Category Archives: Stupid People

Nov 22 2009

Respond to Freecycle and prepare to be harassed…

So I saw an ad last night on Freecycle Savannah from someone giving away a ton of free DVDs. I saw a few I wanted for my brother, emailed the person to see if they were still available and got an email back a few minutes later from the person saying this:

Wallace & Gromit, Joe Dirt, The Spirit, and The Wrestler can be available for pickup tomorrow @ 1:30pm. Let me know if this is an available time for you
Thanks

“Awesome”, said I. Then I went back and read the listing again and saw that some were burned copies, not originals. I decided that I was no longer interested in getting them and I knew he wouldn’t want them, so I emailed the lady back at 7am with this:

Thanks for the response. I was going to get them for my brother, but he just told me that he didn’t need them after all. I appreciate it though. Thanks again. :)

A nice gesture seeing that most people on Craigslist will leave you hanging and waiting around all day without an email or a call. I gave the lady more that enough notice that I no longer wanted them. I thought I was doing a good deed. Apparently not, because I woke up to these three emails:

I am checkin to see if you are still coming today? I think I have you down to pickup around 1:30. My address is – removed -. Please email me back if you can come~if not I will have to gift to others
THanks

I have been here waiting. Your time was supposed to be at 1:30. If your not here by 230 then I will gift to others

disregard previous email. I cannot wait if you cannot show at appt time. As of right now, the only ones available to you are the wrestler, joe dirt. call me for another time

I read the emails and I’m a little pissed. Okay, so I sent you an email at seven this morning and you have time to email me three times in 30 minutes but NOT read the email I sent you? Come on now. So I sent her this back:

I replied back to you at 7:28 this morning. Here is the email:

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:28 AM wrote:
Thanks for the response. I was going to get them for my brother, but he just told me that he didn’t need them after all. I appreciate it though. Thanks again. :)

So I sent that email, thought about it for another minute and decided that I just wasn’t going to let her off the hook for being a dumbass. So I sent this email right back:

I’m sorry that you didn’t see my email, but as you can see…I responded EARLY this morning. Thank you.

I swear to God, not three minutes later I get this email:

yes, i got your email and waited. no show. I have the ones in the previous email~wrestler and Joe dirt. If you can come pickup tomorrow after 5 that would be great(Monday)

*blinks* Okay, so you admit that you read my email, but you still think I want the movies even after I’ve told you three times that I don’t? I don’t get what’s so hard to understand about this. I’m clearly dealing with a genius here. So I wrote this back:

As stated in the previous emails, I don’t need to pick up the movies. I was going to get them for my brother, but he doesn’t want them. Thank you.

I didn’t get an email back for four whole hours and then ten minutes ago I receive this gem:

well as much as i hate to hear that, that’s fine. I just really would have appreciated a phone call instead of waiting around and having my children be antsy when we had plans.

Are you kidding me?!? You’re going to blame me because your kids had to wait around all day and got “antsy”? Bullshit. I’m clearly pissed at this point and I fire off this email:

I really don’t understand what was so hard about you reading my initial email at 7:30 this morning. I stated CLEARLY that I was no longer interested in the DVDs. I tried to at least to be courteous and give you a heads-up instead of just leaving you hanging like most people would. I’ve stated in five emails now that I don’t want them. If you waited, it’s your fault. I sent you an email early this morning so you wouldn’t wait, but you keep emailing me to set up a time to pick them up.

I don’t think I was rude anywhere in my emails and it’s kind of sad that I’m having to do so now. I am not a mean or rude person and I really do not like responding to people like this, but you’ve sort of forced my hand. I tried to give you a heads-up that I was no longer interested in the movies. I told you that I didn’t need them countless times, but you keep sending me emails. At this point, I’m at a loss as to how to handle this. You clearly are not getting it. You clearly are not understanding that I don’t want them. You clearly do not understand that you waited all day because you didn’t read my email. I’m sorry your kids got antsy, but that’s not my fault, that’s yours. I’m not going to call you at 7 in the morning to tell you that I no longer want them. An email is sufficient.

Please don’t email me anymore. This is ridiculous. I really do not have time for this.

As stated in the footer of her emails, she is a property manager for a Pooler subdivision. I feel bad for the people she works for and the people she manages, and if she handles her business any way that she’s handled this whole movie business, then damn.

I’m waiting with bated breath for her next intelligent email. I wonder what she’ll blame me for this time? War? Famine? Broken nail? Geezus, people piss me off. I hate having to take this to my blog, but this lady was just asking for it. And I don’t mind giving it.

UPDATE: I’ve been referring to this lady as the “Craigslist Lady”. It just occurred to me that I found her on Freecycle Savannah. My bad. Still doesn’t take away the ridiculousness of the situation.

Of course I just received this final email. I say final because I’m now blocking her:

i received a blank email from you~no worries. I will let the moderator know all about this,
and God Bless you

Wow, really? So you’ve harassed me all day long and accused me of making your kids antsy and now you say “no worries”? What a pill. I don’t know this woman from Adam to Eve, though her name DOES sound oddly familiar, and she may be really lovely in person, but she has come off as a complete dolt in my exchanges with her. I don’t see how she could’ve interpreted me wanting the movies after all the emails I sent her saying I didn’t. It just boggles the mind. And now she’s going to let the moderator know? Please do. OMG, please do that. I beg you. And make sure to send them all the emails I sent you, because if they contact me, you’d better believe I’m going to supply them.

Word of advice Freecycle Lady: Read every single word of the emails people send you. When they say they don’t want something, don’t badger them. People tend not to like that. If someone asks if something is still available, don’t automatically assume you can demand they show up at a certain time. In fact, make sure the people want it before you assume you can just schedule them in. Also, don’t try to throw the blame on them because you’re too lazy to read an email. K? K. Awesome.

I need a Tylenol.

Sep 29 2009

Now there’s a Polanski Petition…

You know what? I refuse to watch ANY movies by ANY actor, actress or director who signs this petition. Any movies I own will be thrown in the trash. Better yet, I have half a mind to mail the movies back to the studios with a note telling them that I refuse to give a single penny to anyone who defends a man who thinks sex with a 13 year old girl is alright.

There is something very wrong about the petition and I think we all need to take a good look at it and remember the names of those who sign it. Personally, I’m really disappointed to see some of my favorites – Wes Anderson, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch. My husband and I were talking earlier about the fact that I’m very good at separating a person’s politics and their art. I can disagree with someone so vehemently and still be a fan of their movies or music or what have you.

To tell you the truth, I don’t know if I’ll enjoy watching movies by any of those people knowing that they think it’s alright for a man to drug and force himself on a child. What does that say about them? Do they think this is cool? That by signing the petition that it’ll win them over in anyone’s favor? Because if they are, then they are mightily delusional.

The fact that there are WOMEN who signed their names to that petition is equally disturbing. Monica Bellucci, who I’ve admired for years, is another disappointment. Have any of you ever seen “Irreversible”? There is a nine minute rape scene in the movie that is so real and so disturbing that you almost have to turn away. I had to actually stop the movie and wait a couple of days before I could finish the scene just to see the rest of the movie. You really feel like you’re watching a woman get raped.

And then there’s Tilda Swinton, who is such an amazing actress, and a strong woman in real life. Have you ever seen “The War Zone”? It took me a week to finish it. The father in the movie has been raping his daughter since she was a young girl and there’s a very graphic scene towards the middle of the movie where the son actually witnesses it. It’s so disturbing to watch. Afterward, you feel like you should take a hot shower and scrub the movie off of you. Brilliant movie, but hard to watch.

And now, to see these two women add their names on that list, I’m just without words. You can’t be a strong woman, fighting for feminist causes, and then add your name to something like that. They’ve both made movies that deal with sexual assault, you’d think they’d know better and stand up and say something!

At this point, it’s just the principal of the fact. I say let Hollyweird and their ilk stand up for the man. I expected nothing less than from a bunch of scumbags. Who are they to the rest of us who know right from wrong and live in the real world where if you do horrible things, there are consequences? They’re used to having everything handed to them and never hearing the word “no” and believing they are never wrong. They are above the law apparently. How many celebrities are in jail for DUI, manslaughter, drugs? Not many. They get a slap on the wrist while the rest of us get thrown under the jail. At this point, it’s expected that they’ll get off the hook for their little “indiscretions”. There’s no justice in the land of excess. Taking advantage of young girls is common place…just ask Woody Allen, who is throwing his support behind his buddy Polanski. Shocker there.

Well, we are better than that and we need to start sending a message that we just won’t put up with their shit anymore. And there’s no better way than with our wallets.

If this were the real world and he wasn’t a big name celebrity, he would be sitting in jail, and EVERY celebrity in the world would be outraged. But he’s their pal…and don’t forget the fact that he’s a “genius”…so it’s alright. And how dare we ignorant, mean Americans do this to him? Hasn’t he paid for his crimes enough already? I mean, he hasn’t been able to step back on American soil for years. Poor thing. He’s been living in France with his wife and children, tucked away from civilization for all these years, repenting and thinking about what he did with no-one to talk to or confide in and no-one to stand up for him. And he lost so much work. I mean, look at all he’s suffered because of that little Lolita!

Er…wait a second, that’s not how it happened at all! But don’t tell, Hollyweird. They’re under the illusion he’s been cast down all these years and that he’s the victim.

Are you kidding me?

Recommended Reading:
Hot Air: Name ‘em and shame ‘em
The Anchoress: A Study in Contrasts

Aug 26 2009

School recording pisses off slack parents…

My boss sent me this a few minutes ago and it was too good not to share.

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This is hilarious – no wonder some people were offended! This is the message that the Maroochydore High School Queensland , staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine . This is the actual answering machine message for the school. This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children’s absences and missing homework. The school and teachers are being sued by parents who want their children’s failing grades changed to passing grades – even though those children were absent 15-30 times during the semester and did not complete enough school work to pass their classes.

The outgoing message:

Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school. In
order to assist you in connecting to the right staff member, please listen
to all the options before making a selection:

To lie about why your child is absent – Press 1
To make excuses for why your child did not do his work – Press 2
To complain about what we do – Press 3
To swear at staff members – Press 4
To ask why you didn’t get information that was already enclosed in your
newsletter and several flyers mailed to you – Press 5
If you want us to raise your child – Press 6
If you want to reach out and touch, slap or hit someone – Press 7
To request another teacher, for the third time this year – Press 8
To complain about bus transportation – Press 9
To complain about school lunches – Press 0
If you realize this is the real world and your child must be accountable
and responsible for his/her own behaviour, class work, homework and that
it’s not the teachers’ fault for your child’s lack of effort: Hang up and
have a nice day!
If you want this in another language, move to a country that speaks it.

Source: Tim Wade’s Blog

Personally, I think the parents need to get over it and start making their kids go to school. I wish schools here in the States would use the same recording.

Jun 22 2009

Perez Hilton got “Boom Boom Pow’d”…

Perez Hilton got Boom Boom Pow'd!

So, Perez Hilton has run his mouth for the past five years about everyone from celebrities to politicians to beauty queens. He’s made a living out of saying horrible things about people he doesn’t agree with, drawing clever little “drippings” and phalices on pictures, and inciting other people to do the same. Look at the job he did on Miss California. He asked her a question, didn’t agree with what she had to say, and then went on a witch hunt, calling her everything from a “bitch” to a “cunt”. I’m not defending her stance on gay marriage, I’m just saying that rational human beings, which he clearly is not, do not ask someone a question then go psycho bitch crazy when they don’t like what they get back. But it’s standard Perez blogging and it’s what has landed him in the mess he’s in now.

Well, it was only a matter of time before someone knocked him on his hypocritical ass and it came in the form of Polo Molina, manager for the Black Eyed Peas. Apparently, Fergie Ferg had a problem with all the horrible things Perez has blogged about her and confronted him about about it. Later, her bandmate Will.i.am confronted Perez, which led to this:

At Cobra, Will.i.am once again got into an argument with Perez, this time with the two men getting in each other’s faces. When the situation escalated to its breaking point, Perez antagonized Will by calling him “gay” and a “faggot,” something Hilton admitted doing in his video statement addressing the issue. Will.i.am also confirmed this in his own video statement on DipDive: “This dude twists it and says I assaulted him when I was the one who came to him with respect and he was the one who called me a ‘faggot’ outside the club.”

Here’s where the stories blur: At roughly 3:45 a.m. EST, Hilton Twittered, “I was assaulted by Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas and his security guards. I am bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke.” Hilton made several more pleas to his Twitter followers to call the police and send them to the Soho Metropolitan hotel, where both Hilton and the BEP were staying. (Interestingly, the hotel told the National Press they were receiving phone calls from as far as China and India after Perez’s Tweet at 3:45 a.m.) Will.i.am, on his own Twitter, simply said, “Perez Hilton is a liar…” In his video following the incident, Will.i.am told fans, “Instead of calling the police, you [Perez] Twitted that I assaulted you… sounds like somebody wants mad attention and is not really concerned with his health… I didn’t hit you. Shame on you, shame your behavior.” Somehow, even Tila Tequila’s Twitter became involved as a sideline reporter of sorts, with the MTV star Tweeting, “Unless Perez is drunk N someone knocked him out N he thinks it was a Will.I.Am look-a-like. But Will has no idea what Perez is talkin about.”

Source: Rolling Stone

So now, Perez is crying like a little girl about the fact that people are laughing at him and telling him how much he deserved it.

“I like writing about other people’s drama. I don’t want drama in my own life.”

Hello pot, meet kettle. He’s been peddling this trash for years and talking smack and verbally assaulting people and now he got the shit smacked out of him and he’s crying to the masses about how mean people are and blah blah blah. In the video tirade I’ve linked to below, he goes from victim to smack…victim to smack…victim to smack. He just can’t keep his stupid mouth shut. He clearly hasn’t learned a lesson from this.

And what is the lesson, boys and girls? It’s…IF YOU TALK SHIT, YOU BETTER BE ABLE TO BACK IT UP, BECAUSE SOMEONE MAY BEAT YOUR FACE IN FOR THE THINGS YOU SAY! This is no different from those stupid little punks you see on television, running their mouths and acting big and bad, until someone comes over and cleans their clock. Or those girls in school who gossiped about this person and that one and then gossiped about the wrong one and had their ass beat and their earrings ripped out of their ears and handfuls of hair pulled out of their head. Or the stupid jerks at ballgames who scream and yell and make complete jackasses out of themselves until someone goes over and punches them in the nose to shut them up. Violent? Maybe. Deserving? You betcha. It’s a life learning experience. You take this ass beating and you move on. You learn from it. You look at yourself and say, “What did I do to deserve this?” and you not do it again. It’s really not that hard.

And before anyone says it, no this is not a free speech issue. Perez is clearly free to say whatever it is that he wants to or blog about whatever he wants, just as I am. This isn’t about free speech, this is about running your mouth one too many times and having it come back to you in another form.

My advice to Perez? Man up for the first time in your miserable, sad little life. Stop running your mouth. I don’t think you got half the ass beating you deserved for all the horrible, mean things you’ve said. This is what happens in the real world when you run your mouth. Out here you’d better have the ass to back up that mouth. You obviously didn’t have the ass. And while I don’t believe that hitting someone is always the answer, I fully believe that you got what was coming to you. Get over it and take it like a man. And stop whining because people like me are telling you that you deserve it. Throw a steak on that bad boy and move on. After all the horrible things you say about other people, you need to recognize. Karma’s a bitch, bitch.

This has been a most excellent Monday. :)

Perez Hilton’s LOL-worthy Video: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=364783 (Warning: lots of crying and self-righteous bullshit)

Will.i.am’s Video: http://dipdive.com/member/iamwill/tv/#/~/videoplayer/0/undefined/48856/~/

P.S. I cannot believe that I wasted five minutes giving Perez more press. Whatever. He’s a publicity whore. He’ll love it.