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Okay I know we've all had to have experienced this. You're at the self checkout in Home Depot or Shaws, with your five things to buy, and the stupid machine gets into one of it's "unexpected" cycles...

"Unexpected item in bagging area! Please remove item to continue."

Okay... exactly what item WERE you expecting? Fine. I'll remove it.

"Item removed from bagging area!!!!"

Well, okay then. I'll put it back.

"Unexpected item in bagging area!"

ok fine

"ITEM REMOVED FROM BAGGING AREA!!!" wha??? "UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA!!!!" stop yelling at me "ITEM REMOVED FROM BAGGING AREA!!!!!!!!!"

So now you are stuck with this thing going haywire and of course there is no one around to help you out. I think it is clear these machines are on a power trip and need to be stopped before they become self aware.

No seriously, someone needs to figure out how to calibrate the scale on the bagging properly. This happens to me routinely and it's frustrating as hell because you really can't get out of the cycle. I usually end up half lifting up whatever I just put in the bag so that it weighs less and satisfies the machine... if you find the right point you can get it to shut up. But then you're stuck holding the thing with one hand, lest it start yelling at you again, so you have to check out the rest of your stuff with one hand. It totally sucks. What ever happened to hiring cashiers?

Also, why does it check the weight of the thing at all?  After all there is no one there actually checking anything.  If I wanted to steal something... I just wouldn't put it in the bagging area...

Hi everyone, new here.  But totally psyched that it was sunny until 5:30 yesterday!  I love the fact that congress made Daylight Savings last longer this year, but I wish they would just abandon Standard Time altogether, and live on DST (summer time) year round.

Yeah, the downside is that it gets light later in the morning.  But I think most people, at least most people I know, get up around that time anyways (7am or so), so big deal?  It's really great to have it light later in the day.  I hate leaving work in the afternoon in the dark! 

This weekend the clocks will go back and we'll be thrust back into darkness at 4:30 every day.  People will start jumping off of the Tobin bridge, the Pats will start losing (ok probably not), and everything will turn to anarchy, until next spring when we can turn them forward again.  Why bother changing the clocks for just a few months out of the year?

God, people, learn to use a hyphen, please!  On Boston.com there is a picture of Jason Varitek holding a "Resign Lowell" sign.  what does that mean?  does tek want Mikey to resign?  Has no one else picked up on the irony in this?  Theo's gonna get the wrong idea!!!  Red Sox nation should be panicking!!!!

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2007/10/30/1193774983_2219.jpg

On a  side note, I f-ing LOVE mike lowell.  If boston lets him go I'll be devastated.  I'll be even more devastated if they replace him with a-fraud.  I might stop watching the sox if they do that.

I feel like a grumpy old dude ranting about this but here goes.  I live on a semi-busy street.  My bedroom is on the street side (an oversight I regret now).  Why do guys have to drive by with their loud-ass harleys at 120 decibels?  And why, oh why, do they EVER do it at night?  I swear, sometimes I'm just falling asleep at around 12 or 1am when suddenly it's like there is a 747 driving through my bedroom. 

Look, when you drive by on your loud-ass bike, I don't see you.  I don't look your way, and even if I did, I wouldn't even take notice of what you look like or who you are.  So whether you think you are impressing someone or just trying to compensate for the size of your penis, no one actually notices you or cares that you have an expensive noisemaker.  I am sorry you didn't get enough attention when you were a kid and have to make up for it in this way.  But again, no one cares.

If you guys want to form some motorcycle community somewhere away from the rest of civilization, go right ahead and be as loud as you want.  The rest of us would appreciate it.

Why is everyone so up in arms about this?  Last time I checked, football was a competitive sport.  What do you want?  Should the NFL call games once one team gets 35 points ahead?  

If you don't want them scoring 52 points on you, then stop them from scoring 52 points on you.  If you can't stop them, then you lose big.  Thats the name of the game.

With the salary cap in place, you can't argue that they're being unfair, since ostensibly all the teams are on a level playing field.  So stop whining.

It really should be on a weekend.  Who can go on a weekday other than college students?  The rest of us either have to work, or are kids who will be in school.

All fine and dandy if you work anywhere near the parade route, but hello, most of us don't.  And I'm not going to skip a day of work to watch the duck boats go by.  I seem to remember it being on a Saturday last time, could be wrong though.

Also, doesn't it coincide with Free Taco Day!?!?!?!  That is a travesty.  If there are any Taco Bells along Boylston Street, I feel bad for you guys.  You are gonna get hammered with 30,000 red sox fans all demanding their free tacos.  Good luck.  I'll be at work, thanks.

This is a real problem in Boston as we all know.  I don't bike all that often in the city because I prefer to have my limbs intact, but when I do, I think I'm pretty careful and considerate of others I'm sharing the road with. 

However when I'm behind the wheel I'm amazed at some of the things I see bikers doing.  So I thought I'd put together a list of greivances for a rant.

1)  If it's dark out, get a headlight and a tail light, for crying out loud.  I don't know how you expect anyone to see you when you are wearing black clothes and are going the wrong way down a one way street in the pitch dark.  And don't get all pissy with me when I almost hit you.  Yelling "watch where the f#$% you are going" isn't going to help you stay alive.  Look, I don't want to hit you.  But if I can't see you, I probably will. 

2) You ride around like you want to be taken seriously like a car.  Well, act like a car then.  Don't blow through red lights and stop signs and expect people to stop for you.  Yeah, no one's going to hit you on purpose.  But refer to #1 above.  If I can't see you, one of these days I am going to hit you.

3)  Unless you are going 25mph or more, please do what you can to allow cars to pass you.  I know it is difficult and the possiblity of being "doored" is not too enticing, but don't ride in the middle of the lane like you own the road.  When a gap between parked cars opens up, please scoot in and let me pass you.  "Share the road" goes both ways.  I'm sure you don't want to cause a head-on car collision any more than I want to hit you.

4) Respect.  It all comes down to respect.  I am sure 99% of the drivers out there don't want to hit you.  But when you ride with that "can't do wrong" attitude it just pisses people off.  Be considerate; Give way when you can; don't ride like an a-hole and drivers will do the same for you.