything under the sun that you have to offer as your updater is sometimes an all purpose installer!  (I’m talking about Google and Microsoft’s Live installers/updaters)

All my PC’s run streamlined and secure.  But the effort I go through to keep my resources open is ridiculous due to these un-needed and unwanted updaters/installers.

We have so much to talk about, and yet nothing to really say.  Email, IM, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and on and on and on it goes.  Will Social Networking stop?  Probably not.  And if these socialites can’t be by their PC, then it’s the cellphone and text messaging.

Example: yesterday we took the kids to Busch Gardens.  The whole time we were there, the kids were on their phones just tapping or talking away.  They didn’t much care that we where trying to have some family time.  They just had to talk with ALL their friends.  Come on!  Roller coasters!  Sheesh….

• Email – So there I was, surrounded by the cats, Fluffy, Snuggles, Snowball, Blacky…
• Instant Messaging – did u get dat pic i sent?
• Affordable Cellphones – Jenny and Jill could be BFF’s all day while raising the number of phone related auto accidents.
• Texting -  OMG!  BFF Ilvu!! lol eek CRASH ttyl g2g popo here.
• MySpace – Hey, I do not possess the intelligence to make a website, I’m colorblind and have no interesting life what-so-ever.  Thanks for leaving a comment!!
• Facebook – Now I have a full-time job just replying to all the idiocies presented to me on one website.
• YouTube – Look at me!! Look at me!! I have no real qualities, but goodness I’m the funniest person I’ve ever known!!
• Twitter – What am I doing now?  Nothing any sane human being would be remotely interested in.

God, and I gave up dumasaphobia.com?  What was I thinking!  Oh yeah, I didn’t want to spend every moment of my day ranting about the retards that flock to Social Networking.  Talk about your full-time job.  Honestly people, why does anyone really care about your pathetic life that you need to make a mockery of yourself and show off just how talentless you really are?

Blogging, if you are a casual blogger who can creatively think of something good or give good criticism about or the occasional rant {ahem}, then I applaud you.  Especially if you can put a good presented personal website with it.  If you are handicapped in that arena, then Blogger or wordpress.com would be a better bet for you.  Though please try and learn how to use it to it’s fullest potential.  Educate yourself, it never hurts.  Get out, spend some time with real people, and places.  Then blog about them when you have the spare time.

Rather than being this mindless zombie that got a great address like “myspace.com/isucktonails”.

What in the hell is going on with this “Great Nation”?  We are supposed to be so strong and so proud.  Then why is every one bailing out of business and letting America go to foriegn interests piece by piece?

Example: 7-11 stores are all now owned by Japan, the beer that stood for America and it’s freedoms for so many years, Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. is now owned by Belgians.  Who, by the way, has already managed to destroy a great local theme park of ours Busch Gardens with all of their “changes” and I can only assume more changes are coming.

While this is nothing new, it seems that there is no sign of it ending.  Our recession is certain to put us over the top and push us to becoming the States of America no longer United.

It was bad enough when Amercia started outsourcing jobs to cut costs on products.  Now they are simply outsourcing the companies all together.  I may very well work at one of the last few American owned, American run companies if this trend continues.

Do you want some scary numbers?  How about the 16,613 other American Companies sold to Foriegn Interests between July, 1978 – July, 2008.  What will happen when your job at General Motors becomes part of Honda (not saying this is going to actually happen).  When all our major American Businesses become foriegn, will we then be held to the company that owns the most interest in America to rename us?  Sony Presents…  The United States of America – put that on your bumper sticker.   “The Good Old S.P.U.S of A”

I want my America back where it belongs!  In America!