Topic: The Rant Thread! (Read 51,008 times)
.Damn! This would be started when I don't have any rant(s) conveniently available
Damn! This would be started when I don't have any rant(s) conveniently available
That in itself is a topic to rant about~!
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Can anyone explain why it is that yellow colored pencils always seem to come out of the pencil sharpener with a broken point? They could be a brand new pack of pencils and that yellow one will always have issues, always end up all stubby, and you pretty much only get to use it twice.And why does all the pencils have all that pencil and just a little eraser? Shouldn't the eraser be at least 1/4 the size of the entire pencil? lol At least for us that make a lot of writing mistakes. My handwriting is horrible, but I can type like there's no tomorrow. hehehe
I think it's a conspiracy in the pencil industry. They have all collaborated and come up with a scheme to make people buy more packs of colored pencils. And by all of them agreeing on making the same color inferior to the rest, they trap the consumer. There is no way out. You can't buy a pack of one brand and a pack of another to get a full, good quality set. That yellow one will always be the bane of your existence. You will end up with shoe boxes full of every color of every brand, but yellow.
Can anyone explain why it is that yellow colored pencils always seem to come out of the pencil sharpener with a broken point? They could be a brand new pack of pencils and that yellow one will always have issues, always end up all stubby, and you pretty much only get to use it twice.And why does all the pencils have all that pencil and just a little eraser? Shouldn't the eraser be at least 1/4 the size of the entire pencil? lol At least for us that make a lot of writing mistakes. My handwriting is horrible, but I can type like there's no tomorrow. hehehe
I think it's a conspiracy in the pencil industry. They have all collaborated and come up with a scheme to make people buy more packs of colored pencils. And by all of them agreeing on making the same color inferior to the rest, they trap the consumer. There is no way out. You can't buy a pack of one brand and a pack of another to get a full, good quality set. That yellow one will always be the bane of your existence. You will end up with shoe boxes full of every color of every brand, but yellow.
And why does all the pencils have all that pencil and just a little eraser? Shouldn't the eraser be at least 1/4 the size of the entire pencil? lol At least for us that make a lot of writing mistakes. My handwriting is horrible, but I can type like there's no tomorrow. hehehe
My dad decided to give me a little help...a giant eraser, which I got in trouble for when I brought it to school.
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I had some really horrible handwriting when I was a kid. If you waited any longer than 3 days, even I wouldn't be able to figure out what I wrote.
My dad decided to give me a little help...a giant eraser, which I got in trouble for when I brought it to school.
they would have to do it in steps
? And if they have your physical address, they are ninety-five percent on the way to having your true name right now. All it needs is a bit of research, and a small bit at that. (And I have the spam to prove it .) Grrr, argh! I'm angry! Everything is great an I have nothing to rant about! Grrr, argh!
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?!?Grrr, argh! I'm angry! Everything is great an I have nothing to rant about! Grrr, argh!
Oh? I thought you just did
?Okay here's one.
I like Advanced Search because if I want to look up Red Hats I don't want 1,966,354 results about Red Houses and Top Hats.
But sometimes it's astounding what slips through the great morass of results. First, a negative-shout to the semi-automated junk content sites. I got a whim, and decided I want to find the shortest piece of US legislation ever passed. Maybe it's like 3 sentences making something a national flower.
So some site called ChaCha (the name already tells you it's like 9th tier quality). Question: "What was the shortest bill in history?" Answer: "The recent health care was the longest bill ever passed."
REALLY??!
So then I went to Advanced Search on both Yahoo and Google. "shortest US bill".
No Results.
REALLY??!
If I had gratuitous funding to do that kind of thing all day, I'd make a site consisting of phrases that produced no results, and then being the only page. But ever notice it's never 1 page? It seems to go from "no results" to about 100 in a flash.
P.S. I should do a page, to test the theory. So as of this moment, not sure if these links will stay put, but let's mark this point in time:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oG7hYLfOBQmXkAU0JXNyoA?ei=UTF-8&n=10&va_vt=any&vo_vt=any&ve_vt=any&vp_vt=any&vst=0&vf=all&vm=i&fl=0&fr=moz35&p=%2B%22shortest+US+bill%22&fr2=sp-qrw-orig-top&norw=1
Yahoo's copy:
We did not find results for: +"shortest US bill". Try the suggestions below or type a new query above.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=shortest+US+bill&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights=
Google's Copy:
Information No results found for "shortest US bill".
Stay tuned when I quit being lazy and make a site to test this stuff. And PS. it's pretty easy to bust them on some of the more NSFW stuff too.
Yay Rants!
shortest piece of US legislation ever passed. Maybe it's like 3 sentences making something a national flower.It pisses me off when the first couple of pages of your search is ranked on whether they're paying members or not, even when it don't have anything to do with your search....
So some site called ChaCha (the name already tells you it's like 9th tier quality). Question: "What was the shortest bill in history?" Answer: "The recent health care was the longest bill ever passed."
REALLY??!
So then I went to Advanced Search on both Yahoo and Google. "shortest US bill".
Well...they now have results
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