the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[Geowhizzer]

My crystal ball says the suckitude will be just as great when the Democrats get control of Congress and the Presidency.  The craptastity will be different but just as great in magnitude.

Perhaps so, if they ever have power as completely, for as long, as the Republicans have in this run.  Still, it would also require a President as bad as Bush, which is hard to imagine.

Wasn't the 50 years or so of having control of both houses enough?  I do not believe the GOP had control of EITHER house from the 1930's until 1994 and there were plenty of Dem presidents during that time.

When the Republicans won control of the House of Representatives in 1994, it was the first time since 1955.  That in itself is a bit misleading, for the Republicans only had a majority in two terms (1947-1949 and 1953-1955) since 1931.

The Republicans had control of the Senate from 1981-1987; otherwise it was in the hands of the Democrats from 1955 through the 1994 elections (1995 was the official end of that Congress).

So, basically, the Democrats had control of BOTH houses of Congress:
1933-1947 (with Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman in the White House)
1949-1953 (with Democrat Harry Truman in the White House)
1955-1981 (Democrats in charge:  John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963; Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1969; Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981)
1987-1995 (with Democrat Bill Clinton as President 1993-1995)

From 1933 through 1947, 1949 through 1953, 1961 through 1969, 1977 through 1981 and 1993 through 1995, the Democrats were in charge of the Presidency and the Congress.

[Reidme]

I am walking in a 5K for Alzheimers Research this weekend. The fact that I used to be a big fat beer guzzling slob and now i'm actually walking, on Eagles Dallas gameday no less (its in the morning) is amazing in itself.

Anyone willing to kick in $5 is welcome to drop by my web link ....


LINKY to Donate

If not ..... thanks anyway. Go Birds!

[rjs246]

Nerds nerding it up in new and nerdier ways.

But seriously, pretty amazing.

[rjs246]

Below is a copy of a letter that won a competition in UK as complaint letter of the year...have a laugh and
read on.
Complaint Letter of the Year. The British do have a way with words.... A real-life customer complaint
letter sent to NTL (to their complaints dept....)

Dear Cretins,

I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for
your 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone. During this
three-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had
not previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and stupidity
of monolithic proportions. Please allow me to provide specific details,
so that you can either pursue your professional perogative, and seek to
rectify these difficulties - or more likely (I suspect) so that you can
have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working
day smoking B&H and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office:

My initial installation was cancelled without warning, resulting in my
spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat arse waiting for your
technician to arrive. When he did not arrive, I spent a further 57
minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more
annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your helpful
website....HOW?

I alleviated the boredom by playing with my testicles for a few minutes
- an activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept.
The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later,
although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools -
such as a drill-bit, and his cerebrum. Two weeks later, my cable modem
had still not arrived. After 15 telephone calls over 4 weeks my modem
arrived... six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for it.

I estimate your internet server's downtime is roughly 35%... hours
between about 6pm -midnight, Mon-Fri, and most of the weekend. I am
still waiting for my telephone connection. I have made 9 calls on my
mobile to your no-help line, and have been unhelpfully transferred to a
variety of disinterested individuals, who are it seems also highly
skilled bollock jugglers.

I have been informed that a telephone line is available (and someone
will call me back); that no telephone line is available (and someone
will call me back); that I will be transferred to someone who knows
whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been cut off);
that I will be transferred to someone (and then been redirected to an
answer machine informing me that your office is closed); that I will be
transferred to someone and then been redirected to the irritating
Scottish robot woman...and several other variations on this theme.

Doubtless you are no longer reading this letter, as you have at least a
thousand other dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of
those crucially important testicle-moments to attend to. Frankly I don't
care, it's far more satisfying as a customer to voice my frustration's
in print than to shout them at your unending hold music. Forgive me,
therefore, if I continue.

I thought BT were shtein, that they had attained the holy piss-pot of godawful
customer relations, that no-one, anywhere, ever, could be more
disinterested, less helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to
their customers. That's why I chose NTL, and because, well, there isn't
anyone else is there? How surprised I therefore was, when I discovered
to my considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless
shower of bastiches you truly are. You are sputum-filled pieces of
distended rectum incompetents of the highest order.

British Telecom - wankers though they are - shine like brilliant beacons
of success, in the filthy puss-filled mire of your seemingly limitless
inadequacy. Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and
foolhardy quest to receive any kind of service from you. I suggest that
you cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for
the services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to
deliver - any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and
disbelief quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps bemused
rage. I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my
cats litter tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for
both you and your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not
become desiccated during transit - they were satisfyingly moist at the
time of posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did
not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them
the very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and its worthless
employees.

Have a nice day - may it be the last in you miserable short life, you
irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of twats.

John

I'm not sure there's anything better than venting all of your anger into a complaint letter.

Well, actually, I can immediately think of lots of things that are better, but whatever. You get the point.

[Sgt PSN]

I am walking in a 5K for Alzheimers Research this weekend. The fact that I used to be a big fat beer guzzling slob and now i'm actually walking, on Eagles Dallas gameday no less (its in the morning) is amazing in itself.

Anyone willing to kick in $5 is welcome to drop by my web link ....


LINKY to Donate

If not ..... thanks anyway. Go Birds!

You should post this in the "Ask TO" section on his website. 

[Diomedes]

Anyone willing to kick in $5 is welcome to drop by my web link ....
LINKY to Donate
If not ..... thanks anyway. Go Birds!

The link won't allow you to donate $5, dook.  It throws up an error message that says "Please enter a donation amount greater than or equal to 10."

[Drunkmasterflex]

I got my PRK surgery yesterday I have trouble reading what I am typing but I can already tell a difference.  The prescription to Vicodin is sweet.

[Sgt PSN]

Congrats on having the surgery.  But since your eyes are all farged up right now, I'm going to type everything in really small font......just to piss you off. 

[Drunkmasterflex]

Congrats on having the surgery.  But since your eyes are all farged up right now, I'm going to type everything in really small font......just to piss you off. 

[Sgt PSN]

Oh, and since your eyes are a little out of whack right now, be extra careful and make sure you don't mix your Vicodin with your supplements.  Wouldn't want you to have allergic reactions to that stuff.

[Drunkmasterflex]

Oh, and since your eyes are a little out of whack right now, be extra careful and make sure you don't mix your Vicodin with your supplements.  Wouldn't want you to have allergic reactions to that stuff.

[MDS]

Congrats on having the surgery.  But since your eyes are all farged up right now, I'm going to type everything in really small font......just to piss you off.

Oh, and since your eyes are a little out of whack right now, be extra careful and make sure you don't mix your Vicodin with your supplements.  Wouldn't want you to have allergic reactions to that stuff

[Sgt PSN]

MDS is sofa king kewl. 

[MDS]

Just like your observations of all things sports, you just stated the obvious. In a dorky internet way. Nice.

[mussa]

Just read in the local paper some freak baptist church/organization in Colorado, I believe, is blaming the Amish school shootings on Ed Rendell, because of his remarks about some other organization. This group goes around protesting at war vet funerals from Iraq, saying that God has taken their son's/daughter's because the US supports gay rights. So they believe GOD is killing the troops in Iraq because the US supports gays. They were actually going to protest at the Amish funerals today, but they decide not too.

Can you fargin believe this shtein??!~ fargin freaks

I wish I had a link, but I'm too lazy to find it.