I currently have no plans to see “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” on opening night, and I want to have plans to see it opening night. So, anyone wanna do a blogger movie thing?
(I was thinking, if no one does, that we could a big blogger Star Wars movie happy hour thingy a week or so after it opens, but someone else can plan it, because clearly my Hitchiker’s happy hour thing went over so well).
Kicked out of their church for being Democrats. Amazingly, forty other church goers walked out in protest. Good to know that the sickness spreading through the Religious Right isn’t contagious to all.
Oh, and if you’re a member of the Religious Right, and you’re reading this, what fucking right do you have to dictate to Christians who they can and can’t vote for? Power hungry fucks.
HT: Newswriter.
Sounds about right. HT: offixewizard.
The intersection of York and Shawan Roads in Hunt Valley is, to put it bluntly, fucking horrible. The poorly designed Giant Food shopping center at the end of Shawan doesn’t help any, nor do the idiot drivers who don’t understand that coming east from Shawan, it isn’t a merge lane onto York — you get the whole effin’ lane, you don’t wait to merge!
See, York Road is one lane in each direction north of Shawan. That’s not true – it actually expands to two lanes around Loveton, but shrinks back to one north and south of that.
Anyway, if you’re on York Road heading south, Shawan is the boundary after which York Road is two lanes. What’s nice about York Road north of, I think, Ridgely, is that it’s two lanes both ways plus a middle turn lane. But the point I’m trying to make is that when you drive south of Shawan on York, you have to be careful not to jump right away into the right lane, because southbound York Road traffic from Shawan has right-of-way access to that right lane. It isn’t a dotted line for the first twenty meters – it’s a solid line!
DO NOT CROSS!
So when I’m trying to make my smooth turn from Shawan onto York, I get very aggravated when the idiot in front of me doesn’t realize that they don’t have to wait for a merge. They can just go. But they’re stupid, so they fucking stop their car. This happened today. I don’t get it – do they not see the big open lane in front of them? I honked repeatedly. The person didn’t move until she felt it was okay to merge … and then didn’t even bother getting in the left hand lane.
I was very frustrated, so when I sped past the person, they got a nice single-digit wave.
The other thing that bothers me is the total jackasses who need to be shot. These are usually the people on York Road who don’t take the entrance to the Giant Shopping Center at the intersection (with the lights!!!) but wait until they have to tie up the left-hand southbound lane to turn across three lanes of traffic to the shopping center.
Case in point, again today. I was stuck on York Road north of Shawan, waiting to get back to the shop. There is a left-hand turn lane into the Giant Food shopping center. A woman behind me in a big green Lincoln pulls around me, drives in the turn lane, then tries to get back into the southbound lane, because she’s too fucking lazy to wait through the traffic cycle. As fate would have it, when the light turned green, not only was she blocking someone from making their left into the shopping center, she wound up pulling back into traffic – you guessed it – right behind me (‘cuz I wasn’t letting her cut in line, fuck her lazy impatient self).
Want to guess the next brilliant thing she did? She put on her turn signal and tried to make the non-stoplight-assisted turn into the Giant shopping center. This is a real problem because the middle lane is, at this point, the northbound turn lane for Shawan Road. So, essentially, she’s got to cross three lanes of traffic – the middle lane of which was already filled and impassible – to turn into a shopping center of which SHE COULD HAVE MADE A GREEN-ARROW ASSISTED TURN! But no, she had to inconvenience the people in that turn lane, and now she’s squeezing southbound traffic into one lane, which is in turn a super problem because now the already-on-York southbound traffic is going to try with the from-Shawan-southbound traffic, and everybody’s thinkin’ they’ve got the right of way and … oh, I want a job where I don’t have to drive for it, and don’t have to drive to get to it.
I hate people. I especially hate people with cars. Because they’re fucking morons.
Yeah, but didn’t we already know that?
Stolen from fbtb.net.
Clarence Stowers is a piece of shit, scum-sucking asshole who should face jail time for what he’s done.
Don’t recognize the name? He’s the guy who found a fingertip in his ice cream – custard? – whatever. Why the anger at him?
Because the greedy fuck refused to return the employee’s finger. And now there’s no way for doctors to reattach the digit. Because Clarence Stowers is a greedy, scum-sucking piece of shit. (Mind you, if I found a finger tip in my food, I’d sue the establishment’s ass off too, but I’d return the finger tip).
He refused to give it to the shop’s owner, and refused to give it to a doctor who was treating Fizer, who accidentally stuck his hand in a mixing machine and had his right index finger lopped off at the first knuckle…
…”The man who lost the finger has the superior claim,” said Paul Lombardo, who teaches at the University of Virginia’s law school. “It’s his finger and he might be able to use it.”
Lombardo said Stowers could have photographed the fingertip, taken a bit of flesh for DNA analysis or gotten an affidavit from the surgeon who would have reattached the digit.
“There is nothing that would prevent preserving the chain of evidence,” Lombardo said.
Fizer is dealing with his loss in private. The Carolina Beach resident’s mother, Sheri Fizer, said the family had been instructed by an attorney not to talk about the case.
“Unless he offers a better explanation for that decision, people will assume that customer Clarence Stowers cared less about another person’s loss of a body part than about his chance to squeeze some bucks out of the custard stand.”
That last paragraph seems to sum it up for me. You know what would be great? If he won a large settlement from the custard stand, and then had to give it all to Brandon Fizer when Fizer’s lawsuit came through.
Poetic fuckin’ justice. Anyway, even if that doesn’t happen, Clarence Stowers is still a jackass.