Ranting and Raving

Richard: Although it takes a bit of practice, you should learn to ignore a ringing telephone. Just because it is ringing on its part does not compel you to answer it on your part. I know. I drive people crazy because in many situations I won't answer a ringing telephone.

For instance, if I am talking to someone in person, I won't answer a phone. This often compels the other person to say something like "Are you going to answer that?!" I say "No, I'm busy talking to you. They can call me back or come here if it is important. Besides, you were here first."

 

http://whocallsme.com/

Richard.....wont stop em, but ignore em and then try that site, at least youll know if it was important..

 

And just remember, always have your "Anti-telemarketer" script ready for the Indian accented troll on the phone:

anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript

 

I hate TV ads that promote violence against Men, there is an add on here in Aussie that a guy and girl are at a bar and she puts in this guys name and whamo his compatibility is 18% so she throws a glass of whatever she is drinking into his face, and other such adds that have tacit female on male violence which is tolerated, but in a sick twisted way we have adds that declare violence by men on women as not on.

I also have a massive rant about that males in Australia aren't covered by the sex discrimination act, and anglo-saxons aren't covered by the anti-discrimination and racial villification acts, it is perfectly legal for a Vietnamese person to refuse to serve an Australian Anglo-Saxon in their shop, but if i as a Anglo-Saxon Australian refuses to serve a Vitenamese person on the same grounds i can be prosecuted to the full length of the law.

v.R

 

Me i don't go through all that, i reply in an Indian accent, once they here my Punjabi accent they hang up.

 

I wish they would pass a law that no one can advertise for Christmas until December 1st.
Halloween was hardly over and they bring on the Christmas music and Christmas decorations.

 

Mini-Rant: While I enjoy the Geico commercials (cavemen, geckos, etc), I hate the "double commercial" At the commercial break, two 30 sec ads are run. Then they run the same two commercials again back to back!:rant:

 

I have to agree with you on that. Some places around where i live. They never put up stuff for Halloween. They just skipped right by it and put up for Christmas. Come on now people one holiday at a time. They had me all confused by it. I thought i was late and missed Thanksgiving.

 

I hate the way the Yanks on here get an extra holiday for Thanksgiving......Lets face it, the Pilgrim fathers left Plymouth...and sort of errr...landed at Plymouth...how weird is that....whats to be thankful for, have you seen plymouth...? Brits shold have a thanksgiving holdiay too.....Although we are not wont to say thanks to anyone so we could call it the No thanks holiday....Were a pretty miserable bunch...its the rain, so come on everyone, lets petition govt, march on parliament, sign a web petition to Gordon, we want a no thanks, thats not for us holiday...and we want it now.

 

Well, while we are all ranting about things I'll put my two cents / pence in:

The latest stupidity here in Arizona is DPS (the highway patrol) is putting up photo speed cameras and mobile units all over the state. Although they have very barely veiled the program as a safety issue, even the governor has admitted this is a revenue generating scheme. I have found the cameras annoying. They mess up an otherwise often pleasant drive on various highways.
Other drivers often do insane stuff when they see these cameras. Sudden lane changes (some only cover certain lanes due to the number of lanes present), sudden hard braking, covering their face or, other dangerous stuff. All the while, if you are one of the nearly 50% of the tickets thrown out you get nothing for running through one of these speed traps.
Personally, after the first of the year I'm getting my contractor's license back and reregistering my vehicles in the company name. That way I can drive through these speed traps with total impunity and become one of the 50% that gets no ticket and has no worries about them!

 

Welcome to the world we have endured for over 20 years here in Australia. The worse thing is that no body exactly know how many of these speed camera's are up to standard.

v.R

 

Trouble is there all with held numbers.

 

On behalf of my Mum who is now better.

Back in June my mother had a accident at a station and cracked a bone in her hand anyway fast forward today and some bastard company rang up advising to take legal action in the courts against the train station! What got me is how the hell did they get hold of her medical records and how the hell they knew the details of this accident? They kept ringing up for a while before they stopped and yes it was a withheld number as well.

If that was me I would have gone along with them just to get as much information I could out of them then report them to the police.

 

I suppose you would like to know what toilet paper I use?

SOFT, BLISS.......

 

What annoys me more then traffic lights? Slow Drivers constantly braking for no particular reason even though they are already going slow enough for me to get out and walk past them. Or those people that cant maintain a constant speed. I went to Brisbane the other week, which from Rockhampton is around an 8 hour drive going 100kms, and it is annoying when the car you are following is braking then accelerating, then they brake again and so on.

 

Even us Aussie's have a public hoilday, called Australia Day.Yay!
I know you Brits are miserable Bunch,one British member already has mention Aussie arn't welcome in to britain!
OH yea, if you do get a public hoilday make sure it's got a British name!and not an American style name like Thanks giving.

 

Don't think it just happens in your area. It goes on here in Texas too.
I find many times it is an elderly driver or middle age woman.

 

Do you suffer from rubberneckers?

People who slow down in there cars to have a good look at some road accident.

 

Yes same, what pees me off is that the accident is totalally of the road and it still cause a bumber to bumer sereno!