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RANT/RAVE (Week of Feb. 18)
Three times a lady
Oh please, oh please, play that Lady Gaga song again! I haven’t heard it a million times today! Please! “Poker Face”! I forgot what the other one is. It sucks!
Anonymous Rantline caller
Got the message?
I would like people to join me in trying to get the phone companies to stop that message that says, “At the tone, please record your message. When you are finished, you may hang up or press pound for further options. To leave a callback number that you can be reached at, press one.” We know all that information; there is nothing in there we don’t know. We know that you don’t hang up until you’re finished. We also know that you can hang up. And you can’t press pound for further options — it doesn’t work! And you don’t need to leave a callback number anymore; almost everybody has call display. These things just aggravate the hell out of me. Why don’t we just have a simple “Record your message”?
Anonymous Rantline caller
Poorly endowed
I’m a little confused. If I could only grow 15 hairs on my face, I sure as shit would not advertise that fact by trying to grow a beard. It’s like the facial equivalent of wearing a T-shirt that says, “HEY, EVERYBODY! I’VE GOT A ONE-INCH PENIS!”.
JW
Rude awakening
I was still half asleep this morning at Waterfront Station — and, therefore, stunned — when you, a racist woman, came up to me, out of the blue, and sneered, “You’re strange! You white people are strange!” When I got my bearings, I went hunting for you in the crowd. I could not find you, which is lucky for you, because I was going to give you a broken nose. Yeah, happy World Games, eh?
Anonymous Rantline caller
Gangstas, grilled
Can we end this trend with the fucking sweaters with the gold and silver shiny emblems all over them? If you’re wearing a purple sweater with gold crowns on it, you don’t look like a pimp, you look like you work for Imperial Margarine. Let’s fucking end this. Enough’s enough.
Anonymous Rantline caller
Swept up in the chaos
Hi, my name is Casey. I drive a sweeper. I sweep the streets of the city — yup, the city of Vancouver. For all these people that are honking and yelling and screaming obscenities and showing me their IQ — I believe that would be one, with their middle finger... Um, you know that big arrow board on the back of the machine that’s asking you to go around me? That is not a signal light; I am not turning left. Go around me! And I don’t understand what the big deal is, Most people don’t want to go to work, they don’t like to go to work. And yet all you people on this morning’s drive seem to want to get to work as fast as you can. You’d think that I’m doing you a favour by holding you up! Oh, well. Enjoy your drive. Next time you see a sweeper, I hope you remember this.
Rantline caller
Warm regards
Yada, yada, yada. So, you don’t believe in global warming? Well, good for you, but I don’t care. Nonetheless, it’s seven degrees in February. Look it up: this is warm. And if you don’t believe that, go check around in the West End and you’ll see that the cherry blossoms are out. Yes, it’s February, and the cherry blossoms are out. You don’t believe in global warming? I’m sorry for you, but global warming’s a reality, okay? It’s happening.
Anonymous Rantline caller
For eff’s sake!
Why is the F-word such an offensive word? I mean, it means to fecundate, to make fruitful. In the old Saxon term, it means to plow the land. At worst, it means to make love with somebody else. So why is the F-word such a nasty word? Why does it have such a bad rap, especially in this more enlightened age? Oh, fuddle-duddle.
Anonymous Rantline caller
Re: For effs sake!
I don’t find it offensive however I can see how some would; the origin of the word FXCK:
It was writtten on prison doors to describe the unlawful act the prisoner had committed.
F - Forced
U- Unlawful
C- Carnal
K- Knowledge
To Got The Message: That woman’s voice you hear after an outgoing message when you call someone can be turned off. The account holder of that phone number simply calls a certain number and leaves their phone number to have what the telephone company calls the “Marsha Prompt” removed. It’s simple, but a lot of people don’t realize it is optional and some people think it’s too much trouble to have it removed (its easy).
The word “fuck” did not originate as an acronym for anything, despite a lot of urban myth. For more information, click on the link here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck
I agree with the ‘got the message’ rant. Who the hell doesn’t know how to leave a message at this day and age. The ‘leave your message’ message is longer than my own damn message!
Hey folks.I need a little help understanding something.Considering how important it is to Canadians that we win Gold in hockey why do they throw the team together at the last minute with little practice together before they play?
So February 28th is pretty much a national holiday, and the celebration was awe-inspiring to say the least. It was a nail-biting game, full of intense moments and both teams played extremely well. We have a real reason to celebrate - except for those of you who watched the game at bars, pubs or restaurants, and felt that this unprecedented victory was an excuse to become a skidmark on the sexy underwear that was our day by A.) “forgetting” to tip your over-worked and over-taxed server, or B.) sneaking out without paying your bill while everyone was up and cheering. In my country - the one that won the Gold - that kind of behavior is not tolerated. Call yourself whatever you want, just don’t call yourself a Canadian; it’s an insult to the rest of us. Oh yeah, and what the f**k was “Chancellor” Harper doing on T.V. the other day? This day had absolutely NOTHING to do with him; last I checked, he wasn’t an athlete, or in any kind of decent shape, for that matter. (The “S” word stands for “Stephen Harper’s In Town!") I’d trust my country in the hands of Rochette, Luongo, or Bilodeau over bureaucratic swine any day. Any one of those people - real heroes - maintain more integrity than the entire joke in Ottawa currently “running” our country. This was our day, Harper, not yours…