RANT

MY PERSONAL RANT PAGE (OR, THINGS STUPID PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW)

I am not the smartest person in the world by any stretch of the imagination. There are
plenty of things I don't understand, BUT, there are many people in the world that really
don't have a clue about real life and how things work, regarding things that anybody really
should know. There are also many people that are just babbling morons with actual mental
problems (work a few days in a retail job, and you'll see) or that are just idiots. Here
are a few things that I can't believe people don't know, but they don't.

It may seem incredible that some of these are actually things people don't know, but these
are ALL based on real incidents or arguments and discussions I have had with other people.

I used to be relatively optimistic about people in general, but in the last few years, I have
come to believe that most people are just booger-eating, retard morons, and no matter how
incredibly stupid they are, that is just the best they can ever be.

The cashier/person who answers the phone/person at the desk, etc at any business cannot
change a company's policy. If you have a legitimate complaint, take it to a manager or
someone who might actually have some input to change things, and even if you do have a
legitimate problem, you do not have a right to "give orders" to other people. Insisting
on something is one thing, but giving orders makes you look like a retard. This isn't the
army, get over yourself. Nobody in regular life HAS to take orders. Don't be an asshole to
the worker. It accomplishes nothing except making you look like an asshole. On the other
hand, if you're just plain an asshole, stay home. It's likely nobody likes you anyway.

Being an asshole does not make you a good manager. It just makes you
an asshole. Aw, you got fired because of your attitude? Gee, too bad.

Managers are supposed to follow company policy also. Oh, you got fired from your $70,000 per year
job because you refused to do what the $6.00 per hour security guard told you to do, as specified
by company policy, and you tried to sue to get your job back, but lost? Please excuse me while I
try to keep from laughing and get back to my $30,000 per year job that I didn't get fired from.

When you don't pay your bills, bad things happen. Your car may be repossessed; your credit may be
affected. That's what happens. Don't get mad at the finance company. Yes, it's bad that things
like that happen to people, but you don't get to keep things you can't pay for.

When you have really bad credit, you have trouble financing things.

All finance companies charge an interest rate. That's how they make money. The finance company
I work for did not "make that up" and if you really believe that, you have serious issues.

Car insurance rates are based on A WHOLE LOT more than just "you're a good driver." If you trade a
1989 Nissan Sentra for a 2003 Mercedes 300, your insurance rates are going to go up. Why? Because
you're trading a $1000 car for a $60,000 car. It's more expensive to insure, dumbass.

Everything you read on the internet is not true. (for the love of God, can someone PLEASE let people know?)

If you actually, truly freaked out because Burger King stopped selling the Whopper, you have issues. That
DOES NOT IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER qualify as a tragedy. Most folks understand that the people in those
commercials are either paid actors or retards. It's a freaking hamburger. Get over it.

Everything is not a right. People do have some human rights, but everything you decide you want, or
everything you decide you want to do, or both, is not a right, nor is it guaranteed anywhere, and your
rights don't trump other people's rights.

Everything is not a tragedy. A tragedy is something like losing your children in a car wreck or losing
your spouse to cancer. When your favorite basketball team loses a game or when your salad doesn't have
quite enough croutons on it, that does not qualify as a tragedy. If a minor inconvenience qualifies as
a tragedy to you, just stay home. There are many of us in the world that have experienced real tragedy,
and when we see someone like you that whines and bitches about trivial things, we realize how much of a
spoiled pussy you really are.

It DOES NOT matter what you've always "heard" about something (pick any subject) or that you "don't
believe" something. When there is proof that you are wrong, you're just wrong.

Just because you never heard of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist or isn't true.

Just because you consider yourself to be an expert on something does not necessarly mean you are.

Police officers do not generally "protect" people. They typically show up after the fact and write a report
about the incident. (this is not a jab at police officers, just a simple notation of fact. How many times
in your life have you had a police officer standing at your side while you were in an emergency situation?)

Police officers have to write traffic tickets. It's part of their job. Even though some officers really
seem to like writing tickets, they are still required to do it, so they would have to do it, even if they
didn't want to. Don't like it? Don't speed or break other traffic laws. Just because you may not agree
with a law, or think it shouldn't apply to you because you're a great driver, you are still actually
supposed to follow traffic laws, just like every other law. If you break a traffic law and get a ticket,
that's YOUR fault, not the officer's.

You're not as great a driver as you think. Nobody is. Oh yeah, there is more to being a good driver
than JUST driving the speed limit. There is a vast multitude of other things that can make you a bad
driver, and most people that think they are good drivers do most of those things.

When you pull out from a side street, there is no law requiring you to pull into the only lane where
there is oncoming traffic like most people seem to think. It's ok to pull into a lane where there
is no traffic. It's also ok to wait until traffic has passed before you pull out.

When you turn off a side street, it isn't necessary to pull in to the lane furthest away from you. In fact,
you're actually supposed to turn into the "corresponding lane," which usually means the lane closest to you.

Nobody seems to know how a four-way stop sign works. Look it up. The person on the right does not always
have the right of way (at least, not in this state). The person who is in the biggest hurry does not usually
have the right of way. And a "California stop" doesn't count. You're actually supposed to come to a full stop.
Stopping 20 feet back from the sign doesn't count either. You're supposed to stop at the sign or at the mark.

If you're going to drive under the speed limit on the interstate, get out of the left lane. There is an
actual law requiring you to do so.

Pedestrians in Tennessee do not ALWAYS have the right of way. Don't believe me? Here's the law. Oh yeah,
and don't bother arguing with me. This is a copy of the actual law from the TCA Law Code book. It DOES
NOT MATTER what you've always heard. This is the actual law from the actual TCA Code book. By the way,
did I mention this is the actual law?

55-8-135. Crossing at other than crosswalks.

(a) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an
unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.

This was inacted in 1955. It IS NOT new.

Pedstrian law in full context:

It is illegal to walk in the street when there is a sidewalk provided, so walk on the sidewalk. And, law
aside, it's a bad idea to walk in the street. People get hit that way. More from the TCA Code book:

55-8-138. Pedestrians on roadways.

(a) Where sidewalks are provided, it is unlawful...to walk along and upon an adjacent roadway.

Pedestrians may have the right-of-way in certain circumstances BUT, if you walk out in front of a
car and get run over....you're dead, so the fact that you had the right-of-way is pretty much
irrelavent. Maybe your family can sue the driver and prove you had the right-of-way, and even
get some money but, guess what? You're still dead. There's no way to get around that.

"Sue" does not automatically equal "get money." Many people lose lawsuits, even when they "knew"
they had a case. Oooh, you "have a lawyer?" Big deal. I have a lawyer too. I'm not impressed.
If you use "I have a lawyer" as a threat to a large company, they laugh at you. You have "a"
lawyer. Guess what, they have "many" lawyers. "I have a lawyer" doesn't scare anybody.

If you are a young, white suburbanite, will you PLEASE stop flashing gang signs in all your pictures?
It isn't cute, and in fact, it could get you killed one day if you do it in front of the wrong person.
The only people who think it's cute are other clueless young, white suburbanites.

If you're over the age of about 12, please pull your pants up. It isn't even cute on 12 year olds, but
if you're 40, it just looks retarded. We look at people like you and say, "Awww...bless his heart."

Just because your friend has been to Tunica a few times, DOES NOT IN ANY WAY qualify him as a
professional gambler, and when you tell me he's figured out that Keno is the best game to play
because it has the best odds, it REALLY disqualifies him as knowing anything about the subject.
And the fact that he "lost thousands of dollars" doesn't qualify him as a professional either.

Very few professional gamblers make a living gambling. Instead, they make a living selling books
telling YOU how to gamble, selling other items, giving seminars, and teaching. Going to a casino a
few times does not make anyone an expert. I claim to know how to play the games craps and blackjack.
I know every bet and what it pays, and I know what most of the "experts" say is the best way to play,
and I know more about those games than most other people in the casino. I even have a section on my
web site explaining how to play the games, but even that does not make me any kind of professional.

If you know someone who goes to Tunica all the time for free meals who claims that they never gamble,
and you believe it, buy a clue. That ain't how it works. Yes, it is possible to get the occasional
free meal without gambling, but you can't do it all the time if you don't gamble. Along the same
lines, if you know someone who has a diamond or other "high level" card from a casino who claims that
they don't gamble, or that they only gamble a little, or that they can go to the casino and stay for
hours and hours every time on $20, buy yourself a clue there too. I have some for sale cheap.

I never claimed my car was very fast, but you claimed yours was. Even after seeing me run at the track,
and seeing that my car can run in the 13 second range in the quarter mile, and know that yours runs in
the 14 second range, you'd think that you would realize my car is faster than yours. I'm not sure what
planet you're from, but on this planet, 14.9 is not faster than 13.6.

I'm not real impressed that your car is faster than my mine. Your car is fast, but my car is fairly fast
too, and if your $90,000 2005 Dodge Viper wasn't faster than my stock 1998 Corvette that isn't even a Z06,
you should get your money back cause you got reamed.

If you don't point a gun at another person, you can never unintentionally shoot someone, and when you're
"cleaning it" be sure it's unloaded first. Don't just assume it is. CHECK IT and CLEAR IT, dammit. If
you don't know what what "clear it" means, take a class and learn.

If you come in contact with a dangerous wild animal, don't try to pet it. People get hurt that way. On the
other hand, this might simply be nature's way of chlorinating you out of the shallow end of the gene pool.

"Netspeak" is not acceptable in formal or business situations or documents.

If another city is 200 miles away from the city where you are, and there is any road that goes directly from
one to the other, and there are no major stops along the way, it doesn't take 6 or 8 hours to drive there. If
it does, that means you average only between 25 and 35 miles per hour. IE: it does not take 6-8 hours to drive
from Memphis to Nashville or Little Rock, and it doesn't take 12 or 14 hours to drive to New Orleans, and if
you don't understand that, you don't have a concept of basic math.

If you get pulled over by a police officer, the best way to handle the situation is NOT to yell or curse at
him, give him your opinion of his attitude or law enforcement abilities, or remind him that your taxes pay
his salary, and denying you were speeding is usually one of the best ways to get him to start writing the
ticket. Oh yeah, most of the world realizes that that guy in that video that freaks out about the speeding
ticket has emotional problems of some kind and should seek counseling.

When a criminal pulls a gun or other weapon on a police officer, or otherwise tries to kill him and then
gets shot, that is NOT the police officer's fault. That is the criminal's fault.

Vigilantism and self-defense are NOT the same thing. A vigilante is someone who hunts down an
attacker or continues to try to punish an attacker AFTER THE ATTACK IS OVER. Someone who defends
against an active violent attack is acting in self-defense. The term "taking the law into your own
hands" is a meaningless cliche when it is applied to self-defense. If you can't understand the
difference between the two, or if you refuse to acknowledge a difference between the two, you are
an idiot and a pansy liberal pussy. Self-defense is a time-tested right, and only in the last
few years has it been attacked by the liberals and the pansies as murder or vigilantism. People
have a right to defend themselves against a life-threatening attack.

When your son, daughter, grand-son, grand-daughter, or any other relative or person you know runs
from a police officer when the officer tries to pull their car over and is then hurt in a traffic
accident, that is NOT the officer's fault. When a police officer signals for you to pull over
you're not supposed to run, you're actually supposed to pull over. Also, when that person does
this, don't call him "a good boy" or a "law abiding citizen" or say that he was "just minding his
own business." Good boys, law abiding citizens, and people minding their own business don't run
from the police. They have a name for people who run from the police. It's "criminal." Even if
they really weren't doing anything wrong, they became a criminal the moment they tried to run.

Just because I believe something is wrong, that doesn't automatically mean I'm a bigot. If you
think that, then you need to find a dictionary and look up the word "bigot" and learn the actual
definition. The definition IS NOT "anyone who dares disagree with anything I say or believe."

Saying "It's well documented" is a complete waste of time unless you can give an example of the
documentation. "They say XXX" is not documentation. "It was in the paper" is not documentation.
"It was on the radio" is not documentation. "They did a study" is not documentation. "Everybody
knows it" is not documentation.