Unsubscribing stupidity

Don't you love it when you get some e-mail from a company you contacted once for some reason and now you want to unsubscribe from receiving further messages -- and this is not just an automatic process through some link? Typically you would have to tell them which e-mail address you want to use to unsubscribe. In my case, I have numerous e-mail addresses forwarded through various domains to my main address, so I have no way of knowing which one it is. This is STUPID!

A bunch of crap

There are numerous Internet postings which suggest that if you leave your toilet seat open and flush the toilet, some "fine spray" will send minute pieces of pee, poo and whatever all over the place, contaminating any toothbrushes, towels, washcloths, bars of soap, etc. in the immediate vicinity (up to several feet away).

I think this is a bunch of crap (no pun intended).

I tried an experiment myself, closing the toilet lid and flushing the toilet. I then opened the lid and ran my fingers along the underside of it. It was COMPLETELY DRY.

[Follow-up: I did a Google search for a Mythbusters anal-ysis (no pun intended) of this phenomenon, and they determined that there actually was some "fecal material" encountered on a testing toothbrush near the toilet after a flush. But they also found this "material" in a room where they had put a testing toothbrush which was far away from the toilet. Their conclusion: shit is everywhere.]
 

What bloggers need

Seriously, all bloggers should have someone standing behind them, like the guys riding in the chariots of Roman generals returning home from the wars, whispering in their ear: "Remember ... thou art but a man [or woman, as the case may be]."

Lottery Lunacy

There is a big ad in the paper today about how I can buy lottery tickets on line. I am too lazy to go to the store, so of course this is appealing.

I sign up, it sends a confirmation e-mail and I click on the link to log in. But I can't do this. You have to have Location Services turned on in your cel phone -- to prove you are in BC, I guess.

I am totally clueless about all this, until I phone the lottery help line. Normally if you have to have Location Services turned on, the app or site (this was a mobile site) will tell you to do that in simple language. You have to have Safari's Location Services turned on, since that is the app the phone uses while doing all this. There is nothing to tell you about all this ahead of time.

Having done this, I can log in. I choose the lottery I want and then choose the numbers. I go to "purchase" the lottery ticket that I have created, and I can't do it. You have to have money in your "account" first and you cannot go back to the main screen without destroying everything you have done so far (again, there is nothing to warn you in advance this will happen).

So I do that. Once I get to the place where I can put $5 in my account, I enter the credit card information and try to pay for this princely sum. Can't do that, it says the credit card (which I used previously at the very beginning of all this to "verify" that I was old enough to do all this crap in the first place) is declined. I try this twice. Finally, I phone the credit card company. There is nothing wrong with the card, but the company won't let you use the card for "gambling" and "betting" sites. Another company's credit card has no such problems.

What a fucking hassle!

WOW! Amazing new Facebook polls!

Does anyone find these name-mining Facebook polls where people categorize themselves to be VERY tiresome? You know, stuff like "Which Game of Thrones character are you," "Which adorable breed of pussy cat are you," "Which 1990's heavy metal group are you," etc.?

There are some such polls that people don't know about.

For example:

Which long-standing international conflict are you?

One person who participated commented: "Wow, I am the South Sudanese conflict ... but I was hoping for 'Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia'!"

Then there is "Which Nazi concentration camp commandant are you?"

Someone was seriously disappointed: "Darn, I am only Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka!"

And finally, there is "Which famous child molester are you?"

Yes, women can participate in this poll too ... don't forget Mary Kay Letourneau, Pamela Rogers Turner or Lisa Biron!

Would people be more sympathetic to Mike Duffy if he was not fat? Probably not...

[Old news article]

http://news.nationalpost.com/.../

Sen. Mike Duffy charged the Senate for travel and daily expenses during the last federal election when he was campaigning for the Conservatives, new RCMP court documents allege.

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[From comments on CBC story yesterday]

Duffy complaining about losing a nice cushy government pay cheque is tawdry. The man is retired, did he not plan for his elder years? Oh and please stop using the heart card, it doesn't play, as from his portly appearance one can guess that the man has not taken the time to participate in heart health rehabilitation. That included walking 3 miles at least 5 times a week.

Facebook essentials

If you took these away from Facebook, what would there be left?

• pictures of cats and dogs
• pictures of food
• comments about things people agree with
• comments about things people want to promote
• quotations that people think are clever