Quotes

"Shut up! Be Happy! The comfort you've demanded has now become mandatory."
- Jello Biafra

"If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that,
in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem
laughably conservative.
- Arthur C. Clarke


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Assassins

As some of you already know, i work as a "collector" for a shadowy umbrella corporation at an undisclosed location in Bolivia. So i spend my days seeking out people who "owe" money to the corporation.  If i am unable to retrieve the money from the subject then i take something from them, or punish them. Usually people who owe the money are highly irresponsible, so i often find myself in less than desirable surroundings. Usually things unfold in a manner that approaches acceptable. But sometimes i find myself in some bizarre situations, and every once in a while someone threatens me physically. Last weekend was only the third time that has happened. Powell has been gracious enough to allow me to periodically rant about some of these occurences.

I was at this guys house (i mean, shitty trailer), to collect some money. First his asshole girlfriend/wife answered the door on the phone and acted really annoyed without every really saying anything. Then her dick boyfriend/husband came to the door. He was a stout and rough looking native with what could very well have been a knife scar across his forehead. Or it could have been a scar from falling down drunk (i'm making a statement about head scars, not natives).  It's hard to tell about those things. He was rough looking though.

Anyway, i told him he needed to give me some money or i would have to take this electronic equipment from him that he had, but didn't own, and hadn't made a payment on in months. So we debated for a few minutes about the various options available to him. I give people three different avenues, usually, by which to hand over money. I'm thoughtfull that way (I mean it benefits me in the long run). Eventually, our meat head conversation revealed that the guy had no money, so i told him he'd have to give me the stuff. He went back inside and i waited for close to 10 minutes while i imagined him shuffling things around and disconnecting wires. It wasn't a fun wait because the little entryway attachment to the trailer that i was standing in reeked of cat piss and garbage. I stared at an old asian guy smoking a cigarrette across the street. He had nothing to do but watch me, so we just stared at each other for a while.

Finally the guy came back out without the equipment and asked again how little money he could get by with paying. He put his hands in his pockets as he did this, making me think he may have decided to go ahead and pay. Sometimes people will dissappear inside their homes for a long time having these long debates with each other, consisting of mostly clueless silence, about weather or not anyone has any money. I thougt this may have occured because it had been strangely silent in there. Then, after i re-iterated the minimum sum i could accept, he told me that he'd pay up next week, he wasn't going to give me the stuff, and he basically wasn't going to cooperate with me any more because "it wasn't a good time".

So i was pissed off. I been dealing with extra stupid people for a couple of hours that day and i was losing my patience.  I said "You just made me stand here 10 minutes waiting for you to get me the equipment, and now you say you're not going to give it to me? What (the fuck) were you doing in there?".

At that moment the guy completely snapped. He didn't get in my face because we were already in each others face due to the entryway being so full of garbage and junk. He screamed "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE! GET THE FUCK OUT NOWWW!"

Now, when someone tells you to get out of their house you pretty much have to do it.  To not do so is to break a law of nature. To break a law of nature is to invite some serious out of control and/or unpredictable shit on your ass. So if people say that then i have to obey, although, legally, i do have the right to be on their property. Legality doesn't matter much once someone goes ballistic.

So i said "Allright," turned around and stepped onto the porch. The guy stomped towards me from behind but then slammed the door against me, hitting my foot. No big deal, even if that's the first time ever that i've actually been touched. I continued into the yard and turned around so i would be ready to intercept or dodge any flying axe that might be coming my way. The guy came out onto the porch and sceamed at me to never come back or he would fucking kill me. I told him i would indeed be back , one way or another. Then he screamed something unintelligible and slammed the fuck out his shitty door again.

When i've been threatened in the past i was actually pretty scared, and shaking with adrenaline for about an hour afterward, but this time i was just pissed off and sat in my truck for a few minutes fuming while i decided what i was going to do to the guy. When those kinds of things happen i have several options i can pursue, like calling the police,  but it's usually not worth the time. I make far more money by just letting it go and moving on, even if it takes a lot of effort to do so.

Anyway, that guy really fucking pissed me off so that evening i looked his ass up. Court records in my area are available for public viewing on the internet. I was disappointed that he had never been convicted of anything substantial. He did have a long list of traffic and DUI convictions. So then i tried to google him. I did not find him specifically, but i found this other guy with the same last name, who has the same build (although chubbier) and looks like he could be related to the guy.  Either he really is an Assassin, or he is a moron. I think he may actually be an assassin though, if he is related to the other psychopath. Maybe that is why i got threatened, becasue it is an entire family of Alaskan Assassins. I would recommend looking at that guys photos. They are typical of the kind of characters i have to deal with on a daily basis.


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For the love of

So this morning I was on the drive to work...
My commute is rather long so I often stop on the way and get something to 
eat/drink. Today I stopped at 7/11, and I bought a Cliff bar and something 
I thought was a Red Bull-like energy drink.  It was a can of something called, 
"Spike Shooter".
After drinking it I thought I was going to die.  I had to leave work early I was so 
f-ed up. Sweating, shaking, heart rate out of control, this drink is no fucking joke.
I am no newbie when it comes to caffinee and energy drinks etc,  as such
I was very surprised how much this effected me.  I used to pound those Epherda 
drinks you could get at the gym before they outlawed them, and they did not 
compare to this.  It made Red Bull seem like luke warm water.
I looked at the can, to see what the hell was in this concotion, after having drank
it only to see numerous warnings cluttering the can.  These included:

"Recommended Use: Begin use with one-half can daily to determine tolerance.
Never exceed one can daily."
and
"Warning: Do not use if you are under the age of 16 or elderly. Do not take with
any other stimulant or weight-loss supplement or any prescription or over-the-counter
medicine. Do not use if you are pregnant or nursing or at risk of being treated for
high-blood pressure, heart disease, hyperthyroidism, spasms, psychiatric disease,
suffer from migraines, have asthma, or are taking asthma medication.
Discontinue use if you experience dizziness, headaches, nausea, or heart palpitations.
If you have trouble sleeping, do not take within 6 hours of bedtime.
Keep out of reach of children. "

This shit is no joke I assure you.  Here are the active ingrediants:

For comparison,  coffee (2 shots of esspresso) usually has 100mg, can of Red Bull
has 80mg.   Which is odd, I have occasionally drank a couple of 4 shot Latte's, 
while it makes me wired as hell, I dont nearly die like I felt like I was doing today.
The other shit in the drink must have caused my adverse effects, who knows.
What the hell is N-acetyl-L-tyrosine, or Caffeine anhydrous?  Sounds like stuff
in a tea a tribal shaman from the Brazilian rain forest would prepare for a
vision quest.  Else it was like something that Jonathan Hurt drank right before
he turned into that blob guy near the end of Altered States.
A couple of photos of me after having a Spike Shooter this morning...


and later...

Watch out for this stuff.

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A quote

"A moment I’ve been dreading. George brought his ne’er-do-well son
around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the
political one who lives in Florida; the one who hangs around here all
the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40
and has never had a real job. Maybe I’ll call Kinsley over at The New
Republic and see if they’ll hire him as a contributing editor or
something. That looks like easy work."


From THE REAGAN DIARIES
Entry dated May 17,1986


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Sovereignty

Lately, I have been paying attention to the ongoing election.  
I have decided to opt-out of the current governmental/political process.
Upon much reflection, I have decided to reject all authority and declare myself
a sovereign country unto myself. 

sov·er·eign·ty   Variant(s): also sov·ran·ty \-te\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s):
plural sov·er·eign·ties

1 obsolete : supreme excellence or an example of it
2 a: supreme power especially over a body politic
b: freedom from external control : autonomy
c: controlling influence
3: one that is sovereign; especially : an autonomous state

All sovereign nations need a flag, as such I have designed my own, shown below:

 


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F you Chinese Government

Ok I have to vent.
I normally dont dig into the latest current event atrocity of the month, but I have looked into 
this Chinese crackdown in Tibet.  I read about it, and yes it is totally fucked up. 
In addition to the complete wrongness of the crackdown in Tibet, I think they suck because
they are f'in terrible to cats and dogs:

-They have rounded up cats and killed them by the thousands, because they deem the feral
cats "unsightly" for the up coming Olympics. Read here

 

 

-They kill cats and dogs for fur. Read here and here


-They eat cats and dogs.  

 

 For me that is enough... 




Angry black guy says "FUCK YOU CHINA".

FREE TIBET, because the Chinese Government is a bunch
of ASSHOLES!




The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be
judged by the way its animals are treated.

-Mahatama Gandhi

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What are they thinking?

So I was out today with the wife going to the Home Depot, etc.  Near the strip mall type
setup there was a guy in a cup costume at the side of this busy road.   Apparently
the guy/girl was working for a place called Ritas, it is a ice cream/Italian ice place.
I fuckin hate when some place has the brillant idea, "Hey lets put Joe in a goofy,
anthropomorphized foam representation of one of our products, and have him wave at
people over on the road.  This will increase our sales and make me a hero."
For one thing, who the hell, sees the waving cup man and goes "Damn it, I NEED to 
buy one of those things because that bizarre character is beckoning me".
You would have to be crazy.  Secondly, talk about demoralizing someone, damn.
If I was a minimum wage worker and someone told me to get in the costume, I would say:
"Fuck you." and walk out at the very least.  Maybe I would stab the manager and take the 
cash from the register, then I would put the now wounded manager in the costume and 
crucify him out front.  But that is just me.  
I will be damned if I ever buy anything from an establishment that promotes itself
via stuffing some poor kid in a stifling smelly costume, and directing him to wave at people
while inhaling car exhaust all day.
That all being said, when I see something like this, I almost always yell and wave back.
I have no idea why, cant stop myself, its sick.


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Cruises Suck.

My wife and I took a cruise a couple of months ago, and it sucked.  
We left from Puerto Rico going to St Maarten and some other St Suckshit island
( I dont remember the name, needless to say I was less than impressed).
For one thing, drinks were expensive.  If you find yourself trapped into going on a cruise, 
bring your own alcohol and ignore the rules they have for no outside alcohol.
Why did it suck?  Well the boat was dirty, everyone is pretty much pan-handling for tips, 
almost everything costs something, and it is f'in boring. 
One can only drink so much, when you sober up you will wonder what the hell you are going to do.  
Forget the excursions, they are a total jip, costing ridiculous amounts for next to nothing.
St Maarten was kinda cool, in that you can drink beer on the beach without fear of 
being tazed by the cops like here in the Police States of America.  
Also the beaches are nude beaches.   The age old axiom that the  
people who should not be seen naked, are the ones who like to go to nude beaches, is totally true.  
If I had it do over again, I would have stayed in Puerto Rico (which was cool)
 and forgot about the cruise.  

Below is a pic of me on Orient Beach in St Maarten, notice the Stella Artois, and the
less than attractive topless Euro couple.


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