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Those "Viva Viagra" commercials...  Need I say more??   The ones with the old dudes sitting around playing country music about how much they love Viagra?  COME ON PEOPLE.  What is the world coming to???

This has bugged me since I was a kid.  Why do hot dogs come in a ten pack, while their buns come in an 8 pack?  I am sure every ordinary American has noticed this.  You go to the grocery store, and you grab your 10 hot dogs.  Then you walk over to the buns, and grab…one (8 buns) or two (16 buns) bags.  Huge dilemma.  Then at home, one of two disasters strikes.  One, you want a second hot dog and you feel lucky to find one, but there are no more buns.  Two, at the end of a barbeque, you want another hotdog, but you are left with 6 unused buns.  

Is there some kind of rhyme and reason to this?  Is there a conflict between butchers and bakers?  Has no one noticed?  Is this some kind of corporate decision where they can sell more dogs or buns, because this makes people waste food? 

Hot Dog and Bun Ratio needs some rebalancing!

Why, why, why in the world do people on airplanes realize that those “things” they put their hands on are something people are sitting on?!  Yes, I am talking about people who yank the seat in front of them to get up, people who walk down the aisle grabbing the top of seats, and people who lean on the tables that are attached to the seats in front of them. 

I am thinking they do it, because they don’t realize how annoying it is to others.  Please, please, please be a little more aware of your surroundings!! 

As all of you from snowy regions agree, it is important for us to be on a look out for morning snow storms.  We need to look out for school cancellations, road/commute conditions, flight schedule changes, etc.  So, naturally, we all turn to local news for weather updates.

I watch the Fox News at 10 (mostly, because I don’t want to wait until 11).  It angers me to no end that they move “weather coverage” towards the end of the show, just to keep the viewers stuck on their channel.  They also keep people guessing and on their toes, by pretending to start the weather coverage at the beginning of the show, before every commercial, and in between stories.

I know this isn’t a new trick employed by the news station to use the best story to lure viewers.  However, it is too blatantly obvious when it comes to weather related stories.  We are trying to get to bed early to prepare for them storm!  Why do you have to push the weather to the end?!

We all don’t like people who write ALL CAPS. Luckily, internet
”netiquette” has spread wide enough that we don’t see these folks so often.  However, I would like to rant about the CAPS haters.  I am talking about people who are so insecure and sensitive about CAPS that they feel people are YELLING and SHOUTING at them whenever they see it.

The other day at work, there was an email thread about discussing the next meeting date.  There were some back-and-forth and some mistaken labeling of the days (i.e. someone saying 2/27 was Tuesday, rather than Wednesday).  There was finally a day we could all agree on, so I wrote back, “OK, we will have the meeting on THURSDAY at 2:30PM.” 

Then, one of the recipients writes back, “WHICH THURSDAY DID YOU WANT TO HAVE THE MEETING??  We all read English, there is no need for the caps.”  Upon approaching him and inquiring, he replies, “You did offend me with your caps.  I don't think it was necessary to SCREAM the date.”

First of all, this has nothing to do with being able to read English. Secondly, isn’t it obvious that the caps in this case was meant for clarification instead of screaming?  Some people are just too damn sensitive about netiquette these days, they take things way too literally.  I know it is hard to pickup insinuation from emails and these rules help, but this is getting ridiculous.  In fact, isn’t using the caps the grammatically correct way to add emphasis?

A week later, I saw this same dude in middle of a busy street pounding, with a golf club, the heck out of a store sign.  The sign read, “BURGER KING - DRIVE THRU”.   It’s a crazy world out there.  Be good, everyone.

When I'm at work: I hate it when someone forwards me a huge email thread with 10 or 15 previous emails arguing back and forth between 5 different groups, and simply says "Hey can you help out here?" or something. Forcing me to read the entire thing from the bottom up and figure out what the hell is going on with it.  I'm not an email reading machine and frankly I have better things to do.

Instead, how about you give me a quick 2 sentence summary of what the problem is and how you think I might be able to help?  Your 1 minute spent doing that would save me 10 or 15 minutes of reading and figuring out.  I might not even be able to help, so then it's just a big waste of time for everybody involved.

In the old days before email this is how things would get done: you'd phone me, or visit my office, and explain the problem to me, and I'd probably be able to instantly offer a solution.  Nowadays half the people I work with are too lazy to do this and so they just shove the problem along to the next guy.  Where's the professionalism?

This is just enough to make me sick.

The MBTA now admits that they've been secretly cutting bus service back without publishing it in their timetables.  Lying to us.  

All the while, they've been raising fares.  This can only mean massive corruption within the organization.  Someone is skimming off the top and getting rich(er) off of us somewhere.

My solution?  Dissolve the whole organization.  Fire them all.  The entire management.  Start over.