from the repuglicant tea party ...

... a message to the unemployed: go fuck yourselves! no need to thank me; you can thank your fellow voter.

big hairy deal

the be-at-les are on itunes. boy, that's a non-event ....

retched excess

these guys pull numbers outta their arses: some anal-yst set a price target of $500 on aapl after it swooped over $300 yesterday. you figure? but when?

it's one of those retched [sic] wall street rituals whenever stocks are soaring: more idiots pile in, fuelling the hysteria until the balloon pops ...

reasonable excuse

the support droid had an almost reasonable answer for his pathetic response: "unfrotunately [sic] i am not an internet specialist - i am a stock trader."

a pathetic response

i flamed the support email at morgan-stanley/smith-barney & got the most pathetic response to the first point of my THE WORST BROKERAGE WEBSITE EVER rant: "we have to keep this information available because of taxation requirements ..."

what a pile of bullocks! firstly, there was never any activity in the account as my previous employer never granted me any options nor was i stupid enough to sign up for their stock purchase plan. secondly, that employment terminated three years ago. thirdly, it's the default view when i login to their pathetically awful site & remains the default whenever i try to see any of the options available on the site.

the support droid said he'd forward my other complaints to the appropriate departments.

d'oh!

THE WORST BROKERAGE WEBSITE EVER

morgan-stanley/smith-barney hosts my pathetic (submerged) stock options. a bonus insult (on top of the pointlessness of those grants) is its repulsive incompetence ...

first, it shows me an empty account. my previous employer. don't even know where that came from—i had no options from those turds nor did i stupidly sign up for their stock purchase plan: i'm not a complete idiot, just stupid enough not to remember that you can never go back. regardless, i last worked there almost three years ago—so why's that crap the default?

second, the entire thing is written in ghastly flash. it's as slow as molasses to react to any mouse movement or click & it flickers weirdly. its default font size is too small. plus it blurs the background when one of their stupid "pop-ups" is displayed. &c. but after all that, it's just a repulsive mess of a site. what did they gain by using flash? they couldn't find any html coders? what a huge ugly turd of a site!

third, i tried to find my account statement—the whole reason for going there was i got a paper statement in the post with the unsubtle suggestion i go paperless. could i find my statement? hell no! could i find the toggle that switched the statement i couldn't find to paperless? hell no! i should go paperless? on that incompetent site? yeah right!

foreigners some of them ...

hilarious: hulu thinks i'm a foreigner. they're right but wrong. also fuck them ...

holy book burning, batman!

tat for tits: since this neanderthal is keen on burning other people's books, perhaps a few of his favourite tome also need a säuberung, especially given how closely he hews to the word ...

anonymous employee survey

once again, scott adams nails it. the stench factory is fond of sending emails requesting one fill in an "anonymous employee survey" if you'll just click this link. then they ask you to sign in.
eh?
how's that anonymous, arseholes?

it crawled into my postbox, honest ...

this is what the economist's west coast contract printing shop considers acceptable to ship to its paying customers (click for a fullsized view). this is only the worst of this lousy print shop. i've been constantly getting copies of the magazine that have entire pages rendered ineligible by smeared ink or pages that are out of order or not even attached to the rest of the magazine. the incompetence of this print shop is astounding ...

i've respectfully requested a new copy ...

tea party government grants

seriously: that was spam in my yahoo! inbox ... d'oh!

indeed

(h/t mark thoma)

lib -er- tarian

gotta love rand paul, a smart guy who's so far proven to be really dumb ...

freds

got entirely ripped off: did the bike2work thing but because of the huge crowd of freds at the one energizer station on my route, i didn't get a loot bag ...

update: got a(n empty) loot bag at the svbc bike away from work bash (empty is okay—just wanted the bag). thanks!

the party of wall street

the party that wants to lead the tea party is actually the party of wall street. who knew?

skunk ...

what sorta monkey buys a pre-arse with a racing stripe?

how can it get any better?

how can you improve on this?

i like stories with lots of idiots in them, too ... (but don't read the idiototic comments following the strip. holy mother of $deity! from under which rock did these cretins crawl?)

barnacled underpants

mr pratchett has a way with words (must pay them extra), "... so deeply at sea with that sentence that barnacles would be attracted to his underwear."

recall notice

adrian tweeted this ... it's too good not to pass onwards. thank you, petrolheads!

pigs

once again, doonesbury nails it ...

caresses

watching people caressing their iphones (or now their nexuses). most bizarre. wonder if that was apple's intention: to create a world of tech fondlers.

but to what end?

enough to make ya godfearin' ...

check out this repulsive page. apparently godless is the same as tasteless & talentless. who knew?

hey geeks, that's one butt-ugly stupid arse webpage you -er- designed there! (thinks: is this an example of intelligent design?)