... is a new series on A&E. I watched about 15 minutes and turned it off because of the overwhelming desire to beat this stupid California bimbo into a bloody pulp.
Bitch shows up with her two kids in tow at the Chicago terminal of Southwest airlines. Oh, guess what, she missed her flight by ten minutes ... why did she miss her flight? Because instead of showing up two hours prior to the flight as advised by the airline, she showed up TEN minutes prior and got stuck in the security screening line.
And then she's walking around the airport embarassing her kids and everyone she's related to with her bitching. Oh my freakin' lord, will someone just put a bullet in her brain? WTF?
And then one of the other bits was about a group of 40 kids traveling to some BMX exhibition who refused to settle down who were running up and down the aisles scaring the crap out of all the passengers, while one of their chaperones apparently kept screaming: "We're all going to die." After the plane landed, the Chicago PD boarded and the kids started calling them "mother fuckers."
Y'know, I mean, especially AFTER 9/11, don't you fucking think I meant maybe just a little bit think that most people would know to show up early and be well behaved on a flight?
PS - the "10 minute late" bitch I just really want to beat to death with a plastic spoon.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Are you only just getting around to the "Fly on the wall documentary" epidemic that we had between 2000 and 2003? You are slow.
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
You know, funny thing happened to me at work the other day.... this guy called in to dispute a charge that was put on his credit card (I work for a credit card call center for a certain bank that shall remail nameless) Now, it is COMPLETELY within a card holder's rights to dispute the charge is services were not rendered as promised, or the merchant double bills, or the product was defective, or whatever.... but THIS guy wanted to dispute a $500 charge that was done by Delta for a plane ticket to Mexico. WHY did he want to dispute this charge??? Because they wouldn't let him on the plane. And why wouldn't they let him board? Because he did not bring a passport or birth certificate with him. Therefore, they wouldn't let him leave the country.
His contention? It was the airline's fault because they did not tell him over the phone when he ordered that he'd need to bring those. Granted, he admitted that it was listed on his boarding pass and the other documents they sent him to confirm the flight, but because they didn't SAY it, he felt the airline was at fault for his vacation being ruined.
okay, here's my thought:
HELLO??!!?! He was leaving the COUNTRY!!! It's no big secret that airlines are tightening up on security... what would make one think that they DON'T need to bring their ID and passport with the before trying to take that flight? Oy.
People amaze me.... *shakes head*
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I work with smart people. Our delivery driver was told to pick up a few cases of paper at Office Depot and he called us to report they dont sell paper. He was at HOME depot.
Another worker (at the other store I work at) tried to burn a CD for a customer and couldnt understand why the burner wouldnt recognise the CD. She had opened up a new pack of CD's and placed the protective clear plastic "fake CD" into the drive.
I work with managers that cant check E-Mail.
I help customers that own computers but dont know how to save a file onto a floppy disk. The same people think that if their print doesnt come out immeadeately, it's smart to click "print" repeadeately untill something prints out.
Customers call me at work at 4AM to ask "Are you open?" Why in fuck would I be at work, answering the phone if we were'nt open?!?
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
quote:Are you only just getting around to the "Fly on the wall documentary" epidemic that we had between 2000 and 2003? You are slow.
No, Liam. I am commenting on a brand new "fly on the wall documentary" that premiered this week on A&E, and I am venting my rage at certain customers depicted on the documentary for being flaming stupid shitholes. I thought I made this very clear in my post, but apparently, you are slow.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I believe Liam's contention is that, while everyone else in the known universe has been subjected to endless reality TV shows over the past 4 years and have already come to the conclusion that the world is full of braindead morons, this phenomenon has somehow passed you by. The logical question is, then, where the fuck have you been?!
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Reality shows like these only serve to reinforce my belief that evolution doesn't quite work as advertised and is long overdue for a major product revision. B)
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Better a revision than a recall....
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Well, I'm not THAT big a proponent of intelligent design. B)
Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :
quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay:
quote:Are you only just getting around to the "Fly on the wall documentary" epidemic that we had between 2000 and 2003? You are slow.
No, Liam. I am commenting on a brand new "fly on the wall documentary" that premiered this week on A&E, and I am venting my rage at certain customers depicted on the documentary for being flaming stupid shitholes. I thought I made this very clear in my post, but apparently, you are slow.
Also we had to put up with this particular gem of the genre several years ago. Although it was called Airport. Still crap though.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
quote:while everyone else in the known universe has been subjected to endless reality TV shows over the past 4 years and have already come to the conclusion that the world is full of braindead morons, this phenomenon has somehow passed you by. The logical question is, then, where the fuck have you been?!
I was talking about two braindead morons in particular, and the unbelievable stupidity displayed even after the events of 9/11. I was not talking about a generic bunch of braindead morons across the world.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Oh, come on, this is getting ridiculous. You lot have used 9/11 as an excuse for enough things, now you want to use it as a reason why people shouldn't be stupid?
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
I must be slow or something, but how and where and when did we jump from all too common human stupidity to US foreign policy, again?
Posted by WizArtist (Member # 1095) on :
Please...
That fine purveyor of Scottish cuisine....McDonald's.... has for quite a while used cash registers that no longer have words on the buttons but little icons of the product. The machines also have to make the change for our illustrious monuments to the Education System.
We have a TV show called "Street Smarts" that asks obvious or basic questions to our illuminated public and have you guess whether they will get it right or not.
We have people trying to overturn an election by trying to "discern the intent" of voters who were obviously not intelligent enough to punch a hole in a piece of paper.
And finally....
Brittney Spears....
'nuff said
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
quote:You lot have used 9/11 as an excuse for enough things, now you want to use it as a reason why people shouldn't be stupid?
First off, what the fuck do you mean "you lot"? Do you mean Americans? Because if you mean me, I hope you can show what else I've used 9/11 as an excuse for. As an excuse for war in Iraq? As an excuse to roll back civil liberties? As an excuse to keep Congress from questioning our inept president? I'm against all those things, Lee, and the next time you decide to lump me in with Omega and Rob, please wake up.
As I fucking stated in plain and clear fucking English, what surprised me was that of all the media attention given to the new security procedures at the airlines post-9/11, it surprises and pissed the fuck out of me that people could be so completely and incredibly stupid.
I am so very sorry to Lee and Liam that I have once again offended them with tales of stupid Americans. Please forgive me.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Fine, you're forgiven. Don't do it again.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
OK, recap: you, Snay, vent your frustration about people being dumb as styrofoam rocks (no argument there) and that 9/11 should have beaten some brains into them.
Liam, being British and therefore having already been exposed to the reality TV plague of the last four years, thinks this is your first introduction to the phenomenon and notes that "people are idiots" is actually fairly well-spread knowledge. You bitch-slap him back to Liverpool for misunderstanding you.
Lee, being British too, asks where the fuck you've been that you could have stayed oblivious to this basic fact for so long, as he also made the not-unreasonable assumption you meant people in general.
You next leap seven billion miles from where everybody was by saying you weren't talking about generic round-the-world brainlessness, though that wasn't clear from your post AT ALL.
Lee jokingly remarks that nothing, not even 9/11, can erase human stupidity, so you shouldn't use it as an excuse to expect improvement anytime soon.
THEN you launch into a diatribe about all the backlash generated by 9/11 and how Lee is wrongfully sandwiching you between Rob and Omega and how total asininity pisses you off and how you have failed to rape a deer yet this year.
And so, for the second time in two days, I'm left with a distinct: the "fuck"?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
...when you have failed to rape a deer, the terrorists win!
Pretty clear to me. Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
Just to stir the pot here is a stupid Brit. to add to Snay's list.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Jesus. It was at MIA! She's lucky some gung-ho passengers didint get ahold of her.
Posted by WizArtist (Member # 1095) on :
Ship her to Bagdad. Let's see if she can make THEM laugh!
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
I think you mean Baghdad. Baghdad is the capital of Iraq. Bagdad is a town in New Brunswick, Canada.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I always wondered about the spelling of Bagdad Caf�, and then I realised that was only the name of the film in the UK anyway. . .
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
My anger mostly stemmed from Lee's assertion that not only was I using 9/11 as an excuse for something I wasn't, but that I had used it as an excuse for previous behavior. Given that certain members of this forum have used 9/11 as justification for certain acts of this presidential administration, and that I have never used 9/11 as an excuse (and wasn't using it as an excuse here), I flipped out because, dammit, he was being a fool.
Posted by WizArtist (Member # 1095) on :
quote:Originally posted by Topher: I think you mean Baghdad. Baghdad is the capital of Iraq. Bagdad is a town in New Brunswick, Canada.
Canada...Iraq...Is there REALLY any difference other than one has snow and the other sand?
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
quote:Canada...Iraq...Is there REALLY any difference other than one has snow and the other sand?
Iraq has better neighbours. Posted by WizArtist (Member # 1095) on :
Yeah, those ICELANDERS can be a royal pain.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I just love it when Americans call me a fool. Makes me feel I'm doing something right. 8)
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
I don't think you're a fool, Lee. You'll have to try harder.
OTOH, I abhor reality TV. There's plenty of people acting stupid and being frustrated and atagonistic in real life, so I'm not really entertained by it. And do you know what I do about it? I don't watch.
When I first heard about survivor, I thought the idea sounded cool. But that's because I thought it was an island of normal people just trying to get by on an island without any modern appliances or anything. Kind of like a staged Lord Of The Flies, and we'd just get to see what happened, and who could make it. Whoever did, gets a cut of $1million. That would be interesting to me. But there's all the 'challenges' and 'alliances' and people backstabbing one another. I'm sorry imposing that sort of thing isn't reality anymore is it? Hear me, Fox? Make that show and I'll watch it.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
"Try harder?" Why? I think maybe you're investing a little too much of your emotional life here. This. . . thing we got going here, it's nothing. I can say what I want and it doesn't matter.
And in fact these reality shows have nothing to do with reality. They're heavily edited to enhance whatever situations the producers want to focus on, and whenever possible they go all-out to engineer those situations in the first place, by picking a bunch of people who aren't going to get on then presenting them with a set of conditions that will strain the group dynamic even further.
Two British shows tried to do what you suggest - one had a group of people living on a remote Scottish island for a year or six months or whatever; some of them didn't get along but for the most part nothing interesting happened and nobody watched. The other was more of a Castaway thing, you had a much more photogenic bunch of twentysomethings on a desert island, but all they got was increasingly scabby and no-one watched. The only success the format's had here was Celebrity Survivor, in which a load of Z-list celebs did stupid things and assured themselves a continuing career in TV advertising and new-supermarket-opening for years to come.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
"...I flipped out because, dammit, he was being a fool."
Aren't we bending things out of proportion just a tad, Jeffy Boy? Really, make a headshot or two in Counter-Strike, hunt some deer, demolish one of your LEGO castles, just do SOMETHING to direct that pent-up Rage� away from innocent bystanders, OK? Please? We will love you for it.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"'Try harder?' Why? I think maybe you're investing a little too much of your emotional life here."
First Liam, now Lee. I thought it was supposed to be the Brits making jokes the Americans completely miss, not the other way 'round.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: I always wondered about the spelling of Bagdad Caf�, and then I realised that was only the name of the film in the UK anyway. . .
I drove by where that was filmed, on the way to Vegas last year. It's abandoned now though. It's not too far from the Moonlight Bunny Ranch...but that's a tale for another time. Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
Now that sounds like a place I'd like to visit!
Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
Depending on what kinds of "Bunny" you can expect there... Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
The restaurant does a terrific Welsh Rarebit, I gather.
Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
What's a Rarebit? Some hard to find data storage unit?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Apparently, it's melted cheese and beer mixed together and poured onto toast. And also known as "Welsh rabbit".
I knew the Welsh were supposed to be weird, but...
Posted by Tora Ziyal (Member # 53) on :
I think the "rabbit" term is just a corrupted form of "rarebit".
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
It's also sometimes down with Worcestershire sauce instead of beer.
And the Welsh aren't suppossed to be weird. Inbred, yes. Massively xenophobic, yes. But not weird. Much.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
You forgot that they talk funny.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Tom Jones. International, baby.
Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
The Welsh talk funny? Well, what about the Irish, Scottish, Aussies, Kiwis and above all, ze French? Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
Honey I have just had 3 weeks of vocal coaching to achieve a Georgia accent...nobody can screw with the spoken word like a yank!
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
"You forgot that they talk funny."
Yes, but where in Britain do they not? B)
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Apparently, the English consider the Welsh accent to be odd-sounding. I was simply going with it. Personally, I wouldn't recognize a Welsh accent if I heard one.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by MaGiC: Honey I have just had 3 weeks of vocal coaching to achieve a Georgia accent...nobody can screw with the spoken word like a yank!
I'd pay real money to hear your supposed "Georgia Peach" accent.
Hysterical
My father's kin are from Georgia so I heard it a LOT as a small child. Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by TSN: Apparently, the English consider the Welsh accent to be odd-sounding. I was simply going with it. Personally, I wouldn't recognize a Welsh accent if I heard one.
I've been trying to think of famous Welsh people that Americans might have heard of that still have a decent accent (which excludes Tom Jones and Timothy Dalton). The best I can come up with is Charlotte Church, but that's not overly strong, and I don't know if you've heard of her.
Although, as an aside, she met Bush once, and he asked where she was from. She replied Wales, and Bush then said "Ah. So which state is that in?"
Silly man.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Apparently, Catherine Zeta-Jones is Welsh. But her accent doesn't seem particularly unusual.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
SHe has large breasts so she can be forgiven for not being the Welsh poster-child.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by TSN: Apparently, Catherine Zeta-Jones is Welsh. But her accent doesn't seem particularly unusual.
No. She does the extrememly annoying thing of walking around sounding like the Queen, until she goes to Cardiff, at which point she develops an accent thicker than cold custard.
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