03/08/2010

Horrible Hallway Smell

I fairly certain I don't even want to know what happened across the hall but the funk is all powerful and has lasted for days.

03/10/2010 -

Josh and Megan are on a "bathing strike." It's in protest of something important, I guess.

03/05/2010

Drivers who display Georgia "Educator" License Plates

Every day I see cars displaying Georgia "Educator" License Plates, who are speeding or driving inappropriately in parking lots, etc. I'm not sying everyone who has one of these on their car engages in this, but it certainly is something to take notice of, if you are first off, spending extra money on a license plate to let everyone know you are a teacher, and then flaunting the traffic laws for everyone to see.
Today on the Loop I was passed by one inside a construction zone, going about 85mph in a 45mph zone w/ orange barrels on both sides of the road. Way to set a great example everyone, douche-bag.

03/05/2010 -

I'm fairly certain the speed limit in the construction area on the loop is not 45. Way to exaggerate for the sake of a rant, douche bag.

03/06/2010 -

OP, you are suffering from awkward sentence formations and indeterminate pronouns.

Seek an educator immediately!

03/08/2010 -

The typical AthensVent troll, in their natural habitat.
http://www.cracked.com/phpimages/article/2/0/5/18205.jpg?v=1

03/08/2010 -

Who's supposed to be the troll? The 3/5 comment or the 3/6 comment? I'm pretty sure the person who posted the 3/6 comment was just trying to be funny. The 3/5 commentor only said "douchebag" because the OP did. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=troll

03/03/2010

The mediocrity of people in general

I lament how utterly mediocre our society in general has become. Perhaps it was always this way, but I really think people are getting dumber and mor ignorant the older I get. I have to navigate around this nonsense everyday.

Workplace politicians, who never accept responsibility for their actions, and instead try to blame others or simply ignore problems, as if that would solve them.

People who can barely spell their own name correctly, and cannot write even basic English, given jobs in a supposedly professional position. Reading what you write, I am embarrassed FOR you.

People who work in service jobs, who cannot follow instructions and do what is requested the first time around and are surprised when the customer complains.

High school diplomas handed out to students who cannot name the three branches of government, as if they actually learned something.

College degrees handed out to graduates who cannot write proper English or even perform basic math.

People who read books while driving a car.
People who text while driving a car.
People who constantly run their mouths on the phone in their car, instead of, you know, DRIVING.

People who stand in line with a cell phone stuck to their ear, running their mouth, who when they get to the counter, rudely continue their conversation, while the rest of us in line, wait for them to make up their mind. While we're at it, anyone who carries on cell phone conversations in public. You are rude, and no one wants to hear about your pathetic ramblings. That goes double for you idiots with 2 way radios. Take it somewhere else.

Parents who let their grown children live with them past the age of 30.
Newsflash, if you are 30 and still living with Mommy and Daddy, you are a LOSER.

Students who commute to UGA from Cobb county on a daily basis.
Single drivers who think they need a giant SUV to commute 5 miles to work, because it makes them "safe" and they can carry all their "stuff".
People who cannot park their car straight, in a single space, without taking TWO spaces.
People who are too lazy to park their car in a space, and walk 75 feet from the parking lot into the grocery store and instead park in the fire lane out front.

People who are so FAT they need an electric scooter to drive them down to the candy aisle at Wal-Mart. Yeah, FAT is not a handicap, you NEED to be walking you FATASS, and not stuffing your face with McD's, potato chips and Ho-Ho's at every opportunity.

Able-bodied people who cannot walk up a single flight of stairs, and instead have to take the elevator.

Able-bodied people who park in handicap spaces. Nice. Nothing like being lazy and an a**hole.

Youth sports organizations that give trophies to every single child, because they wouldn't want to hurt the child's feelings for being a loser. Guess what? You are just guaranteeing those kids will be ACTUAL losers when they grow up.

People who think their kid is a unique and special. They are not. They are losers until they prove otherwise. Respect is earned, not given.

People who here in the 21st century, cannot use a computer, an tool that has been ubiquitous for the past 25 years.

People that need in-car navigation to find their way to the Golden Pantry.

People who bought houses with mortgages they could not possibly afford.

Anyone who thinks the universe is only 6000 years old.

People who think the scribblings of Bronze Age tribesmen is somehow wise, and the equivalent of a modern science book.

People who think an invisible man in the sky is concerned about their daily inanity and banality so much so that he is in control of their destiny. You are destined for Dollar General, followed by a trip to Burger King.

Anyone with an "In case of Rapture, this Car will be Unmanned" bumper sticker. You are an idiot.

People who think Glenn Beck is smart and reasonable.

People who think Sarah Palin is a rational person qualified to do ANYTHING.

03/03/2010 -

So when do you graduate high school?

03/03/2010 -

I'm sorry but the OP is an idiot if they honestly believe computers have been "ubiquitous" for 25 years. You can't even say that most people had a computer in their home back in 1985. Oh and it should be "a tool" not "an tool".

03/03/2010 -

u·biq·ui·tous 
–adjective
existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresent: ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants.

While personal computers have been around since 1983, computers in general most certainly have been everywhere in businesses long before that. Probably before you were born.

..and really, that's all you can come up with? Such a mediocre response. A typo, and the fact that not every home has had a pc in it since 1985? (props on the math skilz though, im-presssive.) Gee, I put at least 12lbs. of red meat in that post. I'm really disappointed it hasn't fired up a fundie. They must all be at Wal-Mart, driving their Hover-rounds.

03/03/2010 -

"Anyone who thinks the universe is only 6000 years old."

This one especially.

03/04/2010 -

Excellent observations. Also, do you ever get the feeling that those individuals with "Jesus/God is my copilot" tags are far more likely to bee seen flipping other drivers off? haha

03/05/2010 -

Posting the definition to "ubiquitous" doesn't change the fact that you're wrong. As for all your whining that your "too long, didn't read" rant didn't get more of a response my only advice to you is to troll harder.

03/05/2010 -

Too many words.

03/05/2010 -

"......my only advice to you is to troll harder."

Thus spaketh a troll.

03/08/2010 -

I'm surprised anyone bothered reading this wall of text to even find anything to agree or disagree with.

03/08/2010 -

i didn't realize that taking care of my aging parents ( 84 & 88) in their home at the age of 56 made me a loser...

03/08/2010 -

lord... i wanted to comment on the idiocy of this rant... but then realized that only an idiot would read it...

03/09/2010 -

I still feel like this rant is entertaining and true. It would take maybe one minute at the most to read this. Also, it seems like people are actually trying to be offended. I am sure the OP did not intend to include individuals who take care of aging parents as losers. Come on, everyone knows of some person who is 30-ish, jobless, fully capable of being independent, and yet leeching off of his or her parents. This is just a sad situation. Surely someone else agrees that this individual has made some excellent points.

03/10/2010 -

I still feel like it's too long and the OP ruins what might have been a good rant by including things that are either wrong or just dumb. No one comes here to read an essay.

03/02/2010

Budget cuts...

*is president of UGA*

*pays for personal jet to Bush inauguration and other personal or semi-personal expenditures from UGA foundation fund*

*announces severe budget cuts for UGA*

03/02/2010 -

These cuts are insane! Way to improve the job situation and economy.

03/03/2010 -

As ridiculous as most of the crap that Adams tries to pull is, he actually was just doing his job on this one. It's not like he wanted the budget cut...it's the State Legislature that made the decision.

That being said, considering majors are going to be dropped and people will be losing jobs and we're probably going to have to pay more "special fees," Adams could definitely do a bit more to help out (like not taking a plane to go to freaking Macon).

03/04/2010 -

I know he's doing his job and doesn't want the budget cuts any more than we do. However, through the accumulated wasteful expenditures of UGA funds, he has used a sizable amount of money. Is it $60 million? No.

However, is it enough so that some of the employees on the chopping block would not have to be fired?

Is it enough that a few more students could be admitted to what is one of the best universities in Georgia?

Is it enough so that a few of the majors being eliminated would not have to be?

I think the answer to all of these is yes.

02/26/2010

To all you hillbillies, venturing out into public for the first time...

How about letting people get OFF the elevator before you try to get on, m-kay?

02/26/2010 -

There are elevators in Athens? lol

02/24/2010

Doors @ SLC

I know this isn't a huge deal, but...How freaking hard is it to go through the RIGHT DOOR?!?!? Especially when tons of people are entering/exiting the building at the same time. Good GRIEF. Do you drive on the wrong side of the road, too?

02/24/2010

News Flash!: Dump Not Taken!

Whoever has been occupying the stall in the 4th floor gentleman's bathroom in the UGA library for the past 35 min...I just wanted to say thanks. I walked in and heard the rustling of newspaper and quickly exited--even if there had been two stalls, I wouldn't have gone in and "turd burglarized" you, which happened to me on the 3rd floor of the library several weeks ago (I would now suspect that maybe you were the culprit?), its common decency not to do so (kind of like talking to the man using the adjacent urinal). So, upon my return upwards of 40 min. later I see that you were still using the bathroom...why? I understand that sometimes things can get a little out of control--I believe it was Tom Servo from television's Mystery Science Theater 3000 who compared diarrhea to a storm raging inside one's self--but when I entered the second time, I heard no frantic wiping, just you taking a leisurely poo--treating a public (TAX PAYER FUNDED!) facility as though it were the 1/2 bath at your mother's house!
"What'd we have...Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, ah, here we go. Reader's Digest. I'm going to take this into the bathroom because reading a guest column written by _____ takes my mind off my bowel movement made difficult by eating nothing but macaroni and cheese. Oh, look! My dad left a part of the local paper...I'll just check up on...Oh, gosh, it looks like they let Billy draw the comic this time. Boy oh boy, there is nothing I love better than sitting on a fecal infected chair with my pants down for extended periods of time!"

Your mindset is that of a sunday driver. Taking a long automobile ride into the country to enjoy the serenity of cows out to pasture... marveling at the process of how a stake gets from the farm to the butcher shop to your lower g.i. system where it is digested...only to be crapped out over a 60 min. time span at the UGA library! I still have use the restroom but I fear you will still be in there! I go into the bathroom and walk right out for a 3rd time like a putz? To the onlooker it would appear that I have some sort of phobia of public restrooms and am torn between my need to expel waste and my fear to enter the facility! Walking around like a neurotic imbecile--like Bill Murray's character in the hit comedy

    What About Bob

--with a gut full of crap? I now have to be at class in 9 min. I don't have enough time to search for the one bathroom in a building built in 1902 so I'll have to "hold it" for the next hour and through the 2 mile walk home so that when I finally get there I can rush to the bathroom only to have it come out like micro waved Pla-Doh--causing me to take an extra shower rather than try and sanitize myself with toilet paper!

So thanks for making a difference in my life. That's what college is all about, isn't it? Impacting one another's lives (or bowels)?

02/24/2010 -

Um, there's at least 7 men's bathrooms at the Main Library, right? C'mon, maybe a healthy jog up or down a couple flights to another bathrom would ease your "evacuation."

02/24/2010 -

Depends™.

02/25/2010 -

steak.

02/25/2010 -

You can't go to 1 because that's where people should be able to run in and pee. The basement and 2, and I dare say, 7, are then too obvious as places to poop, so that leaves 3, 4, and 5. So yeah, you totally could have gone to 3 or 5. I mean, if you were able to get up three times to go check on the 4th floor bathroom, you totally could have walked one flight of stairs. Remember this for next time. . .

02/25/2010 -

Which stall has the glory hole? haha

02/25/2010 -

What is this, Toilet Roulette?

02/27/2010 -

Shoo!

02/28/2010 -

Was he tapping his foot?

03/01/2010 -

I thought what a friendly college town this is, when someone was waving hi at me under the stall!

02/19/2010

CVS

Why is it that no matter which CVS I go to they always tell you to decline getting counseled on your medication? Not, "Do you need to be counseled on this?", not, "Sign here for counseling or sign here if you don't need it", just "Sign here".

It doesn't matter if it's a new medication with "NEW MEDICATION, COUNSEL PATIENT" in big letters on the paperwork.

What do pharmacists at CVS have against people knowing what to avoid or what to start doing now that you're on a medication? Do they honestly think it's better for people to find out after something bad has happened that they were supposed to avoid high potassium foods or Asprin or whatever?

Doctors never know about all the interactions and stuff you have to look out for. They may know of the most common side effects, but that's it. That's why we need pharmacists. They are the ones who know the details about these drugs. The ones at CVS need to at least offer counseling.

02/19/2010 -

this is why you shouldnt go to chain pharmacies.

02/20/2010 -

Why do you need drugs anyway. People are way over medicated these days. I'm sad, take a pill, I'm tired, take a pill, I'm lonely, take a pill, I'm sleepy, take a pill.

02/21/2010 -

There's a pill for whining about pills.

02/21/2010 -

There is a pill for that, but I don't need it or want it.

02/22/2010 -

There's a pill that takes care of that too.

02/22/2010 -

Don't need that one as well! Or the other. ha

02/22/2010 -

The reply on the 20th is completely idiotic but the replies to it make up for it.

02/22/2010 -

I do not want to condone this store's behavior but I have an idea of why they do this. Can you imagine how many times someone yells out, "yeah, I have a question, are there directions on the bottle?" or "what does deductible mean?" This is probably especially taxing if they are super busy and trying to get prescriptions cranked out so they can go home on time. There is a lot of paperwork that also must be done before a pharmacy can go home. I am sure you are one of the rare few who has a legitimate question and actually cares about side effects, what time of day is best to take something, and if it should be taken with or without food. Sadly, it seems that most people really do not care about their health.

02/23/2010 -

God you people are a bunch of dope heads.

02/23/2010 -

Of course a pill popper would say that it is idiotic to take a pill for everything.

02/24/2010 -

sounds like you're an intern or something who feels self-righteous in the need for counseling patients. That or an idiotic consumer who can't seem to ask questions. Most s**t you need to know is printed on the canister. If you can't read, you don't need to be buying pills. Besides, unless you buy... like an enema, a pill goes in the mouth followed by water. If you have questions, you should probably ask, not wait to be offered "do you have any questions" even if stated by law.

03/01/2010 -

@02/22/2010 (last one): I can certainly sympathize with trying to get home on time and getting asked questions that should be directed at the insurance company. I also get that they may have been busy in the back but, for what it's worth, there wasn't a line.

03/03/2010 -

@2/24: Troll harder, troll.

02/18/2010

Gomers who speed through parking lots

Where did you rednecks learn how to drive? I cannot believe the number of people around here who think it's ok to drive 35-40 mph through a PARKING LOT. An underground parking lot at a hospital no less!! Pedestrians and patients everywhere, you with a cellphone glued to your ear oblivious to everyone and everything around you. Selfish and self-centered behavior seems to be the norm these days. Let me ask this, how would you feel if someone came barreling through your neighborhood going 50-60mph while YOUR children were playing outside? It would and does piss me off! I guess when YOU are behind the wheel it's a different story though , huh?

02/19/2010 -

They probably do barrel through their own neighborhood.

02/11/2010

Uptalking??

It was annoying enough with so many grown women uptalking (putting an upward inflection on the last word of a statement that makes it sound like a question when it's not) and sounding like complete idiots.
Now I hear grown men doing it. WTF gives?
You sound like a total SWPL Herb.

http://roissy.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/herb-in-the-wild/