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Attack of the Christmas part II

Posted on by Forge77

Two days ago I posted about the Christmas Creep well, Today I went to mall to discover unfortunately how bad how the Christmas Creep was. It’s not a creep anymore. Its the christmas War on Holidays, the casualties so far .. Halloween, Thanksgiving and anything inbetween. From the front lines which I’ve personally witnessed and My friend david whom was overwelmed at the scene and cried on sight..

Corporations are destroying Christmas, People are already starting to be worn out of the meaningless push on wanting consumers to buy useless shit for christmas.

I dont mind so much about the week after thanksgiving for Christmas, but NOW? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO go away get out.. GTFO…

McSpresso…… Either Mcdonalds is getting into espressos or you just sneezed while vomiting.

Posted on by Forge77

So Mcdonalds is getting into the espresso market Starbucks style?  Why.. Bad food and bad coffee, the commercials are worse showing “starbucks” people talking about Mcdonalds coffee and than running there.. No so much.  Yes I hate starbucks and mcdonalds but hell this is pathetic. Just the name Mcdonalds incites poor thoughts, Mcjob, McPay, McWork, McBadCoffee, McFoodPoisoning. Starbucks is ripe for being made fun of , Stuckup fruitcakes there…

Whats with all these companies getting into other far out concepts for there business types, dunkin donuts serving pizza. Whats next KFC doing shoe shines and pressing your pants while you wait with a hummer on the side?

This has to stop, If you cant get what you originally serve in the first place right , dont try to serve some other aweful product until you have your product right.

Wacky weather fun !

Posted on by Forge77

The last two days have been fun with the weather, Start off the day with a thunderstorm than have a happy tornado warning

Todays Weather is not any better , woke up this morning to the sound of a stream which i put 1 and 1 together to equil 6 , My pool was overflowing.

Today’s fun after getting a coffee and almost loosing my hat is ..

FLASH FLOODING.
514 AM EDT THU JUL 24 2008
URGENT – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WATCH…CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
514 AM EDT THU JUL 24 2008

…TORRENTIAL RAINS EXPECTED AGAIN THROUGH THIS EVENING…

.TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL STREAM AHEAD OF A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT
THROUGH THIS EVENING. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS…FAR SOUTHWEST NEW
HAMPSHIRE…AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT…AS WELL AS RHODE ISLAND AND
MUCH OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE
PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN…BRINGING THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING OR

…FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT…

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS EXPANDED THE

* FLOOD WATCH TO INCLUDE PORTIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS…SOUTHERN
NEW HAMPSHIRE AND RHODE ISLAND…INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING
AREAS…IN MASSACHUSETTS…CENTRAL MIDDLESEX MA…EASTERN
ESSEX MA…EASTERN NORFOLK MA…EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA…NORTHERN
BRISTOL MA…SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA…SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA…
SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA…SUFFOLK MA…WESTERN ESSEX MA…WESTERN
NORFOLK MA AND WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA. IN SOUTHERN NEW
HAMPSHIRE…EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH NH. IN RHODE ISLAND…BRISTOL
RI…EASTERN KENT RI…NEWPORT RI…NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI…
SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI…WASHINGTON RI AND WESTERN KENT RI.

* THROUGH LATE TONIGHT

* A COLD FRONT MOVING VERY SLOWLY TOWARDS THE WATCH AREA WILL PRODUCE
NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS EVENING. SOME OF
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES
PER HOUR.

* WIDESPREAD RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE EXPECTED…
BRINGING THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING. ISOLATED TOTALS UP TO 5 INCHES
ARE POSSIBLE. GIVEN THE POTENTIAL FOR TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS…THE
THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING EXISTS AS WELL… ESPECIALLY IN URBAN
AREAS.

YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE
FLOOD WARNINGS. THOSE LIVING IN AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE
PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLOODING DEVELOP.

HAPPY FUN!
HAPPY FUN!

this is gonna be a fun day with storms.

The banking crisis and how it seems to stand now.

Posted on by Forge77

Well right now with banks shuting down because of bank runs , Subprime Mortgages, and Idoits running the whole thing we are currently in an economic clusterfuck. Indy Mac and Fanny mae just got Picked up by the FDIC. I’ve been passively watching other banks and noticed that wacovia bank has lost over 72% of its value in the last 9 months.  My bank which i have a savings account through Has lost over 63% of its value in the same time.

It bothers me that you turn on the news and the financial news says “Everythings great! the housing market is up .5% , when year to date its actually down ALOT! If you go to sites that are out of the US basically you get the message of Hold on to your ass cuz your going for ride

The US needs to stop trying to save the banks and try to save the people. As far as i see it they have been screwing off and making inflation go batshit.

Every time we bail out a bank we are just setting up for a higher fall, every time the Interest rate is cut we are getting higher up. We are going to be up shits creek if we keep on saving banks. Unfortunatly at this time we keep doing this we if a major closure happens that we cant control , we are just going to go into freefall from all the propping up of the econimy , Its better off to slowly Fix the issues at hand , irony has it when i was a kid there was a cartoon that perfectly made sense of inflation . Its like a balloon, for every time you cause inflation the balloon inflates. cause too much inflation and it burst. we need to figure out how to slowly deflate the econimy and defuse the banking crisis. which Rather than gov bail out . they should fix it for themselves.

Sure jobs will be lost, but in the end by not keep bailing them out the landing will not be like jumping off a skyscraper

but overall the banks are to blame on this one. they are the ones that went out and offered dirtcheap mortgages that were effectively poisoned from the start. the ARM… will literaly cost you an arm and leg.

The US gov wants to give money to the banks. Why not do the more sound thing.. give the money to the people to save there houses, or at least give them an option to get out free if they can not prove a sound economic stance.  Its really bad that people loose there houses and yet the banks profit by getting huge bail outs.

Times are tough… even myself i’ve cut down on coffee =p

Would you pay $15 dollars for a coffee? Not me..

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I have my limits on coffee but $15 dollars is way out of my limit , for that price the coffee better do something like cure diseases. while not as expensive as cat shit coffee its still too damn expensive.

From WFMY News 2 :

Some people in Washington are paying $15 a cup for a rare and expensive cup of coffee.

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Vancouver, WA — It’s said to be some of the best coffee in the world, but its $15 a cup price tag may be a bit hard to swallow for some drinkers.

The brew is called Panama Esmerelda is made from a very rare coffee bean. They only get 8 cups of coffee from a half pound bag. And the half pound bag costs $100. The coffee shop in Portland is the only shop in the nation to bid on the expensive coffee beans.

Drinkers say it has a different type of taste that it worth the money.

that last line gets me.. It has a different taste, sure why not have a little crack with your coffee that would have a different taste too..

GTA Moronity part II

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Went out to pick up a shelf today with bluesteel, We decided to stop at gamestop. so we poked around the Gamecube games and picked up a few. but in the time we saw at least 4 parents picking up GTA 4 for there kids. With the news going crazier than britney spears on a normal day about GTA it seems like parents dont give a shit about GTA/NEWs reports. so basically its a few crazy fucks going off on fictional material in the game that doesn’t exist. but Over all it was pretty entertaining to see that.

Media… Completely fascinated with bored people .. and there wii’s

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I find the media often gets fascinated with some pretty weird shit at times, weither its the next missing garden gnomes, or some star taking a dump… the media is there normally to smell it. Lately with the media getting involved with console gaming, they have been attacking it as the next WMD, to the Media it is something that beats your wife , kills your pets and makes your children into cannibals. When the media is bored i find thats when there at there most dangerous to themselves and others around them. So just doing my normal thing of looking at Fark.com , an article caught my eye and I clicked. the Title of it was “Growing a wii bit bored” from the Calgary Herald. but the dumbfuckery of this one gets to me. its a long write by me but I’ll take a stab at his stab.

read on for my silly take to this article of playing with numbers and attention whoring at its best from the calgary heralds department of pulling numbers outta there ass.

It starts

In an interview with gaming publication IGN.com, the president of Epic Games, which produces the incredible Gears of War for the Xbox 360, dumped on Nintendo’s Wii, dismissing the system that has sold 20 million units as a fad that will soon wane, and saying his company won’t ever be releasing games on it.

“The first time I played a videogame with my parents was on Atari 2600,” says Mike Capps. “The next time I played a videogame with my parents . . . was Wii Tennis. So it’s about bringing people together, families, Thanksgiving, all that. I think it’s kind of like a weird virus because I have not yet found a reason to play with my Wii since then.

“It’s a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they’re like, ‘Oh my God, that’s so cool, I’m gonna go buy it. So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they’ve showed it to someone else who then goes out and buys it and so on.

theres so many things wrong with this I don’t even know where to begin. To Immediately just start dumping on something means your pissed off for one reason or another rather than taking a neutral bias to what your writing about. Also bringing the Asshat from epic in on the first line from and interview just starts this article all wrong.. I’m allowed to have bias here… gears of war? I couldn’t care any less for the game. I mean just how many times can you rehash unreal tournament. The comment alone is shortsighted, The reason people get the Wii is it is FUN…

As far the wii being a virus, i think not , Nintendo has realized that power is not everything. Generally i have one rule with gaming, the more eyecandy generally the shittier the game is for fun and replayability. I Do not play a game for eye-candy , I learned that lesson once too many that general focus on graphics tend to kill games, Or make the game so short its not worth it. Balancing graphics and gameplay is the key, people still play D&D… now theres some heavy fricken graphics for ya .. This guy is full of it .. by the looks of it this guy never played anything past Wii Sports. Continuing…

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So it begins – the coffee wars…

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Bouncing around websites when im tired sometimes i just get the What the hell reaction to looking at something…

every now and than i check news sites for anything going on with coffee (hey i am the coffeecommander so gotta check these things), so i see this.

Coffee wars heat up, with McDonalds taking a surprise lead

I had to reread that one.. Just a complete What the hell? so Interested I took the bait and clicked ..

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