93 posts tagged “wtf?”
So even though our b-day isn't until Thursday, I sent my sister an Amazon gift card early. Let's face it Amazon rocks in that their shipping estimates are always for like 3 weeks away and then, at least here and when I lived in PDX both, I'd get stuff with a week. So while I was thinking of it I thought nah, why wait. Send it now. She can shop and if lucky get stuff within days of our birthday.
Keeping with the tradition she sends me one back. Brian laughs. I told him I'm sure it doesn't count as re-gifting as I don't think that you can use gift cards to buy gift cards. My first thought was she had to top me this year. When I give mom a present for the last year or two she'll ask mom what we got her and if she can't top it (the computer) she curses us. So the gift card she had sent me was bigger than the one I'd sent her. Damn her! Then I figured well fine, I'll let her win. Silly girl. She can't afford it, should be helping mom, etc. And also it's from her, Keegan, and mom. So okay.
But what amused me the most, was the attached note -- Happy B-day! Keegan is upset he can't deliver your spankings! So he is going to store up all your spankings from all the b-days he's missed and dish them out the next time he sees you
I told them that since Karina shares my birthday that he doesn't need to save them up! He can just let her have mind and deliver them all to his mom for me ;) I also told her to be glad that Brian didn't pick her present. She works in a Halloween store. There was a controversy about the store selling an "illegal alien mask". For the record, they did pull the mask off the shelves because it was offensive to Mexicans (picture below). Personally I think it looks like a trucker or gas station employee and when mom posted it I was like wtf? I didn't associate it with any race, didn't know what it was until she explained. Brian thought since had to deal with the headache of protesters calling to ask if they sold it, we should order it online and send that to her. He totally can't pick presents for chicks. He is picking good presents for Keegan for Christmas though. Not using my card yet, I told Brian to get me one too -- since we've already established he can't be trusted to order chick presents.
Well then Brian's dad's visit can be summed up in a few words -- The weekend of the Balloon boy. No, really. He got here on the day the Balloon Boy story broke. He even flew in via Denver and was pretty much at that airport about the time that drama was unfolding and probably would have had his flight impacted, except his flight was affected by mechanical problems instead sooooo, he had no clue that was all going on until he got here.
Friday Brian took him to Disneyland. My health and sleep was too messed up and they both agreed it was for the best. They hit a traffic jam due to a car accident, missed a turn off, hit another traffic jam due to a car show. Got to Disneyland after oh, something like 4 hours of driving. This is about 2 1/2 - 3 hours longer than it should take. Then despite our best guestimates of what the crowds should be on a Friday in October they were way way higher. They thought I'd have been miserable.
Saturday was their go walk around the beaches and mall day.
My time with his dad was more of talk about news events, etc. I heard a few minor Brian stories, etc. It was a nice visit.
Then as he's leaving -- Balloon Boy is a hoax. I wished him a nice flight and told him at least there shouldn't be any Balloon Boys to disrupt his flight now. Brian wasn't so sure they'd not be out there trying to escape. I pointed out they'd need to build a bigger balloon -- especially now that the cops say that balloon could have only held someone who weighed up to 37 pounds.
It has been widely reported they were trying to get a reality show. DO NOT GIVE THEM ONE. Do not reward this behaviour. Also, test that kid, seriously did they give him something to make him puke? Good job to the PD out there. They planned this for two weeks, to try to get a tv show? Sick sick sick to use little kids like this. To use resources like this. Ugh.
He never links anything. Like that art video. This one too.
So we should go back to the days when rich football players take cokes from kids? Or to the days of black and white tv --- when women were supposed to know their place and minorities well, they should even more so?
Or the party thing... WTF? A. I don't relate to that story at all for too many reasons to list, mainly because by party age I had a lot of responsibilities and had earned enough trust that I was treated like I was 16 instead of 6. B. Just... WTF? That party story isn't really related. Dad's gonna spank you (I think he was hinting at that) = we can go back to simpler times in America = I... What?
I swear to you that Glenn Beck has to be... I dunno, something. Manic? He reminds me of the Manic people I know. The way his thoughts are. From one thing to another almost related to another almost related to not so related to wtf how did we get here from where we started?
He always looks like he's trying to force himself to cry. I dunno, he may believe everything he says. But he's just so... fake in how he presents himself. His thoughts so scattered that they make my worst brain fog MS day look good. It's just so off. I don't understand it. Maybe he is brilliant. Brilliant people are usually mentally ill. Maybe he's just one of the two. Maybe I just don't get it and someone can explain it to me.
At least Rush, well I get it - he's angry. Shock jock. Whatever. That's always sold. But someone who flat out looks crazy, never connects the dots, etc -- I don't get that.
Have you run off to buy your tickets for the Titanic Memorial Cruise yet?
I told Brian it's the perfect gift for his former boss, but I'll pass. Something about it seems just wrong to me. Perhaps I'm too superstitious. Perhaps I've too much respect for the dead to somehow go on a cruise retracing their steps to hold a memorial over their resting place on the anniversary of their deaths, so to speak. I don't know, I can't quite put my fingers on it. Something about it seems funky. Maybe it's finishing the cruise they never did... Too surreal.
Somehow the folks on Morning Joe are trying to equate the Letterman thing to the Polanski thing -- as were some of the folks on Twitter.
*bangs head on desk*
Once again people are too stupid and cannot be trusted to even know how to compare what to what.
The Letterman situation is NOTHING like the Polanski thing. Just like the Joe Wilson thing was nothing like the Grayson thing.
I have said so many times, I am NOT that smart. However, given how stupid the rest of my country appears to be, I might be brilliant after all.
I mean, I get how the general 140 character spam infected Twitter feeds might be full of stupidity -- but people on tv who make a living analyzing politics? They, in theory, should be smarter than this.
Saturday:
Brian wanted to go B&N yesterday, duh like I'm gonna pass that up. I was feeling really bad all weekend though so I almost didn't go. Somehow I made it through. Got Stardust
Sunday:
I had my mystery rash show up again this weekend, Brian saw it again. Hadn't eaten or drank anything at all yet. Couldn't get a picture because my phone decided to be defective and not turn on and not reboot, etc. We finally had to just take the battery off. Stupid thing. By the time I had a working phone and camera again the rash was gone. Just red looked more like it was under my skin than on top of it. Not really bumpy or anything. And since I hadn't anything to eat or drink erm, no clue what could have caused it. *shrug* But it was up and down most of the bottom half of my arm from my wrist to my elbow on the underside of my arm though. Weird.
Beyond that, too tired and sick to do much so just watched Desperate Housewives premiere and read.
WTF files:
This may read like spam, but it is actually a reply that I received from the CS department of a credit card company that I have an account with. I had sent them an e-mail from their site asking them why they send me ads, coupons, etc but not bills since I moved in February. Turns out there was some misunderstanding. One piece of mail got returned for some reason, while others did not. We've had that issue a few times here. I think somehow people screw up the apartment # or something.
Thank you for visiting the **** website. In reviewing your account I am showing that we received return mail. Since we through we did not have a valid address on file for you a return mail status was placed on the acct cause no statement to be sent out tou you. I apologize for the inconvenience the return mail hold code have been remove.
The only excuses I can come up with for such poor English in business communications -
1. They outsource their customer service to another country
2. Their employee was clearly drunk or hungover
3. Text speak has caught up with us and now no one cares -- so that looks good.
4. Lack of funding for public schools has caught up with us -- so that looks good.
5. My own crappy English skills are even worse than I thought and that is actually brilliant
The record industry has totally and completely lost their flipping minds, finally. They want you to pay to listen to the 30 second clips on iTunes, Amazon, etc. You know those clips that you listen to in order to decide if you'll buy the songs? Um. WTF? They want to take it to Congress, ask them to recognize those clips as public performances. I... um... *blinks* really? What's next, charged to watch a movie trailer too? Maybe we should be charged to watch commercials because we're not buying enough of the products in said commercials so we're not REALLY doing our part to support said companies. Seriously these people are on crack.
There comments are not on a political video, they're on a video about the fires. The people posting here could just be "trolls" but I doubt it, this is too common anymore, I suspect some of them believe what they say. Aren't even Liberal haters supposed to respect firefighters no matter where they live? Even out here in the hippie tree hugging west coast? Assholes. Brian asked me if that commenter got permission from Rush to post, I told him it might be Beck fan, since he's the crazier one.
"What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass." Michelle Bachmann
You heard her, go slit your wrists if you don't want health care reform to pass. I suppose suicide will solve the health care issues in the country indeed. Michelle Bachmann does have that right. No death panels needed! And it's not assisted suicide, unless Michelle Bachmann TELLING YOU TO DO IT counts as an assist.
People of Minnesota I ask you, did you vote for her as a joke?
