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Here's another redneck you don't want as a neighbour

real or not... the nice rack is what caught my eye.

A few month ago they added a $1 charge which I accepted. Not they are quadrupling it??? I am dropping Blu-Ray for sure now! I may have to drop Netflix as a whole. I've been a Netflix customer since 2000! Bastards!!!

If you live in the Chicago area it is worth the drive out to Batavia to shop this place. If you have any rehabbing work in your near future, looking to finish your basement, or just love weekend projects like me... You need to get to the ReStore & get some great deals on all kinds of great building supplies & fixtures for dirt cheap before they close forever!!! Check out their website:

http://www.reuseitcenter.org/

(AP) SEATTLE A newly opened store catering to very pampered dogs, especially female dogs, is getting more than questioning looks for its name, High Maintenance Bitch.

The third word in the sign is widely visible at North 45th Street and Wallingford Avenue North, one of the main intersections in the Wallingford neighborhood business west of Interstate 5 and north of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.

"I am probably the most progressive liberal person in the world and I am personally offended by the sign," said Janet Stillman, executive director of the Wallingford Neighborhood Office. "It's so blatant and so in your face."

The sign is the issue more than products such as Gel-ous Bitch bath gel and Street Walker paw cleanser, said Kara Ceriello, co-president of the Wallingford Chamber of Commerce.

Ceriello said she supports the store but has heard complaints from about a dozen people.

"It is going to be a hot issue again when we get to our Wallingford Kiddie Parade and Street Fair," she said.

Stillman said the sign could wreck family photographs of the parade, scheduled for July 7.

"Walk by there with your 5-year-old and try to explain why that sign is there. Half of the sign is made up of the word 'bitch.'"

Making no apologies, co-founder Lori Pacchiano, 36, said she planned to meet with the chamber Thursday. Meanwhile, she and her brother, Ryan Pacchiano, 27, hope to make the business name as commonplace in shopping areas as Victoria's Secret.

Over the next three years they hope to open 10 stores at a cost of about $200,000 each.

"Our company is probably the most high-end pet brand in the world," Pacchiano said. "We want to be known for growing from Seattle."

In the process, she said, one of her goals is to reclaim the word in its original meaning, a female dog, as opposed to a derogatory term for a woman.

http://cbs2chicago.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_053201624.html

AMES, Iowa -- More and more parents who are stumped for meaningful holiday gifts for their kids appear to be passing up the regular secular fare for religious board games and toys.

Instead of Monopoly and Candy Land, parents can choose items such as Catholic-opoly or Mormon-opoly for Christians, Kosherland for Jewish kids and a Race to the Kabah for Muslim children.

There's enough demand for the items that the multimillion-dollar industry is doubling yearly, according to Nikki Bado-Fralick, an Iowa State University professor of philosophy and religious studies.

She said games and toys are meant to give children a reminder of their religious roots.

But she warned that some may be a little too serious.

Bado-Fralick and a colleague plan to lead a class called "Religious Games and Toys in the Classroom" in the upcoming semester.

http://www.wftv.com/family/10590805/detail.html#

I purchased a Dell computer in October 2005.
I was supposed to get a $100 rebate.
In January I contacted Dell to see why I had not received the rebate.

After, of course, getting transferred 4 or 5 times and having to repeat my story to each
person, they told me they never received anything from me.
So, they tell me to send in all of the rebate forms and crap again!
So, I do it.
Guess what? Nothing happens.
About a month later I get a postcard in the mail that says,
"We can not give you your rebate because you have no Dell order number."

So, I call the bastards back and get transferred all over the fuckin place and finally end up
talking to Abu who assures me that I will be getting my lousy hundred bucks soon. This is
like the middle of March now.

So, on Friday, April 7th, I decided to try again. It is now A HALF A YEAR since my purchase!
I call the rebate number, (800) 969-5814.
The first thing it says is "If you purchased your computer prior to November 1st press 1."
So I press 1 and it says, "Please call (800) 969-5814, Thank you and Goodbye."
Now for those of you who are very observant, you will realize that that's the same FUCKING
NUMBER!!!! This is what's known in the computer programming world as an infinite loop.

So, I call their main customer service number and press the number in the automated response system for rebates. That transfers me to the previous recording that tells me to call the number that hangs up on you.

So, I call back the main customer service number and press the button in the automated response system to indicate I want to buy a new computer and I immediately get a human, if you can call him that. Aghack says he is very sorry for my inconvenience.
I say, "Can't you just whip out a check book right now and just write me a check for this lousy $100 and we can all be done with this?"
Aghack says, "No."

Anyway, Aghack puts me on hold several times for anywhere from 2 to 10 minutes and finally comes back with the promise that I will get my $100 in the next 15 business days.
I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS.

Who are these Fucking people????
They're not even human!!
So I go to the drive up at McDonalds get the 2 burrito meal with a small diet Coke.
The guy hands me the bag and the pop and the pop has no straw in it. I say, "Is the straw in the bag?" and he says "What?" and I say again, "Is the straw in the bag?" and he gives me this totally disgusted look and says in a very condescending voice, "Yeah, the straw's in the bag."
Fine, I pull away and about two miles later find out that of course, in fact, the straw is NOT in the fucking bag.
I should just be allowed by law to go back there and kill him at that point..... no questions asked.
So, of course I take the lid off and attempt to drink some and I'm sure you all know what happens next.
Next time I go there, if I get the same guy, I'm gonna ask him, "Is your brain in your skull?"
I'm sure he'll say, "What?"

HAPPY B-DAY IHMC!!!!

What is the deal with the people, (all women at the store I go to), who work at the deli counter in grocery stores? Every single time I go to my local grocery store there are from 1 to 4 women working behind the deli counter and they are ALWAYS bitching.
And 9 times out of 10 it's 2 of them bitching about some other one that's not there..... "She's crazy if she thinks I'm going to work 3 9's in a row." Whatever a "9" is??? Then they turn to you with the fake smile that it looks like it's taking every ounce of their being to maintain.... "What else can I get you sir?"
You know another thing that really pisses me off about them.... they've got the fuckin number system and they DON'T USE IT!!!
I HATE THAT! Tonight, the idiot looks up at me and some stupid woman who didn't take a number and says, "Who's next?"
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Use your F'ING number system!!!

OK, the past few weeks after this Jones Soda F*cking Nightmare has been frustrating. I was so pissed about the online store experience that every time I saw my last name "Jones" I went into an almost uncontrollable rage. If you haven't read the beginning of this ordeal click here.

After calling Jones numerous times I finally started to resolve myself to never seeing this crap. Instead I kept going to my account on their web site hoping that the order would somehow magically appear. That never happened but something interesting did. The shopping cart went from stating that the Holiday Pack was out of stock to actually showing in my cart! I figured what the hell and placed an order on 11/13, two days after it sold out. To my surprise it took my credit card info and created an order!

Knowing my experience a few days prior I figured that they were still just the fucking idiots that I experienced before and the order would be cancelled with some bullshit excuse like, "Sorry we fucked this whole thing up, now bend over for some more!"

I let it go for a week. Every time I checked the order the status was Entered. Yeah, I know! I entered it damn it!!! Then it happened, the status changed to Processes and I noticed that the card had been charged. Another week and thanksgiving passed and no change. My wife started to hound me to call them but the scars ran too deep and I refused.

So she called. She is much better at that crap than I am anyway. She actually got someone on the phone that was willing to help her. The guy started asking questions that she didn't know so she turned to me and asked when I placed the order. Suddenly the wounds were open and she was rubbing salt on them! I yelled something like, "Tell them I order it the day it cam out and their web site is the biggest fucking piece of shit I have ever seen!!!" She tried to calm me but I proceeded to yell comments from across the room for this guy to hear. Things like, "What's he saying? They don't have any more and they're really sorry that they are all a bunch of fucking bastards?" The whole time she's trying to get me to shut up but it didn't work. It was kind of fun I thought. She hang up and told me that the guy said something was weird with the order and he'd have to call back, yeah right! He never called back and I rubbed her nose in it before bed.

So, I woke up this morning thinking about what bullshit this deal has been. Then I checked my email before leaving for work and I noticed a UPS shipping notification. I almost deleted it since I've been getting tons of spam that looks like a shipping confirmation. I decided to open it and HOLY FUCKING SHIT they shipped my soda!!! I wanted it for a party this weekend and it won't be here in time but I'm not complaining. I'm still in shock that they didn't screw it up more. And now I can look at my last name again without having a heart attack...

I can't wait to puke after tasting them!!!

If you don't believe me take a look at the tracking info!

A loser plus a loser still equals a loser. Perhaps an even bigger loser. Read about the merger here.