Random Thoughts

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:09 pm

Who Shot Sam? wrote:
mood swung wrote:
In the most important college football game of the year
Tennessee/Floriduh was ages ago, Sam.
Easy there. The missus is a UF grad.

Arizona/Arizona State on December 1st

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:54 pm

There IS no bigger rivalry and game than OSU /Michigan. Of course, history repeats the 'same defeats' and Michigan once again loses to the Buckeyes!

My son prepares, halfheartedly, for the Rose Bowl, but the chances the buckeyes will roll into the National Championship aren't too shabby.

Gooooooo Buckeyes!!!

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:39 am

I woke up this morning and thought of our very own Red Shoes. It was nothing untoward in case you were wondering (that's not an insult is it

)

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:34 am

I woke up this morning and thought of our very own Red Shoes.

me too!

no, not really.

This is just to let everybody know that the Official Christmas Music Season has begun. Feel free to dig out the Johnny Mathis!

If you go here and scroll towards the bottom of the screen, you'll find a Christmas classic!
http://rancidpunx.net/page.php?25

RedShoes · Post by **RedShoes** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 9:25 am

Dear City of Toronto Parking Authority,

Please don't give us a $50 ticket for parking in our own driveway. It's just not right. I know Toronto has this crazy law that you have to pay an annual fee to park in your own driveway... but, see - we did that. We sent in the cheque over the summer. You were even quite nice to my husband about it - you explained everything that we needed to do and sent us a form rather quickly. We sent it back with the full payment. I now see (by looking through old banking records) that maybe you didn't cash that cheque... but see, we sent it in! We really did. And we know that you were sending the previous owners notices that they hadn't paid because we accidentally opened one of them (which is how we learned we needed to pay it to begin with), so.. if you didn't get our cheque, why didn't you send us a notice? We would've taken note. We pay our bills, honest. I know you must think our address is worthless for paying bills; We've seen the "OVERDUE ACCOUNT" notices to the previous owners. We've been returning a lot of their mail to sender. But see, we're not them. We pay our bills! Even when it's right before the holiday season and we're broke as hell, we find ways to pay our bills. Please find better ways to tell us that we owe you money, and don't make parking in our own driveway illegal.

Unkind Regards,
RedShoes

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 9:36 am

That's crazy. You have to pay to park on your own property? Bizarre.

RedShoes · Post by **RedShoes** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 9:39 am

Yeah... it's just another way for the city to make money. I didn't have so much of a problem with it, honestly. I'm all for taxing drivers/cars if it encourages more people to use public transit (not that I take public transit daily... but still). And it's not much - like $75 for a year. But to ticket us in our own driveway? That's just ludicrous.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:35 am

Who Shot Sam? wrote:That's crazy. You have to pay to park on your own property? Bizarre.

It is bizarre! I just hope nobody from the UK Government has read this post. If we start getting proposals to tax people on this basis I'm taking it out on you Red

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:35 pm

Where you're going wrong is paying your bills in the first place. They take advantage of people like you. My advice is stop paying until the court threat letters arrive.

StrictTime · Post by **StrictTime** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:32 pm

How do you get accepted into a university you don't even remember applying to?

I'm so terribly confused right now.

In less confusing news, my vinyl copy of Trust arrived yesterday. Beautiful.

StrictTime · Post by **StrictTime** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:30 pm

Holy crap. I've gotten like ten CDs since Friday. Two things on vinyl as well. Hol-ee shit.

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:39 am

You've got generous friends and relatives, ST

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:02 pm

The heated seats in my van are the best thing ever.

StrictTime · Post by **StrictTime** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:13 pm

BlueChair wrote:You've got generous friends and relatives, ST

Most like a generous uncle. 3 on the cheap, that I bought for myself, 2 from my parents for birthday, and...5 I think from my dear dear uncle Calvin. God bless him, man.

Heated seats, mmmmm.

And, one of my very close friend's birthday is today! Woooo! He's now, again, older than me numerically.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:15 pm

mood swung wrote:The heated seats in my van are the best thing ever.

moody's bitchin' van...

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:26 pm

chopped AND lifted! sweet.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:40 pm

This is a real public service announcement they are running on Canadian TV at the moment. Blue, WTF?

You've been warned...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noFCekWi ... 327432.php

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:31 am

oh good lord, that's awful. and in such a rated "G" country!

I had an accident myself this morning. Not THAT kind of accident. The freaking dog decided to stop in the doorway, so that I performed a not-very-elegant swan dive over the dog, out the door and onto the concrete sidewalk. It's not every day that the first words out of my mouth are goddamit.

In happier news, I was 19/22 on green lights this morning!

Post by **BlueChair** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:38 am

Who Shot Sam? wrote:This is a real public service announcement they are running on Canadian TV at the moment. Blue, WTF?

You've been warned...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noFCekWi ... 327432.php

Yeah... I've seen this commercial many times. I understand that workplace safety is a big deal, but this ad is taking it way too far.

RedShoes · Post by **RedShoes** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:25 am

WSS - there's a whole series of ads like that running right now. All of them are pretty shocking. There is a discussion about it in a Toronto blog, here:
http://torontoist.com/2007/11/clicking_ ... cident.php

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:29 am

RedShoes wrote:WSS - there's a whole series of ads like that running right now. All of them are pretty shocking. There is a discussion about it in a Toronto blog, here:
http://torontoist.com/2007/11/clicking_ ... cident.php

I understand what they are trying to do, but jeez! They are apparently showing these during Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts. Surely there must be more than a few kids watching. If my son saw that, he'd probably have nightmares for a month.

RedShoes · Post by **RedShoes** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:38 pm

Yeah, it's pretty extreme. I wouldn't have as much of a problem with the campaign if it was only played during shows/times that children wouldn't be watching.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:41 pm

look! I found os's christmas present - don't tell!

and I think a lot of board members (VG) will be wanting one of these

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:20 am

The Soccer for Dummies should be for Steve MacLaren.

The David Beckham picture is quite an old one as it has him actually on his feet rather than on the bench collecting splinters

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:23 am

verbal gymnastics wrote:The Soccer for Dummies should be for Steve MacLaren.

The David Beckham picture is quite an old one as it has him actually on his feet rather than on the bench collecting splinters

That was taken just before he did his ankle again.