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The crazy looking crowd at WalMart. Or..........I might be one of them.
Last weekend I took my young daughter in for a haircut. I sat at the entrance for an hour and observed the crowd for awhile. About 20% have some kind of limp and about 80% were way overweight. Didn't get a good read on the people with missing teeth. I'm not taking her there again for sure. One kid came out with a hair cut that was so bad I can't believe they made him pay for it.
 
I was at the local mall today getting a B-Day present for my son, and they already had Christmas music piped in overhead! AAAAUUUUGGGHHHHH!!!!!! Not already! It's only November 2nd for cryin' out loud! Being a Scrooge, I would just as soon never have to listen to that ****, but I realize it going to be here after Thanksgiving. But the first week of freaking November???? Come on..........
 
Bernie Brewer said:
I was at the local mall today getting a B-Day present for my son, and they already had Christmas music piped in overhead! AAAAUUUUGGGHHHHH!!!!!! Not already! It's only November 2nd for cryin' out loud! Being a Scrooge, I would just as soon never have to listen to that ****, but I realize it going to be here after Thanksgiving. But the first week of freaking November???? Come on..........
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That's nothing. Christmas stuff was for sale at the local Lowes two weeks before Halloween and the Sears across the street was clearing space for their display.

The stores say they do it because if they do it, people will start doing their Christmas shopping early. And I don't doubt it.

But I think the stores forget that regardless of when people start shopping, they are only going to spend a set amount of money. All they are doing is pushing December sales into October and November. Which makes their sales figures for those months look good. But it makes their December sales numbers look a lot weaker.
 
feedthebear said:
The stores say they do it because if they do it, people will start doing their Christmas shopping early.
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The people who do their Christmas shopping early already know what they're looking for and ultra-early advertising would be pointless. The ones that do it late still do it late.
 
WTF is up with parents driving their kids on their paper route?

I had a paper route for 6 years ... 7 days a week, 364 days a year (no paper on Christmas). Every day before school, I'd get up and walk/bike my way up and down the street, rain or shine.

Mostly, I'm just jealous :)
 
Come on guys. How else can they get fat? Thinking they should walk and bike. Sheesh!


Brewrunner, I saw an interview on the subject with several store owners. I'm just repeating what they said.
 
Here's one...WTF is a "Hanna Montana?!?"

A few short weeks ago, I had never heard this name. Now I hear it spoken about every ten minutes from the radio, television or even (gasp!) a co-worker. What spectacular accomplishments has this person achieved that resulted in her name becoming a household word, virtually overnight?
 
You obviously don't have or know any 10-year old girls.

Hanna Montana is a TV show on the Disney Channel. She is played by Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus' daughter. The show has been on for a couple years. It is evil, repetative, and boring, just like you would expect from the spawn of Mr. Achey Breaky.

And the kids are OBSESSED! with her. She has put out two albums in two years, both went #1. Her concerts sell out faster than Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones.

A Hanna Montana movie is supposed to be in the works


Did I mention it is evil?
 
ROFLMFAO...Dam, I think I pised myself....

Here are mine
WTF is with you asking me if I play basketball (I am 6'6)
I mean dam man, do you play miature golf????

WTF is with people walking in the malls, what the hell makes it ok in YOUR mind to walk on the opposite side of the mall as everyone else with your ENTIRE family, and not at least try and not bump into me? Get on your own side of the mall.
You are not a salmon fish, no need to swim upstream here.

WTF is with people asking me if I know "John", he's in the military too...... CMON!!! Do you know how many people are in the military???

WTF When traveling home from a deployment carrying my weapon, the airline actually makes me take my toenail clippers out of the bag because they are dangerous. Yeah dude ok, no never mind the GUN I am carrying.

WTF is with people at a garage sale picking up an item for .25 and then asking you if you'll take .10. If you cant afford the extra .15 you probably dont need to be buying it anyway.

WTF is it with people that they think its ok for them to walk thier dog and have them crap in my yard?

WTF is it with family that they think its ok to call at midnight on a work week, to discuss how that days shopping went???

WTF is it with Army logic that they are going to send people overseas for 15 months with 1) No alcohol 2) no Sex 3) no Porn ......... I mean hell, those are some founding principles of the military, what the hell are we fighting for then??

OK, I think thats enough for now.
What a great thread.
 
Klainmeister said:
So far loving everything everyone is saying. But how about this?

WHAT'S UP WITH HONDA'S WITH FART CANS?

Seriously, spend some time and tune your car, don't just put an oversized exhaust on it for the sound and claim performance when it is straining the engine. And enough with the SPOILERS from hell. It's FWD, a spoiler does NOTHING.

I am just sick of hearing that crap drive by every five minutes.
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This is frickin Hilarious

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Klainmeister said:
So far loving everything everyone is saying. But how about this?

WHAT'S UP WITH HONDA'S WITH FART CANS?

Seriously, spend some time and tune your car, don't just put an oversized exhaust on it for the sound and claim performance when it is straining the engine. And enough with the SPOILERS from hell. It's FWD, a spoiler does NOTHING.

I am just sick of hearing that crap drive by every five minutes.
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This is frickin Hilarious

 
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This is an awesome thread.

WTF is with politicians who think they know better than the people who are actually the working class? What makes you think that with your Harvard or Yale education that you know better what it like to be a family of 4 making enough money to get by month to month and that I should pay more taxes on % then those people who make millions a year.

I gotta say this too (I know others are thinking it) - WTF is with the Inner-city community thinking that they are still opressed. I didn't make you a slave. I can't change the past, We can change the future. I suppose I could go on and on about this but I'll leave this one to roll on its own.
 
Chris_Dog said:
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WTF is up with the kids trick or treating with the parents standing guard in a mini van. What ever happened with walking with your kids.
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That's because they're bussed into your neighborhood and they don't belong there.
 
WTF is with the local radio station playing Christmas music 50 days before the actual Holiday. I would be fine if the music would be on as of December first. But the fact is that Halloween just ended and Thanksgiving is over 3 weeks away.

Also the fact that stores were already putting up Christmas items before Halloween is JUST F'N RIDICULOUS!!
 
WTF is up with people and their kids in public? I don't want 'admire' little johnny play with his annoying noisy toys when I'm in a public place trying to get some business taken care of. I don't want to 'admire' them running around and screaming either. Have some respect and teach your kids some discipline. And no, when they're running around and start running right towards me, I'm not going to move out of the way. If they fall down after hitting me don't expect me to be sorry for them. Be fortunate I don't press charges for attempted battery or pickpocketing or something else. Same goes with grocery carts, don't expect others to suddenly halt when some uncontrolled kid comes running around the corner. Maybe they'll learn something when they hit the floor after acting like a fool.
 
"Also the fact that stores were already putting up Christmas items before Halloween is JUST F'N RIDICULOUS!!"

Don't shop much? X-rap hit the stores before Labor Day.
 
Neomich said:
WTF is up with people and their kids in public? I don't want 'admire' little johnny play with his annoying noisy toys when I'm in a public place trying to get some business taken care of. I don't want to 'admire' them running around and screaming either. Have some respect and teach your kids some discipline. And no, when they're running around and start running right towards me, I'm not going to move out of the way. If they fall down after hitting me don't expect me to be sorry for them. Be fortunate I don't press charges for attempted battery or pickpocketing or something else. Same goes with grocery carts, don't expect others to suddenly halt when some uncontrolled kid comes running around the corner. Maybe they'll learn something when they hit the floor after acting like a fool.
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Brodie said:
That kid is back on the escalator again.

I hope his pants get caught and a bloodbath ensues.
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I'm gonna make my millions with my new invention. It's a sound-proof kid caddy. Like a pet-caddy, but for little bastard demon spawn who can't keep their goddamned traps shut...and it's soundproof.
 
Evan! said:
I'm gonna make my millions with my new invention. It's a sound-proof kid caddy. Like a pet-caddy, but for little bastard demon spawn who can't keep their goddamned traps shut...and it's soundproof.
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Are you gonna rent them out at the mall or sell them outright?

I'll team up with you and run the rental division :)
 
Neomich said:
I don't want to 'admire' them running around and screaming either. Have some respect and teach your kids some discipline.
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I was just at Target a few days ago and there was a woman with a cartful of kids. One was being a little a$$ and her response was to whine at him to stop. :rolleyes: My cousin does the same thing and her kids are mental too.
 
Why do people drive through a fast food place and then eat in their car parked in the restaurant parking lot?

It's not full inside, they don't appear to be in a hurry, what gives?
 
Hey, I do that! Well, sometimes. Other times I go in and get my stuff to go.

I often find that fast food places smell uncomfortably similar to Wal Mart or Target inside. That's why I avoid going in.....besides, my car is quieter and more confortable. I can just kick the seat back and have a nap after downing a big greasy burger. :D
 
Brew Runner said:
Hey, I do that! Well, sometimes. Other times I go in and get my stuff to go.
I often find that fast food places smell uncomfortably similar to Wal Mart or Target inside. That's why I avoid going in.....besides, my car is quieter and more confortable. I can just kick the seat back and have a nap after downing a big greasy burger. :D
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Definitely not knocking it, just different strokes for different folks I guess. To me its just a little cramped, no table, etc. in a car -and I like to keep my car as clean as possible.
 
I have a number of rants today:

1. Continuation of the early Christmas displays in stores: Yesterday, I went back to the Lowes that had Christmas displays set up on October 12. All the Christmas stuff is on clearance now. Its not even December yet and its all on clearance! I guess it pays to wait until the "traditional" shopping season.

2. I went to buy more footie pajamas for my 22.5 month old daughter. She is in between 18 month and 24 month sizes. (She has the height for 24-month size but not the weight.) At Sears, there are only three pair of pajamas in the 24 month size. Apparently they think kids go straight from 18 month to 2T. (For those of you without kids. 18 month size is for 20 - 24 lbs, 27" - 30" tall kids. 2T is for 26 - 30 lbs., 33 - 34" kids. It takes a kid about a year to go from 18 month to 2T.)

3. Why are 90% of cloths for girls either pastel or pink and most both? Girls can wear bold colors. Girls can wear something besides pink. I went to the boys section just I could get her some red, blue, and green pajamas.

4. Let me preface this by saying, I'm a very socially liberal guy. But even I think it is vastly inappropriate to make hoochie-mama cloths for 2 to 4 year old kids. Pastel pink and leopard print boots and snow suits in 2T - 4T sizes? I want my daughter playing in the snow not picking up Johns on a street corner. WTF is wrong with you people?

5. WTF, KISS toothbrushes? Why the hell do they think that kids are so desperate to listen to KISS that they want it paying in their toothbrush? Okay, 20 or 30 years ago if the technology existed. But are kids today really that into KISS?

6. John McCain has ABBA on his iPod? Okay, ABBA was popular. If you have an ABBA record or tape kicking around your collection, that is okay. It means you liked them back then. If ABBA is on your iPod, it means you liked them enough to buy it yesterday. There is nothing cool about that.
 
Man, you guys are about 4 years behind on the UGG boots. Personally, I think they're hot, especially with a short skirt.

Here's the new annoying car accessory out here:

-Custom decals with your kids 1) Sport 2) Number 3) Team/School
-Usually accompanied by some strange flames or something else
-This extends down to freaking pee wee football!

If I was in high school and my dad had my name and number tatooed on his car I'd have been mortified. Every parent seems to think their kid is extra special/intelligent/athletic and going to be an astronaut these days. What happened to being 'normal'?
 
feedthebear said:
3. Why are 90% of cloths for girls either pastel or pink and most both? Girls can wear bold colors. Girls can wear something besides pink. I went to the boys section just I could get her some red, blue, and green pajamas.
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I know what you mean, I can never find any girls clothes with airplanes on them. I normally have to buy boys clothes if I want airplanes. Girls can and are pilots too!
 
Brew Runner said:
Have you noticed what "normal" is these days? I think its slightly above "ADD" and "retard".
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Oh sweet, I'm 'normal' then.......oooooooh shiney, have you seen my baseball?
 
drunkatuw said:
I don't think I'll ever understand this one. Why would you want testicles hanging from your pickup truck?!?!?!

http://www.bullsballs.com/red/truck/balls.html
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Driving home after thanksgiving, I saw quite a few of these (especially while driving through WI).
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+1. The first homemade ones with a bag and tennis balls was funny 10 years ago, but realistic ones??? Who was responsible for that mold design?
 

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