Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)

[Shinomaster]

Insomnia. I was lights out at 10 last nite, planned to rise and shine and hit the gym. Nope, I was still tossing and turning at the very hour I planned to get up! Fucking blows. Anybody gots any bright ideas short of prescription shit, please feel free to send them my way, this is a recurring theme.

Have you tried masturbating? Ducking, and sorry everyone! Please don't ban me.

[crumpton]

Tubbing a '69 Camaro should be illegal and punishable by moderate beatings with the material removed!

[Corso]

American gay athletes using the olympics as a Protest Forum. 1.7 percent of americans are reported gay. I’m guessing they will get more than 1.7% of media coverage. American media loves gay rights…to a fault.

Guess what? The fn’ Russians can treat their people any way they want to. It’s their country.

Last I checked, Russian athletes didn’t make any ANTI-GAY statements when they are competing over here...

I’d rather see protest for women getting stoned to death for not covering their face in public. I guess that’s too much to take on.

[mainemike]

tried it? i work from home. if you look at me from my right side, you'll mistake me for Popeye.

Have you tried masturbating? Ducking, and sorry everyone! Please don't ban me.

[quickag]

a tank ran over one of my surveillance towers that we're installing on the Syrian border. And they want to argue about who's responsible for paying for it. WTF?

[taz]

Serious reply to Chasea: Brian Eno - Ambient 1 Music for Airports.

And a grump:

TV and online news making Atlantans look like a bunch of idiots. Granted, there are a lot of idiots here, but the majority of those are the ones that come from somewhere else and think what works 'where I'm from' will work here.

Simple rule for living in Atlanta - See snow, go home immediately. You don't have to wait for some official designation to know that things are going to turn into a clusterf**k immediately.

I work on the north side and live by the airport. For those that know the geography, this is an ugly commute on clear days. Looked out office window at noon and got the hell out. No problems getting home. Email from corporate saying office will close at 3pm. Co-workers cars are still sitting on the highway. (Same ones that snickered at me for leaving early.) BTW: corporate office is in Minnesota.

[Shinomaster]

a tank ran over one of my surveillance towers that we're installing on the Syrian border. And they want to argue about who's responsible for paying for it. WTF?

Wow, a Turkish tank?

[Shinomaster]

tried it? i work from home. if you look at me from my right side, you'll mistake me for Popeye.

I'm afraid to ask what that means!

[mjbabcock]

Guess what? The fn’ Russians can treat their people any way they want to. It’s their country.

No "they" can't. There a million reasons and thousands of years of philosophy underlying why not.

[Crashburn]

Folks that feel its their god given right to cough like a effing sprinkler-head of disease in public, without making any attempt to cover their mouths or turn away from people.

When I saw Infection a woman was coughing for the first thirty minutes of the movie. On the way out I opened the door with my elbow. Doing burpees.

[Crashburn]

The search for retail-appropriate music that doesn't make me want to go Chopper Read on myself continues.

I was hanging at a friends shop on a Saturday at closing time when simultaneously Luke Skywalker's Two Live Crew "Hey We Want Some Pussy" came on and a group of grandparents came in. I managed to turn it off before it got really nasty but once they left we all had a good laugh. More burpees.

[quickag]

Wow, a Turkish tank?

Jordanian. Good people. Shitty tank commanders apparently.

[RickM]

I’d rather see protest for women getting stoned to death for not covering their face in public. I guess that’s too much to take on.

As long as we're going to carve up the OP's notes....I'll take this line...'cause he's right. I'd like to see the above in addition to Gay Rights agit. Also...everyone who participates in gang-raping girls for "crimes" real or imagined should just be fucking shot on sight. That is my grump/outburst for this week. Thank You.

[Corso]

No "they" can't. There a million reasons and thousands of years of philosophy underlying why not.

Yes, they can, and whether we like it or not, agree with it or not, every Country has the right to govern as THEY see fit. And they do. Your millions of reasons and thousands of years of philosophy hasn’t effectively changed much worldwide.

Olympics in China in 2008, right? China’s human rights history is deplorable, starting with the “one child” policy, resulting in female infanticide.

American women make up slightly over 50% of pour population.

Do you recall any organized American female Athlete protests at those games?

But say something about gay rights, and that American 1.7% spins the media into a frenzy.

Olympics should be about Athletes. Chaps my ass when the event is used for agenda’s not associated with sports.

[Der_kruscher]

Blu E-Cigarette ads.

And people on Facebook who believe and repost ridiculous articles from dubious sources with no citations about the health benefits of "X" or why "Z" is killing us.

[mjbabcock]

Chaps my ass when the event is used for agenda’s not associated with sports.

You're wrong. Oh, by the way, the Olympics haven't been about sports for a long fucking time. It's been a political pawn and a cash cow.

And you're wrong.

[RIHans]

Chaps my ass when I compose a well thought out reply to an interesting thread, and when I hit the "reply"
button, I timed out. Not fucking logged out! Timed out while composing! Bullshit on vSalon.

That chats my ass to no end. Happens all the time to me and many others. I have let many
a reply go, because I didn't want to re-type the reply.

Oh,Oh! I tried searching on a fucking fix using search the forum, search the threads...NO help.
That chaps my ass!

If I am typing...Don't log me off! I am not sleeping!

Ass chapped.

Edit...If you are gonna time me out, how about a save function? A draft.

[Der_kruscher]

Oh yeah, Internet comment sections. But I read them anyway…so, I guess that I chap my own ass.

[Corso]

You're wrong. Oh, by the way, the Olympics haven't been about sports for a long fucking time. It's been a political pawn and a cash cow.

And you're wrong.

So you must be right. I only wish I knew exactly what I was wrong about.

By the way, I like the infamous “black glove” salute example. Not well received at the time, was it? Still pretty insulting to most. You find it appropriate? The proper place for protest? Was it the beginning of your “Olympics haven't been about sports for a long fucking time.” timeline?

Why don’t you write a letter to Putin, put a pink bow on it. Tell him how to run HIS country. I’m sure he’ll listen to you, after all, you have "a million reasons and thousands of years of philosophy” on your side. But no facts.

Arrafat was behind the Munich Olympic massacre. And was awarded the Noble Peace prize years latter. So what do I know?

[Gattonero]

I would expand this to people who just have no idea the impact they have on others and don't. For Example:
In NYC, locals move fluidly and continuously, no two NY'ers ever have to figure out who is passin who on what side, that is all negotiated yards before they get there, bring one out of towner into the mix and suddenly people are spilling into the street, Drivers who keep rolling into the road at a stop sign thereby making sure that no one who coming to that intersection can keep going with confidence, Groups of people who stand on the sidewalk preventing others from walking through, People who double park at the one point in the road where it makes everyone stop, police cars breaking the speed limit or tailgating when there is no emergency, Judges who think there job is to lecture people, waiters who don't know that there job is to make sure people get what they need, cashiers who's conversation about who they got drunk with last night is more important than the customer...... I can go on a long time

sounds like Oxford St. W1!