Legend has it that her rode away one day on a 48XSpeed SONY CD-ROM gone out of control.
He saved the town, but was never heard from again.

Some nights, when the wind is calm....they say you can still hear him cursing in the wind...

"Damn Sony Piece O' Crap!"

So this weekend for the Super Bowl I wanted to get my PJ to at least operational status so we could watch it. Made sure all the fans worked and that nothing overheated. Double checked everything and it worked but had very out of focus corners and other quirks. I thought nothing of it at the time and pondered what it could be. The fresnels were level, the LCD was level, light centered... I was starting to think maybe I just had terrible luck, until in class today I realized that my triplet (18" Beseler) was much further in the box than usual. So tonight I fired it up and flipped it around, focused it and everything was SHARP!

I was very glad I sat and thought through it all before taking things apart and tinkering! I would've REALLY gone nuts then...

Who designs, places, and subsequently loads toilet paper dispensers in public restrooms?

Let's attack the abovementioned one at a time and cover only one aspect of each.

1. Design: I'm arguably average in size and ability. My hands don't fit up into the dispenser when necessary to grab the roll end and when I try the serrated edge shreds my skin. C'mon! Is it really necessary to have a Ginsu edge to cut TOILET PAPER?!?!
2. Placement: Why do I have to contort myself to even reach the damn thing??? Am I sitting on the throne incorrectly???????
3. Loading of Supplies: Can't the dumbasses start the freaking roll so I don't have to make hamburger (See Design above) of my hands trying to find the end??? Plus, they're usually opaque or only mildly translucent so I can't even use my sense of vision to assist in finding the end!!!

Snicker's Bar if you can guess where I just came from?

must be walmart

I hate that they put the thing so low you have to be a contortionist to reach it I mean really why so low?

I wasn't looking for so specific a guess. Just "the toilet" would've sufficed. But yeah . . . come to think of it - WalMart does have the same problem with where they put the dang dispenser. I think someone, somewhere mistyped a height spec for these things and it's propagated over the entire free world!!!!!!!!!!

umm where did you get that "snickers bar"?

Dude, you get one just for bringing that up. Caddyshack anyone?

I believe that was a Baby Ruth not a Snickers

I poop in your general direction. There, correct that you nitpickin' jagoff. <I'm jesting. Nuttin' poisonal.>

People who tailgate schoolbuses.

I distinctly remeber something on the drivers test about being 5 car lengths away from the school bus at all time and to give them a wide berth. When I see people 3 feet away from the bumper, the only thing I can think is " Jeesh Buddy, There are KIDS on that bus!"

Funny you should bring this up SJ, they inscribed on front and back of the bus not to pass while their 'red' lights are flashing. But then I see 'yellow' lights flashing instead when they pull to side to pick up kids and this is on a 2 way street. To pass or not to pass was the question although the oncoming traffic proceeded to pass. I just decided to stop regardless and wait.

True, the school busses have 2 sets of lights, the red ones and the yellow ones. When the red lighs are flashing, it's illegal to pass. This is used when the bus is dropping off kids, except in certain municipalities. This is because there's more likely to b e a kid running out from behind the bus.

When picking up the kids, the cautionary yellow lights are used, since presumably the kids are getting onto the bus, and are therefore less likely to be darting out from behind it. Your local laws will have a set of rules for what you can do as far as passing the bus from behind and oncoming in those cases.

Around here, the red lights aren't used at all in city limits (Though they are in the surrounding cities.)

Another thing that makes me nuts....

Lets take a simple incident, over-react to it, pronounce it racist, and then scream bloody murder...

Racist or No? You be the judge.
Looks more to me like a company trying to capitalize on the new president... Granted it may not seem like the best taste to us, but then again its probably up to HIM to say if it's offensive.
People just need to relax and remember when we tried to renamed "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries"...



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BTW. SamuraiJack loves chicken. I am unsure about the curry sauce.

Thats funny, obama fingers..
Heres whats drives me nuts hopefully without sounding like a ninny. This thread drives me nuts, because i started one almost exactly like it, and I enjoyed getting things off my chest, but brainchild had to bust in and remind everyone that this thread is for innovation and not for discussion. so even if i want to add something to this one, it would would be with the knowledge of knowing its looked down apon anyways. and besides that.. 2 and a half men.. why do they have to ruin my cartoons with that crap in the middle?

Hunh?

PS: You're driving me nuttz u ninny!!!

Seriously, when did Brain poop on your parade? I'm too lazy to search.

I remember that... And I can empathize with why this thread, being similar, would drive you nuts...

Not sure why that one was put to rest. I am of the opinion that we can share a little off topic ( It IS the General Category) chat as long as we keep it civil.
This thread is about the little niggling things that we run into everyday.

I find them amusing.

Mostly because if I didnt, I would have jumped off a bridge a long time ago...


One more thing that makes me nuts? "Concentrated" laundry detergent? Suddenly its good for the environment? Why werent they doing this before to save shipping energy?

I like that one

credit goes to Jeff Dunham.