Why do people all across the interwebings flock to any newly created threads to voice there option about someone whom has just past, and then end their post with “RIP “. It’s pretty fucking stupid.

As far as I know, this “afterlife” thing that all these church-goers have been raving about for years, doesn’t have access to the Internet. And if it did, you’d think they would slip that into “the good book”. You know, as a perk to do more gooder in life. Do they have dial-up access? You’d think someone on Earth would had noticed the 62 mile long telephone corder headed straight up to a cloud? Wait a second. A cloud? Is the Internet and “heaven” one in the same? Where all my DBA’s at!! No… I’m sure they’re two separate entities. They’d have to using Wi-Fi. 5G. I mean, it’s “heaven”. It’d have to be better then what we have. You’d assume they have dial-up in “hell”. 300 baud. Half-duplex.

Even if they did have the Internet in this “heaven” you speak off. Is it so boring that dead celebrities have nothing to do by Google themselves? I doubt it.

Basically it just shows that whoever types out “RIP” within their posts felt obligated to let YOU know that THEY’RE NOT put themselves first BY putting themselves first to SHOW that THEY DO put others first, just to show YOU that they “care” or were “raised properly”. Yep, I just typed that. And it’s really pisses me off that it’s that fucking backwards to have to explain it. But I see through your bullshit, your sticky web of “me, me, me”.

Let me put it this way, so we’re all clear. will never read what you posted to the Internet. They will never send you a thank-you note. It’s a little late to try and so respect and sympathy. They might had appreciated hearing that when they were alive. Stop trying to prove to us that you’re not selfish. You are, it’s OK, and we don’t care that you are.

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Making some coffee the other morning, one question came to me. What do those numbers on the side of the coffee pot measure?

First you’d think it was servings. So, I did some 5th grade math, since I was slowly educated in Maryland. I filled the coffee pot up to the “4 line”, that’s 2 cups. I figured out a coffee mug filled, with room for cream & sugar fits 1 cup. Meaning, 2 cups = 2 servers. But why is there a fucking 4 on the side? It’s not 4 cups, it’s not four servings? Is it a ratio of scoops of coffee grinds to amount of water? If that’s the case, whats a proper coffee scope? Is it a measured amount? Is i just a spoon full? Those plastic spoons at work are smaller than normal metal spoons in your kitchen.

I’ve searched the Internet for an answer. I didn’t find one. Of the 1,340,000 web sites that were returned from my search, there was only one other person confused about the numbers. He/she wasn’t provided a solid answer. And yes, I check all 1,340,000 web sites. And no, he/she wasn’t a shemale, I just couldn’t tell the gender of the other inquisitive poster.

Did the off brand big-box-store coffee maker company just slap some arbitrary numbering system on the side of their pots to screw with us? Was it “two bits” for a “mug” of “muddy water” back in “olden times”? It’s a mystery that’ll take two chicks, a dog and a sweet van to solve.

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As we all speak of time we have got pulled over by the police, George, a friend of mine, told me about a traffic stop that I couldn’t really believe. Not that I don’t trust him or his story, I just had to look it up myself.

As George said, he was on the highway going south on 395, just about to take the Manassas 234 exit. As he approached the exit he noticed two cops where up ahead, all lights on and had pulled over some other driver that most likely didn’t need to be bothered by the law. Just after he past these three cars on the side of the road and started taking the exit, the second cop left the traffic stop and pulled George over.

George was not drinking nor speeding. He was given a ticket for not changing lanes to the left as he past the cops on the side of the road. The cop also backed up his story with some bullshit about “feeling his car shake a bit” as George pasted.

I thought that was one of the dumbest tickets I’ve ever heard off. So, I researched it.

Turns out you can get a ticket in Virginia for “failing to yield to an emergency vehicle”, since 2002.

Section 46.2-921.1 of the Code of Virginia states:

§ 46.2-921.1. Drivers to yield right-of-way or reduce speed when approaching stationary emergency vehicles on highways; penalties.

The driver of any motor vehicle, upon approaching a stationary emergency vehicle, as defined in § 46.2-920, that is displaying a flashing, blinking, or alternating emergency light or lights as provided in §§ 46.2-1022, 46.2-1023, and 46.2-1024, shall (i) on a highway having at least four lanes, at least two of which are intended for traffic proceeding as the approaching vehicle, proceed with caution and, if reasonable, with due regard for safety and traffic conditions, yield the right-of-way by making a lane change into a lane not adjacent to that occupied by the stationary emergency vehicle or (ii) if changing lanes would be unreasonable or unsafe, proceed with due caution and maintain a safe speed for highway conditions.

Violation of any provision of this section shall constitute a Class 1 misdemeanor. If the violation resulted in damage to property of another person, the court may, in addition, order the suspension of the driver’s privilege to operate a motor vehicle for not more than one year. If the violation resulted in injury to another person, the court may, in addition to any other penalty imposed, order the suspension of the driver’s privilege to operate a motor vehicle for not more than two years. If the violation resulted in the death of another person, the court may, in addition to any other penalty imposed, order the suspension of the driver’s privilege to operate a motor vehicle for two years.

As I searched I found more and more stories about people being pulled over and surprised.

As the theNewspaper.com states:

Five years ago, the Virginia legislature made it a serious crime to drive past a police officer stopped on the side of the road without changing lanes. As a result, unsuspecting motorists — including those who are not speeding — can nonetheless be caught in a speed trap and face a first degree misdemeanor ticket that carries a fine of up to $2500. Despite the significant financial penalty involved, nearly three-quarters of all motorists have never heard of “move over” laws, according to a Virginia State Police news release issued in July.

Now, I haven’t read anything about outrageous fines and court fees. George didn’t mention anything like that in his story but, he did say while in court, the judge pretty much called him a moron for not knowing all the laws. Just so you reading know, Class 1 misdemeanor isn’t a “pay your ticket online” ticket, it’s a “welp, gotta get up early today for traffic court” ticket.

The jist of it is, if you see a cop on the side of the road, change lanes ASAP, or slow down a lot if you can’t safely move over. And what’s not to say that your actions could then create another unintended dangerous situation on the road? There’s one thing to say, “Hey, I’m working out here, move the fuck over!” vs “I’m just going to pull this car over in the most unsafe area I can find.” My point is made right here in this stupid traffic stop. As you were waiting for the obvious, did you not notice the extra four feet that could had pulled over, and still be on asphalt. Not to mention all the flat land off the road. This could all be simply solved if cops just stopped pulling people over. Then again, there would be no statewide income, resulting in my overly taxed cigarettes to now make me addicted to the lottery and scratch-offs.

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I received an email from William this morning about the new price hike in postal stamps. To quote Casey Kasem, “and he writes…”

Postal rate increase in May, buy stamps now and save money….

I have confirmed you can indeed buy postage stamps now for 42 cents and they
will be good “forever” no matter how high the postage rate goes. Without
having to add additional postage….

“”" The Forever stamp will always be valid as First–Class postage on
standard envelopes weighing one ounce or less, regardless of any subsequent
increases in the First–Class rate.”"”

You can get the “Forever (Liberty Bell) non–denominated First–Class Mail
definitive Forever Stamp” from the U.S. Post Office website at…

https://shop.usps.com

you can buy them in 20 and 100 and packs, but they are in booklets only and
not rolls.

I understand the concept of the “Forever Stamp”. It’s less money and hassle to just accept that stamp than it is to make 1 or 2 cent stamps. I have no problem with it.

My problem comes with why the raise in price? Granted, some people don’t have access to the Internet and need to snail mail. Or they just don’t trust the Internet with handling there money transactions. These seem like the dumbest reason to use USPS.

The increase should be for some reason. I know that the USPS relies on postage sales and not Government funding. I also believe in a supply and demand system. And the USPS doesn’t fit under that category.

You take a business that’s know for it’s not so fun and it’s a pain in the ass to visit environment. Less technology advances than it’s competitors. Disgruntled employees. Plus, it’s decreasing demand of use. And then you make use pay more for this service?

This effects me in no way what so ever. As far as I know. I just don’t like the answer of, “we just need more money”. If the product was that good, you won’t need to increase the price.

With the recent bailouts and the USPS increases, it makes me wonder, what ever happened to going out of business? Did Circuit City not get the memo about just asking the Government for money? Or did they get reject with an “Eh, we’ll just go to Best Buy” letter?

How long will it be until we have to bailout a service no one uses. Just like the cars no one buys.

Someone higher up is going to have to realize the fact that companies just go out of business sometimes. If I could, I’d drive my 2009 DMC10 to the grocery store for some Superman Peanut Butter, but I can’t.

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I got a call from an 866 number just now and I decided it ignore it. I’m on the National Do Not Call list, for whatever that’s worth. Any who, I get an alert of a voice message, and this is what they left [click here]. Herbert? Ohh, Jackpot!

Strange. I looked up the number and here are some other incidences.

These morons call me at least 3 times a day if not more.I did pick up once and they asked for a Ms.Gonzales.I told the guy that no one by that name lives here and to not call again.They said OK and they now all my answering machine and scream MS.GONZALES HELLO HELLO about 5 times before they hang up.I finally picked up another call from them and they asked for just Gonzales.I said NO ONE by that name and they then asked me if I wanted to pay $5.95 for a booklet on finding student loans.I informed him that nobody here is a student we are all old and educated and he said OK.Then he called back about 2 hours later asking for Ms.Gonzales,the same damn guy.Sounds like some asian kid his english was very very poor.

Black Male Caller asked for Betty; I told him he had the wrong number, he corrected me and said he had the right number and wanted me to update his records. I hung up on the asxhole.

what i do is call the # back if they can be reached. I have 2 cell phones and a land/line. the last time someone called and I could call them back and get them. I called there # with all 3 phones. unlucky for them i was off from work that day. I called and said oh im sory i must have dialed the wrong #. please forgive me. I’ll check the # and call again. after 2 hours of this the guy started cussing me and hung up. then when i called right back he got his boss on the line who told me i was harasing them and was tieing up there lines and was going to press charges. I laughed and asked him did he really think a judge would rule in his favor. I kept this up till they took there phones off the hook. they dont call here anymore. the only way to get these people to stop is to take 4 to 6 hours and do what i did get your friends involved. I know how everyone of you feel. for the past 3 days the phone here has been ringing off the hook from campain callers. barak this and mcCain that. this is really getting out of hand and it is harasment. I think we should all get together and put there numbers here on the web and start calling the s**t out of these people. from 8am on. give them a dose of there own medacine and see how much they like it. and they will stop calling your house. respectfully Troy k Dawes.

If I knew that it wasn’t going to be a recording I would had answered the phone. If you want to call them, the number is 1 (866) 806-2380.

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It’s online 10:30 AM and I’m already sitting on a fucking rainbow. Flat tire, dead battery, inquiry of controlled substances and talked to some cops.

First my car starts sounding weird on HOV near Glebe and I drive all the way Army/Navy Dr to find out my tire got punctured. Once I pulled the tire, I noticed a shiny piece of metal in the tread. To bad I rode the side walls at 70 MPH for about 3 miles. New tire it is.

Once I fix the flat my car won’t start. The only people around are two guys in some utility truck. The come over and help me jump start the car. Granted the connection might be lose on my battery but telling me that this might be my problem and wiggling it and making it looser is going to help the situation. Shocker they asked me if I smoked. I laugh and told them only on the weekends and I don’t carry on the weekdays. If I actually did, I would had hook them but, I wasn’t going to tip them money for something they should just do out of kindness. Plus I don’t carry cash, either.

So I get the hell on around the corner when I come to a stop sign when the car dies. Lucky me, a cop was behind me. I didn’t waster any time acting like I was trying to start the car. I just jumped out and told the officer (Hey look, it’s a lady!) that my battery just died. We jump it. It died 30 seconds later. I felt like a idiot when she was wrapping up the cables that I needed another jump. So I tell her it won’t idle and I’ll just have to over rev it. Which is so much fun, in an automatic. Even though she was following me and she know I just needed to get to the other side of Crystal City as fast as possible, i still felt obligated to follow the posted speed limit with a cop behind me. I had to sit at the same red light twice, because some dick in a moving van was taking up a lane. So, any way. I waved, she didn’t touch my leg.

Basically it took me an hour to go 1.2 miles. Sitting on a rainbow, that’s my mood. Now, I’ve got to leave the building for a fire drill. Awesome.

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I don’t want invites to your social web site. It’s a web site so you can find people who NEED to talk and chat about crap they think is cool enough to deserve it’s own web site. If I wanted to join, I would had already joined. And trust me, I’d be there before you if I was interested. All that you feel is new to you on the Internet, is months old to me.

Then we have my web site, it’s about llama’s, llama’s that are red.

I didn’t force anyone to sign up with multiple annoying emails. Nor did I need another web site to help me send emails, or “evites”, to all my friends. It seems like more work to get all the email addresses and move them to a different web site, just to send an mass email.

Evites. Now why do you think I would want to come to you event? Since other people will only go based on whom has accepted to join. And why do I need an invite when the event takes place at my house? This has happened more than once, it’s not just one dumbass.

I think I’ll just delete my email address. Or maybe just give out email addresses that would be offensive to those whom ask for my email address.

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About a year ago, a friend forwarded me one of those stupid chain e-mails that threatens me with death by a million Spider Monkey bites, or what have you. He might as well have forwarded to about 90 percent of northern Virginia, because my e-mail address has been obtained by the walking disaster that is Tracee. If you don’t know her, you can now breathe a sigh of releif.

Traycee is notorious for sending chain mail, advertisements for random parties, opinions on politics, and just about anything she finds that she thinks somebody (anybody?) might take an interest in, which would be fine and easy to ignore… if it were only her that sent them. I’ve attempted to talk her into using the “BCC” line when sending her mass communications, but my efforts have been to no avail.

Today, I log in to my Yahoo! account to find 50 messages from her and other people originally included in the “To:” line of her original e-mail. 50 messages!!

Naturally, I reply to all and ask that I please be removed from their responses because, frankly, I don’t even know who they are. Immediately following, I get a reply from another stranger in her address book saying “please remove me as well”. Idiots.

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vechile
- FireFox options: lovechild chile’s childless chiller’s chiller
- Google: Nothing, figures I meant vechile and found tons of places where everyone else misspelled vehicle.

cuorticy
- FireFox options: cortically vorticity morticians mortician mortice’s
- Google: Did you mean: courtesy

Tiny things. FireFox is getting a little sloppy in my eyes. Next thing you know it’ll be so bad that you’ll have to pay money to use it.

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Something is weird this week. Can a full moon last five days? It’s like everyone signed up for pulloutinfrontofboofer.org.

This morning an Asian woman, oops, my bad, this 3rd trimester chink pulled out of Daventry across the slow lane in to my lane. Granted I might had been doing 60 or so but, number one, you don’t pull out across lanes and number two, you should be able to notice a car, A CAR, coming down the street in the fast lane at a high rate of speed.

After I passed that whore, where you start going up that hill, this VDOT truck decided to pull out in front of me from the shoulder to… you guessed it, just cut across the lanes. Assuming to make a U-turn at the top of the hill. How about not doing that when there’s a pack of oncoming cars.

Then when I got to Crystal City this JMC Jimmy decided to make up his mind like forty times on the south bond on ramp to S Clarke Street bypass. I was nice, I didn’t whip out in front of him at the intersection. My light wasn’t orange, it was more like tomato red. So I just waited for him to crawl across the intersection and proceed to do 10MPH up the ramp. When I went to pass him as he Pac-Man’ed the center line, which hadn’t started yet but was a literal 200 feet ahead. All you have to do is have your eyes open and you could definitely seen that a choice of lanes was about to perplex you in the sudden future. As I tried to pass him on the left, as you should, he was creeping to the left, so I gentle guided my vechile to the right at which at this time I think he thought, “Oh I should be in the right lane.” Fine, I’ll just pass on the left. I guess at that point he noticed that were other tax payers trying to use this road, namely me. He then I guess out the courtesy of his heart, decided to let me pass, on his right, as he pulled out of my way by pulling into my way.

That was just my commute this morning. I’m not going to get into the 55MPH hi-fiver’s that drive on the 65MPH HOV lanes.

This has been going on all week long.

During the “tornado”, people were driving like 35MPH with their hazards on. If you feel the need to turn your hazards on while driving, then don’t fucking drive. AND DON’T drive in the far left lanes, you’re just asking to get rear-ended. Pull over to the side and put your parking lights on. Not your hazards. We just need to see that there is a car on the side of the road. For some reason, flashing lights causes rubber-necking. Don’t slow down traffic more because you can’t fucking drive in the rain.

I, whom is a clean car window snob, could maintain 55 through that rain. People have a hard time looking at the road as apposed to staring at the rain on their windshield.

Speaking of rubber necking. On Wednesday there was an accident next to Landmark on the far right side lane of 395, NORTH. HOV and the south bound lanes were all clogged up right there from jackasses wanting to stare. Seminary Road is a little over a mile north of Duke Street and you could just see the line across the street where people were slowing down, then traffic just clears up after it. It erks me so much. They need to put up 40′ walls along 395. Then again that’ll just slow up traffic to because every will slow up to 35MPH around the blind turns.

People are morons. I obviously could write a book about this.

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