A lot of things have gotten me pretty majorly irked the past couple days. Enough that I take to Facebook saying I am gonna go postal. Well, maybe that term isn't as appropriate anymore, since seriously, when was the last time you went to a post office?
Little things, that shouldn't bother me at all just drive me batshit. For instance, the news. Not the events that they report on, but how they report on it. Here's an example. On the local Fox affiliate, there is a weekend weather dude, been there for a while, and once upon a time was the weekend weather dude at the NBC affiliate. Trust me, he took a dive moving to Fox from one of the highest ranked local news telecasts in the country. Anyways, the other night he was starting out the forecast with the deelightful pictures that views had sent in of clouds, or of hail, or of a sunset. Like we have never seen these things before. Hey invalid shut in! See what you are missing? So he shows this picture of a cloud, and calls it the "now famous" picture from Holly in Broomfield. Famous? Now? You mean famous 5 seconds after you showed it? Then he shows another picture of the clouds that was taken in an airplane, showing the white, fluffy clouds that billow up over Colorado every afternoon around 3. "See those cloud tops? We call them 'cloud tops' in the weather business." And every other business as well, you penis.
However, this is the same dude who, when a United 777 encountered turbulence over KANSAS, and had to make an emergency landing in Denver (thus the local angle), pointed to a weather map that showed a weather disturbance over southern Wisconsin. You know, since southern Wisconsin and Chicago, the point of origination of the flight, are so close. And everyone knows you have to fly over southern Wisconsin to get to LA from Chicago. You better believe I went to their website and lambasted him on that one, but alas, I wasn't the only one who did. Stupid idiot weekend weatherman.
Here is one that just happened. I mean seriously just happened in the last 5 minutes. I have had a ticket into our billing vendor for call records since 7/7. First they send it to me and the columns are all wicky wack, not in line. SO I send it back. A week later they send it to me, but missing an important column, one that tells me what country the call was made. My manager escalates it and then they come back and say basically "oh, they were all USA, so we just didn't do anything to it." Well, I went in the way I do and found that there were 3, count 'em 3!, text messages from the UK and Guatemala. Sure, it is $2 out of a $100K invoice, but shit, I need that to make things balance out. Three weeks and counting. And when the fuck were they going to tell me?
I never thought of Denver as a hotbed for Norweigans, not like Minneapolis or places that are terminally cold. But sure nuf, after the thing that went on in Oslo this past weekend, the same Fox affiliate has been doing endless "Local Angle" stories. Like the kid from CSU who is studying in Norway for the semester. Had her on Skype saying how it was there. How the "Sons of Norway" is coping. Guess that is kinda sorta like a Pittsburgh Steelers bar you can find in any city, but for Norway-ians. Odd that their spokesman was not a son, but a daughter of Norway. Oh the calamity! Then dick head news guy says something to the nature of "and they will always remember Friday, July 22, also known as '7/22'." Well of course the 22nd of July is also called 7/22.
Amy Weinhouse is dead. Seriously, who didn't see this coming?
Is Harry Potter dead yet? At least the movies are over. So over this "Let's end this how we started this...together" shit.
NBA in a lock out. Who the FUCK cares? Overpaid tall men want more money. Oh, so damn, fucking, stupid sad. I could say something else, but this is a public forum, and I, above all, respect civility.
Trust me, there is more, but I will refrain for the time being. Kissy poofs!
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